Damn Interesting
If you like intriguing true stories from science, history, and psychology, this audiobook-like adaptation of DamnInteresting.com ought to tickle your fancy.
Science
Literature
Arts
Society & Culture
Education
Psychology
Fiction
History
Comedy
Science & Medicine
- Update frequency
- every 55 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Radical Solutions
French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn't trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra.
01:02:33 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
Private Wojteks Right To Bear Arms
One of Poland’s most beloved and honored World War II veterans was not Polish at all: he was a 500-pound brown bear named Wojtek.
00:16:18 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Dead Reckoning
The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew
01:13:12 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
The Most Modern Of Modern Sports
The secret runaway success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s racing cheetahs.
00:35:28 |
Sun 14 Apr 2019
A Debaculous Fiasco
The most expensive, bizarre, and obscure work ever created by Dr. Seuss.
00:30:19 |
Sun 04 Nov 2018
Drawing The Shorter Straw
Working almost single-handedly, visionary Argentine filmmaker Quirino Cristiani created full-length animated films between 1917 and 1931. He has since been all but forgotten.
00:40:16 |
Sun 29 Jul 2018
The Curse Of Konzo
In 1981, an international group of doctors identified the devastating disease behind a perplexing outbreak of paralysis in northern Mozambique.
00:25:11 |
Tue 01 May 2018
A Jarring Revelation
Amanda Theodosia Jones was a 19th-century poet, entrepreneur, and inventor who found inspiration in some unlikely places.
00:13:58 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
Death By Derivatives
The opening of a canal in 1848 led to the birth of modern financial derivatives, and the early demise of some of the men who traded them
00:14:55 |
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
00:54:12 |
Sat 29 Jul 2017
No Country For Ye Olde Men
Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton.
00:12:49 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Fire And Dice
The story of a tragic hotel fire of Rube Goldberg proportions.
00:23:09 |
Mon 12 Jun 2017
The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant
As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one.
00:25:07 |
Tue 11 Apr 2017
The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known
A 300-year-old hunt for the unsung hero of Salzburg.
00:19:40 |
Mon 06 Mar 2017
Foreign Exchanges
He made a name for himself organizing the world’s most important economic conference, only to have it tarnished by an outrageous accusation.
00:30:26 |
Wed 28 Dec 2016
Starving For Answers
During WWII, 36 American conscientious objectors volunteered as subjects in a brutal science experiment to measure the body's response to starvation.
00:14:44 |
Wed 30 Nov 2016
Ten Minutes In Lituya Bay
A remote bay in Alaska is home to an odd and occasionally catastrophic geology. In 1958, a handful of people experienced this firsthand.
00:24:52 |
Mon 26 Sep 2016
The King's Letters
The 15th-century scholar who upset the Korean aristocracy by creating a native script for the Korean language, and thus wean it off Chinese characters.
00:19:40 |
Sat 06 Aug 2016
Mobilis In Mobili
A 1930s effort to reach the Earth's northernmost point via antiquated submarine.
00:23:52 |
Mon 13 Jun 2016
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