Our one and only New Year’s song is written in a language you may have never heard of.
Author: Ben
Are our favorite traditions Christian, pagan, or something else entirely?
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The Christmas Collection
In lieu of a new podcast, let’s look back on the classics. A huge burning goat, Japan’s holiday KFC rituals, the man who poops twelve feet from Jesus, and, of course, Santa Claus.
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Who has the prettiest skull?
How one man’s bone fetish redefined our understanding of race.
Mythic folk creatures built to scare the shit out of you.
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Halfdan Was Here
How Viking graffiti made it all the way to a church in Istanbul.
Acrophobia in the city of lights.
The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics added six new sports to the existing lineup. Let’s add some more.
There’s a lot more to the stick figure athletes representing Olympic events, a series of evolving images with a legacy of iconographic trailblazing, antifascism, and international accord.
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Sea Monkeys
How primates accidentally beat Columbus across the Atlantic by 40 million years.