Discovery

In the late 19th century, nefarious groups ruled the streets of London, but one stood out: the Forty Elephants, London's all-female organization. Contemporaries of the real Peaky Blinders, these women were the best shoplifters in London, able to hide mult...

The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians. During the Middle Ages the tradition continued only among the nobility, as most of the peasant classes didn’t have the money for suc...

Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue. Every color and/or shade have not existed since the dawn of time. Not to mention the word itself.

In the late Stone Age, the pagan people of the British Isles constructed some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world, in Season 1, Episode 13, "The Pagans".

A Tour of Earth's Ancient Supercontinents

The study of natural history is the study of how the world has changed but Earth itself is in a constant state of flux -- because the ground beneath your feet is always moving. So if we want to know how we got here, we have to understand how "here" got he...

Maps from the age of discovery are filled with some pretty interesting geography. They had a mass that kept the world from tipping over, the north pole had a giant magnetic rock in the center, there was even land populated by giants. This video is an ex...

Water hemlock is even more troubling that its relative hemlock. Through the years people have accidentally eaten it because it looks similar to wild carrot. We will look at the symptoms people suffer through when accidentally ingested. Also we will look a...

Explore a dreamlike realm where flora and fauna have evolved to use spells. A breakdown of Luca Vanzella’s surreal worldbuilding project ‘Codex Inversus.’

What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?

Taken from 1997 VHS of "Sleeping Beauty"

Go explore what makes Earth so unique by visiting one of the 400 parks protected by the National Park Foundation.

Edward I (actually the fourth, but who's counting?) is familiar to most as the antagonist in the 1995 film Braveheart. Played to malevolent perfection by veteran Irish actor Patrick McGoohan, Edward is typically remembered as a tyrannical but brutally eff...

In today's episode we are looking into the life of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a minor German princess who married to King George III and become queen consort. She has become a source of debate over the years and this has surged in recent years f...

Could megalithic structures of the ancient world have once been used as data storage units? And could the high crystal content of certain megaliths have facilitated such date storage? Here we examine the controversial claims of those researchers who suppo...

A group of modern shopkeepers and their families are on the journey of a lifetime - they're taking over empty shops in a neglected market square in Shepton Mallet to see if they can turn back time for the British High Street. They'll live and trade throug...