Dave Jackson

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Wild Orchid Mystery (22:47)
From: Smithsonian

You probably know orchids as the big, colorful flowers found in grocery stores and given as housewarming gifts. But those tropical beauties represent only a fraction of the ...
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Season 4, Ep. 4: Things You'd Never Tell Your Parents (19:43)
From: Smithsonian

Regie Cabico has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word poetry—he's outspoken, provocative, and iconoclastic. The son of Filipino immigrants, he was raised in rural ...
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The Feather Detective (27:16)
From: Smithsonian

In 1960, investigators found dark bits of feather stuck inside a crashed airplane's engines. They needed someone to figure out what bird they belonged to—and how that bird ...
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Killer Viruses and One Man's Mission to Stop Them (21:35)
From: Smithsonian

In 1918, a flu pandemic killed more than 50 million people worldwide. Forty years later, it nearly happened again. This week on Sidedoor we go back to a time when the viruses ...
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Enslaved and Muslim in Early America (29:52)
From: Smithsonian

Today, the US population is about 1% Muslim, but in the late 1700s that number was likely closer to 5%. Who were these early Muslim-Americans, where did they go, and why ...