Cooks, brewers, and foodies: you're going to love this. We went all out and cooked up a real seven-course meal of Sumerian dishes, and brewed actual Sumerian beer! Sample the world's oldest cuisine with us!

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Muisc and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Map by Adam McKithern. Pics, maps, references and more at www.deadideas.net.

Education makes women... what? Infertile?! Yep. This time we delve into a wildly popular book from 1873 that proposed precisely this: Edward H. Clarke's Sex in Education: A Fair Chance for the Girls. This one's gonna be a doozy.

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Our scribes travel to the court of Mari, a city in the far northwest of the Fertile Crescent. There they discover a viper's nest of courtly intrigue in this role-playing game of episode. Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn!

Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Map by Adam McKithern. Pics, maps, references, and more at www.deadideas.net.

This episode is a personal reflection on nationality and my own awkward relationship with my Slovenian heritage. This is an initial baby-step toward a longer series on Titoism, the ideology of Josep Broz Tito, the communist dictator of the former Yugoslavia, who defied Moscow to grow his own brand of communism, which unfortunately did not survive his death.

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Grab your tablet and stylus and try to avoid the muggles! In this special role-playing game episode, we explore the life of a cuneiform scribe in the age of Babylon. Support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn! Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net. Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Custom map by Adam McKithern.

Who were the "boy scouts of feudal Japan"? I have no idea! In this episode of Public Domain Theater 3000, we read this 1914 article to discover what in the hell this author could possibly mean. Support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn! Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net

We're going all the way back to ancient Sumer! Our new epic series is about the world's oldest writing system, which revolutionized communication. Get your clay tablet and your stylus, and join us for: cuneiform! Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn! Music by Rachel Westhoff. Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net.

The balance of power was designed to prevent a great from ever happening again. And then THE Great War happened. Today we see how it all went to shit. We conclude by exploring whether we are still living in a balance of power system, or if we have gone beyond it and why. Maps, pics, and references at www.deadideas.net. Music by Rachel Westhoff.

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What was going so crazy with the Balkans that it could spark a great war like WWI? And why? Guest co-host Adam McKithern and I go full-throttle to make sense of the Balkan Situation. Hint: It all has to do with the diplomatic game called the balance of power system. Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net. Music by Rachel Westhoff.

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Rise up, for the Nation! What was nationalism, and how did it completely eff up the balance of power system prior to WWI? Today we dive into this, and we read an article from 1914 about Czech and Polish nationalism at the start of WWI. Maps, pics, and references at www.deadideas.net. Music by Rachel Westhoff.

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