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How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)
North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes. (2020)
As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. (2020)
In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital. Within these catacombs, in dark, cavernous chamb... (2017)
This blog, and the four that will follow it, draw on Part 1 of my 2016 book, The Great Convergence.In 1957, my father published a book called Econo... (2020)
Sure, you know Germany has pretzels and France has baguettes; but do you know how these carby delights came to be? Learn the history of bread from ... (2020)
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the Unite... (2020)
The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not. (2020)
From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected connections across lands. (2019)
For all of its gloomy words, and despite Springsteen's left-wing politics, “Born in the U.S.A.” became an American anthem. The song roars. It defie... (2019)
Airbnb announced a partnership with 23andMe through which the two companies will work together to facilitate heritage travel trips. (2019)
There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Offi... (2019)
How American Cities Got Their Libraries: A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be. (2019)
The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970... (2011)
In Gary Hustwit’s highly anticipated new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create. (2018)
Two decades ago, a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the big mobility innovation of 2018. (2018)
An in-depth conversation with one of the designers of the original iPhone. (2018)
At the end of November 2012, Atul Kapadia and Sujeet Kumar hosted the staff of their startup company for a holiday lunch of Mexican food at a Palo ... (2018)
The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of... (2018)
Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)
Three new books for bibliophiles dig into the hidden human side of book collections... (2018)
Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)
"science, technology, and infrastructure have provided the foundation upon which the art of modern winemaking relies. This includes greater underst... (2018)
Since the onset of the current financial crisis, political and economic pundits have loudly proclaimed the end of American economic dominance. U.S.... (2009)
IN TOO many neighbourhoods it is easier to buy a gun than a book or fresh vegetables, Barack Obama said in a speech to international police chiefs ... (2018)
ONE day after 14 people died and 21 were injured in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, America's Senate defeated a bill that would have... (2018)
THE Israeli parliament is a rowdy place at the best of times. Last month things got especially tense. Betzalel Smotrich, a right-wing lawmaker, ca... (2018)
IT HAS been two years since the scandal surrounding 1MDB, a Malaysian state investment firm from which billions of dollars have been looted, began ... (2018)
IN 2016 it became a common sight in the capital of Zimbabwe to see fearful citizens queuing outside banks, waiting hopefully for cash. It was the m... (2018)
BY TOMORROW, over 46m Americans will have crisscrossed their country to spend Thanksgiving with family and friends. With any luck, turkey, pumpkin ... (2018)
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Rick Steves' The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today (2023)
Perpetual Crisis: Why Argentina is not rich (2022)
What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks... (2022)
Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
Trace the 7,000 year old history of alcohol, from its first known origins in China to cultures all over the world fermenting their own drinks.--Nob... (2021)
Learn about the Research Triangle from Bob Geolas, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who explains what the t... (2020)
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from sin... (2020)
Learn more about this project: http://www.myleszhang.org/here-grows-new-york-city/ This animation illustrates the development of NYC’s street grid ... (2019)
[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private... (2018)
This short film by Stanley Nelson explores the impact of bias within public accommodations as well as the possibilities for a better future. (2018)
Margin Call is a movie on how investment banks reacted to the impending collapse of the US real estate market in 2008, but like other finance films... (2022)
If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad? Open offices have been around a su... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on Sep 14, 2015 A summary of Jared Diamond's important arguments in Guns, Germs and Steel about why grow... (2018)
CNBC International Published on Oct 12, 2017 The IMF and World Bank hold their Annual Meetings together each fall in Washington. But do you kno... (2018)
Marginal Revolution University Published on May 23, 2017 In this video, we examine the causes behind the Great Depression with the help of the ... (2018)
Video of "The Audience Response Duplicator, or LaughBox, Laffbox. Still in working condition! THIS IS IT! The infamous box of canned laughter. U.S ... (2018)
original video -- Ethereum Published on Jul 29, 2014 3 minute explanation of Ethereum by inventor Vitalik Buterin. Ethereum is a platform that... (2018)
It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)
The Economist Published on Jan 31, 2018 Carnival started as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt and has grown to become one of the largest celebr... (2018)
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
The new film “Green Book” is rolling out across the country. I have not seen the film, so I can’t speak to its merits or shortcomings, but while pe... (2018)
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, a... (2025)
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.Thank ... (2024)
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and... (2020)
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com... (2018)
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Ga... (2024)
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on Sept... (2018)
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
years of history. free. online. awesome. Teach a mind-blowing history course that harnesses your students' natural curiosity about our world. ... (2021)