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BrainStuff Classics: What Was The Great Pox?

BrainStuff

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Science, Technology, Natural Sciences

4.01.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

You've heard of smallpox, but what was the great pox? And did Shakespeare have it? Learn about the spread of (spoiler alert) syphilis in this classic episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/pox-on-that-refers-to.htm

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and we are the hosts of Stuff Mom Never Told You,

0:04.4

an intersectional feminist podcast, tackling everything and anything.

0:08.7

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0:13.2

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0:15.5

What if the Battle of the Sexes had gone a different way?

0:18.0

Why is Princess Leia in fact so amazing?

0:20.4

This book answers all of those questions and more,

0:23.1

giving historical context for why they matter to all of us now.

0:26.8

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0:30.8

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0:35.0

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive too,

0:40.2

from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely death of the Segway Boss.

0:46.7

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0:51.5

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0:54.4

the podcast that mines the greatest fiascoes of the past

0:58.4

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1:00.8

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1:04.0

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1:08.7

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1:10.1

This season on revisionist history, I am diving into one of the weirdest and most

1:14.4

infuriating corners in American life, guns.

1:18.2

All the crazy myths we have about them, everything we get wrong.

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