Episode 96: Nuclear Waste Storage, Part Two - This Place is Best Left Shunned
Nuclear waste will last for thousands and thousands of years before it is finally safe. How do we communicate this danger to future generations, who may not share our language, symbols, or scientific ...
4 Maj 20251h 19min
Episode 95: Nuclear Waste Storage, Part One - Rise of the Shrimp People
Nuclear power is gaining popularity worldwide, but despite its long history, we haven't actually decided where to put the highly dangerous byproducts of nuclear power production. Maybe we should get o...
13 Feb 20251h 34min
Episode 94: The REAL Moby Dick
1820, at the height of whaling, the Nantucket whale-ship Essex suffered an unheard of tragedy - being attacked and sunk by an 80 foot sperm whale. But unlike the book it inspired, this was far from th...
26 Sep 20231h 27min
Episode 93: Angels of Death, Part Two - Jane Toppan
A major distinction between different types of serial killers - and different types of Angels of Death - is motive. Traditionally, male serial killers are more likely to be motivated by sex and female...
10 Apr 20231h 22min
Episode 91: The Canadian Plan to Invade the United States
For hundreds of years, Canada and the United States have been each others closest neighbours, strongest allies, and largest trading partners... except for all the times they were at each others throat...
19 Jan 20231h
Episode 90: The Borden Murders -- Part Two
Lizzie Borden, despite being acquitted of all charges, has remained the primary suspect in her parents double-homicide for over a hundred years. Was she really the killer? And is there any way to know...
7 Aug 20221h 41min
Episode 89: The Borden Axe Murders -- Part One
Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother forty wacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one [Citation Needed]
24 Juli 20221h 14min
