Category: Educational

The story of the banana republics, the United Fruit company, or the CIA intervention of the 40s and 50s are virtually impossible stories to tell correctly. They are simply too big and complicated. Mixing them together as I’ve done here means leaving out a vast majority of the story. A thousand unmentioned thoughts. I think,…

I’ll be back next week with a real vid, just wasn’t feeling up to scripting the last few days. Figured if I couldn’t get a video up I might as well give you some end credits and amuse myself at the same time. Just so you know what’s coming, I still have two more vids…

Today’s story is essentially made up. Historians don’t know virtually anything about the great cities of the Maya (explicitly, Yaxha) during the period I talk about, nor precisely how the ball game operated and why it was played. But I wanted to tell a story about the unifying history of sports, and this is crafted…

Eufenia survived a volcano. As long as you can suspend your disbelief. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Also – sign up for curiosity stream, a service I actually like, and they’ll throw in a subscription to Nebula as well, a place where I release these videos…

Maximon was a wild thing to stumble across. Who knew that God could be so unassuming? Hope you enjoy the episode! Don’t smoke (unless you want to, then have at). Also, I should re-mention that we’ve decided to try and release our episodes a week early on Nebula. This week I messed it up because…

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, humans of all ages – Rare Earth is back! Perhaps not "and better than ever", but Kata and I are doing our best to get back on the weekly schedule again, pandemic-willing. My brain is back from the 2019/20 lockdown effects and I’ve since filmed 3 very short seasons (Guatemala,…

Francesco asked that I make this. We hope we did Giselda proud. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield If you’re still reading this, please note that the people at Nebula make my life way easier and that makes them worth supporting in my books. If you sign…

I love Larry. I hope you love Larry too. As an aside: I’m gonna start posting more videos I think. Not sure what they’re gonna be about yet, but expect something new and unique at the very least. Also, did I mention I’m doing videos on Nebula, too? In addition to my YT content I’m…

HUGE NEWS! Just before the pandemic I signed some paperwork that fundamentally changed this channel. For the better, I hope, but who knows, it’s life, right? Back in April, or March maybe, god this summer has breezed by… back whenever that was I signed up with an organization called Nebula. You might have already heard…

Dear Australia, I thought you were more keen on Marm. Apparently you’re all about that Vegem. I kind of want to do this story again as a real documentary, with an hour and tons of stock footage. It seems like it would be a cool ‘follow the thread’ type tale through a bunch of different…