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
The Remains of Doctor Bass
Under normal circumstances, one would expect a wandering throng of students to demonstrate animated displeasure upon encountering a human corpse in the woods; particularly a corpse as fragrant and fe…
00:13:13 |
Tue 29 Oct 2013
The City Under Ice
The story of Camp Century: A "nuclear city" under the Greenland ice sheet that was not entirely what it seemed.
00:16:55 |
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Otokichi's Long Trip Home
While most of the major powers of western Europe spent the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries racing around the world carving out empires for themselves, Japan felt threatened by the influx of foreigners…
00:12:24 |
Thu 08 Aug 2013
The Conductor
The story of Roy Sullivan. A different kind of Damn Interesting episode.
00:07:43 |
Fri 12 Jul 2013
Andrée and the Aeronauts' Voyage to the Top of the World
On the 11th of July 1897, the world breathlessly awaited word from the small Norwegian island of Danskøya in the Arctic Sea. Three gallant Swedish scientists stationed there were about to embark on a…
00:46:44 |
Mon 24 Jun 2013
The Mole Rat Prophecies
The naked mole rat, Heterocephalus glaber, is fleshy, furless, buck-toothed and brazenly ugly. Yet what these small East African rodents lack in terms of good looks, they make up with an impressive a…
00:20:15 |
Wed 24 Apr 2013
The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia
There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto a short detour. Exactly what the detour is circumventing is not immediately clear…
00:07:40 |
Tue 16 Apr 2013
The Spy Who Loved Nothing
The meeting had not gone well, the man gloomily reflected as he was driven out of East Berlin. His head was still heavy after a few too many snifters of cognac. The American's ambitious scheme to bui…
00:21:13 |
Mon 18 Feb 2013
The Isle of Doctor Seaborg
It was the summer of 1936 when Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the atom-smashing cyclotron, received a visit from Emilio Segrè, a scientific colleague from Italy. Segrè explained that he had come al…
00:21:03 |
Sun 27 Jan 2013
The Arizona Dragonslayer
A simple telegram plunged America into the Great War. The Zimmermann telegram, intercepted by American intelligence in April 1917, revealed Germany’s efforts to encourage Mexico to invade the United …
00:18:12 |
Thu 06 Dec 2012
The Science of Mental Fitness
It’s a testament to the strength and versatility of the human brain that anyone with at least half of one tends to assume that their senses give them direct access to objective reality. The truth is …
00:13:22 |
Sun 11 Nov 2012
Nineteen Seventy Three
On 12 November 1971, in the presidential palace in the Republic of Chile, President Salvador Allende and a British theorist named Stafford Beer engaged in a highly improbable conversation. Beer was a…
00:31:12 |
Wed 17 Oct 2012
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