The Yokai of Japanese folklore have become very popular and influential in pop culture all across the world. These spirits, monsters, demons, and extremely old animals have been an integral part of how the Japanese people have often explained spooky and supernatural phenomena for thousands of years. In this episode we discuss their origins and highlight a handful of these fascinating beings.

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When is a butterfly a moth? Always! But not all moths are butterflies and that is because butterflies and skippers are specialized moths and all of them are part of the order Lepidoptera. In this episode we dive into the interesting and extremely diverse world of these winged insects.

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England and France have often found themselves in conflict with each other, the 100 Years' War is no exception. They were so committed to this specific conflict that not even civil wars, great plagues, nor 130 years could convince them to wrap it up.

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And yes, we are going to talk about the "dire wolf" thing.

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Sleeping is trait shared by every member of the animal kingdom, but how sleep is done varies wildly from species to species. In this episode we will go all around the animal kingdom on a survey of what sleep looks like, how it works, and what impact it has for various animals.

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Measles is an incredibly dangerous disease. Luckily, in the 1960s a vaccine was developed and measles was put on the path towards eradication. Unluckily, Andrew Wakefield entered the picture in the '90s. He has, without a doubt, done more damage to the health of the human race than one man should conceivably be able to do.

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Everyone thinks Darwin the moment Evolution is mentioned and while he is the most predominant figure, there a rich history of thoughts, ideas, philosophers, and scientists who came before that paved the way for On the Origin of Species. This episode does include Darwin but focuses on the people and advancements that set the stage for his most famous contribution to science.

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For our 100th episode we have gone back 100 years to the Scopes trial of 1925. More commonly known as The Scopes Monkey Trial, this spectacle of the courtroom was less about determining guilt than it was about pitting evolution against fundamentalism.

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