In Episode 69, we dive into the most ambitious experiment of Dr. John Lilly into the communication between humans and dolphins, which was mired by drug abuse, cosmic divinations, sexual scandal but all funded by the US government. But please, your kids can sit this one out.

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Happy Halloween! Sarah aims to scare your socks off this week with a few true tales of terror including the Enfield Monster, the grim magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and an exorcism gone wrong.

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• https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a39179/five-real-life-horror-stories/
• https://www.newspapers.com/article/mt-vernon-register-news/7318965/
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/hotel-del-salto
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/family-exorcism-demon-kenny-ife-enfield-north-london-a8775321.html
• https://medium.com/horrifix/this-familys-dream-home-quickly-turned-into-a-nightmare-e6ae0c4614d5
• https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2106887&itype=CMSID

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Today we explore the complicated legacy of a man whose inventions fed the world and caused a horrific genocide.

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvknN89JoWo&t=316s
• https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-the-monster-who-fed-the-world-ec19a9834f74
• https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/immerwahr-clara

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An alleged witch who became a ghost who was involved with an occultist who was hand-picked to replace the devil himself: true stories don’t get more Halloweeny than that of Dublin’s Darkey Kelly.

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• https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/darkey-kelly-brothel-keeper-of-dublin/
• https://archive.org/details/diaboliadapoemd00combgoog/page/n18/mode/2up
• https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/a-widows-memory-episode-65/id1516362673?i=1000540665709
• https://dublin.ie/live/stories/the-hell-fire-club/

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Today we talk about inventions that kill and their well-meaning inventors. Including Franz Reichelt, Alfred Nobel and Thomas Midgley Jr.

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• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654
• https://www.invent.org/inductees/dean-kamen
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-tailor-eiffel-paris-france-parachute
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel
• https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/
• https://interestingengineering.com/culture/thomas-midgley-jr-the-man-who-harmed-the-world-the-most
• https://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf

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This week, Sarah brings a hearty dose of death positivity into October with the help of some actual newspaper articles from the Victorian era. From real life ghost stories to one widow’s zany worst day ever, this episode truly has it all.

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• http://thebabydied.blogspot.com/
• "The Victorian Book of the Dead" by Chris Woodyard

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Sarah is in prison, both figuratively and literally, and tortured with an episode about implications and paradoxes surrounding infinity, supertasks and Zeno of Elea.

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• https://www.cantorsparadise.com/zenos-dichotomy-paradox-b185b7167f61
• https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae281.cfm#:~:text=Answer,the%20size%20of%20a%20proton

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Handle with care - or the world ends. This week, Clay shares two stories of men who found themselves in the unpleasant position of having to make a decision with the fate of humanity in balance.

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• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/
• https://www.brightstarsound.com/
• https://www.brightstarsound.com/world_hero/weekendavisen.html
• https://historyofyesterday.com/the-soldier-who-saved-humanity-from-extinction/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3136111.stm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRj0dAuETA&t

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Hedy Lamar - known as both “the most beautiful woman in the world” and “the mother of WiFi” - was more than meets the eye. This week, Sarah presents the story of a Golden Age actress who was also a brilliant inventor.

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• https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hedy-lamarr-howard-hughes-relationship/10134/
• https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/hedy-lamarr-frequency-hopping/

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Harriet Tubman is famous for helping slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, but this is only part of her story. During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman started out as a civilian volunteer with the Union Army cooking and caring for ex-slaves and later, she was tasked with leading a group of spies into the Confederacy. But that is not all and you will have to listen to hear the full story.

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• https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/june/tubman-civil-war-larson.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/
• “Harriet Tubman: The Road To Freedom” by Catherine Clinton; 2004; Little, Brow

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