From the Vault: The Invention of the Mirror, ...

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with author, artist and educator Geo Rutherford about her new book “Spooky Rivers: 25 Strange and Mysterious Rivers that Snake Across Our Planet.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses Thomas Edison’s creepy, singing phonograph doll…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

9 year old listener Koby sends Hannah and Dara on a mission to find the shiniest thing in the world. And so they enter a world of mirrors… The journey takes them into the subatomic goings on of shiny metal surfaces, where electrons waggle and dance and send light waves back at *j ...  Show more

Today's episode will make you think twice before looking into a mirror again. First, Sapphire shares her cousin's experience playing the infamous game "Bloody Mary." Then, she tries to find a buyer for a magical house filled with mirrors, and then investigates some questionable h ...  Show more

For the Ancient Egyptians they were seen as receptacles for the soul, for the Aztecs they were used to tell the future and for the early Christians, they were an aid for reaching self-knowledge. And mirrors’ key role in the reflection of light led to the development of high-power ...  Show more

Discover the mystery of the Kozyrev Mirror and its potential to reveal the secrets of time travel. Explore Nikolai Kozyrev’s revolutionary ideas and his impact on modern science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices