Toothbrush
This week we are exploring how a Siberian pig’s natural advantage and a British prisoner’s dilemma gave us an invention that we can’t imagine our live...
Stuff Tales
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A show that explores the extraordinary stories behind the ordinary stuff you use or do every day! From familiar foods and common clothing items to technologies that you use and games that you play, Stuff Tales covers all your burning questions: Who thought of that? Where did that come from? And why is that a thing? Hosted by Kunal Mandal, brought to you by WYN Studio.
Bicycle
This week we are exploring how the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history, a German baron’s need for an alternate transport, and a British e...
Canned Food
This week we are exploring how a commander trying to feed his army, a chef trying to win a prize, and the biggest conflict the world has ever seen, ga...
Indian National Flag
This week we are exploring how an Irish woman’s vision, a Parsee lady’s enthusiasm, a young Indian professor’s mission and a Muslim housewife’s ingenu...
Monopoly
This week we are exploring how a progressive woman’s idea to teach people about income inequalities ironically became a capitalist symbol, helped POWs...
Elevator
This week we are exploring how a French king’s love for his mistress and a pragmatic mechanic ready to risk his life gave us an invention that would n...
Jeans
This week we are exploring how a dyed cloth from India, a style from Italy, fabric from France, and a business idea from California created the most p...
Band-Aid
This week we are exploring how a woman’s cooking mishaps and a man’s love for his wife sparked a life-saving invention that went on to become one of t...
Coca-Cola
This week we are exploring how an American civil war veteran in search of a cure for his morphine addiction would end up inventing THE most popular be...
GPS
This week we explore how a shootdown of a passenger aircraft resulting in the killing of 269 onboard gave a way to one of the most used technologies o...