2021-10-18 08:47
Podcast Transcript Weather systems on Earth aren’t stable. There are cycles that weather patterns go through which can have enormous effects around the globe. There is probably no more… Read More
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The travel blog of Gary Arndt's journey to travel around the world.
2021-10-17 08:53
Podcast Transcript In the Dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called Atlantis. Atlantis was a land where the citizens were half-gods and half-men, yet it was d… Read More
2021-10-16 08:42
Podcast Transcript Brooklyn wasn’t always a part of New York City. It used to be a separate city located across the East River from New York, which at the time was only on the island o… Read More
2021-10-14 10:20
Podcast Transcript In 1965, the director of research at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore, made a prediction about the future of semiconductors. He said that over the next ten years, the… Read More
2021-10-13 09:51
Podcast Transcript I’ve done episodes before about people who have saved a large number of human lives. Mostly, these people have done so through inventions or innovations in fields li… Read More
2021-10-12 09:30
Podcast Transcript In 1555, a French physician and astrologer named Michel de Nostredame published a book of poems titled Les Prophéties. Ever since people have been trying to interpr… Read More
2021-10-11 08:26
Podcast Transcript On March 27, 1794, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act. The Naval Act authorized funding for six frigates which would become the basis for the new US Navy.&nbs&hell…Read More
2021-10-10 09:41
Podcast Transcript People who love to dance are said to have dancing fever. Dancing fever is just a phrase and not something meant to be taken literally. However, could there really be… Read More
2021-10-09 07:48
Podcast Transcript The rise of agriculture has been pointed to as being responsible for the rise of civilization as we know it. However, that raises the question, what was responsible… Read More
2021-10-03 07:57
Podcast Transcript As I have mentioned before on this podcast, there are a great many things that were originally invented in Ancient China. There are literally hundreds of inventions that w… Read More
2021-10-02 09:54
Podcast Transcript In the early 1950s, war ravaged the Korean peninsula. However, the fighting ceased on July 27, 1953. Both sides of the conflict pulled back from the front and created a bu… Read More
2021-09-30 07:52
Podcast Transcript I am speaking these words in the year 2021. You might be listening to them in a different year, but whatever year you happen to be in right now, it will probably be a year… Read More
2021-09-29 09:28
Podcast Transcript During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program to create an atomic bomb. The scientists an… Read More
2021-09-28 10:11
Podcast Transcript In the year 331 BC, fresh from his conquest of Egypt, Alexander the Great established a new city in Egypt named after himself. This new city, situated on the shore o… Read More
2021-09-27 08:29
Podcast Transcript During World War II, the US Army assigned statistician Abraham Wald the task of statistically figuring out where extra armor should be added to American bombers. After ana… Read More
2021-09-26 10:08
Podcast Transcript When most people think of World War II, they think of the Allied power of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, versus the Axis power of Germany, It… Read More
2021-09-25 11:32
Podcast Transcript Statistically speaking, about 90% of you listening to my words right now are right-handed. Of the rest of you, almost all of you will be left-handed. The question of… Read More
2021-09-23 09:56
Podcast Transcript The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid of Khufu, is a structure in which superlatives don’t really do justice. It isn’t just old, it… Read More
2021-09-22 10:16
Podcast Transcript In the late 19th century, several of the world’s foremost investors engaged in a public battle for the future of electricity. The battle was fought in boardrooms and… Read More
2021-09-21 09:37
Podcast Transcript In 1961, the United States figure skating team was one of the top programs in the world. The year before at the 1960 Olympics, they took the gold in both the men’s a… Read More
2021-09-20 09:44
Podcast Transcript In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa… Read More
2021-09-19 07:42
Podcast Transcript Ahoy ye mates! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. So I be thinking tis time to talk about the pirate life and how much of the legends of the pirates be true… Read More
2021-09-17 09:49
Podcast Transcript According to legend, sometime in the 5th century, a king of the Celtic Britons named Vortigern hired Anglo-Saxons mercenaries to help him fight his domestic enemies to hol… Read More
2021-09-16 10:02
Podcast Transcript Who matter where you are right now, no matter what time you are listening to this, there is one thing that I can safely say about you right now. Your body is being bombard… Read More
2021-09-15 09:15
Podcast Transcript On July 17, 1944, one of the worst disasters to befall the American military during World War II occurred. It didn’t occur in Europe or the Pacific, however. It took… Read More
2021-09-14 10:38
Podcast Transcript In 1994, a German archeologist named Klaus Schmidt was investigating a site in southeastern Turkey which had been know to be a source of ancient stone tools. What he… Read More
2021-09-13 09:07
Podcast Transcript Ever since humans have understood the workings of the atom, the potential has existed for humanity to exploit the energy source which powers the stars: fusion power. Yet… Read More
2021-09-12 09:46
Podcast Transcript Located 1,500 miles south of the nation of Cote d’Ivoire and about 2,500 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, lies one of the most remo… Read More
2021-09-11 09:00
Podcast Transcript Prior to their destruction in 2001, the World Trade Center in New York was a wonder of architecture. It was a collection of seven different buildings which served as a hub… Read More
2021-09-10 08:51
Podcast Transcript On September 13, 1848, a 25-year-old man named Phineas Gage received a horrific brain injury while working on a railroad in Vermont. The odds of anyone surviving such an a… Read More
2021-09-08 09:37
Podcast Transcript The Earth is pretty old. Our current, best estimate is that it is 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus 50 million years. Since then, however, a lot has happened. To help… Read More
2021-09-07 08:43
Podcast Transcript It is the American Revolutionary War. A rider on horseback sets out on an all-night ride to warn the militia of nearby towns that the British were coming. I am of course t… Read More
2021-09-06 10:00
Podcast Transcript The era of presidential aviation began on October 11, 1910, when former president Theodore Roosevelt took to the skies in a Wright Brothers Flyer at a county fair in Saint… Read More
2021-09-05 07:58
Podcast Transcript On September 1 and 2 of 1859, people all over the world were treated to something quite rare. Auroras were seen in the skies as far south as the Caribbean and as far north… Read More
2021-09-04 09:12
Podcast Transcript In a previous episode, I spoke about the Drake equation and the odds of there being intelligent extraterrestrial life. Many people have used the Drake equation to argue th… Read More
2021-09-02 09:25
Podcast Transcript What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their contemporaries who lived when they did have in c… Read More
2021-09-01 09:44
Podcast Transcript Beginning in 1801, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the Earl of Elgin, began a project to document the sculptures located at the Parthenon in Athens. He… Read More
2021-08-31 09:06
Podcast Transcript In the mid-19th century, a Hungarian physician advocated for an incredibly simple technique that would go on to save millions of lives. However, when he first propos… Read More
2021-08-30 10:01
Podcast Transcript The planet Mercury is the smallest, fastest, and most pot-marked planet in our solar system. It is in many ways, unlike any other planet. However, there is more to t… Read More
2021-08-29 10:04
Podcast Transcript San Francisco Bay is one of the largest and best natural harbors in the world. The entrance to the harbor is a one-mile, 1.6 kilometer, wide straight called the Golden Gat… Read More
2021-08-28 09:55
Podcast Transcript In 1816, the world experienced something that it had never seen before. All over the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, and North America, summer never came. …or… Read More
2021-08-27 08:02
Podcast Transcript Sometime around the year 95, a man who called himself John wrote what became known as the Book of Revelations. In that book, he said, “Let him that hath unders… Read More
2021-08-25 07:54
Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground, underwater, and in the atmosphere. The only thing that they hadn&rsqu&hell…Read More
2021-08-24 09:26
Podcast Transcript When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction resulting in the First World War. The war was fully anticipated and one of… Read More
2021-08-23 08:23
Podcast Transcript Divided between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian West Bank lies the lowest point on the surface of the Earth: The Dead Sea. Not only is it the lowest point on Earth, bu… Read More
2021-08-22 09:06
Podcast Transcript For several hundred years, the British navy was the most powerful in the world. One of the things which the British navy ran on was rum. Every sailor on a British sh… Read More
2021-08-21 08:04
Podcast Transcript If you’ve ever seen a sculpture or an ancient coin of a Roman Emperor, you probably have noticed that they were wearing a wreath on their head. That wreath, ho… Read More
2021-08-20 09:48
Podcast Transcript Fritz Haber is unquestionably one of the greatest chemists in history. He was a Nobel prize winner and his inventions have touched billions of lives. However, Haber is a t… Read More
2021-08-18 10:02
Podcast Transcript One of the most ubiquitous forms of payment today is credit cards. The odds are good that you have one, and most probably have one on your person right now. But how… Read More
2021-08-17 09:42
Podcast Transcript There were tens of millions of stories to come out of World War II. Many of them are tales of horrible human cruelty. However, there is one particular story that is as hor… Read More
2021-08-16 08:49
Podcast Transcript If you were to call someone a snake oil salesman, it usually means they are trying to defraud someone, and more specifically it often implies making false medical claims… Read More
2021-08-15 10:14
Podcast Transcript There are few things that are truly universal across all cultures and throughout history. These things are often so obvious that we overlook them and forget how they are t… Read More
2021-08-14 08:50
Podcast Transcript On Friday, October 21, 1966, the small village of Aberfan, Wales woke up to a typical autumn day. Many of the men in the village went to work at the local coal mine and th… Read More
2021-08-12 09:16
Podcast Transcript There is an old saying that everything old is new again. This is certainly true with electric cars. The recent surge in popularity of electric vehicles is technicall… Read More
2021-08-11 09:51
Podcast Transcript In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on c… Read More
2021-08-10 08:39
Podcast Transcript Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known to almost everyone in the world. If he isn’t known, then his music certainly is. Even though he is one of the greatest compose… Read More
2021-08-09 09:58
Podcast Transcript Most coverage of the Olympics is very biased towards whatever country you happen to live in, and certain popular sports. Lesser sports and accomplishments from athle… Read More
2021-08-08 08:24
Podcast Transcript In the year 60, the Roman town of Lunduniam, modern-day London, was attacked and sacked by a group of native Celts. They lashed out at the Romans over years of poor… Read More
2021-08-07 23:00
This week’s guests are Chantal and Chloe Patton They are a Canadian family of 5 who travels the world, visiting 100 countries since 2013. They are documenting their travels to sha… Read More
2021-08-06 09:51
Podcast Transcript The American constitution was written in 1787, but there was a mechanism built in to amend and change the document. Since 1787 the Constitution has been amended 27 t… Read More
2021-08-05 09:39
Podcast Transcript American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have been around a long time, they weren’t alway… Read More
2021-08-04 07:38
Podcast Transcript Somewhere over your head, right this moment is an artificial satellite. Many of them actually. They beam television and radio signals down to Earth. They can tell us… Read More
2021-08-03 09:40
Podcast Transcript On the morning of November 1, 1755, the citizens of Lisbon, Portugal set out to go to church for the feast of All Saints Day. Little did they know that moments later… Read More
2021-08-02 10:44
Podcast Transcript You’ve seen it in your science classroom, and there was probably a copy of it on the inside cover of your chemistry book. Maybe if you are a real nerd, you might eve… Read More
2021-08-01 09:38
Podcast Transcript The modern Olympics have been celebrated for over 100 years. Since their beginning in 1896, there have been over 100,000 athletes who have competed at the Olympics and tho… Read More
2021-07-30 20:38
This week’s guest is Mary Forgione. Mary covers outdoors and travel for the Los Angeles Times. She’s also editor of The Wild, a newsletter that covers essential outdoor content f… Read More
2021-07-30 09:56
Podcast Transcript Ever since the cease-fire which ended the Korean war, the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been a tense stand-off. Standing only a few meters from each… Read More
2021-07-29 10:00
Podcast Transcript Throughout human history, people have killed, robbed, and put their lives at risk in the pursuit of power. In fact, almost all of history can be thought of as people, trib… Read More
2021-07-28 09:51
Podcast Transcript The term Dark Ages has been used to refer to a period in European history when culture supposedly regressed and civilization was in decline. The idea of a Dark Ages is one… Read More
2021-07-27 09:54
Podcast Transcript You’ve probably heard the stories of many titans of industry. People like John D. Rockefeller, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos grew their companies to become… Read More
2021-07-26 10:04
Podcast Transcript Almost everyone has a black sheep in their family. Someone who maybe gets in trouble with the law and doesn’t follow rules. But what if you had the misfortune to be… Read More
2021-07-26 01:15
Podcast Transcript Every element on the periodic table has a completely different story. They behave differently, they exist in different abundances, and humans have totally different uses f… Read More
2021-07-23 22:43
This week’s guest is John Argento. John is an avid traveller who has been exploring the world for the last 35 years. Originally from Canada, John has travelled to nearly 90 countries t… Read More
2021-07-23 10:25
Podcast Transcript Almost 2,800 years ago the Ancient Greeks held a sporting event every four years on Mount Olympus. The festival was part competition, part religious celebration, and… Read More
2021-07-22 09:17
Podcast Transcript During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in almost every arena: space, sports, and of course the military. Everything they competed in wa… Read More
2021-07-21 09:16
Podcast Transcript In 1949, a young inventor by the name of Norman Woodland was sitting on the beach in Florida. While drawing some lines in the sand, he had an idea that would revolutionize… Read More
2021-07-20 09:06
Podcast Transcript One of the fundamental questions of humanity is where did we come from? How did life on Earth come about? While there have been many theories as to how this could ha… Read More
2021-07-18 08:41
Podcast Transcript At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the Great War, the war to end all wars, came to an end. In the preceding four years and four months… Read More
2021-07-17 09:48
Podcast Transcript If I say the Kingdom of the Netherlands, you are probably thinking of the country in Europe that is really flat, where they ride bikes, have windmills, and grow tulips. We… Read More
2021-07-16 09:35
Podcast Transcript After the first world war, many Australian veterans settled in the Campion district of Western Australia to become farmers on land provided by the government. It was… Read More
2021-07-15 10:09
Podcast Transcript The biggest thing there is and the biggest thing there can be is infinity, right? It literally has no bounds. In fact, thinking about infinity can quickly give you a noseb… Read More
2021-07-14 10:40
Podcast Transcript In 1889, a new exhibit was constructed for the Paris World’s Fair. It completely dominated the Paris skyline. Many people considered it an eyesore and an archi… Read More
2021-07-13 10:22
Podcast Transcript Every government had objects which central to their functioning. These are items, physical objects, usually steeped in history and tradition which are involved in the myth… Read More
2021-07-12 10:14
Podcast Transcript What do you do when you are facing a crisis? Perhaps you might consult a friend, or maybe some sort of expert? Well, the ancient Romans had a go-to source for advice whene… Read More
2021-07-11 10:04
Podcast Transcript Every so often you might hear something on the news about a record high or low temperature being set. Usually, these might be records for a particular month, or maybe for… Read More
2021-07-10 09:13
Podcast Transcript One of the brightest things in the universe is caused by one of the most powerful explosions in the universe: a supernova. While they don’t happen very often… Read More
2021-07-10 09:13
Podcast Transcript One of the brightest things in the universe is caused by one of the most powerful explosions in the universe: a supernova. While they don’t happen very often… Read More
2021-07-09 10:15
Podcast Transcript Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds. However, the challenges i… Read More
2021-07-08 09:14
Podcast Transcript On August 4, 1997, Jeanne Louise Calment passed away in Arles, France. At the time, it was reported that she was 122 years and 164 days old. No one else has ever been veri… Read More
2021-07-07 19:50
Podcast Transcript In the 7th century, the world saw the rise of one of the most important religious and political forces in history: Islam. Springing forth from the Arabian Peninsula, withi… Read More
2021-07-05 10:13
Podcast Transcript Amelia Earheart was a pioneer in the early days of aviation. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was the first person to fly solo from Hawaii t… Read More
2021-07-04 09:41
Podcast Transcript From the very founding of the United States, there was a debate that took place amongst the representatives from the 13 states. Where should be the capital of the new coun… Read More
2021-07-04 05:51
Our guest this week is Steven Shalowitz. Steven is the Host of “The One Way Ticket Show” podcast, where he explores with his acclaimed guests where they would go if given a one-w… Read More
2021-07-03 10:10
Podcast Transcript One of the saddest things in the modern world is that with all of our technology, and with all of the information in the world at our fingertips, there are more people tod… Read More
2021-07-02 09:54
Podcast Transcript In the middle ages, a legend persisted among Europeans that there was a Christian ruler in Asia, or Africa, who would come to join with European Christians to help fight M… Read More
2021-07-01 10:18
Podcast Transcript On July 1, 2020, a world traveler who was grounded by an international pandemic made the business and personal decision to launch the podcast he wanted to listen to. … Read More
2021-06-29 09:20
Podcast Transcript Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world. The country has only one proper hotel and that has just 9 rooms. Once you v… Read More
2021-06-28 09:38
Podcast Transcript Unquestionably, the most popular clothing innovation of the last 150 years has been blue jeans. They can be found all over the world, yet they have become synonymous… Read More
2021-06-27 09:51
Transcript On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first robotic lander to land on Mars. On September 3, its sister Viking 2 followed suit. Both of them carried experiments to test for biology… Read More
2021-06-26 09:18
Transcript In 1990, filmmaker Peter Brosnan set out to find a legendary Egyptian city that was lost to time and buried under sand dunes. After years of battling local officials, he finally w… Read More
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