The History of Stocks and Stock Exchanges
A little over 400 years ago, a group of Dutch investors had a revolutionary idea. They were embarking on an incredibly risky endeavor, and to spread the risk, they were going to share ownership of th...
16 Mar 202414min
Young Julius Caesar
Before the Ideas of March, before he crossed the Rubicon, and before he became Rome’s dictator for life, Julius Caesar had led a very interesting life. We know more about his early life than most Rom...
15 Mar 202415min
Pi Day (Encore)
Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi. It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a nu...
14 Mar 202412min
Homing Pigeons
Before the development of electricity and electrical communications, the fastest information could travel was the speed of a horse. Maybe a ship might have been a bit faster depending on the route, bu...
13 Mar 202414min
The History of the CIA
The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA. The CIA is tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national securit...
12 Mar 202414min
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
