Podcast Transcript In 1958 the United States government created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA. NASA has achieved some of the most incredible accomplishments in human history and also has suffered some incredible failures. Yet this agency wasn’t created out of nothing. It has a past that goes back far earlier than most …
Podcast Transcript As soon as automobiles were created, people began racing them. As with many sports, early efforts were often unorganized and disjointed. After world war II, however, an effort was made to provide an organized championship series for the world’s best drivers. Over the last 70 years, it has grown into the world’s foremost …
Podcast Transcript Over the last several centuries, there has been a concerted effort to raise literacy rates around the world. For the most part, although there is still work to be done, we’ve done a pretty good job. The vast majority of people on the planet know how to read and write. While literacy has …
Podcast Transcript With an atomic number of three, Lithium is the third lightest element on the periodic table and the lightest solid at room temperature and pressure. For almost two centuries after its discovery, Lithium didn’t have much in the way of practical uses. However, in the last few decades, its status changed, and it …
Podcast Transcript Around the year 36 BC, the King of Judea, Herod the Great, built a fortress in the Judean desert overlooking the Dead Sea. Almost 100 years later, that fortress became the scene for what was one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the Jewish people. It was the final act …
Podcast Transcript On October 26, 1881, one of the most defining moments in the history of the American west took place. A shootout between nine men defined the popular perception of what the old west was about, even though it was actually a very atypical event. Since then, the gunfight has become legendary, having been …
Podcast Transcript Tens of thousands of years ago, early paleolithic humans painted on cave walls the most important things to them and with which their entire lives revolved. One of the most prominent images which have been preserved are animals that look like an enormous bull. That animal has gone extinct, but while it was …
Podcast Transcript The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting. In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, this battle was fought on the streets of cities and towns between men who didn’t wear a …
Podcast Transcript The Great Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman was once asked to convey, in a single sentence, the most important scientific knowledge that humans possessed. His answer was short and simple: “Everything is made of atoms.” Believe it or not, this was believed to be the case over 2000 years ago in ancient …