The Discovery of Fire (Encore)
When we think of what made human beings into human beings, one of the first things which come up is the discovery of fire. The control and use of fire is one of the earliest things which our ancestors...
22 Juli 20239min
The Elevator (Encore)
Some of the things we use every day were invented in the distant past. Other things were invented quite recently. However, there is a category of inventions that have been known forever, but no one e...
21 Juli 202310min
Why Isn’t the West Indies a Single Country? (Encore)
If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist of a whole bunch of tiny, independent countries. All of these countries ...
20 Juli 202311min
The Battle of Yarmouk (Encore)
From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place. The participants in the battle couldn’t have known it, but the results of that battle would shap...
19 Juli 202310min
The Galapagos Island (Encore)
Located approximately 560 miles or 900 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador lies a chain of islands that are like no other in the world. These islands have been instrumental to our understanding of bo...
18 Juli 202312min
A Brief History of London
Almost 2000 years ago, after conquering most of the island of Great Britain, Roman forces established a settlement at a strategically narrow point on the Thames River. Since its establishment, the cit...
17 Juli 202313min
The Silurian Hypothesis
The universe is billions of years old. If, in the future, humanity were to explore the galaxy and visit other planets around other stars, we might be visiting places where at one time, an advanced ci...
16 Juli 202313min
Titanium
Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. However, titanium is not even remotely close to the ninth most common element in industrial or commercial use. In fact, despite bein...
15 Juli 202313min
