Electric Eels: The 860-Volt Fish That Inspired the First Battery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1800, Alexander von Humboldt watched fishers drive wild horses into a muddy South American po...
10 Okt 22min
Balloon Duels and Wax Bullets: The Strange Global History of Dueling
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1808, two men rose over Paris in hot air balloons and fired blunderbusses at each other's env...
10 Okt 23min
The Code Duello: How Dueling Rules Tamed Revenge and Created Boxing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Two men with pistols on a foggy field at dawn looks like the collapse of law. This episode argue...
10 Okt 21min
Interpol Exposed: No Arrest Powers, a Nazi Past, and Red Notice Abuse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Interpol is not the global strike force of spy thrillers. It is an office building in Lyon, Fran...
10 Okt 23min
Devil's Island: How France's Jungle Prison Swallowed 80,000 Men
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From 1852 to 1953, France shipped more than 80,000 men to a penal colony in French Guiana, and a...
10 Okt 23min
Cold Cases: How DNA, Floppy Disks, and Old Archives Catch Killers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1979 a family hunting arrowheads in an Idaho cave found a headless torso in a shallow grave. ...
10 Okt 26min
Double Jeopardy: When a Confessed Killer Cannot Be Tried Again
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A defendant is acquitted of murder, then later confesses, or DNA proves the jury wrong. For cent...
10 Okt 22min
Claude Duval: The Polite Highwayman Who Asked His Victims to Dance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A stagecoach stops on a dark English road, the door opens, and a man in velvet and lace bows and...
10 Okt 22min
