One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association or the ABA.
Founded in 1967, the ABA emerged as a rival to the NBA, which had become predictable and stale. The ABA emerged as a flamboyant contrast.
Fans packed tiny gyms to watch the ABA shatter NBA norms, showcasing epic afros, brilliant dunks, a three-point shot, and an iconic red, white, and blue ball.
Learn more about the American Basketball Association on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Marvel Comics
26/02/2026 | 15 mins.
Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century.
Not only have they been one of the biggest comic publishers, but they have also created some oft he most famous fictional characters in the modern world.
Popular superheroes like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers have cemented Marvel’s place in popular consciousness and built a brand worth billions.
Learn about the origins, development, and minds behind Marvel Comics on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Did George Mallory Climb Mount Everest First?
25/02/2026 | 15 mins.
Almost everyone knows that the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 1953.
However, some believe another group might have reached the summit nineteen years before they did.
It is a debate which had raged for decades, and recently discovered evidence on the slopes of Everest hasn’t quieted the discussion.
Learn more about George Mallory and attempts to summit Mount Everest on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Danish Resistance
24/02/2026 | 13 mins.
As Germany conquered countries in WWII, in many nations, they found willing volunteers to help them identify Jews to send to concentration camps.
However, not every country did. Finland, Bulgaria, and Albania engaged in a spirited defense of their Jewish communities in the face of Nazi oppression.
However, no country did more to save its Jewish population than Denmark.
Learn more about Denmark’s Great Escape on this episode of Everything, Everywhere, Daily.
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The Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Encore)
23/02/2026 | 16 mins.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a problem that stumped even the best minds in physics.
Eventually, one man, Max Planck, solved the problem, but his solution was one that was out of left field. While the math worked, he didn’t actually believe that the mathematics explained reality.
It turned out his discovery was more true than he realized and it ushed in a revolution in the world of physics that completely changed our view of nature and reality.
Learn more about the ultraviolet catastrophe and the birth of quantum mechanics on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast for Intellectually Curious People. Host Gary Arndt tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Gary is an accomplished world traveler, travel photographer, and polymath.
Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture.
Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, China, Egypt, and India. as well as historical leaders such as Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Sparticus, and the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Geography episodes have covered Malta, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Monaco, Luxembourg, Vatican City, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Isle of Man, san marino, Namibia, the Golden Gate Bridge, Montenegro, and Greenland.
Technology episodes have covered nanotechnology, aluminum, fingerprints, longitude, qwerty keyboards, morse code, the telegraph, radio, television, computer gaming,
Episodes explaining the origin of holidays include Memorial Day, April Fool’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Christmas, Ramadan, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, the Fourth of July,
Famous people in history covered in the podcast include Salvador Dali, Jim Thorpe, Ada Lovelace, Jessie Owens, Robert Oppenheimer, Picasso, Isaac Newton, Attila the Hun, Lady Jane Grey, Cleopatra, Sun Yat Sen, Houdini, Tokyo Rose, William Shakespeare, Queen Boudica, Empress Livia, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Sheba, Ramanujan, and Zheng He.
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