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Hasty Hostilities

Zanzibar, an island nation that is now part of Tanzania, has been a contested territory for centuries. Starting in th...

Written by Christine Ro • 04 Sep 2017 • Read/Listen →

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The Height of Mathematics

The height of Mount Everest was not calculated by George Everest, but by a brilliant mathematician who has since been...

Written by Marisa Brook • 28 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Of Meteors and Men

In the early 1960s, General Electric proposed a system whereby an astronaut in a space emergency might abandon ship a...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Of Earwax and Ethnicity

One way of determining a person’s likely ethnicity is looking inside their ears. Simply put, there are two kinds of e...

Written by Christine Ro • 14 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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National Treasure

Inside America's Mount Rushmore National Monument there is a "secret" chamber known as the Hidden Hall of Records. Th...

Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds

In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.

Written by Alan Bellows • 31 Jul 2017 • Read/Listen →

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No Country For Ye Olde Men

Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton.

Written by Christine Ro • 19 Jul 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Well-Rounded

The most perfectly spherical object ever observed by mankind is the electron. In a series of experiments led by physi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Jul 2017 • Read/Listen →

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The Making of the Archetypal Englishman

Jonas Hanway (1712–1786) may be the most contradictory character ever involved in the formation of British culture. O...

Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 06 Jul 2017 • Read →

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Emphasis Mine

Many people have experienced the odd psychological sensation that results from repeating a word until it no longer se...

Written by Marisa Brook • 30 Jun 2017 • Read →

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