Episode – 0834 : Castle Engineering 101 Podcast Transcript Centuries ago, if you were a ruler, you needed to protect yourself and your realm. You’d obviously need an army and […]
Episode – 0833 : SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Episode – 0833 : SETI: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, humans have looked up at the night sky and wondered, “are we alone?” For […]
Episode – 1390 : The Broad Street Cholera Outbreak (Encore)
Podcast Transcript In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it. This […]
Episode – 0832 : The Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
Episode – 0832 : The Broad Street Cholera Outbreak Podcast Transcript In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians […]
Episode – 0831 : Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Episode – 0831 : Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Podcast Transcript Located in the South Pacific Ocean is one of the most isolated islands in the world. It is over a […]
Episode – 1270 : High Fructose Corn Syrup (Encore)
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 60 […]
Episode – 0830 : High Fructose Corn Syrup
Episode – 0830 : High Fructose Corn Syrup Podcast Transcript In 1957, two chemists at the Clinton Corn Processing Company of Clinton, Iowa, developed a system for converting the glucose […]
Episode – 1462 : The Horrible Voyage of the 1905 Russian Baltic Fleet (Encore)
Podcast Transcript In February 1904, the Russian Empire found itself at war with the Empire of Japan over what was territory in the current nation of China. The problem for […]
Episode – 0828 : The Horrible Voyage of the 1905 Russian Baltic Fleet
Episode – 0828 : The Horrible Voyage of the 1905 Russian Baltic Fleet Podcast Transcript In February 1904, the Russian Empire found itself at war with the Empire of Japan […]
Episode – 0827 : The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Episode – 0827 : The Electromagnetic Spectrum Podcast Transcript All around you, right this second, you are surrounded by electromagnetic radiation. You might better know this by names such as […]
Episode – 1226 : The League of Nations (Encore)
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 […]
Episode – 0826 : The League of Nations
Episode – 0826 : The League of Nations Podcast Transcript The first world war was the most horrific war the world had ever seen at that time. When the conflict […]
Episode – 1371 : The Kidnapping of Charley Ross (Encore)
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 […]
Episode – 0825 : The Kidnapping of Charley Ross
Episode – 0825 : The Kidnapping of Charley Ross Podcast Transcript Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers. It is good advice, but it isn’t […]
Episode – 1280 : Trial By Combat (Encore)
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 […]
Episode – 0824 : Trial By Combat
Episode – 0824 : Trial By Combat Podcast Transcript In the TV series Game of Thrones, there were four different seasons where disputes were determined with trial by combat. As […]
Episode – 0823 : The History of Department Stores
Episode – 0823 : The History of Department Stores Podcast Transcript For most of human history, if you wanted something, you had to make it yourself or know the person […]
Episode – 1419 : How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World (Encore)
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 […]
Episode – 0821 : How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World
Episode – 0821 : How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World Podcast Transcript When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people […]
Episode – 0820 : Broken Arrows: When Nuclear Weapons Go Wrong
Episode – 0820 : Broken Arrows: When Nuclear Weapons Go Wrong Podcast Transcript Nuclear weapons are the most devastating things humans have ever created. They are so powerful and terrible […]