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Episode 66: Abortion History in the United States
Just like I did on the episode, I’m starting here with a link to an article that talks about abortions in the early Indigenous societies of North America before the US was colonized. This one is really good for digging in deep into the history of abortion access in this nation for the Indigenous community…
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Episode 65: Counting the Days
Starting with this first link, you can get a quick summary of what the history of the calendar looks like. It doesn’t cover nearly as much ground as we do in this episode, but it does give you the basic bullet points. Similarly, this one goes into a quick read about why there are an…
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Episode 63: Stede-y On, Pirate
This article is a good abridged version of the story of Stede Bonnet told in a humorous tone of voice. This one talks about all the same things we did but a lot quicker, and it has quotes from the trail papers and illustrations. I suppose I need to put a content warning that there…
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Episode 62: Questions After Dark: Presidential Peckers
This New Republic article is where I sourced my initial quotes regarding Thomas Jefferson and the United States political obsession with the presidential penis. There’s a lot more in here besides Jefferson. On the episode, I briefly mentioned Thomas Jefferson’s sex life, but episode was meant to remain light. Because of that, we weren’t going…
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Episode 61: The Tear Down: We All Float On
Let’s start off with what many people are probably looking for, which is how to debate with a Flat Earther. This link will talk you through scientific evidence relating to the horizon, space, the weather, and more! This article is going to introduce you to Mark Sargent, someone we’ve talked about through all three of…
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Episode 60: The Tear Down: Scaling The Ice Wall
We are going to start off with a slideshow of pictures of the Ice Wall (not really the Ice Wall, of course, just some Ice Shelves I’m torturing the other two with). That way you can follow along with the other two as they get increasingly uncomfortable. Don’t worry, I’ll explain what these are in…
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Episode 59: The Tear Down: Frisbeeing Through Space
This article is going to look at that square map and talk about the creation of it and what exactly is going on in it. You can’t really read it in the picture, so this article will explain. This one is going to talk about the ancient history of our beliefs when it comes to…
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Episode 58: Alcohol: Truth Lubricant?
Let’s just start with the history! This article goes into the why of humans drinking alcohol, or at least what we know (or our estimations anyway) about it. To answer Carly’s question about whether alcohol makes people more honest, let’s start with some science/medical facts about how alcohol changes your brain. This link mostly talks…
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Episode 57: Do Insects Dream of Electric Bugs?
Let’s begin with an article just talking about human dreams from the Sleep Foundation. What are they and why do we have them? And then we can look at the connection between animal and human sleep and dreams. What do we know about how other animals sleep and dream? This is largely going to talk…