Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt
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Apr 5, 2022 • 11min

Philippe Petit and the Artistic Crime of the Century

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to witness one of the most incredible sights that the city had ever seen. Between the two towers of the New York World Trade Center, 1,350 feet off of the ground, was a man who was waking on a wire.It was audacious. It was incredible. It was also totally illegal. Learn more about Philippe Petit and the artistic crime of the century, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Diversify your portfolio by investing in fine art with Masterworks. Visit https://www.masterworks.io/--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 4, 2022 • 13min

Pedestrianism

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/In the United States and Britain in the 19th century, there was a competitive activity that might have been the most popular sport in either country.Tens of thousands of people would show up to witness it live and the top athletes got endorsement deals and had their own trading cards, and tremendous amounts of money was wagered. However, it wasn’t football, baseball, cricket, or boxing. It was competitive walking. Learn more about pedestrianism, aka competitive walking, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Diversify your portfolio by investing in fine art with Masterworks. Visit https://www.masterworks.io/--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 3, 2022 • 11min

Behold! The Potato (Encore)

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their contemporaries who lived when they did have in common? None of them ever ate a potato. The potato is a rather new addition to the diets of the old world, and one which revolutionized civilization. Learn more about the potato and how changed world history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 2, 2022 • 10min

White Elephants

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/If you’ve been around long enough, you might have heard something being described as a white elephant. A white elephant is something that is a burden, usually costly, that you can’t get rid of.Why did that particular color of that particular animal get picked to represent something so odious? Learn more about white elephants and why they came to represent what they do, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 1, 2022 • 10min

The Brachistochrone Problem

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for an object to slide down to go from point A to point B?That simple question stumped some of the world’s greatest mathematicians.The answer to that question isn’t what you think it might be, and it has some very interesting implications. Learn more about the Brachistochrone problem, and what exactly a Brachistochrone is, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 31, 2022 • 13min

The History of Gunpowder

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/Sometime almost 2000 years ago, a Chinese alchemist experimenting with three different ingredients discovered something astonishing.When the ingredients were subjected to a flame, they didn’t just burn, there was a bang. Over the course of centuries, this discovery spread around the world and dramatically shaped world history. Learn more about gunpowder, how it was invented and how it spread around the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 30, 2022 • 11min

The Unlikely Survival of Phineas Gage (Encore)

Explore the miraculous survival of Phineas Gage, who survived a brain injury that should have been fatal. Discover the intriguing personality change that occurred as a result of the accident. Learn about Gage's life post-accident, his impact on psychology, and the creation of computer models of his skull.
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Mar 29, 2022 • 12min

The British Peerage and Honors System

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/As an outsider, the British peerage system is really confusing. There are princes, dukes, earls, and barons. Some of the titles are hereditary, and some of them are not. The titles have a hierarchy, but is a viscount higher or lower in status than a marquess, and is a baron higher or lower than an earl?Learn more about the British peerage system, how it works, and the structure of it all, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 28, 2022 • 11min

The Istanbul Canal

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/For centuries, humans have built canals to facilitate the transportation of people and goods. Usually, they are built to dramatically save time, like how the Panama and Suez canals can help avoid a trip around an entire continent.However, there is currently a canal being built that is designed to replicate a natural feature that already exists. ..and it might actually make sense. Learn more about the Istanbul Canal and why it is being built, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 27, 2022 • 11min

The Roman Pomerium

Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/Ancient Rome had an enormous number of customs and traditions. Some of them have been passed down to us in the names of our months, or the letters in the Latin alphabet. However, they also had a lot of very customs which to us seem very strange. One of the strangest, and most powerful to the Romans, were the traditions surrounding the Roman city limits, aka the pomerium. Learn more about the Roman pomerium, and how seriously the Romans took it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.--------------------------------Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhereUpdate your podcast app at newpodcastapps.comDiscord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFhInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretripWebsite: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast networkPlease contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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