Podcast Transcript Some of the most frightening and iconic monsters in the history of the horror genre are vampires. Vampires have a history that is both ancient and modern. For thousands of years, various cultures around the world have had stories of vampire-esque beings who would prey on humans. However, in the last two centuries, …
Podcast Transcript In 1816, a group of friends who were writers were stuck indoors in Geneva, Switzerland, and were bored. So, they created a challenge for themselves. They were to each come up with a unique ghost story. After several days of being unable to come up with a story, one of the women in …
Podcast Transcript One of the primary religious practices of the Ancient Egyptians was preparing physical bodies for the journey to the afterlife. This highly developed process, perfected over centuries, preserved bodies for thousands of years. Many of these bodies, discovered by archeologists and thieves, were taken out of Egypt and put in museums all over …
Podcast Transcript One of the most popular forms of fiction today involves zombies. There are TV shows, movies, and books that all envision life during a zombie apocalypse. Zombie stories are a relatively new form of fiction. However, zombies didn’t come out of nowhere. They have a basis in legend, religion, and fact….. well, sort …
Podcast Transcript On August 4, 1892, an incredibly grizzly event took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were brutally murdered by repeated strikes with a hatchet to their heads. The primary suspect in the case was their daughter, Lizzie. In the subsequent trial, there wasn’t enough evidence to convict, and …
Podcast Transcript From the end of the Second World War through 1990, the city of Berlin, the former capital of Germany and its largest city, was split in two. The two Berlins, East and West, were in a geopolitical situation unlike any that the world had seen before or since. This one city split into …
Podcast Transcript Ever since the dawn of the space age, there have been some who have dreamed of establishing a human presence on Mars. However, in addition to being really far away, Mars is not exactly hospitable to humans. Some suggest that the answer might be to completely change Mars’s environment, to radically change its …
Podcast Transcript After the founding of Rome as a city in the 8th century BC, it created a social system based on an elite few and a majority of commoners. This social arrangement wasn’t unique to Rome, and it has appeared in cultures and civilizations around the world. However, Rome was one of the first …
Approximately every eleven years, our sun experiences a cycle in which its magnetic poles flip. During this cycle, solar flares and sunspot activity increase, and then the sun returns to a state of relative calm. These solar cycles have been tracked for over two hundred years and are among the best-recorded aspects of solar astronomy. …