Great Britain
island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe
Episodes
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#5589: Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome: What Cheap Power Tools CostCheap power tools changed construction — and quietly introduced a disease that damages nerves and blood vessels in the hands. Here's what HAVS actu... -
#5498: Who Was a Superpower Before America?The word "superpower" was invented in 1944. So how do you build a list of them stretching back to Akkad? -
#5359: When Everyone Goes to UniversityDegree inflation, a collapsing graduate premium, and the case that mass university was a costly detour. -
#5333: How Screws Conquered the WorldThe screw spent 2,000 years as a machine before it held anything together. Here's how it became the hardware aisle we know. -
#5582: Who Invented the Internet? Actually, Seven PeopleThe first message ever sent was "LO" — then the system crashed. The real story of the internet is a stack of seven layers, not one genius. -
#5168: Ten Inventors You've Never Heard OfFrom the yellow traffic light to the geoid model behind GPS — ten inventors whose quiet work reshaped daily life, and why we forgot them.