Episode – 2291 : The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-2026-ig-nobel-prizes/ Podcast Transcript Scientific research is usually associated with serious people asking serious questions. However, […]
Episode – 2290 : The 2026 Nobel Prizes
Episode – 2290 : The 2026 Nobel Prizes This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-2026-nobel-prizes/ Podcast Transcript In his will, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, left most of his […]
Episode – 2288 : Ytterby: The Swedish Village That Completed the Periodic Table
Episode – 2288 : Ytterby: The Swedish Village That Completed the Periodic Table This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/ytterby-the-swedish-village-that-completed-the-periodic-table/ Podcast Transcript Throughout history, scientists have made great discoveries in […]
Episode – 2280 : The Monster Study
Episode – 2280 : The Monster Study This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-monster-study/ Podcast Transcript In 1939, researchers at a prominent American university began an experiment involving children at […]
Episode – 2279 : The World’s Worst Predictions
Episode – 2279 : The World’s Worst Predictions This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-worlds-worst-predictions/ Podcast Transcript Throughout history, experts, executives, scientists, and journalists have tried to predict what the […]
Episode – 2272 : Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Man Who Revolutionized Ocean Navigation
Episode – 2272 : Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Man Who Revolutionized Ocean Navigation This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/matthew-fontaine-maury-the-man-who-revolutionized-ocean-navigation/ The evolution of sea transportation has taken thousands of years. […]
Episode – 2270 : The New Madrid Earthquakes
Episode – 2270 : The New Madrid Earthquakes This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-new-madrid-earthquakes/ The New Madrid Seismic Zone, otherwise known as the NMSZ, is located in the midwest […]
Episode – 2268 : How DNA Solves Crimes
Episode – 2268 : How DNA Solves Crimes This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/how-dna-solves-crimes/ You’ve probably seen TV shows where forensic science units use DNA to capture a criminal. […]
Episode – 2263 : Fluorine: The Most Reactive Element
Episode – 2263 : Fluorine: The Most Reactive Element This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/fluorine-the-most-reactive-element/ I’m guessing that the vast, vast, vast majority of you have no direct experience […]
Episode – 2255 : Organ Transplants
Episode – 2255 : Organ Transplants This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/organ-transplants/ Organ transplantation is one of medicine’s most remarkable achievements because it required solving several problems that were […]
Episode – 2252 : Mosquitoes
Episode – 2252 : Mosquitoes This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/all-about-mosquitoes/ The deadliest animal in history hasn’t been sharks, tigers, or venomous snakes. It has been the tiny mosquito. […]
Episode – 2247 : Low Background Steel
Episode – 2247 : Low Background Steel This episode can be found at: https://everything-everywhere.com/low-background-steel/ Over the course of this podcast, I’ve covered some of the most important people in history, […]
Episode – 2228 : All About Peppers
Episode – 2228 : All About Peppers Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, humans in the Americas have cultivated an extremely hot plant. When it was transferred to the Old […]
Episode – 2219 : The Rare Earth Hypothesis
Episode – 2219 : The Rare Earth Hypothesis In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a very simple yet important question: If the universe has intelligent civilizations, as so many people […]
Episode – 2210 : The Age of Enlightenment
Episode – 2210 : The Age of Enlightenment Podcast Transcript For centuries, political authority, religious doctrine, and inherited tradition shaped how most Europeans understood the world. Then a generation of […]
Episode – 2203 : All About ePaper
Episode – 2203 : All About ePaper Podcast Transcript For centuries, the printed page was one of the most efficient ways to preserve and share information. In the digital age, […]
Episode – 2197 : The Rosenhan Experiment
Episode – 2197 : The Rosenhan Experiment Podcast Transcript In 1973, one of the most influential and frightening experiments in psychology was published. It was an experiment designed to test […]
Episode – 2192 : Gil Eanes and the Volta do Mar
Episode – 2192 : Gil Eanes and the Volta do Mar Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, civilizations that rose along the Mediterranean or the European Atlantic coast mostly stuck […]
Episode – 2191 : Lake Baikal: The Largest Lake on Earth
Episode – 2191 : Lake Baikal: The Largest Lake on Earth Podcast Transcript It is the deepest lake in the world, the oldest lake in the world, and it holds […]
Episode – 2190 : Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Modern Healthcare
Episode – 2190 : Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Modern Healthcare Podcast Transcript Florence Nightingale was far more than a compassionate nurse. She was a reformer, statistician, administrator, and […]