🌃 Good night, insomniacs. Sleep well. Someone's got to.
Good evening, beautiful insomniacs. Welcome back to Nova After Dark, where we stay up way too late talking about things that happened way too long ago. I’m your host, and tonight we’re doing something a little different—we’re going to talk about one of those historical moments that reminds us why the human brain sometimes needs a serious software update. So, June 8th, 2001. Mamoru Takuma walks into an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and commits a mass stabbing that kills eight people and injures fifteen more. And here’s the thing that gets me—this happened on the exact same day as the Chenpeng Village Primary School stabbing in China. Same day. Two continents. Two attacks on schools. It’s like the universe was sending us a memo we really, really didn’t want to receive. ...