The Last Archive

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The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how... Show more

Episodes

A Muffin Showdown

In Revisionist History's season finale, senior producer Ben teams up with the Culinary Institute of America to reverse engineer the secret recipe for ...

Nooks & Crannies

Only seven people in the world knew the secret behind the soft, delicious goodness of Thomas' English Muffins. When one of them tried to leave the com...

Let’s Face It

An exploration of how this one thing – facial recognition – colors so many of our perceptions about ourselves and each other. For better or worse.
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We Forgot About the Raccoons

You may be familiar with the phrase “lab rat.” Much of what we know about human beings and the way they behave are based upon the things we know about...

The Terminator from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Paradoxically, Musk is also working to create artificial intelligence. Why? ...

Body Snatchers from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wanted to own the social media network, Musk talked a lot about...

Baby X from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk adore concerns gleaming futures in which fantastically powerful, immensely ...

The Dogefather from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a joke meme about a dog. That ...

Iron Man from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2008 Tesla Motors launched its first car, the completely electric Roadster. Tesla was a great story — something genuinely new, an engineering marve...

Planet B from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

Elon Musk is a rocket man. He wants humans to become ‘a multi-planetary species’ and talks about establishing human settlements on Mars. As President ...