FLASHCARDS! The Patience of the Sun Dagger
The Sun Dagger on Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon is a powerful reminder that understanding is built slowly. Long before textbooks and lab reports, careful observers tracked repeating patterns in light a...
30 Jan 9min
The Sun Dagger: How Ancient Puebloans Made Calendars from Sunlight
More than a thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans built a working solar calendar without clocks, written mathematics, or mechanical instruments. Etched into stone at Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon...
27 Jan 19min
FLASHCARDS! The Hidden Physics of Shoveling Snow
If you enjoy the hidden science behind everyday life, leave a review, subscribe to the podcast and share this episode with someone who is shoveling snow this winter. Shoveling snow looks simple, but i...
23 Jan 9min
REPOST! Laura Bassi, the First Female Physics Professor
Before Isaac Newton's ideas reshaped Europe, his work struggled to gain traction in Italy. This episode revisits the remarkable life of Laura Bassi, the first woman in history to hold an academic chai...
20 Jan 12min
REPOST! Eponymy and the Sexagesimal Spiral
A viral multiplication spiral once attributed to Nikola Tesla opens the door to a much older mathematical story, one rooted in ancient Sumerian and Babylonian base-60 mathematics. In this episode, we ...
13 Jan 12min
REPOST: The Wake of HMS Challenger
In this repost episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle Birchak speaks with Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood, author of The Wake of the HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Stor...
6 Jan 37min
REPOST! The 2220 Holiday Puzzle!
Set in the year 2220, this holiday puzzle episode blends science fiction, real scientific legacies, and mathematical reasoning into an immersive problem-solving adventure. The United Nations Time-Trav...
30 Dec 202514min
REPOST! Eccentric Scientists Holiday Party On!
This episode marks the very first Math! Science! History! holiday puzzle, a tradition built around logic, problem-solving, and a little historical mischief. Rather than a standard narrative episode, t...
23 Dec 202510min
