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Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff]
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Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! [Content Warning: Language, comic mischief, weird stuff]
Language:
English
Episodes
AI MADE THIS EPISODE
5/28/2023
From scripting to recording and editing, every part of this episode was made with AI. DEAR GOD WHAT HATH I WROUGHT?! Also, now you have to google Roko's Basilisk. Sorry.
Duration:00:05:14
Is Internet Access a Human Right?
5/14/2023
If you live in a country where access to the Internet is a part of your daily life, you might not have considered what it would mean to lose that access—or never have had it at all.
Duration:00:04:24
Mercury Retrograde
5/7/2023
Is #MercuryRetrograde a thing or do we just want to believe it's a thing?
Duration:00:06:25
Deepwater Horizon
5/7/2023
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, sinking 2 days later. Over the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean — the economic & environmental impact of which many are still reeling from today.
Duration:00:14:26
Naming Your Kentucky Derby Racehorse
4/30/2023
#KentuckyDerby racehorses are majestic & expensive beasts worthy of our admiration — and yet we give them names like "Tit'n Your Girdle." Here's how (not) to name your thoroughbred.
Duration:00:08:43
Titanic Part II: The Tale of Dorothy Gibson
4/23/2023
Part 2 of this weekend's #Titanic episode is about one of the survivors: silent film star Dorothy Gibson who wrote (& starred in) the *first* movie about the Titanic a century before James Cameron's epic — and just months after the disaster.
Duration:00:05:41
Titanic: Part I
4/16/2023
This weekend marks the 111th anniversary of the #Titanic sinking. The disaster launched a thousand ships (if unanswered questions & conspiracy theories are ships) that still compel us over a century later.
Duration:00:20:30
What's the Most Popular Birthday?
4/9/2023
Not mine lol
Duration:00:09:49
The Picture of Everything
4/2/2023
An artist named Howard Hallis has spent the last decade painting a massive picture of literally everything.
Duration:00:05:10
Why Does Grapefruit Mess With Meds?
3/26/2023
The interaction was discovered in a study where the juice was used to mask the taste of alcohol.
Duration:00:05:33
Sexy Moths
3/19/2023
Put on some slow, sexy, saxophone riffs and leave your porch light on tonight to help Hot Single Poplar Hawk Moths in your area get it on. It's literally their reason for living. #TagUrMothPorn
Duration:00:08:48
The Americanization of St. Patrick's Day
3/12/2023
In Ireland, #StPatricksDay was just a minor religious holiday for centuries — and not one that involved drinking. Then Americans appropriated it in the 1960s and now we have the #shamrockshake.
Duration:00:05:05
The Kentucky Meat Shower
3/5/2023
So, meat pieces fell from the sky in Kentucky once.
Duration:00:06:42
Why Are Giraffes So Damn Long?
2/26/2023
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about giraffes: the even-toed ungulates formerly known as CAMELEOPARDS.
Duration:00:13:56
Indelible Pencils
2/19/2023
"Indelible pencils" or copying pencils were popular for a time in the 1870s because they made it possible to easily make copies of handwritten documents. Which would have been great — except they turned out to be poisonous.
Duration:00:08:25
Who Invented Conversation Heart Candies?
2/12/2023
We have a frustrated pharmacist to thank for the chalk-and-talk-tastic Valentine's Day candy.
Duration:00:08:13
The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster
2/5/2023
20 years ago, the Columbia space shuttle disaster resulted in the deaths of 7 human crew members, but there were survivors: small worms that had been involved in an onboard experiment somehow survived the impact & extreme heat.
Duration:00:09:50
The Doomsday Clock
1/29/2023
This year the Doomsday Clock is the closest to midnight it's ever been. 1991 was the best year: we were ~7 minutes away.
Duration:00:03:29
What Is Wind Chill?
1/24/2023
Y'know how your weather app gives you the temperature outside but then warns you that it'll *feel like* a much colder temp, thus upping your risk of FROSTBITE? We're debunking the ol' New England adage, "Don't fuck with the wind chill, fam."
Duration:00:04:53
Clumsy? Actually, You Might Have Dyspraxia.
1/22/2023
If you’ve always been told you’re “clumsy” but you just feel like your brain and hands don’t “talk,” you might actually have a neurodevelopment condition called dyspraxia.
Duration:00:16:19