Culture Craft

This one is hard to explain. We start by attempting to rank all the people we covered so far. You know, who would win between John Harrington and Nelly Bly. That sort of thing. We end... somewhere else. Point is: Join...

This month’s round up takes us from the Roman Republic to the invention of baseball. Together we ask the hard hitting questions such as, “Has anyone ever had a good day at Gettysburg?”, “How do you sneak up on a...

This week, Ian tells us about astronomer and polymath, Sir John Herschel. A member of the scientific Herschel family, John carried his family's legacy to new heights. Join us as we discuss the merits of oboes on the...

Today we discuss a very fancy lady who loved fashion, philosophy and peotry. She lived through the English Civil War and died a duchess. Her excentricities made her a celebrity, and her fearless self promotion makes her...

You simply will not believe how much we have to talk about steel barrels in this one. In the second, and final, part of her story, Nellie goes to war: figuratively against the banks and literally as she kind of...

Nellie Bly’s willingness to do anything to get the story was matched only by her willingness to put herself right in the center of it. Join us as we discuss the pioneer journalist who conned her way into the madhouse...

Join us for Culture Critters #2! This is a crazy one! Dave tells the story of Operation Moolah- the time the US tried to bribe the North Koreans to defect with a MIG-15 jet fighter. Ian tells us INSANE story of "God's...

Ian takes us through the work of Sir John Harington; railing against the muck and mire of court of Queen Elizabeth with the invention of the toilet. We talk about about how gross and unwashed everyone was in the 1500s...

Come learn about the life and times of Gerardus Mercator. The dude who gave us the first world map and also got it so wrong in so many ways that would have massive implications for the rest of time. We get a glimpse...

Elle takes us through the life of Robert Fulton in his transcontinental search for the new nautical norm. This is a cool cat. Holding his own with engineers and designers at the age of 12, building the most insane 1-man...

<p>Elle takes us through the life of Robert Fulton in his transcontinental search for the new nautical norm. </p><p><br></p><p>This is a cool cat. Holding his own with engineers and designers at the age of 12, building...

<p>This is our inaugural foray into what (at Dave's insistence) we are calling Culture Critters! It's a roundup episode where each of us gets to tell a story we've come across that doesn't quite fit the broader format...

This is our inaugural foray into what (at Dave's insistence) we are calling Culture Critters! It's a roundup episode where each of us gets to tell a story we've come across that doesn't quite fit the broader format of...

<p>Dave takes us through the daring and ludicrous life of terrible capitalist, Frederic Tudor. This is a guy who had bankrupted multiple businesses by age 17 and thought it was a great idea to load a boat full of ice in...

Dave takes us through the daring and ludicrous life of terrible capitalist, Frederic Tudor. This is a guy who had bankrupted multiple businesses by age 17 and thought it was a great idea to load a boat full of ice in...