Podcast Transcript Somewhere in your kitchen, you might have a bottle of olive oil. When you made that purchase you probably didn’t think twice about it, but believe it or not, olive oil used to be one of the most important products in the world. While today it is almost exclusively used for cooking, in …
Podcast Transcript The industrial revolution began the biggest change to humanity since the dawn of agriculture. The start of the industrial revolution is largely considered to have begun with the invention of the steam engine. A device that could convert heat to mechanical work. Yet, the steam engine wasn’t developed all at once. It was …
Podcast Transcript Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted over time, its existence can be traced back to a battle that took place over 2000 years ago. That battle rocked the Roman Empire to its core, and finally …
Podcast Transcript Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a country that, to most people’s surprise, is shockingly large. It only has a population of 120,000 people, but it stretches over 3.5 million square kilometers of ocean. On top of all that, almost everyone mispronounces it. Learn more about Kiribati, the surprisingly large …
Podcast Transcript It has been called the idiot box and the boob tube, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century as the television. Once the problems of moving pictures and wireless audio had been solved, it took quite a bit longer to solve …
Podcast Transcript On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace. It wasn’t just a case of homicide, it was a case of regicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, sororicide, parricide, and suicide. It was a …
Podcast Transcript Prior to the 1929 stock market crash, a race was on to build the tallest building in the world in New York City. Of all the proposed buildings, one pushed through the depression and took the title of the tallest building in the world and held on to it for forty years. Even …
Podcast Transcript All of us have some sort of mental map inside our heads for how the world is laid out. North America is north of South America. Europe is west of Asia. et Cetra. However, even the greatest geography minds often have a flawed mental map of the world. Places aren’t often where were …
Podcast Transcript Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country. You want to find an empty piece of land for yourself that no one has claimed. Is such a thing possible? …