Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1466: Vegetable Physiology
Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking. Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.
More or Less - Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?
Vlad III Dracula, the Wallachian Prince who became Bram Stokers inspiration behind his famous vampire 'Count Dracula,' was a brutal ruler. So brutal that history dubbed him 'Vlad the Impaler' due to his penchant for that particularly gruesome form of execution. Which, without going into too much detail, involved driving a large stake or pole through someone's body - often vertically.
Chroniclers and historians claim that he impaled over 20,000 people during his reigns which, if true is a very, very big number. But is it true? We speak to Historian Dénes Harai whose paper: 'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula’s Practice of Collective Impalements in Fifteenth-Century South-eastern Europe' attempts to set the record straight.
Let's travel back to 1431 to separate the math's from the myth.
Presenter/Producer: Lizzy McNeill Series Producer: Tom Colls Sound Mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
Audio Mises Wire - Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/recipes-rothbard-what-chocolate-cake-can-teach-about-economics
The Indicator from Planet Money - A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices
It’s … Indicators of the…Eek! (Indicators of the Week.) Our regular look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.
On today’s episode: How cell phone bans in schools affect grades, white collar workers get the axe, and AHHH! Halloween candy inflation!
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On today’s episode: How cell phone bans in schools affect grades, white collar workers get the axe, and AHHH! Halloween candy inflation!
Related episodes:
Are you afraid of inflation?
A finance fright fest
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3335: Transcontinental
Episode #3335 Learning to fly non-stop from coast to coast in America. Today, we fly across America.
Audio Mises Wire - Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins
Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/murray-rothbard-and-world-war-ii-origins
Cato Podcast - Five* Types of Innovative “Schools”
School choice isn’t just about choosing different schools—it’s about unbundling education itself and trying new things to get kids excited about learning. Cato scholars Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich envision a future where adults educated through innovative institutions bring diverse perspectives to workplaces and communities.
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Audio Mises Wire - By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work
Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-means-elect-mamdani-and-watch-his-socialist-laboratory-work
Cato Podcast - Five* Types of Innovative “Schools”
School choice isn't just about choosing different schools—it's about unbundling education itself and trying new things to get kids excited about learning. Cato scholars Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich envision a future where adults educated through innovative institutions bring diverse perspectives to workplaces and communities.
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Curious City - A Curious City Halloween: Scary stories from spooked Chicagoans
Three stories from Chicagoans who endured a terrifying experience that they couldn’t explain, couldn’t get over, or couldn’t escape.
Karen Holt tells the story of her haunted childhood home on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Was her house simply saturated with “residual energy”? Or was the ghost of a lost boy wandering the halls?
Rachel Shuki tells the story of the haunted, now-closed school she taught at on Chicago’s West Side. A tragic disaster from the past could be the reason behind unexplained occurrences in the building.
Ben Astrachan and Jackson Zinn-Rowthorn tell the story of their Northwest Side apartment complex, the ritual site they found in the basement, and the friend that messed with it. Have they disturbed a spiritual realm they aren’t equipped to handle?
Get cozy, dim the lights and press play.