Spy Satellites
A reconnaissance satellite, otherwise known as a spy satellite, is somewhere above your head right now, collecting images and gathering intelligence on whatever it sees below it. Ten countries are cu...
13 Helmi 202515min
Separated at Birth (Encore)
In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families...
12 Helmi 202513min
The Falkland Islands
Located off the coast of South America and in the Southern Atlantic Ocean is the Falkland Islands. The Falklands are an almost treeless archipelago where sheep and penguins outnumber the people. It ...
11 Helmi 202516min
The Trojan War (Encore)
Sometime about 3,200 years ago, one of the most famous wars in ancient history took place. Maybe. It has been the subject of some of the greatest works of Western literature, and it has given us some...
10 Helmi 202512min
Natural Gas Explained: Past, Present, and Future
One of the most common and versatile forms of energy in the world is natural gas. Natural gas is used for cooking, heating, electrical production, and powering vehicles. Entire economies are dependen...
9 Helmi 202515min
The World's Next Countries
Depending on how you define it, there are about 193 to 200 countries in the world today. Over the last 100 years, that number has been constantly increasing. Sometimes, the number goes up a lot in sh...
8 Helmi 202516min
Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five
In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was shocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union. These defections proved to be devastating to British intelligence du...
7 Helmi 202516min
Route 66 (Encore)
In the early 20th century, as automobiles became more and more popular, the need for a national system of roads in the United States became more evident. One of the suggested roads connected the city...
6 Helmi 202512min
