The World's Deepest Hole

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show!When Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959, the American government wanted to see him gone. So, they hatched plots and tried to assassinate him, again, and again, and again, and again. Needless to say, none of them w ...  Show more

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In the 1980s, images of starving children in Ethiopia shocked the world and triggered one of the largest humanitarian responses in history. But behind the famine was a much deeper story of drought, civil war, dictatorshi ...  Show more

To request a story, visit www.storybird.ai.  In "The Deepest Hole Ever," Jonah and Jesse dig a hole in the sandbox that quickly turns into the biggest hole in the world, leading them to discover a new world of magma and dragons. When the dragons fly out and start causing ...

Dive into the mysteries of the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on our planet. We'll explore its incredible depth, the challenges of exploration, and the strange creatures that call it home. Find the full transcript of this episode and learn more about it on https://englishplus ...  Show more

Sixty years ago, geologists tried to drill down through the Earth’s crust to pull up a piece of the Earth’s mantle. Their mission didn’t go exactly as planned. But it sowed the seeds for a new field of science that’s helped us rewrite not only the history of the planet, but, pote ...  Show more

The global ocean covers some 70 percent of our planet, and its depths are still unexplored. Learn about its deepest trenches in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/how-deep-is-ocean.htmSee omnystudi ...  Show more