Podcast Transcript In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets […]
Episode – 1031 : Separated at Birth
Episode – 1031 : Separated at Birth Podcast Transcript In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical […]
Episode – 1030 : Galaxies
Episode – 1030 : Galaxies Podcast Transcript For most of human existence, we looked up at the night sky and thought that was all there was to the universe. However, […]
Episode – 1029 : Lady Jane Grey
Episode – 1029 : Lady Jane Grey Podcast Transcript Probably the most consequential monarch in British history was Henry VIII. He upended much of English society by changing the religion […]
Episode – 1027 : The Pantheon
Episode – 1027 : The Pantheon Podcast Transcript Located in the heart of Rome is one of the oldest standing buildings in the world. Unlike other ancient structures, it isn’t […]
Episode – 1026 : Arbor Day
Episode – 1026 : Arbor Day Podcast Transcript Every year the last Friday in April in the United States is Arbor Day. Arbor Day is not the sexiest holiday on […]
Episode – 1607 : The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (Encore)
Podcast Transcript In 1897, the visionary Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky discovered an equation that governed how rockets worked. His equation, which was independently discovered by several other rocket scientists, […]
Episode – 1025 : The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
Episode – 1025 : The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation Podcast Transcript In 1897, the visionary Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky discovered an equation that governed how rockets worked. His […]
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Episode – 1023 : The Aral Sea
Episode – 1023 : The Aral Sea Podcast Transcript At the start of the 20th century, the world’s third-largest lake was located in Central Asia. It had been known to […]
Episode – 1022 : ANZAC Day
Episode – 1022 : ANZAC Day Podcast Transcript Every year on April 25, Australia and New Zealand celebrate a holiday that is unique to those two countries. It is one […]
Episode – 1021 : Venus
Episode – 1021 : Venus Podcast Transcript As long as humans have looked up in the sky, they noticed something. There was an unusually bright star that would show up […]
Episode – 1019 : The Origin of Words and Phrases: Volume 1
Episode – 1019 : The Origin of Words and Phrases: Volume 1 Podcast Transcript The English language is full of very quirky idioms and phrases. Every language has them, and […]
Episode – 1374 : The History of Coffee (Encore)
Podcast Transcript Sometime in the 15th century, a drink became popularized in the Arabian peninsula. It was dark, bitter, and people couldn’t get enough of it. From its simple origins, […]
Episode – 1018 : The History of Coffee
Episode – 1018 : The History of Coffee Podcast Transcript Sometime in the 15th century, a drink became popularized in the Arabian peninsula. It was dark, bitter, and people couldn’t […]
Episode – 1491 : The Berlin Wall (Encore)
Podcast Transcript After the end of the second world war, Berlin was a divided city controlled by the four major allied powers. Despite the different zones of control, people could […]
Episode – 1016 : The Berlin Wall
Episode – 1016 : The Berlin Wall Podcast Transcript After the end of the second world war, Berlin was a divided city controlled by the four major allied powers. Despite […]
Episode – 1015 : The Rise of Agriculture
Episode – 1015 : The Rise of Agriculture Podcast Transcript For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food. Then, several […]
Episode – 1525 : Liberia (Encore)
Podcast Transcript Every country in Africa is unique and has its own history. However, many African countries share a similar story over the last 150 years, having gone through European […]
Episode – 1014 : Liberia
Episode – 1014 : Liberia Podcast Transcript Every country in Africa is unique and has its own history. However, many African countries share a similar story over the last 150 […]
Episode – 1013 : Typhoid Mary
Episode – 1013 : Typhoid Mary Podcast Transcript In 1906, George Soper, a freelance sanitary engineer, was hired to investigate several outbreaks of typhoid fever in wealthy New York households. […]