How They Ruined Superhero Movies
“In mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” - Professor X In the realm of comic books, the rules of the respective universe you’re reading about tend to differ wildly...
15 Feb 18min
Britain's Most Disastrous "White Elephant" Airliner
On April 27, 2005, the gigantic Airbus A380 airliner took to the skies for the first time, lifting off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport with test pilot Jacques Rosay at the controls. At that moment the A...
14 Feb 21min
Real Life Space DJs and the Pillownaughts
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we kick off a series on space related facts. Before we get started in that, however, we do some follow up answering the question of whether the Allies in WWI...
13 Feb 1h 7min
Making Children Cry for Fun and Profit
If you’ve spent any time whatsoever on the internet you’re probably already quite familiar with how attached people are capable of getting to their favourite fictional characters. While this invariabl...
12 Feb 19min
WTF is Up with the Bermuda Triangle?
For those who didn’t grow up in the late 20th century, it may seem strange to learn that for a time many people genuinely believed things like that humans randomly burst into flames for no apparent re...
11 Feb 29min
The Forgotten Gun That Changed Everything
When the Great War broke out in August 1914, the soldiers of the belligerent nations marched into battle carrying broadly similar weapons: modern bolt-action, magazine-fed rifles firing full-powered c...
10 Feb 41min
Who Invented the Egg McMuffin?
Breakfast truly is the monarch of meals, that time of the day when one is allowed to gorge on a cornucopia of nonchalantly combined delicacies ranging across the sweet and savoury spectrums, all washe...
9 Feb 28min
The Very Real Bear Soldier Who Fought in WWII
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, which is partially a continuation of the last, we discuss the bear that was officially a member of the Polish army, how he came to be such and what became of...
8 Feb 40min
