The Miracle of the Gulls: A Cricket War
In 1848, times were dire for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake Valley. Massive swarms of crickets laid waste to everything in their path, destroying crops and endangering the community's chances of s...
22 Jun 202138min
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 2: Stereotypes, Superstitions and Science
In earlier centuries, when science and spirituality were considered one and the same, the world was full of advice and warnings surrounding pregnancy cravings. In the second part of this two-part seri...
17 Jun 202143min
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 1: Pickles and Ice Cream
Pregnancy is amazing — and scary, and beautiful, and a thousand other things. The modern world has stereotypes and tropes aplenty about pregnancy, especially including the phenomena known as pregnancy...
15 Jun 202141min
The Carrington Event, Part II: Attack of the Sun!
Less than 18 hours after Richard Carrington noticed something screwy on the sun’s surface, chaos erupted. Telegraph operators found their machines literally aflame. The Northern Lights were visible fr...
10 Jun 202122min
The Carrington Event, Part I: The Sun is Acting Strange
When amateur astronomer Richard Carrington gazed through his telescope on the morning of September 1st, 1859, he noticed something weird about the surface of the sun -- it seemed to have clusters of d...
8 Jun 202125min
Loveday: Henry VI's Well-intentioned, Terrible Attempt at Making Peace
In an effort to prevent further conflicts in what would become known as the Wars of the Roses, King Henry VI called the warring parties to London, with a weird pitch -- they would resolve their disput...
3 Jun 202150min
Classic: Why do British lawyers wear wigs?
In today’s Classic episode, the guys travel back to their early days.For centuries some lawyers and judges in the U.K. have worn distinctive wigs during court proceedings. But why? Join Ben and Noel a...
1 Jun 202133min
That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen
Al Capone is rightly remembered as of the most notorious gangsters in US history -- but for a time residents of Chicago also thought of him as a benefactor. As people struggled to survive the Great De...
27 Mai 202133min
