The Sahara Desert Wasn’t Always A Desert

The Sahara Desert Wasn't Always A Desert

Podcast Transcript The Sahara desert is by far the largest desert in the world. It evokes images of sand dunes, camels and just being really really dry. However, it didn’t always use to be that way. Quite recently, at least geologically speaking, it was a place with grasslands and forests.  While it disappeared and became …

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All About Superconductivity

All About Superconductivity

Podcast Transcript In 1911, a Dutch physicist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was experimenting with ultra low-temperature metals. He was measuring the electrical resistance of mercury to find out what would happen  What he found was shocking and totally upended everything we know about physics and electricity. Learn more about superconductivity, how it works, and its …

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The Cola Wars

The Cola Wars

Podcast Transcript In the 1980s, two superpowers battled each other for global supremacy. Across the world, the two goliaths collided on almost every front.  In the end, it left a landscape littered with millions dead…..tired of listening to their commercials.  Learn more about the Cola Wars and how they changed economics, culture, and soft drinks, …

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The Gunpowder Plot and Why We Remember the 5th of November

The Gunpowder Plot and Why We Remember the 5th of November

Podcast Transcript In 1605, members of the Catholic resistance in England hatched a plot that would have completely changed the political landscape of the country. They wanted to blow up the entire parliament and the king on November 5, which they thought would return a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters got caught, and …

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The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902

The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902

Podcast Transcript 1902, the French governor of Indochina faced a huge problem in the city of Hanoi. They were suffering from a massive infestation of rats and the rats could carry diseases, including the plague. The governor implemented a plan to get rid of the rats. Thousands of people were recruited in the effort. However, …

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Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?

Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?

Podcast Transcript In the Dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called Atlantis. Atlantis was a land where the citizens were half-gods and half-men, yet it was destroyed in a cataclysmic event.  Ever since then people have been speculating about where Atlantis was and who the Atlantians were.  …

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The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Podcast Transcript In the early 1950s, war ravaged the Korean peninsula. However, the fighting ceased on July 27, 1953. Both sides of the conflict pulled back from the front and created a buffer zone 4 kilometers or 2.5 miles wide.  That buffer zone still exists today.  Learn more about the Korean Demilitarized Zone, its past …

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Treachery of the Long Knives

Treachery of the Long Knives

Podcast Transcript According to legend, sometime in the 5th century, a king of the Celtic Britons named Vortigern hired Anglo-Saxons mercenaries to help him fight his domestic enemies to hold his grip on power.  His plan worked really well. Until it didn’t. And then it blew up in his face.  Learn more about the Treachery …

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The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

Podcast Transcript San Francisco Bay is one of the largest and best natural harbors in the world. The entrance to the harbor is a one-mile, 1.6 kilometer, wide straight called the Golden Gate.  Historically, getting from one side of the Golden Gate to the other was a time-consuming task. During the Great Depression, the problem …

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