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Everything Else
Nazi Sunken U-Boat Wrecks Explained: Type VII, Type IX and Type XXI
Of the roughly 1,150 U-boats commissioned by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War, around 800 were lost in combat.…
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Knights of Mayhem: Modern Competitive Jousting Explained
Modern competitive jousting exists. It is performed by adult men and women in steel armour, riding heavy horses at speed,…
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Asia
Japanese Snow Monkeys in Hot Springs at Jigokudani
The Japanese macaques of Jigokudani Monkey Park, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, are the only non-human primates that have…
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Reptiles
Snake Underworld with Henry Rollins: Antivenom and the Black Market
Henry Rollins fronting a snake documentary sounds, on paper, like a programming pitch that shouldn’t work. Punk-rock musician turned spoken-word…
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World’s Weirdest: Strangest Species Documentaries
The natural world is stranger than any fiction. World’s Weirdest ran on Nat Geo Wild from 2010 to 2013, four…
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Blue Whale Communication: Songs Across Entire Oceans
Blue whale communication is one of the more astonishing phenomena in the natural world. The animals produce calls in the…
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Seconds From Disaster: The Best Disaster Investigation Series
Some of the worst engineering disasters of the past century unfolded in seconds. The Hindenburg burned and fell in 32…
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Episode Guide All 13 Episodes
The full episode guide for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is one of those reference pages that gets bookmarked once and…
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Series Review by Geography Scout
Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage aired in 1980 and reshaped what science television could be — discursive, philosophical,…
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How to Build a Beating Heart: Tissue Engineering Today
Twenty years ago the idea that a human heart could be grown from a patient’s own cells in a laboratory…
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