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The BrainFood Show

The BrainFood Show

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 In this show, the team behind the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel do deep dives into a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain with interesting knowledge.Cloud10 World
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  • Incredible Engineering- The Man Who Froze Time

    Incredible Engineering- The Man Who Froze Time
    Dec 24 2025
    A speeding bullet ripping through an apple, a split second before the fruit disintegrates. A drop of milk splashing off a red plate, forming a perfect miniature coronet. An atomic bomb frozen just after detonation, the fireball like a giant, surreal jellyfish. The movement of a golfer captured at split-second intervals, revealing the practiced elegance of his stroke. You have probably seen these iconic images dozens of times, reproduced on postcards, in coffee table books and science textbooks, and even on art gallery walls. They are perhaps the best-known works of Doctor Harold Edgerton, an American inventor who pioneered ultra-high-speed photography and helped uncover the secret world hidden in the moments too brief for the eye to see. But Edgerton’s work went far beyond just making pretty pictures, his many inventions helping to revolutionize fields as diverse as manufacturing, biology, and ocean exploration. This is the forgotten and incredible story of ‘Doc’ Edgerton - AKA “Papa Flash” - the man who made time stand still. Author: Gilles Messier Editor: Daven Hiskey Host: Simon Whistler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 mins
  • The Hilarious Christmas Riot

    The Hilarious Christmas Riot
    Dec 22 2025
    ⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a Christmas gift that resulted in one of the more celebrated books of all time. Moving on to the main content today we’re looking at a rather humorous Christmas riot at West Point and then another that had nothing to do with Christmas at Oxford. We follow this up with a myriad of rapid fire Christmas Bonus Facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 mins
  • A Perilous Journey- John Adams Goes to France

    A Perilous Journey- John Adams Goes to France
    Dec 20 2025
    In the fall of 1778, things weren’t looking good for the traitors to King and country in the British American colonies. In the early going the American Revolutionary forces under George Washington had suffered defeat after resounding defeat, including Washington very nearly losing around half his army in the first major battle of the war, only saved by a providential fog and General William Howe deciding inexplicably not to press the attack when Washington’s forces were surrounded before this. This event occurred in New York in August of 1776 in what was then the largest known battle ever fought in North America, involving close to 40,000 troops including naval forces. Many losses for the Revolutionary forces later, Howe made a similar blunder in November and December of 1776. After yet another near catastrophic defeat for the rebels, when nearly 3,000 American troops were captured at Fort Washington, General Washington limped the 4,000 or so remnants of his army south to Delaware. Howe and his vastly larger, better equipped, and better trained army were nearby and could have crushed the Continental Army and either captured or killed Washington. But once again, for what reasons aren’t fully clear today, Howe chose not to press on, and instead began the process of setting up a winter camp with no further offensives planned until spring. Something needed to change if the upstart rebels were to succeed in breaking away from Britain. And so it was that Congress turned their sites on Britain’s longtime on and off again enemy in France. At the time it was exceedingly dangerous to transport diplomats from the United States to France given the British more or less completely controlled the sea in between, but Congress nonetheless had previously managed to successfully send Silas Deane, and not long after in December of 1776, Ben Franklin and Arthur Lee, to see about getting desperately needed aid from France. However, while the trio were in France working towards this, Lee accused Deane of financial impropriety, and Deane was recalled to answer the charges. Thus, Congress decided to send the tenacious John Adams to replace Deane and assist Franklin and Lee. Adams’ specific mission- negotiate a treaty with France to hopefully get desperately needed supplies and money to the rebellion, as well as direct naval and army aid against the British. There was an issue, however. It turns out there exists a giant ocean in between the United States and France, and, as alluded to, that ocean at the time was heavily populated in part by British ships with captains who would like nothing better than to arrest and hang for treason one of the principal architects of the revolution in John Adams. Author: Daven Hiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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