What you see around you is a result of a disease with 0.7% mortality rate. Imagine if it was similar to the Black Death that had a mortality rate between 40% and 60%. We’re a fragile species, folks. Don’t forget to love each other.

NEW EPISODE! In the middle of the horrific siege of Leningrad, a small enclave of Soviet scientists did what they could to protect a massive collection of seeds from the effects of starvation, disease, freezing temperatures, and themselves. Listen here: orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/histo…

When the players aren’t traversing dungeons or slaying monsters, they do all sorts of other things: Shopping, training, carousing, running businesses, researching… This episode we get down with downtime! orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/vox-a…

We understand a few of you had issues listening to episode 60 when it first dropped, but everything seems to be all fixed now! If you missed it, check out our episode all about downtime.

When you have to improv a name on the fly:

Mysteries built-in to world building, describing scenes, and making secret backstories. All that and more on episode 61 of Vox Arcana. Listen through any podcast app here: orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/vox-a…

“I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety.” -Joseph Chamberlain, 1898

Skeletons of a mother and father protecting their infant child during the earthquake in 365 CE, uncovered beneath Kourion, Cyprus in the 1980s. #history #tragedy #earthquake #death #skeletons #love #kourion #cyprus #archaelogy

New episode on what a virtual plague in World of Warcraft can teach us about real-world epidemiology. #historium #plague #wow #wowclassic #pandemic #epidemiology #podernfamily #historypodcast Listen through any podcast player right here: orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/histo…

New episode is out! ‘In Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a rag-tag group of rock climbers in the 1970s stumble upon the score of a lifetime.’ Listen on any podcast player through this link: orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/histo…

[NEW EPISODE] Chang and Eng were identical twins connected by a band of flesh on their sternums. This is the story of the original Siamese Twins! #history #historium #podcast #historypodcast #siamesetwins #conjoinedtwins #podernfamily Listen here: orbitaljigsaw.com/podcasts/histo…

Sorry for the radio silence, you’ll be hearing from us again real soon!