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- The Real Life "English Patient"
Explore the life behind *The English Patient*: meet László Almásy—a Hungarian aristocrat, desert explorer, and WWII spy. From daring expeditions to espionage, uncover the real story that inspired the novel.
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29 min - The Insanely Disturbing CIA Funded Canadian Mind Control Experiments
It was the winter of 1957, and Charles Tanny was in agony. A bad dental filling had triggered a severe case of trigeminal neuralgia (tri-gem-in-al), leaving the 42-year-old snowblower salesman and father of three with crippling facial pain which no doctor seemed able to relieve. Suspecting the problem might be psychological, doctors eventually referred Tanny to the Allen Memorial Institute, a stately former mansion and psychiatric research centre on the slopes of Montreal’s Mount Royal. His family hoped the institute would finally be able to ease his pain, allowing him to resume his life. But when Charles Tanny emerged three months later, they hardly recognized him. Once a warm, loving father and husband who doted on his wife and children, Tanny was now cold, distant, irritable, and often violent. Stranger still, he seemed to have forgotten nearly every aspect of his life, having no memory of his business and barely remembering his family members. As his daughter Julie - then only four years old - later recalled:
“He was like a shell of what he was before. He was just a completely different person.”Unknown to his loved ones, Charles Tanny had been subjected to a series of bizarre medical procedures aimed at erasing, reprogramming, and ultimately controlling the human mind. Born of Cold War paranoia, these experiments, devised and conducted by an ambitious, but misguided, Canadian psychiatrist and secretly funded by the CIA, shattered the minds and lives of hundreds of unwitting patients and their family, leaving a legacy of pain and outrage that resonates to this day. This is the horrifying forgotten story of Dr. Ewen Cameron and the Montreal Experiments.Author: Gilles MessierProducer: Samuel AvilaEditor/Host: Daven Hiskey0:00 Intro3:03 The Man Behind the Awful6:38 Ideas from Nuremberg9:58 Disturbing Psychic Driving13:14 The CIA Seeks Mind Control16:53 Even More Disturbing Depatterning21:20 Combining the Awful25:20 The Aftermath- Were There Any Consequences?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
33 min - Neil Armstrong's Tale
Neil Armstrong will likely be remembered by humans as long as there are humans to remember. The first man to set foot on the moon. His first words will likewise reverberate throughout history... But what was the second thing he said on the moon. And how did Neil Armstrong die? This is the story of one of the greatest astronauts in history.
Authors: Melissa Blevins, Daven Hiskey, Matt Blitz.Host: Simon WhistlerEditor: Daven HiskeyProducer: Samuel AvilaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 min - Who Invented the Internet and Email?
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a the absolutely bizarre way bedbugs mate.
Next up, we jump into the main part of the show on who invented the Internet and how it works. We also look at who invented email and the web, and what Al Gore had to do with all this.
On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks!
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1 hr 37 min - What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name? If You Donate Your Body to Science? & More
In today's compilation, we're looking at a series of "What Happens When" topics including What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name? What Happens to the Bodies if a Cryogenic Company Goes Bankrupt? What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History? What Happens to Your Stuff When You Get Sent to Prison for Life? What Happens when You Ask a Surgeon For Your Amputated Limb Back? What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science and How Do You Do This? What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don’t Belong to Another Country When You Do It? What Happens if You Leave Your House to a Pet in Your Will? What Happens When You Freeze Water in a Container So Strong the Water Can’t Expand Into Ice? What Happens to Your Stuff When You're Declared Dead, Then Turn Up Alive like a Certain Shire Hobbit? And finally What Happens if You Commit a Crime in Space?
0:00 What Happens If Parents Don’t Give Their Baby a Name?15:29 What Happens to the Bodies if a Cryogenic Company Goes Bankrupt?28:25 What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History?38:38 What Happens to Your Stuff When You Get Sent to Prison for Life?49:30 What Happens when You Ask a Surgeon For Your Amputated Limb Back?1:00:16 What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science and How Do You Do This?1:17:29 What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don’t Belong to Another Country When You Do It?1:30:45 What Happens if You Leave Your House to a Pet in Your Will?1:40:54 What Happens When You Freeze Water in a Container So Strong the Water Can’t Expand Into Ice?1:45:44 What Happens to Your Stuff When You're Declared Dead, Then Turn Up Alive like a Certain Shire Hobbit?2:01:13 What Happens if You Commit a Crime in Space?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2 hr 17 min - The Real Story of Jack the Ripper
He is one of the most famous serial killers of all time, but who actually was Jack the Ripper and what actually happened during his reign of terror.
Just before 4 am on August 31, 1888, on London’s seedy Buck’s Row, a cart driver named Charles Cross saw the body of a woman lying on the ground. In the early morning gloom, it was initially impossible to tell if she was drunk or dead. Cross was soon joined by another carter, Robert Paul. The two men saw the woman’s skirts were pulled above her waist. They smoothed them back over her knees and went searching for a policeman.What the two carters didn’t notice in the shifting shadows was the woman’s throat had been cut so brutally that her head had almost been decapitated. Beat officer John Neil discovered that gruesome fact on closer inspection of the body. (He later testified at the inquest that when he had passed that way just 30 minutes earlier, “there was not a soul about.”)P.C. Neil sent another colleague to fetch a local medic and soon Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn arrived on the scene. He quickly examined the body and found that the arms and legs were still warm. Llewellyn believed the woman had been dead for less than 30 minutes. Her killer may have still been lurking nearby when Cross and Paul came upon the body....Host: Simon WhistlerEditor: Daven HiskeyProducer: Samuel AvilaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 min - What Actually Were "Foo Fighters"?
Everlong. Learn to Fly. Best of You. All My Life. The Pretender. These are but a few of the top-charting songs by American rock band The Foo Fighters, founded in 1994 by legendary former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. But what actually is a Foo Fighter? Well, it turns out the band’s name is not just merely a random string of nonsense words, but rather refers to strange phenomenon observed by pilots over Europe and the Pacific during the Second World War, one of a string of such weird occurrences throughout history through today that have caused some to point to the classic explanation when anything weird appears in the sky- aliens.
But what’s actually going on here? Well, today we’ll be looking at everything from tales of ancient aliens, to what actually were the Foo Fighters of WWII and where the name came from, to that time the U.S. Military finally buckled down to take a deep look into it all to see if the Earth was in any danger from extraterrestrials, and what they determined, as well as why we are all pronouncing UFO wrong, and how the coiner of the term explicitly stated it should be said.Author: Gilles MessierHost/Editor: Daven HiskeyProducer: Daven Hiskey0:00 Intro2:37 Ancient Aliens?10:44 The 19th Century UFO Craze15:20 WWI UFO Encounters16:57 WWII's Mysterious Foo Fighters27:10 Why are They Called Foo Fighters?30:30 What Were Foo Fighters?40:14 The U.S. Military Gets Serious About the Search for Aliens43:26 What the Military Discovered About UFOsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
50 min - The Mysterious Disappearance of One of the Most Successful Recording Artists of All Time
Glenn Miller was on the top of his game in 1944. He led the most popular recording group in the world. His only rival for king of Big Band music was the great Benny Goodman. During World War II, 40-year-old Miller was serving as a major in the United States Army Air Force while performing for the troops.
On December 15, 1944, he boarded a small plane for the short flight across the English Channel to do a show in Paris for American troops that had just helped liberate France. Miller and the two other men on the aircraft never made it to their destination. No trace of the wreckage or any of the passengers was ever found, and Glenn Miller is still listed as missing in action.Of course, as with any accidental celebrity death, speculation about the circumstances began almost immediately...Host: Simon WhistlerProducer: Samuel AvilaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 min - Why is the Keyboard Layout What It Is and Is There a Better Version?
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a quick fact surrounding what Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Genesis had to do with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
After the sponsor spot, we then jump into the main part of the show on how the QWERTY keyboard came to be. We also dig into whether the Dvorak keyboard layout is actually superior to QWERTY or if that’s just something people say.
Next up we look at who really invented the mouse and how it languished in obscurity for quite some time before Steve Jobs came along.
A few links for this episode:
- The Mother of All Demos (1968)
- Remington #2
- Canadian First Mouse
- First Handheld Mouse
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1 hr 21 min - Why Doesn't the U.S. Use the Metric System, Why Fingernails on Chalkboards Make Us Cringe & More
In today's compilation episode, we're covering a myriad of Whys, from Why the United States doesn't use the metric system, why fingernails on chalkboards make us cringe, why we have moles on our bodies, why doesn't the heart get tired like other muscles, and much, much more.
0:00 Why Doesn’t the United States Use the Metric System?20:55 Why Does the Sound of Fingernails on a Chalkboard or Scraping a Plate Make Us Cringe?35:09 Why Do We Have Moles All Over Our Bodies and What Do They Do?42:55 Why Doesn’t the Heart Get Tired and Need to Rest Like Other Muscles?54:25 Why Do Some People Think the Human Soul Weighs 21 Grams?1:06:14 Why Do the Eyes in Some Paintings Follow You Around the Room?1:11:17 Why Does Soda Taste Significantly Better When Carbonated vs. Flat?1:14:01 Why Do We Get Allergies?1:27:33 Why You Sometimes Get a Lump in the Back of Your Throat When Sad and Why We Cry1:32:44 Why Coffee Makes You Poop1:40:14 Why Can’t People Smell Themselves?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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About The BrainFood Show
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In this show, the team behind the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel do deep dives into a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain with interesting knowledge.