TechStuff Looks at Solid State Drives
What is a solid state drive? How are they different from magnetic storage devices? How do SSDs erase data? Join Jonathan and Chris as they [Read more]
Podcast
The First Olympics, Revisited
In this episode, we revisit a podcast on the first Olympics. The first Olympics featured familiar events, but also some lethal exhibitions. Married women were [Read more]
The Halo Story
How did the Halo game series get started? Who is publishing the latest Halo game? How does Halo relate to the Marathon trilogy? Join Chris [Read more]
Cosmic Evolution 02 Fallen Angels
This document accompanies the audio lecture.
Medieval travel and anti-suffrage postcards
Paul Oldfield details the medieval travelling experience, while June Purvis analyses anti-Suffragette postcards.
Microsoft’s History with Tablets
How long has Microsoft supported pen-based PC interfaces? When did Bill Gates unveil the Tablet PC? What do we know about the Microsoft Surface tablet? [Read more]
Listener Mail Roundup: Collector’s Edition
In a recent episode on George Arents, we asked listeners what kind of book collections they keep. We heard from people with interests ranging from [Read more]
The Amelia Earhart Mystery (Update)
In this classic episode, former hosts Candace and Katie explore the events surrounding Amelia Earhart’s mysterious disappearance in 1937, and possible theories as to what [Read more]
TechStuff Looks at Supercomputers
What is a supercomputer? What was the first supercomputer? How fast is the fastest supercomputer? In this episode, Chris and Jonathan add up the facts [Read more]
Smuggling and sport
Evan Jones explores smuggling in the Tudor era, and Alistair Dougall tells us why sport became a battleground in the 17th century.