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24 alternatives to The Leap - The Strange Journey of the World's Worst Smell

How bad smells led to the demise of American manufacturing

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Leap - The Strange Journey of the World's Worst Smell launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
This American Life - 539: The Leap▲72
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2015 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sweat The Product▲153
A collection of stories from people who build product.
2014 · sweattheproduct.com · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - Tube Benders▲76
How a nobel gas signaled luxury, seediness, and now...cool?
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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How I Built This: Jim Koch, Samuel Adams▲87
Kickstarting the craft beer movement in America
2016 · its alternatives →
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Product Hunt Maker Stories - Sam Lessin▲83
Sam on Fin, angel investing, and the end of capitalism
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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The End of Alchemy▲60
Money, banking, and the future of the global economy
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Founder's Journey - How freemium nearly caused our business to implode▲83
Freemium nearly killed a $450,000 business
2015 · its alternatives →
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Reveal - Do not drink: The water crisis in Flint, Michigan▲61
How Flint, MI went from trusting tap water to fearing it
2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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Analyse Asia 81: Semiconductors are eating the world with Ben Bajarin▲53
Overview of the Semiconductors Industry globally to Asia
2015 · analysepodcast.com · its alternatives →
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Reply All - #40 The Flower Child▲90
Fascinating investigation into the man behind Ripoff Report
2015 · open.spotify.com · its alternatives →
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The Jay & Farhad Show: The End of the Era of Optimism▲57
The current negativity in the tech industry
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
12
Planet Money - When patents attack▲79
How Patents Are Destroying Innovation In Silicon Valley
2015 · its alternatives →
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital▲60
Never put too much truth in your algorithm or model. Ever.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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This American Life - I Thought I Knew You▲57
What happens when the ground shifts underneath you
2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
15
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation▲62
A story about the life & work of brilliant engineers!
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - Reefer Madness▲75
Birth and life story of the reefer - refrigerated shipping …
2015 · its alternatives →
17
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies▲77
Explains the roots of resistance to new technologies
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Vanishing American Corporation▲2
Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola▲67
America's socio-economic history through the "glass"
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Authority Hacker - Behind The Scenes: Lessons From a Six Figure Launch▲64
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2016 · authorityhacker.com · its alternatives →
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Radiolab - Bigger Than Bacon▲65
How pistol shrimps (🍤, not 🏀) helped America win WWII
2016 · radiolab.org · its alternatives →
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The First Billion Is the Hardest▲59
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2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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"The Stolen Bacillus" By H.G Wells▲60
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2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Think Dirty▲69
Shop clean. Info about toxic ingredients in cosmetics.
2014 · thinkdirtyapp.com · its alternatives →

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