The Domain Name System
Behind almost every web page, email, and podcast is a system that translates addresses understandable to humans to something which can be understood by computers. The system is one of the foundations...
11 Mar 202413min
The History of Military Ranks
Every military in the world is a hierarchal organization. There are people at the top who make decisions, people down below who follow those orders, and people in between who make it happen. Today, m...
10 Mar 202415min
Daylight Savings (Encore)
Every year, around this time, people who live in northern latitude countries turn their clocks ahead one hour. Then, months later, we do the exact same thing in reverse, setting all of our clocks back...
9 Mar 20249min
The Legend of Ned Kelly (Encore)
In the late 19th century, the American frontier became famous for its outlaws and gangsters. Men like Billy the Kid and Jesse James became notorious for their criminal exploits. While this was happeni...
8 Mar 202412min
Senegal and The Gambia
Nestled in the heart of West Africa lie two nations with distinct identities yet tied together by a common geography and history: Senegal and The Gambia. The landscape of this region wasn’t always as ...
7 Mar 202413min
The Discovery of DNA
One of the most important advancements in the 20th century was the identification of the structure of the DNA molecule. However, that discovery didn’t appear out of nowhere. It was part of a century-l...
6 Mar 202414min
The History of Postal Delivery (Encore)
Since humans began to adopt writing systems, they also created systems for passing along written messages. For thousands of years, it would have been possible to get messages to distant parts of what...
5 Mar 202412min
Napoleon Bonaparte
In 1804, one of the most significant individuals of the 19th century placed a crown upon his head in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and declared himself Emperor of the French. He went on to rev...
4 Mar 202414min
