Social Distancing During the Black Death

March 30, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 19: The Elevator

March 26, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 18: Kids These Days

March 19, 2020

Ancient Roman Gladiators: Origins and History

March 16, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 17: The Waltz

March 12, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 16: The Telegraph

March 05, 2020

The Real “Paleo Diet” May Have Been Full of Toxic Metals

March 04, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 15: Chain Stores

February 27, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 14: The Novel

February 20, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 13: The Subway

February 13, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 12: Margarine

February 06, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 11: Electricity

January 31, 2020

Sanitation Reduced Disease Rates Before New Treatments Did

January 29, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 10: Pinball

January 23, 2020

Average Human Body Temperature Has Changed Over Time

January 20, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 9: Coffee

January 16, 2020

Pessimists Archive Podcast, Ep. 8: Vaccinations

January 10, 2020

The Anti-Vaccine Movement That Gripped Victorian England

January 03, 2020

What the Average Diet Was Like in Medieval Times

December 30, 2019

Humans Are Genetically Designed to Live Only 38 Years

December 14, 2019

How Carnival Sideshows Saved Premature Infants

December 05, 2019

Ecuador Finding Shows Horror of Childhood in the Past

November 22, 2019

What Will Mass Data Storage Look Like in the Future?

November 06, 2019

The Science of Aging, and How to Slow it Down

November 06, 2019