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500 Open Tabs

by Kaveh Taherian & Hannah Hillam

Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.

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500 Open Tabs episode 138 explores two seemingly unrelated topics connected by the show's format of diving into internet rabbit holes. The main segment covers Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, tracing its origins to a public health crisis in 19th-century New York City. The episode explains how corpse fluids leaching…

Worth it if you enjoy quirky internet culture mixed with accessible history and don't mind tonal whiplash between serious cemetery research and absurdist political news.

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