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Episode 88: The Dunk Tank: Elon Musk
CW: Children Stuck In Caves, Apartheid Let’s start at the beginning, and that’s South Africa. Musk was born and raised in Apartheid Era South Africa. So let’s learn what that means. This article is good as it objectively looks at good things, bad things, and ugly things about Elon’s life and just lays it all…
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Episode 87: Beyond the Fur: Deep Dives & Mammalian Marvels
This is the black jaguar, native to both north and south America. They’re regaining their territory further north. It’s estimated only 11% of jaguars have this coloration. Click the picture for more facts! Something interesting about the red panda is that they have been known as the firefox and the red cat-bear, but it would…
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Episode 86: Piss Lord Vespasian
Urine trouble if you have a problem talking about body fluids. I really hope you don’t because this whole episode was about urine and what the ancient Romans were using it for. the answer will definitely surprise you. This Nat Geo blog is fun because it has some pictures and a little info but mostly,…
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Episode 85: Save A Cow, Poke A Milkmaid
So let’s start with how far back were Africans inoculating against smallpox with this article that addresses just that. We talk about it in the episode, but only briefly. This will go more in-depth about it. And let’s learn about Onesimus, the Black man who taught the white folks of Massachusetts how to protect themselves…
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Episode 84: Heartfelt History: Symbol of Love
This link will take you all the way back to the ancient Egyptians before even heading to the Greeks where we started. It focuses mainly on the medical side of why hearts are thought of the way they are. This Time article does misstate that the heart didn’t mean love before the 13th century, which…
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Episode 83: From Beheading to Betrothing
Let’s start at the very beginning with the very unromantic origins of Valentine’s Day. The beheading part of our title. Look at our lovely kneeling St. Valentine. This is just one of the many Valentines that lived, pictured here in St Valentine Kneeling in Supplication by David Teniers III from the 1600s. There were actually…
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Episode 81: Birds of a Feather Spread Fire Together
The firehawks, which aren’t really hawks at all, use fire to hunt with! They’re from Australia and are really the Black Kite, the Whistling Kite, and the Brown Falcon. Click the link to read about what they do! This article here is the one M got many of their quotes from and as far as…