Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1913, a young man from the city of Madras in British India sent a letter to one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians, G.H. Hardy, in Cambridge Univerisity in England. The young man had no formal education in advanced mathematics, yet that letter would end up changing the landscape of mathematics for the rest of the 20th...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In October 1970, a blind woman accidentally entered a Los Angeles County welfare office with a child in tow.  The staff in the office immediately noticed the odd girl with the woman. She walked funny, was emaciated, drooling, didn’t make a sound, and when asked, the woman mentioned that the girl was 13.  The staff thought she w...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have been around a long time, they weren’t always the only two parties.  In fact, there was a political party in the US that, took its name from a British political party, had four US presidents, and even held co...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In November 1943, the Big Three leaders of the allied powers in world war II, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joesph Stalin, were scheduled to meet in person for the first time in Tehran, Iran.  When the Germans got wind of this, Hitler figured this would be a great opportunity to just kill all of his enemies at once...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/EverythingEverywhere - Enter promo code EverythingEverywhere for 83% off and 3 extra months free! By the age of 32, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world which was known to him.  This episode is not about any of that. This is about what happened after his death.  After...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ It can be consumed blocks or wheels, strings or curds, slices or cubes.  It can be soft or hard, fresh or old, and it can even be consumed if it smells bad and has mold on it. Pizza, hamburgers, and crackers depend on it, yet it can also be eaten by itself. I am of course talking about cheese. Learn more about cheese, how it wa...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On January 15, 2022, one of the biggest geologic events in the last 30 years occurred.  The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in the nation of Tonga erupted. It wasn’t just a volcanic eruption, however,  It was an event that actually had repercussions all around the world.  Learn more about the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruptio...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, there were 96 men who are considered to have been Roman Emperors from August to the fall of the western emperor.  Most of them came to power via being appointed by their predecessor, or through military conquest, or through good old-fashioned scheming and treachery. However, there was...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the early morning of November 29, 2019, a team of thieves broke into the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany.  Their target was jeweled treasures of Saxony which were some of the most valuable gems in Europe.  In under an hour, they had left with items that were worth a staggering sum of money. Learn more about the Dresde...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the mid-19th century, a Hungarian physician advocated for an incredibly simple technique that would go on to save millions of lives.  However, when he first proposed it, his idea wasn’t just ignored, it was vehemently rejected by the very people who could have used it to save lives. Not only was the idea rejected, but he was...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the year 1900, a crew of Greek sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the island of Antikythera. While they were searching, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck. The wreck contained over 30 marble statues, pieces of glasswork, one corroded metal object that no one could identify. 75 years later, usi...

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Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up. Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understand, yet they remain at the center of some of the m...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the year 607, the Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty implemented a reform whereby a series of exams would be administered throughout the empire to create a bureaucratic elite that would administer the country.  That reform became one of the bedrocks of Chinese society, through every dynasty, for the next 1,300 years. The effect...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the aftermath of World War II, the newly formed United Nations placed a group of Pacific Islands into a trusteeship that was to be administered by the United States.  After several decades, that trusteeship was dissolved and it resulted in three independent countries, one US territory, and a unique system of international re...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Modern society is completely dependent on a set of technologies that include computer chips, fiber optic cables, lasers, video screens, electric motors, and batteries.  All of those things are dependent on a small category of chemicals called rare earth elements.  Their importance in technology has made them a focal point of in...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Beginning in the 16th century, French settlers crossed the Atlantic to settle in a new French colony in the new world. That colony wasn’t modern-day Quebec, however. The colony was known as Acadia.  When the British took control of Acadia in 1713, the Acadians were allowed to stay, but eventually, that privilege was revoked by...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ It is one of the most simple machines that most people use, yet incredible amounts of engineering go into their design.  They are used by billions of people around the world and it is one of the only forms of transportation available to children.  They can make humans incredibly efficient and their development was in many ways...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/EverythingEverywhere - Enter promo code EverythingEverywhere for 83% off and 3 extra months free! When you hear about ancient battles and wars, the stories are often dominated by famous generals whose names have come down to us through history.  However, military success often relied...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Princess Olga of Kiev was a 10th-century woman who was born to a royal family and married to Igor, Prince of Kiev.  She led a fairly unnoteworthy life until her husband was murdered by a neighboring tribe. After that, her life took a turn and she became the patron saint……of vengeance. Learn more about Olga of Kiev, how she brou...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ It was the single most sacred object in the Jewish faith. According to the bible, it was an object of incredible power that could win battles. It was the entire reason why the temple in Jerusalem was built.  Then…it just disappeared and it was never mentioned again.  Since then it has become an object of mystery capturing the a...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the mid 19th century while the industrial revolution was in full swing, Japan was still an agrarian, feudal society.  By the end of the 19th century, Japan had become one of the leading industrialized countries in the world. What happened between those two points was one of the most radical social and economic transformation...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ It is an instrument that we are all familiar with, even if we don’t know how to play it. It is one of the most commonly played instruments in the world, yet its origins are rather recent.  Its origins come from an instrument that most people don’t realize and it has significant differences from other instruments which look very...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Johannes Vermeer was one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Unlike many of his contemporary painters, however, he didn’t leave a large body of work behind.  The painting he did create has left experts in both art and technology wondering if he didn’t have a secret that helped him with his craft. A technical secre...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ It is one of the longest and largest structures ever built. It was designed to defend one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on the planet.  For centuries it did just that…..and for some centuries it didn’t do that at all.   Some people have claimed that you could see it from space, and it is one of the most visited touri...