Everything Everywhere Daily

Everything Everywhere Daily

Learn something new every day! Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast for Intellectually Curious People. Host Gary Arndt tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Gary is an accomplished world traveler, travel photographer, and polymath. Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture. Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, China, Egypt, and India. as well as historical leaders such as Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Sparticus, and the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Geography episodes have covered Malta, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Monaco, Luxembourg, Vatican City, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Isle of Man, san marino, Namibia, the Golden Gate Bridge, Montenegro, and Greenland. Technology episodes have covered nanotechnology, aluminum, fingerprints, longitude, qwerty keyboards, morse code, the telegraph, radio, television, computer gaming, Episodes explaining the origin of holidays include Memorial Day, April Fool’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Christmas, Ramadan, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, the Fourth of July, Famous people in history covered in the podcast include Salvador Dali, Jim Thorpe, Ada Lovelace, Jessie Owens, Robert Oppenheimer, Picasso, Isaac Newton, Attila the Hun, Lady Jane Grey, Cleopatra, Sun Yat Sen, Houdini, Tokyo Rose, William Shakespeare, Queen Boudica, Empress Livia, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Sheba, Ramanujan, and Zheng He.

Episodes

March 26, 2024 11 mins
In the late 19th century, several of the world’s foremost investors engaged in a public battle for the future of electricity. The battle was fought in boardrooms and newspapers, and there was seemingly nothing that was off-limits.  The battle eventually took the lives of several people…..and several dogs. Learn more about the current wars between George Westinghouse, Nikolai Tesla, and Thomas Edison on this episode of Everything Ev...
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Over the last 200 years, railroads have been one of the most important methods of transportation. Railroads helped make the modern world. They are capable of transporting people and goods quickly over long distances at a low cost.  However, most people would be shocked to learn that railways predate the development of locomotives. In fact, the earliest evidence of using some sort of premade track dates back thousands of years befor...
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March 24, 2024 14 mins
Located on a peninsula and series of islands off the southeastern coast of China lies what is today called the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.  Hong Kong didn’t play a central role in the thousands of years of Chinese history. However, it has played a pivotal role in the region for the last 200 years.  It went from being a backwater to becoming one of the most important financial and business hubs in the world.  Learn m...
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March 23, 2024 12 mins
In the early 17th century, Japan was witness to a samurai who was arguably its greatest warrior.  He wasn’t just one of the greatest swordsmen in history; he was a philosopher, a writer, an artist, and, in contravention to the samurai code at the time, he was a vagabond.  Today, he is considered a saint of Japanese martial arts, and he has been portrayed in Japanese movies and books. Learn more about Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s great...
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March 22, 2024 11 mins
For thousands of years, rice has been one of the most important agricultural crops in the world.  It has fed billions of people, has been crossbred into tens of thousands of variants, and is now grown in every continent except Antarctica. The importance of rice has not diminished over time and in fact, might grow in the future.  Learn more about rice, and how it was domesticated and spread around the world on this episode of Everyt...
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March 21, 2024 11 mins
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 surprising. I am of course talking about bicycles. Learn about the history of bicycles and how the modern ...
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March 20, 2024 14 mins
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March 19, 2024 14 mins
On the morning of August 27, 1883, one of the most destructive natural disasters of the 19th century occurred on the island of Java, in what is today the nation of Indonesia.  After weeks of low-level rumblings, a volcanic eruption totally obliterated the mountain that it had formed.  The devastation wasn’t limited to the immediate area around the volcano. The blast's effects literally affected the entire planet. Learn more about t...
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March 18, 2024 14 mins
Cutting across the state of Arizona is one of the wonders of the national world: The Grand Canyon.  The Grand Canyon draws attention not only for its overwhelming size and intricate and colorful landscape but also for the deep and exposed layers of Earth's history that are visible in its walls.  The history of the Grand Canyon is a fascinating combination of its geologic origins and its history of human use. Learn more about the Gr...
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March 17, 2024 13 mins
In 1860, the United States was as divided as it ever had been. The issue of slavery had been growing more and more contentious over the decades and by 1860, things were nearing a breaking point.  The presidential election of 1860 literally would determine the future of the country, or if there would continue to even be a country.  Learn more about the presidential election of 1860, the most important presidential election in Americ...
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A little over 400 years ago, a group of Dutch investors had a revolutionary idea.  They were embarking on an incredibly risky endeavor, and to spread the risk, they were going to share ownership of the new venture.  Even better, each part of the ownership in this venture could be bought and sold to other investors. Their innovation is one of the most powerful economic forces in the world today. Learn more about stocks and stock exc...
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March 15, 2024 15 mins
Before the Ideas of March, before he crossed the Rubicon, and before he became Rome’s dictator for life, Julius Caesar had led a very interesting life.  We know more about his early life than most Romans simply because of his accomplishments later in life, but what he did and experienced clearly shaped the person he became. As such, they indirectly shaped the fate of the entire Roman Republic. Learn more about the life of young Jul...
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March 14, 2024 12 mins
Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi.  It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years.  Today there are still more we are discovering about this number with the help of supercomputers.  Learn more about pi and how our kn...
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March 13, 2024 14 mins
Before the development of electricity and electrical communications, the fastest information could travel was the speed of a horse. Maybe a ship might have been a bit faster depending on the route, but for the most part, the speed of information was limited to the speed of a human.  However, there was one exception to this. It was a communications method that could only carry small amounts of information, it only worked in one dire...
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March 12, 2024 14 mins
The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA. The CIA is tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information as well as conducting covert action and clandestine operations.  It was created in the shadow of the Second World War and became one of the most important organizations during the Cold War, as well as the most powerful in...
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March 11, 2024 13 mins
Behind almost every web page, email, and podcast is a system that translates addresses understandable to humans to something which can be understood by computers.  The system is one of the foundations of the Internet, yet its origin was in a handmade list that was placed on a single computer.  Unbeknownst to the creators of the system, it would eventually affect the fortunes of entire countries.  Learn more about the Domain Name Sy...
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March 10, 2024 15 mins
Every military in the world is a hierarchal organization. There are people at the top who make decisions, people down below who follow those orders, and people in between who make it happen.  Today, most militaries have an elaborate rank structure with multiple ranks in the chain of command.  However, it wasn’t always like that. The modern system of ranks evolved over time, and the ranks that exist today have origins that go back c...
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March 9, 2024 9 mins
Every year, around this time, people who live in northern latitude countries turn their clocks ahead one hour. Then, months later, we do the exact same thing in reverse, setting all of our clocks back.  Why do we do this? Is there a good reason for it? Should we continue to do it?  Learn more about the history and future of Daylight Savings Time on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Sign up today at butcherbo...
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March 8, 2024 12 mins
In the late 19th century, the American frontier became famous for its outlaws and gangsters. Men like Billy the Kid and Jesse James became notorious for their criminal exploits. While this was happening in the American West, there were similar outlaws in the Australian bush.  One, in particular, has captured the imagination of Australia, and the reason he became so famous was…..unique. Learn more about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang ...
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March 7, 2024 13 mins
Nestled in the heart of West Africa lie two nations with distinct identities yet tied together by a common geography and history: Senegal and The Gambia. The landscape of this region wasn’t always as fragmented as it is now. It wasn’t until the 19th century that it was carved into the separate entities we recognize today, a division that has persisted into contemporary times. Efforts have been made to bridge the divide, but the bou...
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