Don't Know, Do Care

In this episode, we travel (metaphorically) to Curaçao, a country so small that many football fans had never even heard of it before the World Cup draw. Most people recognise the name because of the bright blue cocktail...

<p>Most artists spend their entire careers trying to become famous. Banksy became one of the most famous artists on the planet by making sure nobody knew who he was. And somehow, that strategy worked so well that his...

<p>When people talk about World War II in India, the conversation usually jumps straight to Subhas Chandra Bose, the INA, and the fight against British colonial rule. What gets left out is the story of the only part of...

<p>Can a footballer make people less racist? It sounds like the setup to a terrible LinkedIn post, but it's also a real question that researchers from Stanford and other institutions decided to investigate. And somehow...

<p>This week, we dive into a story that starts with wellness, empowerment, mindfulness, and healing and somehow ends with forced labour, coercive sex, cult-like control, and prison sentences. We're talking about...

<p>At some point over the last year, fitness quietly stopped being about six-packs and started becoming a personality. Suddenly everyone's in a run club, waking up at unreasonable hours, posting Strava screenshots like...

<p>This week, we dive headfirst into one of the strangest objects in human history: the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot piece of linen that is either the burial cloth of Jesus Christ… or the world's most successful medieval...

<p>Hey there carers,</p> <p>Thank you for sticking with us thus far and we hope you continue to do so in the foreseeable future as well. We will be taking a very short break till the first week of May and will go back...

<p>This episode starts at a party, takes a hard left into pseudoscience, and ends with us aggressively side-eyeing half of modern psychology. We're talking about bullshit psychological theories, the ones that sound...

<p>Summer is objectively the worst season. It's hot, sticky, mildly unbearable… and yet, somehow, we all tolerate it for one reason: mangoes.</p> <p>In this episode, we take a deep dive into India's favourite fruit, not...

<p>If you grew up anytime after the 1980s, you probably think you know exactly how dinosaurs went extinct: one massive asteroid, one very bad day, end of story. The problem is… we didn't actually know that for most of...

<p>Every year, the Oscars announce their winners… and millions of people immediately react with some variation of "wait, that movie won?" In this episode, we dig into how the Oscars actually pick winners, and why the...

<p>Every year around International Women's Day, corporations suddenly remember that women exist. They post inspirational graphics, run aggressively mediocre ad campaigns, and pretend a century of labour struggles...

<p>This episode, we dive into the deeply unhinged saga of the Opium Wars; the time Britain decided that if China wouldn't buy enough British goods, it would simply get millions of Chinese people addicted to opium and...