The History of Television
It has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century as the television. Once the problems of moving p...
8 Jun 202216min
The Nepalese Royal Massacre
On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace. It wasn’t just a case of homicide...
7 Jun 202210min
The Empire State Building
Prior to the 1929 stock market crash, a race was on to build the tallest building in the world in New York City. Of all the proposed buildings, one pushed through the depression and took the title o...
6 Jun 202213min
Why The Map In Your Head Is Wrong
All of us have some sort of mental map inside our heads for how the world is laid out. North America is north of South America. Europe is west of Asia. et Cetra. However, even the greatest geography...
5 Jun 202210min
Terra Nullius
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...
4 Jun 202214min
The Cult of Pythagoras
He was one of the greatest thinkers of the ancient world. He was a philosopher, a mathematician, and had some unique views on diet and religion. You probably know him best for the theorem which bear...
3 Jun 202213min
The Wallace Line
Charles Darwin is often credited with the discovery of the theory of natural selection. This is partially true, but it isn’t totally true. He didn’t do this alone. In particular, there was someone e...
2 Jun 202211min
Yes, We have No Bananas
In the late 19th century, bananas, a fruit that had been popular for thousands of years suddenly became a mass-market sensation. However, just a few decades after it was popularized, the industry had...
1 Jun 202213min
