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Minicast G1: The Flying Boy trick
Question Kyle and Question Jennie join me as we discuss the 18th century fad of using the emerging understanding of the phenomenon of electricity to entertain. Men who considered themselves worldly natural philosophers and amateur scientists found it...
Minicast G2: Dundee United
In 1972 a middling team from the Scottish Premier League played four exhibition matches in Nigeria and distinguished itself so profoundly with its pitiful play (and boorish attitude) that its name became a synonym for stupidity. Grousing about how...
episode 49: 049 - Race to the Future with Kassia St. Clair
Kassia St. Clair, author of the 2017 best-seller and the Sunday Times Book of the Year follow-up (2019) joins me to talk about her new book, . It's the story of the utterly bonkers 1907 auto race from Peking to Paris, which didn't let things like...
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