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Yankee Swap

One of the more controversial trades in baseball history was announced on 04 March 1973, just before the start of the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Mar 2018 • Read →

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The Mystery Lake of the Himalayas

Nestled in a valley high in the Himalayas in northern India is a small lake named Roopkund, known locally as Mystery...

Written by Erika Nesvold • 19 Feb 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Echoes of NASA

On 13 May 1960, a NASA Thor-Delta rocket carried the agency's new Echo 1 satellite into a 1,000 mile orbit around the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Feb 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Cracking the Case

A lengthy study of 'crack babies' born to cocaine addicts in Philadelphia in the 1980s and 1990s ended in 2013 with a...

Written by Marisa Brook • 06 Feb 2018 • Read →

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Water Proof

In 1936, Russian scientist Vladimir Lukyanov was confronted with the problem of devising a system to improve the qual...

Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Jan 2018 • Read/Listen →

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The Democratic People’s Republic of Begonias

An iconic sight in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the Kimjongilia. This hybrid begonia was bred by a Ja...

Written by Christine Ro • 15 Jan 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Strange Brew

According to a 1957 US government study entitled The Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Commercially Packaged Beverages,...

Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Jan 2018 • Read/Listen →

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Buzz On, Buzz Off

By the 1840s the British Empire was at full tilt, operating colonies on every continent apart from Antarctica. Key fo...

Written by Erin Anderson • 11 Dec 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Armed Conflict

Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562) was a German knight and warrior for hire in the first half of the 16th century. In...

Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Dec 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Australia’s Humped Pestilence

The introduction of non-native species can be a tricky business. The feral camels of Australia are a case in point. T...

Written by Christine Ro • 27 Nov 2017 • Read/Listen →

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