Nina Simone Turned Bach Into Revolution
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive into the extraordinary and deeply complicated life of Nina Simone, tracing her journey from a gifted child piano prodigy in segregated North Carolina to ...
10 Jun 17min
Nelson's Radical Gamble at Trafalgar
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive into the Battle of Trafalgar and the brutal human reality behind one of the most important naval battles in world history. Instead of focusing on the pol...
10 Jun 20min
Michelangelo’s Agony and Hidden Sistine Puzzles
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive into the creation of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and uncover the far messier, more human story behind one of the most celebrated works of art i...
10 Jun 20min
Mary Anning and the discovery of extinction
In this episode of pplpod, we explore the extraordinary life of Mary Anning, the self -taught fossil hunter who helped revolutionize paleontology from the dangerous cliffs of Lyme Regis in early 19th ...
10 Jun 20min
Maria Sibylla Merian Proved Insect Metamorphosis
In the 1600s, Europe's most educated minds looked at a swarm of flies and declared them beasts born from rotting mud. Spontaneous generation wasn't fringe thinking; it was scientific consensus stretch...
10 Jun 21min
Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Waltz
In the fall of 1963, a San Diego newspaper announced the news in bold print: "S.D. Mother Wins Nobel Prize." What the headline failed to mention was that this mother had just decoded the structure of ...
10 Jun 40min
Magellan Never Actually Sailed Around the World
Ferdinand Magellan is universally credited as the first human to sail around the world. He never actually did it. He died a violent death halfway through the voyage, and the men who finished the trip ...
10 Jun 21min
Lady Mary Montagu and the Smallpox Inoculation
An 18th-century aristocrat sprints from her family estate in a nightgown to elope, sneaks into the women-only bathhouses of the Ottoman Empire, wages a public feud with Alexander Pope, and, almost in ...
10 Jun 23min
