New Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=bdKn55CX… I speak with legendary songwriter and producer Steve Barri about 1960s hits like "Secret Agent Man" and "Eve of Destruction," working with iconic bands, the golden age of rock & roll, and the future of music in the age of AI.

This Saturday, I’ll be presenting “Protecting the Future of History and Democracy in a Divided America” at the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library in Zionsville! 📅 Saturday, September 19 🕜 1:30–2:30 p.m. Register: hmmpl.libcal.com/event/15204…

I’m launching a new oral history podcast series called "Bridging AI." I’ll speak with people across AI to bridge different perspectives on AI’s opportunities, risks, and future. If you work in AI and have a perspective worth preserving historically, I’d love to hear from you.

Social media hot takes (2006 to present): Short, provocative opinions grew with Twitter and other platforms in the late 2000s and exploded in the 2010s, but popularity, confidence, and virality are not evidence that a claim is true, insightful, or original.

New article! Why is Holocaust Ignorance Trending? by Laura Regan Roots of Reality Researcher UK rootsofreality.substack.com/…

New Episode! Listen anywhere or at rootsofreality.com/podcast

New Episode: College Football Then and Now with Todd Reesing Listen/watch anywhere or at rootsofreality.com/podcast

New episode: The History and Transformation of College Sports in America. Listen anywhere or at rootsofreality.com/podcast

New Article: Life is a Game of Uncertainty Read here: open.substack.com/pub/rootso…

New Article: The Fall of Rome? By George Ekmekjian (Roots of Reality Researcher, USA) Read now: rootsofreality.com/substack/

Topic: Mental Health open.substack.com/pub/rootso…

New Article: You’re Playing with House Money substack.com/home/post/p-197…

New Episode: The Future of AI with Dr. Sean O hEigeartaigh @S_OhEigeartaigh We speak about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the myths and risks surrounding it, and why this moment may be remembered as a turning point in human history. Listen Rootsofreality.com/podcast

New Episode: Historian Ben Baumann explores artificial intelligence through the long arc of human technological history, asking whether AI represents just another transformative tool, or a turning point that could fundamentally reshape humanity. Listen: rootsofreality.com/podcast

Why does the universe exist?

My latest history article about the 1919 World Series!

The “10,000-hour rule,” is often misinterpreted. No study shows a fixed number of hours guarantees expertise; progress depends on deliberate, high-quality practice, context, and individual factors.

Developed in the late 1800s using data from a narrow sample of European men, BMI was created as a population-level statistical tool rather than a clinical health measure. While it remains useful for tracking trends, its limitations can misclassify of individual metabolic health.

British-Israelism originated in the 1800s and is the belief that Anglo-Saxon peoples descend from the lost tribes of Israel. Historians reject this theory because it relies on pseudoscience, selective biblical interpretation, and fabricated linguistic links.

The belief that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas in 1492 is false. About 500 years earlier, a Norse expedition led by Leif Erikson reached the Canadian coast and established a Viking settlement on an island now known as Newfoundland.