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Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Built the Road to the Moon 29.05.2026 43:09 ↓

In this episode of pplpod, we examine one of the most morally complicated figures of the 20th century: Wernher von Braun. The episode opens in the collapsing chaos of Nazi Germany in 1945, with von Braun fleeing advancing Soviet forces while secretly orchestrating the surrender of hundreds of German rocket scientists and hiding tons of classified V-2 rocket blueprints in abandoned mines. What foll...

How Shirley Chisholm outmaneuvered the political machine 29.05.2026 18:44 ↓

What does it actually take to change a political system designed to keep you out of it? In this episode of pplpod, we dive into the life of Shirley Chisholm — the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black candidate to seek a major party’s nomination for president of the United States. But this story goes far beyond historic firsts. It’s about power, compromise, identity, and the un...

Nellie Bly Lived Five Different Lifetimes: The Woman Who Refused to Stay in Her Lane 29.05.2026 22:21 ↓

Before undercover documentaries, frontline immersion reporting, or journalists embedding themselves inside dangerous systems, there was Nellie Bly. In this episode of pplpod, we follow the astonishing life of the woman who practically invented modern investigative immersion journalism. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864 Pennsylvania, she began as a young woman furious at the narrow role society e...

The Night 121 Million People Mourned MASH 28.05.2026 35:13 ↓

The series finale of M*A*S*H , titled Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen , represents a watershed moment in the history of Television Finales that deconstructed the structural grammar of Alan Alda 's creative vision. This legendary 1983 broadcast, which attracted over 121.6 million peak viewers, deconstructs how Parasocial Relationships and the psychological weight of PTSD can be explored in a fictional...

Marcus Aurelius: The Imperial Architect of the Inner Citadel 27.05.2026 35:44 ↓

The life of Marcus Aurelius deconstructs the transition from a handpicked Roman youth to a high-stakes study of Stoicism and the architecture of the Inner Citadel . This episode of pplpod analyzes his private philosophical journal, the Meditations , exploring the mechanics of his 121-to-180-unit-aged lifespan alongside the devastating-unit-scale impact of the Antonine Plague and the relentless mil...

Basquiat's Hustle from SAMO to Sotheby's 06.05.2026 15:54 ↓

Basquiat's Hustle from SAMO to Sotheby's

Albert Sabin and the Sugar Cube Vaccine 06.05.2026 16:54 ↓

Albert Sabin and the Sugar Cube Vaccine

Barbara Liskov tamed the software frontier 06.05.2026 21:03 ↓

Barbara Liskov tamed the software frontier

Benoit Mandelbrot and the Hidden Fractal World 06.05.2026 19:19 ↓

Benoit Mandelbrot and the Hidden Fractal World

Blaise Pascal Logic Probability and Divine Fire 06.05.2026 21:10 ↓

Blaise Pascal Logic Probability and Divine Fire

Biruté Galdikas and the Borneo Orangutans 06.05.2026 21:25 ↓

Biruté Galdikas and the Borneo Orangutans

Austronesian Pioneers of the Maritime Silk Road 06.05.2026 59:42 ↓

Austronesian Pioneers of the Maritime Silk Road

Buckminster Fuller's life as Guinea Pig B 06.05.2026 19:49 ↓

Buckminster Fuller's life as Guinea Pig B

Building the Foo Fighters from Nirvana's Ashes 06.05.2026 36:31 ↓

Building the Foo Fighters from Nirvana's Ashes

Carl Djerassi From the Pill to Theatre 06.05.2026 22:29 ↓

Carl Djerassi From the Pill to Theatre

Che Guevara from medicine to global icon 06.05.2026 26:33 ↓

Che Guevara from medicine to global icon

Bottling a star on Earth 06.05.2026 1:03:15 ↓

Bottling a star on Earth

David Hilbert's Quest for Absolute Certainty 06.05.2026 22:09 ↓

David Hilbert's Quest for Absolute Certainty

Denise Scott Brown and the Decorated Shed 06.05.2026 20:18 ↓

Denise Scott Brown and the Decorated Shed

Dennis Ritchie built the digital world 06.05.2026 21:58 ↓

Dennis Ritchie built the digital world

Dian Fossey's vigilante war for gorillas 06.05.2026 23:40 ↓

Dian Fossey's vigilante war for gorillas

Diego Rivera Painted With a Loaded Pistol 06.05.2026 23:23 ↓

Diego Rivera Painted With a Loaded Pistol

Dopamine is the engine of desire 06.05.2026 21:51 ↓

Dopamine is the engine of desire

E.O. Wilson 06.05.2026 22:02 ↓

E.O. Wilson

Enrico Fermi's Nobel mistake built the bomb 06.05.2026 22:45 ↓

Enrico Fermi's Nobel mistake built the bomb