"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." —Susan B. Anthony in The New York...
It's easy to forget that the written language is still a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, we take for granted that everything in modern times is written down and anything posted to the internet is forever, for good or for bad. We write texts and posts memes without thinking about it, we jot down grocery lists, reply-all to email...
Most history books will tell you that the Maori were the firsts inhabitants of New Zealand, first settling the islands between 1280-1350 CE but Maori tradition tells of a different people nestled deep in New Zealand's foggy mountains where they could hide from sunlight which was deadly to them
When I say that, what comes to mind? The Tuskegee airmen, who were unknowingly subjected to sexually transmitted diseases? The experiments done to those in concentration camps Dachau and Auschwitz? The tuberculosis inoculation tests done on indigenous children in Saskatchewan?
You know the age old philosophical thought experiment:
I think we're overdue, by a few years, for a tale of another strange creature. Though this one may not be as chatty as our Gef the Mongoose from way back in the early days of this podcast.
A few miles north of Bristol in Southwest England is the small town of Almondsbury. It's the sleepy kind of English town where not a whole lot happens but on Apr 3 1817 something did happen
As much of our topics tend to do, the origins of Heavy Metal and its sub-genres have connections with the Satanic Panic of yesteryear. But while the Satanic panic is fun to poke and prod at, Nathan gives us some fun information on the birth of Folk Metal. A sub-genre that deviates from the traditional anti-Christian themes, but still...
"Eat shit" It's a phrase we've all heard, but have ever truly thought about it? Courtney tells us about coprophagy and why so many animals do it and where this phrase originally came from
In the 13th century, the entire village of Trasmoz, Spain, was excommunicated for witchcraft and in 1511, Pope Julius II ordered the village to be cursed and it is said to still be cursed today. That's the story anyways