Origin of Words and Phrases: Nautical
If you happen to be feeling blue because you feel like a loose cannon, fear not, because I happen to like the cut of your jib. Perhaps if you have a square meal, you’ll be riding high, and by and larg...
8 Nov 202413min
The Battle of the Little Big Horn
One of the most famous battles in the history of the American West took place in June 1876. An alliance of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes faced off against the United States ...
7 Nov 202415min
The Election of 1864 (Encore)
The election of 1860 was unquestionably the most important election in American history. The presidential election after that was still important, but it has the distinction of being perhaps the odde...
6 Nov 202411min
Project Habakkuk
During the Second World War, the Allies were desperate to develop ideas to help them win the war. Some of these ideas, such as the atomic bomb and the Norden bombsight, were so promising that they w...
5 Nov 202414min
The Surprising Origin of Monopoly (Encore)
One of the most popular board games in the world is Monopoly. Millions of copies of the game have been sold and thousands of different versions have been published. However, the origins of the game ...
4 Nov 202413min
Squaring the Circle
Ancient mathematics was very different than the mathematics you are used to today. Two primary tools ancient mathematicians used were the compass and the straightedge. With these two very simple obje...
3 Nov 202414min
Questions and Answers: Volume 24
Right now in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are getting shorter, and things are getting colder. In the southern hemisphere, the opposite is happening. Regardless of whether you are in the North o...
2 Nov 202416min
The East Africa Rift (Encore)
Today, there is a giant rift that is tearing the continent of Africa apart. ..and I mean this quite literally because the rift isn’t cultural, economic, or political, it’s geologic. In several million...
1 Nov 202413min
