Anna and Paul discuss sandstone construction, geotechnical engineering, ghosts, demons, communicating with the spirit world, the first form of waterproof building construction, and some unorthodox building materials. Come on in for a zany mix of concrete and ethereal!

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Anna, Paul, and special guest co-host Kelli Beard discuss the Great Wall of China, the Mongols(!!!), the movie 300, agrarian vs nomadic societies, the boy who cried wolf, fun alternate histories, and whether or not the wall really did anything at all.

Kelli's podcast, A Popular History of Unpopular Things (APHOUT), is one of our favorites! It's a podcast that makes history more fun and accessible- featuring all things gory, gross, mysterious, and bloody disgusting! Check it out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-popular-history-of-unpopular-things/id1645774647

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Anna and Paul discuss the the telegraph, online love, t-posing on the haters, sauerkraut, chat rooms, ciphers, codes, not understanding new technology, and the Wheatstone bridge. Grab your casserole pans and join us on Telegraph Hill!

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Anna and Paul discuss the Matriarch of Computer Science, Ada Lovelace, as well as computers, Gary Vaynerchuk, programming structures, Gran Torino, Lord Byron, and poetry. Listen in for an unexpectedly wide-reaching convo touching literature, STEM, and innovation!

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Anna and Paul discuss the complex, triumphant, and tragic life of the genius atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Grab your plutonium and let's saddle up a horse to New Mexico!

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Anna and Paul discuss petty revenge, cat AIDS, the ASPCA, engineering ethics, living foot warmers, badly done taxidermy, and annoying Roman children in this collection of 3 zany stories from engineering history.

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Anna and Paul discuss probability theory, secret Nazi codes, Jurassic Park, tuberculosis, the first vegan, and sacrificing everything for your country in a deep podcast. Grab your code-breaking manual and let's head into the trenches of World War II!

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Anna and Paul discuss the world's greatest rocket, the Saturn V. Grab your fins, cryogenic stage, and command module and let's beat the commies to the moon!

Anna and Paul discuss the tangled web surrounding the discovery of the helical structure of DNA. Grab your x-ray crystallography lab equipment and get ready to publish someone else's research cause we're going on a crazy ride from the UK to Paris!

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