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Scam City - Part 2: Mechanical Flesh and Thinking Beasts: The Scam of Enlightenment Automata
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Unpacks how trained animals and mechanical ducks exploited philosophical debates on consciousness in Enlightenment Europe.
Scam City - Part 1: The Phantom Fleet: How Wooden Battleships Redefined WWI Naval Strategy
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Evaluates how decoy dreadnoughts manipulated enemy reconnaissance and redefined early 20th-century naval strategy.
The Great Panic - Part 5: The Fever in the Pages & Series Conclusion
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18th-century novel reading, female literacy, and the modern media panic recursion.
The Great Panic - Part 4: The Devil's Prongs
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How the fork triggered a seven-century European civilizational crisis.
The Great Panic - Part 3: The Trial of the Bean
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How coffee became Mecca's forbidden stimulant and triggered political panic.