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
Obligatory Holiday Episode: Easter & Passover
Hop on down the bunny trail as we examine the origins of some beloved Easter traditions and teach the goyim a little about Pesach.
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00:28:14 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
You're How Old?!
In the age of bigger, better, faster, more, it’s easy to default to thinking that we invented everything, that the complex things that make up our lives couldn’t have existed in the times we view as …
00:27:44 |
Tue 20 Mar 2018
First Ladies
We dip our toes into the deep water of "the first woman to..." with pilots, daredevils, doctors, and athletes.
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00:27:44 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Untold Devastation
There exists a small deserted town, which has been seized by eminent domain and condemned by the state. Why would an entire town that once housed over a thousand residents be shuttered? Because the g…
00:26:57 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
hiStory
Take, for example, George Washington’s youthful proclamation on the lumberjacking of his father’s cherry tree - “I cannot tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.” It’s one of the first presidential…
00:29:44 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Firsts That Weren't
Gutenberg may have gotten all the press, but he wasn't the first to use movable type. Think you know the first video game or who was the first to fly across the Atlantic? Listen in and see!
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00:24:28 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Phe-nom-nom-nom
You say potato, I say a dangerous tuber that people will only eat in the face of actual starvation. You say tomato, I say a poison apple from the mysterious new world that’s killing the aristocracy.
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00:22:45 |
Sat 17 Feb 2018
In the Name of Science
From a lone example of a trilobite in Hunan, China named Han Solo to a butterfly pea flower reminiscent of a Georgia O'Keefe painting, called clitoria ternatea, the naming of species offers almost as…
00:20:45 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Shenanigans (hoaxes and false panics)
From rainbow parties to Spiritualism to two bands touring as a band they're not, we take a look at some noteworthy hoaxes and false panics.
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00:20:16 |
Mon 12 Feb 2018
What is Your Brain On Facts?
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00:00:45 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
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