One of the Most Disastrous Naval Experiements of All Time
team-powered, gunned-up, and utterly cursed—cruiser submarines were meant to revolutionize naval warfare. Instead, they sank their own crews more often than the enemy. Here’s the story of history’s wo...
25 Sep 202556min
How Did the Crusades Actually Work?
When thinking about the middle ages, chances are that among the many images popping into your mind there stands a noble knight. Now, there are a variety of myths about what it was like to be a knight ...
24 Sep 202549min
The Secretary: Great Expectations
“[T]here would not be I believe, a happier being in the United States… [c]ould I have just enough business to support my expences, so as to relieve me from the mortification of being at my time of lif...
22 Sep 20251h 3min
When is the Optimal School Start Time?
Much like is the case with some adult humans, in the morning our miniature Sapiens often have a preference for expressing themselves in low-pitched, unintelligible grunts, mumbled from within the cave...
20 Sep 202533min
Hitler's Many Women and Their Often Unfortunate Ends
Unsurprisingly to anyone who’s historied, Hitler was a man who promoted a hateful ideology, had millions murdered, crippled a generation, and plunged an entire continent into ruin. What’s maybe slight...
18 Sep 20251h 8min
The Secretary- Training for Greatness
“What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial Universe ought to be summarily comprehended in his ...
16 Sep 202546min
That Time the USA Tried to Make Hippo Farming a Thing
If you were to travel down the Rio Magdalena just north of the Columbian capital of Bogotá, you might just come across some rather out-of-place wildlife: a herd of African Hippopotamuses. The herd, wh...
14 Sep 202522min
The Fascinating Saga of History’s Largest Diamond
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” So wrote Samuel Johnson, the famed 18th Century polymath and founder of the modern English dictionary. And indeed, London offers many delights for...
12 Sep 202531min
