11 episodes
Micro Micro
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Micro is a podcast that tells stories and explains ideas in under five minutes. Host Rich Raycraft is obsessed with all the weird things that make our world stranger than fiction, and this "short form" podcast is his way of sharing them.
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A Treasure Worth Dying For
Imagine being so rich and so bored that you start the world's craziest, and possibly most dangerous, treasure hunt.
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Speaking Anglish
The English language is a mess, but a very strange group of linguistic purists have a plan to fix it. You may not like the solution.
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A Roko Idea
WARNING: Learning about the idea in this episode will either (a) ruin your life forever, or (b) induce serious eye-rolling.
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The King of Sting
Knowledge is power, but sometimes it's also pain. Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt does what no scientist before him thought to or dared to.
Justin O. Schmidt's book, "The Sting of the Wild", is available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sting-Wild-Justin-Schmidt/dp/1421419289 -
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A Very Fish-y Nation
How an American Pepsi lobbyist established his own country on a Canadian island and ended up in a stand off with Soviet Russia.