How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World
When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered. However, there was a problem. Creating physical divisions for...
5 Okt 202211min
Broken Arrows: When Nuclear Weapons Go Wrong
Nuclear weapons are the most devastating things humans have ever created. They are so powerful and terrible that nations that have them strictly control how they are used and handled. That being said...
4 Okt 202211min
The Seven Days of the Week
Most of our major divisions of time are based on some sort of natural event. A year is one orbit of the Earth around the sun. A month is one orbit of the Moon around the Earth. A day is one rotation ...
3 Okt 202212min
Hurricanes and Typhoons
Every year parts of the planet are hit by devastating typhoons and hurricanes. They can cause billions of dollars of damage and can take hundreds if not thousands of lives. But why do these storms ex...
2 Okt 202212min
Joseph Bonaparte: The King of New Jersey (Encore)
When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, he didn’t create a monolithic empire that was centrally run out of Paris. Well, he sort of did, but at least on paper, he di...
1 Okt 202210min
Ninjas!
Ninjas are awesome. They’re silent, they can turn invisible, and they can totally flip out and kill people, especially their mortal enemies…pirates. …or at least that is what popular culture would li...
30 Sep 202213min
Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer
Born in 1815, Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron. Unlike her famous father, Ada did not pursue a literary career. Guided by her mother, she took a diametrically dif...
29 Sep 202212min
Getting to the Bottom of Shoes
It seems like the sort of thing humans have used throughout our existence, but historically speaking, footwear is a relatively new invention. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans spent their en...
28 Sep 202214min
