Episode 5: Rats vs Squirrels

07/21/19 • 45 min

A Very Broad History of Werewolves and Other Things

Let’s take a look at these rodents in history. Both species live among humans, and both have carried fleas infected with bubonic plague. Yet the United States has treated these creatures very differently. Is it the tail?

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For a century tobacco companies have worked with advertisers to mislead the public and infuse habitual smoking into American culture. This episode looks at the history of how an open conspiracy led to a global epidemic of preventable cancer.

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People all over the world have seen UFOs— but people from the United States seem to have seen them extra. Why? This episode comes at the issue of UFOs from a historical perspective, to try and determine why Americans are so obsessed with UFOs and what it says about them.