Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

At the end of the second world war, the allies captured 21 top, surviving Nazi leaders, and put them on trial in Nuremberg, Germany.  With these high-ranking Nazi officials incarcerated, psychologists saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the men responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in human history. What made them tick and why did they do what they did? Learn more about the Nur...

Wherever you happen to be listening to this show, at some level beneath your feet the rocks in the Earth reach a temperature hot enough to boil water and create steam. With steam, you can turn a turbine and create electricity.  If everywhere on Earth is just a few kilometers away from tapping into this source of energy, why don’t we use this everywhere? Learn more about geothermal energy, its uses...

There are some subjects that are perceived to be mind-numbingly dull and boring. One such subject is accounting.  Yet, believe it or not, accounting and bookkeeping have not only have been around since the dawn of human civilization, but they also had a hand in shaping it.  Without it, the world would be a very different place today. Learn more about accounting and bookkeeping, and how they really...

Located on the far right side of the periodic table are the Noble Gases. These elements, six of which can be found in nature, are unlike any other elements.  They don’t play well with the other elements and are pretty content to be by themselves.  Nonetheless, they have found a unique place in technical products, industrial applications, and even space flight. Learn more about Noble Gases, aka the...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create a utopia? A place where all your wants and needs were taken care of and there was never any fear of harm?  Creating such a world for humans may be far off, but one man did try to create a utopia for rats. He created a world that had everything they would want and where all their needs are taken care of. It didn’t turn out like anyone expected....

On September 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, the Japanese Empire formally and unconditionally surrendered.  With that, the second world war was over and everyone stopped fighting, went home, and lived happily ever after.  Except, not everyone.  There were a surprisingly large number of holdouts who either didn’t know that Japan surrendered, or didn’t believe it.  Learn more ab...

In 1838, an American portrait painter by the name of Samuel Morse developed a system whereby signals could be sent down an electrical wire.  This system allowed for information to be sent almost instantly over vast distances. However, sending pulses of electromagnetic energy down a wire isn’t in and of itself communication. So, he developed a system to encode these pulses in a way that was legible...

For over 2,000 years, stories have been passed down about the famous and infamous people from ancient Rome.  While many of these names still are familiar to most people today, it doesn’t really tell us much about how the average person lived back then?  What was life like for the regular person whose names didn’t make it into the history books? Learn more about the life of the average person in an...

In 2021, the United States Congress declared the first federal holiday in almost 40 years: Juneteenth.  Juneteenth honors and celebrates the emancipation of slaves in the United States, but why do we celebrate it on this day, and how did this holiday come about?  When exactly did slavery end and how do other countries celebrate the abolition of slavery? Learn more about Juneteenth, aka Emancipatio...

When one thinks of the history of North America, it often invokes images of native Americans and cowboys riding on horseback.  However, horses weren’t in the Westen Hemisphere when Europeans arrived. There was a time when if native people had to move from one place to another, they had to do so on foot.  But, while that is true, the truth is more complex because if you go back far enough, there wa...

Situated in the north of the nation of Chile lies one of the most extreme environments on Planet Earth. The Atacama Desert.  What makes the Atacama Desert so unique isn’t its size or its temperature, it is the amount of precipitation it gets….or rather the lack thereof.  It is precipitation that defines what a desert is, and by that logic, the Atacama is the most desert-y of all the deserts.  Lear...

Over 2,000 times a year, all over the world, a meteorological phenomenon strikes the Earth with devastating consequences.  They can strike without warning and the worst ones have killed hundreds of people.  Yet, the secrets to how the work wasn’t understood until one determined man figured out their secrets. Learn more about tornadoes, how they work and just how deadly they can be, on this episode...

In 1940, an investigation conducted by the British military found that only 1 in 5 of their bombers were actually landing bombs within five miles of their intended targets.  This level of inaccuracy wasn’t just dangerous in terms of collateral damage, but it was horrible in terms of achieving military objectives.  This inaccuracy has led to the development of ever more precise munitions, which is...

In the late 19th century, the American frontier became famous for its outlaws and gangsters. Men like Billy the Kid and Jesse James became notorious for their criminal exploits. While this was happening in the American West, there were similar outlaws in the Australian bush.  One, in particular, has captured the imagination of Australia and the reason he became so famous was…..unique. Learn more a...

Somewhere in your kitchen, you might have a bottle of olive oil. When you made that purchase you probably didn’t think twice about it, but believe it or not, olive oil used to be one of the most important products in the world.  While today it is almost exclusively used for cooking, in the past it had a wide variety of uses, which is what made it so valuable.  The olive oil you consume today is ve...

The industrial revolution began the biggest change to humanity since the dawn of agriculture.   The start of the industrial revolution is largely considered to have begun with the invention of the steam engine. A device that could convert heat to mechanical work.  Yet, the steam engine wasn’t developed all at once. It was an invention that has its roots over 2000 years in the past.  Learn more abo...

Secrecy is a huge part of military success. You want to be able to communicate with your own forces without the enemy finding out what your plans are.  As America entered World War II, they were in need of a method of communication that couldn’t be cracked by Germany or Japan. They found the answer they were looking for in the languages of Native Americans.  Learn more about Navajo Code Talkers an...

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 two thousand years, 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 T...

Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a country that, to most people’s surprise, is shockingly large.  It only has a population of 120,000 people, but it stretches over 3.5 million square kilometers of ocean.  On top of all that, almost everyone mispronounces it. Learn more about Kiribati, the surprisingly large country with a very odd spelling, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dai...

It has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century as the television.  Once the problems of moving pictures and wireless audio had been solved, it took quite a bit longer to solve the problem of wireless moving pictures.  Once it was solved, it revolutionized the world. Learn more about the history o...

On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace.  It wasn’t just a case of homicide, it was a case of regicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, sororicide, parricide, and suicide.  It was a moment that changed the course of modern Nepal. Learn more about the Nepalese Royal Massacre...

Prior to the 1929 stock market crash, a race was on to build the tallest building in the world in New York City.  Of all the proposed buildings, one pushed through the depression and took the title of the tallest building in the world and held on to it for forty years.  Even though it has since been surpassed in height, it still remains the iconic building of the New York skyline.  Learn more abou...

All of us have some sort of mental map inside our heads for how the world is laid out. North America is north of South America. Europe is west of Asia. et Cetra.  However, even the greatest geography minds often have a flawed mental map of the world. Places aren’t often where were think they are in relation to other places.  Learn more about why almost everyone’s mental map of the world is wrong,...

Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country.  You want to find an empty piece of land for yourself that no one has claimed.  Is such a thing possible? Learn more about the doctrine of Terra Nullius and where it could still theoretically be exercised in the world today, on...

He was one of the greatest thinkers of the ancient world. He was a philosopher, a mathematician, and had some unique views on diet and religion.  You probably know him best for the theorem which bears his name.  However, if you asked anyone 2,600 years ago, they might have known him for something else entirely. Learn more about Pythagoras, his ideas, and the cult that the led, on this episode of E...