The flu was over, at last. It caused so much devastation and destruction, and also inspired a lot of technological and scientific progress. If a new strain does arise, we are much more prepared than t...
2018-08-10 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a global pandemic. The flu jumps ship, literally, onto the docks of American Samoa, of South Africa, of Alaska, of India. The 1918 flu infects every human continent.
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2018-08-03 17:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Come join us at 5pm PT (4 hours from when this was posted) to talk about how being sick has historically plagued humanity, and other questions you might have about the show.
If you are seeing ...
2018-07-29 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Philadelphia gets hit the hardest. New York fares somewhat better, but everyone is trying to keep hush-hush about a pandemic that still found its way into a children's rhyme: influenza.
2018-07-27 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our next Q&A with the staff is coming up in a couple days! We can discuss Flu Pandemic, Pellagra, and maybe other medical questions you have (disclaimer: we are not a doctor).
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2018-07-27 04:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's special edition of Extra History delves into another terror from the history of public health: a disease called Pellagra that killed up to 100,000 Americans in the early 20th century.
We're already approaching the video editing phase for the first episode of Majapahit, so if you want to update your pledge (whether increasing or reducing it), we recommend doing so by Monday (7/30) n...
2018-07-25 02:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We will be doing a series on Dr. Sun Yat-sen: Rebel on the Run later in 2018!
1918 Flu Pandemic --> Majapahit: An Empire of Water --> Viking Expansion --> Dr. Sun Yat...
2018-07-24 00:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In Philadelphia, the mayor and his health officials are telling the press that the outbreak is nearly over. They continue doing so, day after day, as the death toll mounts and hospital wards fill.
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We would like to formally wish a happy farewell to some wonderful folks who have helped make Extra History awesome over the last few years: our musicians, Sean and Dean Kiner, and one of our artists, ...
2018-07-19 23:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhat series would you like us to air on Extra History? Cast your vote(s) below and let us know! This series will air later in 2018. As a further note, ALL of these topics were suggest...
2018-07-19 21:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The mild first wave was over, and the lethal second wave was about to begin. The virus that emerged from the war trenches was highly contagious and could kill within 24 hours of symptoms appearing....
2018-07-13 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostPlease suggest topics that you think fit the theme "Revolution." This suggestion comes from our writer Rob Rath, who defines revolution as broadly as possible--political, scientific, ...
2018-07-11 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out and download the selection here: http://bit.ly/NonEuclideanCards
This series's cards were made by Nick DeWitt.
2018-07-07 23:50:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The flu was the first modern plague—turning our interconnected world against us by spreading through shipping lanes, rail lines and the arteries of industrialized war. Yet it was also the first pand...
2018-07-06 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Listen to "Postulate 5," the theme song of our series on the history of Non-Euclidean Geometry! Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: 2018-06-29 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You asked for so long, and here it is! SUGGESTED READING for this Extra History series:
--Euclid's The Elements
--Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica...
2018-06-29 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostJoin the Extra History Q&A and hang out with Rob Rath and Matt Krol today at 5pm PT. You can post questions beforehand, and view the recording of the Q&A afterwards, at 2018-06-25 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Up until the 20th century, people assumed light behaved like a wave, passing through the "aether wind"--a fluid with incomprehensible properties. When the Michelson-Morley experiment disproved the aet...
2018-06-22 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's video Q&A we have confirmed RSVPs from Rob Rath, who will be answering any of your "Lies"-type questions about the Thermopylae episodes we just did (since we norm...
2018-06-21 21:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostPlease suggest topics that you think fit the theme "Revolution." This suggestion comes from our writer Rob Rath, who defines revolution as broadly as possible--political, scientific, ...
2018-06-19 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring Rob Rath (who is in the United States visiting right now!) and his enigmatic scrawled notes regarding future Extra History videos...
2018-06-19 02:33:59 +0000 UTC
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Some of you may be aware that a few days ago, our former Twitch channel manager Will Overgard posted on Twitter details regarding his termination. For this particular situation, we decided to issue a ...
2018-06-17 00:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostJames posted an update regarding the statement we made last week, on his Twitter. We still stand by our initial statement and intentions of respecting everyone's privacy, but this is some additional c...
2018-06-16 20:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
What if the Fifth Postulate can't be proven at all? Bolyai and Lobachevsky introduced the case where our “parallels” could curve away from each other. And with that one small change, they unleashe...
2018-06-15 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Why does everyone know the Greek defeat at Thermopylae, but victories like Salamis and Plataea remain obscure? Because it helped define Greek, and thus “western” culture. And that’s tha...
2018-06-14 17:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostPlease read the statement here.
On a related note, you are free to discuss this in the co...
2018-06-10 02:13:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Euclidean geometry eventually found its way back into Europe, inspiring René Descartes to create the Cartesian coordinate system for maps, and Isaac Newton to invent calculus. Both these tools helped...
2018-06-08 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
BONUS: Here's a behind-the-scenes thread on Rob Rath's Twitter about a story we had to cut from this episode! 2018-06-07 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Launching June 4, Extra Politics is an 8-episode mini-series (weekly on Mondays) exploring the United States p...
2018-06-03 18:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post