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Arthur Andersen: From Uncompromising Honesty to the Enron Collapse
Oct 7, 202624 min
Edwin Land and Polaroid: The Instant Photo Genius Ousted by His Board
Oct 7, 202621 min
Dogecoin: How a Joke Cryptocurrency Reached an $85 Billion Valuation
Oct 7, 202623 min
Delmonico's: The New York Restaurant That Invented American Fine Dining
Oct 7, 202620 min
Counterfeit Money: From Clipped Coins to North Korean Superdollars
Oct 7, 202622 min
Black Friday's Real Origin: Philadelphia Traffic Jams, Not Black Ink
Oct 7, 202624 min
The Comstock Lode: Stolen Credit, Blue Mud, and a Silver Empire
Oct 7, 202622 min
Company Scrip: From Coal Town Debt Traps to Amazon Swag Bucks
Oct 7, 202620 min
Shrinkflation Explained: Toblerone Gaps, Pringles, and Skimpflation
Oct 7, 202620 min
Jiaozi: How Song Dynasty China Invented Paper Money and Inflation
Oct 7, 202611 min
The Chia Pet Story: How Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Sold 15 Million a Year
Oct 7, 202615 min
Razor and Blades: The Business Model Behind the $39 Printer Trap
Oct 7, 202622 min
Calouste Gulbenkian: How Mr. Five Percent Brokered the Oil Age
Oct 7, 202621 min
Bugsy Siegel: The Mob Hitman Who Built the Flamingo and Las Vegas
Oct 7, 202623 min
William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold: The Speech That Won 1896
Oct 7, 202625 min
Bretton Woods 1944: How 44 Nations Made the Dollar King
Oct 7, 202625 min
Card Counting in Blackjack: The Simple Math Casinos Fear Most
Oct 7, 202624 min
BlackBerry's Rise and Fall: From 85 Million Users to 0.0 Percent
Oct 7, 202621 min
Black Wednesday 1992: How George Soros Broke the British Pound
Oct 7, 202623 min
BitConnect: The $2.4 Billion Crypto Ponzi Behind a Viral Meme
Oct 7, 202622 min
Bitcoin's Biography: Satoshi's Ghost, Silk Road, and Digital Gold
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Hermès Birkin Bag: From Spilled Diapers to a $10 Million Asset
Oct 7, 202620 min
Benjamin Graham: Warren Buffett's Teacher and the Margin of Safety
Oct 7, 202621 min
Barry Minkow: ZZZZ Best Whiz Kid, Fraud Hunter, and Crooked Pastor
Oct 7, 202620 min
Alves Reis: The Forger Who Got Portugal's Real Money Printed
Oct 7, 202623 min
AOL: From Free CDs and a $360 Billion Merger to a Fire Sale
Oct 7, 202627 min
High-Frequency Trading: The Nanosecond War Inside the Stock Market
Oct 7, 202622 min
World Series of Poker: From Seven Gamblers to a $500 Million Brand
Oct 7, 202623 min
Simon Leviev: How the Tinder Swindler Keeps Escaping Justice
Oct 7, 202621 min
Wall Street History: From a Dirt Wall and Slave Market to the NYSE
Oct 7, 202621 min
The History of Money: From Baboon Bone Ledgers to Bitcoin
Oct 7, 202624 min
Fort Knox Beyond the Gold: Tanks, Secret Documents, and Army HR
Oct 7, 202624 min
Diamond Jim Brady: The Gilded Age Glutton Who Funded Medicine
Oct 7, 202621 min
Ponzi Schemes Explained: Charles Ponzi Did Not Invent the Scam
Oct 7, 202622 min
Samuel Brannan: The Gold Rush Millionaire Who Died Unclaimed
Oct 7, 202621 min
Billy McFarland: Fyre Festival Fraud, Prison, and the Comeback
Oct 7, 202621 min
Archie Karas: How $50 Became $40 Million and Then Vanished
Oct 7, 202620 min
Allen Stanford: The Fake Knight Behind a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Pineal Gland: Descartes' Seat of the Soul, Tuatara Eyes and Brain Sand
Oct 3, 202619 min
The Gut Microbiome: 100 Times Our Genes, Butyrate and a Frozen Stool Ark
Oct 3, 202623 min
The Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek and the Methylene Blue Antidote
Oct 3, 202626 min
Colorblindness: John Dalton's Preserved Eye and Seeing Through Camouflage
Oct 3, 202626 min
The Dress Explained: Cecilia Bleasdale's Photo, Larks, Night Owls and Light
Oct 3, 202617 min
Optical Illusions as Prediction: Changizi's Neural Lag and the Hollow Face
Oct 3, 202624 min
Why We Dream: Gudea's Temple Order, Calvin Hall's 50,000 Reports and fMRI
Oct 3, 202626 min
Hypnic Jerks: The Falling Sensation, Tree-Sleeping Primates and EEG Clues
Oct 3, 202618 min
Everest's Death Zone: Thin Air, Fetal Hemoglobin and Messner's 1978 Climb
Oct 3, 202622 min
Yanny or Laurel: How a 2007 Dictionary Recording Split the Internet in 2018
Oct 3, 202624 min
Yawning Science: Gallup's Cold Pack Test, Paratroopers and Penguin Love
Oct 3, 202622 min
Tip of the Tongue States: Brown and McNeill's 1966 Test and Lorazepam
Oct 3, 202619 min