Your Brain on Facts
Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
Stolen Innocents
Without getting into current politics, we can’t ignore the plight of children seized from parents of a particular group. And it’s not the first time either. A century ago, the American government too…
00:30:00 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
Life After Death, with Dumb & Busted podcast
Death doesn’t mean everything stop for you. There are lots of ways we can live on after shuffling off the mortal coil. From body parts taken from famous bodies, to cells that won't stop growing, to a…
00:34:09 |
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Swiss Army Wife, with Bunny Trails Podcast
I’m pretty good at this wife business, but I can’t say that I would take over my husband’s public office after his death, re-edit his film to launch a genre-defining franchise, or kill an enemy gener…
00:32:32 |
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Ink and Pain: Tattoos, with Hobbit from GUI Podcasts
“The body is a temple and it’s our job to decorate it." From tatau in Polynesia to Sailor Jerry to the oppressed class that gave rise to the Yakuza, we touch on some highlights from the history of ta…
00:36:30 |
Tue 17 Jul 2018
Secret Cities
We all lose things -- keys, wallets, patience -- but how do you lose an entire city? Hear the stories of three American towns built in a hurry but kept off the map, secure Soviet enclaves known by th…
00:35:57 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Foxtrot Alpha Charlie Tango Sierra, pt 2
For Independence Day, we're doing a two-parter on heroic animals, innovations from the field, and noteworthy bad-asses.
Topics include a pigeon who saved hundreds of lives, a crossbow for grenades an…
00:23:29 |
Fri 06 Jul 2018
Foxtrot Alpha Charlie Tango Sierra pt 1
For Independence Day, we're doing a two-parter on heroic animals, innovations from the field, and noteworthy bad-asses.
Topics include a pigeon who saved hundreds of lives, a crossbow for grenades an…
00:23:45 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
We Can't Have Nice Things: Art & Antiquities Edition
Ecce Homo was a fresco of Jesus Christ that had degraded significantly over time. No one asked the little old lady next door to help. She had no training, but how hard could it really be? Pretty damn…
00:35:54 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Science Fiction Double Feature, featuring Shaun Ennis of Stories of Yore and Yours
My father was a sci-fi fan of the old school. The man had the entire original Star Trek series on VHS, commercial free, and an Enterprise technical manual. So in his honor, a little late for Father's…
00:38:10 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
Like Butter in the Bank
A strategic reserve is a commodity held back by governments to stabilize prices or protect against shortage. Your mind may go immediately to the 35 million barrels or so of crude oil that the US has …
00:30:20 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
The Last Word(s)
We assign a great deal of significant to last words. We expect them to be deep and profound, the sort of thing you immortalize on a $3,000 headstone. We hope we’ll say something really clever when it…
00:33:30 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
The Role of a Lifetime
Some actors fall victim to typecasting, but others have a single character they can't disassociate themselves from. Sometimes that means always being cast as a character similar to the one they made …
00:30:30 |
Tue 29 May 2018
Copy-wrong
If a monkey takes a picture in the woods, can the monkey claim the copyright? Trademark and copyright laws can get pretty sticky. For the layperson, trademark, copyright and patent sound interchangea…
00:29:41 |
Tue 22 May 2018
Mummy's Day
In this episode, we cover the way people in Victorian Europe used (and abused) Egyptian mummies, whether or not mummies were burned for fuel, Catholic saints who do not decay, natural mummies preserv…
00:39:15 |
Tue 15 May 2018
Lunules and Tittles and Barms, Oh My!
From the skin between your thumb and forefinger to the stringy things you have to pick off bananas, today's episode will teach you dozens of names for everyday items, even if you can't tell your nati…
00:29:55 |
Tue 08 May 2018
Steal (pretty) Big
When you think of big heists, your mind probably goes to banks, jewelry, and fine art, or maybe a casino vault; carefully organized plans by people dressed in black turtlenecks with plenty of cool ga…
00:27:51 |
Tue 01 May 2018
A Dish Best Served Loud
A microphone is a good enough platform for getting back at people, but an entire recording studio is even better. Popular music is littered with songs getting back at an ex lover, from Waylon Jenning…
00:29:44 |
Tue 24 Apr 2018
We Can't Have Nice Things: Gamer edition
From trolls and griefers, to crashing virtual funerals and spreading digital plagues, we look at online gamers ruining everyone else's fun in the first of our series We Can't Have Nice Things.
Learn …
00:27:45 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
For Want of a Nail
Small things can have reverberating effects on history, both good and bad. In 1453, the great walled city of Constantinople, which had withstood sieges for 1,100 years, fell to the Ottomans...becaus…
00:30:49 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
It's Good To Be The King
Mel Brooks said it best, “It’s good to be the king.” There’s the seemingly limitless power and unspendable amounts of wealth. On the flip-side, though, there’s the back-stabbing, political intrigue, …
00:33:08 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
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