NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
On April 4, 1949, representatives of 11 North American and European countries assembled in Washington DC to sign a treaty of mutual defense. That treaty, and the organization which it spawned, has se...
30 Touko 202212min
The Great Dying of the Americas
When Europeans arrived in the New World in 1492, it was the beginning of a series of events that ws the biggest change in humanity since the discovery of agriculture. The magnitude of those changes w...
29 Touko 202212min
Did We Already Find Life On Mars? (Encore)
On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first robotic lander to land on Mars. On September 3, its sister Viking 2 followed suit. Both of them carried experiments to test for biology on Mars, something ...
28 Touko 20229min
The Queen of Sheba
All three of the holy books from great monotheistic faiths share a similar story about a Queen from a land in the south who traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon. This queen, who is said to hav...
27 Touko 202211min
The First Triumvirate
In the year 60 BC, a very unlikely alliance was formed between three of Rome’s most powerful men. Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, and Marcus Licinius Crassus agreed to put aside their d...
26 Touko 202212min
What is IQ?
For ages, people have tried to categorize people by intelligence. However, it wasn’t until the early 20th century that attempts were made to provide a quantifiable measure of human intelligence. In ...
25 Touko 202215min
A Brief History of the Mongol Empire
In the year 1162, in the Khentii Mountains of what is today Northeastern Mongolia, a baby by the name of Temüjin was born. He would go on to become the single greatest conqueror and establish the la...
24 Touko 202212min
Correlation vs Causation
You have probably heard the old saying that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. There are several reasons why statistics are often misinterpreted. One of the biggest is the confusion between...
23 Touko 202212min
