Debut Episode: Champagne (and Sparkling Wine)
In just 400 years, sparkling wines have gone from a dangerous mistake (the famous Dom Perignon was hired to get RID of bubbles in wine) to a symbol of wealth and celebration. We trace the history and explain the science behind champagne.
Listen on: iTunes | Google Play | | | How Optical Illusions Works
Now you see it, now you don't — optical illusions can fool us into seeing what's not actually there. But what causes that disconnect between perception and reality? Learn all about this visual trickery in this episode.
Listen on: iTunes | Google Play | | | John Kidwell and the Founding of Hawaii's Pineapple Industry
From his start as an apprentice to a nurseryman in London, John Kidwell would go on to catalyze the establishment of Hawaii's pineapple industry.
Listen on: iTunes | Google Play | | | Books of Flesh: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
The libraries of horror fiction typically offer many a dark tome bound in human flesh, but do books like the 'Necronomicon Ex-Mortis' of 'Evil Dead' really exist? They do, and the true story of skin-clad literature will chill you.
Listen on: iTunes | Google Play | | | Cars and Trucks You'll Still Crave 10 Years from Now
You know the ones we're talking about: The new cars and trucks that are so cool in 2017 that you'll spend your evenings and weekends searching for them on eBay and Craigslist when we finally make it to 2027.
Listen on: iTunes | Google Play | | | Did the US abandon soldiers in the Vietnam War?
At the close of the Paris Peace Accords, the US and Vietnam agreed to return any POWs to their home country -- however, for decades after the close of the conflict, people in country reported seeing missing American soldiers, sometimes held by foreign officials, sometimes on their own in the jungle. So what happened to the hundreds of missing soldiers in the Vietnam War... and how much did the US government actually know about i99t?
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