Podcast Transcript By the age of 32, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world which was known to him. This episode is not about any of that. This is about what happened after his death. After he died, his corpse became a political football, and his tomb became the centerpiece of the city …
Podcast Transcript It can be consumed blocks or wheels, strings or curds, slices or cubes. It can be soft or hard, fresh or old, and it can even be consumed if it smells bad and has mold on it. Pizza, hamburgers, and crackers depend on it, yet it can also be eaten by itself. I …
Podcast Transcript On January 15, 2022, one of the biggest geologic events in the last 30 years occurred. The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the nation of Tonga erupted. It wasn’t just a volcanic eruption, however, It was an event that actually had repercussions all around the world. Learn more about the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha?apai …
Podcast Transcript Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, there were 96 men who are considered to have been Roman Emperors from Augustus to Romulus Augustulus. Most of them came to power via being appointed by their predecessor, or through military conquest, or through good old-fashioned scheming and treachery. However, there was one man who …
Podcast Transcript In the year 1900, a crew of sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. While they were searching, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck. The wreck contained over 30 marble statues, pieces of glasswork, and one corroded metal object that no one could identify. …
Podcast transcript In the early morning of November 29, 2019, a team of thieves broke into the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany. Their target was jeweled treasures of Saxony which were some of the most valuable gems in Europe. In under an hour, they had left with items that were worth a staggering sum …
Podcast Transcript What do a goat, Babe Ruth, a witch doctor, the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and a Japanese statue of Colonel Sanders all have in common? They are all supposedly responsible for curses placed upon sports teams that prevented them from winning for years, sometimes even centuries. While such curses might be difficult or …
Podcast Transcript Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up. Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understand, yet they remain at the center …
Podcast Transcript In the year 607, the Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty implemented a reform whereby a series of exams would be administered throughout the empire to create a bureaucratic elite that would administer the country. That reform became one of the bedrocks of Chinese society, through every dynasty, for the next 1,300 years. …