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A summer bonus episode: Russ Schnell's professors mocked him for believing that plants somehow caused hailstorms. He not only proved them wrong, but uncovered profound connections between life, earth, and the air above...
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Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a look at the surprisingly important role science played in shapingâand remakingâan invasion that could have easily been a disaster...
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In 1959, nine Russian hikers mysteriously died on a trek through the snowy wildernessâfueling a half-century of hysterical conspiracies. Has science finally cracked the case?
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After a tenure dispute, mechanical engineer Valery Fabrikant murdered four colleagues in cold blood at his university in Montreal. So why is he still allowed to publish scientific papers?
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Chemist Justus von Liebig was perhaps the most famous scientist in the world in the mid-1800sâbut quickly became infamous for his role in the killing of four starving infants.
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Rama IV of Siam (from the âKing and Iâ musical) used an eclipse to save his kingdom from greedy colonial powers. But it cost him his own life in the end.
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Who put the cheese in your stuffed-crust pizza? Or cows on a Caribbean island? And when more than half the world's population can't actually digest milk, is it really essential for a healthy diet? On a trip through time and tasteâto dairy-obsessed Bulgaria, colonial Trinidad and Tobago and the âGot Milk?â eraâwe explore humanity's millennia-long relationship with milk.
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In 1878, two Paris dandies murdered an old womanâand blamed Charles Darwin for their crime. But the wild scandal that followed only solidified Darwin as the greatest scientist of his age...
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Americans happily ate monosodium glutamate for decades. Then one (possibly fake) letter sparked mass hysteria over âChinese Restaurant Syndromeâ, and the bogus MSG scare was born...
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Scientists have confirmed five basic human tastesâsweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami. But is that all? Debate now rages about adding a sixth or seventh or even eighth(!) to the Big Five...
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James Mellaart discovered one of the most important archaeological sites ever, ĂatalhöyĂŒk in Turkey. But his lust for treasureâand a penchant for fraudâled him to throw it all away...
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He helped launch the British Empire and spawned a public-health epidemic that killed hundreds of millions of people. Blame him for the lost colony of Roanoke, too. Thomas Harriot has a lot to answer for...
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