Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Humans have become very good at a lot of things over the years.

Our use of language, both spoken and written, has allowed us to pass knowledge from one

generation to the next, helping us become masters of many useful skills over time.

Looking, hunting, building devices that help improve our lives and overcome challenges.

In fact, our inventiveness is possibly the most defining quality we have.

We as a species are incapable of flights or spending long periods of time underwater,

and yet we've built contraptions that allow us to do both.

We've improved the quality of our food, our medicine, and our response to natural disasters

and epidemics.

We really are quite inventive.

Or right at the top of our list of skills is something deserving of less praise.

We are tragically good at war.

In fact, humans have been battling each other for so long that some of the most ancient

mythologies on the planet include a god of war.

It seems that there has always been warfare.

But rather than invent our way out of it, we've become really good at finding new ways

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