Podcast Transcript On May 11, 1960, an auto worker who went by the name Ricardo Klement stepped off the bus after his shift at a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As he was walking home, he was abducted by several men and thrown into a vehicle. This was no ordinary kidnapping, however. There …
Podcast Transcript From 1929 to 1992, several governments ruled over the Balkans, all of whom used the name “Yugoslavia.” Yugoslavia was a country that began with a dream but was born out of war and ultimately ended in war. While the nation of Yugoslavia no longer exists, Its legacy can still be felt in the …
Podcast Transcript Inside you right now are most probably millions of, possibly even trillions of viruses. Some viruses are extremely deadly, but the vast majority are completely benign. They can be found in almost every type of life, including plants, animals, and bacteria. Yet viruses are completely different from any other type of life form. …
Podcast Transcript On August 9, 378, one of the most important battles in world history took place. While largely forgotten today, it was a critical battle that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire. It wasn’t just a loss for the Roman army; it also resulted in the death of an emperor, and it also contributed …
Podcast Transcript When the United States entered the Civil War, the Union needed a plan for its conduct of the conflict. General Windfield Scott, the Union’s senior military commander, devised a strategy that would play to the Union’s strengths and exploit the Confederacy’s weaknesses. He hoped it would bring about a swift end to the …
Podcast Transcript Psychologists have identified hundreds of different psychological disorders and conditions. Some of them are rather common conditions that affect large segments of the population at one time or another. Others are quite rare and only come up in certain circumstances, or even in certain places. Within that, there is a rare subset of …
Podcast Transcript During the Second World War, the United States established the highly secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb based on nuclear fission. While the Manhattan Project was ultimately successful, some in the program were thinking bigger. They felt that the explosion from an uncontrolled fission reaction could be used to create an …
Podcast Transcript In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured. He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his life living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a …
Podcast Transcript In the last year of the Second World War, things were not going well for the Imperial Japanese military. They had lost several major naval battles against the United States, they were losing territory, and they had no capability to rebuild the ships that they were losing. They were desperate to find something …