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

How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World (Encore)

May 25, 2024 • 12 mins
When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered.  However, there was a problem. Creating physical divisions for plots of land on the prairie was difficult when there was no stone or wood.  Eventually, there was a solution to the problem, which offered a cheap way to divide land…and created a whole host of new problems as well.  Learn more about...
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Joan of Arc

May 24, 2024 • 14 mins
In 1428, a young girl from the village of Domrémy, France, audaciously set out to meet the heir apparent to the French throne, the Dauphin, and told him what he had to do to defeat the English occupying her country.  She claimed that she was told what to do by God.  Against all odds, the Dauphin took her advice, and it worked. After a series of military victories, the Dauphin was crowned king, and the young girl went on to become o...
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Nazis in South America

May 23, 2024 • 14 mins
On May 11, 1960, an auto worker who went by Ricardo Klement stepped off the bus after his shift at a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  As he was walking home, he was abducted by several men and thrown into a vehicle. This was no ordinary kidnapping, however. There was no demand for ransom. That was because this was no ordinary autoworker. This was actually Adolf Eichmann, one of the masterminds behind the ...
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The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

May 22, 2024 • 14 mins
From 1929 to 1992, several governments ruled over the Balkans, all of whom used the name “Yugoslavia.” Yugoslavia was a country that began with a dream but was born out of war and ultimately ended in war.  While the nation of Yugoslavia no longer exists, Its legacy can still be felt in the countries that formerly compromised it.  Learn more about Yugoslavia, its rise, and its fall on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sp...
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Why Does a Week Have Seven Days? (Encore)

May 21, 2024 • 13 mins
Most of our major divisions of time are based on some sort of natural event.  A year is one orbit of the Earth around the sun. A month is one orbit of the Moon around the Earth. A day is one rotation of the Earth about its axis.  However, one of the most commonly used units of time has no natural analog whatsoever. Learn more about why there are seven days in a week and where the names for the day of the week come from on this epis...
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All About Viruses

May 20, 2024 • 15 mins
Inside you right now are most probably millions of, possibly even trillions of viruses.  Some viruses are extremely deadly, but the vast majority are completely benign. They can be found in almost every type of life, including plants, animals, and bacteria.  Yet viruses are completely different from any other type of life form. In fact, it is debatable whether they are even life forms at all.  Learn more about viruses, what they ar...
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The Battle of Adrianople

May 19, 2024 • 14 mins
On August 9, 378, one of the most important battles in history took place.  While largely forgotten today, it was a critical battle that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire.  It wasn’t just a loss for the Roman army; it also resulted in the death of an emperor, and it also contributed to the rise of a group known as the Visigoths, who would go on to spread throughout much of Europe over the next several centuries.  Lear...
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Smuggling Silk Out of China (Encore)

May 18, 2024 • 12 mins
There was no product more important to the economy of the ancient world than silk.  Silk was transported thousands of miles to be purchased by people so far away from its source that they had no clue where it came from.  The source of silk, however, was China, and for centuries, they had a monopoly, which brought them tremendous wealth.  That was until they didn’t.  Learn more about how the secret to silk was smuggled out of China,...
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The Anaconda Plan

May 17, 2024 • 13 mins
When the United States entered the Civil War, the Union needed a plan for conducting the war.  Its senior military commander, General Windfield Scott, devised a strategy that would play to the Union's strengths and exploit the Confederacy's weaknesses. He hoped that it would bring about a swift end to the war and minimize the loss of human life.  The plan didn’t bring about a swift end to the war, but it did play an instrumental ro...
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City Syndromes

May 16, 2024 • 14 mins
Psychologists have identified hundreds of different psychological disorders and conditions.  Some of them are rather common conditions that affect large segments of the population at one time or another. Others are quite rare and only come up in certain circumstances or even in certain places.  Within that, there is a rare subset of psychological conditions that only tend to appear in certain cities, or were named after cities wher...
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The Phoenician Civilization (Encore)

May 15, 2024 • 12 mins
Sometime around 3,200 years ago, a new civilization became ascendent on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.  This group wasn’t like the Empires that surrounded them. They weren’t focused so much on land acquisition and conquest so much as they were focused on commerce and trade.  For centuries they ruled over trade and commerce in the Mediterranean until they finally succumbed to their more powerful neighbors. Learn more ab...
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Edward Teller and the Development of the H-Bomb

May 14, 2024 • 14 mins
During the Second World War, the United States established the highly secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb based on nuclear fission. While the Manhattan Project was ultimately successful, some in the program were thinking bigger. They felt that the explosion from an uncontrolled fission reaction could be used to create an even larger explosion using nuclear fusion.  One man, in particular, felt that such a device was ...
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Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave (Encore)

May 13, 2024 • 11 mins
In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured.  He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his life living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a chance meeting revealed his true identity, which eventually led to his freedom and the involvement of the President of the United States.  Learn more...
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All About Hair

May 12, 2024 • 14 mins
If you are listening to me speak these words and can understand what I’m saying, then you are a human being. If you are a human being, you are also a mammal, and if you are a mammal, you have hair….or at least the biological capability to produce hair. But why exactly do we have hair? What function does it serve? Why do we have less than other animals? And why do people have different types of hair? Learn more about hair, what it d...
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Kamikaze

May 11, 2024 • 15 mins
In the last year of the Second World War, things were not going well for the Imperial Japanese military.  They had lost several major naval battles against the United States, they were losing territory, and they had no capability to rebuild the ships that they were losing. They were desperate to find something to turn the tide of the war. What they settled on was one of the most terrifying tactics of the entire conflict for partici...
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The 1956 Suez Crisis

May 10, 2024 • 14 mins
In 1956, one of the most important geopolitical events of the post-war period took place in Egypt.  Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in the world.  In response, a coalition of several countries tried to take it back. However, it didn’t go as planned, and it signaled a major reshuffling of the geopolitical order.  Learn more about the Suez Crisis and how it shaped the second half of the 20th cen...
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The History of Camping

May 9, 2024 • 14 mins
We are all familiar with camping, and many of us go camping or camp regularly. Enjoying the great outdoors with friends and family can be an enjoyable experience. However, camping has a history that is unlike most things in humanity. The path from the ancient world to luxury glamping was not straight.  Despite having very ancient roots, what we know today as camping is a relatively modern phenomenon.  Learn more about the history o...
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Plastics (Encore)

May 8, 2024 • 14 mins
At the 1862 London International Exhibition, an inventor by the name of Andrew Parkes introduced a new product based on cellulose that he called Parkesine. Little did he know that this material which could be made elastic when heated and molded into almost any shape imaginable would be the basis for an enormous percentage of the materials in common use in the 21st century.  Learn more about plastics, how they were invented and how ...
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The Battle of Bannockburn

May 7, 2024 • 14 mins
In June of 1314, Scottish forces under the command of Robert the Bruce squared off against an English army led by King Edward II. The battle was the culmination of years of English intervention in Scotland after a succession crisis. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Scots won the day, earned their independence, and firmly established Robert the Bruce as king of Scotland. Learn more about the Battle of Bannockburn and its role i...
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The Plan Dog Memorandum (Encore)

May 6, 2024 • 9 mins
In 1940, much of the world was at war, but the United States wasn’t. A strong isolationist sentiment kept the US on the sidelines while Germany and Japan ran roughshod over their neighbors.  While the US wasn’t in the war, many people in the US military knew that it was only a matter of time before we got sucked in.  Over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a plan was developed for just that eventuality. Learn more about the ...
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