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The radio extension of ModernNotion.com, a website for the ultra-curious that finds the science behind the story and the truth in every tale. It’s your middlebrow library for highbrow ideas. We tell stories about history, science, technology, culture and life.
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This Salon in New York Is the Ground Zero of Brazilian Waxing
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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Mapping the Human Body
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Cheddar: It’s Nothing to Cheese At
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Nov 24, 2015 |
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Announcement from Modern Notion
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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Winston Churchill, War Correspondent
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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Deathwatch Beetles and Other Creepy Crawlies
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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Was the CIA behind JFK’s Assassination?
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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Ambiguity May or May Not Be a Good Thing
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Oct 16, 2015 |
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Why Aren’t More Women Pursuing STEM Careers?
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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Learn to Fight Like a Navy SEAL
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Oct 14, 2015 |
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Are Public Libraries Disappearing?
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Your Microbiome Could Be the Key to Healthy Living
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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White Powders and Clear Liquids: Looking at 75 Food Additives
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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A Primer on the Colorful History of Hawaii
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books
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Oct 07, 2015 |
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The Dark Underbelly of California Winemaking
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Judy, the Only Canine POW in World War II
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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The Volcano That Caused Three Years of Bad Weather
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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Why You Should Be Death-Positive
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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A History of Gay Rights (or Lack Thereof) in America
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Lady Spies of the Civil War
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Sep 28, 2015 |
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Does Freud Have a Place in Neuroscience?
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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What Does It Mean If Only 36 Percent of Psychology Studies Are Replicable
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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The Master Algorithm
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Understanding Science Will Make You a Better Cook
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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Introducing the Pawpaw, the Most Delicious Fruit on Both Sides of the Mississippi
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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It Took a Few Tries to Get the Magna Carta Right
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Reading ‘Walden’ for the Rocks
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Sep 16, 2015 |
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When It Comes to Automation, Have We Gone Too Far?
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Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sisters in Law: Sandra Day O’Connor & Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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What We Can Learn from Online Daters
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Sep 09, 2015 |
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Investigating the Murder of a White Supremacist Leader
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Sep 08, 2015 |
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Taking Down Boston’s Most Notorious Gangster
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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The Night Bob Dylan Went Electric
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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The Tricky Science of Forensics
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Sep 02, 2015 |
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The Ups and Downs of Voting Rights in America
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Sep 01, 2015 |
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The Complex Lives of Killer Whales
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Aug 31, 2015 |
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Project Apollo
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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Sea Wars: Somali Pirates & Oyster Farming
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Aug 26, 2015 |
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The American Doctor Who Resisted in Nazi-Occupied Paris; NYC Subway Cars Become Artificial Reefs
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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John Horton Conway: The Seductive Mathematician
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
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Aug 21, 2015 |
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The Origins of International Adoption from Korea
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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Murder & Romance in the 19th Century
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Aug 19, 2015 |
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Andy Warhol’s Epic 1963 Cross-Country Road Trip; Sardinian Foods
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Aug 17, 2015 |
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A History of the Written Word
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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The Oregon Trail
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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Three Stoners Who Became Gunrunners for the Department of Defense
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Aug 12, 2015 |
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The First Lady of the Black Press; Fake Blood for Mosquitoes
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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North Korea Undercover; The Dead Man Who Helped the Allies Win World War II
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Peyton Place; Origins of the Bikini
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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Ernest Lawrence, the Cyclotron, & the Military-Industrial Complex
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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The Women Behind the Whiskey
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Aug 05, 2015 |
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Understanding Dinosaurs with the Traces They Left Behind; Head Transplants
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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Quantum Biology and Life on the Edge; Mosquito Asphyxiation
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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Elephants and Kings; Foods for Survival
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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The Texting-While-Driving Crash That Killed Two Rocket Scientists
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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The Tragic Story of Ota Benga; Cylinder Seals
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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The Scientists Who Invented Weather Prediction
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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Reconstructing Roman Hairstyles & the Tour de France’s “Lanterne Rouge”
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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The Stanford Prison Experiment, Dangerous Personalities
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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The Wild Weasels of the U.S. Air Force, Betty Crocker
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Jul 22, 2015 |
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Up Close & Personal with Seashells
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Jul 21, 2015 |
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Sega vs. Nintendo, Ouija Boards
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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The Man Who Survived a Plane Crash & 81 Days in the Alaskan Wilderness; TV Dinners
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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The Three Japanese Girls Who Came to America in the 1870s + Princess Caribou
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Jul 16, 2015 |
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The Soul of an Octopus
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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A Doctor Examines Medical Marijuana
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures, Space Plants
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Jul 13, 2015 |
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The Virginia County That Refused to Desegregate, Keys to the City
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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The Laki Volcano Eruption of 1783, Siberian Sinkholes
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Jul 08, 2015 |
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Raymond Ditmars & His Obsession with Bushmasters, Nazi Ghetto in Madagascar
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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Will Technology Go Beyond Our Control? & Ayahuasca
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Jul 06, 2015 |
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The Life of Jonas Salk
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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Interpreting the Bible Through Science, Death Elevator
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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The Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy, the Man Who Biked Around the World
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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The Ingenious Mr. Pyke, Feral Cities, Butterfly Highway
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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Bed Bugs!
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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Trials of Passion, Lady and the Tramp
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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The Scientists Behind World War I, Wilma Rudolph’s Obstacles
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Jun 24, 2015 |
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The Real Housewives of 16th-Century France
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Invisibility, Ave Maria
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Swimming the River Thames, Atoms Under the Floorboards
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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Max Planck, Schrodinger’s Cat, Ancient Dog Tomb
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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The Science of Criminal Injustice
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Jun 17, 2015 |
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The mp3 Revolution, Why We Can’t Remember Dreams
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Leopard Men, Cockroaches in Space
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Jun 15, 2015 |
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Dueling Neurosurgeons, Banjo History, Dead Words
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Jun 12, 2015 |
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A History of the Redhead, Ebola Prank Calls, the First Sex Tape from Space
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Jun 11, 2015 |
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A New Language in Australia, Vulture Restaurants
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Jun 10, 2015 |
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Original Sin & the Western World
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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Director Frank Pavich on Jodorowsky’s Dune
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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A Year in Antarctica, Lemming Myth
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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A Short History of Bourbon
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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What’s It Like to Be a Pilot; Benjamin Franklin on Flatulence
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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The Fly Trap, Japanese Picture Brides, Cannibalism
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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The Murder That Transfixed Chicago, Elves, Taxidermy Class
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May 29, 2015 |
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Joan of Arc
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May 28, 2015 |
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Children of the Stone, Laura Bridgman
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May 27, 2015 |
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How to Bake Pi, Fake Anastasia
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May 26, 2015 |
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Rebooting Southern Cuisine; Heirloom Foods
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May 22, 2015 |
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Plankton and Other Sea Creatures
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May 21, 2015 |
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The Moore of Moore’s Law, Illuminati
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May 20, 2015 |
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The Inventor of BASE Jumping and Percy Fawcett
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May 19, 2015 |
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Searching for Atlantis, Skin Whitening
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May 18, 2015 |
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Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence Poker Tournament, Rumpology
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May 15, 2015 |
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Working with NASA’s Mars Rover, Fermi Paradox
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May 14, 2015 |
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Bison Return to the Prairie, and Should We Eat Horse Meat?
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May 13, 2015 |
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Rise of the Robots, Ivan the Terrible
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May 12, 2015 |
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Fixing Global Warming with Soil, the Los Angeles Cycleway
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May 11, 2015 |
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The 14th Century Famine, Worm Rain
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May 08, 2015 |
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Lovelace and Babbage, Degas and the Little Dancer, Pranks
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May 07, 2015 |
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Elephant Don, the Hardest Tongue Twister, Mr. Eats All
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May 05, 2015 |
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Self-Immolation, Moon Landing and Filmmaking
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May 04, 2015 |
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How to Clone a Mammoth, Naked Came the Stranger, Suicide Forest
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May 01, 2015 |
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Galileo’s Middle Finger, Ancient Trees, the Real Chef Boyardee
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Apr 30, 2015 |
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A River Changes Course in Cambodia, Unsinkable Violet Jessup
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Apr 29, 2015 |
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Jenny Price, the Cult Behind the Cutlery, First Women Voters
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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Dangerous Personalities, What Lewis & Clark Left Behind, Misophonia
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Apr 27, 2015 |
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‘Circus without Borders,’ First Wives and Assassinations, and the Rainbow of Sound
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Apr 27, 2015 |
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Gurkhas, WWII WASPS and the Geophysics Behind the Normandy Landing
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
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Apr 22, 2015 |
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Daniel Rubens on SIDS, The Indiana Jones of Mathematics, The Last Empress of China
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Obscenity & American Jews, Visiting the Dennis Severs House, Madame Wu
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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The Life & Ideas of Sabina Spielrein, Living Autopsy, We Have Chins for a Reason
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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Princes at War, Seeing with Sound, Secret Life of Soot
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God, Potato Ball Caper, Trend-Setting Presidents
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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John Wilkes Booth, Irene Joliot-Curie, Poison Squad
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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The Science of Hedonism, Loneliest Whale, This Is Your Life
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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America’s Obsession with Weight, an Enslaved Muslim Prince, DIY Space Gear
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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The Invaders—Humans & Wolf-Dogs, Cardiff Giant, World’s Deadliest Sniper
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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The Unpersuadables, Radium Girls, Typewriters, Iron Lung
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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North Korea, Mary Pickford Films, Mars One
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Apr 08, 2015 |
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Savage Harvest and A Tale of Cannibals
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Apr 08, 2015 |