Insights Into Things
Insights Into Things is a podcast network bringing unique perspectives and deep dives into some of the every day things we deal with on a regular basis.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 8
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- Aug 31, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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First Class Trouble (opens the original)
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This episode tells the story of Ida B. Wells: how a 1884 railroad confrontation launched her into a lifelong fight against lynching, segregation, and political exclusion. From the Memphis Free Speech to pamphlets like Southern Horrors and A Red Record, Wells turned journalism and careful documentation into tools of resistance
What's In A Name (opens the original)
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In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, paperwork could be lethal. This episode examines how Polish social worker Irina Sendler used her prewar networks, forged papers, and coded records to move Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and place them in convents, orphanages, and private homes
The Quietest Captain on Charleston Harbor (opens the original)
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In this episode we follow Robert Smalls, an enslaved pilot who quietly commandeered the Confederate steamer Planter and navigated it past Charleston’s forts into Union lines, freeing his family and delivering a valuable ship, arms, and intelligence.
Pretty Face, Ugly War, Brilliant Hack (opens the original)
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In this episode we explore Hedy Lamarr’s journey from Hollywood stardom to wartime inventor. Faced with radio-controlled weapons vulnerable to jamming, Lamarr and George Antheil patented a synchronized frequency-hopping system in 1941 designed to make signals harder to detect and disrup
The Prophet of Silicon Valley (opens the original)
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This episode traces Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction about integrated circuits—what became Moore’s Law—and how a practical, data-driven forecast reshaped the semiconductor industry into a rhythm of engineering, manufacturing, and planning.
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