Bored and Ambitious
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Episodes: 124
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Long-form narrative history for listeners who want the whole story—not the highlight reel, but the full account of how we got here. Audiobook-length episodes, exhaustively researched, dramatically told. Every fact from the historical record. We trace the people, systems, and accidents that built the modern world—from the glacier that carved Manhattan to the banking rules now governing AI. History as architecture. Hosted by Sir Chadwick. Presented by BitsBound.
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Steel: The Skeleton of Civilization (Ep. 124)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Ibn Battuta: How a Twenty-One-Year-Old on a Donkey Mapped the First Global Civilization
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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New Orleans: Bienville's Bargain (Ep. 122)
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Ada Lovelace: How Lord Byron's Daughter Invented Programming (Ep. 121)
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Elon Musk: The Manchild Who Moved Mountains (Ep. 120)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Mississippi River: Mud, Mosquitoes, and Empire (Ep. 119)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange: How a Butter and Egg Club Built the Infrastructure of Global Risk (Ep. 118)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Standardized Time: The Clockwork Revolution That Remade The World (Ep. 117)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Britain's Second Greatest (Ep. 116)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Semiconductors: How Professional Betrayal Built Silicon Valley (Ep. 115)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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European Union: How Ancient Enemies Chose Bureaucracy Over Blood (Ep. 114)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Dubai: How a Fishing Village Became an Empire of Glass (Ep. 113)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Timber: The Wooden World (Ep. 112)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Mergers & Acquisitions: How Corporate Combination Built, Destroyed, and Rebuilt the Modern Economy (Ep. 111)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Anthropic: How the Race to Build AI Broke the Alliance (Ep. 110)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Vikings Age: How Dragon Ships Rewrote the Map of Civilization (Ep. 109)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Communism: How an Idea Conquered Half the World (Ep. 108)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Space Exploration: How Dreamers Reached the Stars (Ep. 107)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Automobile: How Bertha Benz Changed the World (Ep. 106)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Germany Post-WW2: The Wall In The Mind
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Feudal Japan: How Warriors Who Worshipped Destruction Built a Civilization (Ep. 104)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Simon Bolivar: How a Grief-Stricken Aristocrat Freed Six Nations (Ep. 103)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Mansa Musa: How One King's Pilgrimage Broke the World Economy (Ep. 102)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Submarines: How a Weapon Built for Peace Nearly Ended Civilization (Ep. 101)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Roman Roads: How a Blind Man's Vision Connected an Empire (Ep. 100)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Shaka Zulu: How an Insult Became the Most Feared Name in African History (Ep. 99)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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OPEC: The Cartel That Holds the World Hostage (Ep. 98)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Concrete: The Stone That Pours (Ep. 97)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Habsburg Dynasty: The Jaw That Ruled Europe (Ep. 96)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Printing Press: The Broke Genius Who Gave the World Its Voice (Ep. 95)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Amazon Rainforest: The Living Forest (Ep. 94)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Nikola Tesla: The Eternal Current (Ep. 93)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Airplane: The Bicycle Mechanics Who Conquered the Sky (Ep. 92)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Italian Mafia: The Unbroken Line (Ep. 91)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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British Raj: The Accidental Empire (Ep. 90)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Warren Buffett: The Snowball (Ep. 89)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Microsoft: Two Kids Who Saw the Future (Ep. 88)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Clock: The Carpenter Who Conquered the Sea (Ep. 87)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Credit Card: How Strangers Learned to Trust (Ep. 86)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Hong Kong: The Impossible City (Ep. 85)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Patents: The 550-Year War Over Ideas (Ep. 84)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Iran: The Conquered Religion That Conquered Everything
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The Rhine River: The River That Designed Europe (Ep. 82)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The Telegraph: How One Man's Grief Killed Distance (Ep. 81)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The Dutch East India Company: How Seventeen Men Invented the Corporation (Ep. 80 )
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Queen Victoria: The Widow of Windsor (Ep. 79 )
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Trash Disposal: The Great Disappearing Act (Ep. 78 )
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Oil: Black Gold Fever (Ep. 77 )
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Photography: The Twenty-Four Century Quest to Make Moments Stay (Ep. 76 )
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Amsterdam: How a Soggy Republic Invented Modern Capitalism (Ep. 75)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The 2008 Financial Crisis: How Brilliant Minds Built a Machine to Explode (Ep. 74)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Coal: The Fuel That Built and Buried Civilization (Ep. 73)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Radar: The Invisible Rivers of Energy (Ep. 72)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Nuclear Testing: How Humanity Learned to Destroy Itself (Ep. 71)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Francisco Franco: The Man Who Would Not Die (Ep. 70)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Crusades: God Wills It: How Two Words Drenched Two Centuries in Blood (Ep. 69)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Electricity: The Force We Tamed to Kill the Dark (Ep. 68)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The South Sea Bubble: When England Bet Everything on Nothing (Ep. 67)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Constantinople: The City That Was Rome's Last Heartbeat (Ep. 66)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The University: Where Doubt Became a Discipline (Ep. 65)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Otto von Bismarck: The Man Who Made Germany in Blood and Iron (Ep. 64)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Spread of Islam: From One Cave to Half the World (Ep. 63)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Internet: The Machine That Remembered Everything (Ep. 62)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Transcontinental Railroad: The Iron That Welded a Nation (Ep. 61)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Soviet Famine of 1930-1933: The Hunger That Was Meant to Kill (Ep. 60)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Magna Carta: The Failed Peace That Founded Freedom (Ep. 59)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Napoleonic Wars: The Emperor Who Crowned Himself (Ep. 58)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Alexander the Great: A Great Calamity for All Asia (Ep. 57)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Tulip Mania: The Disease of Beauty and the First Bubble to Break the World (Ep. 56)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Copper: The Red Metal That Runs Like Blood Through History (Ep. 55)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Steam Engine: The Fire That Broke the Ancient Chains of Muscle (Ep. 54)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mesopotamian Writing: How Accounting Clerks Invented the Future (Ep. 53)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Puritans: The City Upon a Hill and the Darkness of the American Soul (Ep. 52)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Mutiny on the Bounty: The Breadfruit, the Paradise, and the Charnel House (Ep. 51)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Deng Xiaoping: The Survivor Who Built Modern China—and Ordered the Tanks into Tiananmen (Ep. 50)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Nuclear Fission: Fire from the Gods—How the Physicists Split the Atom and Changed Everything (Ep. 49)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Gibraltar: The Rock That Holds the Key—Five Million Years at the Gate of the World (Ep. 48)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Antebellum Period: The House Dividing—How Four Million Souls Built an Empire That Nearly Destroyed Itself (Ep. 47)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Oliver Cromwell: The Impossible Revolution—How a Failed Farmer Killed a King (Ep. 46)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Operation Barbarossa: How Three Million Men Crossed a River and Sealed the Reich's Fate (Ep. 45)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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DNA: How the Discovery of the Double Helix Transformed Biology and Gave Humanity the Power to Rewrite the Code of Life (Ep. 44)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Lloyd's of London: How a Coffee House Became the World's Insurance Marketplace (Ep. 43)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Antibiotics: The Miracle Drugs That Transformed Medicine (Ep. 42)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Cape of Good Hope: How the Southern Tip of Africa Shaped Five Centuries of Global Trade, Colonization, and Conflict (Ep. 41)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The BBC: How Public Service Broadcasting Was Invented, Spread Worldwide, and Now Faces Its Greatest Challenge (Ep. 40)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Bretton Woods System: How 44 Nations Designed the Post-War Monetary Order, and Why It Collapsed (Ep. 39)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Strait of Malacca: Two Thousand Years of Commerce, Conquest, and Crisis in the World's Most Important Waterway (Ep. 38)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Medici Bank: How Florentine Bankers Invented Modern Finance, Bought the Papacy, and Financed the Renaissance (Ep. 37)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Norman Borlaug: How Dwarf Wheat, Synthetic Fertilizer, and One Stubborn Scientist Fed Billions (Ep. 36)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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LLM AI: The Seventy-Year Journey from Can Machines Think to Machines That Appear To (Ep. 35)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Taiwan: How a Small Island Became the Hinge of Global Power (Ep. 34)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Urban Plumbing: How Sewers and Water Mains Built the Modern City (Ep. 33)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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The Federal Reserve: How a Secret Meeting Created the Institution That Controls the Global Economy (Ep. 32)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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The Partition of India: How the Largest Mass Migration in History Created Two Nations (Ep. 31)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Refrigeration: How Humanity Conquered Cold and Remade the World (Ep. 30)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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The Hanseatic League: How a Network of Merchant Cities Dominated Northern Europe (Ep. 29)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Lithium: The Element Powering the Green Transition and the Communities Paying for It (Ep. 28)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Singapore: How a City-State Built Prosperity Through Authoritarian Pragmatism (Ep. 27)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Lawrence of Arabia: The Arab Revolt, the Betrayal, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Ep. 26)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Gunpowder: The Accidental Invention That Ended the Medieval World (Ep. 25)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Early North America Economics: The Colonies that Paid (Ep. 24)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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The English Feudal System: From Conquest to Common Law (Ep. 23)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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The Dot-Com Bubble: Speculative Mania and Technological Transformation (Ep. 22)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Industrial Revolution: The Great Transformation of Human Economic Existence (Ep. 21)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Switzerland: The Architecture of Permanent Neutrality (Ep. 20)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Smallpox: The Only Disease Humanity Ever Killed (Ep. 20)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Holy Roman Empire: Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire (Ep. 18)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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The Haber-Bosch Process: The Invention That Feeds Half of Humanity (Ep. 17)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Transistor: The Tiny Switch that Built Tomorrow (Ep. 16)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Standard Oil: The Octopus (Ep. 15)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Irish Famine, 1845-1852: Free Market Ideology Gone Wrong (Ep. 14)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Discovery of Anesthesia, 1842-1848: How Humanity Learned to Turn Off Suffering (Ep. 13)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Congo Free State, 1885-1908: How One Man's Private Colony Killed Ten Million People (Ep. 12)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Code and Contract: The Hidden Unity of Law and Software (Ep. 11)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Spice Trade, 1400-1800: How the Hunt for Flavor Built the First Global Economy (Ep. 10)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Panama Canal, 1879-1999: The Ditch That Split a Continent (Ep. 09)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Venetian Republic, 421-1797: The Floating Empire that Invented Modern Capitalism (Ep. 08)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Rothschilds: The First Family of Finance (Ep. 07)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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JPMorgan Chase, 1907-Present: From Morgan to JPMC (Ep. 06)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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China, 1839-1976: The Century of Humiliation (Ep. 05)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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The British East India Company: The Corporation That Ate the World (Ep. 04)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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GSIB AI Governance: The Five Layer Stack (Ep. 03)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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James Cook: The Man Who Mapped the World (Ep. 02)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Founding NYC: The Merchant Island (Ep. 01)
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Jan 15, 2026 |