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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…
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Episode 56: Two Steam Engines, Zero Feet Apart
Let’s start with this article with pictures from Buckeye about the initial train demolition from Ohio. The pictures are amazing. This is just the historical marker site where you can see the marker and some of the locations of significance to the Crash at Crush. M said they took plenty of information from the Texas…
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Episode 53: Queer Resistance: Before Stonewall
Let’s just begin with some further reading about LGBTQIA+ actions in the U.S. before Stonewall ever happened. Also some further reading is this list of defining moments in the history of Pride. And this article just touches on the intersectionality of being Black and Queer during June when both Juneteenth and Pride month are both…
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Episode 52: Come one, Come all: Babies
This first link is an extensive look at Martin Couney and his whole incubator project from the first idea to the end of it. This one is shorter than the last one but still contains most of the same information from the beginning of the incubator idea to the end of the sideshow. And this…
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Episode 51: Juneteenth: It’s About Damn Time
Let’s just start out by meeting Opal Lee who i in her 90s and has pent her entire life working to make Juneteenth a national holiday! Now this article is local to Philadelphia, but has a good bit of info in there related to the importance of oral storytelling in the Black community (and really,…
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Episode 50: Nathan and the No Good Very Bad Day
Before we even start on Nathan’s Hot Dogs, let’s look at the hot dog itself and the history of the food item. Starting from ancient roots and going until now, there’s an extra long history there. And this is a history of Coney Island itself as it grew to be the attraction that it was…