The World's Oldest Companies
Most businesses fail within a few years. Even the most successful companies rarely survive more than a century. Wars, economic crises, techn...
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Everything Everywhere Daily
A Podcast for Intellectually Curious People! Learn something new every single day. Everything Everywhere Daily tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the wor...
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How Bronze Changed The World
Most people probably don’t have anything made of bronze at home. Yet bronze used to be a big deal… a really big deal. In fact, an entire age...
Questions and Answers: Volume 47
In 1964, two students at Pomona College in California, Laurie Mets and Bruce Elgin, jokingly attempted to prove that the number 47 appeared...
The Headless Horseman
For centuries, travelers have told terrifying stories of mysterious riders appearing on lonely roads in the dead of night. Some were omens o...
Ghost Ships
For centuries, sailors have told stories of mysterious vessels emerging from the fog and drifting aimlessly across the ocean. Some ships wer...
The Japanese Invasion of Alaska
During World War II, the United States fought battles across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific. However, one of the war’s most unusual c...
Rubber
For thousands of years, humanity has relied on a remarkable material whose properties seem inexplicable. It can stretch several times its or...
The History of Tennis
It began almost a thousand years ago as a game played with bare hands in medieval France. It eventually became a favorite pastime of kings,...
The Battle of Zama
For over fifteen years, one of history's greatest military commanders had terrorized the Roman Republic, destroying entire armies and bringi...
The Fastball
In baseball, milliseconds can mean the difference between a home run and a strikeout. For over a century, pitchers have pushed the limits of...
The Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio (Encore)
Two of the most important concepts that can be found in the world of mathematics and nature are the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio....
The World in the Year 1
Two thousand years ago, the world looked very different. Great empires ruled over millions of people, ancient civilizations were already tho...
The World Series
Every October, baseball fans turn their attention to the sport's biggest event. However, the championship we know today wasn't always part o...
Penguins
They are among the most recognizable animals on Earth, yet their history is far more surprising than their appearance suggests. Their ancest...
The Euro
For centuries, European nations had their own currencies, each representing their national identity and economic independence. However, foll...
Cargo Cults
During the twentieth century, people on remote Pacific islands witnessed something that would forever change their societies. Foreigners arr...
Leopold and Loeb
In 1924, two young men from wealthy Chicago families believed they were intellectually superior to everyone around them. Both were exception...
Caravanserais
For thousands of years, merchants traveled across vast deserts and dangerous mountain passes, carrying valuable goods between distant civili...
The Thirty Years’ War (Encore)
17th-century Europe was witness to one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history. The conflict lasted over a generation and was r...
The Lost Masterpieces of World War II
Throughout history, conquering armies have carried away the treasures of defeated nations. But during the Second World War, this practice re...