John Snow and the Broad Street Cholera Outbreak of 1854
In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it. This time, one doctor took a comple...
16 Okt 202211min
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Located in the South Pacific Ocean is one of the most isolated islands in the world. It is over a thousand miles from the nearest human settlement. There a civilization unlike any other in the world a...
15 Okt 202212min
High Fructose Corn Syrup
In 1957, two chemists at the Clinton Corn Processing Company of Clinton, Iowa, developed a system for converting the sucrose found in corn starch into fructose. Over 60 years later, the product they ...
14 Okt 202211min
The Vasa (Encore)
The Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus oversaw the rise of Sweden as one of the great powers in Europe. In 1626, he ordered the construction of a warship that would be the most powerful floating platform ...
13 Okt 202211min
The Terrible, Horrible Voyage of the Russian Imperial Baltic Fleet
In February 1904, the Russian Empire found itself at war with the Empire of Japan over what was the territory of China. The problem was the majority of the Russian navy was located in the Baltic Sea,...
12 Okt 202212min
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
All around you, right this second, you are surrounded by electromagnetic radiation. You might better know this by names such as light, radio waves, microwaves, x-rays, or ultraviolet rays. Fundament...
11 Okt 202216min
The League of Nations
The first world war, known simply as the Great War at that time, was the most horrific war the world had ever seen. When the conflict ended, there was an effort to make sure that such a thing never ha...
10 Okt 202215min
The Kidnapping of Charley Ross
Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers. It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a particular incident 150 years ago that shocke...
9 Okt 202212min
