What is Absolute Zero?

What is Absolute Zero?

Transcript One of the interesting things about temperature is that no matter how cold you’ve ever been, or how low of a temperature anyone has ever achieved, you can always get colder, if only by a little bit. That is because temperature has an absolute barrier that can never be broken.  Learn more about absolute …

Read more

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

Transcript In 1990, filmmaker Peter Brosnan set out to find a legendary Egyptian city that was lost to time and buried under sand dunes. After years of battling local officials, he finally was given the approval to begin an archeological dig.  What he found were 35-foot tall statues of the Pharoah Ramses II and enormous …

Read more

Tuvalu: The Least Visited Country in the World

Tuvalu: The Least Visited Country in the World

Podcast Transcript Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world. The country has only one proper hotel and that has just 9 rooms.  Once you visit the country, there is no car rental service, there isn’t an ATM machine anywhere in the country, and the entire …

Read more

Everything Everywhere Daily One Year Anniversary Show

Everything Everywhere Daily One Year Anniversary Show

Podcast Transcript On July 1, 2020, a world traveler who was grounded by an international pandemic made the business and personal decision to launch the podcast he wanted to listen to.  One year later, he’s celebrating the one-year anniversary of his podcast.  Learn more about years, anniversaries, and the Everything Everywhere Daily podcast on the …

Read more

The Legend of Prester John

The Legend of Prester John

Podcast Transcript In the middle ages, a legend persisted among Europeans that there was a Christian ruler in Asia, or Africa, who would come to join with European Christians to help fight Moslems in the crusades. The only problem was, that this distant Christian ruler didn’t exist. Yet, while the ruler was a fable, the …

Read more

10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere

10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere

Podcast Transcript One of the saddest things in the modern world is that with all of our technology, and with all of the information in the world at our fingertips, there are more people today who think the Earth is flat than there were 20 years ago.  While most people don’t subscribe to this, thankfully, …

Read more

Was Jeanne Calment Really The World’s Oldest Person?

Was Jeanne Calment Really The World's Oldest Person?

Podcast Transcript On August 4, 1997, Jeanne Louise Calment passed away in Arles, France. At the time, it was reported that she was 122 years and 164 days old. No one else has ever been verified to have ever even lived to the age of 120.  However, in the years since her passing, many people …

Read more

Objects of State: United States Edition

Objects of State: United States Edition

Podcast Transcript Every government had objects which central to their functioning. These are items, physical objects, usually steeped in history and tradition which are involved in the mythology of the state.  In most countries, these objects are often given the status of religious relics, and in some countries, they might actually be religious relics.  The …

Read more

The Miller–Urey Experiment

The Miller–Urey Experiment

Podcast Transcript One of the fundamental questions of humanity is where did we come from? How did life on Earth come about?  While there have been many theories as to how this could have happened, in 1952, one man decided to actually run an experiment to see if they could replicate the early conditions on …

Read more