Podcast Transcript Wherever you happen to be listening to this show, at some level beneath your feet the rocks in the Earth reach a temperature hot enough to boil water and create steam. With steam, you can turn a turbine and create electricity. If everywhere on Earth is just a few kilometers away from tapping …
Podcast Transcript Located on the far right side of the periodic table are the Noble Gases. These elements, six of which can be found in nature, are unlike any other elements. They don’t play well with the other elements and are pretty content to be by themselves. Nonetheless, they have found a unique place in …
Podcast Transcript Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create a utopia? A place where all your wants and needs were taken care of and there was never any fear of harm? Creating such a world for humans may be far off, but one man did try to create a utopia for …
Podcast Transcript On September 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, the Japanese Empire formally and unconditionally surrendered. With that, the second world war was over and everyone stopped fighting, went home, and lived happily ever after. Except, not everyone. There were a surprisingly large number of holdouts who either didn’t know …
Podcast Transcript In 1838, an American portrait painter by the name of Samuel Morse developed a system whereby signals could be sent down an electrical wire. This system allowed for information to be sent almost instantly over vast distances. However, sending pulses of electromagnetic energy down a wire isn’t in and of itself communication. So, …
Podcast Transcript For over 2,000 years, stories have been passed down about the famous and infamous people from ancient Rome. While many of these names still are familiar to most people today, it doesn’t really tell us much about how the average person lived back then? What was life like for the regular person whose …
Podcast Transcript In 2021, the United States Congress declared the first federal holiday in almost 40 years: Juneteenth. Juneteenth honors and celebrates the emancipation of slaves in the United States, but why do we celebrate it on this day, and how did this holiday come about? When exactly did slavery end and how do other …
Podcast Transcript When one thinks of the history of North America, it often invokes images of native Americans and cowboys riding on horseback. However, horses weren’t in the Westen Hemisphere when Europeans arrived. There was a time when if native people had to move from one place to another, they had to do so on …
Podcast Transcript Situated in the north of the nation of Chile lies one of the most extreme environments on Planet Earth. The Atacama Desert. What makes the Atacama Desert so unique isn’t its size or its temperature, it is the amount of precipitation it gets….or rather the lack thereof. It is precipitation that defines what …