For most of human history, the brightest man-made light was just firelight. But around the turn of the century, artificial light came on the scene and the race to create...
Author - Jeff Espiritu
In this month’s Lightning Round video, I talk about the potential graviton particle, address some moon landing skepticism, get a little personal about my dogs, and oh...
You’ve heard their names a million times. The diseases named after them may have personally affected your life or the life of a loved one. But who are these people? Why...
Electric motors are in almost everything these days. From electric cars to robots to generators, the list goes on. Each of these requires expensive and heavy materials...
There are some animal features that just put the heebie-jeebies in us. Even though some of those animals are totally harmless. Did nature evolve “scary” features for a...
Let’s just say we could build an Alcubierre warp drive and travel faster than light. Would that give us the ability to see into our own past? We explore that thought...
The pyramids of Giza are old. Insanely old. They reigned as the tallest human-made structures on Earth for the majority of recorded history. Because of this, there have...
All across Scotland, neolithic stone balls have been found with specific designs and bumps on them that have perplexed archeologists for decades. Were they some kind of...
Operation Plowshare was a US Government program in the 1950s that had the goal of finding peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. And yes, you read that right. It was partly...
In today’s Lightning Round video, we talk about the world’s history of extinction events and ask how long do we – statistically – have before it happens...