In my off week, I'm popping into the Patreon feed to talk about the 1986 Challenger disaster, when the Challenger space shuttle burst into flames and blew apart, killing all 7 passengers onboard, while millions of people, including many children, watched live. What actually happened that cold January morning 40 years ago? And more importantly... why were the rocket engineer's dire warnings ignored? Let's fix that.

Sources:

• NPR “40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned”
• History.com “5 Facts You May Not Know About the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster”
• NASA “The Crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L Mission”

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Join me this week as I delve into the history of reincarnation, the idea that, when you die, you can be reborn into the body of another. Where did the idea come from? Who believes in it today? And what evidence is there to support it? Let’s fix that.

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Sources:

• Medium "Reincarnation"
• Readers Digest "Chilling Reincarnation Stories: Meet 6 People Who Lived Before"
• Institute of Noetic Sciences "Exploring the History of Reincarnation Beliefs"
• Indian Journal of Psychiatry "The mystery of reincarnation"
• Encyclopedia Britannica "Reincarnation"
• Wikipedia "Reincarnation"

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Join me inside Japan's Unit 731, a top secret human experimentation and biowarfare camp during World War II. The atrocities committed here against mostly Chinese prisoners are truly unthinkable. In fact, they're so hard to believe, many people straight up refuse to believe it. To this day, the Japanese government has never confirmed nor denied what went down at Unit 731. But when declassified records emerged in the US of all places in the 1990s, it became harder and harder to deny.

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Sources:

• NPR "New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program"
• The Asahi Shimbun "Former member of Unit 731 fights nightmares, atrocity deniers"
• Pacific Atrocities Education "Immunity for Atrocity: The US Cover Up of Unit 731 and the Corruption of Postwar Bioethics
• Pacific Atrocities Education "Human Experimentation at Unit 731"
• Wikipedia "Unit 731"

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