Podcast Transcript Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi. It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years. …
Podcast Transcript Scientists love to classify things. Archeologists are no exception. One of the very first classifications systems that were developed, classified ancient history into three broad eras. This system was crude and it isn’t really used among professionals anymore, but its simplicity has ensured that it still survives in casual use. Learn more about …
Podcast Transcript In the Indiana Jones movies, Indiana is usually searching for a rare artifact with mystical powers while some other nefarious archeologist, usually a Nazi, is trying to find the artifact before Indy. Believe it or not, that trope of a Nazi archeologist looking for an item of incredible power actually has a kernel …
Podcast Transcript In the years 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. Millions of people died, yet the event was ignored in most of the western press and wasn’t even officially acknowledged by the Soviet government …
Podcast Transcript Thousands of years ago, humans discovered a black-yellowish liquid that come out from the ground and could burn when it was set on fire. Today, the fluid that seeped from the rocks is responsible for much of our modern world. But how does that fluid become usable fuel, and how exactly do you …
Podcast Transcript Throughout history, there have been riots over many different things. Sports teams winning, sports teams losing, high prices, war protests, and police brutality, have all been a cause of riots at some point. However, in 1766, one town in England had perhaps one of the oddest riots of all time. Learn more about …
Podcast Transcript If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel. It isn’t a bad guess, but believe it not, the wheel was nowhere close to being the first invention. In fact, as far as we know, there were …
Podcast Transcript Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and sometimes they have a shorter version of it for common use. There are some countries, however, that often have multiple names, and the names can be radically different from each other. They might want everyone to call it by one name, or …
Podcast Transcript You are probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. Because of its status as the highest point on Earth, it has attracted thousands of people who have climbed to the summit. In the process, it has also killed hundreds of people who died in the attempt. Learn more …