All Episodes
Modern Notion — 136 episodes
This Salon in New York Is the Ground Zero of Brazilian Waxing
Mapping the Human Body
Cheddar: It’s Nothing to Cheese At
Announcement from Modern Notion
Winston Churchill, War Correspondent
Deathwatch Beetles and Other Creepy Crawlies
Was the CIA behind JFK’s Assassination?
Ambiguity May or May Not Be a Good Thing
Why Aren’t More Women Pursuing STEM Careers?
Learn to Fight Like a Navy SEAL
Are Public Libraries Disappearing?
Your Microbiome Could Be the Key to Healthy Living
White Powders and Clear Liquids: Looking at 75 Food Additives
A Primer on the Colorful History of Hawaii
The House of Twenty Thousand Books
The Dark Underbelly of California Winemaking
Judy, the Only Canine POW in World War II
The Volcano That Caused Three Years of Bad Weather
Why You Should Be Death-Positive
A History of Gay Rights (or Lack Thereof) in America
Lady Spies of the Civil War
Does Freud Have a Place in Neuroscience?
What Does It Mean If Only 36 Percent of Psychology Studies Are Replicable
The Master Algorithm
Understanding Science Will Make You a Better Cook
Introducing the Pawpaw, the Most Delicious Fruit on Both Sides of the Mississippi
It Took a Few Tries to Get the Magna Carta Right
Reading ‘Walden’ for the Rocks
When It Comes to Automation, Have We Gone Too Far?
Sisters in Law: Sandra Day O’Connor & Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What We Can Learn from Online Daters
Investigating the Murder of a White Supremacist Leader
Taking Down Boston’s Most Notorious Gangster
The Night Bob Dylan Went Electric
The Tricky Science of Forensics
The Ups and Downs of Voting Rights in America
The Complex Lives of Killer Whales
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Project Apollo
Sea Wars: Somali Pirates & Oyster Farming
The American Doctor Who Resisted in Nazi-Occupied Paris; NYC Subway Cars Become Artificial Reefs
John Horton Conway: The Seductive Mathematician
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
The Origins of International Adoption from Korea
Murder & Romance in the 19th Century
Andy Warhol’s Epic 1963 Cross-Country Road Trip; Sardinian Foods
A History of the Written Word
The Oregon Trail
Three Stoners Who Became Gunrunners for the Department of Defense
The First Lady of the Black Press; Fake Blood for Mosquitoes
North Korea Undercover; The Dead Man Who Helped the Allies Win World War II
Peyton Place; Origins of the Bikini
Ernest Lawrence, the Cyclotron, & the Military-Industrial Complex
The Women Behind the Whiskey
Understanding Dinosaurs with the Traces They Left Behind; Head Transplants
Quantum Biology and Life on the Edge; Mosquito Asphyxiation
Elephants and Kings; Foods for Survival
The Texting-While-Driving Crash That Killed Two Rocket Scientists
The Tragic Story of Ota Benga; Cylinder Seals
The Scientists Who Invented Weather Prediction
Reconstructing Roman Hairstyles & the Tour de France’s “Lanterne Rouge”
The Stanford Prison Experiment, Dangerous Personalities
The Wild Weasels of the U.S. Air Force, Betty Crocker
Up Close & Personal with Seashells
Sega vs. Nintendo, Ouija Boards
The Man Who Survived a Plane Crash & 81 Days in the Alaskan Wilderness; TV Dinners
The Three Japanese Girls Who Came to America in the 1870s + Princess Caribou
The Soul of an Octopus
A Doctor Examines Medical Marijuana
A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures, Space Plants
The Virginia County That Refused to Desegregate, Keys to the City
The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
The Laki Volcano Eruption of 1783, Siberian Sinkholes
Raymond Ditmars & His Obsession with Bushmasters, Nazi Ghetto in Madagascar
Will Technology Go Beyond Our Control? & Ayahuasca
The Life of Jonas Salk
Interpreting the Bible Through Science, Death Elevator
The Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy, the Man Who Biked Around the World
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke, Feral Cities, Butterfly Highway
Bed Bugs!
Trials of Passion, Lady and the Tramp
The Scientists Behind World War I, Wilma Rudolph’s Obstacles
The Real Housewives of 16th-Century France
Invisibility, Ave Maria
Swimming the River Thames, Atoms Under the Floorboards
Max Planck, Schrodinger’s Cat, Ancient Dog Tomb
The Science of Criminal Injustice
The mp3 Revolution, Why We Can’t Remember Dreams
Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Leopard Men, Cockroaches in Space
Dueling Neurosurgeons, Banjo History, Dead Words
A History of the Redhead, Ebola Prank Calls, the First Sex Tape from Space
A New Language in Australia, Vulture Restaurants
Original Sin & the Western World
Director Frank Pavich on Jodorowsky’s Dune
A Year in Antarctica, Lemming Myth
Astronaut Chris Hadfield
A Short History of Bourbon
What’s It Like to Be a Pilot; Benjamin Franklin on Flatulence
The Fly Trap, Japanese Picture Brides, Cannibalism
The Murder That Transfixed Chicago, Elves, Taxidermy Class
Joan of Arc
Children of the Stone, Laura Bridgman
How to Bake Pi, Fake Anastasia
Rebooting Southern Cuisine; Heirloom Foods
Plankton and Other Sea Creatures
The Moore of Moore’s Law, Illuminati
The Inventor of BASE Jumping and Percy Fawcett
Searching for Atlantis, Skin Whitening
Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence Poker Tournament, Rumpology
Working with NASA’s Mars Rover, Fermi Paradox
Bison Return to the Prairie, and Should We Eat Horse Meat?
Rise of the Robots, Ivan the Terrible
Fixing Global Warming with Soil, the Los Angeles Cycleway
The 14th Century Famine, Worm Rain
Lovelace and Babbage, Degas and the Little Dancer, Pranks
Elephant Don, the Hardest Tongue Twister, Mr. Eats All
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, Self-Immolation, Moon Landing and Filmmaking
How to Clone a Mammoth, Naked Came the Stranger, Suicide Forest
Galileo’s Middle Finger, Ancient Trees, the Real Chef Boyardee
A River Changes Course in Cambodia, Unsinkable Violet Jessup
Jenny Price, the Cult Behind the Cutlery, First Women Voters
Dangerous Personalities, What Lewis & Clark Left Behind, Misophonia
‘Circus without Borders,’ First Wives and Assassinations, and the Rainbow of Sound
Gurkhas, WWII WASPS and the Geophysics Behind the Normandy Landing
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
Daniel Rubens on SIDS, The Indiana Jones of Mathematics, The Last Empress of China
Obscenity & American Jews, Visiting the Dennis Severs House, Madame Wu
The Life & Ideas of Sabina Spielrein, Living Autopsy, We Have Chins for a Reason
Princes at War, Seeing with Sound, Secret Life of Soot
Why Science Does Not Disprove God, Potato Ball Caper, Trend-Setting Presidents
John Wilkes Booth, Irene Joliot-Curie, Poison Squad
The Science of Hedonism, Loneliest Whale, This Is Your Life
America’s Obsession with Weight, an Enslaved Muslim Prince, DIY Space Gear
The Invaders—Humans & Wolf-Dogs, Cardiff Giant, World’s Deadliest Sniper
The Unpersuadables, Radium Girls, Typewriters, Iron Lung
North Korea, Mary Pickford Films, Mars One
Savage Harvest and A Tale of Cannibals