Terra Nullius (Encore)
Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country. You want to find an empty ...
24 Mai 202313min
The Solomon Islands
Lying northeast of Australia and almost east of Papua New Guinea lies one of the world’s lesser-known and seldom visited countries: The Solomon Islands. The country has few resources, is located on no...
23 Mai 202313min
Irrational Numbers
There is a particular type of number that is so common we have keys on calculators to handle them. However, thousands of years ago, their discovery was so upsetting to one group that it may have led ...
22 Mai 202313min
The Origin of Words and Phrases: Sports
The English language is a very odd thing. We use many phrases and idioms every day that make no sense if you don’t understand the cultural references behind them. In particular, we have a large numbe...
21 Mai 202313min
Why Wasn’t the Wheel Invented Sooner? (Encore)
If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel. It isn’t a bad guess, but believe it not, the wheel was nowhere close to be...
20 Mai 202311min
Mount St. Helens
On May 18, 1980, one of the most violent and cataclysmic natural disasters of the modern era took place. Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcano located approximately 100 miles or 160 kilometers south of S...
19 Mai 202314min
Stealing the Mona Lisa (Encore)
The Mona Lisa is unquestionably the most famous painting in the world. Heck, it is probably the most famous work of art in the world. Yet the reason why it is so famous is due to an event which happe...
18 Mai 20238min
The World's Most Dangerous Substances
There are a great many chemicals that are dangerous to work with. Things that you wouldn’t want to get on your skin or somehow ingest. However, there is a category beyond that of substances that are ...
17 Mai 202315min
