Episode – 1397 : The Piltdown Man Hoax Podcast Transcript In 1912, a discovery was announced that shocked the world. A British paleontologist announced what was perhaps the most important […]
Episode – 1370 : Eclipses
Episode – 1370 : Eclipses 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 […]
Episode – 1366 : Planet X
Episode – 1366 : Planet X Podcast Transcript Ever since the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, astronomers have noticed that something was not right. The orbit of Neptune […]
Episode – 1351 : The Grand Canyon
Episode – 1351 : The Grand Canyon Podcast Transcript Cutting across the state of Arizona is one of the wonders of the natural world: The Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon […]
Episode – 1349 : Stocks and Stock Exchanges
Episode – 1349 : Stocks and Stock Exchanges Podcast Transcript A little over 400 years ago, a group of Dutch investors had a revolutionary idea. They were embarking on an […]
Episode – 1331 : Stealth Technology
Episode – 1331 : Stealth Technology Podcast Transcript The history of warfare has been a history of measures and countermeasures. When the airplane was invented, RADAR was later invented as […]
Episode – 1306 : Operation Barbarossa
Episode – 1306 : Operation Barbarossa Podcast Transcript On June 22, 1941, German forces crossed into the Soviet Union. It was, and remains, the largest military operation in human history. […]
Episode – 1302 : Prohibition
Episode – 1302 : Prohibition 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 […]
Episode – 1288 : The History of Pasta
Episode – 1288 : The History of Pasta Podcast Transcript There is a very good chance that many of you listening have had pasta, maybe within the last week. Pasta […]
Episode – 1285 : Human Life Expectancy
Episode – 1285 : Human Life Expectancy Podcast Transcript Everyone, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you, me, and everyone else listening […]
Episode – 1263 : Non-Euclidean Geometry
Episode – 1263 : Non-Euclidean Geometry Podcast Transcript If anyone has taken some basic mathematics, you are probably familiar with Euclidian Geometry. Euclidean geometry is what most people just call […]
Episode – 1242 : Gerrymandering
Episode – 1242 : Gerrymandering 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 […]
Episode – 1232 : The Monroe Doctrine
Episode – 1232 : The Monroe Doctrine Podcast Transcript When the United States became independent in the late 18th century, it didn’t have much of a foreign policy. Their primary […]
Episode – 1224 : Eponymous Laws: Part 2
Episode – 1224 : Eponymous Laws: Part 2 Podcast Transcript In a previous episode, I went through a list of eponymous laws. These were laws, general rules, or sometimes even […]
Episode – 1219 : Sergei Korolev: The Most Important Russian You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Episode – 1219 : Sergei Korolev: The Most Important Russian You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Podcast Transcript In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet space program was on […]
Episode – 1215 : All About the Sun
Episode – 1215 : All About the Sun Podcast Transcript Approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers from Earth lies our nearest star, the Sun. The Sun is responsible […]
Episode – 1212 : The Salem Witch Trials
Episode – 1212 : The Salem Witch Trials Podcast Transcript In 1692, in the village of Salem, Massessechuets, two young girls made claims that other members of their community were […]
Episode – 1182 : Questions and Answers: Volume 11
Episode – 1182 : Questions and Answers: Volume 11 In his 1979 book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams tells of an alien race that builds a computer to […]
Episode – 1171 : Operation Market Garden
Episode – 1171 : Operation Market Garden Podcast Transcript After the Allied landing in Normandy in World War II, the Allies made progress pushing back the Germans.However, by September, things […]
Episode – 1166 : Peggy Guggenheim
Episode – 1166 : Peggy Guggenheim Podcast Transcript In the 20th century, there was one woman who put herself in the center of the world of modern art. She didn’t […]