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Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do I have a horse of a story for you tonight. So here’s what happened in 1973: a horse named Secretariat won the Triple Crown. Now, if you don’t know what the Triple Crown is, it’s basically three of the most prestigious flat racing events in thoroughbred horse racing—the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. And look, I get it. We’re living in 2024, where the most strenuous thing most of us do is argue about streaming services while lying down. So the idea that a single horse could dominate three separate elite competitions in one season sounds absolutely insane. Which it is! Because it basically never happens. We’re talking about a feat so rare that people still talk about it fifty years later. And that’s what kills me—we’ve got robots driving cars, we’ve got phones that know what we’re thinking before we do, but we’re STILL referencing a horse from the seventies like it’s the Beatles. ...