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  • EP67 - Frankenstein Is the Doctor, Not the Monster

    EP67 - Frankenstein Is the Doctor, Not the Monster
    2026/09/03
    Every Halloween the same green, flat-headed creature with bolts in its neck gets called Frankenstein. But in the novel that started it all, Frankenstein is the scientist who made the monster, and the monster has no name at all. This is the story of how the doctor lost his name, how the creature stole it, and why the confusion is more meaningful than any correction.
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    22 分
  • EP66 - The Rust Isn't Why Rusty Nails Give You Tetanus

    EP66 - The Rust Isn't Why Rusty Nails Give You Tetanus
    2026/08/31
    Somewhere in your memory there is a warning: a rusty nail is a needle full of poison, and if you step on one you might get tetanus. The rust is innocent. The real culprit is a bacterium that lives in dirt and soil, and the nail is just the delivery vehicle that carries it deep into an airless wound.
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    24 分
  • EP65 - The Lady and the Scalding Cup: McDonald's Coffee Revisited

    EP65 - The Lady and the Scalding Cup: McDonald's Coffee Revisited
    2026/08/26
    You have heard the punchline: an elderly woman spilled hot coffee on her own lap, sued McDonald's, and was handed millions for her greed. But Stella Liebeck was a passenger in a parked car, she suffered burns so severe she needed skin grafts for two years, and the company had ignored over seven hundred prior complaints about its near-boiling coffee. The laughable story is a carefully spun lie.
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    22 分
  • EP64 - The Emperor Who Didn't Fiddle: Nero and the Great Fire

    EP64 - The Emperor Who Didn't Fiddle: Nero and the Great Fire
    2026/08/19
    We all know the story: the mad Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, indifferent to his city's destruction. But the fiddle hadn't been invented yet, Nero wasn't even in Rome when the fire started, and his political enemies spent two thousand years making sure you never heard about the relief effort he actually organized.
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    22 分
  • EP63 - Survival of the Fittest: Why Nature Favors the Friendly Over the Strong

    EP63 - Survival of the Fittest: Why Nature Favors the Friendly Over the Strong
    2026/03/25
    We have long accepted that evolution is a brutal contest where only the strongest, fastest, and most aggressive survive. But this episode reveals how a Victorian economist hijacked Darwin's theory to justify ruthlessness, and why biological success is actually about fitting in, making friends, and sometimes, just being lazy.
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    21 分
  • EP62 - Dead Men Don't Sail: The Myth of Magellan's Circumnavigation

    EP62 - Dead Men Don't Sail: The Myth of Magellan's Circumnavigation
    2026/03/18
    We were all taught that Ferdinand Magellan was the heroic captain who first circumnavigated the globe, proving the world was round. But the reality is that Magellan died in a chaotic beach skirmish halfway through the voyage, leaving a pardoned mutineer and an enslaved interpreter to actually finish the history-making journey.
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    25 分
  • EP61 - The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic Born in Kansas and Named by Censorship

    EP61 - The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic Born in Kansas and Named by Censorship
    2026/03/11
    The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than the Great War it interrupted, and history remembers it as the Spanish Flu. But why was a neutral country blamed for a global catastrophe that likely began in the American Midwest? This episode uncovers how wartime propaganda and censorship allowed the true origin of the virus to escape detection, leaving Spain to take the fall for history's deadliest plague.
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    21 分
  • EP60 - The Great Hemisphere Heist: Why You Are Not Left-Brained or Right-Brained

    EP60 - The Great Hemisphere Heist: Why You Are Not Left-Brained or Right-Brained
    2026/03/04
    We have all heard that logical people are left-brained and creative types are right-brained, a binary label that shapes how we view our own potential. But this episode uncovers the split-brain experiments that started it all to reveal why your brain is less of a divided house and more of a highly connected superhighway.
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    22 分