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  • The 100 Years' War: Battlefield Buffoonery and Perfidious Burgundians
    2025/05/07

    England and France have often found themselves in conflict with each other, the 100 Years' War is no exception. They were so committed to this specific conflict that not even civil wars, great plagues, nor 130 years could convince them to wrap it up.

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    1 時間 51 分
  • Canids: When is a Fox Not a Fox?
    2025/04/23

    And yes, we are going to talk about the "dire wolf" thing.

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    1 時間 23 分
  • Sleeping With One Eye Open: A Survey of Sleep in the Animal Kingdom
    2025/04/09

    Sleeping is trait shared by every member of the animal kingdom, but how sleep is done varies wildly from species to species. In this episode we will go all around the animal kingdom on a survey of what sleep looks like, how it works, and what impact it has for various animals.

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    1 時間 36 分
  • The Measles Menace: The Depths of the Deception of (ex) Doctor Andrew Wakefield
    2025/03/26

    Measles is an incredibly dangerous disease. Luckily, in the 1960s a vaccine was developed and measles was put on the path towards eradication. Unluckily, Andrew Wakefield entered the picture in the '90s. He has, without a doubt, done more damage to the health of the human race than one man should conceivably be able to do.

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    1 時間 15 分
  • The Evolution of the Theory of Evolution: Going Deeper than Darwin
    2025/03/12

    Everyone thinks Darwin the moment Evolution is mentioned and while he is the most predominant figure, there a rich history of thoughts, ideas, philosophers, and scientists who came before that paved the way for On the Origin of Species. This episode does include Darwin but focuses on the people and advancements that set the stage for his most famous contribution to science.

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    1 時間 16 分
  • The Monkey Trial of the Infidel Scopes: Fundamentalists vs. the ACLU
    2025/02/26

    For our 100th episode we have gone back 100 years to the Scopes trial of 1925. More commonly known as The Scopes Monkey Trial, this spectacle of the courtroom was less about determining guilt than it was about pitting evolution against fundamentalism.

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    1 時間 17 分
  • Crocodilians: Expert Extinction Evaders
    2025/02/12

    Crocodilians are cool! These amazing archosaurs are extremely well adapted to their environments, but you probably knew that. What you may not have known is how smart, loud, and caring they are (and their blood has super powers).

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    1 時間 12 分
  • The Bhopal Chemical Plant Disaster: An Ongoing Tragedy
    2025/01/22

    Last episode we dove head first into the history of industrial environmental disasters and cover what is arguably the biggest disaster of them all. The reason being the that the Bhopal chemical plant disaster deserves its own feature length discussion. Learn about the events leading up to the disaster, the incident itself, and the effects that are still being occurring 40 years later.

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    57 分