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The Sewol Ferry Disaster

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Eels Alive!

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  Selects: Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?

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  The Hindenburg Disaster

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  Short Stuff: Did Tippi Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?

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  Humanists, the Happy Heathens

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  Selects: Can movies be cursed?

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  Let's Go to Camp... David!

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  Short Stuff: Why do kangaroos hop?

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  Boeing's Nosedive: The 737-MAX

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  Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis

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  How to Drink a Tree's Blood

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  Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth

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  Save the Whales!

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  Selects: How Fever Dreams Work

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  UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

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  Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird