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 psychological conditions that only tend to appear in certain cities, or were named after cities where first appeared. Learn more about psychological syndromes that are...
May 16, 2024•15 min•Ep 1410•Transcript available on Metacast Sometime around 3,200 years ago, a new civilization became ascendent on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This group wasn’t like the Empires that surrounded them. They weren’t focused so much on land acquisition and conquest so much as they were focused on commerce and trade. For centuries they ruled over trade and commerce in the Mediterranean until they finally succumbed to their more powerful neighbors. Learn more about the Phoenician Civilization and what set them apart from other ...
May 15, 2024•13 min•Ep 1409•Transcript available on Metacast 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 even larger explosion using nuclear fusion. One man, in particular, felt that such a device was necessary and spearheaded the efforts after the war to develop a f...
May 14, 2024•15 min•Ep 1407•Transcript available on Metacast 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 chance meeting revealed his true identity, which eventually led to his freedom and the involvement of the President of the United States. Learn more about Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, the prince who became a slave ...
May 13, 2024•12 min•Ep 1407•Transcript available on Metacast If you are listening to me speak these words and can understand what I’m saying, then you are a human being. If you are a human being, you are also a mammal, and if you are a mammal, you have hair….or at least the biological capability to produce hair. But why exactly do we have hair? What function does it serve? Why do we have less than other animals? And why do people have different types of hair? Learn more about hair, what it does and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dai...
May 12, 2024•15 min•Ep 1406•Transcript available on Metacast 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 to turn the tide of the war. What they settled on was one of the most terrifying tactics of the entire conflict for participants on both sides. Learn more about the kamikaze pilots and why ...
May 11, 2024•15 min•Ep 1405•Transcript available on Metacast In 1956, one of the most important geopolitical events of the post-war period took place in Egypt. Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in the world. In response, a coalition of several countries tried to take it back. However, it didn’t go as planned, and it signaled a major reshuffling of the geopolitical order. Learn more about the Suez Crisis and how it shaped the second half of the 20th century on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Availa...
May 10, 2024•14 min•Ep 1404•Transcript available on Metacast We are all familiar with camping, and many of us go camping or camp regularly. Enjoying the great outdoors with friends and family can be an enjoyable experience. However, camping has a history that is unlike most things in humanity. The path from the ancient world to luxury glamping was not straight. Despite having very ancient roots, what we know today as camping is a relatively modern phenomenon. Learn more about the history of camping and how we went from the rugged outdoors to luxury experi...
May 09, 2024•14 min•Ep 1403•Transcript available on Metacast 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 how they are used in the modern world, on this episode of Everything E...
May 08, 2024•15 min•Ep 1402•Transcript available on Metacast In June of 1314, Scottish forces under the command of Robert the Bruce squared off against an English army led by King Edward II. The battle was the culmination of years of English intervention in Scotland after a succession crisis. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Scots won the day, earned their independence, and firmly established Robert the Bruce as king of Scotland. Learn more about the Battle of Bannockburn and its role in Scottish history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily...
May 07, 2024•14 min•Ep 1401•Transcript available on Metacast In 1940, much of the world was at war, but the United States wasn’t. A strong isolationist sentiment kept the US on the sidelines while Germany and Japan ran roughshod over their neighbors. While the US wasn’t in the war, many people in the US military knew that it was only a matter of time before we got sucked in. Over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a plan was developed for just that eventuality. Learn more about the Plan Dog Memorandum on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily....
May 06, 2024•10 min•Ep 1400•Transcript available on Metacast In 1903, the Ontario Rugby Football Union adopted a set of rules for their sport which were codified by Thrift Burnside, the captain of the University of Toronto football team. The rules were major changes to the game of rugby and were largely based on the rules created by Walter Camp for use in American football in the 1880s. However, with those rules, a new game developed that was neither rugby nor American football. Learn more about Canadian Football, its origins and how it is played on this ...
May 05, 2024•15 min•Ep 1397•Transcript available on Metacast In the year 73 BC, Rome faced one of its greatest threats to its existence. An army of over 100,000 liberated slaves rose up in revolt and threatened the very fabric of the Roman Republic. The revolt was led by a gladiator slave who lead his motley army and, to the astonishment of Rome, managed to defeat many Roman legions. The end of this rebellion resulted in one of the most horrific displays in all ancient history. Learn more about Spartacus and the Third Servile War, on this episode of Every...
May 04, 2024•15 min•Ep 1395•Transcript available on Metacast In 1912, a discovery was announced that shocked the world. A British paleontologist announced what was perhaps the most important find in the history of paleontology. The announcement was about the discovery of a fossil, which was claimed to be the missing link between apes and humans. It was a groundbreaking discovery that, if true, would rewrite what we knew about early humanity. Unfortunately, it was all fake. Learn more about Piltdown Man and what was perhaps the biggest scientific hoax of t...
May 03, 2024•14 min•Ep 1397•Transcript available on Metacast Listen to the Respecting the Beer Podcast! https://respect-the-beer.captivate.fm/ Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond at your local store. Find out more at heavenhilldistillery.com/hh-bottled-in-bond.php Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free offer and get $20 off. Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month. Use the code EverythingEverywhere for a 20% discount on a subscription at Newspap...
May 02, 2024•17 min•Ep 1396•Transcript available on Metacast Our solar system is made up of a lot of things. The biggest thing is the sun, of course which makes up the vast majority of the solar system’s mass. Then, of course, there are planets, which come in various sizes, and many of them have moons of various sizes. However, that isn’t everything. There are other things in the solar system, things that amount to debris between the much bigger objects. Learn more about asteroids, how they were discovered, and how they might serve humanity’s future on th...
May 01, 2024•15 min•Ep 1395•Transcript available on Metacast Starting in the year 1096, the Christian kingdoms of the Latin Church united to retake religious sites in the Holy Land. This war was known as a crusade. This was just the first in a series of nine official and several other unofficial crusades over a span of 200 years. These crusades impacted the kingdoms that took park, the Eastern and Western Christian churches, and relations between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in some ways that can still be felt today. Learn more about the Crusades, the re...
Apr 30, 2024•16 min•Ep 1394•Transcript available on Metacast The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting. In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, this battle was fought on the streets of cities and towns between men who didn’t wear a uniform and women who tried to shame them into joining the military. These street conflicts got so bad that the governments eventually had to take action. Learn more about the White Feather Gir...
Apr 29, 2024•14 min•Ep 1393•Transcript available on Metacast Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe. While the Allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler personally, they weren’t the only ones trying to bring Hilter’s reign to an end. Inside Nazi Germany, a small but committed group sought to remove Hitler from power, and they took action in July 1944. Learn more about Operation Valkyrie and the plot to assassinate Hitler on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Available nationally, look ...
Apr 28, 2024•13 min•Ep 1392•Transcript available on Metacast By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other. Those two wars were not enough to resolve all of the territorial and border disputes between them. There was one massive open question that remained between the two countries. A large swath of land in the Pacific Northwest that both countries claimed and were ready to go to war over. Learn more about the Oregon Boundry Dispute and how it almost led to war on this episode of Everything Ever...
Apr 27, 2024•14 min•Ep 1391•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. Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond at your local...
Apr 26, 2024•12 min•Ep 1390•Transcript available on Metacast In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China. He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13. For most people, becoming king would be the pinnacle of their achievements. However, this was not to be the case with the King of Chin. He would go on to achieve a status that there wasn’t even a word for. Learn more about Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, his life, and his legacy on this episode of Everything E...
Apr 25, 2024•14 min•Ep 1389•Transcript available on Metacast In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan what exactly they wanted to future of the city to be. What they decided was that the city needed a park. Not just any park, but a great park that took up an enormous part of Manhattan Island. Learn more about Central Park and how it became one of the world’s greatest parks on this episode of Everythi...
Apr 24, 2024•15 min•Ep 1388•Transcript available on Metacast Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds. However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft that could travel at supersonic speeds were much greater than making a fighter aircraft that could do the same. In 1976, a British/French consortium launched the inaugural flight of the most successful supersonic passenger aircraft in history. Learn more about the Concorde on this episode of Everything...
Apr 23, 2024•12 min•Ep 1387•Transcript available on Metacast Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted over time, its existence can be traced back to a battle that took place over 2000 years ago. That battle rocked the Roman Empire to its core, and finally set limits for how big the empire could grow. Learn more about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and how its impact can still be seen today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors...
Apr 22, 2024•13 min•Ep 1386•Transcript available on Metacast The universe is big. Really, really big. So big that it is hard to intuitively grasp its size because we have nothing in our lives that we could compare it to. Not only is the university big, but within it are things that really big as well. The discovery of these big things have been some of the biggest discoveries in the history of science, and the discoveries will probably keep continuing into the future. Learn more about the largest known things in the universe on this episode of Everything ...
Apr 21, 2024•14 min•Ep 1385•Transcript available on Metacast The English language has evolved organically, gathering words and phrases from different languages, countries, and communities. It should come as no surprise that many of the words in English have come from the military. For centuries, soldiers have developed their own way of speaking and created words to describe their unique circumstances. Some of those words and phrases have managed to make it into the wider language, even if the meaning sometimes changes. Learn more about the English words a...
Apr 20, 2024•13 min•Ep 1387•Transcript available on Metacast The odds are quite good that somewhere around you right now as you listen to me speak these words, is a battery. Whether it is in your smartphone, earbuds, automobile, smoke detector, or laptop, batteries have become ubiquitous in the modern world. The origins of chemical batteries go back thousands of years before people knew what electricity was or what they could do with it. The future of batteries looks even brighter as more devices will require more and better batteries. Learn more about ba...
Apr 19, 2024•16 min•Ep 1383•Transcript available on Metacast Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from those of its neighbors. How it was founded had important implications for all over Europe and may still impact the country's future. Learn more about the history of Belgium, how and why it was formed, and what its future may hold on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Available nationa...
Apr 18, 2024•16 min•Ep 1382•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Sponsors Available nationally, look for a bottle of Heaven Hill Bottled-...
Apr 17, 2024•14 min•Ep 1381•Transcript available on Metacast 
