2024-04-22 10:02
Podcast Transcript The universe is big. Really, really big. So big that it is hard to intuitively grasp its size because we have nothing in our lives that we could compare it to. Not o… Read More
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The travel blog of Gary Arndt's journey to travel around the world.
2024-04-21 07:59
Podcast Transcript The English language has evolved organically, gathering words and phrases from different languages, countries, and communities. It should come as no surprise that ma… Read More
2024-04-20 08:32
Podcast Transcript The odds are quite good that somewhere around you right now as you listen to me speak these words, is a battery. Whether it is in your smartphone, earbuds, automobil… Read More
2024-04-19 06:13
Podcast Transcript Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and fo… Read More
2024-04-16 09:08
Podcast Transcript Sandwiches are one of the most popular types of food in the world. They are incredibly easy to make, can be incredibly cheap, and they come in numerous varieties. Ye… Read More
2024-04-15 09:30
Podcast Transcript Aircraft carriers are some of the most fearsome weapons in the world. They are enormous platforms that can travel around the globe, projecting power over an enormous part… Read More
2024-04-14 07:34
Podcast Transcript In 1760, George III succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 22, becoming the third king in the House of Hannover dynasty. His reign would become… Read More
2024-04-13 06:15
Podcast Transcript In October 1918, just weeks before the end of the First World War, one of the most incredible feats of military valor took place in the Meuse–Argonne offensive, one… Read More
2024-04-07 10:42
Podcast Transcript Every few years, somewhere on Earth is witness to one of the planet’s greatest sights: a total solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse is rare, but it can be calculated… Read More
2024-04-06 06:42
Podcast Transcript There is an old saying that April showers bring May flowers. However, that saying doesn’t really address where the April showers come from in the first place. … Read More
2024-04-05 09:00
Podcast Transcript On April 15, 1947, a rookie infielder took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. All eyes in the world of baseball, and indeed the United States, were focused on this… Read More
2024-04-03 09:02
Podcast Transcript Ever since the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, astronomers have noticed that something was not right. The orbit of Neptune was being gravitationally influenced by… Read More
2024-04-02 09:02
Podcast Transcript One of the most important gods in the Roman pantheon was the goddess Vesta. Vesta was the goddess of the hearth and home, and her temple was one of the most importan… Read More
2024-04-01 09:09
Podcast Transcript One of the most popular fruits in the world are apples. Apples are associated with the Garden of Eden, pleasing your teacher, and the story of Snow White. They play… Read More
2024-03-30 07:45
Podcast Transcript When humans first managed to harness heavier-than-air flight, they did so by using piston engines and propellers. Several decades later, a more efficient means of pr… Read More
2024-03-28 09:13
Podcast Transcript Throughout history, there have been some truly remarkable people who have done some truly remarkable things. One such person was Adrian Carton de Wiart. If you don&r&hell…Read More
2024-03-26 08:53
Podcast Transcript Over the last 200 years, railroads have been one of the most important methods of transportation. Railroads helped make the modern world. They are capable of transporting… Read More
2024-03-25 10:13
Podcast Transcript Located on a peninsula and series of islands off the southeastern coast of China lies what is today called the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. Hong Kong… Read More
2024-03-24 09:17
Podcast Transcript In the early 17th century, Japan was witness to a samurai who was arguably its greatest warrior ever. He wasn’t just one of the greatest swordsmen in history;… Read More
2024-03-20 15:34
Podcast Transcript In 1889, two brothers, Andre and Edouard Michelin, started a company that made the world’s first removable pneumatic tires. Today, their names are synonymous w… Read More
2024-03-20 10:33
Podcast Transcript On the morning of August 27, 1883, one of the most destructive natural disasters of the 19th century occurred between the islands of Java and Sumatra, in what is today the… Read More
2024-03-19 09:37
Podcast Transcript Cutting across the state of Arizona is one of the wonders of the natural world: The Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon draws attention not only for its overwhelming size… Read More
2024-03-17 09:17
Podcast Transcript A little over 400 years ago, a group of Dutch investors had a revolutionary idea. They were embarking on an incredibly risky endeavor, and to spread the risk, they w… Read More
2024-03-16 08:34
Podcast Transcript Before the Ideas of March, before he crossed the Rubicon, and before he became Rome’s dictator for life, Julius Caesar had led a very interesting existence. We… Read More
2024-03-14 07:56
Podcast Transcript Before the development of electricity and electronic communications, the fastest information could travel was the speed of a horse. Maybe a ship might have been a bit fast… Read More
2024-03-13 09:42
Podcast Transcript The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA. The CIA is tasked with gathering, processing, a… Read More
2024-03-12 09:51
Podcast Transcript Behind almost every web page, email address, and podcast is a system that translates addresses understandable by humans to something that can be understood by computers.&n&hell…Read More
2024-03-11 10:14
Podcast Transcript Every military in the world is a hierarchal organization. There are people at the top who make decisions, people down below who follow those orders, and people in between… Read More
2024-03-08 08:42
Podcast Transcript Nestled in the heart of West Africa lie two nations with distinct identities yet tied together by a common geography and history: Senegal and The Gambia. The landscape of… Read More
2024-03-07 08:57
Podcast Transcript One of the most important advancements in the 20th century was the identification of the structure of the DNA molecule. However, that discovery didn’t appear out of… Read More
2024-03-04 18:13
Podcast Transcript In 1804, one of the most significant individuals of the 19th century placed a crown upon his head in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and declared himself Emperor of t… Read More
2024-03-02 17:01
Podcast Transcript Several centuries ago, many places celebrated the start of the new year in March, not January. March was originally the first month of the year, according to the Rom… Read More
2024-03-01 16:13
Podcast Transcript Some of the most important battles in history, the ones that changed the course of civilizations, are often very small battles. In 1532, a battle, really just a skir… Read More
2024-02-29 14:04
Podcast Transcript Once every 1461 days, sometimes, we have a day on the calendar that we don’t normally have: Leap Day. This extra day is a necessity if our calendars are kept i… Read More
2024-02-28 09:37
Podcast Transcript The history of warfare has been a history of measures and countermeasures. When the airplane was invented, RADAR was later invented as a means of advanced detection… Read More
2024-02-27 10:09
Podcast Transcript Most people in the world are required to have a passport when they travel internationally. Today, there is an international regime covering how passports are to be i… Read More
2024-02-26 09:40
Podcast Transcript One of the most common food items consumed today are cruciferous vegetables. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term, you almost certainly have consumed some befor… Read More
2024-02-25 09:49
Podcast Transcript During the Second World War, one of the most distinguished American aviation units was one that no one thought would even have existed when the war began. It was a u… Read More
2024-02-23 09:07
Podcast Transcript Centuries ago, the most expensive jewelry in the world wasn’t made of diamonds, rubies, or emeralds. Rather, they were made with an extremely rare substance th… Read More
2024-02-21 09:38
Podcast Transcript The United States Constitution lays out a set procedure for the election of a president and how a winner is determined from various candidates. However, it says abso… Read More
2024-02-20 09:23
Podcast Transcript If you ever stay up at night scanning through frequencies on shortwave radio, there is a good chance you might come across something very odd and kind of creepy. You… Read More
2024-02-18 09:24
Podcast Transcript In the Pacific Theater in World War II, the leader of the combined Japanese fleet was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto was villanized as the arch-enemy of the Amer… Read More
2024-02-17 08:56
Podcast Transcript In the year 732, one of the most important battles in world history took place between the cities of Tours and Portier in France. On one side was an unstoppable jugg… Read More
2024-02-16 08:06
Podcast Transcript In the 19th century, a new discipline swept over the medical and legal professions. This belief held that a person’s personality could be determined by analyzi… Read More
2024-02-14 08:21
Podcast Transcript If you take a look at the periodic table of elements, you will notice something interesting. Go to the bottom and take a look at any element over, say, number 94. Yo… Read More
2024-02-13 09:13
Podcast Transcript One of the central figures in the drama of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire was Marc Antony. He was a rather odd figure in Roman History… Read More
2024-02-10 08:15
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Amazon | Player.FM | TuneInCastbox | Podurama | Podcast Republic | RSS | Patreon Podcast Transcript Every day around the world, over a billion eggs are c… Read More
2024-02-09 10:05
Podcast Transcript In the late 18th century, the newly independent United States of America faced its first major domestic crisis. Settlers in its westernmost regions rose up in open a… Read More
2024-02-08 08:35
Podcast Transcript The French Revolution was one of the most significant events in history. It wasn’t just a political revolution where one government replaced another. It was al… Read More
2024-02-06 06:50
Podcast Transcript Located in the area between philosophy and mathematics is the realm of logic. Logic permeates everything we do, from the work of Aristotle to modern computer programming t… Read More
2024-02-04 07:21
Podcast Transcript The month of February comes from the Roman month Februarius, which itself comes from the Februa purification ceremony, which was held during the festival of Lupercalia. Th… Read More
2024-02-03 07:45
Podcast Transcript On June 22, 1941, German forces crossed into the Soviet Union. It was, and remains, the largest military operation in human history. The force that the Germans assembled f… Read More
2024-02-02 08:26
Podcast Transcript Located in Central Cambodia, north of the great Tonle Sap Lake, lies the former city of Angkor. Today, the city is nothing but the ruins of its many temples and stru… Read More
2024-02-01 08:20
Podcast Transcript Spain, like most countries, has a unitary national government but also has a series of subnational jurisdictions. In most countries, these might be known as states o… Read More
2024-01-31 08:04
Podcast Transcript Sometime around 5,500 years ago, an event took place on the Eurasian steppes that fundamentally changed the world. We don’t know who did it or exactly when it… Read More
2024-01-30 06:57
Podcast Transcript On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed. It banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. The path to the 18th Amend… Read More
2024-01-21 08:06
Podcast Transcript Sometime around eight to nine thousand years ago, ancient people in Asia Minor found a very dull grey metal that turned out to be easy to manipulate when it was heated.&nb&hell…Read More
2024-01-20 09:16
Podcast Transcript In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the Emperor of Rome at the age of 16. His reign was one of the most infamous in hist… Read More
2024-01-19 07:11
Podcast Transcript You are probably familiar with, or have at least heard of, several of the great pre-Columbian cities in the Americas. Places like Tikal, Guatemala, Copan, Honduras, and Te… Read More
2024-01-17 08:44
Podcast Transcript The 19th century saw an explosion in population in London. The city grew severalfold and became the largest city in the world. With so many people and the city growi… Read More
2024-01-16 08:55
Podcast Transcript There is a very good chance that many of you listening have had pasta, maybe within the last week. Pasta is a simple, affordable food that comes in a wide variety of… Read More
2024-01-14 08:27
Podcast Transcript Every single rocket that has ever been launched into space has been a rocket that burned some sort of fuel. These chemical fuel rockets have worked well for making t… Read More
2024-01-13 09:48
Podcast Transcript Everyone, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you, me, and everyone else listening to my voice right now are mortal. As of the record… Read More
2024-01-11 08:35
Podcast Transcript One of the most important inventions in human history was artificial lighting. With the electric lightbulb, the night could be illuminated, allowing people to extend the p… Read More
2024-01-10 08:30
Podcast Transcript After the First World War in France, many generals thought that the end of the war was really just a pause before another war began. They wanted to make sure that the next… Read More
2024-01-07 07:41
Podcast Transcript The month of January was named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces, one on each side of his head. Janus was the god of waging war and making peace. Of beginn… Read More
2024-01-06 08:54
Podcast Transcript Located off the coast of Southeast Asia lies an archipelago of 7,641 islands that constitute the nation of the Philippines. The Philippines is one of the largest cou… Read More
2024-01-05 08:55
Podcast Transcript In 1941, a minor league baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland, signed a young player from the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys—a school for delinquent boys… Read More
2024-01-03 06:46
Podcast Transcript There are an infinite number of numbers, but some numbers are more important than others. One number, which might just be the most important number, lies hidden in a… Read More
2024-01-02 03:26
Podcast Transcript Thousands of years ago, the first humans accidentally created the first beer and wine. This occurred naturally when yeast in the air converted sugars into alcohol. H… Read More
2023-12-31 21:00
Podcast Transcript One of the most important substances throughout world history has been salt. Salt might seem mundane, but it is actually necessary for the functioning of life. … Read More
2023-12-30 19:10
Podcast Transcript During the 14th century, the world saw one of its most traumatic episodes. A plague spread through Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa that was unlike an… Read More
2023-12-25 08:15
Podcast Transcript On December 21, 1968, a Saturn V rocket was launched from Florida that did something that had never been done before. It took three men outside of the orbit of the Earth… Read More
2023-12-24 07:57
Podcast Transcript In the early 20th century, Christmas became a big business. Christmas was becoming highly commercialized, and the Santa Claus that we know today was being established.&nbs&hell…Read More
2023-12-23 08:11
Podcast Transcript If you live anywhere away from tropical latitudes, you might have experienced snow. In fact, depending on where you live, you might have experienced a whole lot of snow at… Read More
2023-12-22 08:05
Podcast Transcript If anyone has taken some basic mathematics, you are probably familiar with Euclidian Geometry. Euclidean geometry is what most people just call geometry. It is the s… Read More
2023-12-21 08:39
Podcast Transcript Every major city in the world has its own unique story. Some cities have an ancient history, and others have a more recent founding. Madrid, the capital city of Spain, has… Read More
2023-12-19 08:07
Podcast Transcript On the evening of April 14, 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was shot while attending a play in Washington DC. The assassination wasn’… Read More
2023-12-18 08:06
Podcast Transcript Ever since humans began writing down information, there has been a desire to compile all known knowledge into one single source. For over two thousand years, people… Read More
2023-12-16 07:54
Podcast Transcript The dictionary defines a coincidence as “A sequence of events that, although accidental, seems to have been planned or arranged.” We have probably all experien… Read More
2023-12-15 09:05
Podcast Transcript When humans first learned how to work with metal, the very first metal they used was copper. Copper was easy to shape, easy to find, and relatively abundant. S… Read More
2023-12-14 08:49
Podcast Transcript In the year 356 BC, a son was born to the King of Macedon, Philip II, and his wife, Queen Olympias. While no one could have known it at the time, that boy would grow up to… Read More
2023-12-12 08:46
Podcast Transcript During the Second World War, the Germans used what they thought to be an uncrackable encryption system. It was a really good encryption system, and for the longest t… Read More
2023-12-11 08:20
Podcast Transcript In the big scheme of things, the United States is a rather young country. Yet, during its history, it has managed to declare war on a shockingly large number of European c… Read More
2023-12-09 06:36
Podcast Transcript Sometime every December, members of the Jewish faith celebrate the festival of Hanukkah. Hanukkah is one of the best-known Jewish holidays and is associated with various p… Read More
2023-12-08 07:07
Podcast Transcript On December 7, 1941, the United States and the rest of the world were shocked by a surprise attack by the Japanese Empire on the American Navy stationed in Pearl Harbor, H… Read More
2023-12-06 00:19
Podcast Transcript The woman the world would know as Josephine Baker was born into abject poverty in 1906 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Despite her humble background and numerous obstacles… Read More
2023-12-04 19:11
Podcast Transcript Over 10,000 years ago, humans began to cultivate and raise crops. Back then, a single farm could maybe grow enough food to feed a family and perhaps a little more. Today… Read More
2023-12-03 19:46
As I approached the bridge, the old bridgekeeper said to me, “Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these three questions, ere the other side he sees.” “Ok&rdq&hell…Read More
2023-11-30 07:24
Podcast Transcript Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…” Churc… Read More
2023-11-29 08:53
Podcast Transcript Located approximately 1.8 billion miles or 2.9 billion kilometers from the sun, 19 times the distance from the Earth to the sun, is the seventh planet in the solar system… Read More
2023-11-28 08:29
Podcast Transcript The surface of the Earth is 70 percent water. If you just looked at a map and saw a sea of blue, you might think that the water is just sitting there, but it’s… Read More
2023-11-26 07:38
Podcast Transcript In the 19th century, the British and the Chinese went to war on two separate occasions—the reasons why they went to war are both simple and complicated. The mo… Read More
2023-11-25 07:16
Podcast Transcript Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, several European countries had colonies all around the world. Today, all of the empires have broken up, but some countries… Read More
2023-11-24 07:29
In the Spring of 1846, a group of intrepid pioneers set out from Independence, Missouri, to cross the Oregon Trail to seek a better life in the fertile Oregon Territory. However, almos… Read More
2023-11-23 08:06
Podcast Transcript For about a month, from the end of November to the end of December, every year, one of the most popular animals in North America is the turkey. Turkeys are the tradi… Read More
2023-11-21 07:57
Podcast Transcript When the United States became independent in the late 18th century, it didn’t have much of a foreign policy. Their primary concern was creating the framework of a co… Read More
2023-11-20 08:41
Podcast Transcript Since the dawn of human history, humans have been aware of a seemingly miraculous substance. It was a substance that had the same color as silver, but unlike silver, it wa… Read More
2023-11-18 16:48
Podcast Transcript For centuries, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were able to conquer and force their will on other people around the Mediterranean Sea. The success of Rome was buil… Read More
2023-11-17 08:02
Podcast Transcript Centuries ago, someone decided jumping from a great height and trying to land without being injured would be a good idea. …and in a few cases, it actually wor… Read More
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