Permutations and Combinations
Whenever there is a lottery, the odds of winning are given. If you go to a pizzeria, they might tell you the number of possible pizzas that can be made, given their toppings. If you have a combinati...
2 Aug 202315min
Space Elevators
You’ve probably seen footage of a rocket launch. There is a bunch of smoke and fire as the rocket lifts off to begin its flight to achieve an altitude and velocity which will get it into orbit. It wo...
1 Aug 202314min
Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
In the movie Forrest Gump, one man finds himself at the center of historical events, encountering famous people over the course of decades. While Forrest Gump was fictitious, there have been people wh...
31 Jul 202316min
Betamax vs. VHS
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology. Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the market. In the end, one format crushed the othe...
30 Jul 202313min
Mount Fuji
Located on the island of Honshu, in the middle of the Japanese archipelago, lies one of the most important and iconic places in all of Japan, Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji has held an important place in Japa...
29 Jul 202311min
The Battle of Thermopylae (Encore)
In the year 480 BC, one of the most famous battles in history took place on the shore of the Malian Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Several thousand Greeks held back several hundred thousand Persians in a bat...
28 Jul 202311min
Soyuz 11
Having lost the race to the Moon, the Soviet space program decided to go in a different direction. If they couldn’t be first on the moon, then they could take the lead in the area of endurance in spac...
27 Jul 202311min
A Brief History of Golf
Every day, millions of people around the world hit the links to play a round of golf. The very best at the game are able to earn millions of dollars a year as professionals. However, this global recr...
26 Jul 202313min
