Cryptocurrencies have created much discussion among investors due to their ability to diversify portfolios, drive growth and maintain value over a long time. The Bitcoin price has been on an ascending path over the past year and continues to grow. This is good news for hodlers: investors who keep their coins in the same wallets and wait for their worth to increase. However, ever since the very beginnings of the digital finance market, there has been a pressing issue that continues to affect the market: the toll the systems have on the environment. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.  

Queen Kubaba was a legendary Mesopotamian queen according to the Sumerian King List, who ruled over the Kingdom of Kish. Legend has it that her rule lasted over 100 years before the rise of the dynasty of Akshak (a city of ancient Sumer, situated on the northern boundary of Akkad). Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

Podcast Episode 79 is all about Neptune, which is The Real Blue Planet in our Solar System, as well as being an ice-giant orbiting the Sun from far away.

Fantastic Women Series The term solar energy has become ubiquitous as part of our move towards the larger renewable energy mix. We are all now more than aware of the dire need of cutting down on fossil fuels and moving towards using renewable sources of energy for all of our needs, if we are to keep temperatures conducive to ours (and other species) requirements.  As we move on through the 21st century, more and more of us are using solar panels or solar PV to heat and light our homes. But did you know that there was a time when this was a novel idea, when three pioneering women first decided to heat a home with solar energy in December 1948? So we celebrate this amazing innovation and these three fantastic women. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

Prague’s Dramatic Defenestrations: A Glimpse into Tumultuous Times Have you heard of the Defenestration of Prague? First of all, how cool is the word defenestration? It means throwing someone out of the window and it happened three times in Prague's history. Listen to what happened in our latest podcast. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

The Americas have been traditionally considered new territories with civilisations not as old as the rest of the world. Even so, we find fascinating signs of varying cultures in both north and south America. Mesoamerica especially, is replete with different cultures that fascinated archaeologists - and us - ever since their discoveries. One of such fascinating archaeological finds are the Colossal Olmec Heads, first brought to light on the eve of WWII by by Matthew Stirling in 1938, although one colossal head was discovered at Tres Zapotes in 1862 by José María Melgar y Serrano but was not well reported. The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, that flourished during the Preclassic period from about 1500 BCE to 400 BCE. They were centered in the tropical lowlands of the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. The Olmecs are considered the mother culture of Mesoamerica, as they laid the foundations for many of the civilizations that followed. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

Time travel may still be a fantasy, but in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain, time itself was a commodity up for sale. Yes, you read that right! In a world before smartphones and atomic clocks, a remarkable woman known as Ruth Belville (Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville), affectionately called the “Greenwich Time Lady,” crafted a unique livelihood from an equally unique industry. She was the keeper of time, and her prized possession was a chronometer watch named “Arnold.” Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

Osman Kalin, the man behind the Treehouse, was a Turkish worker who had come to Berlin in search of a better life. Undeterred by the restrictions and tensions of the divided city, he found solace in a small triangular traffic island nestled between the East and West Berlin border walls. This neglected patch of land had been used as a rubbish dump by local residents and it now became his canvas. In the 1980s, he began transforming it into a personal sanctuary, piece by piece, using discarded materials and found objects. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

The Berlin Wall Fell On November 9, 1989. As the cold war started to fizzle out, with revolutions and unrest all across the Eastern Bloc, the spokesman for the Communist Party of East Berlin was meant to announce a change in its relations with the west and a relaxation of the stringent border crossing laws. Instead, Günter Schabowski, a communist party official in East Berlin, played a pivotal role in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During a press conference on November 9, 1989, Schabowski was tasked with announcing new regulations that would ease travel restrictions between East and West Berlin. However, due to a misunderstanding, he mistakenly announced that East Germans would be able to travel freely to West Berlin immediately. This misstatement led to a surge of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall, ultimately leading to its collapse. Listen to the story. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Vault, is a secure seed bank located on this Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Its purpose is to safeguard the seeds of the world's food plants in case of a global crisis. This particular location was chosen for its cold conditions and surrounding permafrost that would help preserve the seeds if the vault’s cooling systems failed. This important global storage facilty houses over 10,000 years of our agricultural history. Please subscribe to the You Tube Channel for more on science, history and nature and please do check out the website and follow on social media: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Reddit // Threads. Music: Moonrise by Chad Crouch – Instrumental from Free Music Archive.