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 […]
Episode – 1227 : The 1972 World Chess Championship (Encore)
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 was […]
Episode – 1387 : Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane (Encore)
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 in creating […]
Episode – 779 : The History of Mathematical Symbols (Encore)
Transcript One of the simplest mathematical statements possible is 2+2=4. While the concept is very easy to understand, when you write it down you have to use mathematical symbols which […]
Episode – 1110 : The Elevator (Encore)
Transcript Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. Other things were invented quite recently. However, there is a category of inventions that have […]
Episode – 383 : The Last Germans to Surrender (Encore)
Translate Wars can start with a bang but end with a whimper. Often an attack or an invasion will begin a war, but even one when one side surrenders, it […]
Episode – 997 : Fallacious Reasoning (Encore)
Transcript We are often told that schools are where you learn how to think, not what to think. Sadly, almost no school curriculum deals directly with logic and the closely […]
Episode – 177 : The Election of 1824 (Encore)
Transcript Many people think that politics and elections in the United States are the most controversial they have ever been. History, however, begs to differ. Perhaps the oddest and most […]
Episode – 175 : Kayfabe (Encore)
Transcript One of my dirty secrets is that I’m a fan of pro wrestling. Whenever I tell people this the first thing I inevitably hear is, “you know it’s fake […]