History Behind News
Others cover the news. We uncover the history behind it. History Behind News podcast is investigative history with scholars. We don't narrate history. Rather, we ask the questions of why and how we got here. We do this in weekly conversations with eminent scholars who explain the history behind curr… read more
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S3E37: China's Economic History - Why China's Innovation Fell Behind Europe's
Did you know, that the compass, gunpowder, paper, and the printing press, all history-changing technologies, were invented in China? Yet, the …
S3E36: How Humans Fear Their Own Creations - From Frankenstein to Artificial Intelligence
From Gutenberg to Frankenstein to the Luddites to Edison to Ford and to AI - this is our story of fearing human creations, and also our story of …
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