Nov 30, 2019
Why do we buy Christmas trees? Santa is a 4th Century Saint from Turkey? Celebrating Christmas used to be illegal?...
Christmas has a longer history than you might think. But it's also not as rigid either. From pagan, winter solstice rituals and festivities, to Madison Avenue marketing of Old St. Nick, Christmas is...
Nov 30, 2019
Here's Part 2 to my coffee saga. Part 1 is found here:
https://youtu.be/cqiUgBl83Hw
So how did we discover this ubiquitous daily drug?
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking appears in Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines. It was here in Arabia that coffee seeds were...
Nov 29, 2019
Captain James Cook is known for his extensive voyages that took him throughout the Arctic and Pacific Oceans in the mid-1700's. Unbeknownst to his crew, he had simultaneously been sent on a clandestine voyage by the British government to discover the lost continent of Antarctica, at that time called "Terra...
Nov 29, 2019
Join me on part 2 of the "Black Hole Civilization" trilogy. We discuss the Fate and Chronology of the Universe. How the big bang led to our current state and where it (and we) will evolve 100 trillion years from now.
Just how will the Universe get to be as dark, cold, and sparse as cosmologists believe it will naturally...
