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Shoutout to music! Shoutout to stars! Shoutout to hearts! This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Emily are joined by Racked’s Nicola Fumo in [Read more]
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India at war and mining accidents
Historian Yasmin Khan talks about her new book, The Raj at War, which explores the impact of World War Two on the people of India, many of whom fought in the conflict. Meanwhile, we speak to Daniel Blackie about a project that is examining the fate of …
A Brief History of Harmonicas
The deceptively simple harmonica has roots as far back as ancient China, though it really came into its own in Europe in the 1800s. Learn [Read more]
What’s My Address?
The URL is a handy way to navigate to a specific web page. But where did it come from? How does it work and why [Read more]
Olive Oatman
In 1851, Olive Oatman’s family was attacked while traveling near the Gila River in Arizona. Olive was taken by her attackers, and lived for five [Read more]
(The Naked Bible Podcast) Naked Bible 55: Dr. Ronn Johnson
In this episode Mike chats with his friend and co-conspirator in divine council research, Dr. Ronn Johnson. Ronn and Mike met as undergraduates in Bible college in the early 1980s. Ronn has a PhD in Bible Exposition (Old and New Testament) from Dallas Th
Puddle of burn
Welcome to a very special episode of The Vergecast, featuring our new colleagues from Re/code, Walt Mossberg and Lauren Goode. They join Nilay and Sam [Read more]
Terror in Elizabethan England
In a lecture from our 2014 History Weekend in Malmesbury, Tudor historian Jessie Childs describes how Catholics were suppressed during the reign of the Virgin Queen. This week’s episode also includes an audio version of July’s anniv…
Techs Top Rivalries
All’s fair in love and tech, so they say. In this episode, we look back on some of the famous rivalries in technology. Learn more [Read more]
Archaeology Interview: Harvard Indian College
Holly chats with archaeologists Patricia Capone and Diana Loren about Harvard’s Indian College, the school’s importance to Colonial history and the ongoing archaeology of Harvard [Read more]