360 On History

Are Anti-Vaxxers right?

This week I want to talk about vaccinations and the anti-vaxxer movement. A lot has been said about this but I…

Alexander von Humboldt, A Scientist You’ve Never Heard of

You may have heard of the Humboldt Current and of the Humboldt Penguins but you probably don’t know after whom they were named. A very influential scientist that you may never have heard of: Alexander von Humboldt.

Who Are The South Asians?

More and more chapters are being added to the story of humanity, as new techniques to extract and study ancient…

Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory — Did it really happen?

A Universe in a Picture

The story begins almost 14 billion years ago but we are going to take it up in 1948, when Ralph Alpherin, while doing…

More Denisovans and extinct sub-Saharan ghost populations

Rannikot — The Great Wall of Pakistan Photoblog

Endless forms, most beautiful — Darwin and On the Origin of Species

159 years ago, on November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; an account of the greatest story ever told — that of evolution by natural selection…

The International Space Station turns 20

As children, we all learned of Sputnik, the artificial satellite launched into a low…