Quebec's 1970 October Crisis
Canada has a reputation for being a rather low-key, friendly place. For the most part, this is true. It is a nice place to visit and is never usually that controversial. However, that hasn’t always ...
28 Maalis 202313min
The Marginal Revolution
In most academic disciplines, there is often a single idea or discovery which makes everything fall into place. All of the things which didn’t make sense before suddenly do when looked through this n...
27 Maalis 202312min
Libraries
As soon as humans developed systems of writing, they faced a problem. What to do with all of the things that were written down? If you were going to document the lives of kings or tax records, then y...
26 Maalis 202314min
Migration to the Americas
Perhaps the most important research in anthropology is how modern humans left their birthplace in Africa and migrated to the rest of the world. One big subset of that story is how humans managed to ge...
25 Maalis 202313min
Negative Numbers
Over the span of human history, there are certain ideas that humans have had a very difficult time accepting. Ideas that no one has any problem with today and are even grasped by children actually to...
24 Maalis 202310min
Alcohol in Early America (Encore)
In the very days of the United States, the country was mostly made up of farmers. They primarily ate the food they grew and maybe hunted to supplement their diet. They also drank. Alcohol. A lot of ...
23 Maalis 202311min
The Origins of Baseball
In the 19th century, the first real American sport took off in popularity: baseball. It went from a children's game to one of the most popular and lucrative professional sports in the world. Yes, it...
22 Maalis 202316min
The 1964 Alaska Earthquake
On March 27th, 1964, the second-greatest earthquake in recorded history stuck the state of Alaska. It was an absolute monster of an earthquake, completely devastating communities, including Alaska’s ...
21 Maalis 202313min
