Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California’s Cash Crop Even as “we are staring down the end of all things,” there is still inspiration to be found in “ancient texts,” ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Robert talks with Tom Standage, author of The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. The book chronicles the invention of a chess-playing machine made by a ...

Discusses the invention by Wolfgang von Kempeden of a mechanical man made of wood and powered by clockwork, and its impact on the history of technology.