Simón Bolívar
In the early 19th century, the Spanish Empire in the Americas began to fracture. From the chaos emerged a wealthy young aristocrat with little formal military training, enormous ambition, and a visio...
4 Okt 15min
The Monster Study
In 1939, researchers at a prominent American university began an experiment involving children at an orphanage in Iowa. The children were divided into groups, subjected to very different forms of spe...
3 Okt 13min
The World's Worst Predictions
Throughout history, experts, executives, scientists, and journalists have tried to predict what the future would look like. Some of those predictions were insightful. Others were so spectacularly wr...
2 Okt 15min
Questions and Answers: Volume 46
What do the element palladium, William Shakespeare, and this episode have in common? Palladium is the 46th element on the periodic table. Shakespeare was rumored to have secretly written the King ...
1 Okt 15min
Neanderthals
For hundreds of thousands of years, another kind of human lived across Europe and western Asia. They hunted enormous animals, survived brutal Ice Age climates, made sophisticated tools, cared for th...
30 Sep 16min
The History of McDonald's
In 1940, two brothers opened a small restaurant near Route 66 in San Bernardino, California. After meeting an aggressive milkshake-machine salesman, they established a business model that sparked a ...
29 Sep 15min
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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 vast majority of riders, black passengers had no rec...
28 Sep 15min
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 politics without conquering territory or leading ...
27 Sep 17min
