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When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final...
When a 40-year old Ohio man named John fell in the bathroom and hit his head on the tub, no one expected it to change how...
The 80s may have been the golden age for both toys and kids’ TV. He Man, Thundercats, GI Joe… it was the best time in history...
If Pokémon existed in the wild, which animals would be in their weight class? We used the Pokédex to find the exact weights of 11 of...
The Space Race, the Cold War, and the Moon Landing all have an origin story connected to a small, obscure silver iron mining operation in the...
The $15,000 A.I. from 1983: Scraping, grinding, or drilling a hole through the thick, hard skull that evolution developed to protect our most sensitive contents might...
Why Do We Put Holes In Our Head? Before responsive, voice-controlled assistants like Alexa and Siri, we had the “Butler in a Box” — which its...
The $15,000 A.I. From 1983: Why Do We Put Holes In Our Head?: Edward Youmans founded The Popular Science Monthly in 1872, and the first issue...
In our live show from August of 2023, Rachel talks about magicians’ tricks and their hidden misogyny, Sara explains how trees aren’t real (and why we...
Divya Anantharaman joins the show to talk about the history of taxidermy dating back to Charles Darwin! Plus, Rachel talks menopausal chimps, and Sara Kiley explains...
