Brent Antonson

Who the Hell Was Jane Goodall?

Jane Goodall was a young Englishwoman with no formal training in primatology when she went into the forests of Tanzania in 1960. What she had was patience, curiosity, and the kind of empathy that would change science forever. Living among the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream, she discovered they used tools,...

Who the Hell Was the Oracle of Delphi?

Long before AI chatbots, there was the Oracle of Delphi: a priestess named the Pythia who sat atop a tripod at the Temple of Apollo, inhaling vapors that seeped from the earth and muttering cryptic visions. For nearly a thousand years, rulers, warriors, and wanderers climbed Mount Parnassus to ask...