1505 Episodes

  1. 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Published: 10/11/2024

  2. How the QR code was invented

    Published: 10/10/2024

  3. The world's first general purpose electronic computer

    Published: 10/9/2024

  4. WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

    Published: 10/8/2024

  5. Eliza: When chatbots started

    Published: 10/7/2024

  6. The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

    Published: 10/4/2024

  7. The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

    Published: 10/3/2024

  8. South Africa’s nuclear weapons

    Published: 10/2/2024

  9. Cambodia war crimes

    Published: 10/1/2024

  10. Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass

    Published: 9/30/2024

  11. The Estonia ferry disaster

    Published: 9/27/2024

  12. South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage

    Published: 9/26/2024

  13. Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa

    Published: 9/25/2024

  14. Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society

    Published: 9/24/2024

  15. India's Mars Orbiter Mission

    Published: 9/23/2024

  16. Designing the Google logo

    Published: 9/20/2024

  17. The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur

    Published: 9/19/2024

  18. India’s plague outbreak

    Published: 9/18/2024

  19. Camouflaging Leningrad

    Published: 9/17/2024

  20. The invention of the CT scanner

    Published: 9/16/2024

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