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  • A Guide to Building the Pyramids- How Did They Do It?
    In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into how the pyramids were actually built. A quick tour on popular online video sharing platforms may convince you that ancient Egyptian builders were either Completely useless, and had to rely on Alien help, or They were incredibly advanced, and used power tools and lasers. Because … Atlantis, Tom Cruise, and Ice Road Truckers… These theories are a fairly recent trend, borne out of a modern mindset of people who don’t know what they are talking about and because they cannot comprehend how stuff could get built without the aid of sophisticated technology that they tend to also not really understand, and seemingly suffering from a false sense of superiority over our past human selves. Which, to be fair, that one is an almost universal idea despite it being objectively untrue. Our millenia past ancestors were just as smart as we are and in some ways far more capable at getting things done with a whole lot less. But going back to making the pyramids, if we look at the writings from people who lived closer in time to when the Pyramids were built, we find no such sense of mystery. To them, building huge monuments was impressive, sure, but did not spark wild speculation. Take Greek historian Herodotus, for example, writing in the 5th Century BC. According to his Egyptian guides, the Great Pyramid at Giza was built by 100,000 men, employed for three months a year, over a period of twenty years. His colleague Diodorus Siculus, active in the 1st Century BC, recounted that: ‘The construction was undertaken with the help of ramps of earth, since at that time cranes had not yet been invented.’ As we shall see later, further studies by contemporaries Egyptologists have partially corrected the accounts of these titans of ancient historiography. Nonetheless, they seem to have gotten the basics right. Building a pyramid was a huge, daunting endeavour, sure, but one that could be achieved by employing resources which the Pharaohs had access to. Not too dissimilar to modern day marvels like humanity going from horse drawn carriages to walking on the moon in only a little over a half century. An immutable fact of humaning- when humans throw practically unlimited funds and large amounts of labor and expertise at a problem, we are extremely good at doing the formerly impossible. And countless examples throughout history prove this fact. Throw enough money and labor at a problem, we humans will figure that crap out right quick. Which kind of makes it a shame we don’t do just that at more problems we humans have today from tuberculosis to cancer to a sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, Galaxy Quest. Let’s make it happen no matter the monetary cost. The most important thing humans could ever create- Galaxy Quest 2- The Search for Grabthar’s Hammer. But in a similar vein, the Pharaoh’s formula for building the pyramids was: loads of time, plenty of cash, building techniques which were state-of-the-art at the time, and tens of thousands of skilled labourers. Yes, skilled labourers, not slaves. Time, money and skilled labour were the founding blocks for other ancient construction projects, which Diodorus and Herodotus might have experienced directly, such as great temples, amphitheatres, roads, aqueducts and public baths. Many of which, by the way, were architectural and engineering projects arguably significantly more sophisticated than the Pyramids, and yet no one calls down Aliens from the sky as being behind those projects. Or… at least, not yet. Never underestimate what the History Channel is capable of. Author: Arnaldo Teodorani Editor: Daven Hiskey Host: Daven Hiskey Producer: Caden Nielsen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • From 0 to 1000 to 0- What Happened to Howard Johnson's?
    In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the incredible rise and fall of Howard Johnson's. This episode is brought to you by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com In the modern world, if you step out your door and travel to neighboring cities or even countries, you’ll generally be greeted by a slew of familiar food related franchises for your respective region, with some of the most popular in the world today including McDonald’s, Subway, Starbucks, KFC, Dunkin, and the like. In all of these, with some small variation, you’ll be able to get the staple food and beverage items from those restaurants you can get anywhere else in the world at the same branded establishment. But it was not always this way. In fact, this has been a relatively recent phenomenon in the era of humans humaning. And before all these better known restaurant chains today, there was one that kicked it all off that, for fascinating reasons, managed to go from 1 restaurant to the second largest supplier of meals outside of the home in America behind only the U.S. military, then even more rapidly disappeared from existence. In fact, despite their dominance through most of the 20th century, because of how rapid their fall was, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone born after around the 1990’s who even remembers them at all, outside of perhaps recognizing the name from a small branch of Wyndham hotels. We are, of course, talking about Howard Johnson’s restaurants which introduced the world to the concept of restaurant franchising, spawning a now staple of the industry world wide. Here now, is the fascinating story of how Howard Johnson’s went from 0 to over 1000 locations and back to 0 in under a century. Host: Daven Hiskey Author: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • How Did Christianity Go From a Tiny Jewish Cult to Rule the Western World So Quickly?
    In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into the fascinating reasons Christianity was able to so rapidly go from a tiny Jewish Cult to rule the Western World despite a whole lot of persecution in the interim of that insanely fast rise. Various religions have been popping up randomly seemingly as long as humans have been humaning- interestingly, not just with humans but our Neanderthal cousins, with signs of some form of religious practices with those Neanderthals going back at least 150,000 years. But one religion founded about 2,000 years ago triggered a marked shift in the way many in the world view religion and interact with a deity. Starting out as a sect of Judaism, fast-forward just a handful of generations of humans later and Christianity had evolved into its own distinct religion well on its way to dominating the Western world and beyond. And hasn’t really stopped since, statistically the world’s #1 religion with over 2.3 billion adherents in its various branches. So what made Christianity take off to then unprecedented levels, going from 1 person to millions in such a short span, and then billions beyond, where countless thousands of other religions in history don’t or sometimes only briefly rise and then fizzle out? Well, I’m glad you asked, because this is one of the more fascinating topics on so many levels we’ve ever covered here. So, quiet down your children, have a seat in a pew up front, and let’s dive into it all, shall we? Author: Daven Hiskey Host: Simon Whistler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • What's the Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood? (I swear this is more interesting than it sounds :-))
    In this episode of The Brain Food Show, Simon Whistler and Daven Hiskey are looking at the difference between a number of things, kicking it off with the difference between hardwood and softwood.... which you'd think you already know, but we're guessing for most, you don't actually know the difference. :-) Up next we dive into a bunch of "difference betweens" such as the difference between fruits and vegetables, green and black tea, various types of olive oils, brown and white eggs, etc. as well as a slew of interesting tips on optimizing ripeness schedules on bananas, including a way to keep your bananas at the perfectly ripe stage for approximately a week, instead of the two seconds or so that happens naturally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Heinz 57, The Lord of the Pumps, and a Tasty, Tasty Dunkin' Empire
    In today's BrainFood Show episode, we are discussing three rather inspirational business tails, starting with the extremely humble origins of the now many billion dollar behemoth in Heinz, then on to Karl's favorite all time script in the story of soft soap and the brilliant business man that gave it to us, and finally how an 8th grade dropout created one of the tastiest empires on Earth. Hosts: Karl Smallwood and Daven Hiskey Authors: Karl Smallwood and Daven Hiskey Producer: Caden Nielsen 0:00 Intro 3:18 The Rise of Heinz 15:36 The Spiteful Reason McDonald's No Longer Uses Heinz 18:40 The Incredible Story of the Pump Baron 1:01:54 From 8th Grade Dropout to a Tasty, Tasty Billion Dollar Empire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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