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October 19, 2017 10:02 am PDT
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In 1911, three men struggled for five weeks through the Antarctic winter to collect penguin eggs
In 1911, three British explorers made a perilous 70-mile journey in the dead of the Antarctic winter to gather eggs from a penguin rookery in McMurdo Sound. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the three through perpetual darkness and bone-shattering cold on what one man called "the worst journey in the world."
We'll also dazzle some computers and puzzle over some patriotic highways.
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