April Fool’s Day (Encore)
Every day on April 1st, you have to be careful what you read and hear. This day, known to accounts as the beginning of the second quarter, is known to most people as April Fool’s Day. Why do we have ...
1 Apr 20239min
The World's Greatest Wagers
Throughout history, people have bet on everything and anything. From the mundane to the extremely important. From casino bets to bets on science, and even the future of humanity. These bets can serve...
31 Mars 202315min
Fallacious Reasoning (Encore)
We are often told that schools are where you learn how to think, not what to think. Sadly, almost no school curriculum deals directly with logic and the closely related subject of logical fallacies. ...
30 Mars 202310min
Ramadan
Once a month, every year, Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan. It is a month of fasting, prayer, and introspection, and it is the most important date on the Islamic calendar. However, the exac...
29 Mars 202311min
Quebec's 1970 October Crisis
Canada has a reputation for being a rather low-key, friendly place. For the most part, this is true. It is a nice place to visit and is never usually that controversial. However, that hasn’t always ...
28 Mars 202313min
The Marginal Revolution
In most academic disciplines, there is often a single idea or discovery which makes everything fall into place. All of the things which didn’t make sense before suddenly do when looked through this n...
27 Mars 202312min
Libraries
As soon as humans developed systems of writing, they faced a problem. What to do with all of the things that were written down? If you were going to document the lives of kings or tax records, then y...
26 Mars 202314min
Migration to the Americas
Perhaps the most important research in anthropology is how modern humans left their birthplace in Africa and migrated to the rest of the world. One big subset of that story is how humans managed to ge...
25 Mars 202313min
