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2022-05-27 10:50
Podcast Transcript All three of the holy books from great monotheistic faiths share a similar story about a Queen from a land in the south who traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon.&nbs&hell…Read More
2022-05-26 09:22
Podcast Transcript In the year 60 BC, a very unlikely alliance was formed between three of Rome’s most powerful men.  Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, and Marcus Licin… Read More
2022-05-25 10:45
Podcast Transcript For ages, people have tried to categorize humans by intelligence. However, it wasn’t until the early 20th century that attempts were made to provide an actual quanti… Read More
2022-05-24 11:06
Podcast Transcript In the year 1162, in the Khentii Mountains of what is today Northeastern Mongolia, a baby by the name of Temüjin was born.  He would go on to become the world&rs&hell…Read More
2022-05-23 10:40
Podcast Transcript You have probably heard the old saying that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  There are several reasons why statistics are often misinterpreted. One of th… Read More
2022-05-20 11:21
Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, rice has been one of the most important agricultural crops in the world.  It has fed billions of people, has been crossbred into tens of thous… Read More
2022-05-19 11:00
Podcast Transcript In the early 20th century, a Soviet agronomist named Trofim Lysenko developed some unique theories of biology and genetics.  He rose to the top of the Soviet hierarch… Read More
2022-05-18 10:40
Podcast Transcript On August 15, 1971, US President Richard Nixon ended the gold convertibility of the US Dollar and simultaneously ended the Bretton Woods System, which had governed interna… Read More
2022-05-17 11:08
Podcast Transcript About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid collided with the Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact ended the era of the dinosaurs and resulted in one… Read More
2022-05-16 11:16
Podcast Transcript In the early 4th century, the Roman Emperor Constantine ordered the construction of a church on the burial site of Saint Peter. It was the greatest church in Christianity… Read More
2022-05-14 10:17
Podcast Transcript Sometime during the reign of Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II, the Egyptian state decided to build an institution dedicated to accumulating all human knowledge in the City of Alexa… Read More
2022-05-13 05:25
Podcast Transcript Friday the 13th is a day associated with bad luck and ill omens.  However, why is this particular combination of day of the week and day of the month considered bad l… Read More
2022-05-12 08:37
Podcast Transcript In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Cater stumbled upon one of the most pristine tombs of an Egyptian Pharaoh ever found. The tomb of King Tutankhamen. That discovery be… Read More
2022-05-10 09:53
Podcast Transcript In 1845, farmers around Europe suffered from a blight that devastated the potato crop.  This lasted for several years, but nowhere was it more pronounced than it was… Read More
2022-05-09 11:02
Podcast Transcript On May 20, 1910, an event occurred that had never occurred before or since.  Gathered for the funeral of the British King Edward VII, nine different European monarchs… Read More
2022-05-07 10:36
Podcast Transcript Barely a month after the Normandy Landing in 1944, the allied powers were already thinking of what the post-war world would look like. One of the big issue was the creatio… Read More
2022-05-06 11:29
Podcast Transcript In 1839, a French scientist by the name of Edmond Becquerel was experimenting with an electrochemical cell when he discovered something interesting.  When it was expo… Read More
2022-05-05 11:22
Podcast Transcript In October 1919, the champions of the National League, the Cincinatti Reds, faced the champions of the American League, the Chicago White Sox in the World Series.  Wh… Read More
2022-05-03 10:31
Podcast Transcript Over the centuries, there has been a host of self-proclaimed prophets, astrologers, scientists, and cranks who have predicted the end of the world.  Some of them have… Read More
2022-05-02 10:12
Podcast Transcript In January 1920, an Italian American businessman in Boston started a new company. In order to raise money, he took $100 investments from 18 people and offered them a fabul… Read More
2022-05-01 11:45
Podcast Transcript Located approximately 1500 kilometers or 950 miles south of the equator and split by the International Date Line, is a small chain of islands which was was believed to be… Read More
2022-04-29 10:40
Podcast Transcript In 1880, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was commissioned to compose a work in honor of the completion of a new cathedral.  What he wrote became one of… Read More
2022-04-28 10:34
Podcast Transcript Many of the foods that people associate with America didn’t actually originate in the United States. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza are all things that were popular… Read More
2022-04-27 11:17
Podcast Transcript Whether or not you know it, you use them every day. You were actually trained to use them as a child. Much of the world we live in today is directly or indirectly a result… Read More
2022-04-25 10:24
Podcast Transcript For a period of about 200 years, and really intensely for less than 50 years, the world’s monetary system functioned on a gold standard.  During the gold standa… Read More
2022-04-22 10:27
Podcast Transcript Prior to the 19th century, capturing images required the talent of an artist and a whole lot of time.  The transition from capturing images as an art to that of a sci… Read More
2022-04-21 10:11
Podcast Transcript In the 1960s, billions of dollars were spent and 100,000s of people worked to land a human on the moon.  After the success of Apollo 11, five more Apollo missions man… Read More
2022-04-20 09:53
Podcast Transcript Five different times during the Earth’s history, the planet has entered a prolonged period of reduced temperatures. When this happens, massive ice sheets form, and s… Read More
2022-04-19 09:42
Podcast Transcript In William Golding’s 1954 novel, the Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys find themselves on a deserted island. Stuck there, they create their own civilization w… Read More
2022-04-18 11:19
Podcast Transcript Around 10,000 years ago, someone in Southeast Asia captured a bird that lived on the floor of the jungle. Today, billions of descendants of that bird now live on six diffe… Read More
2022-04-16 09:12
Podcast Transcript Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it. Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a v… Read More
2022-04-15 12:12
Podcast Transcript One of the most successful enterprises of the Middle Ages was a collection of free cities located in Northern Germany and along the North and Baltic Seas.  These citi… Read More
2022-04-14 10:43
Podcast Transcript Ever since people have had secrets, people have taken measures to protect those secrets.  The first methods to hide secrets were simple and mechanical. Over time they… Read More
2022-04-13 10:02
Podcast Transcript The election of 1860 was unquestionably the most important election in American history.  The presidential election after that was still important, but it has the dis… Read More
2022-04-12 10:19
Podcast Transcript In 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War, a Dutch man was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and plundering the Netherlands of some of its greatest artist… Read More
2022-04-11 10:57
Podcast Transcript During the US Civil War, over a quarter million African-Americans served and fought on the Union side with distinction. After the Civil War, in a reorganization of the Uni… Read More
2022-04-10 09:47
Podcast Transcript At the 1862 London International Exhibition, an inventor by the name of Andrew Parkes introduced a new product based on cellulose that he called Parkesine. Little did he k… Read More
2022-04-09 09:57
Podcast Transcript Starting in the early Renisanase and going through to the early 19th century an intellectual community developed in Europe and later in the Americas. This community wasn&r&hell…Read More
2022-04-07 12:11
Podcast Transcript We like to think of terrorist plots as being a condition of the modern world. However, there were such plots were around over two thousand years ago.  During the hect… Read More
2022-04-06 10:57
Podcast Transcript From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place.  The participants in the battle couldn’t have known it, b… Read More
2022-04-01 12:54
Podcast Transcript In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for an object to slide down to go from point A… Read More
2022-03-31 11:28
Podcast Transcript Sometime almost 2000 years ago, a Chinese alchemist experimenting with three different ingredients discovered something astonishing. When the ingredients were subjected to… Read More
2022-03-29 11:12
Podcast Transcript As an outsider, the British peerage system is really confusing. There are princes, dukes, earls, and barons.  Some of the titles are hereditary, and some of them are… Read More
2022-03-28 11:16
Podcast Transcript For centuries, humans have built canals to facilitate the transportation of people and goods.  Usually, they are built to dramatically save time, like how the Panama… Read More
2022-03-27 11:01
Podcast Transcript Ancient Rome had an enormous number of customs and traditions. Some of them have been passed down to us in the names of our months, or the letters in the Latin alphabet.&n&hell…Read More
2022-03-26 09:23
Podcast Transcript The 1920s and 1930s were the heydays of organized crime in New York City. There were several mobsters from that period such as Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano who terroriz… Read More
2022-03-25 12:01
Podcast Transcript On November 20, 1917, German soldiers on the Western Front saw something that had never been seen in the history of warfare.  They witnessed over 400 lumbering metal… Read More
2022-03-24 10:46
Podcast Transcript The largest single killer of human beings throughout history has been disease.  With the advent of modern medicine and the understanding of how bacteria, viruses, and… Read More
2022-03-22 12:20
Podcast Transcript There is one substance that makes up 98% of the observable matter in the universe, yet you will almost never encounter it in its native form.  It is inside your body… Read More
2022-03-21 13:28
Podcast Transcript Classical music aficionados are not usually associated with rowdiness and mayhem. They tend to be rather well-behaved and if anything, they might express their disapproval… Read More
2022-03-18 11:23
Podcast Transcript On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a US Navy intelligence-gathering ship was on a routine surveillance mission in international waters off of the coast of North Korea.&n&hell…Read More
2022-03-15 10:24
Podcast Transcript 2,046 years ago one of the most notorious political assassinations in world history took place.  Julius Caesar, the dictator for life of the Roman Republic, was kille… Read More
2022-03-14 11:09
Podcast Transcript Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi.  It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you w… Read More
2022-03-10 11:29
Podcast Transcript In the years 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Uni… Read More
2022-03-08 11:12
Podcast Transcript Throughout history, there have been riots over many different things.  Sports teams winning, sports teams losing, high prices, war protests, and police brutality, hav… Read More
2022-03-07 12:00
Podcast Transcript If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel.  It isn’t a bad guess, but believe i… Read More
2022-03-04 12:06
Podcast Transcript Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and sometimes they have a shorter version of it for common use.  There are some countries, however… Read More
2022-03-03 13:15
Podcast Transcript You are probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth.  Because of its status as the highest point on Earth, it has attracted thousands of p… Read More
2022-03-02 11:00
Podcast Transcript On November 30, 1939, as part of their secret agreement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded the nation of Finland.  Despite the overwhelming numerical and mil… Read More
2022-03-01 10:55
Podcast Transcript Every year, before the start of Lent, in hundreds of cities around the world, there is a massive celebration. While the celebrations differ, sometimes dramatically, there… Read More
2022-02-26 10:16
Podcast Transcript When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, he didn’t create a monolithic empire that was centrally run out of Paris. Well, he sort o… Read More
2022-02-25 11:40
Podcast Transcript Every culture has a different way of assigning names to people. Sometimes they use different words as names, sometimes names are in a different order, and sometimes they h… Read More
2022-02-23 11:20
Podcast Transcript On March 1, 1932, one of the most famous men in the world, Charles Lindbergh, found that his 20-month-old son had been taken from his crib.  It was the biggest news s… Read More
2022-02-22 10:47
Podcast Transcript SCUBA diving is a popular activity that has recreational appeal and commercial uses.  Most people who have never gone SCUBA diving think that it is just a matter of b… Read More
2022-02-21 11:00
Podcast Transcript In the last days of the first world war, an event occurred which resulted in the rapid collapse of the German monarchy, and ultimately hastened the end of the war. Th… Read More
2022-02-19 11:30
Podcast Transcript Located near the city of Masvingo in Central Zimbabwe are the ruins of one of the greatest civilizations of the Middle Ages.  When European explorers first discovered… Read More
2022-02-18 11:47
Podcast Transcript In 1967, the very first Saturn V rocket was launched. It was the largest rocket ever built. 55 years later, it is still the largest rocket ever launched.However, it m… Read More
2022-02-17 10:29
Podcast Transcript In the year 73 BC, Rome faced one of its greatest threats to its existence. An army of over 100,000 liberated slaves rose up in revolt and threatened the very fabric of th… Read More
2022-02-15 10:45
Podcast Transcript If you measure the success of a lifeform by how long they manage to exist on Earth, then by far the most successful forms of life have been stromatolites.  Stromatoli… Read More
2022-02-13 11:10
Podcast Transcript In 1996 two college students walking along the Columbia River in Washington State stumbled upon what turned out to be an ancient human skull.  What they couldn’… Read More
2022-02-12 10:22
Podcast Transcript When most people think of Switzerland, they of small country embedded in the Alps that makes fine chocolates and is the home of the cuckoo clock. They have been neutral in… Read More
2022-02-10 11:18
Podcast Transcript Every single day, the oceans of the world go through a cycle with two high tides and two low tides. For thousands of years, no one knew why the tides rose and fell, a… Read More
2022-02-09 11:41
Podcast Transcript Prior to the modern era, very few people traveled anywhere. It was rare for anyone to travel more than about 20 miles from where they were born. However, there were a… Read More
2022-02-08 11:58
Podcast Transcript New York City has been called the city that never sleeps, the Big Apple, and the city so nice they named it twice.  It is the world center for finance, the location o… Read More
2022-02-07 11:06
Podcast Transcript I’m sure all of you are familiar with Watergate. You also might be familiar with Gamergate, Contragate, Pizzagate, Partygate, Chinagate, Deflategate, Sandpapergate… Read More
2022-02-05 11:24
Podcast Transcript Computers have obviously transformed our world. You wouldn’t be listing to my voice right now if it wasn’t for computers. However, the first computers, a… Read More
2022-02-04 11:18
Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, humans have traveled on the water and have wondered if it was possible to travel under the water like a fish. The idea of underwater travel st… Read More
2022-02-03 10:58
Podcast Transcript On January 25, 1959, a group of 10 hikers set out in the middle of the Russian Winter on what was to be a two-week excursion into the wilderness. One of the hikers re… Read More
2022-02-01 11:16
Podcast Transcript When you think of international trade and globalization, you probably think it is a relatively modern phenomenon. However, the roots of globalization actually go back thou… Read More

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