Concrete
Concrete is the second most used material on earth after only water. There are more than half a trillion tons of it weighing down the earth. Which is a problem. Where did concrete come from? And why a...
15 Mars 202334min
Cold War Origins of Tanks in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is being fought with tanks designed in the Cold War. The US Abrams. The German Leopard. The British Challenger. All have been sent to fight Russia’s soviet era machines. T-72s, T-62...
12 Mars 202332min
The First Computer Program
This is the story of the first modern computer program and the extraordinary woman who wrote it, Klara von Neumann.The program Klara wrote was a list of numbers eight hundred odd lines long. Gibberish...
8 Mars 202329min
Keyboards
The keyboard on the first ever commercially successful typewriter and the keyboard on your smartphone are separated by a gulf of time and technology. Yet their layout is essentially the same (plus or ...
5 Mars 202337min
Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World
It’s perhaps the most overlooked invention of all time. Consigned to a forgotten corner in the basement of history. The Filing Cabinet.Yet the humble Filing Cabinet was at the centre of an information...
1 Mars 202330min
Instant Noodles
In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet train. Digital Cameras. Pokemon. But the winner was In...
26 Feb 202330min
The Rise and Fall of the BlackBerry
At its peak, the BlackBerry was the world’s most popular smartphone with almost 50% of the US market. They were called the ‘CrackBerry’ so many people wanted one. Now they have a 0% share of the marke...
22 Feb 202312min
God
If God invented Heaven and Earth, then who invented God? To explain how gods ‘are invented’, how they evolve and why so many seem to have vanished, Dallas is joined by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, author...
19 Feb 202340min
