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Short Stuff: Colorful Noises

We’ve all heard of white noise, that static sound the TV makes when poltergeists arrive. There are other colored noise too that mimic natural sounds like rainfall and ocean waves. What they do for us is just now being studied. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  What Makes Disaster Films Great

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  Short Stuff: Tick tock goes the Doomsday Clock

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  Kim Philby: Greatest Liar of All Time?

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  Selects: Cake: So Great. So, So Great

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  Behavioral Priming: Buy, Robot Human!

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  Editorial Cartoons: Art as Satire

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  Selects: Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

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  The Pinkerton Detective Agency

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  Short Stuff: Tulipmania

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  How Climate Migration Works

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  Selects: The Deal With Doulas

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  The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Part II

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  Short Stuff: Poutine: Canada's Pride

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  The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Part I

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  Selects: Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World