The Dancing Plague of 1518
People who love to dance are said to have dancing fever. Dancing fever is just a phrase and not something meant to be taken literally. However, could there really be an actual dancing fever? Could t...
10 Okt 20219min
Which Came First: Beer or Bread?
The rise of agriculture has been pointed to as being responsible for the rise of civilization as we know it. However, that raises the question, what was responsible for the rise of agriculture? In p...
9 Okt 202110min
Did Shakespeare Write the Works of Shakespeare? (Encore)
William Shakespeare is widely considered one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of the English language. However, over the last two centuries many people have begun to wonder if Wi...
8 Okt 202111min
Mountweazels (Encore)
Copyright is what protects creators from having someone copy and make money off of their work without compensation. However, there are some things like directories or maps which have information tha...
7 Okt 20219min
The Legend of Andre the Giant (Encore)
On May 19, 1946, André René Roussimoff was born into the world in Coulommiers, France. At birth, he weighed 13 pounds or 6 kilograms...and from there, he only got bigger. He eventually topped out at...
6 Okt 202112min
The Canary Islands (Encore)
If you think of Spain as the country on the Iberian Peninsula which is sandwiched between France and Portugal, you are not wrong, but you are also not totally right. There is also a significant part o...
5 Okt 202110min
Longitude (Encore)
Navigation on the open ocean is extremely difficult. It is a skill that takes years to master. Even with years of skill, an experienced mariner was still able to ground their ship on an unseen reef,...
4 Okt 20219min
The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China
As I have mentioned in many episodes of this podcast, there are a great many things that were originally invented in Ancient China. There are literally hundreds of inventions that were developed in Ch...
3 Okt 202111min
