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2023-01-23 12:56
Podcast Transcript In 1781, after six years of fighting, the American Revolution came to a dramatic conclusion.  One of the two major British armies in the conflict found themselves tra… Read More
2023-01-22 10:56
Podcast Transcript There is nothing faster in the entire universe than the speed of light. Not only is light the fastest thing, but nothing can ever be faster than light.  For the longe… Read More
2023-01-21 13:00
Podcast Transcript In the early 19th century, the most abundant bird in North America, and perhaps the entire world, was the passenger pigeon. An estimated three billion of them would fly in… Read More
2023-01-20 13:33
Podcast Transcript In 1688, a palace coup took place in England.  The King of England and Scotland was usurped and was replaced by his daughter and her husband from the Netherlands.&nbs&hell…Read More
2023-01-18 12:46
Podcast Transcript Just one week after President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in November 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman set out to execute one of the most audacious plans of… Read More
2023-01-17 13:17
Podcast Transcript On December 21, 1891, a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, looking to keep athletes occupied during the winter, hung some peach baskets on the balco… Read More
2023-01-16 13:26
Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, one of the most terrifying and destructive diseases which afflicted humanity has been leprosy.  Leprosy is a condition that affects the nerves… Read More
2023-01-14 13:24
Podcast Transcript About 2,500 years ago, a Greek philosopher by the name of Zeno of Elea proposed several paradoxes about the natural word. His ideas were actually really simple, but they w… Read More
2023-01-12 12:19
Podcast Transcript When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and that it would last 1,000 years. It turned out he was off by 988 years. … Read More
2023-01-11 13:43
Podcast Transcript In the year 79, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located east of the modern-day city of Naples, erupted.  Vesuvius had erupted before, but this eruption was different. It ej… Read More
2023-01-09 12:13
Podcast Transcript In September 1944, despite over half a year still remaining in World War II, the Allies began preparing for an eventual post-war world. One of the biggest questions being… Read More
2023-01-07 12:20
Podcast Transcript Every form of life which has ever been discovered, regardless of its size or how it metabolizes energy, has one thing in common.  They are based on the element carbon… Read More
2023-01-05 14:00
Podcast Transcript The United States Congres is divided into two houses. The larger of the two houses, the House of Representatives, is led by a single representative known as the Speaker of… Read More
2023-01-04 13:22
Podcast Transcript Sometime about 3,200 years ago, one of the most famous wars in ancient history took place.  Maybe. It has been the subject of some of the greatest works of western li… Read More
2023-01-02 13:09
When airplanes were developed in the early 20th century, the technology developed rapidly.  Within a matter of a couple of decades, aviation had become a norm for transporting people an… Read More
2023-01-01 13:08
Podcast Transcript Every year, people around the world ring in the New Year.  How they do this, however, can differ radically from place to place. New Year’s traditions tend to be… Read More
2022-12-30 12:17
Podcast Transcript What is the greatest movie ever made? It seems like a highly subjective question that is impossible to answer. However, in 1952 the magazine of the British Film Institute… Read More
2022-12-28 13:26
Podcast Transcript Abram Petrovich Gannibal was one of the most notable Russians of the 18th century.  He was the godson of Peter the Great.  He was among the most educated men and… Read More
2022-12-27 13:14
Podcast Transcript Approximately 700 years ago, something happened to the Earth’s climate.  The world started to cool down. It wasn’t dramatic enough to cause another ice ag… Read More
2022-12-26 12:14
podcast Transcript Every year, primarily in Commonwealth countries, the day after Christmas is a legal holiday.  It is a rather odd holiday in that it doesn’t celebrate anything o… Read More
2022-12-25 12:26
Podcast Transcript On Christmas Eve, 1914, something remarkable happened on the western front during the First World War.  Soldiers in the trenches on both sides of no man’s land… Read More
2022-12-22 12:20
Podcast Transcript Twice a year, the sun reaches an extreme point in the sky. It is the day with the least amount of sunlight or the most amount of sunlight, depending on where in the world… Read More
2022-12-20 12:16
Podcast Transcript Today computers are ubiquitous. You are listening to this podcast right now on some sort of computing device.  However, before computers were machines, the name compu… Read More
2022-12-19 13:00
Podcast Transcript After the horrors of the first world war, many of the nations in the conflict sought to build memorials to honor their dead.  While there were many memorials built, o… Read More
2022-12-17 13:22
Podcast Transcript After the rise of Islam in the 7th century, it spread rapidly, conquering lands in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In Europe, it established a foothold on the Iberian Peninsula… Read More
2022-12-14 13:36
Podcast Transcript On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the third mission to land on the moon.  It never achieved its mission objective.  Desp… Read More
2022-12-13 07:49
Podcast Transcript Formerly located in the territory of Hong Kong was arguably the most densely populated place on Earth. In fact, it might have been the most densely populated place in huma… Read More
2022-12-12 12:12
Podcast Transcript There are estimated to be over 1,300 active volcanoes in the world today.  Almost all of them have one thing in common, they were around well before there were humans… Read More
2022-12-11 12:57
Podcast Transcript There are a host of different musical instruments. There are woodwinds, strings, brass, and percussion instruments. These are the instruments that make up the backbone of… Read More
2022-12-09 13:45
Podcast Transcript The elite citizens of the Roman Republic were part of a system built to encourage ambition and competition.  As the men of the republic competed for honors and politi… Read More
2022-12-07 13:12
Podcast Transcript History is shaped by many things. Political and religious leaders, diseases, and technologies.  But perhaps the thing which has resulted in the most poignant inflecti… Read More
2022-12-05 13:38
Podcast Transcript It has been said that a dog is a man’s best friend.  This might be true, but…..why. How was it that this particular animal developed such a special relat… Read More
2022-12-02 12:54
Podcast Transcript The First World War saw many innovations in warfare. Probably the most significant was the introduction of aircraft.  The first military pilots didn’t really kn… Read More
2022-12-01 13:30
Podcast Transcript Soon after the start of the space race, a major problem with space flight became obvious: it was really expensive. The high cost of space flight was in large part due to t… Read More
2022-11-30 13:06
Podcast Transcript Countries are kind of like people. Every one of them has a name.  Just like people, sometimes they change their names.  The are a host of reasons why countries c… Read More
2022-11-27 12:27
Podcast Transcript Almost every day, you might check the weather forecast to see what the temperature will be like in the near future or if it might rain. When you hear a forecast, how exact… Read More
2022-11-26 13:17
Located in northcentral Spain live one of the most unique people in all of Europe.  They have a language that is literally like no other, and even their genetics are unlike the people a… Read More
2022-11-22 13:01
Podcast Transcript If you ever want to travel around the world, even if you don’t know another language, no matter where you go there is already one word you know. It is the most ubiqu… Read More
2022-11-21 12:46
Podcast Transcript The world has many amazing buildings. From the 2,000-year-old Pantheon in Rome to the gleaming new Burj Khalifa in Dubai, humanity is often reflected in its buildings.&nbs&hell…Read More
2022-11-20 13:04
Podcast Transcript In 1872 the first international football match took place between England and Scotland.  Since then, international football has been at the apex of world sport. … Read More
2022-11-19 13:25
Podcast Transcript During the Roman Republic, two brothers took it upon themselves to seek to change Rome to benefit the poor and underclass. Needless to say, the Roman elites did not like t… Read More
2022-11-17 12:07
Podcast Transcript Every few years, without any regular schedule or planning, officials at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will add an extra second to the year… Read More
2022-11-16 13:12
Podcast Transcript In 1942, Allied forces attempted a landing on the coast of France to gain a toe hold on the continent. Thousands of men took part in the landing…and it was a disast… Read More
2022-11-15 12:11
Podcast Transcript Human beings have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. For the vast majority of that time, the total population of humans has been quite small.  Then, quit… Read More
2022-11-14 12:58
When Alexander the Great died, one of his generals and best friends, Ptolemy, took Alexander’s corpse and went to Egypt to establish a new pharaonic dynasty. One of the things he did d… Read More
2022-11-13 12:47
Podcast Transcript For over 300 years, the Romanov family ruled over the Russian Empire.  After the Communist Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, and he and his family we… Read More
2022-11-12 12:42
Podcast Transcript Children are highly inquisitive and are always asking questions. One of the most common questions that children have is, “why is the sky blue?”  It is a s… Read More
2022-11-11 11:39
Podcast Transcript Located between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, in the middle of the Irish Sea, lies one of the oddest political jurisdictions in the world.  It isn’t… Read More
2022-11-09 09:38
Podcast Transcript Every four years, Americans go to polling places where they do NOT decide who will be President of the United States.  These elections usually aren’t given as m… Read More
2022-11-08 12:45
Podcast Transcript There was a time when languages had no punctuation. Not only did they not have punctuation, but they also didn’t even have spaces between words, and in some cases, t… Read More
2022-11-07 13:00
Podcast Transcript The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in the ancient world.  It left us a host of languages based on Latin, as well as many cultural institutions which sti… Read More
2022-11-06 21:32
For over two years and 850 episodes, I have been providing you with daily podcasts on a wide assortment of topics.  Now, for the first time, I’m letting you take over the show by… Read More
2022-11-05 11:18
Podcast Transcript On February 15, 1971, the United Kingdom had a landmark day in its history.  On that day, the country’s currency was changed after centuries of stability. It wa… Read More
2022-11-04 11:55
Podcast Transcript Most people think of the second world war as being a mechanized war fought with tanks, planes, jeeps, and ships. This is true, as it was certainly a mechanized war. Howeve… Read More
2022-11-01 11:32
Podcast Transcript Many movies and television shows have as their plot some disaster that eliminates the United States government.  As a result, some low-level cabinet official becomes… Read More
2022-10-31 10:26
Podcast Transcript It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen.  The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit… Read More
2022-10-29 12:16
Podcast Transcript Philip II of Spain was one of European history’s most important yet underrated monarchs.  He had more titles and kingships than almost anyone and was behind som… Read More
2022-10-28 12:31
Podcast Transcript Located just southwest of the southern tip of India lies one of the only countries in the world consisting solely of coral atolls.  Unlike similar countries, which ar… Read More
2022-10-26 10:11
Podcast Transcript One of the landmark inventions in human history was the ability to record sound.  This technology allowed music to go from something only appreciated by a small numbe… Read More
2022-10-25 12:05
Podcast Transcript The American Civil War wasn’t just a military conflict. There was also a major political and legal struggle that took place alongside the military campaigns.  I… Read More
2022-10-24 12:23
Podcast Transcript Cricket is the world’s second most popular spectator sport, behind association football or soccer.  However, it is played almost nowhere outside of former Briti… Read More
2022-10-23 12:07
Podcast Transcript In the year 312, two claimants to the Roman imperial throne met outside the walls of Rome near a bridge that crossed the Tiber River.  The subsequent battle that foll… Read More
2022-10-22 12:48
Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, humans have been using the power of the wind to do useful work. At first, the wind was just used for sailing ships, but eventually, the wind’… Read More
2022-10-19 11:33
Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, humans knew that certain foods could treat certain ailments. However, why or how the foods did this was totally unknown.  It wasn’t unti… Read More
2022-10-18 10:25
Podcast Transcript Centuries ago, if you were a ruler, you needed to protect yourself and your realm.  You’d obviously need an army and soldiers, but you would also need some sort… Read More
2022-10-15 12:11
Podcast Transcript Located in the South Pacific Ocean is one of the most isolated islands in the world. It is over a thousand miles from the nearest human settlement. Here a civilization unl… Read More
2022-10-14 11:27
Podcast Transcript In 1957, two chemists at the Clinton Corn Processing Company of Clinton, Iowa, developed a system for converting the glucose found in corn starch into fructose.  Over… Read More
2022-10-11 10:23
Podcast Transcript All around you, right this second, you are surrounded by electromagnetic radiation.  You might better know this by names such as light, radio waves, microwaves, x-ray… Read More
2022-10-10 11:13
Podcast Transcript The first world war was the most horrific war the world had ever seen at that time. When the conflict ended, there was an effort to make sure that such a thing never happe… Read More
2022-10-09 10:55
Podcast Transcript Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers.  It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a parti… Read More
2022-10-08 12:31
Podcast Transcript In the TV series Game of Thrones, there were four different seasons where disputes were determined with trial by combat.  As fictional as the Game of Thrones universe… Read More
2022-10-07 11:22
Podcast Transcript For most of human history, if you wanted something, you had to make it yourself or know the person who made it.  Eventually, merchants began to sell goods in a single… Read More
2022-10-05 12:19
Podcast Transcript When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered.  However, there was a proble… Read More
2022-10-03 10:58
Podcast Transcript Most of our major divisions of time are based on some sort of natural event.  A year is one orbit of the Earth around the sun. A month is one orbit of the Moon around… Read More
2022-10-02 12:12
Podcast Transcript Every year parts of the planet are hit by devastating typhoons and hurricanes. They can cause billions of dollars of damage and can take hundreds if not thousands of lives… Read More
2022-09-28 12:14
Podcast Transcript It seems like the sort of thing humans have used throughout our existence, but historically speaking, footwear is a relatively new invention.  For hundreds of thousan… Read More
2022-09-26 10:02
Podcast Transcript In the summer of 1971, Stanford professor of psychology Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to determine if cruelty amongst people of authority was because of the posi… Read More

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