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George WashingtonThis episode traces George Washington from a fatherless eleven-year-old inheriting a Virgi Attack on Pearl HarborThis episode looks past the familiar image of the attack to examine how the United States Battle of StalingradThis episode examines how the Battle of Stalingrad began as a secondary objective in Germa Battle of GaugamelaOn October 1, 331 BC, Alexander's army defeated Darius III on a plain in northern Iraq, bu George OrwellGeorge Orwell wasn't born a prophet of totalitarianism—he was Eric Arthur Blair, the son o Thomas EdisonThomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb alone—and he didn't invent it first. This episo Karl MarxKarl Marx's life was defined by the very poverty and precarity he theorized about—his coat Battle of ManzikertOn August 26, 1071, Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes faced the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arsl PlatoTwenty-four centuries after Plato's death, nearly all his works survive—but almost none of LaoziLaozi—meaning "Old Master"—might not be a name at all, but a title applied to a teacher, a Factorio FFF #447 Explained — Factorio That You Can TouchAn AI-generated companion to Wube's Friday Facts #447 — "Factorio that you can touch" — br Patch 26.19 — The Patch Before the Worlds Patch26.19 was not really written for you, and Riot say so in the first paragraph. The Worlds p Factorio FFF #446 Explained — An ARM and a FrameAn AI-generated companion to Wube's Friday Facts #446 — "An ARM and a Frame" — broken down PoE2 0.5.5c — Patch BreakdownPath of Exile 2's 0.5.5c is a cleanup patch — seventeen lines, almost all bug fixes, no ba CRM Fundamentals: What Actually MattersA practical deep dive into customer relationship management systems—what they actually are PoE2 0.5.5 Forbidden Rites — Patch Breakdown (through 0.5.5b)Path of Exile 2's Forbidden Rites league is a week old, and 0.5.5b just landed. This is th Patch 26.18 — Riot Draws a Line at 100 APPatch 26.18 is a patch of scalpels. Almost nothing in it simply nerfs a champion — instead Marie CurieMarie Curie's story is usually told as a triumph of genius, but the real work was far mess Abraham LincolnThree hosts examine whether Abraham Lincoln deserves his place as America's greatest presi The United States: A Nation Invented on PurposeA short episode on the United States of America — thirteen rebel colonies, a written Const Albert Einstein: The Mind That Bent the UniverseA short biographical episode on Albert Einstein — the patent clerk whose 1905 papers rewro Patch 26.17 — Yasuo and Yone Get Half the Crit Tax BackPatch 26.17 is a patch about scaling. Riot hands the melee AD carries — Irelia, Qiyana, Ya PoE 3.29.3 — Patch BreakdownPath of Exile 3.29.3 landed on August 12th, and it is not a cleanup patch: it adds a whole Percents: The Arithmetic Everyone Actually UsesThree educators unpack why percent confuses so many people and what the word itself reveal Fractions: The Idea Most Maths Anxiety Starts WithFractions aren't inherently hard—they're taught badly, stripped of the visual reasoning th Sequences, Counting, and ProbabilityThree experts—a former casino manager, a high school math teacher, and an insurance risk a Patch 26.16 — The Second Jungler Gets Evicted, and Classic Balances Like It's 2012Patch 26.16 is a patch about who is allowed to play where: roaming supports get pulled bac Systems of Equations: Solving for Several Things at OnceSchool teaches you to solve for one unknown, but the real world hands you two, three, or t The Door to Calculus: Limits and Rates of ChangeWhat does it mean to have a speed when you haven't traveled any distance? This episode tra Trigonometric Functions: Triangles, Circles, and WavesSine and cosine are introduced through right triangles, but that's only the beginning. Thi Analytic Geometry: Conic Sections as EquationsThree educators explore why slicing a cone four different ways produces circles, ellipses, Terraforming Mars: rules mistakes explained — Tabletop RefresherIt has been six months since your group played Terraforming Mars, and somewhere in there t Brass: Birmingham: rules mistakes explained — Tabletop RefresherIt has been a year since you played Brass: Birmingham. Everybody remembers that the game i Wingspan: rules mistakes explained — Tabletop RefresherIt has been six months since you played Wingspan. The box is open, everybody half-remember Root: rules mistakes explained — Tabletop RefresherIt's been six months since Root hit the table, and somebody is about to march warriors thr Ark Nova: rules mistakes explained — Tabletop RefresherIt's been six months since Ark Nova was on the table, and somebody is about to misplay the Polynomial and Rational Functions: Curves With CharacterPolynomial and rational functions aren't just equations to solve—they're shapes with perso FTC Abandons Disparate-Impact ClaimsA weekly report on the consumer-protection enforcement actions the Federal Trade Commissio One Approval, One Missing LabelA weekly report on the drug and biologic approvals the U.S. Food and Drug Administration p The Atom: How a Picture of Matter Was AssembledThe atom's structure was assembled through a series of failed models and clever experiment Momentum: Why Collisions Work the Way They DoMomentum is conserved in every collision—whether a billiard break, a car crash, or a rocke Exam P: Conditional Probability and Bayes' Theorem, ExplainedEpisode 5 of Exam P Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam P candidates, structured around Exam FM: Immunization and Cash-Flow Matching, ExplainedTwo ways to stop an interest-rate move from hurting you, and the reason the syllabus saves Exam FM: Convexity and Approximating a Change in Present Value, ExplainedEpisode 16 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Macaulay Duration vs. Modified Duration, ExplainedEpisode 15 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Spot Rates, Forward Rates, and the Yield Curve, ExplainedEpisode 14 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Yield Rates, Net Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return, ExplainedEpisode 13 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Callable Bonds and Pricing to the Worst Yield, ExplainedEpisode 12 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Book Value, Amortization of Premium, and Accumulation of Discount, ExplainedEpisode 11 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Bond Pricing at Par, Premium, and Discount, ExplainedEpisode 10 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured aro Exam FM: Drop Payments, Balloon Payments, and Refinancing, ExplainedEpisode 9 of the Exam FM season, and the close of the Loans block. Loans almost never divi Exam FM: Splitting a Loan Payment into Interest and Principal, ExplainedEpisode 8 of the Exam FM season. Every loan payment does two jobs at once: it pays rent on Exam FM: Loan Amortization and the Outstanding Balance, ExplainedEpisode 7 of the Exam FM season. A loan is an annuity seen from the other side of the tabl Exam P: Linear Combinations and the Central Limit TheoremEpisode 18 of Exam P Explained — the season finale. Concept audio for SOA Exam P candidate Exam FM: Geometric Annuities and Payments Made m-thly, ExplainedEpisode 6 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured arou Exam P: Order Statistics — the Minimum, the Maximum, and the RestEpisode 17 of Exam P Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam P candidates, structured aroun Exam FM: Arithmetic Increasing and Decreasing Annuities, ExplainedEpisode 5 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured arou Exam P: Covariance and Correlation, ExplainedEpisode 16 of Exam P Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam P candidates, structured aroun Exam FM: Perpetuities and Level Annuities, ExplainedEpisode 4 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured arou Exam FM: Annuities Immediate vs. Annuities Due, ExplainedEpisode 3 of Exam FM Explained — concept audio for SOA Exam FM candidates, structured arou