Weird History
The Strange Algorithm People Used To Run Their Lives
2026 • E17 Apr 26, 2026 14m
The 1970s were a decade packed with real scientific breakthroughs; NASA launched Voyager 1, Intel revolutionized computing with the first microprocessor, and JVC introduced the VHS. At the same time, some more -- shall we say -- outside-the-box ideas also started quietly gaining traction, ideas like biorhythms. Promoted as a scientific way to predict your physical, emotional, and intellectual highs and lows, biorhythms captured the public's imagination... but were they really all that?
On this episode of Weird History, we dive into one of the strangest fads of the seventies' new age movement and try to determine whether it was legit science or just pseudoscience dressed up in math.
On this episode of Weird History, we dive into one of the strangest fads of the seventies' new age movement and try to determine whether it was legit science or just pseudoscience dressed up in math.