The Domestication of Cats (Encore)
Dogs and cats are both domesticated, four-legged, fur-bearing mammals. Beyond that, they really don’t have much in common. One of the things that they don’t have in common is how they wound up in the...
21 Jun 202413min
The History of Skyscrapers
If you were to pick a single visible icon to represent the 20th century, it would probably be the skyscraper. Skyscrapers didn’t really even exist before the 20th century, but by the end of the centu...
20 Jun 202414min
The Moon
About 384,400 km or 238,900 miles above the surface of the Earth is our planet's only natural satellite, The Moon. Every culture and civilization on the planet has had the moon play a role in its leg...
19 Jun 202414min
Phillip II of Macedon
Alexander the Great was one of the most famous people from the ancient world. He defeated a vastly larger Persian Empire and conquered everything from Egypt to India. Yet, what Alexander achieved wo...
18 Jun 202414min
Charles Ponzi and His Scheme (Encore)
In January 1920, an Italian American businessman in Boston started a new company. In order to raise money, he took $100 investments from 18 people and offered them a fabulous return on their money in ...
17 Jun 202414min
The Danube River
Located in Central and Eastern Europe is one of the continent's longest and most rivers: the Danube. For thousands of years, the Danube has been a vital river for commerce and agriculture, and it has...
16 Jun 202414min
The History of the Toilet
It is one of the most important inventions in history. Almost everyone listening to this has one. You use one almost every day, and if we didn’t have them, the world would be a very different place. ...
15 Jun 202413min
Wu Zetian: China’s Only Female Emperor (Encore)
In the very long history of China, it has had exactly one female ruler. She was a woman who managed, against all odds, to inch her way closer to power over a period of years until she reached a point...
14 Jun 202413min
