Tell Me Something Now: Recent Episodes
Tony Fong
Weekly 90 second stories about all of us.
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Episode 1: Tell us what the first thing you're going to do once we're all out of lockdown! Click the link about and leave your story.
How Much Money Is ‘Enough’? Try This Experimentto Get an Exact Number to Aim For.
Constantly chasing more and more will make youmiserable. The right goal gets you off the treadmill.
By Jessica Stillman, Inc.com
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The Shockingly Relevant History of the Barcode.
Mired in consumer protests, legislative battles, and nearly devastating setbacks, the pioneering technology provides a roadmap for others to survive—and even thrive.
By Jordan Frith, slate.com
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What Is "Popcorn Brain," and How Do I Know If I Have It?
By Andi Breitowich, popsugar.com
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My Anxiety Had Something to Teach Me
“Profound fear points me to what I must writenext,” writes Exhibit author R.O. Kwon.
By R.O. Kwon.
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There Is Only One Burrito in America Now, andThat Burrito, Unfortunately, Is Chipotle
How 1,200 calories of edible brick became the mostubiquitous Mexican meal in America.
By Gustavo Arellano, Eater.com
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The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries
Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.
By Ben Richmond, Atlas Obscura
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Words and Phrases to Avoid in a DifficultConversation
When you’re in the middle of a difficult conversation,it’s common to focus solely on yourself: your ideas, your viewpoint, yourfeelings. But a “me-centric” approach can backfire.
By: James R. Detert, Harvard Business Review.
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According to Wikipedia: Hu Zhengyan (Chinese Artist)
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How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia wasfoiled by bears. Seriously, this happened.
by Sean Illing, Vox.com
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Get That Microphone Out of My Face
By Cat Zhang, a culture writer at theCut.com
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The Exhausting History of Fatigue
By Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
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How Words Struggle For Existence in Our Brains:Why are some words forgotten over time? Researchers investigate how wordssecure their place in the vocabulary of the future.
By Cody Cottier, discovermagazine.com
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The Inside Story of ‘Animaniacs’: How We Got Yakko, Wakko and Dot
By Quinn Myers, Mel Magazine
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Hacking the immune system could slow ageing — here’s how. Our immune system falters over time, which could explain the negative effects of ageing.
By Alison Abbott, nature.com.
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'Where Am I?' Daniel Dennett's classic story raises deepphilosophical questions about identity and consciousness.
By: Daniel Dennett, MIT Press.
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The Healthiest Oil for Frying May Surprise You. You may be going about frying all wrong.
By Lisa Milbrand, realsimple.com.
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Just How Dominant Can The Bear Get in 2024?
By Joe Reid, Vulture.com
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Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies.
Movie critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’sundisputed heavyweights.
By Guy Lodge, The Guardian.com
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What’s It Like To Be T-Pain Now? At home in Atlanta and on the Coachella circuit with the Auto-Tune auteur, who embraced his inner geek andfound he's more beloved than ever.By Meaghan Garvey, Billboard.com.
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According to Wikipedia: Ebrahim Raisi (President of Iran)
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Red Lobster’s Demise Was Never About the Endless Shrimp
Blame private equity and a decade of mismanagement instead
by Amy McCarthy Eater.com
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Social Media Reveals How Freeways Damage Social Ties Data from X (formerly Twitter) shows that freeways still choke social ties more than half a century after they were built.
By The Physics arXiv Blog
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The sugar conspiracy.
In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? by Ian Leslie, TheGuardian.com
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50th anniversary of Mecha Godzilla
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The Incredible Story Of Frank Hamer, The Texas Lawman Who Brought Down Bonnie And Clyde
By Austin Harvey, Edited By Jaclyn Anglis,all that is interesting.com
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Your Phone’s Other Number:
Where did the IMEI number come from, why is it so freaking long, and why does your phone need it? If you’ve ever wondered, we’ve got you covered.
By Ernie Smith
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Immigration ‘The world has changed’: WeChat,snakeheads and the new era of global migration. “This is not a U.S.-Mexico border problem. This is now a worldwide issue,” a former Homeland Security official said.
By David Noriega, Aarne Heikkila and Adiel Kaplan. NBCnews.com.
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11-Year-Old Uncovers Fossils of Giant Ichthyosaur in England, the Largest Marine Reptile Ever Found, Scientists Say The jawbone fragments belonged to an 82-foot-long creature that represents a new species, according to a new study
By Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine
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What Disasters Can Teach Us About Good System Design
By Abhishek Chakraborty
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Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
written by James Clear
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9 Secret Shortcuts of People Who Are Good at Everyday Math
How to calculate a tip, convert temperaturequickly, and more. By Shifrah Combiths, Apartment Therapy
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Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life : The great Swiss psychoanalyst left us a surprisingly practical guide to being happier. By Arthur C. Brooks, Atlantic.com
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The Greatest Diss Tracks of All Time, Ranked
As the dust settles on the Kendrick and Drakebeef, we couldn’t help but ask: What’s the best diss record in rap history? “Hit ’Em Up”? “The Bridge Is Over”? “Not Like Us”?!?! We’re counting them down,from Rick Ross to LL Cool J to 50 Cent and more.
By The Ringer Staff
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According to Wikipedia: Gwen Stefani
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Ideas Five Teachings of the Dalai Lama I Try toLive By
By Arthur C. Brooks
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Why You Suddenly Have Allergies
By Jamie Ducharme, Time.com
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Why do people in Nordic countries consistently rank as the happiest and what can we learn from them?
By Camille Bello, Euronews
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According to Wikipedia: Kent State Shootings (May 4th Massacre)
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Side Hustle or Scam? What to Know About Data Annotation Work
By Will Henshall, time.com
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16 Easy Ways to Create More Meaningful MemoriesWith the People You Love.
by: Anna Lee Beyer, Lifehacker.com
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Summary of Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon
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Why Don’t We Have A Cure For Cavities?
by Undark and Christina Szalinski, via Inverse.com
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The Science of Intuition—and How to Tune Into Your Own 5 minute read
By Emma Seppälä, Times Magazine
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‘Sales Funnels’ and High-Value Men: The Rise of Strategic DatingThe Guardian
- Katie Cunningham
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Curious what people think of you? These people invented a brutal way to find out.
By Chloee Weiner, Slate.com
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If photons have mass, could they explain dark matter?
by Ethan Siegel, bigthink.com •
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Summary of Atomic Habits by James Clear
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The Atlantic
- Joe Pinsker
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This episode was totally AI generated about top life hacks.
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Summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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Summary of the book Ten Percent Happier by Dan Harris
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The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
By Cade Metz
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Glass or plastic: which is better for the environment?
By Claudia Lee
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How Jersey City Got to Zero Traffic Deaths on Its Streets: This town outside of New York City scored the biggest traffic safety success story of 2022. Here’s how they did it.
By John Surico
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How the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watch: The unlikely similarity between modern baseball and the AI boom.By Bryan Walsh
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For One Last Night, Make It a Blockbuster NightBy Justin Heckert
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The A to Z of Artificial IntelligenceBY BILLY PERRIGO
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Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback -Harvard Business Review
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Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
By Emerging Technology
From MIT Technology Review
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How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking?By Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker
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Ten Surprising Facts About Everyday Household ObjectsBy Amy Azzarito
Smithsonian Magazine
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5 Teachings From The Japanese Wabi-Sabi Philosophy That Can Drastically Improve Your Life — OMAR ITANI
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Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They TeachBy Kalley Huang
The New York Times
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What’s next in spaceBy Jonathan O'Callaghan
MIT Technology Review
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Understanding the Meaning of Ubuntu: A Proudly South African Philosophy
By Andrew Thompson
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Why ‘Find Your Purpose in Life’ Is Terrible AdviceBy Amardeep Parmar, medium.com
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The best television series of 2022By Normal People
The Economist
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The Best movies in 2022, By Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water.By Emily Stewart
Vox
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By Andrea Wojnicki, Harvard Business Review
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Pelé according to Wikipedia
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Chinese Canadian special forces in WWII
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The Misunderstood Roman Empress Who Willed Her Way to the TopBy Tony Perrottet
Smithsonian Magazine
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written by Mark Dent, TheHutsle.co, December 10th, 2022
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Dave Bautista Method - written by Yan-Yi Goh, GQ, January 4th, 2023
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Article from the Big Think - Kevin Dickinson, January 4th, 2023
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Aren't we all tired of being socially isolated? I want hear about you!
We're starting this new podcast series called Tell Me Something Now,
Each week we set a theme and in 90s seconds tell us something.
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On episode one, we want to know what's first thing you're going to do after we get out of this lockdown?
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