How Does Marzipan Work?

This marine bird carries the color of the ocean in its webbed feet, was named after an insult, and uses its excrement in creative ways. Learn about the blue-footed booby in today's episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/blue-footed-b ...  Show more

Helen is a figure from Greek myth -- a daughter of Zeus with a mortal woman, and said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. Learn more about her (and how she perhaps inadvertently started the Trojan War) in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https:// ...  Show more

Following our episode in Lübeck, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to tell you about this much loved sweet treat. Marzipan has been made in Lübeck since 1806 and has a long history with royalty. Find our recipe to make Marzipan, the transcript to follow along and the translation o ...  Show more

Put on your pink bunny suits and make a mashed potato mound with Meatloaf, Smeatloaf, Double-beatloaf! In this BUSTING BACK episode, Ella and Jackie tackle everyone's favorite Christmas fun facts for A Christmas Story movie.We're unwrapping the realities behind the film's most ic ...  Show more

This podcast episode is about a Danish holiday tradition called påskefrokost.

A get-together with family and/or friends during Easter where we eat traditional food and drinks.

And I will tell you about the last påskefrokost I attended.

The decorative holiday nutcracker has become a staple of holiday decor and it also constitutes a specialized tool, so in this Christmas themed invention episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the gadget’s European history, its analogs in other cultures and the ...  Show more