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The Space Garbage Problem – How We’re Turning Orbit into a Junkyard

Space isn’t empty anymore—and what we’ve left up there could shape the future of satellites, exploration, and everyday life on Earth.
Orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour, dead satellites, rocket bodies, and millions of invisible fragments form an unseen minefield above our heads. A piece of debris no bigger than a paint chip can strike with the force of a bullet, and one collision can trigger thousands more in a runaway chain reaction known as the Kessler Syndrome.

In this episode, we explore how decades of launches, Cold War shortcuts, and exploding leftovers turned low Earth orbit into one of the most crowded environments humans have ever created. We’ll break down what space junk is, how it got there, why it’s getting worse, and why it matters to everything from GPS and weather forecasts to banking and disaster warnings.

There’s no cleanup crew in space—and almost everything we’ve ever launched is still circling Earth. The question now isn’t if orbital junk is a problem, but whether we can stop turning the space around our planet into a permanent junkyard before it closes off the skies we depend on.

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Is Our Current Calendar Wrong? — On a Dash of Info

We check the date every day—but what if the calendar itself is flawed?

From ancient Egyptian star-watching and Babylonian moon cycles to Julius Caesar’s reforms and the Gregorian calendar we use today, humanity has been tweaking timekeeping for thousands of years. Each system solved problems… and created new ones. Drift, leap years, religious divides, cultural clashes—no calendar has ever been perfect.

In this episode of On a Dash of Info, we explore why calendars keep breaking, how different cultures track time, and whether modern alternatives—from 13-month calendars to the radical Holocene Calendar—might finally fix what’s wrong.

Is our calendar just a convenient compromise… or is it time to rethink how we measure history itself?

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The History of Doctor Who
Regeneration, Reinvention, and a British Institution

It looks like a police box.
Old. Blue. Ordinary.

But step inside—and it breaks the rules of reality.

For more than sixty years, Doctor Who has defied cancellation, criticism, and cultural change to become the longest-running science fiction television series in history. This episode traces the extraordinary journey of a show that shouldn’t have survived—yet keeps reinventing itself.

From its humble beginnings as a 1960s BBC educational experiment, born in postwar Britain and shaped by the Space Race, to the accidental creation of regeneration—television’s most radical survival mechanism—we explore how one character, many faces, and endless reinvention turned Doctor Who into a global cultural institution.

We’ll travel through black-and-white origins, Dalek mania, the psychedelic color era, behind-the-scenes turmoil, near cancellation, the long Wilderness Years, and the triumphant 2005 revival that brought the Doctor roaring back for a new generation. Along the way, we’ll meet the actors, creators, fans, and bold ideas that refused to let the show die.

At its core, Doctor Who isn’t just about time travel.
It’s about change.
About survival.
And about why, every time the Doctor reaches the end…
the story begins again.

Plus, stick around for 10 fascinating facts about Doctor Who, including lost episodes,

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