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 …
Podcast Transcript Over 2,000 times a year, all over the world, a meteorological phenomenon strikes the Earth with devastating consequences. They can strike without warning and the worst ones have killed hundreds of people. Yet, the secrets to how the work wasn’t understood until one determined man figured out their secrets. Learn more about tornadoes, …
Podcast Transcript In 1940, an investigation conducted by the British military found that only 1 in 5 of their bombers were actually landing bombs within five miles of their intended targets. This level of inaccuracy wasn’t just dangerous in terms of collateral damage, but it was horrible in terms of achieving military objectives. This inaccuracy …
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 …