Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
There were millions of stories that came out of the second world war. However, there were none like that of Tsutomu Yamaguchi. On August 6, 1945, he survived an event that no one in world history had...
26 Touko 202313min
The Meteor That Determined the Outcome of a Battle
There are many factors that go into the outcome of a battle. The number of soldiers, training, supplies, the weather, and the terrain the battle is fought on all play a part in determining the outcome...
25 Touko 202312min
Terra Nullius (Encore)
Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country. You want to find an empty ...
24 Touko 202313min
The Solomon Islands
Lying northeast of Australia and almost east of Papua New Guinea lies one of the world’s lesser-known and seldom visited countries: The Solomon Islands. The country has few resources, is located on no...
23 Touko 202313min
Irrational Numbers
There is a particular type of number that is so common we have keys on calculators to handle them. However, thousands of years ago, their discovery was so upsetting to one group that it may have led ...
22 Touko 202313min
The Origin of Words and Phrases: Sports
The English language is a very odd thing. We use many phrases and idioms every day that make no sense if you don’t understand the cultural references behind them. In particular, we have a large numbe...
21 Touko 202313min
Why Wasn’t the Wheel Invented Sooner? (Encore)
If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel. It isn’t a bad guess, but believe it not, the wheel was nowhere close to be...
20 Touko 202311min
Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, one of the most violent and cataclysmic natural disasters of the modern era took place. Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcano located approximately 100 miles or 160 kilometers south of S...
19 Touko 202314min
