Fallacious Reasoning (Encore)
We are often told that schools are where you learn how to think, not what to think. Sadly, almost no school curriculum deals directly with logic and the closely related subject of logical fallacies. ...
30 Mar 202310min
Ramadan
Once a month, every year, Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan. It is a month of fasting, prayer, and introspection, and it is the most important date on the Islamic calendar. However, the exac...
29 Mar 202311min
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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 202311min
