Deep Dive: From Nuremberg to Nobel: Trials, Selma Lagerlöf, and the 400‑Burger Fact - November 20, 2025
Christopher Wells and Lucas Bennett examine the legacy of the 1945 Nuremberg Trials, celebrate Selma Lagerlöf’s literary and cultural impact on her birthday, and unpack a striking food-supply fact: one cow can yield 400 quarter‑pounders.
In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the legal, cultural, and surprising everyday connections between a landmark war-crimes trial, a Nobel-winning author, and a startling food fact.
- 📜 The Nuremberg Trials — how the 1945 prosecutions of top Nazi officials established international accountability, created a legal record that shaped historical storytelling, and made the concept of justice visible on a global stage.
- 🎂 Selma Lagerlöf — a focused birthday segment on the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), exploring how her folklore-rooted narratives carried moral and social weight, influenced cultural perception, and asserted women’s intellectual contributions.
- 💡 Fact of the day — the surprising statistic that one cow can produce 400 quarter‑pounders, and how that simple ratio clarifies supply-chain scale, informs regulatory conversations, and provides a cinematic image for listeners.
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