Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World (Encore)
I’ve done episodes before about people who have saved a large number of human lives. Mostly, these people have done so through inventions or innovations in fields like agriculture or medicine. What a...
30 Apr 20229min
The 1812 Overture
In 1880, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was commissioned to compose a work in honor of the completion of a new cathedral. What he wrote became one of the best known, over the top, and...
29 Apr 202214min
The History of BBQ
Many of the foods that people associate with America didn’t actually originate in the United States. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza are all things that were popularized in the US but didn’t originate...
28 Apr 202212min
All About Algorithms
Whether or not you know it, you use them every day. You were actually trained to use them as a child. Much of the world we live in today is directly or indirectly a result of their use. While they a...
27 Apr 202212min
Elizabeth Báthory: Aristocratic Serial Killer
The Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She was highly educated, spoke at least four languages, had eight children, and lived in...
26 Apr 202210min
The Gold Standard
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ For a period of about 200 years, and really intensely for less than 50 years, the world’s monetary system functioned on a gold s...
25 Apr 202212min
The Iffland Ring
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ August Wilhelm Iffland was one of the finest German actors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. That fact alone would pro...
24 Apr 20229min
The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of the Wooly Mammoth
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Thousands of years ago, enormous furry elephants roamed the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America. While these...
23 Apr 202210min
