The story of the Corrupted Blood plague that hit the realm of World of Warcraft and what outbreaks in video games can teach us about real-world epidemiology.

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In the midst of the siege of Leningrad, a small enclave of Soviet scientists did what they could to protect a massive collection of seeds in order to save countless future human lives.

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In Los Angeles, California, the fresh recruits, with their new crew cuts and wrinkled uniforms, would get their first taste of combat on February 24th, 1942...

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Saigon, Vietnam. April 1975.

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Childbed fever was killing new mothers with a vengeance. In Hungary, young doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found a cure. However, there was one problem... No one believed him.

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Baseball has long been dubbed America’s pastime, but would that change if players had to literally play for their lives?

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In the 1850s, a Christian cult rattles imperial China to its core...

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Mummies, hieroglyphs, pyramids, vintage fashion; Egyptologist and vintage fashion historian Colleen Darnell digs through it all.

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History is full of moments of misfortune, irony, or just plain ol’ bad luck. This episode contains eight mini-stories about the times where things went from bad to worse.

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This episode is devoted to the 800 year old Notre Dame cathedral and it's incredibly storied past.

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