Pharaoh Djoser and Egypt’s First Pyramid
The pyramids at Giza are iconic Egyptian landmarks, but they weren't the first to appear. Djoser...
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The use of general anesthesia is less than 200 years old. Before doctors were able to cause...
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P.A.R.C., Mills and Special Education
Until 1975, children with disabilities in the U.S. weren’t guaranteed the right to a public...
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Why would people want to remove salt from water? To solve the world's water problem, that's why....
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Why would people want to remove salt from water? To solve the world's water problem, that's why....
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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
In August 1835, the New York Sun ran a series about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by...
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Does the human body really replace itself every few years? The answer is yes, but different parts...
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Polyamory: When two just won't do
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh and Chuck dive into the world of polyamory. Turns...
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It has been called a "glorified spring", but Slinky is one of the best selling toys of all time....
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Jesters of some sort have been around since ancient Egypt and China. Our modern clown was...
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How Zero Population Growth Works
In 1968, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb, predicting coming famine and mass death....
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Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop, Part 1
Frankie Manning grew up loving dance, learning and practicing in ballrooms and private parties in...
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Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop, Part 2
Once Manning became a professional dancer and choreographer, his work took him all over the...
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Science doesn’t have a good explanation for why we sense color, yet it is everywhere and...
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Tupperware won immediate design acclaim when it was released in 1947, but it took a pioneering...
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Junk food is literally that, empty calories of energy that provide little nutritional value and...
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It’s easy to overlook the importance of ocean currents – they move along out at sea, while we...
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From prehistoric logs across streams to the 102-mile Kunshan Grand Bridge, nature works...
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Hokusai lived during a time when there was not a lot of contact between Japan and the West. But...
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In 1966, a restaurant in San Francisco's Tenderloin district was the site of a violent incident...
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