Many of the foods that people associate with America didn’t actually originate in the United States. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza are all things that were popularized in the US but didn’t originate there. However, there is one form of cuisine that is uniquely American; Barbecue. While it is American, it developed with influences from Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans. Learn more about Barbecue, how it developed, and its regional differences, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Da...
Apr 28, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Whether or not you know it, you use them every day. You were actually trained to use them as a child. Much of the world we live in today is directly or indirectly a result of their use. While they are ideally suited for computers, they were actually first developed thousands of years ago. Learn more about algorithms, what they are, how they work, and how they impact the world today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything...
Apr 27, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She was highly educated, spoke at least four languages, had eight children, and lived in a place. And, oh by the way, she was one of the most prolific and sadistic serial killers in world history. Learn more about Elizabeth Báthory, aka the Countess of Blood, on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your ...
Apr 26, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ For a period of about 200 years, and really intensely for less than 50 years, the world’s monetary system functioned on a gold standard. During the gold standard, the world basically functioned for the first time under a single global currency. Economists have been debating the merits of the system ever since. Learn more about the gold standard, how it started, and how it ended, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. ...
Apr 25, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ August Wilhelm Iffland was one of the finest German actors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. That fact alone would probably not make him worthy of a podcast episode. What does make him worthy of a podcast episode is a ring that bears his name which has been passed down from actor to actor for over 200 years. It is a tradition that is still ongoing today. Learn more about the Iffland Ring and the very odd tradition sur...
Apr 24, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Thousands of years ago, enormous furry elephants roamed the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America. While these animals are now extinct, they were actually around much more recently than most people realize, and because of where and when they existed, we know a shocking amount about them. Learn more about Mammuthus primigenius, aka the wooly mammoth, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. --------------...
Apr 23, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything -------------------------------- Prior to the 19th century, capturing images required the talent of an artist and a whole lot of time. The transition from capturing images as an art to that of a science took multiple innovations and discoveries. Those innovations never really stopped as images went from being captured physically to being captured digitally. Lea...
Apr 22, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything -------------------------------- In the 1960s, billions of dollars and 100,000s of people worked to land a human on the moon. After the success of Apollo 11, five more Apollo missions managed to land on the moon over the next three years. …and then everyone got bored of flying to the moon. Learn more about Apollo 18, 19, and 20, the moon missions which never ha...
Apr 21, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything -------------------------------- Five different times during the Earth’s history, the planet has entered a prolonged period of reduced temperatures. When this happens, massive ice sheets form, and sea levels drop. While some of these events occurred billions of years ago, not all of them were in the distant past. In fact, the last such event had a profound impa...
Apr 20, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything -------------------------------- In William Golding’s 1954 novel, the Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys find themselves on a deserted island. Stuck there, they create their own civilization which eventually turns violent and savage. The book was a statement on the fundamental nature of humanity. The book was fiction, but many people have wondered what wo...
Apr 19, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Record your family's memories at https://StoryWorth.com/Everything -------------------------------- Around 10,000 years ago, someone in Southeast Asia captured a bird that lived on the floor of the jungle. Today, billions of descendants of that bird now live on six different continents and provide food for billions of people. Yet, the birds which exist today are often very different birds from the ones which were domesticated ...
Apr 18, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Statistically speaking, about 90% of you listening to my words right now are right-handed. Of the rest of you, almost all of you will be left-handed. The question of why so many more people are right-handed as opposed to left-handed is one that people have asked for centuries. It is an imbalance that has existed throughout history and across every culture. Learn more about righties and lefties and why the imbalance between the...
Apr 17, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it. Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it. It has been around for thousands of years, yet there is still innovation being made with it today. Learn more about the history of money, how it came about and how it developed over time, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. --...
Apr 16, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ One of the most successful enterprises of the Middle Ages was a collection of free cities located in Northern Germany and along the North and Baltic Seas. These cities created one of the greatest trade networks that the world had ever seen and for several centuries dominated trade and economics in Northern Europe. It was the early prototype for successful trade organizations in the future. Learn more about the Hanseatic League...
Apr 15, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Leave a review over at Podchase.com this month and help raise money for World Central Kitchen and help Ukrainian Refugees. https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/everything-everywhere-daily-1324776 -------------------------------- Ever since people have had secrets, people have taken measures to protect those secrets. The first methods to hide secrets were simple and mechanical. Over time they became more elaborate and used machines. Today, they are mathematical and would require an enormous amount ...
Apr 14, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ The election of 1860 was unquestionably the most important election in American history. The presidential election after that was still important, but it has the distinction of being the oddest presidential election in history, if for no other reason than it was conducted in the middle of a civil war. Learn more about the election of 1864 and all the ways we’ve never seen anything like it before or since, on this episode of Ev...
Apr 13, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1946 after the conclusion of the Second World War, a Dutch man was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and plundering the Netherlands of some of its greatest artistic works. During the trial, he came up with a defense that seemed to everyone to be preposterous, yet wound up being true. Learn more about Han van Meegeren, the painter who duped the Nazis, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. --------------------...
Apr 12, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ During the US Civil War, over a quarter million African-Americans served and fought on the Union side with distinction. After the Civil War, in a reorganization of the United States Army, permanent, albeit segregated, units of black soldiers were created. These units served in almost every military conflict fought by the United States until the end of the Second World War. Learn more about the Buffalo Soldiers, their origin, a...
Apr 11, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ At the 1862 London International Exhibition, an inventor by the name of Andrew Parkes introduced a new product based on cellulose that he called Parkesine. Little did he know that this material which could be made elastic when heated and molded into almost any shape imaginable would be the basis for an enormous percentage of the materials in common use in the 21st century. Learn more about plastics, how they were invented and ...
Apr 10, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Beginning soon after the start of the Renisanase and going through to the early 19th century an intellectual community developed in Europe and later in the Americas. This community wasn’t in any particular geographic place, but rather was a network of intellectuals who shared their ideas about philosophy, science, and politics. This network was informally known as the Republic of Letters. Learn more about the Republic of Lette...
Apr 09, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Around 1887, a Polish ophthalmologist set out to create a universal language. A language that could be a second language for everyone around that world that no one country or one people would control. It was a good idea, but things didn’t quite pan out as he had hoped, and along the way, there was shockingly violent resistance to the new language. Learn more about Esperanto, how it was developed and its status in the world tod...
Apr 08, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ We like to think of terrorist plots as being a condition of the modern world. However, there were such plots were around over two thousand years ago. During the hectic period of the end of the Roman Republic, Rome was faced with a terrorist plot of its own. A group of disgruntled aristocrats wanted to burn down the city and take control of the republic. Learn more about the Catiline Conspiracy on this episode of Everything Eve...
Apr 07, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place. The participants in the battle couldn’t have known it, but the results of that battle would shape world history for the next 1400 years. Much of the geography of the world today, can be traced back to the results from those six days. Learn more about the Battle of Yarmouk, one of the most important battles in world history, o...
Apr 06, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to witness one of the most incredible sights that the city had ever seen. Between the two towers of the New York World Trade Center, 1,350 feet off of the ground, was a man who was waking on a wire. It was audacious. It was incredible. It was also totally illegal. Learn more about Philippe Petit and the artistic crime of the century, on this episode of Every...
Apr 05, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the United States and Britain in the 19th century, there was a competitive activity that might have been the most popular sport in either country. Tens of thousands of people would show up to witness it live and the top athletes got endorsement deals and had their own trading cards, and tremendous amounts of money was wagered. However, it wasn’t football, baseball, cricket, or boxing. It was competitive walking. Learn more ...
Apr 04, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their contemporaries who lived when they did have in common? None of them ever ate a potato. The potato is a rather new addition to the diets of the old world, and one which revolutionized civilization. Learn more about the potato and how changed world history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. ---...
Apr 03, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you’ve been around long enough, you might have heard something being described as a white elephant. A white elephant is something that is a burden, usually costly, that you can’t get rid of. Why did that particular color of that particular animal get picked to represent something so odious? Learn more about white elephants and why they came to represent what they do, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. ---------...
Apr 02, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for an object to slide down to go from point A to point B? That simple question stumped some of the world’s greatest mathematicians. The answer to that question isn’t what you think it might be, and it has some very interesting implications. Learn more about the Brachistochrone problem, and what exactly ...
Apr 01, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Sometime almost 2000 years ago, a Chinese alchemist experimenting with three different ingredients discovered something astonishing. When the ingredients were subjected to a flame, they didn’t just burn, there was a bang. Over the course of centuries, this discovery spread around the world and dramatically shaped world history. Learn more about gunpowder, how it was invented and how it spread around the world, on this episode ...
Mar 31, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On September 13, 1848, a 25-year-old man named Phineas Gage received a horrific brain injury while working on a railroad in Vermont. The odds of anyone surviving such an accident were a million to one. Yet, despite astronomical odds, he survived his injury and he became a case study for neuroscientists ever since. Learn more about Phineas Gage and his incredible story, and how it helped us to understand the workings of the hum...
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