Tau
For the last 250 years, there has been a problem in the world of mathematics. There is a good argument to be made that we have been doing it wrong. We have been teaching it in a way that has been un...
28 Kesä 202311min
Operation Fork and Iceland in WWII
Most people probably don’t think of Iceland when they think of the Second World War. They wouldn’t be wrong for doing so because Iceland wasn’t a belligerent country. However, that doesn’t mean Icel...
27 Kesä 202314min
The Toba Eruption
74,000 years ago, the Earth suffered the greatest natural disaster that it has seen in the last several million years. A supervolcano erupted in what is today the country of Indonesia. In addition t...
26 Kesä 202313min
More Than You Ever Really Wanted to Know About Sewers (Encore)
Sometimes the most important things are things we don’t even want to think about let alone talk about. The issue of handling and removing human waste and dirty water is one such problem that has conf...
25 Kesä 202311min
The Large Hadron Collider
Straddling the border of Switzerland and France is the largest scientific instrument ever created. It sits in a tunnel 27 kilometers or 17 miles long, at points, it rests 175 meters or 574 feet below...
24 Kesä 202313min
The Anarchy
In the mid-12th century, England was in chaos. The king of England, Henry I, died without an heir. The country was divided between forces loyal to his daughter, Matilda, and his nephew, Stephen. For...
23 Kesä 202312min
The Persian Empire(s)
Located roughly in the territory of the modern-day nation of Iran is the ancient region known as Persia. Persia sat at a strategic crossroad between South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, the Ara...
22 Kesä 202313min
Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Encore)
In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a 24-year-old woman in Ukraine volunteered to join the Red Army. She was initially pressured to become a nurse like most women who volunteered....
21 Kesä 202310min
