The American Civil War wasn’t just a military conflict. There was also a major political and legal conflict struggle that took place alongside the military campaigns. In the last months of the war, President Abraham Lincoln knew that if the war was to truly be the end of the conflict, it was necessary to ban slavery once and for all. That would require changing the constitution. Learn more about the 13th Amendment and the battle for its ratification on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily...
Oct 25, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cricket is the world's second most popular spectator sport, behind association football or soccer. However, it is played almost nowhere outside of former British Colonies. It is a game that can be confusing to those who are uninitiated and, if played in its traditional manner, can take an extremely long time to complete. Learn more about Cricket, how the game developed and how it is played today on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/Ever...
Oct 24, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the year 312, two claimants to the Roman imperial throne met outside the walls of Rome near a bridge that crossed the Tiber River. The subsequent battle that followed was not that different from many other Roman battles which had been fought over the centuries. However, the implications of that battle have long-reaching ramifications that have shaped the world for the past 1700 years. Learn more about the Battle of Milvian Bridge and how it changed the world on this episode of Everything Ever...
Oct 23, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast For thousands of years, humans have been using the power of the wind to do useful work. At first, the wind was just used for sailing ships, but eventually, the wind's power was harnessed for mundane tasks like milling grain and pumping water. Unlike many ancient energy sources, wind power is still used today, and it has become a major source of electrical generation. Learn more about how humans conquered the wind and made it useful on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the...
Oct 22, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Most people are familiar with the ancient Egyptian civilization, which arose along the banks of the Nile River. However, the Egyptians were not the only major civilization that existed on the Nile. Just south of Egypt was a culture that was very similar yet very different, who was Egypt’s sometimes enemies, sometimes trade partners, sometime overlords, and sometimes subjects. Learn more about the Nubian Civilization and the Kingdom of Kush on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscrib...
Oct 21, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1816, the world experienced something that it had never seen before. All over the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, and North America, summer never came. …or at least it didn’t in any way which it did before. It caused chaos and misery all around the world. Learn more about 1816, the year without a summer, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: D...
Oct 20, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast For thousands of years, humans knew that certain foods could treat certain ailments. However, why or how the foods did this was totally unknown. It wasn’t until the early 20th century that researchers discovered exactly what chemicals were in food that prevented and cured many diseases. Today, that knowledge has led to an entire industry dedicated to providing and supplementing nutrients. Learn more about vitamins, what they are, how they were discovered, and what happens if you lack them in you...
Oct 19, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Centuries ago, if you were a ruler, you needed to protect yourself and your realm. You’d obviously need an army and soldiers, but you would also need some sort of defensive fortification to protect yourself from attack. The solution to this problem in the middle ages was the development of massive structures which could resist direct attack and often served as a seat of administration for a region. Over the centuries, the thought and engineering which went into these structures became one of the...
Oct 18, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast For thousands of years, humans have looked up at the night sky and wondered, “are we alone?” For the longest time, it remained nothing more than a philosophical question, but in the 20th century, some researchers thought it was time to finally start looking. One of the big questions was how do you look for something that you don’t know exists, and if it does, you don’t know where it is? Learn more about SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, on this episode of Everything Everywhere ...
Oct 17, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it. This time, one doctor took a completely different approach, stopping the epidemic and ushering in a new field of medicine. Learn more about John Snow and the Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes ---------...
Oct 16, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located in the South Pacific Ocean is one of the most isolated islands in the world. It is over a thousand miles from the nearest human settlement. There a civilization unlike any other in the world arose and ultimately fell. While the story of the island didn’t end with the fall of that civilization, the physical remains of that society have endured and have fascinated people for centuries. Learn more about Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, and the civilization and people who lived there on this epi...
Oct 15, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1957, two chemists at the Clinton Corn Processing Company of Clinton, Iowa, developed a system for converting the sucrose found in corn starch into fructose. Over 60 years later, the product they created can be found in a dizzying array of food products worldwide. Learn more about High Fructose Corn Syrup, how it is made, how it is used, and the controversy surrounding it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=...
Oct 14, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus oversaw the rise of Sweden as one of the great powers in Europe. In 1626, he ordered the construction of a warship that would be the most powerful floating platform in Northern Europe. Its maiden voyage in 1628 was one of the most memorable of any ship in history. Learn more about the Vasa, its incredible maiden voyage, and its status today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid...
Oct 13, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In February 1904, the Russian Empire found itself at war with the Empire of Japan over what was the territory of China. The problem was the majority of the Russian navy was located in the Baltic Sea, and the war was in Asia. They were sent on an incredibly long voyage to get the ships into battle. Learn more about the disastrous voyage of the Imperial Russian Fleet and how it helped change the course of Russian history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! htt...
Oct 12, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast All around you, right this second, you are surrounded by electromagnetic radiation. You might better know this by names such as light, radio waves, microwaves, x-rays, or ultraviolet rays. Fundamentally, they are all variations of the same phenomenon and are all part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Learn more about the electromagnetic spectrum and how different wavelengths can behave very differently on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.co...
Oct 11, 2022•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first world war, known simply as the Great War at that time, was the most horrific war the world had ever seen. When the conflict ended, there was an effort to make sure that such a thing never happened again. To that end, a deliberative body was created where nations could come together to debate and discuss matters before plunging, once again, into war. While having some success, this deliberative body ultimately failed at its stated goal of avoiding another world war. Learn more about the...
Oct 10, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers. It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a particular incident 150 years ago that shocked the world and changed how we view children’s safety. It was an event, the echos of which can be seen today in efforts to find abducted children. Learn more about the kidnapping of Charley Ross on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/Everythin...
Oct 09, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the TV series Game of Thrones, there were four different seasons where disputes were determined with trial by combat. As fictional as the Game of Thrones universe is, the idea of resolving legal disputes by fighting, sometimes to the death, was historically accurate. For centuries, trial by combat was a legitimate option for conflict resolution, and according to some theories, it might still technically exist. Learn more about trial by combat and how it was actually conducted on this episode ...
Oct 08, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast For most of human history, if you wanted something, you had to make it yourself or know the person who made it. Eventually, merchants began to sell more and more goods in one store to make it convenient for consumers. These stores reached their zenith with enormous structures which sold almost everything. They were not just innovations themselves, but they were an engine for innovations which are still with us today. Learn more about the rise and fall of department stores on this episode of Ever...
Oct 07, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve done your share of flying, you are probably familiar with the three-letter airport codes which identify every commercial airport in the world. Airports like DFW, LGA, and HOU are easy to figure out. However, why is there an X in LAX? How did Washington Dulles wind up with IAD? And what is the deal with almost every airport code in Canada? Learn more about airport codes and the weird logic behind them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link...
Oct 06, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered. However, there was a problem. Creating physical divisions for plots of land on the prairie was difficult when there was no stone or wood. Eventually, there was a solution to the problem, which offered a cheap way to divide land…and created a whole host of new problems as well. Learn more about barbed wire and how it shaped the American West, warfare, and much ...
Oct 05, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nuclear weapons are the most devastating things humans have ever created. They are so powerful and terrible that nations that have them strictly control how they are used and handled. That being said, over the 75-year history that nuclear weapons have existed, accidents have happened. While not common, they have happened enough that the US military has a code word for such events. Learn more about broken arrows and what happens when there are problems with nuclear weapons on this episode of Ever...
Oct 04, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Most of our major divisions of time are based on some sort of natural event. A year is one orbit of the Earth around the sun. A month is one orbit of the Moon around the Earth. A day is one rotation of the Earth about its axis. However, one of the most commonly used units of time has no natural analog whatsoever. Learn more about why there are seven days in a week and where the names for the day of the week come from on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https...
Oct 03, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every year parts of the planet are hit by devastating typhoons and hurricanes. They can cause billions of dollars of damage and can take hundreds if not thousands of lives. But why do these storms exist? What causes their distinctive spiral shape with an eye in the middle? And why do they only appear in certain parts of the world at certain times of the year? And while we’re at it, what is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon anyway? Learn more about hurricanes and typhoons and how t...
Oct 02, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, he didn’t create a monolithic empire that was centrally run out of Paris. Well, he sort of did, but at least on paper, he didn’t. Rather, what he did was set up his family members as monarchs to rule in his place. One of those family members who was set up as king ended up moving to New Jersey. Learn more about Joseph Boneparte, the King of New Jersey, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podc...
Oct 01, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ninjas are awesome. They’re silent, they can turn invisible, and they can totally flip out and kill people, especially their mortal enemies…pirates. …or at least that is what popular culture would like you to believe. Were ninjas really as powerful as they are made out to be? Were they the ultimate silent assassins? Learn more about ninjas, real ninjas, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes ------------...
Sep 30, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Born in 1815, Ada Byron was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron. Unlike her famous father, Ada did not pursue a literary career. Guided by her mother, she took a diametrically different path studying math and logic. At the age of 17, she had a chance encounter with Charles Babbage, who was designing the world’s first mechanical computer. It was the beginning of a groundbreaking collaboration that would only be understood over a century later. Learn more about Ada Lovelace, th...
Sep 29, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast It seems like the sort of thing humans have used throughout our existence, but historically speaking, footwear is a relatively new invention. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans spent their entire lives barefoot. Then someone got the bright idea that it might be a good idea to put something between our feet and the ground, and from there, it was a direct path to Air Jordans, hiking boots, and flip-flops. Learn more about the development of the shoe and what our feet would look like if we ...
Sep 28, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast The death of a British monarch is a very big event. Thousands of people may take part in the funeral and procession, with millions more lining up to pay their respects and billions more watching on television. This didn’t always use to be the case, however. In particular, there was one English King who not only didn’t get an elaborate funeral, no one knew where his body was for over 500 years. Learn more about the body of King Richard III and how it was lost and then discovered on this episode o...
Sep 27, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the summer of 1971, Stanford professor of psychology Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to determine if cruelty amongst people of authority was because of the position or the people. Twenty-four men were selected and randomly assigned roles of guard or prisoner. The results were shocking and are still being debated over 50 years later. Learn more about the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most controversial experiments ever conducted, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily....
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