Things got a bit hairy in Salem in 1692... let's just say it wasn't a good time to be feeding urine cakes to dogs and cracking eggs into Venus glasses.  Oomancy, divination, possession, the 17th-century legal system, and a dark prophecy...   Peter's song.

In the late 1970s, two friends got straight-As in fruit-eating and crystal meth.  Luckily for the trajectory of punk rock, they turned their talents to music, gave up their real names for punk alter egos, and began wreaking havoc on stages across Los Ang.

When the going gets good, Marvel got weird.  Forget Iron Man and Thor, it's time for Nightmask and Star Brand!  Sorry, you've never heard of them?  Maybe sticking to what works is the best way after all.  Come take a ride into Jim Shooter's mind as he st.

In the time it takes you to read this, the city of Tangshan shook apart in 1976. Peter tells Leigh about one of the most devastating of Earth's ancient disasters, with a truly staggering death toll. Earthquakes, seismology, Richter, and toeing the party .

It usually takes a disaster to change regulations... case in point British Airtours Flight 28M and the Boeing 737.  Ultra-narrow aisles?  Armrests that don't raise up?  Seats in front of the emergency exits?  Yup, this all seems fine.  An inferno, design.

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Nuclear Norm comes back to finish what he started, this time telling us about why some people distrust science, and why they might never change their mind. Petitions, angry fictitious coal miners, reverse-cherry-picking data, and a whole lot of climate d.

It's all fun and games until Steven Spielberg brings you his precious property to turn into a video game.  In the early 1980s, Atari was unstoppable... but the little brown extraterrestrial did his best.  A crazy short development time, a waning interest.

Our special guest drops by for a two-part series about the slow-burn disaster happening all around us.  What's a greenhouse gas?  Are we in an ice age?  Will the poles melt and send us spinning off into outer space?  You never know what could happen wwhe.

In 1958, Los Alamos National Laboratory was buzzing with new and exciting ways to eradicate humanity and leave the Earth a desolate, radioactive wasteland. Turns out we've been nuking ourselves willingly for over a century... unless you're Cecil Kelley, .