DEFCON

When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, he didn’t create a monolithic empire that was centrally run out of Paris. Well, he sort of did, but at least on paper, he di...

1 Loka 202210min

Ninjas are awesome. They’re silent, they can turn invisible, and they can totally flip out and kill people, especially their mortal enemies…pirates.  …or at least that is what popular culture would li...

30 Syys 202213min

Born in 1815, Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron.  Unlike her famous father, Ada did not pursue a literary career. Guided by her mother, she took a diametrically dif...

29 Syys 202212min

It seems like the sort of thing humans have used throughout our existence, but historically speaking, footwear is a relatively new invention.  For hundreds of thousands of years, humans spent their en...

28 Syys 202214min

The death of a British monarch is a very big event. Thousands of people may take part in the funeral and procession, with millions more lining up to pay their respects and billions more watching on te...

27 Syys 202213min

In the summer of 1971, Stanford professor of psychology Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to determine if cruelty amongst people of authority was because of the position or the people.  Twenty-f...

26 Syys 202212min

Every so often, astronomers will publish photos taken with an astronomical telescope and say that the object they captured is so many billions of light years away.  But how could they know the distanc...

25 Syys 202212min

On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to witness one of the most incredible sights that the city had ever seen.  Between the two towers of the New York World Trade Cent...

24 Syys 202210min