Pedestrianism
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the United States and Britain in the 19th century, there was a competitive activity that might have been the most popular spo...
4 Apr 202212min
Behold! The Potato (Encore)
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their conte...
3 Apr 202210min
White Elephants
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you’ve been around long enough, you might have heard something being described as a white elephant. A white elephant is som...
2 Apr 20229min
The Brachistochrone Problem
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for...
1 Apr 20229min
The History of Gunpowder
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Sometime almost 2000 years ago, a Chinese alchemist experimenting with three different ingredients discovered something astonish...
31 Mars 202212min
The Unlikely Survival of Phineas Gage (Encore)
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On September 13, 1848, a 25-year-old man named Phineas Gage received a horrific brain injury while working on a railroad in Verm...
30 Mars 202211min
The British Peerage and Honors System
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ As an outsider, the British peerage system is really confusing. There are princes, dukes, earls, and barons. Some of the title...
29 Mars 202212min
The Istanbul Canal
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ For centuries, humans have built canals to facilitate the transportation of people and goods. Usually, they are built to drama...
28 Mars 202211min
