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The World's Worst Predictions
Episode 2279
Throughout history, experts, executives, scientists, and journalists have tried to predict what the future would look like.
Some of those prediction…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Questions and Answers: Volume 46
Episode 2278
What do the element palladium, William Shakespeare, and this episode have in common?
Palladium is the 46th element on the periodic table.
Shakespea…
1 month ago
Neanderthals
Episode 2277
For hundreds of thousands of years, another kind of human lived across Europe and western Asia.
They hunted enormous animals, survived brutal Ice Ag…
1 month ago
The History of McDonald's
Episode 2246
In 1940, two brothers opened a small restaurant near Route 66 in San Bernardino, California.
After meeting an aggressive milkshake-machine salesman,…
1 month ago
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Episode 2275
For decades in the Deep South, bus passengers had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to white passengers.
Despite making up the va…
1 month ago
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Episode 2274
In the final decades of the Roman Republic, power increasingly belonged to men who commanded armies.
Yet one man rose to the highest levels of Roman…
1 month ago
The FBIs Most Wanted List
Episode 2273
For more than 75 years, the FBI has maintained a list designed to put some of America’s most elusive fugitives directly in front of the public.
It ha…
1 month ago
Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Man Who Revolutionized Ocean Navigation
Episode 2272
For centuries, sailors crossed oceans using charts, experience, and accumulated wisdom.
But in the 19th century, one naval officer realized that the…
1 month, 1 week ago
Chief Joseph
Episode 2271
In the late 19th century, as the United States expanded across the West, one Native leader became famous not only for his resistance, but for the wor…
1 month, 1 week ago
The New Madrid Earthquake
Episode 2270
In the winter of 1811, the American frontier was shaken by a series of earthquakes so powerful they were felt across much of the continent.
The grou…
1 month, 1 week ago