The Crisis of the Third Century
The Roman Empire, at its height, was a juggernaut. However, during the third century, almost everything fell apart. In fact, for a brief period of time, it arguably did. It suffered from invasions, ...
28 Aug 202414min
Exercise Tiger and the Disastrous Dress Rehearsal for D-Day
The Allied invasion of Normandy was one of the most complex military operations ever conducted. Thousands of ships and planes had to work in conjunction with tens of thousands of soldiers who had to d...
27 Aug 202414min
Exoplanets (Encore)
Ever since astronomers figured out that the stars in the sky are just like our sun, they began wondering if those stars had planets just like our sun. For centuries this remained an unanswerable ques...
26 Aug 202413min
Mos Maiorum and Unwritten Rules
Every day, whether or not you even realize it, you are subject to a host of unwritten rules. These are rules that are not written down and are not part of any formal law, but they are fundamental to t...
25 Aug 202414min
The Unification of Italy
Italy as we know it today is a relatively recent invention. Ever since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Italian Peninsula had been a patchwork of city-states, dutchies, kingdoms, and lan...
24 Aug 202414min
A Brief History of Texas
Each of the fifty US states is like a separate country. Its area, population, and economy are comparable to those of other independent nations. Yet, the histories of each state, while different, all ...
23 Aug 202414min
The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Encore)
When Alexander the Great died, one of his generals and best friends, Ptolemy, took Alexander’s corpse and went to Egypt to establish a new Pharaonic dynasty. One of the things he did during his reign ...
22 Aug 202413min
Supercomputers and the Evolution of Computing Power
If you’ve been around long enough, and by that, I only mean a couple of years, you have probably observed the one fundamental truth about computers: they always get faster. While games and web browni...
21 Aug 202416min
