Learn about the Seven Archangels with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.The history of angels rests predominantly in the Middle East. Other cultures had gods, goddesses, or faeries, but in the Middle East they worshiped angels as their gods. O...

Seven Archangels

Learn about the mystery of the Dropa Stones with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Dropa Stones are supposedly a collection of circular stones found in a cave in Tibet in 1938. They were discovered by Chinese archaeologist Chi Pu Tei. The...

The Dropa Stones

Learn about The Plantagenets with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.The House of Plantagenet was a royal house of 15 monarchs who ruled England from 1154-1485.  The Plantagenets originally came from France, where they ruled a county called Anj...

The Plantagenets

Learn about the history of The Bubonic Plague with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.Bubonic plague is widely regarded as being responsible for two of the most infamous plagues in recorded history - the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth centur...

The Bubonic Plague

Learn about Murphy's Law with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Murphy's Law is a tongue-in-cheek and rather pessimistic adage of eight simple words: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The translation of these words into "Murphy's Law"...

Murphy's Law

Learn about the teachings of Confucius with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, teacher and political figure. His teachings have profoundly influenced Asian thought and life. The impact of his life and intell...

Confucius

Learn the story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the one of the world's most famous conspiracy theories. It is a statement of prejudice and paranoia, a fake h...

Elders of Zion

Learn about Behavioral Economics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a dec...

Behavioral Economcs

Learn the history of the Magna Carta with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Magna Carta: the great document has become synonymous with the power of the people. A Medieval English charter of 63 clauses, it has become one of the most famous leg...

Magna Carta

Learn about the Rosetta Stone with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In 196 BCE, priests of all the gods of Upper and Lower Egypt assembled at Memphis to celebrate the accession to the throne of the boy king Ptolemy V. He was already in the n...

Rosetta Stone

Learn about REM sleep with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. REM is an important component of sleep. But sleep itself is a difficult phenomenon to study because it is such an insular process. Dreams in particular are highly elusive for the re...

REM Sleep

Learn about the science of the Aurora Borealis with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The aurora borealis, often referred to as the Northern Lights, is a natural light-show that appears in the sky around the north magnetic pole. Auroras can s...

Aurora Borealis

Learn about the history of the Geisha with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.Mystery and misconception surround the geisha. At first glance, she may appear to be rather average looking, heavily clad in a weighty costume and an excess of make-u...

Geisha

Learn about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  The Bermuda Triangle is a large stretch of ocean in the Caribbean. It is infamous for numerous unexplained disappearances of boats and aircraft. What goes...

Bermuda Triangle

Learn about the Barbary Pirates with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. For 350 years, from the late 15th century onwards, Europeans travelling by boat in the Mediterranean Sea were under constant threat of pirate attack. But these were not pi...

Barbary Pirates

Learn about Andy Warhol with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  Andy Warhol came to public attention as one of the leading lights of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Since then his art and legacy have polarised art critics and the public al...

Andy Warhol

Learn about the feeling of Déjà Vu with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.When Charles Dickens wrote in his 1850 novel David Copperfield about “a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and do...

Deja Vu

Learn about the story of the infamous Guy Fawkes with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  “Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.”Guy Fawkes has been called the most famous terrorist in history for his involveme...

Guy Fawkes

Learn about the greatest fictional detective, the story of Sherlock Holmes, with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous of all fictional detectives. He was created in the 19th century by UK author Arthu...

Sherlock Holmes

Learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In 1997, a Californian man named Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii after competing in a boat race. On a whim, he decided to change course and head thr...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Start your iMinds Collection with Generalist Volume 1. A compilation of diverse topics across our twelve categories, in Generalist Volume 1 you will learn about:  The history of Whaling, the art of Film Noir, the psychology behind Stockholm Syndrome,...

Generalist, Volume 1

Learn about the science of Wind Power with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Wind power is a limitless, non-polluting resource that currently contributes almost 2% of the world's energy supply. It's the fastest-growing resource market in the ...

Wind Power

Learn about the Boston Tea Party with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.It was another cold night in Boston, Massachusetts on the 16th of December 1773. But this was no ordinary night. This night would ignite the flames of injustice within man...

Boston Tea Party

Learn about Lobbying with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In a perfect world, elected officials in democratic countries would make decisions in the public interest after considering issues objectively and impartially. This is how parliament...

Lobbying

Learn about the Battle of Waterloo with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon’s French Army and the British, Dutch, Belgian, and German forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington....

Battle of Waterloo

Learn about the Great Fire of London with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Before the Great Fire, the City of London was filled with crowded, timber-framed buildings with thin, plaster walls. Candles, rush lights, coals, and fireplaces were ...

Great Fire of London

Learn about the science of Astronomy with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  The human desire to know what we see when we look in the sky is so great that a branch of science has been dedicated to it: astronomy. Astronomy is the study of the ...

Astronomy

Learn the philosophy of the Eternal Truths with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Eternal truths are ideas that are not proved or demonstrated, but are nonetheless believed due to their apparent self-evidence. Acceptance of such facts is beli...

Eternal Truths

Learn about the science of Forensics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  Forensics is the use of science to solve crimes. The word “forensics” comes from the Latin term “for ensis”, which is closely related to the modern English word “for...

Forensics

Learn about the principal of Habeas Corpus with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase which means “have the body”. It is a legal writ, or order, that a court may make, requiring a prisoner to be brought before it s...

Habeas Corpus

Learn about the story behind Rogue Traders with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  A rogue trader is an employee of a company who makes unauthorized trades on behalf of their employer. It is a way employees use their job to make fraudulent tr...

Rogue Traders

Learn about the development of In Vitro Fertisation with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  “In Vitro Fertilisation”, also known as IVF, is concerned with enabling infertile couples to have children. As a result of IVF, thousands of couples a...

Learn about the story of Robin Hood with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The story of Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends in the English language. The events of the legend place him in the regency of Prince John, when King Richard ...

Robin Hood

Learn about the mysterious Hope Diamond with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The 45.52-carat Hope Diamond is the largest deep-blue diamond in the world. In its body of less than one cubic inch, it holds a history dripping with mystery, cons...

Hope Diamond

Learn about Blues Music with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Blues music is a type of African-American folk music. It is concerned with expressing emotions through song. Generally, blues songs deal with tragic themes such as lost love, hard...

Blues

Learn about the feeling of l'Esprit de l'Escalier with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. There’s nothing like a good comeback. It’s witty, snappy and completely devastating to your verbal sparring partner. A woman once said to US President Ca...

l'Esprit de l'Escalier

Learn about the development of Burlesque performance with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.   Burlesque is a theatrical performance concerned with parody and exaggeration. But it didn’t originate in the theatre. In fact, the term ‘burlesque’ ...

Burlesque

Learn about the condition of Hemophilia with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The term hemophilia describes hemorrhagic, or bleeding, disorders. The most common of these disorders is caused by a deficiency of protein in the blood known as “b...

Hemophilia

Learn about the story behind the tradition of Thanksgiving with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  Thanksgiving is a North American festival. It commemorates the good fortune its founders encountered when they arrived in the New World. In Can...

Thanksgiving

Learn about the history of Prohibition with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  Imagine not being able to have a beer at the baseball. Or not being allowed to have a wine at the theatre. Imagine it was illegal to offer your guests a drink at y...

Prohibition

Build on your iMinds Collection with Generalist Volume 2. A compilation of diverse topics across our twelve categories, in Generalist Volume 2 you will learn about:  The Seven Wonders of the World, the invention of The Internet, the history of the Bo...

Generalist, Volume 2

Learn about the development of the concept of Trade with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  In its long and diverse history, trade has promoted communication between countless communities. And it has been concerned with the exchange of countl...

Trade

Learn the history of Fireworks with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.A Chinese book from 850 CE, called Classified Essentials of the Mysterious Tao of the True Origin of Things, warns the reader that if sulphur, realgar and saltpetre are heat...

Fireworks

Learn about Armistice Day with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Armistice Day is a day put aside to commemorate the ceasefire which effectively ended the "Great War", as World War One was previously known. It happened at 11 am on 11 November...

Armistice Day

Learn about the theory of Creationism with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.Creationism is the name given to the belief that God created the universe and everything in it, including life. In the West, the word is usually associated with the a...

Creationism

Learn about the life of John F. Kennedy with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. On November 22, 1963. America was stunned. The events of that day would reverberate around the world and throughout history. The 35th President of the United State...

John F Kennedy

Learn about Stencil Art with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In any urban setting throughout the world today, you can expect to see examples of stencil art. On street corners, train stations and public toilets the world over stencil art is ...

Stencil Art

Learn about the history of crickets greatest contest, The Ashes with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.  The Ashes is a test-cricket series played between England and Australia. Throughout its long history, winning the Ashes has been seen as a...

The Ashes

Enjoy learning something new with iMinds Generalist Volume 8. A compilation of diverse topics across our twelve categories, in Generalist Volume 8 you will learn about:  The story behind Guy Fawkes day, the history of Thanksgiving celebrations, the c...

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