The Plaice to Know

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No Such Thing as Pyramids in Johannesburg

2025-03-13 · 6 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. Auckland City HospitalOne-offNew Zealand

    In 2013 there was a very serious incident, and 33 members of staff at Auckland City Hospital were punished and a few of them sacked for looking at an x-ray unnecessarily of a man who had an eel stuck in the lowest parts…

    mentioned at 00:08:13 · See it on the map →

  2. A study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2008 found that something called Resveratol, which is an antioxidant found in red wine, may offer protection against radiation.

    mentioned at 00:30:19 · See it on the map →

  3. NagasakiOne-offJapan

    That happened in the US as well after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were 132 news items in the New York Times about the bombings and not a single one mentioned anything about the radiation. There were 15…

    mentioned at 00:31:50 · See it on the map →

  4. HiroshimaOne-offJapan

    Oppenheimer said there is every reason to believe that there was no appreciable radioactivity on the ground in Hiroshima. He was just like, oh, no, it's all fine. No, we just blew them up.

    mentioned at 00:32:29 · See it on the map →

  5. ChernobylOne-offUkraine

    At Chernobyl, when it happened, they flew over in helicopters, they dropped 5,000 tons of sand and lead and clay on top of the fire to snuff it out. Because only a small amount of the radioactive material in Chernobyl…

    mentioned at 00:32:48 · See it on the map →

  6. Blue Ridge MountainsOne-offUnited States

    They basically liked the scanning of Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River and stuff like that — they liked these phrases, and that's kind of why they went for West Virginia.

    mentioned at 00:44:40 · See it on the map →

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