Bonus episode from English Learning for Curio...

Stephen announces a new feature for SEND7 supporters - "Interactive Transcripts"Video of Stephen using Interactive Transcripts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LuKGWZQkwThe first ten people to email Stephen at podcast@send7.org and say "yes please" will get a free month as a SE ...  Show more

Become a SEND7 supporter at send7.supercast.comWorld news in 7 minutes. Friday 16th October 2026.Today: Ukraine 'betrayed'. Romania shipwrecks. Albania protests. Austria dog bottle. Pakistan roof collapse. Thailand Queen pilot. Australia rat poison. US voting. Costa Rica prison. ...  Show more

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was shocked to read his own obituary branding him the "merchant of death." While the story might not be entirely true, it pushed him to reconsider his legacy. His fortune went on to establish the Nobel Prizes, honouring achievements in phys ...  Show more

The prize most coveted by the best and brightest minds in society owes its name to one man: Alfred Nobel. This Swedish inventor born in 1833, has a complicated history after battling through childhood poverty in which only three of his seven siblings reached adulthood. Parcasters ...  Show more

What I learned from reading Alfred Nobel: A Biography by Kenne Fant. ---- [16:24] The self-awareness that would become so characteristic of him was awakening and with it the determination to be the master of every situation. He was not going to throw himself into the world and le ...  Show more

Dynamite was invented by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who demonstrated it in Britain for the first time on 14th July, 1867. He had discovered that when nitroglycerin, an explosive liquid, was absorbed by kieselguhr, a porous siliceous earth, it produced a solid that was resistan ...  Show more