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Ada Lovelace, Part Two: The Analytical Engine
After marrying and having three children, Ada dove back into the world of poetical science, continuing her correspondence with Charles Babbage as he …
4 years, 5 months ago
Ada Lovelace, Part One: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Became a Tech Visionary
Today Ada Lovelace is hailed as one of the most important figures in the early history of computing -- but, during her childhood, her mother was worr…
4 years, 5 months ago
The King of Scotland Got Real Weird with Language Experiments
Scottish King James IV was, by all accounts, a learned man. As a polyglot, he was especially interested in the origin of language -- so much so, in f…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Rum Riot of Portland, Maine
On June 2nd, 1855, the good people of Portland Maine had reached a breaking point. The Mayor, an infamous hardline teetotaler, had just been caught a…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Love of Candy Almost Drove a Cactus Extinct
You might not associate cacti with candy -- on the surface, they seem to have very little in common, mainly because candy is sold in stores around th…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Australian Prison Break of 1876, Part 2
In the second part of this two-part series, the guys return to the astonishing story of the Catalpa, exploring how the men prepared for and committed…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Australian Prison Break of 1876 Part 1
It sounds like something straight out of a heist film: a motley crew bands together in an international conspiracy to rescue six Irishmen from a jail…
4 years, 6 months ago
37 Days of Peril, with Alex Williams
Imagine you live in 1870, traipsing the wild frontier of North America with little more than an opera glass, a few friends and an arguably ill-inform…
4 years, 6 months ago
Robert Smalls Stole A Confederate Ship and Sailed to Freedom, Part Two: From Slavery to Congress
In the second part of this series, the guys continue the story of Robert Smalls, from his daring Confederate steamer heist to his later, life-long ac…
4 years, 6 months ago
Robert Smalls Stole A Confederate Ship and Sailed to Freedom, Part One: Planning the Heist
Born into slavery, Robert Smalls dreamed of freedom for not just himself and his family, but all oppressed people. As the US became consumed in the C…
4 years, 6 months ago