How BASE Jumping Works

In the late 1800s, white supremacists in Wilmington, NC staged a coup and bloody massacre of its black citizens in order to stem the tide of black progress and stifle the vote. This is that story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Weather balloons are the workhorse of the meteorological world, which is why they’ve been used daily around the world for most of a century. Let’s salute these unsung heroes of weather prediction by getting to know them better. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

This week, wingsuit flyer and BASE jumper Jeb Corliss tells us about how he learned to fly, why you shouldn't absolutely never do it, and how he got crabs in South Africa.

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Did you think last week’s episode was a little too mundane? Well be careful what you wish for, because this week we’re going extreme. DANGEROUSLY extreme, in fact, and talking all about the act of jumping out of a plane, aka skydiving. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast an ...  Show more