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100 years later, Houdini's death is still a mystery
October 30|
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100 years later, Houdini's death is still a mystery
Escape artist Harry Houdini died 100 years ago this month. CBC Radio's Ideas digs into the mystery that still surrounds the world's most famous magician.
October 30
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Houdini fought against paranormal grifters, but the misuse of 'magic' goes on
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How body horror helps us confront the fears within us
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How being curious and confused drives scientific progress
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Why background music is everywhere
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What's for dinner in 2050?
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How the humanities can pull down the screens between us

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AI as the new Delphic Oracle?

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The Seven Wonders of the World travel guide: A bucket list for ancient travellers

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How a natural catastrophe 8,000 years ago may have fueled Brexit

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How the Moon shaped humanity — and defined life on Earth

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Famous for her wit and sharp words, Dorothy Parker was also an activist

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Tech billionaires are betting on the Apocalypse: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Security expert asks: are Alberta’s separatists guilty of ‘moral treason’?

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What Quebec's separatist movement has to offer newcomers

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Cascadia has a flag, does it have an identity?

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Thank bureaucracy for 'useless jobs' that make more work

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The chicken: a dinosaur eaten by humans and kept as a pet

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How can empathy be dangerous?

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Bearing Witness: Canadian Doctors in Gaza

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The inconvenient truth about convenience culture

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How absurdist theatre is an act of resistance

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What we can learn from the fall of dictators and their regimes

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From secrecy to shamelessness: How new fascism operates

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Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on loss and the cost of outsourcing feeling

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The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs

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