Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Oct 30)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including an episode on scientology's war on a Holocaust survivor, the book of all human knowledge, and the mystery of the man who died twice.
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mmLast Updated: Oct 29th, 2022
Best Episodes of the Week
1. The shocking story of scientology's war on a Holocaust survivor.
Leah and Mike talk with Paulette Cooper, a journalist who became the object of the single largest Fair Game campaign in history. She was framed, sued, smeared, spied on and harassed. And ultimately vi...Show More
2. Can one book contain all of human knowledge? Find out.
What if one book could contain the sum of human knowledge? Jill Lepore looks at the history of an improbable Enlightenment idea, tracing it from Encyclopedia Britannica to Wikipedia and beyond.See omn...Show More
3. The mystery of the man who died twice.
A dead body turns up with a stolen identity. We tell the story of how a grandmother tracked down the truth — and helped create a whole new and controversial world of crime fighting. To tell this story...Show More
4. Discover the evolutionary psychology and neuroscience of love.
Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author. Love is something that people h...Show More
5. How to make a police sketch purely based on DNA.
Earlier this month, police in Edmonton, Canada, released a sketch of a suspect. The issue is, no one knows what the suspect looks like. This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Coll...Show More
6. The UK has a serious productivity problem.
The Liz Truss era is over. Headlines blame her budget fiasco, but we talk through the deeper story: slowing economic productivity in the UK. For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Mone...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Devil Town
Featured Episode: Gone | Chapter 1
37:26 | Oct 17th, 2022
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Local teenager Kelly Wilson tells friends she’s going to a party after work. Instead, Kelly vanishes from the town square in Gilmer, Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...Show More
OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate
Featured Episode: The Hunt
36:37 | Oct 26th, 2022
1 RECOMMENDATION
Things get off to a rocky start when the team accidentally crashes into a major cocaine flyway. Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler Cho...Show More
For True Crime Lovers
1. The spooky mystery of the Pali Lookout in Honolulu.
It’s March 1980, and best friends Lopaka and Sean decide to ditch class and head to the Pali Lookout, a tourist destination just outside of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. They’re hanging out, taking ...Show More
2. What drives a woman to kill six times? Meet Aileen Wuornos.
What drives a woman to kill? And what drives her to do it six more times? Aileen Wuornos killed and robbed seven men between December 1989 and November 1990. Aileen, a sex worker at the time, claimed ...Show More
Podcast Playlists
Spooky Listens for Fall
A playlist of podcast episodes to get you into the Halloween mood.
alishiamarie15 episodes
Podcasts to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
Let these podcasts immerse you into the world of the creepy, the ghastly and the unexplained!
podcastplaylist6 episodes
Meet the Curators
Melody and Danny are the co-founders of Podyssey. Every week we curate this round-up with the mission of helping our readers find the hidden gems in the podcast world.
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