Karen Carpenter’s Fatal Battle for Control
Paul McCartney called it the greatest female voice in the world: warm, lush, and impossibly intimate. Yet the woman behind it was fighting a grueling internal battle that ended her life at 32. This ep...
10 Jun 20min
Why the universe ends with a whisper
In this episode of pplpod, we explore one of the most unsettling ideas in modern cosmology: the heat death of the universe — the theory that everything in existence may eventually fade into a silent s...
10 Jun 20min
Why They Really Stormed the Bastille
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive into what really happened during the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 — separating the mythology of the French Revolution from the chaotic, deep...
10 Jun 23min
Yellowstone Is Not A Ticking Bomb
In this episode of pplpod, we take a deep dive beneath Yellowstone National Park to explore the real science behind one of the most misunderstood geological systems on Earth.For years, movies and inte...
10 Jun 19min
Yukio Mishima s Violent Final Performance
In this episode of pplpod, we dive into the deeply complicated life and shocking death of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, one of the most celebrated and controversial literary figures of the 20th centu...
10 Jun 21min
John Hanning Speke’s Fatal Nile Obsession
September 15, 1864. The day before the most anticipated scientific showdown of the Victorian era, two famous explorers were to debate the true source of the Nile before the scientific elite. The debat...
10 Jun 19min
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Pulsar Scruff
In 2018, a scientist was handed a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for a discovery she made decades earlier, a very public apology for one of the most intimate snubs in the history of science. She kept n...
10 Jun 41min
Jeannette Rankin s solitary vote against war
December 8, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor. A 61-year-old woman hides in a Capitol phone booth, calling the police for an escort past a furious mob of reporters. She has just cast the single solitar...
10 Jun 20min
