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Podcast: How to Be Superhuman (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The cyclist who raced 2,750km across Africa on almost no sleep: Abdullah Zeinab S3:E1
Pub date: 2025-02-06
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Abdullah Zeinab’s epic Rhino Run adventure crossing South Africa and Namibia redefines what’s possible in endurance cycling. Unsupported and unforgiving, this gruelling 2,750km ultra cycling race put his mental strength, grit and resilience to the ultimate test through breathtaking but brutal landscapes – where a tiny detail, like a tiny screw, made a world of difference.
In this episode, I talk to the Australian endurance cyclist and winner of the 2019 Trans America Bike Race, whose journey began with an unconventional bike ride to visit his mother. He shares how sleep deprivation, raw determination and facing his deepest fears pushed him beyond his limits – leading him on a journey of self-discovery and transforming his perspective on life.
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Podcast: The Black Hum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Service Denied
Pub date: 2024-11-11
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Why did Canada not want a so-called "checkerboard army"? In 1914, the Canadian government called on all able-bodied men to serve their country in the Great War. However, when Black men went to enlist, they were turned away. In this first episode in our new series, we look at those early years of the war, when Black Canadians found themselves having to fight for the right to fight.
Join us as we explore the remarkable history of No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s only all-Black battalion during the First World War, uncovering their legacy, contributions, and the untold stories of Black Canadian soldiers in our latest podcast on military history, diversity, and heritage.
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Podcast: Many Minds (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: String theories
Pub date: 2025-02-06
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Where would our species be without string? It's one of our most basic technologies—so basic that it's easy to overlook. But humans have used string—and its cousins rope, yarn, cordage, thread, etc.—for all kinds of purposes, stretching back tens of thousands of years. We've used it for knots and textiles and fishing nets and carrier bags and bow-strings and record-keeping devices. It's one of the most ubiquitous, flexible, and useful technologies we have. But we haven't only put string to practical purposes. We've also long used it to tickle our minds.
My guest today is Dr. Roope Kaaronen. Roope is a cognitive anthropologist and postdoc at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Along with an interdisciplinary team, Roope recently conducted two studies that showcase the centrality of string in human culture. One is on the history and diversity of "string figures” (which are visual designs made with a loop of string held between the hands, often known to English speakers as “Cat's Cradle”). The other study is on the history and diversity of knots.
Here Roope and I discuss the deep history of string in human culture. We talk about the seemingly universal spread of string figures across the globe. We zoom in on one string figure in particular—the Jacob's ladder—which seems to be the most widespread string figure of all, despite its complexity. We talk about how both knots and string figures are related to the branch of mathematics known as “topology," and about how knots and string figures have evolved under different constraints. Finally, we discuss what our fascination with string designs might tell us about the human mind. And we lament the fact that many of string-based cultural heritage is headed—quite rapidly—for extinction.
Just a reminder that applications are now open for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute or DISI. If you are an early career researcher and you like this show, you would probably like DISI. Actually, fun fact: our guest today, Roope, is a DISI alum. We met at the Institute a couple years ago and I've followed his work ever since. That should give you some flavor for the people who attend. In any case, for more info, check out disi.org—that’s d-i-s-i. org.
Alright friends, on to my conversation with Dr. Roope Kaaronen. Enjoy!
Notes and links
3:00 – The 2020 paper reporting the use of string by Neanderthals.
8:00 – A paper describing the Antrea Net and its discovery.
10:00 – On the issue of gender bias in the study of textiles, see Virginia Postrel’s book, The Fabric of Civilization.
12:00 – Dr. Kaaronen’s other ethnomathematical projects include work on measurement across cultures.
16:30 – The website of the International String Figure Association.
19:30 – The 1969 paper first introducing the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample.
22:20 – A step-by-step explanation for how to make Jacob’s ladder.
30:30 – A step-by-step explanation for how to make the Swan.
38:00 – An example of a string figure that uses the Caroline Extension.
40:35 – A video demonstrating the string figure game of Cat’s Cradle, which is played with a partner.
44:30 – A preprint of the knot study by Dr. Kaaronen and colleagues.
45:00 – The website of HRAF—the Human Relations Area Files—is here.
49:00 – A step-by-step explanation for how to make the knot known as the “sheet bend.”
55:00 – An interactive article about what is known about Incan khipus.
59:30 – The “bible of knots” is the Ashley Book of Knots.
1:08:30 – An illustrated article on the so-called Austronesian expansion.
1:16:00 – An image of the ochre stone from 70,000 years ago, found at Blombos cave, featuring net-like imagery. A study finding sensitivity to abstract shapes in humans but not baboons.
Recommendations
The Fabric of Civilization, by Virginia Postrel
String Figures: A Study of Cat’s Cradle in Many Lands, by Caroline Furness Jayne
WhyKnot (YouTube channel)
Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation to Indiana University. The show is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes Shook the Streets
Pub date: 2025-02-05
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In the late '80s and early '90s, a seismic subculture shook the streets… literally. “Boom Cars,” decked out with custom sound systems, roamed neighborhoods blasting the bassiest music ever recorded. But where did this movement come from, and why did it fade away? In this episode, we dive into the world of Miami Bass, dB Drag Racing, and the infamous tapes that could shred your subwoofers. Featuring journalist Jesse Serwer and Bass Music pioneer DJ Magic Mike.
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Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther
Pub date: 2025-02-06
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Today’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe without entirely meaning to. David talks to historian Alec Ryrie about how a German monk took on the entire authority of the Catholic Church and survived the experience. What did he hope to achieve? Who were his principal backers? How did he reimagine the idea of human freedom? And where is his influence most widely felt today?
Out tomorrow on PPF+ a new bonus episode: David talks to Alec Ryrie about Calvin, who may have been the Reformation’s true revolutionary. What was Calvinism and how did it change the world? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Tickets are available now for PPF Live at the Bath Curious Minds Festival: on Saturday March 29th David will be in conversation with Robert Saunders about the legacy of Winston Churchill: The Politician with Nine Lives https://bit.ly/42GPp3X
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: My family and other Nazis
Pub date: 2024-08-12
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My father did terrible things during the second world war, and my other relatives were equally unrepentant. But it wasn’t until I was in my late 50s that I started to confront this dark past. By Martin Pollack. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Days Like These (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Margie and the Sheep
Pub date: 2024-07-02
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Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end...
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Podcast: Inventory-ing
Episode: Episode 4: Kristoffer Tjalve
Pub date: 2025-01-31
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Kristoffer is an independent curator and strategist living in Athens, Greece. He is dedicated to keeping the web alive through Naive Weekly, his well-received Sunday email, and Naive Yearly, an annual gathering for internet practitioners.
Other of his initiatives include Tiny Awards, the internet’s own award, The Internet Phone Book, a directory for exploring the poetic web, and Diagram.Website, an internet link portal.
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Podcast: Folk on Foot (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Folk on Foot Classic: Julie Fowlis on the Shores of Loch Ness
Pub date: 2025-01-27
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The Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis takes Matthew Bannister for a snowy walk on the dramatic shores of Loch Ness near her home in the Scottish Highlands. Accompanied by her husband Eamon Doorley, we hear Julie’s beautiful clear voice singing a song linked to the area and a love song that brought the couple together for the first time. As they head to the spectacular Foyers Falls, Julie explains that understanding the Gaelic language is the best way to form a true connection with the landscape.
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Podcast: My Unsung Hero (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Virginia Squier's Story
Pub date: 2025-01-14
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After Virginia's young daughter accidentally boarded a subway train without her, someone unexpected stepped in to help.
Do you have your own story of an unsung hero? We'd love to hear it! Record a voice memo and email it to us at myunsunghero@hiddenbrain.org.
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--Let us know why this person continues to impact your life.
--If your hero were standing in front of you today, what would you say? Address them directly.
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Podcast: The New Statesman | UK politics and culture (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Times They Have a-Changed: Where is the protest song now?
Pub date: 2025-01-27
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In 1966, to the chagrin of his fans and the folk music community, Bob Dylan went electric. The five years leading up to this moment is the focus of A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold.
This indignation came at a time where folk was the language of protest, from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam war, but when did folk get left behind? What was Dylan’s lasting effect on the protest song?
Tom Gatti is joined by Kate Mossman, senior writer at the New Statesman, and Dorian Lynskey, writer and author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs.
You can read more from Kate and Dorian on newstatesman.com.
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Podcast: Sinica Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman
Pub date: 2025-01-19
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I know I'd said last time there would be no show this week, but that was before this fascinating episode involving TikTok users signing up en masse to Xiaohongshu. Hilarity ensued, and my two guests — Ivy Yang, who runs Wavelet Strategy, an expert in cross-cultural communication, and David Fishman, Shanghai-based senior manager at Lantau Group who specializes in the Chinese energy sector and writes wonderfully about his excursions into the Chinese countryside. They've both been following this fascinating episode closely and have really smart things to say, so enjoy!
5:10 – How the migration of American Tiktokers to Xiaohongshu started
8:51 – A brief overview of Xiaohongshu: its users, typical content, and culture, including its “we’re all in this together” vibe
15:35 – The significance of Xiaohongshu as a Chinese app
19:48 – The scale of the American TikTok refugees phenomenon, and official reactions in the U.S.
24:52 – How Xiaohongshu has managed and reacted to the refugee phenomenon so far, and the PR opportunity presented for the PRC
29:33 – The Chinese government’s perspective
34:54 – Wholesome and interesting exchanges, and what American and Chinese users are finding surprising or amusing about each other’s cultures
38:50 – Why this new online encounter between Chinese and Americans is different from before
43:23 – The danger of irrational exuberance, and other risks the Xiaohongshu migration phenomenon presents
47:52 – The potential for a change in American thinking about China
Paying It Forward:
Ivy: Caiwei Chen
David: Robert Wu and Amber Zhang, especially their work on Baiguan, and Robert’s Substack China Translated, especially his essay, “The Great Divorce”
Recommendations:
Ivy: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgenceby Dr. Anna Lembke
David: Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in Chinaby Peter Hessler
Kaiser: Other works by Peter Hessler (River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze; Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip; and Other Rivers: A Chinese Education), and Telecaster type electric guitars, especially the Sire Larry Carlton T7
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Podcast: Illuminated (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: In Pieces
Pub date: 2025-01-12
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For some, burnout feels like an unravelling - a slow, creeping dissolution where the threads of your life and identity loosen and fray until you are completely undone.
For others, it’s a breaking point - a sharp, sudden, collapse where everything shatters all at once. It doesn’t just kill physical vitality it also guts the entire internal mechanism of us. Like lifting the hood off a car and finding no engine. There’s nothing, a void, which feels very shameful and fragile to those who have defined themselves by performance and always had the ability to bounce back.
Driven by extensive rumination both burnout and shame thrive in silence.
Stories are often how we create shape from the mess, they turn shame into something softer; something shared. They are how we make sense of the world, and often how we survive it. Giving us the power to hold what feels unholdable and ultimately creating a space where someone else can say, “me too”.
And sometimes required isn’t the courage to keep it all together, but to surrender and come apart.
Recovery is messy, non-linear but also deeply creative.
This is where the feature maker Hana Walker-Brown finds herself in this tender and intimate programme, sifting through the fragments, the scattered pieces of a life upended, considering how to start putting it back together.
With contributions from Luca and Theo Walker-Brown, Hana’s swimming companions Zoë and Gabby, Dr Sophie Mort, Dr Aaron Balick, Andrew Tobert and Services Director for Calm Wendy Robinson.
With thanks to Kenwood Ladies Pond and Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Featuring the use of "Prayer" by PJ Harvey
Produced and presented by Hana Walker-Brown
Sound design and original music by Hana Walker-Brown
Executive Producer: Anishka Sharma
Mix and Mastering: Peregrine Andrews
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Podcast: WHAT WENT WRONG (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Eyes Wide Shut
Pub date: 2025-01-06
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What happens when Tom Cruise’s unstoppable force meets Stanley Kubrick’s immovable object? Tune in as Lizzie & Chris uncover the secrets of the reclusive auteur’s thirteenth and final film, a production so difficult it (likely) ended a marriage, dispatched its director and may have sent not one, but two Kubrick collaborators deeper into the embrace of a truly secretive society.
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Podcast: Behind the Money (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What crypto wants from Trump
Pub date: 2025-01-08
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Pro-crypto investors spent millions to re-elect Donald Trump to the US presidency, after he told voters he wanted to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”. As the second Trump administration begins, what does the crypto sector want most? And, what are the risks if they get it?
Clips from Sky News, Bitcoin Magazine
For further reading:
Crypto industry dreams of a golden era under Trump
The crypto crown princes who could ‘win, win, win’ under Trump
The grim ghost of crypto future
Follow Nikou Asgari (@nikasgari) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07) on X, Bluesky (@mtindera.bsky.social) or follow Michela on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.
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Podcast: City Journal's 10 Blocks (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A History of Movement in New York City
Pub date: 2025-01-17
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Nicole Gelinas joins Brian Anderson to discuss her new book, Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back its Streets from the Car.
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Podcast: History's Heroes (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: History's Youngest Heroes: 5. St Francis of Assisi: Teen Rebel
Pub date: 2025-01-06
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A charismatic young man attracts a band of followers after denouncing his family fortune and devoting his life to the poor.
Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
Series Producer: Suniti SomaiyaProducer: Lorna ReaderExecutive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts
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Podcast: Small Things Big Climate
Episode: Beef is the worst food for the climate. Can it be done better?
Pub date: 2024-12-04
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Sometimes it feels like you need a PhD to figure out how to shop for lower carbon groceries. Why isn't there a simple rule of thumb to follow? Host Marco Chown Oved starts this episode with a simple question: What's more important for the climate, what you eat or where it comes from? And the answer is: It isn't even close. Guests: Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, Cory Van Groningen, beef farmer at Hillview Farm, partnered with VG Meats and Rowe Farms, Brent Preston, farmer at The New Farm, President of Farmers for Climate Solutions.
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Podcast: Comfort Eating with Grace Dent (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Sadiq Khan, mayor of London
Pub date: 2025-01-01
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To welcome in the New Year, Grace is joined by politician Sadiq Khan. Born in south London, to British Pakistani parents, he is one of eight children and was MP for Tooting before becoming London’s mayor in 2016. Now in his third term, Sadiq and Grace talk about how doughnuts fuel him during elections, the art of screwing up a tuna pasta bake, and where he’d like to take Donald Trump for dinner next time the president-elect is in town.
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Podcast: Gone Medieval (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Myths of Magna Carta
Pub date: 2025-01-14
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Did you know that Magna Carta wasn't originally intended as a beacon of civil liberties? Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by Steven Franklin of Royal Holloway, University of London to delve into the myths and realities of the Magna Carta. They discuss how this foundational document, sealed by King John in 1215, spawned iconic clauses like trial by jury, how it's still referenced today and why lesser-known yet impactful documents like the Charter of the Forest might deserve more attention.
Eleanor and Steven reveal how Magna Carta transformed into a mythologized symbol of justice and is considered a cornerstone of British law.
Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega. Edited by Amy Haddow, the producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
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Podcast: The Unspeakable Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Topaz Adizes On How To Ask Questions (And Sell Them, Too.)
Pub date: 2025-01-09
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This week, Meghan is joined by filmmaker, YouTuber, and “experience design architect” Topaz Adizes. He is the founder of The Skin Deep, an experience design created to foster connection in human relationships, often through innovative products and curated live events. In this conversation, Topaz discusses the evolution of relationships in the digital age, the importance of asking the right questions, and how he built a sustainable business model around his project, The And, a video series in which two people sit face to face and engage with a series of simple yet surprising questions. He also explains the concept of experience design and how it shapes human interactions in a technology-driven world. Finally, he and Meghan talk about building a business, the meaning of “intimacy,” the changing rules of the dating market, and why he’s (theoretically) willing to accept that his grandchildren might never meet their spouses in real life. GUEST BIO Topaz Adizes is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep, which has a popular YouTube channel. Topaz studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and Oxford University. He speaks four languages and currently lives in Mexico with his wife and two children. HOUSEKEEPING
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Podcast: Why? with Emma Kennedy (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why do we cry?
Pub date: 2024-12-12
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Crying is a universal human experience. We can shed tears of joy, laughter, and sorrow - some of us even weep cutting onions. But what exactly are tears, and why do some of us cry more than others?
Emma Kennedy talks to Ad Vingerhoets, author of Why Only Humans Weep and Emeritus Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University, and Tom Lutz, Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and author of Crying, to find out.
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Podcast: Tiny Matters (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Frostbite: From Napoleonic era treatments to the first FDA approved frostbite drug
Pub date: 2024-12-11
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Podcast: The Common Reader
Episode: Tyler Cowen: Trump's DOGE team should read Shakespeare.
Pub date: 2025-01-01
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Tyler and I spoke about view quakes from fiction, Proust, Bleak House, the uses of fiction for economists, the problems with historical fiction, about about drama in interviews, which classics are less read, why Jane Austen is so interesting today, Patrick Collison, Lord of the Rings… but mostly we talked about Shakespeare. We talked about Shakespeare as a thinker, how Romeo doesn’t love Juliet, Girard, the development of individualism, the importance and interest of the seventeenth century, Trump and Shakespeare’s fools, why Julius Cesar is over rated, the most under rated Shakespeare play, prejudice in The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare as an economic thinker. We covered a lot of ground and it was interesting for me throughout.
Here are some excerpts. Full transcript below.
Henry Some of the people around Trump now, they’re trying to do DOGE and deregulation and other things. Are there Shakespearean lessons that they should be bearing in mind? Should we send them to see the Henriad before they get started?
Tyler Send them to read the Henriad before they get started. The complicated nature of power: that the king never has the power that he needs to claim he does is quite significant. The ways in which power cannot be delegated, Shakespeare is extremely wise on. And yes, the DOGE people absolutely need to learn those lessons.
Henry The other thing I’d take from the Henriad is time moves way quicker than anyone thinks it does. Even the people who are trying to move quite quickly in the play, they get taken over very rapidly by just changing-
Tyler Yes. Once things start, it's like, oh my goodness, they just keep on running and no one's really in control. And that's a Shakespearean point as well.
And.
Henry Let’s say we read Shakespeare in a modern English version, how much are we getting?
Tyler It’ll be terrible. It’ll be a negative. It will poison your brain. So this, to me, will be highly unfortunate. Better to learn German and read the Schlegel than to read someone turning Shakespeare into current English. The only people who could do it maybe would be like the Trinidadians, who still have a marvelous English, and it would be a completely different work. But at least it might be something you could be proud of.
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Henry Today, I am talking to Tyler Cowen, the economist, blogger, columnist, and author. Tyler works at George Mason University. He writes Marginal Revolution. He is a columnist at Bloomberg, and he has written books like In Praise of Commercial Culture and The Age of the Infovore. We are going to talk about literature and Shakespeare. Tyler, welcome.
Tyler Good to chat with you, Henry.
Henry So have you ever had a view quake from reading fiction?
Tyler Reading fiction has an impact on you that accumulates over time. It's not the same as reading economics or philosophy, where there's a single, discrete idea that changes how you view the world. So I think reading the great classics in its entirety has been a view quake for me. But it's not that you wake up one morning and say, oh, I turned to page 74 in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, and now I realize that, dot, dot, dot. That's a yes and a no for an answer.
Henry So you've never read Bleak House and thought, actually, I do see things slightly differently about Victorian London or the history of the –?
Tyler Well, that's not a view quake. Certainly, that happens all the time, right? Slightly differently how you see Victorian London. But your overall vision of the world, maybe fiction is one of the three or four most important inputs. And again, I think it's more about the entirety of it and the diversity of perspectives. I think reading Proust maybe had the single biggest impact on me of any single work of fiction if I had to select one. And then when I was younger, science fiction had a quite significant impact on me. But I don't think it was the fictional side of science fiction that mattered, if that makes sense to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the models embodied in the stories, like, oh, the three laws of robotics. Well, I thought, well, what should those laws be like? I thought about that a good deal. So that would be another part of the qualified answer.
Henry And what was it with Proust? The idea that people only care about what other people think or sexuality or consciousness?
Tyler The richness of the internal life, the importance of both expectation and memory, the evanescence of actual events, a sense of humor.
Henry It showed you just how significant these things are.
Tyler And how deeply they can be felt and expressed. That's right. And there were specific pages early on in Swan's Way where it just hit me. So that's what I would say. Bleak House, I don't think, changed my views at all. It's one of my three or four favorite novels. I think it's one of the great, great, greats, as you have written yourself. But the notion that, well, the law is highly complex and reality is murky and there are all these deep mysteries, that all felt very familiar to me. And I had already read some number of newer sort of pseudo-Victorian novels that maybe do those themes in a more superficial way, but they introduce those themes to you. So you read Bleak House and you just say, well, I've imbibed this already, but here's the much better version of it.
Henry One of the things I got from Bleak House, which it took me a couple of reads to get to, was how comfortable Dickens was with being quite a rational critic of the legal system and quite a credulous believer in spontaneous combustion and other things.
Tyler Did Dickens actually believe in spontaneous combustion or is that a plot device? Like Gene Roddenberry doesn't actually believe in the transporter or didn't, as far as we
Henry know. No, I think he believed. Yeah. Yeah. He defends it in the preface. Yeah.
Tyler So it's not so confusing that there's not going to be a single behavioral model that captures deviations from rationality. So you end up thinking you ought to travel more, you ought to take in a lot of diverse different sources about our human beings behave, including from sociology, from anthropology. That makes it harder to be an economist, I would say it scatters your attention. You probably end up with a richer understanding of reality, but I'm not sure it's good for your research. It's probably bad for it.
Henry It's not a good career move.
Tyler It's not good for focus, but focus maybe can be a bit overrated.
Henry Why are you more interested in fiction than other sort of people of a broadly rational disposition?
Tyler Well, I might challenge the view that I'm of a broadly rational disposition. It's possible that all humans are roughly equally irrational, madmen aside, but if you mean the rationality community as one finds it in San Francisco, I think they're very mono in their approach to reasoning and that tends to limit the interests of many of them, not all, in fiction and travel. People are regional thinkers and in that region, San Francisco, there is incredible talent. It's maybe the most talented place in the world, but there's not the same kind of diversity of talents that you would find in London or New York and that somehow spreads to the broader ethos and it doesn't get people interested in fiction or for that matter, the visual arts very much.
Henry But even in London, if I meet someone who's an economist or has an economics degree or whatever, the odds that they've read Bleak House or something are just so small.
Tyler Bleak House is not that well read anymore, but I think an economist in London is likely to be much more well read than an economist in the Bay Area. That would be my prediction. You would know better than I would.
Henry How important has imaginative literature been to you relative to other significant writers like philosophers or theoretical economists or something?
Tyler Well, I'm not sure what you mean by imaginative literature. I think when I was 17, I read Olaf Stapleton, a great British author and Hegelian philosopher, and he was the first and first man and star maker, and that had a significant impact on me. Just how many visions you could put into a single book and have at least most of them cohere and make sense and inspire. That's one of the most imaginative works I've ever read, but people mean different things by that term.
Henry How objectively can we talk about art?
Tyler I think that becomes a discussion about words rather than about art. I would say I believe in the objective when it comes to aesthetics, but simply because we have no real choice not to. People actually, to some extent, trust their aesthetic judgments, so why not admit that you do and then fight about them? Trying to interject some form of extreme relativism, I think it's just playing a game. It's not really useful. Now, is art truly objective in the final metaphysical sense, in the final theory of the universe? I'm not sure that question has an answer or is even well-formulated, but I would just say let's just be objectivists when it comes to art. Why not?
Henry What is wrong with historical fiction?
Tyler Most of it bores me. For instance, I don't love Hilary Mantel and many very intelligent people think it's wonderful. I would just rather read the history. It feels like an in-between thing to me. It's not quite history. It's not quite fiction. I don't like biopics either when I go to the cinema. Yeah, I think you can build your own combination of extremes from history and fiction and get something better.
Henry You don't have any historical fiction that you like, Penelope Fitzgerald, Tolstoy?
Tyler Any is a strong word. I don't consider Tolstoy historical fiction. There's a historical element in it, as there is with say Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate or actually Dickens for that matter, but it's not driven by the history. I think it's driven by the characters and the story. Grossman comes somewhat closer to being historical fiction, but even there, I wouldn't say that it is.
Henry It was written so close to the events though, right?
Tyler Sure. It's about how people deal with things and what humanity means in extreme circumstances and the situations. I mean, while they're more than just a trapping, I never feel one is plodding through what happened in the Battle of Stalingrad when I read Grossman, say.
Henry Yeah. Are there diminishing returns to reading fiction or what are the diminishing returns?
Tyler It depends what you're doing in life. There's diminishing returns to most things in the sense that what you imbibe from your teen years through, say, your 30s will have a bigger impact on you than most of what you do later. I think that's very, very hard to avoid, unless you're an extreme late bloomer, to borrow a concept from you. As you get older, rereading gets better, I would say much better. You learn there are more things you want to read and you fill in the nooks and crannies of your understanding. That's highly rewarding in a way where what you read when you were 23 could not have been. I'm okay with that bargain. I wouldn't say it's diminishing returns. I would say it's altering returns. I think also when you're in very strange historical periods, reading fiction is more valuable. During the Obama years, it felt to me that reading fiction was somewhat less interesting. During what you might call the Trump years, and many other strange things are going on with AI, people trying to strive for immortality, reading fiction is much more valuable because it's more limited what nonfiction can tell you or teach you. I think right now we're in a time where the returns to reading more fiction are rapidly rising in a good way. I'm not saying it's good for the world, but it's good for reading fiction.
Henry Do you cluster read your fiction?
Tyler Sometimes, but not in general. If I'm cluster reading my fiction, it might be because I'm cluster reading my nonfiction and the fiction is an accompaniment to that. Say, Soviet Russia, I did some reading when I was prepping for Stephen Kotkin and for Russ Roberts and Vasili Grossman, but I don't, when it comes to fiction per se, cluster read it. No, I don't think you need to.
Henry You're not going to do like, I'm reading Bleak House, so I'll do three other 1852 novels or three other Dickens novels or something like that.
Tyler I don't do it, but I suspect it's counterproductive. The other Dickens novels will bore you more and they'll seem worse, is my intuition. I think the question is how you sequence works of very, very high quality. Say you just finished Bleak House, what do you pick up next? It should be a work of nonfiction, but I think you've got to wait a while or maybe something quite different, sort of in a way not different, like a detective story or something that won't challenge what has been cemented into your mind from Bleak House.
Henry Has there been a decline of reading the classics?
Tyler What I observe is a big superstar effect. I think a few authors, such as Jane Austen and Shakespeare, are more popular. I'm not completely sure they're more read, but they're more focal and more vivid. There are more adaptations of them. Maybe people ask GPT about them more. Really quite a few other works are much less read than would have been the case, say as recently as the 1970s or 1980s. My guess is, on the whole, the great works of fiction are much less read, but a few of them achieve this oversized reputation.
Henry Why do you think that is?
Tyler Attention is more scarce, perhaps, and social clustering effects are stronger through the internet. That would just be a guess.
Henry It's not that we're all much more Jane Austen than we used to be?
Tyler No, if anything, the contrary. Maybe because we're less Jane Austen, it's more interesting, because in, say, a Jane Austen novel, there will be sources of romantic tension not available to us through contemporary TV shows. The question, why don't they just sleep together, well, there's a potential answer in a Jane Austen story. In the Israeli TV show, Srugim, which is about modern Orthodox Jews, there's also an answer, but in most Hollywood TV, there's no answer. They're just going to sleep together, and it can become very boring quite rapidly.
Henry Here's a reader question. Why is the market for classics so good, but nobody reads them? I think what they're saying is a lot of people aren't actually reading Shakespeare, but they still agree he's the best, so how can that be?
Tyler A lot of that is just social conformity bias, but I see more and more people, and I mean intellectuals here, challenging the quality of Shakespeare. On the internet, every possible opinion will be expressed, is one way to put it. I think the market for classics is highly efficient in the following sense, that if you asked, say, GPT or Claude, which are the most important classics to read, that literally everything listed would be a great book. You could have it select 500 works, and every one of them would really be very good and interesting. If you look at Harold Bloom's list at the back of the Western canon, I think really just about every one of those is quite worthwhile, and that we got to that point is, to me, one of the great achievements of the contemporary world, and it's somewhat under-praised, because you go back in earlier points of time, and I think it's much less efficient, the market for criticism, if you would call it that.
Henry Someone was WhatsAppping me the other day that GPT's list of 50 best English poets was just awful, and I said, well, you're using GPT4, o1 gives you the right list.
Tyler Yeah, and o1 Pro may give you a slightly better list yet, or maybe the prompt has to be better, but it's interesting to me how many people, they love to attack literary criticism as the greatest of all villains, oh, they're all frustrated writers, they're all post-modernists, they're all extreme left-wingers. All those things might even be true to some extent, but the system as a whole, I would say completely has delivered, and especially people on the political and intellectual right, they often don't realize that. Just any work you want to read, if you put in a wee bit of time and go to a shelf of a good academic library, you can read fantastic criticism of it that will make your understanding of the work much better.
Henry I used to believe, when I was young, I did sort of believe that the whole thing, oh, the Western canon's dying and everyone's given up on it, and I'm just so amazed now that the opposite has happened. It's very, very strong.
Tyler I'm not sure how strong it is. I agree its force in discourse is strong, so something like, well, how often is it mentioned in my group chats? That's strongly rising, and that delights me, but that's a little different from it being strong, and I'm not sure how strong it is.
Henry In an interview about your book Talent, you said this, “just get people talking about drama. I feel you learn a lot. It's not something they can prepare for. They can't really fake it. If they don't understand the topic, you can just switch to something else.”
Tyler Yeah, that's great advice. You see how they think about how people relate to each other. It doesn't have to be fiction. I ask people a lot about Star Wars, Star Trek, whatever it is they might know that I have some familiarity with. Who makes the best decisions in Star Wars? Who gives the best advice? Yoda, Obi-Wan, Luke, Darth Vader, the Emperor?
Henry It's a tough question.
Tyler Yeah, yeah.
Henry I don't know Star Wars, so I couldn't even answer that.
Tyler You understand that you can't fake it. You can't prepare for it. It does show how the person thinks about advice and also drama.
Henry Right. Now, you're a Shakespeare fan.
Tyler Well, fan is maybe an understatement. He's better. He deserves better than fans.
Henry How much of time, how much of your life have you spent reading and watching this work?
Tyler I would say most of the plays from, say, like 1598 or 99 and after, I've read four to five times on average, some a bit more, some like maybe only three times. There's quite a few I've only read once and didn't like. Those typically are the earlier ones. When it comes to watching Shakespeare, I have to confess, I don't and can't understand it, so I'm really not able to watch it either on the stage or in a movie and profit from it. I think I partially have an auditory processing disorder that if I hear Shakespeare, you know, say at Folger in DC, I just literally cannot understand the words. It's like listening to Estonian, so I've gone some number of times. I cannot enjoy what you would call classic Shakespeare movies like Kenneth Branagh, Henry V, which gets great reviews, intelligent people love it. It doesn't click for me at all. I can't understand what's going on. The amount of time I've put into listening to it, watching it is very low and it will stay low. The only Shakespeare movies I like are the weird ones like Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight or Baz Luhrmann's Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I think they're fantastic, but they're not obsessed with reciting the text.
Henry So, you're reading with notes and you're piecing it together as you go.
Tyler I feel the versions in my head are better than anything I see on the screen also, so that's another reason. I just think they're to be read. I fully understand that's not how Shakespeare seemed to view them, but that's a way in which we readers, in a funny way, can improve on Shakespeare's time.
Henry No, I agree with you. The thing I get the most pushback about with Shakespeare is when I say that he was a great thinker.
Tyler He's maybe the best thinker.
Henry Right. But tell us what you mean by that.
Tyler I don't feel I can articulate it. It's a bit like when o3 Pro gives you an answer so good you don't quite appreciate it yourself. Shakespeare is like o7 Pro or something. But the best of the plays seem to communicate the entirety of human existence in a way that I feel I can barely comprehend and I find in very, very little else. Even looking at other very great works such as Bleak House, I don't find it. Not all of the plays. There's very, very good plays that don't do that. Just say Macbeth and Othello. I don't feel do that at all. Not a complaint, but something like Hamlet or King Lear or Tempest or some of the comedies. It's just somehow all laid out there and all inside it at the same time. I don't know any other way of putting it.
Henry A lot of people think that Shakespeare is overrated. We only read him because it's a status game. We've internalized these snobbish values. We see this stated a lot. What's your response to these people?
Tyler Well, I feel sorry for them. But look, there's plenty of things I can't understand. I just told you if I go to see the plays, I'm completely lost. I know the fault is mine, so to speak. I don't blame Shakespeare or the production, at least not necessarily. Those are people who are in a similar position, but somehow don't have enough metarationality to realize the fault is on them. I think that's sad. But there's other great stuff they can do and probably they're doing it. That's fine.
Henry Should everyone read Shakespeare at school?
Tyler If you say everyone, I resist. But it certainly should be in the curriculum. But the real question is who can teach it? But yeah, it's better than not doing it. When I was in high school, we did Taming of the Shrew, which I actually don't like very much, and it put me off a bit. We did Macbeth, which is a much better play. But in a way, it's easy to teach. Macbeth, to me, is like a perfect two-minute punk rock song. It does something. It delivers. But it's not the Shakespeare that puts everything on the table, and the plot is easy to follow. You can imagine even a mediocre teacher leading students through it. It's to me still a little underwhelming if that's what we teach them. Then finally, my last year, we did Hamlet, and I'm like, whoa, okay, now I get it. Probably we do it wrong in a lot of cases, would be my guess. What's wrong with the Taming of the Shrew? It's a lot of yelling and screaming and ordinary. To me, it's not that witty. There's different views, like is it offensive to women, offensive to men? That's not my main worry. But those questions, I feel, also don't help the play, and I just don't think Shakespeare was fully mature when he wrote it. What was the year on that? Do you know offhand?
Henry It's very early.
Tyler It's very early. Very early, yeah. So if you look at the other plays that surround it, they're also not as top works. So why should we expect that one to be?
Henry What can arts funding learn from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres?
Tyler Current arts funding? I don't think that much. I think the situation right now is so different, and what we should do so depends on the country, the state, the province, the region. Elizabethan times do show that market support at art can be truly wonderful. We have plenty of that today. But if you're just, say, appointed to be chair of the NEA and you've got to make decisions, I'm not sure how knowing about Elizabethan theatre would help you in any direct way.
Henry What do you think of the idea that the long history of arts funding is a move away from a small group, an individual patronage where taste was very important, towards a kind of institutional patronage, which became much more bureaucratic? And so one reason why we keep arguing about arts funding now is that a lot of it exhibits bad taste because the committee has to sort of agree on various things. And if we could reallocate somewhat towards individual patronage, we'd do better.
Tyler I would agree with the latter two-thirds of that. How you describe earlier arts funding I think is more complicated than what you said. A lot of it is just people doing things voluntarily at zero pecuniary cost, like singing songs, songs around the campfire, or hymns in church, rather than it being part of a patronage model. But I think it's way overly bureaucratized. The early National Endowment for the Arts in the 1960s just let smart people make decisions with a minimum of fuss. And of course we should go back to that. Of course we won't. We send half the money to the state's arts agencies, which can be mediocre or just interested in economic development and a new arts center, as opposed to actually stimulating creativity per se. More over time is spent on staff. There are all these pressures from Congress, things you can't fund. It's just become far less effective, even though it spends somewhat more money. So that's a problem in many, many countries.
Henry What Shakespeare critics do you like reading?
Tyler For all his flaws, I still think Harold Bloom is worthwhile. I know he's gotten worse and worse as a critic and as a Shakespeare critic. Especially if you're younger, you need to put aside the Harold Bloom you might think you know and just go to some earlier Bloom. Those short little books he edited, where for a given Shakespeare play he'll collect maybe a dozen essays and write eight or ten pages at the front, those are wonderful. But Bradley, William Hazlitt, the two Goddard volumes, older works, I think are excellent. But again, if you just go, if you can, to a university library, go to the part on the shelf where there's criticism on a particular play and just pull down five to ten titles and don't even select for them and just bring those home. I think you'll learn a lot.
Henry So you don't like The Invention of the Human by Bloom?
Tyler Its peaks are very good, but there's a lot in it that's embarrassing. I definitely recommend it, but you need to recommend it with the caveat that a lot of it is over the top or bad. It doesn't bother me. But if someone professional or academic tells me they're totally put off by the book, I don't try to talk them out of that impression. I just figure they're a bit hopelessly stuck on judging works by their worst qualities.
Henry In 2018, you wrote this, “Shakespeare, by the way, is Girard's most important precursor. Also throw in the New Testament, Hobbes, Tocqueville, and maybe Montaigne.” Tell us what you mean by that.
Tyler That was pretty good for me to have written that. Well, in Shakespeare, you have rivalrous behavior. You have mimetic desire. You have the importance of twinning. There's ritual sacrifice in so many of the plays, including the political ones. Girard's title, Violence and the Sacred, also comes from Shakespeare. As you well know, the best Gerard book, Theater of Envy, is fully about Shakespeare. All of Girard is drenched with Shakespeare.
Henry I actually only find Girard persuasive on Shakespeare. The further I get away from that, the more I'm like, this is super overstated. I just don't think this is how humans ... I think this is too mono-explanation of humans. When I read the Shakespeare book, I think, wow, I never understood Midsummer Night's Dream until I read Girard.
Tyler I think it's a bit like Harold Bloom. There's plenty in Girard you can point to as over the top. I think also for understanding Christianity, he has something quite unique and special and mostly correct. Then on other topics, it's anthropologically very questionable, but still quite stimulating. I would defend it on that basis, as I would Harold Girard.
Henry No, I like Gerard, but I feel like the Shakespeare book gets less attention than the others.
Tyler That's right. It's the best one and it's also the soundest one. It's the truly essential one.
Henry How important was Shakespeare in the development of individualism?
Tyler Probably not at all, is my sense. Others know more about the history than I do, but if I think of 17th century England, where some strands of individualist thought come from, well, part of it is coming from the French Huguenots and not from Shakespeare. A lot of it is coming from the Bible and not from Shakespeare. The levelers, John Locke, some of that is coming from English common law and not from Shakespeare. Then there's the ancient world. I don't quite see a strong connection to Shakespeare, but I'd love it if you could talk me into one.
Henry My feeling is that the 1570s are the time when diaries begin to become personal records rather than professional records. What you get is a kind of Puritan self-examination. They'll write down, I said this, I did this, and then in the margin they'll put, come back and look at this and make sure you don't do this again. This new process of overhearing yourself is a central part of what Shakespeare's doing in his drawing. I think this is the thing that Bloom gets right, is that as you go through the plays in order, you see the very strong development of the idea that a stock character or someone who's drawing on a tradition of stock characters will suddenly say, oh, I just heard myself say that I'm a villain. Am I a villain? I'm sort of a villain. Maybe I'm not a villain. He develops this great art of self-referential self-development. I think that's one of the reasons why Shakespeare became so important to being a well-educated English person, is that you couldn't really get that in imaginative literature.
Tyler I agree with all that, but I'm not sure the 17th century would have been all that different without Shakespeare, in literary terms, yes, but it seemed to me the currents of individualism were well underway. Other forces sweeping down from Europe, from the further north, competition across nations requiring individualism as a way of getting more wealth, the beginnings of economic thought which became individualistic and gave people a different kind of individualistic way of viewing the world. It seems so over-determined. Causally, I wouldn't ascribe much of a role to Shakespeare, but I agree with every sentence you said and what you said.
Henry Sure, but you don't think the role of imaginative literature is somehow a fundamental transmission mechanism for all of this?
Tyler Well, the Bible, I think, was quite fundamental as literature, not just as theology. So I would claim that, but keep in mind the publication and folio history of Shakespeare, which you probably know better than I do, it's not always well-known at every point in time by everyone.
Henry I think it's always well-known by the English.
Tyler I don't know, but I don't think it's dominant in the way that, say, Pilgrim's Progress was dominant for a long time.
Henry Sure, sure, sure. And you wouldn't then, what would you say about later on, that modern European liberalism is basically the culture of novel reading and that we live in a society that's shaped by that? Do you have the same thing, like it's not causal?
Tyler I don't know. That's a tricky question. The true 19th century novel I think of as somewhat historicist, often nationalist, slightly collectivist, certainly not Marxist, but in some ways illiberal. And so many of the truly great novel writers were not so liberal. And the real liberal novels, like Mancini's The Betrothed, which I quite enjoy, but it's somewhat of a slight work, right? And it might be a slight work because it is happy and liberal and open-minded. There's something about the greatest of creators, they tend to be pessimistic or a bit nasty or there's some John Lennon in them, there's Jonathan Swift, Swift, it's complicated. In some ways he's illiberal, but he's considered a Tory and in many ways he's quite an extreme reactionary. And the great age of the novel I don't think of is so closely tied to liberalism.
Henry One of the arguments that gets made is like, you only end up with modern European liberalism through a culture where people are just spending a lot of time reading novels and imagining what it is like to be someone else, seeing from multiple different perspectives. And therefore it's less about what is the quote unquote message of the story and more about the habitual practice of thinking pluralistically.
Tyler I think I would be much more inclined to ascribe that to reading newspapers and pamphlets than novels. I think of novels as modestly reactionary in their net impact, at least in the 19th century. I think another case in point, not just Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, one of the great novelists, had bad politics, right, was through Germany in the first world war. So if you look at the very greatest novels, there's something a bit problematic about many of their creators. They're not Nazis, they're not Stalinists, but they're not where I'm at either.
Henry Now in 2017, a lot of people were complaining about Donald Trump as Julius Caesar and there was some farce about a production, I think it was put on in New York or DC maybe. And you said, no, no, no, he's not Caesar. He's more like a Shakespearean fool because he's the truth teller. What do you think of that view now?
Tyler That was a Bloomberg column I wrote, I think in 2017. And I think that's held up quite well. So there's many criticisms of Trump that he's some kind of fascist. I don't think those have held up very well. He is a remarkable orator, coiner of phrase, coiner of insults, teller of truths, combined with a lot of nonsense and just nonsense talk, like the Covfefe tweet or whatever it was. And there's something tragic about Trump that he may well fail even by his own standards. He has a phenomenal sense of humor. I think people have realized that more and more. The fact that his popularity has persisted has forced a lot of people to reexamine just Trump as an individual and to see what a truly unique talent he is, whether you like him as your president or not. And that, I think, is all Shakespearean.
Henry Some of the people around Trump now, they're trying to do DOGE and deregulation and other things. Are there Shakespearean lessons that they should be bearing in mind? Should we send them to see the Henriad before they get started?
Tyler Send them to read the Henriad before they get started. The complicated nature of power: that the king never has the power that he needs to claim he does is quite significant. The ways in which power cannot be delegated, Shakespeare is extremely wise on. And yes, the DOGE people absolutely need to learn those lessons.
Henry The other thing I'd take from the Henriad is time moves way quicker than anyone thinks it does. Even the people who are trying to move quite quickly in the play, they get taken over very rapidly by just changing-
Tyler Yes. Once things start, it's like, oh my goodness, they just keep on running and no one's really in control. And that's a Shakespearean point as well.
Henry Yeah. Here's another quote from the Bloomberg column, “given Shakespeare's brilliance in dramatizing the irrational, one of my biggest fears is that Shakespeare is indeed still a thinker for our times.” Has that come more true in recent years?
Tyler I think more true. So from my point of view, the world is getting weirder in some very good ways and in some very bad ways. The arbitrary exercise of power has become more thinkable. You see this from Putin. We may see it from China. In the Middle East, it's happened as well. So the notion also that rulers can be their own worst enemies or human beings can be their own worst enemies. I think we see more when the world is volatile than when the world is stable, almost definitionally.
Henry You once said Julius Caesar was an overrated play. Tell us why.
Tyler You know, I read it again after I wrote that and it went up in my eyes. But I suppose I still think it's a bit overrated by people who love it. It's one of these mono plays like Macbeth or Othello. It does one thing very, very well. I think the mystical elements in it I had underappreciated on earlier readings and the complexity of the characters I had underappreciated. So I feel I was a little harsh on it. But I just wouldn't put it in the underrated category. Julius Caesar is such a well-known historical figure. It's so easy for that play to become focal. And Brutus and, you know, the stabbing, the betrayal, it's a little too easy for it to become famous. And I guess that's why I think within the world of Shakespeare fans, it still might be a little overrated.
Henry It's written at a similar time to Hamlet and Twelfth Night, and I think it gets caught up in the idea that this was a great pivotal moment for Shakespeare. But actually I agree, over the years I've come to think it's really just not the equal of the other plays it's surrounded by.
Tyler Yeah, that's still my view. Absolutely. Not the equal of those two, certainly.
Henry What is the most underrated play?
Tyler I'm not sure how they're all rated. So I used to think Winter's Tale, clearly. But I've heard so many people say it's the most underrated, including you, I think. I don't know if I can believe that anymore. So I think I have to go with The Henriad, because to me that's the greatest thing Shakespeare ever did. And I don't think it's commonly recognized as such. I mean, Hamlet or King Lear would typically be nominated. And those are top, top, top, top. But I'll still go with The Henriad.
Henry You are saying Henriad above Hamlet, above Lear, above Twelfth Night.
Tyler Maybe it's not fair because you have multiple plays, right? What if, you know, there were three Hamlets? Maybe that would be better. But still, if I have to pick, no one of The Henriad comes close to Hamlet. But if you can consider it as a whole in the evolution of the story, for me it's a clear winner. And it's what I've learned the most from. And a problem with Hamlet, not Shakespeare's fault, but Hamlet became so popular you hear lesser versions of themes and ideas from Hamlet your whole life. It's a bit like seeing Mondrian on the shopping bag. That does not happen, really, with The Henriad. So that has hurt Hamlet, but without meaning it's, you know, a lesser play. King Lear, you have less of that. It's so bleak and tragic. It's harder to put on the shopping bag, so to speak. In that sense, King Lear has held up a bit better than Hamlet has.
Henry Why do you admire The Winter's Tale so much? What do you like about it?
Tyler There's some mysterious sense of beauty in it that even in other Shakespearean plays I don't feel. And a sense of miracle and wonder, also betrayal and how that is mixed in with the miracle and wonder. Somehow he makes it work. It's quite an unlikely play. And the jealousy and the charge of infidelity I take much more seriously than other readers of the play do. I don't think you can say there's a Straussian reading where she clearly fooled around on the king. But he's not just crazy, either. And there are plenty of hints that something might have happened. It's still probably better to infer it didn't happen. But it's a more ambiguous play than it is typically read as.
Henry Yes, someone said to me, ask if he thinks Hermione has an affair. And you're saying maybe.
Tyler Again, in a prediction market, I'll bet no, but we're supposed to wonder. We're not supposed to just think the king is crazy.
Henry I know you don't like to see it, but my view is that because we believe in this sudden jealousy theory, it's often not staged very well. And that's one reason why it's less popular than it ought to be.
Tyler I've only seen it once. I suspect that was true. I saw it, in fact, last year. And the second half of the play was just awful. The first half, you could question. But it was a painful experience. It was just offensively stupid. One of the great regrets of my life is I did not drive up to New York City to see Bergman present his version of Winter's Tale in Swedish. And I'm quite sure that would have been magnificent and that he would have understood it very deeply and very well. That was just stupid of me. This was, I think, in the early 90s. I forget exactly when.
Henry I think that's right. And there's a theater library where if you want to go and sit in the archive, you can see it.
Tyler I will do that at some point. Part of my worry is I don't believe their promise. I know you can read that promise on the internet, but when you actually try to find the person who can track it down for you and give you access, I have my doubts. If I knew I could do it, I would have done it by now.
Henry I'll give you the email because I think I actually found that person. Does Romeo actually love Juliet?
Tyler Of course not. It's a play about perversion and obsession and family obligation and rebellion. And there's no love between the two at all. And if you read it with that in mind, once you see that, you can't unsee it. So that's an underrated play. People think, oh, star-crossed teen romance, tragic ending, boo-hoo. That's a terrible reading. It's just a superficial work of art if that's what you think it is.
Henry I agree with you, but there are eminent Shakespeare professors who take that opinion.
Tyler Well maybe we're smarter than they are. Maybe we know more about other things. You shouldn't let yourself be intimidated by critics. They're highly useful. We shouldn't trash them. We shouldn't think they're all crummy left-wing post-modernists. But at the end of the day, I don't think you should defer to them that much either.
Henry Sure. So you're saying Juliet doesn't love Romeo?
Tyler Neither loves the other.
Henry Okay. Because my reading is that Romeo has a very strong death drive or dark side or whatever.
Tyler That's the strong motive in the play is the death drive, yeah.
Henry And what that means is that it's not his tragedy, it's her tragedy. She actually is an innocent young girl. Okay, maybe she doesn't love him, it's a crush or it's whatever, but she actually is swept up in the idea of this handsome stranger. She can get out of her family. She's super rebellious. There's that wonderful scene where she plays all sweetness and light to her nurse and then she says, I'm just lying to you all and I'm going to get out of here. Whereas he actually is, he doesn't have any romantic feeling for her. He's really quite a sinister guy.
Tyler Those are good points. I fully agree. I still would interpret that as she not loving him, but I think those are all good insights.
Henry You've never seen it staged in this way? You've never seen any one?
Tyler The best staging is that Baz Luhrmann movie I mentioned, which has an intense set of references to Haitian voodoo in Romeo and Juliet when you watch the movie. The death drive is quite clear. That's the best staging I know of, but I've never seen it on the stage ever. I've seen the Zeffirelli movie, I think another film instance of it, but no, it's the Haitian voodoo version that I like.
Henry He makes it seem like they love each other, right?
Tyler In a teenage way. I don't feel that he gets it right, but I feel he creates a convincing universe through which the play usefully can be viewed.
Henry The Mercutio death, I think, is never going to be better than in that film. What do you like about Antonin Cleopatra?
Tyler It's been a long time since I've read that. What a strong character she is. The sway people can exercise over each other. The lines are very good. It's not a top Shakespeare favorite of mine, but again, if anyone else had done it, you would just say this is one of the greatest plays ever, and it is.
Henry I think it's going to be much more of a play for our times because many people in the Trump administration are going to have that. They're torn between Rome and Egypt, as it were, and the personal conflicts are going to start getting serious for them, if you like.
Tyler There's no better writer or thinker on personal conflict than Shakespeare, right?
Henry Yes. Now, you do like Measure for Measure, but you're less keen on All's Well That Ends Well. Is that right?
Tyler I love Measure for Measure. To me, it's still somewhat underrated. I think it's risen in status. All's Well That Ends Well, I suspect you need to be good at listening to Shakespeare, which as I've already said, I'm not. It's probably much better than I realize it is for that reason. I'm not sure on the printed page it works all that well.
Henry Yeah. That's right. I think it's one of the most important plays. Why? Because I think there are two or three basic factors about Shakespeare's drama, which is like the story could often branch off in different directions. You often get the sense that he could swerve into a different genre. The point Samuel Johnson made about whenever someone's running off to the tavern, someone else is being buried, right? And a lot of the time he comes again and again to the same types of situations, the same types of characters, the same types of family set up. And he ends the plays in different ways and he makes it fall out differently. And I think Helena is very representative of a lot of these facets. Everyone thinks she's dead, but she's not dead. Sometimes it looks like it's going badly for her when actually it's going well. No one in the play ever really has an honest insight into her motives. And there comes a point, I think, when just the overall message of Shakespeare's work collectively is things go very wrong very quickly. And if you can get to some sort of happy ending, you should take it. You should be pragmatic and say, OK, this isn't the perfect marriage. This isn't the perfect king. But you know what? We could be in a civil war. Everyone could be dead. All's well that ends well. That's good advice. Let's take it.
Tyler I should reread it. Number one in my reread pile right now is Richard II, which I haven't read in a long time. And there's a new biography out about Richard II. And I'm going to read the play and the biography more or less in conjunction. And there's a filming of Richard II that I probably won't enjoy, but I'll try. And I'm just going to do that all together, probably sometime over this break. But I'll have all's well that ends well is next on my reread list. You should always have a Shakespeare to reread list, right?
Henry Always. Oh, of course. Is Shakespeare a good economic thinker?
Tyler Well, he's a great thinker. I would say he's better than a good economic thinker. He understands the motive of money, but it's never just the motive of money. And Shakespeare lowers the status of economic thinking, I would say, overall, in a good way. He's better than us.
Henry What are your thoughts on The Merchant of Venice?
Tyler Quite underrated. People have trouble with it because it is very plausibly anti-Semitic. And everyone has to preface any praise they give it with some kind of disavowal or whatever. The way I read the play, which could be wrong, but it's actually more anti-anti-Semitic than it is anti-Semitic. So the real cruel mean people are those who torment the Jew. I'm not saying Shakespeare was not in some ways prejudiced against Jews and maybe other groups, but actually reading it properly should make people more tolerant, not because they're reacting against Shakespeare's anti-Semitism, but because the proper message of the play understood at a deeper level is toleration.
Henry You teach a law and literature class, I think.
Tyler Well, I did for 20 years, but I don't anymore.
Henry Did you teach Merchant of Venice?
Tyler I taught it two or three times, yes.
Henry How did your students react to it?
Tyler Whenever I taught them Shakespeare, which was actually not that much, they always liked it, but they didn't love it. And there's some version of Shakespeare you see on the screen when it's a decent but not great filmed adaptation where there's the mechanics of the plot and you're held in suspense and then there's an ending. And I found many of them read Shakespeare in those terms and they quite enjoyed it, but somehow they didn't get it. And I think that was true for Merchant of Venice as well. I didn't feel people got hung up on the anti-Semitism point. They could put that aside and just treat it as a play, but still I didn't feel that people got it.
Henry Should we read Shakespeare in translation?
Tyler Well, many people have to. I've read some of the Schlegel translations. I think they're amazing. My wife, Natasha, who grew up in the Soviet Union, tells me there are very good Russian language translations, which I certainly believe her. The Schlegels are different works. They're more German romantic, as you might expect, but that's fine, especially if you know the original. My guess is there are some other very good translations. So in that qualified way, the translations, a few of them can be quite valuable. I worry that at some point we'll all need to read it in some sort of translation, as Chaucer is mostly already true for Chaucer. You probably don't have to read Chaucer in translation, but I do.
Henry I feel like I shouldn't read it in translation, I think.
Tyler But you do, right? Or you don't?
Henry No, I read the original. I make myself do the original.
Tyler I just can't understand the original well enough.
Henry But I put the time in when I was young, and I think you retain a sense of it. Do you think, though, if we read, let's say we read Shakespeare in a modern English version, how much are we getting?
Tyler It'll be terrible. It'll be a negative. It will poison your brain. So this, to me, will be highly unfortunate. Better to learn German and read the Schlegel than to read someone turning Shakespeare into current English. The only people who could do it maybe would be like the Trinidadians, who still have a marvelous English, and it would be a completely different work. But at least it might be something you could be proud of.
Henry I'd like to read some of that. That would be quite an exciting project.
Tyler Maybe it's been done. I don't know. But just an Americanized Hollywood version, like, no, that's just a negative. It's destructive.
Henry Now, you're very interested in the 17th century, which I think is when we first get steady economic growth, East India Company, England is settling in America.
Tyler Political parties. Some notion of the rule of law. A certain theory of property rights. Very explicit individualism. Social contract theories. You get Hobbes, Isaac Newton, calculus. We could go on. Some people would say, well, Westphalia, you get the modern nation state. That to me is a vaguer date to pin that on. But again, it's a claim you can make of a phenomenal century. People aren't that interested in it anymore, I think.
Henry How does Shakespeare fit into this picture?
Tyler Well, if you think of the years, if you think of the best ones, they start, like what, 1598, 1599. And then by 1600, they're almost all just wonderful. He's a herald. I don't think he's that causal. But he's a sign, the first totally clear sign that all the pieces have fallen into place. And we know the 17th century gave us our greatest thinker. And in terms of birth, not composition, it gave us our greatest composer, Bach.
Henry So we can't have Shakespeare without all of this economic and philosophic and political activity. He's sort of, those things are necessary conditions for what he's doing.
Tyler He needed the 16th century, and there's some very good recent books on how important the 16th century was for the 17th century. So I think more and more, as I read more, I'll come to see the roots of the 17th and the 16th century. And Shakespeare is reflecting that by bridging the two.
Henry What are the recent books that you recommend about the 16th century?
Tyler Oh, I forget the title, but there's this book about Elizabethan England, came out maybe three or four years ago, written by a woman. And it just talks about markets and commerce and creativity, surging during that time. In a way, obvious points, but she put them together better than anyone else had. And there's this other new German book about the 16th century. It's in my best of the year list that I put up on Marginal Revolution, and I forget the exact title, but I've been reading that slowly. And that's very good. So I expect to make further intellectual moves in that direction.
Henry Was Shakespeare anti-woke?
Tyler I don't know what that means in his context. He certainly understands the real truths are deeper, but to pin the word anti on him is to make him smaller. And like Harold Bloom, I will refuse to do that.
Henry You don't see some sense in which ... A lot of people have compared wokeness to the Reformation, right? I mean, it's a kind of weak comparison.
Tyler Yes, but only some strands of it. You wouldn't say Luther was woke, right?
Henry But you don't see some way in which Shakespeare is, not in an anti way, in a complicated way, but like a reaction against some of these forces in the way that Swift would be a reaction against certain forces in his time.
Tyler Well I'm not even sure what Shakespeare's religion was. Some people claim he was Catholic. To me that's plausible, but I don't know of any clear evidence. He does not strike me as very religious. He might be a lapsed Catholic if I had to say. I think he simply was always concerned with trying to view and present things in a deeper manner and there were so many forces he could have been reacting against with that one. I don't know exactly what it was in the England of his time that specifically he was reacting against. If someone says, oh, it was the strand of Protestant thought, I would say fine, it might have been that. A la Peter Thiel, couldn't you say it's over determined and name 47 other different things as well?
Henry Now, if you were talking to rationalists, effective altruists, people from Silicon Valley, all these kinds of groups, would you say to them, you should read Shakespeare, you should read fiction, or would you just say, you're doing great, don't worry that you're missing out on this?
Tyler Well, I'm a little reluctant to just tell people you should do X. I think what I've tried to do is to be an example of doing X and hope that example is somewhat contagious. Other people are contagious on me, as for instance, you have been. That's what I like to do. Now, it's a question, if someone needs a particular contagion, does that mean it's high marginal value or does it mean, in some sense, they're immue from the bug and you can't actually get them interested? It can go either way. Am I glad that Peter Singer has specialized in being Peter Singer, even though I disagree with much of it? I would say yes. Peter had his own homecoming. As far as I know, it was not Shakespearean, but when he wrote that book about the history of Vienna and his own family background, that was in a sense Peter doing his version of turning Shakespearean. It was a good book and it deepened his thought, but at the end of the day, I also see he's still Peter Singer, so I don't know. I think the Shakespearean perspective itself militates a bit against telling people they should read Shakespeare.
Henry Sure. Patrick Collison today has tweeted about, I think, 10 of the great novels that he read this year. It's a big, long tweet with all of his novels.
Tyler Yeah, it's wonderful.
Henry Yeah, it's great. At the end, he basically says the reason to read them is just that they're great. Appreciation of excellence is a good thing for its own sake. You're not going to wrench a utilitarian benefit out of this stuff. Is that basically your view?
Tyler I fully agree with that, but he might slightly be underrating the utilitarian benefits. If you read a particular thing, whatever it is, it's a good way of matching with other people who will deepen you. If it's Shakespeare, or if it's science fiction, or if it's economics, I think there's this big practical benefit from the better matching. I think, actually, Patrick himself, over time in his life, he will have a different set of friends, somewhat, because he wrote that post, and that will be good.
Henry There's a utilitarian benefit that we both love Bleak House, therefore we can talk about it. This just opens up a lot of conversation and things for us that we wouldn't otherwise get.
Tyler We're better friends, and we're more inclined to chat with each other, do this podcast, because we share that. That's clearly true in our case. I could name hundreds of similar cases, myself, people I know. That's important. So much of life is a matching problem, which includes matching to books, but also, most importantly, matching to people.
Henry You're what? You're going to get better matching with better books, because Bleak House is such a great book. You're going to get better opportunities for matching.
Tyler Of course, you'll understand other books better. There's something circular in that. I get it. A lot of value is circular, and the circle is how you cash in, not leaving the circle, so that's fine.
Henry You don't think there's a ... I mean, some of the utilitarian benefits that are claimed like it gives you empathy, it improves your EQ or whatever, I think this is all complete rubbish.
Tyler I'd love to see the RCTs, but in the prediction markets, I'll bet no. But again, I have an open mind. If someone had evidence, they could sway me, but I doubt it. I don't see it.
Henry But I do think literature is underrated as a way of thinking.
Tyler Yes, absolutely, especially by people we are likely to know.
Henry Right. And that is quite a utilitarian benefit, right? If you can get yourself into that mindset, that is directly useful.
Tyler I agree. The kind of career I've had, which is too complicated to describe for those of you who don't know it, but I feel I could not have had it without having read a lot of fiction.
Henry Right. And I think that would be true for a lot of people, even if they don't recognize it directly in their own lives, right?
Tyler Yes. In Silicon Valley, you see this huge influence of Lord of the Rings. Yes. And that's real, I think. It's not feigned, and that's also a great book.
Henry One of the best of the 20th century, no doubt.
Tyler Absolutely. And the impact it has had on people still has. It's an example of some classics get extremely elevated, like Shakespeare, Austen, and also Tolkien. It's one of them that just keeps on rising.
Henry Ayn Rand is quite influential.
Tyler Increasingly so. And that has held up better than I ever would have thought. Depends on the book. It's complicated, but yes, you have to say, held up better than one ever would have thought.
Henry Are you going to go and do a reread?
Tyler I don't think I can. I feel the newspaper is my reread of Atlas Shrugged, that suffices.
Henry Is GPT good at Shakespeare, or LLMs generally?
Tyler They're very useful for fiction, I've found. It was fantastic for reading Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate. I have never used them for Shakespeare, not once. That's an interesting challenge, because it's an earlier English. There's a depth in Shakespeare that might exceed current models. I'd love to see a project at some point in time to train AI for Shakespeare the way some people are doing it for Math Olympiads. But finding the human graders would be tough, though not impossible. You should be one of them. I would love that. I hope some philanthropist makes that happen.
Henry Agreed. We're here, and we're ready.
Tyler Yes, very ready.
Henry What do you think about Shakespeare's women?
Tyler The best women in all of fiction. They're marvelous, and they're attractive, and they're petulant, and they're romantic, and they're difficult, and they're stubborn, or whatever you want, it's in there. Just phenomenal. It's a way in which Shakespeare, again, I don't want to say anti-woke, but he just gives you a much deeper, better vision than the wokes would give you. Each one is such a distinctive voice. Yeah, fantastic. In a funny way, he embodies a lot of woke insights. The ways in which gender becomes malleable in different parts of stories is very advanced for his time.
Henry It's believable also. The thing that puzzles me, so believable. What puzzles me is he's so polyphonic, and he represents that way of thinking so well, but I get the sense that John Stuart Mill, who wrote the Bentham essay and everything, just wasn't that interested in Shakespeare relative to the other things he was reading.
Tyler He did write a little bit on Shakespeare, didn't he? But not much. But it wasn't wonderful. It was fine, but not like the Bentham Coleridge.
Henry I think I've seen it in letters where he's like, oh, Shakespeare, pretty good. This, to me, is a really weird gap in the history of literature.
Tyler But this does get to my point, where I don't think Shakespeare was that important for liberalism or individualism. The people who were obsessed with Shakespeare, as you know, were the German romantics, with variants, but were mostly illiberal or non-liberal. That also, to me, makes sense.
Henry That's a good point. That's a good challenge. My last question is, you do a lot of talent spotting and talent assessing. How do you think about Shakespeare's career?
Tyler I feel he is someone I would not have spotted very well. I feel bad about that. We don't know that much about him. As you well know, people still question if Shakespeare was Shakespeare. That's not my view. I'm pretty orthodox on the matter. But what the signs would have been in those early plays that he would have, say, by so far have exceeded Marlowe or even equaled Marlowe, I definitely feel I would have had a Zoom call with him and said, well, send me a draft, and read the early work, and concluded he would be like second-tier Marlowe, and maybe given him a grant for networking reasons, totally missed the boat. That's how I assess, how I would have assessed Shakespeare at the time, and that's humbling.
Henry Would you have been good at assessing other writers of any period? Do you think there are other times when you would have?
Tyler If I had met young Thomas Mann, I think there's a much greater chance I would have been thrilled. If I had met young Johann Sebastian Bach, I think there's a strong chance I would have been thrilled. Now, music is different. It's like chess. You can excel at quite a young age. But there's something about the development of Shakespeare where I think it is hard to see where it's headed early on. And it's the other question, how would I have perceived Shakespeare's work ethic? There's different ways you could interpret the biography here. But the biography of Bach, or like McCartney, clearly just obsessed with work ethic. You could not have missed it if you met young Bach, I strongly suspect. But Shakespeare, it's not clear to me you would see the work ethic early on or even later on.
Henry No, no. I agree with that, actually.
Tyler Same with Goethe. If I met early Goethe, my guess is I would have felt, well, here's the next Klopstock, which is fine, worthy of a grand. But Goethe was far more than that. And he always had these unfinished works. And you would, oh, come on, you're going to finish this one. Like you'd see Werther. OK, you made a big splash. But is your second novel just going to bomb? I think those would have been my hesitations. But I definitely would have funded Goethe as the next Klopstock, but been totally wrong and off base.
Henry Right. And I think the thing I took away from the A.N. Wilson biography, which you also enjoyed recently, was I was amazed just how much time Goethe didn't spend working. Like I knew he wasn't always working, but there was so much wasted time in his life.
Tyler Yes, but I do wonder with that or any biography, and I don't mean this as a criticism of Wilson, I think we know much less than we think we do about earlier times in general. So he could have been doing things that don't turn up in any paperwork. Sure, sure, sure. So I'm not sure how lazy he was, but I would just say, unlike Bach or say Paul McCartney, it's not evident that he was the world's hardest worker.
Henry And Mozart, would you have? How do you feel about Mozart's early career?
Tyler Well, Mozart is so exceptional, so young, it's just very easy to spot. I don't I don't even think there's a puzzle there unless you're blind. Now, I don't love Mozart before, I don't know, like the K-330s maybe, but still as a player, even just as a lower quality composer, I think you would bet the house on Mozart at any age where you could have met him and talked to him.
Henry So you think K-100s, you can see the beginnings of the great symphonies, the great concertos?
Tyler Well, I would just apply the Cowen test at how young in age was this person trying at all? And that would just dominate and I wouldn't worry too much about how good it was. And if I heard Piano Concerto No. 9, which is before K-330, I'm pretty sure that's phenomenal. But even if I hadn't heard that, it's like this guy's trying. He's going to be on this amazing curve. Bet the house on Mozart. It's a no-brainer. If you don't do that, you just shouldn't be doing talent at all. He's an easy case. He's one of the easiest cases you can think of.
Henry Tyler Cowen, this was great. Thank you very much.
Tyler Thank you very much, Henry.
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With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo--a "little studio"--and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul.
Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo's influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.
Beautifully illustrated, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries(Princeton UP, 2024) is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today.
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Podcast: Search Engine (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
Pub date: 2024-12-27
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An investigation into a mysterious room. A room that the most famous family in England apparently does not want you to see.
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way
Pub date: 2024-09-20
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Today we follow a sleuth who has spent over a decade working to solve an epic mystery hiding in plain historical sight: did anyone survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD?
Tired of hearing the conventional narrative that every Pompeiian perished without any evidence to back it up, Classicist Steven Tuck decides to look into it himself. Although he is nearly two millennia late to ground zero, he uses all the available evidence to reimagine the disaster from the perspective of the people on the ground. Could anyone have survived the volcano? If they did, could they have survived what came after that: earthquakes, tsunamis, pumice stones hurtling like missiles from the sky? If someone did survive, what happened to them after that??! To find out we have to think, feel and possibly even eat like Ancient Romans.
An against-all-odds story of a disaster without warning, a mass disappearance without a trace, and oddly, a particularly stinky fish sauce, care of special guest Chef Samin Nosrat.
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Reported by - Latif Nasser
with help from - Annie McEwen and Ekedi Fausther-Keys
Produced by - Annie McEwen
Recording help from - Adam Howell
Voice acting by - Brandon Dalton
Original music and sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom and Annie McEwen
with mixing help from - Arianne Wack
and Hosting Helo from - Sarah Qari
Fact-checking by - Emily Krieger
and Edited by - Pat Walters
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Recipes -
Ancient Roman recipe for garum (https://zpr.io/gMNmXcNZUhZg).
Read more about garum here (https://zpr.io/4gh939TxCRpZ) or in Sally Grainger’s book The Story of Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce and Salted Fish in the Ancient World
Articles -
On Pliny's letters and the eruption including a reanalysis of the date of the eruption, Pedar Foss, Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius(https://zpr.io/kQH49ttRawNZ)
Documentaries -
A recent PBS documentary, Pompeii: The New Dig (https://zpr.io/LV9sWKc4vbQ8) including segments on Steven Tuck’s work.
Photos and Maps -
To trace building locations or names of home owners as well as photos of every square inch of Pompeii: https://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/
From Steven Tuck: “If someone has an otherwise unbeatable case of insomnia, my preliminary publication of findings is in Reflections: Harbour City Deathscapes in Roman Italy and Beyond” (https://zpr.io/3pETS53A9CtF)
Brief description of the casts and casting process of the remains found at Pompeii: https://pompeiisites.org/en/pompeii-map/analysis/the-casts/
Maps of the Ancient Roman world that you can use to trace some of the land and sea routes discussed in the episode: https://orbis.stanford.edu
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Podcast: Illuminated (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Shipping Forecast: A Haven
Pub date: 2024-12-28
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It's the most intimate moment of the Radio 4 schedule: The late-night Shipping Forecast, a prelude to the close-down of the station, read every night at 00:48. But who is really listening along, and why? Guided by Radio 4 Announcer Al Ryan, we'll cross the world to meet the people who find comfort in this unique broadcast for a variety of reasons.
Produced by Luke Doran
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Missing Minister: The Vanishing of Qin Gang
Pub date: 2024-12-30
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Last year, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, suddenly disappeared. Qin was a rising star in Chinese politics and a protegé of China’s strongman leader, Xi Jinping. In the first episode of our three-part investigation, we chart Qin’s rise and begin to untangle the mystery of his disappearance. This series was originally published in October.
Further Listening:
- Episode 2: The Affair - Apple | Spotify
- Episode 3: The Downfall - Apple | Spotify
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Podcast: Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
Pub date: 2024-12-18
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🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a young officer is stuck in the city after being in a brief coma. At least there are some tales to keep him company.
😈 The Creature: Frau Gauden
The creature this week wants to give you that dog you wanted for the holidays. The catch is that it can never leave. Also, it will attack you.
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Podcast: Shadow World (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Willpower Detectives - Ep 1. The Doorstep Stranger
Pub date: 2024-12-09
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Concerned neighbours ask Sue Mitchell for help in finding out how one man has taken control of the finances of scores of vulnerable people.
This is the hidden scandal of Power of Attorney.
In Hertfordshire towns, people who live alone are disappearing. Their neighbours are wondering why they’ve not seen them, or if they might have died.
Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. In this series, BBC investigative reporter Sue Mitchell explores a widespread business practice where some people are moved out of their homes and left with no idea what is happening to their money. It often involves people with little or no family to ask questions about where they are moved to, or to challenge the fees involved. It can be people who’ve accumulated wealth over a lifetime, whose assets are now helping to fund those who are taking decisions for them. The series looks at the loopholes that allow it to happen and the relationship between care homes, social workers and a business taking on a huge number of powers of attorney. It begins with the concerned friends and relatives who want to know what has happened to their neighbour or loved one; Where have they gone? And why has their home been emptied and sold? This is an original investigation, with recordings in real time, exploring how power of attorney orders can be used for better or worse.
Shadow World: Gripping stories from the shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK.
Presented by Sue MitchellProduced by Sue Mitchell, Joel Moors and Winifred Robinson
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Podcast: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Part One
Pub date: 2024-12-12
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April, 1883. A terrified young woman named Helen Stoner arrives at 221B Baker Street seeking Sherlock Holmes's help. Two years prior, her twin sister died under mysterious circumstances at Stoke Moran, their family's decaying manor house, her final words an enigmatic warning about a "speckled band." Chillingly, in the days before her death, she'd begun hearing an eerie whistle in the dead of night. Now living in her dead sister's room due to house repairs, Helen has started to hear that same whistle — and fears she may be next.
A Noiser production, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Produced by Katrina Hughes and Addison Nugent
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Podcast: Statecraft (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital
Pub date: 2024-11-27
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I’ve been trying to get a conversation with today’s interviewee, Eric Van Gieson, PhD, since March. Van Gieson is a remarkable character, with a crazy CV: more than 25 years of experience in developing medical technology, and stints at multiple federal agencies including DARPA.
A lot of people have spilled a lot of ink discussing what went wrong during COVID, but I think what Van Gieson lays out here is close to a comprehensive account of the reasons we blew it, and how not to blow it in the future.
We discuss:
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Why is the federal “pandemic preparedness” apparatus so sprawling?
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Why haven’t we learned from COVID mistakes, or even run reviews on what went wrong?
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How would you revamp the federal apparatus to be ready for the next pandemic?
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We don’t test whether generic drugs can fight pathogens. Why not??
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How did Van Gieson and colleagues ship a flying Ebola hospital in 6 weeks?
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How can we make sure DARPA-developed biotech doesn’t end up in the hands of adversaries?
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Podcast: Peaceful Exit (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Curb Appeal: Finding Home After Loss with Rev. Steven Tomlinson
Pub date: 2024-12-03
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Steven Tomlinson, Episcopal priest, playwright, and former economist, shares his personal journey through grief and healing after the sudden loss of his partner, David. Tomlinson reflects on how community, faith, and the process of writing his play Curb Appeal helped him navigate the complexities of loss.
With wisdom drawn from his unique career in theology, theater, and business, Steven explores the raw realities of grief, the role of love in healing, and how faith has shaped his understanding of death and resurrection. His story offers deep insights into the power of presence, the mystery of life after death, and finding peace amidst the uncertainties of loss.
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Podcast: Cement City (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Cement City: Episode 1 | I’ll Die Here
Pub date: 2024-09-18
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Jeanne Marie and Erin wander off the highway into Donora, Pa, a dying town with a dark secret. They decide to buy a house. A solid concrete house. In a neighborhood called Cement City.
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Podcast: Search Engine (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
Pub date: 2024-12-06
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If ever there was a place where every person inside was guaranteed to already have luggage, it would be inside an airport. And yet ... the airport luggage stores persist. Who is going to these places? To answer, we will of course, unpack the story of the entire airport -- how these hellish modern places of security and commerce came to be.
Alastair Gordon's Naked Airport.
Unclaimed Baggage.
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Podcast: Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Say a Little Prayer Edition Part 1
Pub date: 2024-11-15
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You know her honorific: Queen of Soul. And heavy is the head that wears the crown. In her lifetime, Aretha Franklin didn’t just want to be revered. She wanted hits. But Franklin made pop come to her, not the other way around.
When showtunes and standards didn’t work in the ’60s, Aretha switched to gritty R&B and gospel harmonies—and started topping the charts. When she recorded a live album in a church in the ’70s, it became her best-seller. When the MTV era changed the game in the ’80s, she did New Wave synthpop her way—and topped the charts again. In the ’90s, she tried house, hip-hop and New Jack Swing, scoring hits deep into her fifties.
Join Chris Molanphy as he explains how Aretha Franklin earned her regal title, one hit at a time. She won our respect by infusing the charts with a holy spirit and amazing grace—and she always remained a natural woman.
Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.
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Podcast: Festival of Dangerous Ideas (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Contagious Realities (2024) - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise
Pub date: 2024-11-06
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The increase in mental health and neurodivergent diagnoses in recent years indicates that we’re more aware of our brains than ever before.
Does improved social awareness, self-identification, representation and access mean we’ve reached a turning point in the way we acknowledge and treat mental health and neurodivergence in society? Or are we at risk of over-pathologising ourselves and the world around us?
Alice Dawkins is the Executive Director of Reset.Tech Australia, a policy organisation with a focus on regulating digital risks and online harms.
Sandersan Onie is an award-winning researcher at the Black Dog Institute and Harvard Medical School and is passionate about a mentally healthier world, especially how culture, AI, and tech can contribute to this vision.
Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 180 scientific publications and seven books, including Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future and iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious.
Sonny Jane Wise is an Autistic Bipolar ADHDer, who offers a powerful and relatable voice in the neurodiversity space. Their books resources, workshops and talks have led to organisations and services adopting a neurodiversity affirming framework and embedding inclusion within their policies.
Chaired by journalist, radio presenter, and podcaster Natasha Mitchell.
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Overconsumed
Pub date: 2024-11-29
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In his previous book, Junkyard Planet, journalist Adam Minter went around the world to see what happened to American recyclables such as cardboard, shredded cars, and Christmas lights around the world as they became new things. In Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, Minter looks at what happens to all the things that get resold and reused, objects that end up in Arizona thrift stores, Malaysian flea markets, Tokyo vintage shops, and Ghanaian used-electronics shops. Who’s buying the tons of goods that get downsized, decluttered, or discarded every year? Does the fact that we can just pass something off to a thrift shop justify our buying more things? What about the sheer scale of it all? Minter joins us in the studio to talk about how we filled the world with all this stuff, and what really needs to change for us to get out from under it—no matter where we live.
Go beyond the episode:
- Adam Minter’s Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
- Visit our episode page for further reading about fast fashion, the dark side of Goodwill, and the moral hazards of recycling
- Abandon your idols: Mari Kondo has begun selling you junk to replace the junk you just KonMari’d
- Read more about why local textile industries are dying in Ghana and African countries more broadly
- Learn more about the Right to Repair movement
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Podcast: The Man Who Calculated Death (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Last Request: 1
Pub date: 2024-11-06
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Suzanne and Stephanie Rico dig through their deceased mother's office searching for clues to their dark legacy--a flying bomb built in World War II by a brilliant Nazi grandfather they've never met. We learn more about their mother's extraordinary life, her death, and how the sisters' quest to understand their own troubled ancestry began. When the tantes, Aunt Heide and Aunt Traute, help create an itinerary through Germany, the odyssey will take Suzanne and Stephanie from the remote ruins of a military base to an underground concentration camp to the Bavarian farmhouse where their grandmother died in 1945.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 204. Lexicat, part 1
Pub date: 2024-11-24
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Elsie the cat has a set of 120 buttons programmed with words. She uses them to lie, swear, apologise, express grief and frustration and love to her human, the author Mary Robinette Kowal, who talks about what's involved in learning to communicate via language buttons with companion animals. And animal behaviour expert Zazie Todd explains how animals might be interacting with human language.
This is the first half of a two-parter: in the next episode, some talking dogs - and their humans - come to visit, and we hear about the kinds of things you find out about what your animal friend is really thinking, and how it changes the ways you communicate with other humans too.
Find out more about the episode and read the transcript at theallusionist.org/lexicat1.
Content note: this episode contains a few category B swears.
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Podcast: To The Best Of Our Knowledge (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Playing with Words
Pub date: 2024-11-09
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Sometime in the last couple of years, America’s collective morning routine shifted. We used to start the day with coffee. Now it’s coffee and Wordle. Or Spelling Bee. Or both, plus the crossword. We’re living in a golden age of word games – which is fun, and one way to get just a tiny bit of relief when the world feels out of control.
Original Air Date: November 09, 2024
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Getting into the puzzle mindset — Welcome to my crossworld
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A. J. Jacobs, Anna Schectman
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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sense, sensibility and the authentic self
Pub date: 2024-11-27
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Authenticity, vulnerability and empathy are all positive character traits - but is there something in the modern ritual performance of these traits that can actually be detrimental to public life? Are we forsaking reason for the sugar rush of cheap emotion? The tension between what Jane Austen called "sense and sensibility" goes back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, and this week we're exploring the philosophical history of toxic touchy-feeliness.
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Podcast: 16 Sunsets (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Secret War
Pub date: 2024-11-21
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A space shuttle stands on the pad, seething in the darkness, ready to go. Its mission is high speed espionage. Launching into the night sky, it heads north toward the pole, lining up over the Soviet Union. This is no science mission, but part of a highly classified military plan, which sees the Shuttle become an instrument of the Cold War. That requirement shaped both the design of the shuttle and the future of NASA’s human space exploration programme for the next thirty years. So why did that secret mission never fly?
Ever wondered how the Space Shuttle came to be? Welcome to a new podcast series, 16 Sunsets. Host Kevin Fong takes you back to a pivotal moment in history, revealing the high-stakes drama behind this iconic orbiter, as told by those who were there.
Featuring: Bob Crippen, Guy Faget, Max Faget, Matthew Hersch, Jeff Hoffman, Chris Kraft, Jennifer Lavasseur, Ken Mattingly, Tom Moser, Bob Stewart, Ken Young.
Credits:
Written and presented by Dr Kevin Fong
Producers: Rami Tzabar and Andrew Luck-Baker with additional production by Dave Giles
Assistant Producer: Kate Arkless Gray
Sound Design and Mixing: Richard Courtice
Music: Christian Lundberg, part of Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Composer Collective
With special thanks to Sandra Johnson and Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre Oral History Project
Executive Producers: Stuart Coxe, Kevin Fong, Jago Lee and Rami Tzabar
16 Sunsets is an Antica and TellTale Production 2024
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Podcast: Hyperfixed (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Eva Needs to Measure
Pub date: 2024-09-19
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Sign up for bonus episodes and extra content at: https://hyperfixedpod.com/joinThis week: Eva lives in the UK, loves to bake, and frequently tries to bake American recipes. But Americans measure by volume and everyone else measures by weight — and converting those measurements is complicated, for complicated reasons.Do you have problems you'd like Alex and the gang to solve? Get in touch with us at http://hyperfixedpod.com by clicking the "Submit a Problem" button.Links: The National Institute of Standards and MeasuresLe Grand KBeyond Measure by James Vincent
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Podcast: The New Statesman | UK politics and culture (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Autobahn at 50: How Kraftwerk defined modern music
Pub date: 2024-11-25
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50 years ago this month the German band Kraftwerk released Autobahn – an album that not only marked a dramatic departure in their sound, but went on to change the entire course of contemporary music.
With the title track, a 22-minute ode to the German motorway, Kraftwerk’s founding members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider forged a modern musical language, using electronics to articulate a new and optimistic vision of the future.
To discuss Autobahn’s genesis and enduing legacy Tom Gatti is joined by Jude Rogers, journalist and author of The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, and Uwe Schutter, author of Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany.
Read: How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop
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Podcast: Savor (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Going Off on Stroganoff
Pub date: 2024-11-15
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This savory, creamy, starchy dish can be made in all sorts of ways, and it has a tangle of historical ties to match. Anney and Lauren dig into the history and cultures behind stroganoff.
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Podcast: What It's Like To Be... (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A London Cabbie
Pub date: 2024-10-08
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Outsmarting drunks, competing with ride-share apps, and discovering that some of your passengers were Spice Girls with Jamie Owens, a London cabbie. How much does it cost to buy a cab? And what's "The Knowledge"?
You can find Jamie on YouTube at his channel "Jamie The Cabby".
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Podcast: Hidden Brain (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy?
Pub date: 2024-11-11
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Many of us go to great lengths to be happy. But is our singular focus on feeling good actually making us miserable? This week, psychologist Jordi Quoidbach explores what happens when we try to live in an emotional monoculture, and makes a case for letting it all in — the ups ... and the downs.
Be sure to check out the other episodes in our Emotions 2.0 series. And for more of our work on the topic of happiness, here are some other episodes you might enjoy:
You 2.0: Where Happiness Hides
Happiness 2.0: The Path to Contentment
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Podcast: Awakeners
Episode: Leslie Jamison & Emmeline Clein
Pub date: 2024-11-19
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On this episode of Awakeners, Lena chats with writers Leslie Jamison and Emmeline Clein. Clein studied with Jamison at Columbia University’s MFA program, and the pair published their most recent books—Jamison’s memoir, Splinters, and Clein’s debut essay collection, Dead Weight—the very same week back in February 2024.
We discuss what they’re working on right now, what they talked about on their most recent lunch date, how Jamison’s “Archive Fever” class shaped Clein’s research, how to weave softness from words that cut, how both of their books engage with the (often maligned) desire to “revoke” or undo your decisions as a woman, and what they’ve learned from each other when it comes to writing about eating disorders, self-harm, and pain.
In the second half of the episode, Clein reads from Jamison’s feedback letter in response to an early draft of Clein’s essay “On Our Knees” from Dead Weight, and Jamison reads from “On Shame,” a lecture that has since been integrated into her in-progress book of essays about writing.
Leslie Jamison is the New York Times bestselling author of Splinters, The Recovering, The Empathy Exams, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, and a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and teaches at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Emmeline Clein is the author of Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Knopf, 2024) and Toxic (Choo Choo Press, 2024). Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, The Nation, the Yale Review, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Podcast: Entanglements, by Undark (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Risky Science and Public Consent
Pub date: 2024-11-18
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This week on Entanglements: Should citizens decide on risky science? Our hosts talk to an Oxford political scientist and a former law and ethics professor about how democracy should play a role in high-stakes decisions.
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cynicism won’t protect you from getting hurt
Pub date: 2024-11-14
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If you’re someone who always thinks the sky is falling, chances are you’re not very happy. Jamil Zaki, professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why cynicism leads to not only a more dismal outlook on life, but deleterious health effects. Plus we’ll hear why a little dose of hope can inject joy into everyday living. Zaki’s book is “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.”
This episode originally aired on September 6, 2024.
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Podcast: Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Pack It In
Pub date: 2024-11-14
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Thanks to some well-traveled ladies, our Cabinet has another pair of remarkable stories for you to enjoy.
Order the official Cabinet of Curiosities book by clicking here today, and get ready to enjoy some curious reading!
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Podcast: The Good Whale (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Save The Whale
Pub date: 2024-11-14
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When the movie “Free Willy” is released, word gets out that the star, a killer whale named Keiko, is sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. An environmentalist sets out to give the fans what they want: their favorite celebrity orca back in the sea.
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Podcast: The Best Idea Yet (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 🍟 The Happy Meal: A Delicious McMystery | 1
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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The Happy Meal is the most successful meal in human history. With over 35 billion units sold, or about four for every person on Earth, McDonald’s iconic “Food and Fun in a Box” has also made the company a bigger toy distributor than Hasbro or Mattel (and maybe even Santa). But few know the Happy Meal’s contested origin story. Was the creator a mom of five in Guatemala, an ad man from Kansas City, or a forgotten franchise called “Burger Chef”? Spoiler, it wasn’t Grimace. Hear how McDonald’s perfected a strategy called the “window of loyalty,” and visit a little place called “Hamburger University.” Listen to find out why The Happy Meal is the best idea yet!
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project
Pub date: 2024-11-04
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The Klamath River on the California-Oregon border was once the third largest salmon river in the continental U.S. There were so many fish, indigenous histories claim that you could cross the river walking across their backs—which made the peoples who lived in this remote, beautiful region some of the wealthiest in pre-colonial North America. But, for more than a century, salmon have been shut out of the Klamath: thanks to multiple hydroelectric dams that blocked the river, these fish couldn’t reach miles of cold, clear waters where they historically spawned. Their population plummeted to the point where even catching salmon for traditional ceremonies was banned, to help the few remaining fish survive. In just the past couple of months, however, the dams have come down, thanks to a scrappy coalition of local tribes, commercial fishermen, and environmental groups who spent decades fighting to free the Klamath—and bring the salmon home. Listen in this episode for the epic tale of the largest dam removal project in history—but also for the much bigger story of why these fish matter, and what it will take to make the Klamath their home again.
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Podcast: Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How linguists solve crimes, with Natalie Schilling
Pub date: 2024-10-31
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- This week, I talk with forensic linguist Natalie Schilling about how people's language gives them away — in manifestos, ransom notes, text messages, and more.
Natalie Schilling is a professor emerita of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and runs a forensic linguistics consulting firm. You can find her on LinkedIn.
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Podcast: The Gift (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Switched - Part 1
Pub date: 2024-11-02
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An at-home DNA test - taken by chance when a game of golf is rained off - forces one man and three women to reassess everything they thought they knew about their families.
It’s the perfect gift for the person who already has everything. It promises to tell you who you really are, and how you’re connected to the world. A present that will reveal your genetic past – but could also disrupt your future.
In the first series of The Gift, Jenny Kleeman looked at the extraordinary truths that can unravel when people take at-home DNA tests like Ancestry and 23andMe.
For the second series, Jenny is going deeper into the unintended consequences - the aftershocks - set in motion when people link up to the enormous global DNA database.
Reconnecting and rupturing families, uprooting identities, unearthing long-buried secrets - what happens after technology, genealogy and identity collide?
Presenter: Jenny KleemanProducer: Conor GarrettProduction Coordinator: Gill HuggettEditor: Philip SellarsCommissioning Executive: Tracy WilliamsCommissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
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Podcast: The Science of Birds (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Common Kingfisher
Pub date: 2024-08-21
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In this episode—which is Number 102—we dive into the fascinating world of the Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), a small but mighty bird known for its striking blue and orange plumage and remarkable fish-hunting skills. We'll look at this species' behavior, from its iconic plunges into water to catch prey, to how it breeds, including courtship rituals, nest-building, and the challenges of raising chicks.
Learn about the kingfisher's diet and foraging strategies, including how it deals with challenges like refraction at the water’s surface to accurately target its prey. Additionally, I touch on the habitat and global distribution of the Common Kingfisher.
This episode offers a fun exploration of one of the most beloved birds in Eurasia. Tune in to learn more about the "Prince of Piscivory."
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Podcast: Strangers on a Bench (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: EPISODE 7: The Disappearing Cyclist
Pub date: 2024-10-28
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Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.
This is what happened!
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Podcast: Pack One Bag (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Fairytale Escape
Pub date: 2024-06-05
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EPISODE 1 -- In 1939, Franco Modigliani escaped Fascist Italy for the United States. He'd go on to win a Nobel Prize, but his grandson, David, is most interested in the romance-on-the-run that made it all possible. When David digs into his grandparents' fairytale escape, he uncovers a darker side of the story - and a romance of his own.
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Podcast: Fireside Canada (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Many Names and Stories of the Canada Jay
Pub date: 2024-10-03
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Found in every province and territory of the country, the Canada Jay has inspired countless stories in many different cultures from coast to coast. Hear how this one little bird is a camp companion, a hero, a hunter, a star in the sky, and even a vessel for the souls of the dead.
Fireside Canada is a podcast about Canadian legends, lies and lore. Focused on both the storytelling and the historical aspects of folklore, each episode includes a creative retelling or story inspired by the folklore as well as an exploration and analysis of its history and cultural significance: the story behind the story. You can learn more at FiresideCanada.ca.
David Williams is the host, writer and researcher behind the show. You can find him on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
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Podcast: Up In Smoke
Episode: 1: The Fire
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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March 4th, 2014. A devastating house fire engulfs the home of the Miller family. The parents, Otto and Lyndsey, escape the flames. But their teenage son Mason, is trapped inside. Police, led by DCI Roy Burgess (Adam Buxton) are unable to reach the rural village of Greenloch in the snow storm. Kay McAllister (Mei Mac), a local tabloid journalist, has to get the story out. A story that, years later, she’s making this podcast to discredit.
Episode 2 is out now.
Written and Directed by Guy Larsen & Cambria Bailey-Jones
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Studio Producer - Gabriela Jones
Theme music - Tom Larsen
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Script Editors - Gabriela Jones, Peter Fellows & George Riley
Casting Director - Sydney Aldridge
Viola - Abi Dance
Kay McAllister - Mei Mac
DCI Roy Burgess - Adam Buxton
Lawrence Goddard - Allan Corduner
Lyndsey Miller - Tracy Wiles
Otto Miller - Andrew Caley
Mason Miller - Huey Enkelmann
Dylan Michaels - Preston Nyman
Additional voices by Jessica Bracey, Cambria Bailey-Jones, Guy Larsen, Alex Gill, Terry Bailey, Charlotte Gay and Julian Bailey-Jones
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Podcast: The Marginal Revolution Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Oil Shocks, Price Controls, and War
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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In this second installment of their three-part series on the 1970s, Alex and Tyler unravel the economic and geopolitical forces behind the oil shocks that upended global global markets, triggered economic crises, and forced a dramatic reshaping of U.S. energy policy. Along the way, they debate whether the shocks ultimately led to long-term benefits like the rise of alternative energy and the fracking revolution, or if they merely prolonged economic pain. The conversation ranges from OPEC’s newfound power and the Yom Kippur War’s role in reshaping oil markets to broader questions about how shocks like these influence policy in the long-term. They close by reflecting on how the policy failures of the 1970s paved the way for Milton Friedman’s rise to prominence, and why his ideas—born from an era of rampant inflation and misguided price controls—remain crucial for understanding today’s economic challenges. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch on YouTube.
Recorded July 17th, 2024
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Spirit Halloween
Pub date: 2024-10-22
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Every fall, a vacant Toronto storefront is possessed by Spirit Halloween, the pop-up shop haunting 1,500 empty spaces across North America. What does this seasonal invasion say about the retail apocalypse? And why are people so drawn to its eerie aisles? Explore the spooky rise of Spirit Halloween—where the scares are temporary, but the obsession is real.
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Podcast: Gone Medieval (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A Stonemason's Secrets
Pub date: 2024-10-15
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Medieval churches are among our most enduring links with the Middle Ages. But it's not always easy to understand what parts of a church to look out for and what they can tell us about the people who built them.
Dr. Eleanor Janega finds out how to achieve enlightenment through the very bricks and mortar of a medieval church from Andrew Ziminski, author of Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles.
Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega and edited by Jo Troy. The producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
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Podcast: The Greatest Matter (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 1: A Criminologist in Dublin
Pub date: 2024-09-24
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A renowned criminologist gives a talk in Dublin. A body is found in the Phoenix Park. A detective is called in. A writer and a journalist stumble unawares into a story much bigger than they ever could have imagined.
The Greatest Matter was written & directed by Conor Reid
It was recorded at The Podcast Studios, Dublin and produced by Hilary Barry
Editing, Sound Design, and Original Music by Conor Reid
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Podcast: Granta (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast
Pub date: 2024-10-18
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In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to Alan Hollinghurst, author of seven novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty and Our Evenings, which was published in 2024.
We discuss his new novel, writing from the outsider's perspective and cataloguing the chapters of queer life from the mid-century to now.
Follow these links to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review.
Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.
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Podcast: Kill List (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Hack | 1
Pub date: 2024-10-08
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A frantic 911 call sparks an investigation into a suspicious death. The case takes an unexpected turn when the victim’s name is discovered among those on a dark net kill list.
Listener note: This episode contains references to suicide. If you have been affected by this episode you can find additional resources here:
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Podcast: The Booking Club (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading, with Sam Leith
Pub date: 2024-09-11
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The stories we read as children are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past – collective and individual, remembered and imagined – and invite us to dream up different futures.
In a pioneering history of the children’s literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics.
Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations.
Sam met Jack at Pizza Express in Euston, London
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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) Part 1 with Kara Cooney & Salima Ikram
Pub date: 2024-10-09
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Linen wrapping. Expensive resins. Sarcophagi. Preserving for eternity – or until someone raids their tomb. It’s a brand-new Spooktober episode with not one but two guests: Dr. Salima Ikram is a professor of Egyptology and expert on mummification of both people and animals, and is joined by veteran guest from the Egyptology episode, professor and author Dr. Kara Cooney. The two chat about mummification techniques, how food studies lead into the pyramids, controversy over the word “mummy,” whiffing the dead, socioeconomic factors in mummification, animal mummies, lingering mysteries, field work, a house mouse, and more. Next week in Part 2 we’ll dive into more ethics of collections, human sacrifice, the people who ate mummified remains, paint colors, coffin engravings and the meaning of “magic.”
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Get Salima’s latest book, Let a Cow-Skin Be Brought: Armour, Chariots and Other Leather Remains in Tutankhamun’s Tomb, and browse her other books on Amazon or Bookshop.org
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Podcast: Niche to Meet You (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Propeller planes and early Taylor Swift: David Brooks helps us listen to each other (with Lee C. Camp)
Pub date: 2024-10-04
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David Brooks likes early Taylor Swift and helps us listen better.
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This is a really, truly, amazing special treat.
David Brooks is a big deal–has landed on NYT’s bestseller list like a billion times and is loved by the likes of Oprah. In October 2023, David released a book called How to Know a Person, which is all about LISTENING. Being curious. All the things we like here at Niche to Meet You.
David joined No Small Endeavor’s podcast to talk about the book, and this conversation between him and host Lee Camp could easily have been a Niche to Meet You episode about our mission—our ethos. And now, it is.
It’s relevant and important and we are so lucky to get to have this as part of our offerings. Thanks to the No Small Endeavor team for letting us run the episode here.
ABOUT NO SMALL ENDEAVOR:
What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
You'll hear from best-selling authors, philosophers, scientists, artists, psychologists, theologians and even the occasional politician—courageous, impassioned people taking seriously the question of how to live a good life. NO SMALL ENDEAVOR WEBSITE
ABOUT NICHE TO MEET YOU:
Niche to Meet You is an investigative storytelling podcast about the little-known niche interests. Our work has been featured on Nashville Public Radio and has been seen by millions through a recentviral instagram reel. It's like if Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and Revisionist History teamed up for a Netflix special. We use miniseries and individual interviews to introduce listeners to folks involved with Warhammer 40,000, Rubik’s cube enthusiasts and competitors, armored combat champions, professional Santas and Mrs. Clauses, and more.
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Senior creator/host: Leslie Thompson (IG: @leslieeilerthompson)
Associate producer: Chris Thiessen
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Knopfler, musician
Pub date: 2024-08-31
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Mark Knopfler OBE is one of the UK’s most successful rock musicians and composers. He co-founded the band Dire Straits and their album Brothers in Arms is one of the bestselling albums of all time with 30 million copies sold. Alongside the many successes of Dire Straits, Mark has also composed hit songs for other artists like Private Dancer for Tina Turner and many soundtracks including Local Hero which features the perennial favourite Going Home.
He first worked as a journalist on the Yorkshire Evening Post and was briefly an English lecturer in Essex before moving to a flat in Deptford with his brother and John Illsey. Dire Straits was born and became one of the UK’s most successful bands before Mark called time in 1995 and pursued his own solo career.
In recent years, Mark invested some of his money to build one of the UK’s best recording studios to record his own music in alongside being a destination for other artists.
He lives in London with his wife and still visits his studio most days to make music.
DISC ONE: Ol’ Man River - Ray Charles DISC TWO: Red Sails in the Sunset – Dean Martin DISC THREE: Wonderful Land - The Shadows DISC FOUR: Write Me a Few Lines - Mississippi Fred MacDowell DISC FIVE: Duquesne Whistle - Bob Dylan DISC SIX: Deborah’s Theme - Ennio Morricone DISC SEVEN: Cleaning Windows - Van Morrison DISC EIGHT: Jessye ’Lisabeth - Bobbie Gentry
BOOK CHOICE: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald LUXURY ITEM: A guitar CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Duquesne Whistle - Bob Dylan
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Podcast: This Is TASTE (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 456: Cook Like a Food Stylist with Pearl Jones
Pub date: 2024-08-30
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Pearl Jones is a food stylist based in New York City. She’s spent over a decade making food look delicious in commercials, magazine editorials, cookbooks, and more, and she’s also one of Aliza’s close friends. I’ve obsessed over the contents of Pearl’s food stylist kit and kitchen for years, and it’s so fun to have her on the show to pull back the curtain on food styling as a career.
Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We’d love to hear from you.
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- A Cookbook Shoot Recap! It Takes a Village. [Colu Cooks]
- Pearl Jones [Instagram]
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Podcast: Omnibus (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Tartans (Entry 1279.DE2230)
Pub date: 2024-10-10
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In which Scottish clans each choose a distinctive plaid based on a romantic Highland history that didn't really happen, and John takes a hard hit while playing Frisbee in a skirt. Certificate #26624.
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Podcast: A People's Guide to Publishing (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 283: How To Design a Book Cover
Pub date: 2024-10-10
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Can you judge a book by its cover?We're revisiting another classic episode this week! Joe and Elly talk about cover design, how to make a book cover stand out, and how a cover communicates to its audience.**Thank you for watching the People's Guide to Publishing vlogcast! We post new episodes every Thursday about publishing, authors, and the book industry. You can also listen via your preferred podcast app, or by visiting linktree.com/microcosmGet the book: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/3663Get the workbook: https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/10031More from Microcosm: http://microcosmpublishing.comMore by Joe Biel: http://joebiel.netMore by Elly Blue: http://takingthelane.comSubscribe to our monthly email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gIXT6vFind us on social media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/microcosmpublishingTwitter: http://twitter.com/microcosmmmInstagram: http://instagram.com/microcosm_pub****
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Podcast: The Food Chain (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can you taste a place?
Pub date: 2024-10-02
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Is it possible to taste a place? A listener wonders whether the French concept of ‘terroir’ can apply to food and, if so, what the science behind it is.
Ruth Alexander goes in search of the answer, exploring how growing conditions and practices can develop flavours unique to a location.
She also hears about why the value you give to certain flavours might also be cultural.
Ruth speaks to a honey expert who is mapping the flavours of the sweet syrup across the world, a barley geneticist working with a high-end whisky brand and visits a vertical farm in Liverpool, UK, to see if foods grown in a closed environment still taste just as good.
If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Ruth Alexander
Producer: Hannah Bewley
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Podcast: Weird Little Guys (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Liar, Liar
Pub date: 2024-09-12
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A soldier was arrested last month on charges that included lying about his membership in a hate group on his application for a security clearance. But with so many white supremacists in the military, why is it so rare to see this particular charge brought against service members? Molly explores some of the possible reasons the charge isn't used more often and talks about a handful of cases where it's been successful.
Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/infiltrating-the-far-right
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/08/19/we-will-fight-soldier-waging-war-against-america-fort-liberty
https://www.rawstory.com/kai-liam-nix-arrested-extremism/
https://jweekly.com/2020/10/23/judge-rules-that-nazi-obsessed-east-bay-man-must-face-trial/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/30/california-man-who-threatened-antisemitic-mass-shooting-attack-seeks-to-get-his-gun-back/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/leaked-violent-racists-use-facebook-chat-to-plan-unite-the-right-2/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/military-extremism-nazi-arrest-justice-department-1234586141/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/north-carolina-soldier-arrested-guns-trafficking.html
https://www.rawstory.com/hunted-by-nazis-how-extremists-stalked-me-while-i-reported-on-their-violence/
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Podcast: Mind Your Own with Lupita Nyong'o (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Sound of Home
Pub date: 2024-09-19
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Sound travels in all directions, but your feet can only follow in one.
STORIES
“Losing My Accent”: Lupita takes on an American accent when she becomes an actor-in-training at Yale.
Original score by Ian Hughes Pelton AKA Tofu Jack.
“Obaa Sima”: How long can a song stay in your heart? A musical journey from Ghana to Germany to Canada transports Yaw Atta-Owusu from the toy store to the dance floor.
Big thanks to Yaw for sharing his story with us! Check out the Obaa Sima album featured in this episode. Thanks as well to Awesome Tapes From Africa for sharing Yaw’s music with us.
Produced by Marisa Dodge and Regina Bediako with assistance from Bo Walsh. Original score by Clay Xavier, with additional music from Marla Kether and Ata Kak.
Original Mind Your Own theme song by Sandra Lawson-Ndu AKA Sandu Ndu x Peachcurls ft. Ehiorobo. This episode also featured the song Show My Side by CKay ft. Amaarae.
Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich
Managing Editor: Regina Bediako
Director of Production: Marisa Dodge
Series Producers: David Exumé and Priscilla Alabi
Music Supervisor: Sandra Lawson-Ndu
Story Scouts: Ashley Okwuosa, Fiona Nyong’o, Jessica Kariisa, Lesedi Oluko Moche
Editors: Nancy López and Anna Sussman
Engineering: Miles Lassi
Operations Manager: Florene Wiley
Story Consultant: John Fecile
Graphic Design: Jemimah Ekeh
Original Artwork: Mateus Sithole
Special Thanks: Allan Coye, Jake Kleinberg, Samara Still, Sarah Yoo, Warner Music Group, and Afripods
Episode transcripts can be found here.
Mind Your Own is a production of KQED’s Snap Studios, with sales and distribution by Lemonada Media. Hosted and produced by Lupita Nyong’o.
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Podcast: Cursed Objects (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Airbnb: Prints of Thieves
Pub date: 2024-09-04
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They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of crap, generic art? The answer is obvious (predatory venture capitalism), but the effect is cursed in uniquely jarring ways.
Welcome back from your summer holidays - to a new season of Cursed Objects! This week Kasia and Dan explore the geographically and culturally bewildering experience of looking at a monochrome, wraparound canvas print of the Manhattan skyline, in a professionally managed Airbnb located miles from New York. What does it mean to travel, when you could be anywhere in the world once you arrive?
Journeying through a grimly commonplace experience of 21st century capitalism, how do identikit interiors and IKEA beakers expose Airbnb horrors we would like to pretend don’t exist? What tactics - and political might - does this rental behemoth have, and who are the people fighting back?
En route, we cover authenticity, anti-tourist protests, carbon guilt and why the left maybe ought to be pro-travel, actually!
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
Pub date: 2024-09-13
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Leo Durocher would stop at nothing to win. The baseball player-turned-manager was a skilled tactician and famously tough. But he also cheated, intimidated umpires and was violent; he was even known to beat up fans. Durocher was famous for coining the phrase "nice guys finish last" - but is that really true?
Tim Harford and David Bodanis examine lessons from the life of a ruthless, pugnacious baseball star. This is the first episode of a four-part series about how to succeed without being a jerk. It's based on David's book The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
Pub date: 2024-09-09
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For children with ADHD, getting the help they need depends on being correctly diagnosed. As a doctor, I have seen how tricky and frustrating a process that can be. By Jack Goulder. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Judas Priest Suicide Trial
Pub date: 2024-09-26
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A greatest hit of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s came when the metal band Judas Priest was put on trial for the suicides of two teens. While the case was preposterous – based on alleged hidden satanic messages in the music – it arose from a real tragedy.
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Podcast: To The Best Of Our Knowledge (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Off The Map
Pub date: 2024-09-07
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Maps, whether drawn by hand or by satellite, reflect the time they were drawn for. How will the next generation of cartographers deal with challenges like a world being reshaped by climate change? Original Air Date: December 09, 2023Interviews In This Hour: Why are islands in the South Pacific disappearing? — Cartography in the age of Google Maps — This is your brain on maps — The mysterious music of the 'phantom islands'Guests: Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Mamata Akella, Bill Limpisathian, Andrew PeklerNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.
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Podcast: Sidedoor (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Jim the Penman
Pub date: 2024-09-18
During the mid-1800s, one third of all paper money in America was thought to be fake. It was the golden age of counterfeiting, and one exceptionally talented con artist stood out from all the rest. His fakes were nearly perfect…but for a trademark tell. Known to law enforcement only as “Jim the Penman,” this celebrity criminal led many Americans to wonder: can great art truly be criminal?
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Ellen Feingold, curator of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
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Podcast: In The Dark (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: The Green Grass
Pub date: 2024-07-30
A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed?
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Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why cynicism is bad for you
Pub date: 2024-09-09
There’s a certain glamor to cynicism. As a culture, we’ve turned cynicism into a symbol of hard-earned wisdom, assuming that those who are cynical are the only ones with the courage to tell us the truth and prepare us for an uncertain future. Psychologist Jamil Zaki challenges that assumption.
In part one of The Gray Area’s new three-part series, “Reasons to be Cheerful,” Sean Illing asks Jamil Zaki about why cynicism is everywhere, especially if it makes no sense to be this way — and what we, as individuals, can do to challenge our own cynical tendencies.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Jamil Zaki (@zakijam) psychologist at Stanford University and author of Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
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Podcast: Bullseye with Jesse Thorn (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Wendy and Lisa
Pub date: 2024-09-10
Wendy and Lisa recorded some stone cold classics with Prince's band The Revolution: Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Kiss, When Doves Cry and more. These days, they're known for their work composing scores for TV and movies: Heroes, Dangerous Minds, Crossing Jordan, and Nurse Jackie. Wendy and Lisa talk with us about their 40-plus year partnership, and their Emmy award-winning work as composers. And of course, what it was like to collaborate with Prince, and work on some of his most iconic records.
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Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 64. Sushi Fish
Pub date: 2024-09-23
How does a fresh tuna get from Japan to Nebraska before it goes bad? And how does its journey show up in the price of your spicy tuna rolls? Zachary Crockett gets schooled.
- SOURCES:
- Sasha Issenberg, journalist and author.
- David Utterback, owner of Yoshitomo and Ota sushi restaurants.
- Nobu Yamanashi, president of Yama Seafood.
- RESOURCES:
- "Wild or Farmed? Pacific or Atlantic? Here’s What to Know About Bluefin Tuna," by Jean Trinh (Los Angeles Times, 2023).
- "The Untold Story of Sushi in America," by Daniel Fromson (The New York Times Magazine, 2021).
- "The Intricacies of Tuna Grading," (Luke's Lobster Blog, 2020).
- "Sushinomics: How Bluefin Tuna Became a Million-Dollar Fish," by Svati Kirsten Narula (The Atlantic, 2014).
- The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, by Sasha Issenberg (2007).
- Yoshitomo.
- EXTRAS:
- "Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?" by Freakonomics Radio (2021).
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Podcast: Slow Burn (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise of Fox News | 1. We Report. You Can Suck It.
Pub date: 2024-09-18
When the Fox News Channel launched in 1996, critics called it disorganized, incompetent, and laughably inept. But it wouldn’t be a joke for long. During the 2000 election, Fox News would captivate the nation – and just maybe change the fate of American democracy.
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Season 10 of Slow Burn was written and reported by Josh Levin. It was executive produced by Lizzie Jacobs.
Slow Burn is produced by Sophie Summergrad, Joel Meyer, and Rosie Belson with help from Patrick Fort, Jacob Fenston, and Julia Russo.
Derek John is Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts.
This season was edited by Susan Matthews and Hillary Frey.
Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. Mix and sound design by Joe Plourde.
Our theme music was composed by Alexis Cuadrado. Derreck Johnson created the artwork for this season. Episode artwork by Ivylise Simones.
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Podcast: The Female Bob Dylan (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Connie Converse’s Long Wandering
Pub date: 2024-08-22
Working from a biography with an unreliable narrator, we attempt to shake the great Connie Converse free from its pages and offer a fresh perspective on her music, radical politics, and deep community ties. We consider how to grapple with an artist’s legacy and the cloud of mystery surrounding them in a way that is respectful and ethical, while mindful of a biographer’s positionality, biases, and personal connection to their work.
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Podcast: Emergence Magazine Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam
Pub date: 2024-09-10
In December last year, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s short film Lost World screened at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London. Kalyanee’s films tenderly document the changing cultural and ecological landscapes of her homeland, and in Lost World she shares the story of a community in Koh Sralau whose livelihoods are threatened as the mangrove forests they depend on are ruthlessly mined for sand to build an “eco-park” in Singapore. In this conversation, recorded live at the exhibition, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks with Kalyanee about her years-long process of creating the film, and the intimate relationships she holds with people and land that allow her to tell powerful, and often heartbreaking, stories of changing landscapes from a place of humility and connection.
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Pub date: 2024-09-05
Professor Joseph Allen directs the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. His expertise extends far beyond what makes buildings healthy. He has been a leading voice and advocate during the Covid pandemic for air quality and ventilation. He coined the term “Forever Chemicals” and has written extensively on this vital topic, no less other important exposures, which we covered In our wide-ranging conversation. You will see how remarkably articulate and passionate Prof Allen is about these issues, along with his optimism for solutions.
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Eric Topol (00:00:06):
Well, hello. It's Eric Topol from Ground Truths and I am just delighted to have with me, Joseph Allen from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he directs the Healthy Buildings Program that he founded and does a whole lot more that we're going to get into. So welcome, Joe.
Joseph Allen (00:00:24):
Thanks. It's great to be here. I appreciate the invitation.
Joe Allen’s Background As A Detective
Eric Topol (00:00:28):
Well, you have been, as I've learned, rocking it for many years long before the pandemic. There's quite a background about you having been a son of a homicide detective, private eye agency, and then you were going to become an FBI agent. And the quote from that in the article that's the Air Investigator is truly a classic. Yeah, you have in there, “I guarantee I'm the only public health student ever to fail an FBI lie detector polygraph in the morning and start graduate school a few hours later.” That's amazing. That's amazing.
Joseph Allen (00:01:29):
All right. Well, you've done your deep research apparently. That's good. Yeah, my dad was a homicide detective and I was a private investigator. That's no longer my secret. It's out in the world. And I switched careers and it happened to be the day I took the polygraph at the FBI headquarters in Boston, was the same day I started graduate studies in public health.
Sick vs Healthy Buildings (Pre-Covid)
Eric Topol (00:01:53):
Well, you're still a detective and now you're a detective of everything that can hurt us or help us environmentally and my goodness, how grateful we are that you change your career path. I don't know anyone who's had more impact on buildings, on air, and we're going to get into chemicals as well. So if we go back a bit here, you wrote a book before the pandemic, talk about being prescient. It’s called Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - or Keep You Well with John Macomber, your co-author. What was it that gave you the insight to write a book before there was this thing called Covid?
Joseph Allen (00:02:41):
Yeah, well, thanks for making the connection too, my past career to current career. For many years, I thought there wasn't a connection, but I agree. There's actually a lot of similarities and I also am really appreciative. I am lucky I found the field of Public Health, it's clearly where I belong. I feel like I belong here. It's a place to make an impact that I want to make in my career. So yeah, the Healthy Buildings book, we started writing years before the pandemic and was largely motivated by, I think what you and others and other people in my field have known, is that buildings have an outsized impact on our health. Yet it's not something that comes to the forefront when you ask people about what matters for their health. Right, I often start presentations by asking people that, what constitutes healthy living? They'll say, I can't smoke, I have to eat well.
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I have to exercise. Maybe they'll say, outdoor pollution’s bad for you. Very few people, if any, will say, well, the air I breathe inside my building matters a lot. And over the years I had started my public health career doing forensic investigations of sick buildings. People really can get sick in buildings. It can be anything from headaches and not being able to concentrate all the way to cancer clusters and people dying because of the building. And I've seen this in my career, and it was quite frustrating because I knew, we all knew how to design and operate buildings in a way that can actually keep people healthy. But I was frustrated like many in my field that it wasn't advancing. In other words, the science was there, but the practice wasn't changing. We were still doing things the wrong way around ventilation, materials we put in our building, and I would lecture over and over and give presentations and I decided I want to try something new.
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I do peer-reviewed science. That's great. I write pieces like you for the public, and I thought we'd try a longer form piece in a book, and it's published by Harvard Press. John Macomber for those who know is a professor at Harvard Business School who's an expert in real estate finance. So he'd been talking about the economic benefits of healthier buildings and some hand waving as he describes around public health. I've been talking about the public health benefits and trying to wave an economic argument. We teamed up to kind of use both of our strengths to, I hope make a compelling case that buildings are good for health and they're also just good business. In other words, try to break down as many barriers as we can to adoption. And then the book was published right as Covid hit.
Indoor Air Quality and Cognition
Eric Topol (00:05:05):
Yeah. I mean, it's amazing. I know that typically you have to have a book almost a year ahead to have it in print. So you were way, way ahead of this virus. Now, I'm going to come back to it later, but there were two things beyond the book that are pretty striking about your work. One is that you did all these studies to show with people wearing sensors to show that when the levels of CO2 were high by sensors that their cognition indoors was suffering. Maybe you could just tell us a little bit about these sensors and why aren't we all wearing sensors so that we don't lose whatever cognitive power that we have?
Joseph Allen (00:05:56):
Well, yeah. First I think we will start having these air quality sensors. As you know, they're starting to become a lot more popular. But yeah, when I first joined the faculty full-time at Harvard, one of the first studies I conducted with my team was to look at how indoor air quality influences cognitive function. And we performed a double-blind study where we took people, office workers and put them in a typical office setting. And unbeknownst to them, we started changing the air they were breathing in really subtle ways during the day, so they didn't know what we were doing. At the end of the day, we administered an hour and a half long cognitive function battery, and like all studies, we control for things like caffeine intake, baseline cognitive performance, all the other factors we want to account for. And after controlling for those factors in a double-blind study, we see that indoor air quality, minor improvements to indoor air quality led to dramatic increases in cognitive function test scores across domains that people recognize as important for everyday life.
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How do you seek out and utilize information? How do you make strategic decisions? How do you handle yourself during a crisis and importantly recover after that crisis? I don't mean the world's ending crisis. I mean something happens at work that's stressful. How do you handle that and how do you respond? Well, it turns out that amongst all the factors that influence how we respond there, indoor air quality matters a lot. We call that study the COGfx Study for cognitive function. We replicated it across the US, we replicated it across the world with office workers around the world, and again, always showing these links, the subtle impact of indoor air quality on cognitive function performance. Now, that also then starts to be the basis for some of the economic analysis we perform with my colleague at Harvard Business School. We say, well, look, if you perform this much better related to air quality, what would happen if we implemented this at scale in a business?
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And we estimate that there are just massive economic gains to be had. On a per person basis, we found and published on this, that's about $6,000 to $7,000 per person per year benefit across a company. It could lead to 10% gains to the bottom line performance of the company. And again, I'm a public health professor. My goal is to improve people's health, but we add a lens, mental health, brain health is part of health, and we add the economic lens to say, look, this is good for a worker of productivity and the costs are downright trivial when you compare it against the benefits, even just including the cognitive function benefits, not even including the respiratory health benefit.
Eric Topol (00:08:33):
And I mean, it's so striking that you did these studies in a time before sensors were, and they still are not widely accepted, and it really helped prove, and when we start to fall asleep in a group session indoors, it may not just be because we didn't have enough sleep the night before, right.
Joseph Allen (00:08:56):
It's funny you say that. I talk about that too. It's like, do we actually need the study to tell us to quantify what we've all experienced these bad conference rooms, you get tired, you can't concentrate, you get sleepy while you're driving your car. Yeah, a whole bunch of other factors. Maybe the speaker's boring, but a key factor is clearly indoor air quality and things like good ventilation, the chemical load in the space are all contributing.
Eric Topol (00:09:20):
Yeah. No, it's pretty darn striking. Now we're going to get into the pandemic, and this of course is when your work finally crystallized that you've been working on this for years, and then finally your collaboration with some of the aerosol experts. It was a transdisciplinary synergy that was truly extraordinary. And when you were on 60 Minutes last October, you said, “Think about the public health gains we've made over the past hundred years. We've made improvements to water quality, outdoor air pollution, our food safety, we've made improvements to sanitation: absolute basics of public health. Where has indoor air been in that conversation?” You brought it to us. I mean, you led the Lancet Commission on this. You've done a White House Summit keynote. You had a lot of influence. Why did it take us to finally wake up to this issue that you've been working on for years?
Covid is Airborne, Denial
Joseph Allen (00:10:31):
Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, but I also liked what you started with. I mean, there's been a lot of us pulling on this, and I think one of the magical moments, if you could say that when the pandemic happened was that it forced these collaborations and forced a lot of us in our field to be a bit more vocal. And even that comment about the gains we made in public health, that comes from an article that we co-authored with 40 plus scientists around the world in science, trying to drive home the point that we've ignored one of the key factors that determines our health. We were all frustrated at the beginning of the pandemic. The first piece I wrote was January 2020, talking about healthy buildings as the first line of defense, airborne spread, ventilation, filtration. I could not get it published. I could not get it published.
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So I moved it to an international paper. I wrote it in the Financial Times in early February, but it wasn't until mid-March that the Times took my piece on this airborne spread buildings ventilation. At the same time, we know people like Linsey Marr, Rich Corsi, many others, Shelly Miller out there publishing, doing the fundamental research, all trying to elevate, and I think we started to find each other and say, hey, someone's trying to hit the medical journals. We're not landing there. I'm trying to hit the Times, and we’re not landing there. We're trying to get the reporters to pay attention. It's not landing there. Let's team up. Let's write these joint pieces. And I think what happened was you saw the benefit of the collective effort and interdisciplinary expertise, right? We could all start to come together, start instead of having these separate voices, a little bit of a unified voice despite important scientific minor disagreements, but start to say, hey, we started elevate each other and said, this is really important. It's the missing component of the messaging in the early days of the pandemic, and to know how to defend yourself.
Eric Topol (00:12:20):
Well, I think a lot of people think the big miss, and I know you agree, was the lack of recognition of aerosol transmission instead of just liquid droplets. But what you brought to this was really your priors on the buildings themselves and the ventilation systems and air quality that was highly, I mean, critical to it isn't just the aerosol, it's obviously how buildings are set up. Now, there's an amazing piece of course that appeared in the summer of 2021 called the Air Investigator, which profiled you, and in it brings up several things that finally are, we're starting to get our act together. I mean, ultimately there was in May 2023 years later, the CDC says, we're going to do something about this. Can you tell us what was this very distinct new path that the CDC was at least saying? And also couple that with whatever action if or not action has been taken.
Joseph Allen (00:13:33):
Yeah. So there really was a monumental shift that took, it was years in development, but we finally won the argument, collectively that airborne spread was the dominant mode of transmission. Okay, we got that. Then the question is, well, what changes? Do we actually get guidance here? And that took a little bit longer. I give Rochelle Walensky a lot of credit when she came into the CDC, we talked with her about this. That's when you start to first see ventilation starts showing up and the guidance, including guidance for schools. So I think that was a big win, but still no one was willing to set an official target or standard around higher ventilation rates. So that's important. Early in the pandemic, some people started to hear a message, yes, ventilation is important. What's the obvious next question, well, how much, what do I need? So in the summer of 2020, actually Shelly Miller and I collaborated on this.
(00:14:23):
We published some guidance on ventilation targets for schools. We said four to six air changes per hour (ACH) and target that. Well, it wasn't until 2023, spring of 2023 that you mentioned that CDC published target ventilation rates, and they went with five air changes per hour, which is right where we were talking about in summer 2020. It's what the Lancet of COVID-19 Commission adopted, but it's momentous in this way. It's the first time in CDCs history they've ever published a ventilation rate target for health. Now, I know this seems slow at the time, and it was, but if we think about some of the permanent gains that will come out of the pandemic. Pandemic changes society and science and policy and practice this, we are never going back. Now buildings will be a first line of defense for respiratory pathogens going forward that can no longer be ignored. And now we have the published target by CDC. That's a big deal because it's not just a recognition, but there's actually something to shoot for out there. It's a target I happen to like, I think there are differences between different scientists, but ultimately we've lifted the floor and said, look, we actually have to raise ventilation rates and we have something to shoot for. The public needed that kind of guidance a lot earlier, of course, but it was a big deal that it happened. It’s just too bad it took until spring 2023.
Eric Topol (00:15:46):
Yeah, I certainly agree that it was momentous, but a year plus later, has there been any change as a result of this major proclamation, if you will?
Joseph Allen (00:15:59):
Well, I actually see a lot of change from a practitioner level, but I want to talk about it in two aspects. I see a lot of schools, universities, major companies that have made this shift. For example, in the 60 Minutes piece, I talk that I advised Amazon and globally they're measuring indoor air quality with real-time sensors in their buildings. I've worked with hundreds of school districts that have made improvements to indoor air quality. I know companies that have shifted their entire approach to how they design and operate their buildings. So it's happening. But what really needs to happen, Eric, if this movement is going to benefit everyone, is that these targets need to be codified. They need to go into building codes. It can't just be, oh, I've heard about this. So I made the decision. I have the resources and the money to make this improvement.
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To create a healthy building or a healthy school, we need to be sure this gets built into our code. So it just becomes the way it's done. That is not happening. There are some efforts. There are some bills at the national level. Some states are trying to pass bills, and I have to say, this is why I'm optimistic. It feels very slow. I'm as frustrated as anybody. I wanted this done before the pandemic. As soon as the pandemic hit, we saw it. We knew what we needed to get done. It didn't happen. But if we think about the long arc here and the public health gains we're actually, it's remarkable to me that we actually have bills being introduced around indoor air quality that ASHRAE has set a new health focused target for the first time really in their history. CDC, first time. New buildings going up in New York City designed to these public health targets. That's really different. I've been in this field for 20 plus years. I've never seen anything like it. So the pace is still slow, but it really is happening. But it has to reach everybody, and the only way that's going to happen is really this gets into building codes and performance standards.
The Old Efficient Energy Buildings
Eric Topol (00:17:52):
Yeah. Well, I like your optimistic perspective. I do want to go back for a second, back decades ago there was this big impetus to make these energy efficient buildings and to just change the way the buildings were constructed so that there was no leak and it kind of set up this problem or exacerbated, didn't it?
Joseph Allen (00:18:19):
Yeah. I mean, I've written about this a lot. I write in the book our ventilation standards, they've been a colossal mistake. They have cost the public in terms of its health because in the seventies, we started to really tighten up our building envelopes and lower the ventilation rates. The standards were no longer focused on providing people with a healthy indoor space. As I write in the book, they were targeted towards minimally acceptable indoor air quality, bare minimums. By the way that science is unequivocal, is not protective of health, not protective against respiratory pathogens, doesn't promote good cognitive function, not good for allergies. These levels led to more illness in schools, more absences for teachers and students, an absolute disaster from a public health standpoint. We've been in this, what I call the sick building era since then. Buildings that just don't bring in enough clean outdoor air. And now you take this, you have a building stock for 40 years tighter and tighter and tighter bumps up against a novel virus that spread nearly entirely indoors. Is it any wonder we had, the disaster we had with COVID-19, we built these bills. They were designed intentionally with low ventilation and poor filtration.
Optimal Ventilation and Filtration
Eric Topol (00:19:41):
Yeah. Well, it's extraordinary because now we've got to get a reset and it's going to take a while to get this done. We'll talk a bit about cost of doing this or the investment, if you will, but let's just get some terms metrics straight because these are really important. You already mentioned ACH, the number of air changers per hour, where funny thing you recommended between four and six and the CDC came out with five. There's also the minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV). A lot of places, buildings have MERV 8, which is insufficient. We need MERV 13. Can you tell us about that?
Joseph Allen (00:20:23):
Yeah, sure. So I think when we think about how much, you have two ways to capture these respiratory particles, right? Or get rid of them. One is you dilute them out of the building or you capture them on filters. You can inactivate them through UV and otherwise. But let's just stay on the ventilation and filtration side of this. So the air changing per hour is talking about how often the air is change inside. It's an easy metric. There are some strengths to it, there's some weaknesses, but it's intuitive and I'll you some numbers so you can make sense of this. We recommended four to six air changes per hour. Typical home in the US has half an air change per hour. Typical school designed to three air changes per hour, but they operate usually at one and a half. So we tried to raise this up to four, five, or six or even higher. On the filtration side, you mentioned MERV, right? That's just a rating system for filters, and you can think about it this way. Most of the filters that are in a building are cheap MERV 8 filters, I tend to think of them as filters that protect the equipment. A MERV 13 filter may capture 80 or 90% of particles. That's a filter designed to protect people. The difference in price between a MERV 8 and a MERV 13 is a couple of bucks.
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And a lot of the pushback we got early in the pandemic, some people said, well, look, there's a greater resistance from the better filter. My fan can't handle it. My HVAC system can't handle it. That was nonsense. You have low pressure drop MERV 13 filters. In other words, there really wasn't a barrier. It was a couple extra bucks for a filter that went from a MERV 8 might capture 20 or 30% to a filter, MERV 13 that captures 80 or 90% with very little, if any impact on energy or mechanical system performance. Absolute no-brainer. We should have been doing this for decades because it also protects against outdoor air pollution and other particles we generate indoors. So that was a no-brainer. So you combine both those ventilation filtration, some of these targets are out there in terms of air change per hour. You can combine the metric if we want to get technical to talk about it, but basically you're trying to create an overall amount of clean air. Either you bring in fresh outdoor air or you filter that air. It really is pretty straightforward, but we just didn't have some of these targets set and the standards we're calling for these minimum acceptable levels, which we're not protective of health.
Eric Topol (00:22:37):
So another way to get better air quality are these portable air cleaners, and you actually just wrote about that with your colleagues in the Royal Society of Chemistry, not a journal that I typically read, but this was an important article. Can you give us, these are not very expensive ways to augment air quality. Can you tell us about these PACs ?
Joseph Allen (00:23:06):
These portable air cleaners (PACs), so the same logic applies if people say, well, I can't upgrade my system. That's not a problem for very low cost, you could have, these devices are essentially a fan and a filter, and the amount of clean air you get depends on how strong the fan is and how good the filter is. Really pretty simple stuff here, and you can put one of these in a room if it's sized right. My Harvard team has built tools to help people size this. If you're not quite sure how to do it, we have a technical explainer. Really, if you size it right, you can get that four, five or six air changes per hour, very cheap and very quickly. So this was a tool I thought would be very valuable. Rich Corsi and I wrote about this all through the summer of 2020 to talk about, hey, a stop gap measure.
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Let's throw out some of these portable air cleaners. You increase the air changes or clean air delivery pretty effectively for very low cost, and they work. And now the paper we just published in my team a couple of days ago starts to advance this more. We used a CFD model, so computational fluid dynamics. Essentially, you can look at the tracers and the airflow patterns in the room, and we learn a couple things that matter. Placement matters, so we like it in the center of the room if you can or as close as possible. And also the airflow matters. So the air cleaners are cleaning the air, but they're also moving the air, and that helps disperse these kind of clouds or plumes when an infected person is breathing or speaking. So you want to have good ventilation, good filtration. Also a lot of air movement in the space to help dilute and move around some of these respiratory particles so that they do get ventilated out or captured in a filter.
Eric Topol (00:24:40):
Yeah. So let me ask you, since we know outdoors are a lot safer. If you could do all these things indoors with filtration, air changing the quality, can you simulate the outdoors to get rid of the risk or markedly reduce the risk of respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and others?
Joseph Allen (00:25:04):
Yeah, you can't drop it to zero. There's no such thing as zero risk in any of these environments. But yeah, I think some of the estimates we've seen in my own team has produced in the 60-70% reduction range. I mean, if you do this right with really good ventilation filtration, you can drop that risk even further. Now, things like distancing matter, whether or not somebody's wearing a mask, these things are all going to play into it. But you can really dramatically drop the risk by handling just the basics of ventilation and filtration. And one way to think about it is this, distance to the infector still matters, right? So if you and I are speaking closely and I breathe on you, it's going to be hard to interrupt that flow. But you can reduce it through good ventilation filtration. But really what it's doing also is preventing super spreading events.
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In other words, if I'm in the corner of a room and I'm infectious and you're on the other side, well if that room is sealed up pretty good, poor ventilation, no filtration, the respiratory aerosols are going to build up and your risk is going to increase and we're in there for an hour or two, like you would be in a room or office and you're exposed to infectious aerosol. With good ventilation filtration, those respiratory particles don't have a chance to reach you, or by the time they do, they're much further diluted. Linsey Marr I think was really great early in the pandemic by talking about this in terms of cigarette smoke. So a small room with no ventilation filtration, someone smoking in the corner, yeah, it's going to fill up over time with smoke you're breathing in that secondhand smoke. In a place with great ventilation filtration, that's going to be a lot further reduced, right? You're not going to get the buildup of the smoke and smoke particles are going to operate similarly to respiratory particles. So I think it's intuitive and it's logical. And if you follow public health guidance of harm reduction, risk reduction, if you drop exposure, you drop risk.
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The goal is to reduce exposure. How do we do that? Well, we can modify the building which is going to play a key role in exposure reduction.
Eric Topol (00:27:06):
Now, to add to this, if I wear a sensor or have a sensor in the room for CO2, does that help to know that you're doing the right thing?
Joseph Allen (00:27:17):
Yeah, absolutely. So people who are not familiar with these air quality sensors. They're small portal air quality sensors. One of the things they commonly measure is carbon dioxide. We're the main source of CO2 inside. It's a really good indicator of ventilation rate and occupancy. And the idea is pretty simple. If the CO2 is low, you don't have a buildup of particles from the respiratory tract, right? And CO2 is a gas, but it's a good indicator of overall ventilation rate. This room I'm in right now at the Harvard School of Public Health has air quality sensors. We have this at Harvard Business School. We have it at the Harvard Health Clinics. Many other places are doing it, Boston Public schools have real-time air quality monitors. Here's the trick with CO2. So first I'll say we have some guidance on this at the Harvard Healthy Buildings page, if people want to go look it up, how to choose an air quality sensor, how to interpret CO2 levels.
Carbon Dioxide Levels
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But here's a way to think about it. We generally would like to see CO2 levels less than 800 parts per million. Historically, people in my field have said under 1,000 is okay. We like to see that low. If your CO2 is low, the risk is low. If your CO2 is high, it doesn't necessarily mean your risk is high because that's where filtration can come in. So let me say that a little bit better. If CO2 is low, you're diluting enough of the respiratory particles. If it's high, that means your ventilation is low, but you might have excellent filtration happening. Either those MERV 13 filters we talked about or the portable air cleaners. Those filters don't capture CO2. So high CO2 just means you better have a good filter game in place or the risk is going to be high. So if you CO2 is low, you're in good shape. If it's high, you don't quite know. But if you have bad filtration, then the risk is going to be much higher.
Eric Topol (00:29:01):
I like that 800 number because that's a little lower than some of the other thresholds. And why don't we do as good as we can? The other question about is a particulate matter. So we are worried about the less than 5 microns, less than 2.5 microns. Can you tell us about that and is there a way that you can monitor that directly?
Joseph Allen (00:29:25):
Sure. A lot of these same sensors that measure CO2 also measure PM 2.5 which stands for particular matter. 2.5 microns is smaller, one of the key components of outdoor air pollution and EPA just set new standards, right? WHO has a standard for 5 microgram per cubic meter. EPA just lowered our national outdoor limit from 12 to 9 microgram per cubic meter. So that's a really good indicator of how well your filters are working. Here again, in a place like this or where you are, you should see particle levels really under 5 microgram per cubic meter without any major source happening. What's really interesting about those like the room I'm in now, when the wildfire smoke came through the East coast last year, levels were extraordinary outside 100, 200, 300 microgram per cubic meter. But because we have upgraded our filters, so we use MERV 15 here at Harvard, the indoor levels of particles stayed very low.
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So it shows you how the power of these filters can actually, they do a really good job of capturing particles, whether it be from our lungs or from some other source. So you can measure this, but I'll tell you what's something interesting, if you want to tie it into our discussion about standards. So we think about particles. We have a lot of standards for outdoor air pollution. So there's a national ambient air quality standard 9 microgram per cubic meter. We don't have standards for indoor air quality. The only legally enforceable standard for indoor particles is OSHA's standard, and it's 5,000 microgram per cubic meter 5,000.
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And it's absurd, right? It's an absurdity. Here we are EPAs, should it be 12, should it be 9, or should it be 8? And for indoors, the legally enforceable limit for OSHA 5,000. So it points to the big problem here. We talked about earlier about the need for these standards to codify some of this. Yes, we have awareness from the public. We have sensors to measure this. We have CDC now saying what we were saying with the Lancet COVID-19 Commission and elsewhere.
This is big movement, but the standards then need to come up behind it and get into code and new standards that are health focused and health based. And we have momentum, but we can't lose it right now because it's the first time in my career I felt like we're on the cusp of really getting this and we are so close. But of course it's always in danger of slipping through our fingers.
Regulatory Oversight for Air
Eric Topol (00:31:45):
Well, does this have anything to do with the fact that in the US there's no regulatory oversight over air as opposed to let's say Japan or other places?
Joseph Allen (00:31:57):
Yeah, I mean, we have regulatory oversight of outdoor air. That's EPA. There's a new bill that was introduced to give EPA more resources to deal with indoor air. EPA has got a great indoor air environments division, but it doesn't have the legally enforceable mandate or statute that we have for outdoor. So they'd give great guidance and have for a long time. I really like that group at EPA, but there's no teeth behind this. So what we have is worker health protections at OSHA to its own admission, says its standards are out of date. So we need an overhaul of how we think about the standards. I like the market driven approach. I think that's being effective, and I think we can do it from voluntary standards that can get adopted into code at the municipal level. I think that's a real path. I see it happening. I see the influence of all this work hitting legislators. So that's where I think the most promising path is for real change.
The Risks of Outdoor Air Pollution
Eric Topol (00:33:03):
Yeah, I think sidestepping, governmental teeth, that probably is going to be a lot quicker. Now, before we get to the cost issue, I do want to mention, as you know very well, the issue of air pollution in Science
a dedicated issue just a few weeks ago, it brought up, of course, that outdoor air pollution we've been talking about indoor is extraordinary risk for cancer, dementia, diabetes, I mean everything. Just everything. And there is an interaction between outdoor pollution and what goes on indoor. Can you explain basically reaffirm your concern about particulate matter outdoors, and then what about this interaction with what goes on indoors?
Joseph Allen (00:33:59):
Yeah, so it's a great point. I mean, outdoor pollution has been one of the most studied environmental pollutants we know. And there's all of these links, new links between Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's disease, anxiety, depression, cardiovascular health, you named it, right? I've been talking about this and very vocal. It's in the book and elsewhere I called the dirty secret of outdoor air pollution. The reality is outdoor air pollution penetrates indoors, and the amount depends on the building structure, the type of filters you have. But let's take an infiltration value of say 50%. So you have a lot of outdoor air pollution, maybe half of that penetrates inside, so it's lower, the concentration is lower, but 90% of the breaths you take are indoor. And if you do the math on it, it's really straightforward. The majority of outdoor air pollution you breathe happens inside.
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And people, I think when they hear that think, wait, that can't be right. But that's the reality that outdoor pollution comes inside and we're taking so many breaths inside. Your total daily dose of outdoor air pollution is greater from the time you spend inside. I talk about this all the time. You see any article about outdoor air pollution, what's the cover picture? It's someone outside, maybe they're wearing a mask you can't really see. It's smoky hazy. But actually one of the biggest threats is what's happening inside. The nice thing here, again, the solutions are pretty simple and cost-effective. So again, upgrade from MERV 8 to MERV 13, a portable air cleaner. We are just capturing particles on a filter basic step that can really reduce the threat of outdoor air pollution inside. But it's ignored all the time. When the wildfire smoke hit New York City. New York City's orange, I called colleagues who are in the news business.
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We have to be talking about the indoor threat because the guidance was good, but incomplete. Talk about Mayor Adams in New York City. Go inside, okay, that's good advice. And go to a place that has good filtration or they should have been giving out these low cost air cleaners. So just going inside isn't going to protect your lungs unless you're actually filtering a lot more of that air coming in. So trying to drive home the point here that actually we talk about these in silos. Well, wildfire smoke and particles, Covid and respiratory particles, we're all talking about these different environmental issues that harm our health, but they're all happening through or mediated by the building performance. And if we just get the building performance right, some basics around good ventilation, good filtration, you start to address multiple threats simultaneously. Outdoor air pollution, wildfire smoke, allergens, COVID-19, influenza, RSV, better cognitive function performance, anxiety. You start addressing the root cause or one of the contributors and buildings we can then start to leverage as a true public health tool. We have not taken advantage of the power of buildings to be a true public health tool.
Eric Topol (00:36:59):
Oh, you say it so well, and in fact your Table on page 44 in Healthy Buildings , we’ll link it because it shows quantitatively what you just described about outdoor and indoor cross fertilization if you will. Now before leaving air pollution outdoors, indoors, in order for us to affect this transformation that would markedly improve our health at the public health individual level, we're talking about a big investment. Can you put that in, you did already in some respects, but if we did this right in every school, I think in California, they're trying to mandate that in schools, in the White House, they're mandating federal buildings. This is just a little piece of what's needed. This would cost whatever trillions or hundreds of billions of dollars. What would it take to do this? Because obviously the health benefits would be so striking.
What’s It Gonna Cost?
Joseph Allen (00:38:04):
Well, I think one of the issues, so we can talk about the cost. A lot of the things I'm talking about are intentionally low cost, right? You look at the Lancet of COVID-19 Commission, our report we wrote a report on the first four healthy building strategies every building should pursue. Number one commission your building that's giving your building a tune-up. Well, guess what? That not only improves air quality, it saves energy and therefore saves money. It actually becomes cost neutral. If not provides an ROI after a couple of years. So that's simple. Increase the amount of outdoor air ventilation coming in that has an energy cost, we've written about this. Improved filtration, that's a couple bucks, really a couple bucks, this is small dollars or portable air cleaners, not that expensive. I think one of the big, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has written this famous paper people like to cite that shows there's $20 billion of benefits to the US economy if we do this.
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And I think it points to one of the problems. And what I try to address in my book too, is that very often when we're having this conversation about what's it going to cost, we don't talk about the full cost benefit. In other words, we say, well, it's going to cost X amount. We can't do that. But we don't talk about what are the costs of sick buildings? What are the costs of kids being out of school for an entire year? What are the costs of hormonal disruption to an entire group of women in their reproductive years due to the material choices we make in our buildings? What are the costs to outdoor air pollution and cardiovascular disease, mental health? Because we don't have good filters in our buildings that cost a couple dollars. So in our book, we do this cost benefit analysis in the proforma in our book, we lay out what the costs are to a company. We calculate energy costs. We say these are the CapEx costs, capital costs for fixed costs and the OpEx costs for operating expenditures. That's a classic business analysis. But we factor in the public health benefits, productivity, reduced absenteeism. And you do that, and I don't care how you model it, you are going to get the same answer that the benefits far outweigh the cost by orders of magnitude.
Eric Topol (00:40:16):
Yeah, I want to emphasize orders of magnitude. Not ten hundred, whatever thousand X, right?
Joseph Allen (00:40:23):
What would be the benefit if we said we could reduce influenza transmission indoors in schools and offices by even a small percent because we improve ventilation and filtration? Think of the hospitalization costs, illness costs, out of work costs, out of school costs. The problem is we haven't always done that full analysis. So the conversation gets quickly to well, that's too much. We can't afford that. I always say healthy buildings are not expensive. Sick buildings are expensive. Totally leave human health out of that cost benefit equation. And then it warps this discussion until you bring human health benefits back in.
Forever Chemicals
Eric Topol (00:40:58):
Well, I couldn't agree more with you and I wanted to frame this by giving this crazy numbers that people think it's going to cost to the reality. I mean, if there ever was an investment for good, this is the one that you've outlined so well. Alright, now I want to turn to this other topic that you have been working on for years long before it kind of came to the fore, and that is forever chemicals. Now, forever chemicals, I had no idea that back in 2018 you coined this term. You coined the term, which is now a forever on forever chemicals. And basically, this is a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), but no one will remember that. They will remember forever chemicals. So can you tell us about this? Because this of course recently, as you know well in May in the New Yorker, there was an expose of 3M, perhaps the chief offender of these. They're everywhere, but especially they were in 3M products and continue to be in 3M products. Obviously they've been linked with all kinds of bad things. What's the story on forever chemicals?
Joseph Allen (00:42:14):
Yeah, they are a class of chemicals that have been used for decades since the forties. And as consumers, we like them, right? They're the things that make your raincoat repel rain. It makes your non-stick pan, your scrambled eggs don't stick to the pan. We put them on carpets for stain resistance, but they came with a real dark side. These per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as I say, a name only a chemist could love have been linked with things like testicular cancer, kidney cancer, interference with lipid metabolism, other hormonal disruption. And they are now a global pollutant. And one of the reasons I wrote the piece to brand them as forever chemicals was because I'm in the field of environmental health. We had been talking about these for a long time and I just didn't hear the public aware or didn't capture their attention. And part of it, I think is how we talk about some of these things.
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I think a lot about this. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, no one's going to, so the forever chemicals is actually a play on their defining feature. So these chemicals, these stain repellent chemicals are characterized by long chains of the carbon fluorine bond. And when we string these together that imparts this and you put them on top of a product that imparts the property of stain resistance, grease resistance, water resistance, but the carbon fluorine bond is the strongest in all of organic chemistry. And these chains of the carbon fluorine bond never fully break down in the environment. And when we talk in my field about persistent organic pollutants, we talk about chemicals that break down on the order of decades. Forever chemicals don't break down. They break down the order of millennia. That's why we're finding them everywhere. We know they're toxic at very low levels. So the idea of talking about forever chemicals, I wanted to talk about their foreverness.
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This is permanent. What we're creating and the F and the C are the play on the carbon-fluorine bond and I wrote an article trying to raise awareness about this because some companies that have produced these have known about their toxicity for decades, and it's just starting the past couple of years, we're just starting to pay attention to the scale of environmental pollution. Tens of millions of Americans have forever chemicals in their drinking water above the safe limit, tens of millions. I worked as an expert in a big lawsuit for the plaintiffs that were drinking forever chemicals in their water that was dumped into the drinking water supply by a manufacturing company. I met young men with testicular cancer from drinking forever chemicals in their water. These really has escaped the public's consciousness, it wasn't really talked about. Now of course, we know every water body, we use these things in firefighting foams or every airport has water pollution.
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Most airports do. Firefighters are really concerned about this, high rates of cancer in the firefighter population. So this is a major problem, and the cleanup is not straightforward or easy because they're now a global pollutant. They persist forever. They're hard to remediate and we're stuck with them. So that's the downside, I can talk about the positives. I try to remain an optimist or things we're doing to try to solve this problem, but that's ultimately the story. And my motivation was I just to have people have language to be able to talk about this that didn't require a degree in organic chemistry to understand what they were.
Eric Topol (00:45:52):
Yeah, I mean their pervasiveness is pretty scary. And I am pretty worried about the fact that we still don't know a lot of what they're doing in terms of clinical sequela. I mean, you mentioned a couple types of cancer, but I don't even know if there is a safe threshold.
Joseph Allen (00:46:16):
Eric, I'll tell you one that'll be really interesting for you. A colleague of mine did a famous study on forever chemicals many years ago now and found that kids with higher levels of forever chemicals had reduced vaccine effectiveness related to these chemicals. So your point is, right, a lot of times we're using these industrial chemicals. We know a couple endpoints for their affecting our bodies, but we don't know all of them. And what we know is certainly alarming enough that we know enough to know we shouldn't be using them.
Eric Topol (00:46:51):
And you wrote another masterful op-ed in the Washington Post, 6 forever chemical just 10,000 to go. Maybe you could just review what that was about.
Joseph Allen (00:47:02):
Yeah, I've been talking a lot about this issue I call chemical whack-a-mole. So forever chemical is the perfect example of it. So we finally got people's attention on forever chemicals. EPA just regulated 6 of them. Well, guess what? There are 10,000 if not many more than that. Different variants or what we call chemical cousins. Now that's important for this reason. If you think about how we approach these from a regulatory standpoint, each of the 10,000 plus forever chemicals are treated as different. So by the time EPA regulates 6, that's important. It does free up funding for cleanup and things like this. But already the market had shifted away from those 6. So in other words, in the many thousand products that still use forever chemicals, they're no longer using those 6 because scientists have told people these things are toxic years ago. So they switch one little thing in the chemical, it becomes a new chemical from a regulatory perspective.
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But to our bodies, it's the same thing. This happens over and over. This has happened with pesticides. It happens with chemicals and nail polish. It happens in chemicals in e-cigarettes. It happens with flame retardant chemicals. I wrote a piece in the Post maybe six years ago talking about chemical whack-a-mole, and this problem that we keep addressing, these one-off, we hit one, it changes just slightly. Chemical cousin pops up, we hit that one. Five years later, scientists say, hey, the next one doesn't look good either. We're doing this for decades. It's really silly. It's ineffective, it's broken, and there are better ways to handle this going forward.
Eric Topol (00:48:31):
And you know what gets me, and it's like in the pharma industry that I've seen the people who run these companies like 3M that was involved in a multi-decade coverup, they're never held accountable. I mean, they know what they're doing and they just play these games that you outlined. They're still using 16,000 products, according to the New Yorker, the employee that exposed them, the whistleblower in the New Yorker article.
Joseph Allen (00:48:58):
That was an amazing article by Sharon Lerner talking to the people who had worked there and she uncovered that they knew the toxicity back in the seventies, and yes, they were still making these products. One of the things that I think has gotten attention of some companies is while the regulations have been behind, the lawsuits are piling up.
Joseph Allen (00:49:21):
The lawsuit I was a part of as an expert for that was about an $800 million settlement in favor of the plaintiffs. A couple months later is another one that was $750 million. So right there, $1.5 billion, there's been several billion dollars. This has caught the attention of companies. This has caught the attention of product manufacturers who are using the forever chemicals, starting to realize they need to reformulate. And so, in a good way now, that's not the way we should be dealing with this, but it has started to get companies to wake up that maybe they had been sleeping on it, that this is a major problem and actually the markets have responded to it.
Eric Topol (00:50:02):
Well, that's good.
Joseph Allen (00:50:03):
Because these are major liabilities on the books.
Eric Topol (00:50:05):
Yeah, I mean, I think what I've seen of course with being the tobacco industry and I was involved with Vioxx of course, is the companies just appeal and appeal and it sounds really good that they've had to pay $800 million, but they never wind up paying anything because they basically just use their muscle and their resources to appeal and put it off forever. So I mean, it's one way to deal with it is a litigation, but it seems like that's not going to be enough to really get this overhauled. I don't know. You may be more sanguine.
Joseph Allen (00:50:44):
No, no, I agree with you. It's the wrong way. I mean, we don't want to, the solution here is not to go after companies after people are sick. We need get in front of this and be proactive. I mentioned it only because I know it has made other companies pay attention how many billion does so-and-so sue for. So that's a good signal that other companies are starting to move away from forever chemicals. But I do want to talk about one of the positive approaches we're doing at Harvard, and we have a lot of other partners in the private sector doing this. We're trying to turn off the spigot of forever chemicals entering the market in the first place. As a faculty advisor to what we call the Harvard Healthier Building Materials Academy, we publish new standards. We no longer buy products that have forever chemicals in them for our spaces.
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So we buy a chair or carpet. We demand no forever chemicals. What's really neat about this is we also say, we treat them as a whole class. We don't say we don't want PFOA. That's one of the regulated chemicals. We say we don't want any of the 10,000. We are not waiting for the studies to show us they act like the other ones. We've kind of been burned by this for decades. So we're actually telling the suppliers we don't want these chemicals and they're delivering products to us without these chemicals in them. We have 50 projects on our campus built with these new design standards without forever chemicals and other toxic chemicals. We've also done studies that a doctoral student done the study. When we do this, we find lower levels of these chemicals in air and dust, of course. So we're showing that it works.
(00:52:19):
Now, the goal is not to say, hey, we just want to make Harvard a healthier campus and the hell with everybody else. The goal is to show it can be done with no impact to cost, schedule or product performance. We get a healthier environment, products look great, they perform great. We've also now partnered with other big companies in the tech industry in particular to try and grow or influence the market by saying, look how many X amount of purchasing dollars each year? And it's a lot, and we're demanding that our carpets don't have this, that our chairs don't have it, and the supply chain is responding. The goal, of course, is to just make it be the case that we just have healthy materials in the supply chain for everybody. So if you or I, or anybody else goes to buy a chair, it just doesn't have toxic chemicals in it.
Eric Topol (00:53:06):
Right, but these days the public awareness still isn't there, nor are the retailers that are selling whether it's going to buy a rug or a chair or new pots and pans. You can't go in and say, does this have any forever chemicals? They don't even know, right?
Joseph Allen (00:53:24):
Impossible. I study this and it's hard for me when I go out to try and find and make better decisions for myself. This is one of the reasons why we're working, of course, trying to help with the regulatory side, but also trying to change the market. Say, look, you can produce the similar product without these chemicals, save yourself for future lawsuits. Also, there's a market for healthy materials, and we want everybody to be a part of that market and just fundamentally change the supply chain. It's not ideal, but it's what we can do to influence the market. And honestly, we're having a lot of impact. I've been to these manufacturing plants where they have phased out these toxic chemicals.
Eric Topol (00:54:03):
That’s great to hear.
Joseph Allen (00:54:06):
And we see it working on our campus and other companies’ campuses.
Eric Topol (00:54:10):
Well, nobody can ever accuse you of not taking on big projects, okay.
Joseph Allen (00:54:15):
You don't get into public health unless you want to tackle the big ones that are really going to influence.
Micro(nano) Plastics
Eric Topol (00:54:20):
Well, that's true, Joe, but I don't know anybody who's spearheading things like you. So it's phenomenal. Now before we wrap up, there's another major environmental problem which has come to the fore, which are plastics, microplastics, nanoplastics. They're everywhere too, and they're incriminated with all the things that we've been talking about as well. What is your view about that?
Joseph Allen (00:54:48):
Well, I think it's one, well, you see the extent of the pollution. It's a global pollutant. These are petrochemicals. So it's building up, and these are fossil fuel derivatives. So you can link this not just to the direct human health impacts, the ecosystem impacts, but also ecosystem and health impacts through climate change. So we've seen our reliance on plastics grow exponentially over the past several decades, and now we're seeing the price we're paying for that, where we're seeing plastics, but also microplastics kind of everywhere, much like the forever chemicals. Everywhere we look, we find them and we're just starting to scratch a surface on what we know about the environmental impacts. I think there's a lot more that can be done here. Try to be optimistic again, at least if you find a problem, you got to try and point to some kind of solution or at least a pathway towards solutions.
(00:55:41):
But I like some of the stuff from others colleagues at Yale in particular on the principles of green chemistry. I write about them in my book a little bit, but it's this designing for non-permanence or biodegradable materials so that if we're using anything that we're not leaving these permanent and lasting impacts on our ecosystem that then build up and they build up in the environment, then they build up in all of us and in our food systems. So it seems to me that should be part of it. So think about forever chemicals. Should we be using chemicals that never break down in the environment that we know are toxic? How do we do that? As Harvard, one of the motivating things here for forever chemicals too, is how are we ignoring our own science? Everyone's producing this science, but how do we ignore even our own and we feel we have responsibility to the communities next to us and the communities around the world. We're taking action on climate change. How are we not taking action on these chemicals? I put plastics right in there in terms of the environmental pollutants that largely come from our built environment, food products and the products we purchase and use in our homes and in our bodies and in all the materials we use.
Eric Topol (00:56:50):
When you see the plastic show up in our arteries with a three, four-fold increase of heart attacks and strokes, when you see it in our testicles and every other organ in the body, you start to wonder, are we ever going to do something about this plastic crisis? Which is somewhat distinct from the forever chemicals. I mean, this is another dimension of the problem. And tying a lot of this together, you mentioned, we are not going to get into it today, but our climate crisis isn't being addressed fast enough and it's making all these things exacerbating.
Joseph Allen (00:57:27):
Yeah, let me touch on that because I think it is important. It gets to something I said earlier about a lot of these problems we treat as silos, but I think a lot of the problems run through our buildings, and that means buildings are part of the solution set. Buildings consume 40% of global energy.
(00:57:42):
Concrete and steel count for huge percentages of our global CO2 emissions. So if we're going to get climate solved, we're going to have to solve it through our buildings too. So when you start putting this all together, Eric, right, and this is why I talk about buildings as healthy buildings could potentially be one of the greatest public health interventions we have of this century. If we get it right, and I don't mean we get the Covid part, right. We get the forever chemicals part, right. Or the microplastics part, right. If you start getting this all right, good ventilation, better filtration, healthy materials across the board, energy efficient systems, so we're not drawing on the energy demand of our buildings that are contributing to the climate crisis. Buildings that also address climate adaptation and resilience. So they protect us from extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding that we know is coming and happening right now.
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You put that all together and it shows the centrality of buildings on our collective health from our time spent indoors, but also their contribution to environmental health, which is ultimately our collective human health as well. And this is why I'm passionate about healthy buildings as a real good lens to put this all under. If we start getting these right, the decisions we make around our buildings, we can really improve the human condition across all of these dimensions we're talking about. And I actually don't think it's all that hard in all of these. I've seen solutions.
Eric Topol (00:59:12):
I'm with you. I mean, there's innovations that are happening to take the place of concrete, right?
Joseph Allen (00:59:20):
Sure. We have low emission concrete right now that's available. We have energy recovery ventilation available right now. We have real time sensors. We can do demand control ventilation right now. We have better filters right now. We have healthy materials right now.
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We have this, we have it. And it's not expensive if we quantify the health benefits, the many, many multiple benefits. So it's all within our reach, and it's just about finding these different pathways. Some of its market driven, some of it's regulatory, some of it's at the local level, some of it's about raising awareness, giving people the language to talk about these things. So I do think it's the real beginning of the healthy buildings era. I really, truly believe it. I've never seen change like this in my field. I've been chasing sick buildings for a long time.
Joseph Allen (01:00:11):
And clearly there's pathways to do better.
Eric Topol (01:00:13):
You're a phenom. I mean, really, you not only have all the wisdom, but you articulate it so well. I mean, you’re leading the charge on this, and we're really indebted to you. I'm really grateful for you taking an hour of your busy time to enlighten us on this. I think what you're doing is it's going to keep you busy for your whole career.
Joseph Allen (01:00:44):
Well, the goal here is for me to put myself out of business. We shouldn't have a healthy buildings program. It just should be the way it's done. So I'm looking forward to the time out of business, hopefully have a healthy building future, then I can retire, be happy, and we'll be onto the next big problem.
Eric Topol (01:00:57):
We'll all be following your writings, which are many, and fortunately not just for science publications, but also for the public though, they're so important because the awareness level as I can't emphasize enough, it's just not there yet. And I think this episode is going to help bring that to a higher level. So Joe, thank you so much for everything you're doing.
Joseph Allen (01:01:20):
Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for what you're doing too, and thanks for inviting me on. We can't get the word out unless we start sharing it across our different audiences, so I appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Eric Topol (01:01:28):
You bet.
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Podcast: How To Do Everything (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Haircuts in Space, Tutus, and the Nasal Ranger
Pub date: 2024-09-04
Mike and Ian are back. On this episode: how to cut your hair in space, how to clean your tutu, and how to tell if you smell.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: An Open Conversation About Marriage, with Molly Roden Winter
Pub date: 2024-08-23
For this episode the writer, musician and author Molly Roden Winter discusses her bestselling book, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage. The book tells the story of Roden Winter's own journey navigating the polyamorous lifestyle while upholding many of the more traditional values associated with marriage simultaneously. Joining her to talk about it is Sarah Ditum, who listeners may remember from the podcast earlier this year discussing her own book: Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties.
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Podcast: The Rise and Fall of ... (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 5. Be Here Now… Blair, Blur And A Backlash
Pub date: 2024-07-05
The Rise and Fall of Oasis - Episode 5 - Be Here Now… Blair, Blur And A Backlash.
In the lead up to the release of Be Here Now, Oasis tabloid mania is at fever pitch, but what should be the crowning glory of their career is slowly unravelling. The band faced a series of challenges, many of their own causing, and the album is released to massive fanfare... and industry paranoia. We learn about the chaos that followed the group at the time, the backlash that came after the release of Be Here Now, the Australian tour affair that almost resulted in a major diplomatic incident and how Noel’s visit to number 10 changed everything.
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 368: Mosquito
Pub date: 2024-07-22
It is without question the most lethal predator in the history of the planet. It has killed more humans than any other single cause of death—something around 52 billion over the course of 200,000 years of human history. In 2022 alone, it probably killed 680,000 people—a number much reduced from the carnage it has caused in past centuries. This super-predator is the mosquito, which has since the time of the dinosaurs carried diseases in its tiny body that have destroyed nations and cultures, and altered the destinies of those who survived.
With me to describe the immense historical impact of the mosquito is Timothy C. Winegard. He is Associate Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University, and author of the 2019 bestselling book The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.
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Podcast: Gone Medieval (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Tolkien: Middle Earth & the Middle Ages
Pub date: 2024-08-30
For millions of Tolkien lovers around the world, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are more than just fantasy fiction. Their rich mix of sacred mythology and archetypal saga stories draw deeply into history and legend and profoundly resonate with universal human experience. But from where did Tolkien derive his inspiration? As with most things, Matt Lewis is determined to claim it as medieval, with the help of today's guest, Tolkien scholar Dr. Chris Snyder.
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Podcast: Origin Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it
Pub date: 2024-08-28
Over the past eight years, the word “gaslighting” has transformed from an obscure term in psychiatric literature into a ubiquitous buzzword to describe the kind of deceit that makes you feel like you’re losing your mind. But are we using it correctly? What explains its sudden popularity? And is it entirely wise to import a psychological term into the world of politics? Dorian tells Ian how the title of Patrick Hamilton’s hit 1938 play Gaslight gradually became a verb and eventually went viral during Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016. The story ranges from Ingrid Bergman and I Love Lucy to George Orwell and the Stasi before landing amid the current election dust-up between Trump and Kamala Harris. Strictly facts, no gaslighting, we promise.
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Podcast: Secretly Incredibly Fascinating (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Homework
Pub date: 2024-08-26
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why homework is secretly incredibly fascinating.
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Errollyn Wallen, composer
Pub date: 2024-08-11
Errollyn Wallen is one of the world’s most performed living composers. Her work, which includes 22 operas, orchestral, chamber and vocal works, was played at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in 2012 and at Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees. She was the first black woman to have a piece featured in the BBC Proms and the first woman to receive an Ivor Novello award for Classical Music for her body of work.
Errollyn was born in Belize in Central America and was brought up in North London. The passion for music came early to her - as a baby she sang in her cot - and later she enjoyed free music lessons at her local primary school. She fell in love with the piano at five and went on to have formal lessons four years later.
She studied music and dance at Goldsmith’s, University of London and took a Master’s in composition at King’s College London. After working as a session musician, Errollyn formed her own band Ensemble X whose motto is “we don’t break down barriers in music…we don’t see any”. In 1990 she composed a tribute to Nelson Mandela to mark his release from prison.
In 2020 she was awarded a CBE for services to music in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours.
Errollyn lives and works in a lighthouse at Strathy Point in the north of Scotland.
DISC ONE: Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, 4th Movement: Allegro Con Brio. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and performed by André Previn (piano) with the London Symphony OrchestraDISC TWO: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Ella Fitzgerald DISC THREE: L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (1910 Ballet Score) ('Fairy-tale Ballet In Two Tableaux For Orchestra') Introduction. Composed by Igor Stravinsky and performed by Bergen Philharmonic, conducted by Andrew Litton DISC FOUR: I Am Sitting In a Room - Alvin Lucier DISC FIVE: Bach, Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor BWV 1043 (II movement)Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and performed by Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman (violin) with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta DISC SIX: Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) - Stevie Wonder DISC SEVEN: What’s Up Doc? - Errollyn Wallen DISC EIGHT: Peter Grimes, Op. 33, Act III, Scene 7: Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! (Mrs Sedley) Composed by Benjamin Britten and performed by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Susan Bickley (Mezzo-soprano), Neal Davies (bass-baritone), Barnaby Rea (bass) and conducted by Edward Gardner
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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Making Change
Pub date: 2024-08-22
This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, who discusses her new book about the connections between art and protest.
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Podcast: Music From 100 Years Ago (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Broadway Musicals 1949
Pub date: 2024-07-23
Featuring songs from: South Pacific, Texas Lil Darlin, Lost In the Stars, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Along Fifth Avenue and Miss Liberty.
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Podcast: Asian American History 101 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Origin of Vietnamese American Nail Salons
Pub date: 2024-07-29
Welcome to Season 4, Episode 31! Have you ever wondered why Vietnamese Americans seem to dominate the nail salon industry in America? Although not all Vietnamese Americans are nail technicians, there are enough to make up approximately 50% of the nail technicians in the $8 billion per year American nail industry.
It all started with the celebrity activist, Tippi Hedren, an actress known for being in The Birds, Marnie, and many more features. She has made an effort to work on a variety of causes throughout her life, and that includes helping the Vietnamese American refugees starting in 1975. In this episode, we share the origin of the Vietnamese American Nail Salons. To learn more, check out the documentary by Adele Pham called Nailed It!
We open the episode by talking a little about AAPI athletes in the Olympics, API Emmy nominees, and other current events. In our recurring segment we introduce “So Annoying” where we take a topic that annoys us and talk about it. Today we’re talking about people who question the meat in Asian restaurants.
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Podcast: The Full English (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Madhur Jaffrey with Mayukh Sen
Pub date: 2024-08-05
Obviously we were going to do an episode about Madhur Jaffrey, and so here it is.
Madhur Jaffrey: the actress who taught British and American audiences how to cook Indian food.
Lewis Bassett speaks about Madur with Mayuk Sen, author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America. We talk about Madur's life, some of the barriers to her success as an actress and her move into being a celebrity chef where she made huge waves, plus a lot more. Find out more about Mayuk Sen here.
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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott
Pub date: 2024-08-07
Carl Elliott is a distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
An influential voice in bioethics, Elliott is known for his critical examination of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. His latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No,describes the harrowing experiences of whistleblowers who expose corruption and malpractice in clinical trials and psychiatric research.
Originally from South Carolina, Elliott's diverse academic background includes a medical degree and a PhD in philosophy from Glasgow University in Scotland. His extensive postdoctoral work has taken him to institutions such as the University of Chicago, the University of Otago in New Zealand, and the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa. Elliott is the author and editor of several influential books, including Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream and White Coat and Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine. His articles have been featured in prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, and The New England Journal of Medicine (as well as Mad in America). Elliott's critical work in bioethics has earned him numerous accolades, including the Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media and a fellowship at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
His investigative work has shed light on numerous scandals, including the tragic case of Dan Markingson, a young man who died during a controversial clinical trial at the University of Minnesota. In this interview, Elliott discusses the systemic issues that protect wrongdoers, the personal and professional toll on those who speak out, and the broader implications for ethics in medical research and practice.
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Podcast: Legacy (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bob Marley | The Captain's Son | 1
Pub date: 2024-07-24
Born in colonial-era Jamaica to a black teenage mum and an absent white dad, Bob Marley has a fractious childhood and is constantly moved around. But Bob dreams of making it big as a musician, whilst Jamaica dreams of independence. Can this small island boy make it big amongst the violence and chaos engulfing his home nation?
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Sound of Apple 1.0
Pub date: 2024-07-31
Over the last few decades, Apple has produced some of the most recognizable sounds ever made. In this episode, the Apple design team pulls back the curtain on their sound design philosophy and process, from the evolution of the classic “Tritone” alert, to the surprising origins of the Apple Watch sounds, to the inspiration behind the latest notification tones. Featuring Billy Sorrentino, Hugo Verweij and Kelly Jacklin.
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Podcast: Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 380: British Legends: I Loathe that for You
Pub date: 2024-08-14
The story of the laidly worm is all about the costs and benefits of kissing dragons on the mouth.
The creature is Topielec, and it might just make or break your video game franchise and/or book.
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"Cicle Ariel" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Bloom" by Chad Crouch
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Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shalom Auslander on Self-Loathing and How to Overcome It
Pub date: 2024-07-27
Yascha Mounk and Shalom Auslander discuss the origins of the stories that make us feel bad about ourselves.
Shalom Auslander is an American novelist, memoirist, and essayist. He is the author of Foreskin's Lament and, most recently, FEH: A Memoir.
In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shalom Auslander discuss how religious narratives inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition affect our sense of self-worth; how to actually help oneself while steering clear of "self-help"; and how to begin the lifelong work of charting a path towards unconditional love and self-acceptance.
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can you really ‘prep’ for the breakdown of society?
Pub date: 2024-08-09
For anywhere from $100 to $3,000 or more, you can get ready for doomsday with a prepper kit. Michael Mills, lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the phenomenon of preparing for disaster, if this is unique to America or to a political party affiliation, and if stockpiling food and supplies actually does anything to relieve anxiety.
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Podcast: Physics World Weekly Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Abdus Salam: celebrating a unifying force in global physics
Pub date: 2024-08-08
This podcast explores the extraordinary life of the Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, who is celebrated for his ground-breaking theoretical work and for his championing of physics and physicists in developing countries.
In 1964, he founded the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy – which supports research excellence worldwide with a focus on physicists in the developing world. In 1979 Salam shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions.
Salam spent most of his career at Imperial College London and the university is gearing up to celebrate the centenary of his birth in January 2026. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, Imperial physicists Claudia de Rham and Ian Walmsley look back on the extraordinary life of Salam – who died in 1996. They also talk about the celebrations at Imperial College.
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Podcast: Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Beatlology Interviews: David Sheff
Pub date: 2024-07-27
David Sheff conducted the last major interview with John Lennon. Just as Double Fantasy was being released, Sheff interviewed John & Yoko for Playboy magazine. It was the famous interview where Lennon went through the Beatles catalogue song-by-song - just before he died. The backstory of that interview is fascinating.
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Podcast: Something You Should Know (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Interesting Science of Eating & The Amazing World of Rats
Pub date: 2024-07-29
Why is it that mosquitoes seem to go after and bite some people more than others? This episode begins with an explanation of what does and doesn’t make you attractive to this summertime pest. https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleId=42234&publicid=395#
When it comes to health and managing your weight, "going on a diet” is one of the worst things you can do. That’s because most diets are all about what you CANNOT eat rather than what you should eat. And it turns out you can eat just about anything if you understand a few important things about nutrition. That’s what Dr. Sarah Ballantyne is here to reveal. She is author of the book, Nutrivore: The Radical New Science for Getting the Nutrients You Need from the Food You Eat (https://amzn.to/4cREoPN).
You may hate rats but they happen to be very interesting, adaptable and crafty creatures. They basically go wherever humans go (with one interesting exception). Rats are vilified all over the world, but is it all warranted? Are they as horrible as people think? Listen to my guest Joe Shute. He is author of a book called Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat (https://amzn.to/3WiYzPl). He explains rats like nobody else. Listen and you may have some new respect for these rodents even if they totally creep you out.
In kindergarten, you probably sat in a circle much of the time. There is good reason to believe that would be the best way to conduct most meetings – in a circle. Listen and I’ll explain why. https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-to-make-your-team-more-collaborative.html
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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #357 - A History of Nomads: A Dialogue of Anthony Sattin
Pub date: 2024-07-22
In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Anthony Sattin about the history of Nomads on our planet. They discuss humans as naturally nomadic, Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük and early settlements, Uruk and the epic of Gilgamesh, and domestication of horses. They talk about the Persian empire, Scythian empire, and nomadic identity. They discuss the impact of Islam, Chinggis Khan and the Mongol empire, Ottoman empire, Native Americans, future of nomads, and many more topics.
Anthony Sattin is a writer and broadcaster who has written a fiction and non-fiction works. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, editorial advisor on Geographical Magazine, founder-member of Travel Intelligence and ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East). He is the author of the latest book, Nomads: The Wanderers who Shaped our World.
Website: https://www.anthonysattin.com/
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Podcast: The Bunker (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bans, boycotts and billions: The politics of the Olympics
Pub date: 2024-07-31
The Olympics are in full-swing – but news of medals and victory are often overshadowed by controversies linked to contestants and politics. We’ve seen this already this year – but has the Olympics always been so political? Emma Kennedy sits down with David Goldblatt, author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.
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Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Brian Lehrer Weekend: 100 Years of James Baldwin; Election Integrity and National Security; New York City Etiquette
Pub date: 2024-08-03
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
A hundred years of James Baldwin (First) | Election integrity as a matter of national security (Starts at 27:50) | New York City etiquette rules (Starts at 57:35)
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Podcast: The Readout Loud (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 316: The long journey to make malaria vaccines, and Sarepta's ties with patient advocates
Pub date: 2024-08-01
Andrew Joseph, STAT's Europe correspondent, joins us to talk about his special report on the 40-year quest to develop the world's first malaria vaccines. We also cover the latest news in the biotech industry, including Sarepta Therapeutics' move to censor a patient video, data from a new Duchenne gene therapy, and a campaign by Mount Sinai to stifle debate about its controversial brain research following revelations made by a STAT investigation.
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Podcast: Science Quickly (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Saving the Last Truly Wild Horse
Pub date: 2024-07-10
Przewalski’s horses are truly wild horses, even the ones held in captivity. They traditionally roamed the Central Asian steppes, so you can imagine everyone’s surprise when two separate accounts on TikTok claimed to have found a Przewalski’s horse here in the U.S. But as guest and Scientific American associate news editor Allison Parshall will tell you, the real story is the remarkable conservation efforts that led to a resurgence for this horse, which was once considered extinct in the wild.
The Last Wild Horses Are Finally Returning to Their Natural Habitat
How a Cloned Ferret Inspired a DNA Bank for Endangered Species
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Ryan Calo on Protecting Privacy Amid Advances in AI
Pub date: 2024-07-30
Ryan Calo, Professor of Law at the University of Washington, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss how advances in AI are undermining already insufficient privacy protections. The two dive into Calo's recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Their conversation also covers the novel privacy issues presented by AI and the merits of different regulatory strategies at both the state and federal level.
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Podcast: The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The World Turned Upside Down: Home Video
Pub date: 2024-07-21
This week on The Tinsel Factory, the invention of home video.Movie Reviews: TwistersSupport This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypodBuy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpodLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tinselfactory/Sources:https://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/compare/betamax-vhs.html https://legacybox.com/blogs/analog/vhs-beat-betamax --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tinselfactorypod/support
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Podcast: Distillations | Science History Institute (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Ozempic Different?
Pub date: 2024-07-02
Ozempic and others in this family of drugs are nothing short of miraculous. Meant to treat Type 2 Diabetes, the drug exploded in popularity after researchers found that patients were reporting losing 15-21% of their body weight in clinical trials. There were some side effects, but none so severe that it raised concerns. Doctors began prescribing it to people who weren't diabetic but could benefit from weight loss, and now, our only problem seems to be getting enough of it for all the people who need it. It all seems magical, but is it too good to be true? Join us as we dive into the history of weight loss drugs, drug manufacturing regulations, and the role we think medicine should play in our lives.
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Podcast: The Folktale Project (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Voice of Death - A Roumanian Folktale
Pub date: 2024-07-17
Our last new story for a bit is a short (but very good) tale about death. Starting next week The Folktale Project will be replaying classic stories while we get ready for something completely new.
Title: Roumanian Fairy Tales
Author: Various
Compiler: Mite Kremnitz
Editor: J. M. Percival
Host: Dan Scholz
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Art of Rest, with Claudia Hammond and Helen Czerski
Pub date: 2020-12-22
The pandemic of 2020 has turned our lives upside down. Home working and homeschooling have become the norm for millions of us. And while you might think that the absence of long commutes, live entertainment and late-night socialising means we are more rested, many of us are more frazzled than ever, finding it difficult to separate work from downtime and unable to take proper time out for ourselves. And when we do, we often feel guilty that we aren’t doing something more productive.In this live podcast taken from Intelligence Squared Plus, Claudia Hammond explained that rest is not just a matter of doing nothing – it is a vital part of self-care. Her book, The Art of Rest, draws on ground-breaking research she uncovered through ‘The Rest Test’, the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much has been written on the value of sleep in recent years, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds and recharge our bodies. And, as the survey revealed, how much rest you get is directly linked to your sense of well-being. The episode was hosted by Oceanographer and physicist Helen Czerski. To buy the book, click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-art-of-rest/claudia-hammond/9781786892829
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mendez: How I became an audiobook narrator
Pub date: 2024-07-10
The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting tables lead to their new niche. In this episode, Mendez reads their recent piece about the art of audiobook narration and how they became the voice of Pelé.
Find the original piece and further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/mendezpod
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bathing Badasses
Pub date: 2024-07-12
Synchronized, scientific, ornamental, fancy, pretty: so many adjectives have been attached over the years to performative swimming, especially when done by women. Now known at the highest level as “artistic swimming,” it was for decades one of the few athletic activities women could pursue, albeit in uncomfortable, baggy, and not exactly aerodynamic attire. Despite—or perhaps because of—its popularity, synchronized swimming's status as a legitimate, elite sport would be contested for just as long—until 1984, in fact, when it finally debuted at the Los Angeles Olympics in all its sparkly glory. In her new book, Swimming Pretty, Scholar contributor Vicki Valosik dives into “the untold story of women in water,” from Victorian starlets like Lurline the Water Queen to Annette Kellerman, the godmother of synchronized swimming and the woman we can all thank for not having to wear petticoats in the water.
Go beyond the episode:
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Podcast: Slow Radio (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sleeper Train
Pub date: 2024-02-25
In 2017, audio producer Phil Smith travelled to Ukraine to attend his friend's wedding. There, somewhere between the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Odessa, he fell in love with the soundworld of the sleeper train: its steady hypnotic rhythms, the melody of hurtling through time and space, the calls of distant tannoy speakers drifting across platforms in the dead of night, the chorus of snores from sleeping passengers. Revisiting these recordings, seven years later, this Slow Radio journey offers echoes of a country in calmer times, when such trains were not a means of logistics transportation or symbol of desperate escape (as witnessed in the February of 2022) but conduits of restful imagining.
From the opening establishing shot - the sound of whistles and shunting engines, off in the distance - we are moved along in a river of wheeled luggage through the cathedral acoustics of a station building to take our seat in the carriage of the overnight train. The scenes are unhurried as bunks are unfolded and brief snatches of conversation overheard. We set off - a gentle accelerando of wheels and rails - and time stretches: there are no voices now, just the music of the train's motion through the night.
Produced by Phil SmithA Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
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Podcast: Thin End of the Wedge (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping Cuneiform
Pub date: 2024-05-10
Rune, Seraina, and Gustav discuss their recently completed project on geomapping cuneiform. Where were inscriptions found and where are they now? How many tablets are there? What counts as a tablet anyway? They reveal the challenges of integrating datasets, and explore the potential opened up by knowing where inscriptions really come from.
4:18 GLoW project
7:44 data collection
10:51 how many tablets are there?
13:50 provenance problems
17:06 why 'where' matters
20:50 what distribution tells us
24:20 why this hasn't been done before
27:06 integrating databases
33:56 what can we do now?
GLoW publications
Music by Ruba Hillawi
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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Philippa Foot
Pub date: 2024-06-13
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot (1920 - 2010). Her central question was, “Why be moral?” Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas, Foot spent her life working through her instinct that there was something lacking in the prevailing philosophy of the 1950s and 1960s which held that values could only be subjective. Could there really be no objective response to the horrors of the concentration camps that she had seen on newsreels, no way of saying that such acts were morally wrong? Foot developed an ethics based on virtues, in which humans needed virtues to flourish as surely as plants needed light and water. While working through her ideas she explored applied ethics and the difference between doing something and letting it happen, an idea she illustrated with what became The Trolley Problem.
With
Anil GomesFellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, University of Oxford
Sophie Grace ChappellProfessor of Philosophy at the Open University
And
Rachael WisemanReader in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool
Producer: Simon TillotsonIn Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production
Reading list:
Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices (Oxford University Press, 1978)
Philippa Foot, Moral Dilemmas (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness (Oxford University Press, 2001)
John Hacker-Wright, Philippa Foot's Moral Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Benjamin Lipscomb, The Women Are Up To Something (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (Chatto, 2022)
Dan Russell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press), especially ‘Virtue Ethics in the Twentieth Century’ by Timothy (now Sophie Grace) Chappell
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Podcast: Whale Hunting (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sudden Russian Death Syndrome
Pub date: 2024-07-10
It’s a precarious time for the Russian elite. Caught up in the invasion of Ukraine and an immovable dictator, the noblesse russe have to tip-toe through economic and political conflict to survive. In the last two years, however, an increasing number have lost their footing. This week on Whale Hunting, host Bradley Hope welcomes Xenia Rakovshik, a Russian-American journalist who's been digging into so-called Sudden Russian Death Syndrome. Together they discuss the unusual spate of sudden deaths – from heart attacks to murder-suicides and falls from height – and their seemingly outsized occurrence among Russian oligarchs and businessmen of late. Xenia also shares one theory about why this spate of deaths may have begun following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (spoiler: Putin may not be behind all of them) and what life is like for those currently living within Putin's grip, including Russian journalists.
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Podcast: The Louis Theroux Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S1 EP5: Nick Cave on his remarkable career, religion and dealing with grief
Pub date: 2023-07-03
Louis sits down in the Spotify studio with musician, writer and poet Nick Cave. Nick tells Louis all about his remarkable life and career, including being a member of the “most violent band in the world”, his relationship with God and being high on Top Of The Pops with Kylie Minogue.
Warnings: Some strong language and discussions of sensitive themes, including drug use, violence and death.
Links:
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faith-Hope-Carnage-Nick-Cave/dp/1838857680/ref=asc_df_1838857680/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=641789777959&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7392167829579645064&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-1846328033232&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
The Death of Bunny Monroe by Nick Cave
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Bunny-Munro-Canons/dp/1782115331
The Birthday Party - ‘Junkyard’
The Birthday Party, "Junkyard"
GG Allin
The late GG Allin has violent and disturbing mood swings - DVLH (Rare documentary footage)
Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave – ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ (Live Top Of The Pops)
Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where the Wild Roses Grow (Live Top Of The Pops 1995)
Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave – ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ (Live Top Of The Pops)
Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue on Top Of The Pops
Jesus by A.N Wilson
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-N-Wilson/dp/0712606971/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29KGTJJJ4YTZN&keywords=A.n+Wilson+biography+of+jesus&qid=1687183752&s=books&sprefix=a.n+wilson+biography+of+jesus%2Cstripbooks%2C69&sr=1-1
The Red Hand Files
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
Blonde
BLONDE | From Writer and Director Andrew Dominik | Official Trailer | Netflix
Dahmer
DAHMER Trailer (2022)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
https://open.spotify.com/album/4EMI48u2Fn6srocaXjuAcJ?si=AAcpIaWeSzWffLMX8On1Xw
Go The Fk To Sleep – book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/0857862650
Partridge’s Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English - book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Partridges-Concise-Dictionary-Unconventional-English/dp/0026053500/ref=sr_1_1?crid=201ZDOQ771V6E&keywords=dictionary+of+slang+and+unconventional+english&qid=1687184223&s=books&sprefix=dictionary+of+slang+and+unconventional+english%2Cstripbooks%2C66&sr=1-1
The Johnny Cash Show
Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash - Jackson (The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show)
Johnny Cash - ‘Folsom Prison Blues’
https://open.spotify.com/track/0LTSNmOLBt25GMjHlxp9OR?si=09c48ccf9dc34dc2
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Red Right Hand’
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Official Video)
The Enneagram Personality Test - The Enneagram Personality Test
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Jubilee Street’
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rbw06Ngndbs8X4iPdepES?si=8fc5e05a1999454b
Jimi Hendrix - ‘Hey Joe’
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NWPxcsf5vdjdiFUI8NgkP?si=cc43c3094ec5413e
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Ghosteen’
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tEFvxPkn2FRDmTPuu2GZV?si=9b0f84d7a43a426d
Credits:
Producer: Paul Kobrak
Assistant Producer: Maan Al-Yasiri
Production Manager: Francesca Bassett
Music: Miguel D’Oliveira
Show notes compiled by Shaloma Ellis
Executive Producer: Arron Fellows
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Podcast: The 404 Media Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
Pub date: 2024-07-03
We start this episode talking about some exciting updates for the podcast! For the first story, Joseph explains how an ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed driver licenses, in a sign of what may be come as more sites demand to know our real identities. After the break, Jason breaks down what the FBI found when it investigated a specific Zoom Bombing ring. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel and Joseph talk all about TLO, a powerful data tool that is being advertised on Fiverr to dox anyone for $30.
- ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
- 'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
- Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool
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Podcast: Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: There’s Only One Michael Mosley
Pub date: 2024-06-14
Michael's last interview, How to Live a Good Life, is with psychologist Paul Bloom and was recorded in the BBC tent at the Hay Festival on 25 May, 2024.
Paul is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and he shares with Michael his top five tips for living a good life. And we hear Michael at his best - full of warmth, insight and enjoying his time with the audience and sharing some of his reflections on his life, career and the importance of family.
Presenter: Michael Mosley with Chris Van TullekenProducer: Nija Dalal-SmallSeries Producer: Geraldine FitzgeraldProduction Manager: Maria SimonsExecutive Producers: Helen Thomas and Sasha FeachemCommissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Studio Engineer: Richard Ward
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Podcast: The History of Literature (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter
Pub date: 2024-05-30
Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, the source material for one of Alfred Hitchcock's first great films. But as his biographer (and granddaughter) Ursula Buchan tells Jacke, Buchan was far from a one-hit wonder. John Buchan wrote more than a hundred books of fiction and non-fiction and a thousand newspaper and magazine articles - and he was just getting started. Ursula's book Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan depicts the remarkable life of this twentieth-century writer (and scholar, antiquarian, barrister, journal editor, war correspondent, member of parliament, director of wartime propaganda, Governor-General of Canada, and more!).
PLUS Jacke reads a special letter by Ernest Hemingway, and Marsha Gordon (Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott) stops by to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read.
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Podcast: Spacewalk with Everyday Astronaut (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: EP: 3 - Cameras in Space
Pub date: 2024-04-10
In this episode Tim answers some of your questions about cameras in space. If you want your questions answered, just use hashtag #spacewalkpodcast and we’ll take questions from there each episode, but we’ll also be taking questions from our patron supporters, YouTube members and X subscribers as well.
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Podcast: Many Minds (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Consider the spider
Pub date: 2024-05-30
Maybe your idea of spiders is a bit like mine was. You probably know that they have eight legs, that some are hairy. Perhaps you imagine them spending most of their time sitting in their webs—those classic-looking ones, of course—waiting for snacks to arrive. Maybe you consider them vaguely menacing, or even dangerous. Now this is not all completely inaccurate—spiders do have eight legs, after all—but it's a woefully incomplete and drab caricature. Your idea of spiders, in other words, may be due for a refresh.
My guest today is Dr. Ximena Nelson, Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand. Ximena is the author of the new book, The Lives of Spiders. It’s an accessible and stunningly illustrated survey of spider behavior, ecology, and cognition.
In this conversation, Ximena and I do a bit of ‘Spiders 101’. We talk about spider senses—especially how spiders use hairs to detect the minutest of vibrations and how they see, usually, with four pairs of eyes. We talk about web-making—which, by the way, the majority of spiders don't do—and silk-making—which all do, but for more reasons than you may realize. We talk about how spiders hunt, jump, dance, pounce, plan, decorate, cache, balloon, and possibly count. We talk about why so many spiders mimic ants. We take up the puzzle of “stabilimenta”. We talk about whether webs constitute an extended sensory apparatus—like a gigantic ear—and why spiders are an under-appreciated group of animals for thinking about the evolution of mind, brain, and behavior.
Alright friends, this one is an absolute feast. So let's get to it. On to my conversation with Dr. Ximena Nelson. Enjoy!
A transcript of this episode is available here.
Notes and links
3:00 – A general audience article about our “collective arachnid aversion” to spiders.
8:00 – An academic article by Dr. Nelson about jumping spider behavior.
8:30 – In addition to spiders, Dr. Nelson also studies kea parrots (e.g., here).
12:00 – A popular article about the thousands of spider species known to science—and the thousands that remain unknown.
16:30 – A popular article about a mostly vegetarian spider, Bagheera kiplingi.
18:00 – For the mating dance of the peacock spider, see this video.
20:00 – A recent study on spider “hearing” via their webs.
24:00 – The iNaturalist profile of the tiger bromeliad spider.
29:30 – A recent study of extended sensing in humans during tool use.
33:00 – A popular discussion of vision (and other senses) in jumping spiders.
40:00 – An earlier popular discussion of spider webs and silk.
45:00 – For a primer on bird’s nests, see here.
48:00 – An article describing the original work on how various drugs alter spiders’ webs.
49:00 – A recent salvo in the long-standing stabilimenta debate.
54:00 – A video about “ballooning” in spiders.
57:00 – An article by Dr. Nelson and a colleague about jumping spiders as an important group for studies in comparative cognition.
1:01:00 – A study of reversal learning in jumping spiders, which found large individual differences.
1:07:00 – A study of larder monitoring in orb weaver spiders.
1:10:00 – A study by Dr. Nelson and a colleague on numerical competence in Portia spiders.
1:16:00 – An academic essay on the so-called insect apocalypse.
Recommendations
Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility, by M. Herberstein
‘Spider senses – Technical perfection and biology,’ by F. Barth
‘Extended spider cognition’, by H. Japyassú and K. Lala
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Podcast: City Journal's 10 Blocks (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unimaginable—and Inevitable
Pub date: 2024-06-05
Victor Davis Hanson joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss his book The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Losing Attar
Pub date: 2024-06-14
Attar is the essential oil that is produced when aromatics like jasmine and sandalwood are pressed and distilled. It has been a feature of life in India, as well as many other parts of the world, for over 5,000 years, and it has been the defining industry of the Indian city of Kannauj for over a thousand. But whereas once this ancient discipline employed nearly all the city’s residents, it’s now suffering severely from the impact of climate change and the rise of synthetic perfumes.
Journalist Jigyasa Mishra meets the farmers, flower pickers and traditional perfumers of Kannauj to better understand the way of life attar sustains and to ask: can anything be done to reverse the trend?
Producers: Jigyasa Mishra and Artemis Irvine
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Podcast: History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: HPC 07. Uncrowned King: Kongzi (Confucius) and the Analects
Pub date: 2024-06-02
An introduction to Kongzi, the founder of Confucianism, and to the text that has come to represent his thought, the Lunyu (Analects).
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Podcast: SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Chatter That Matters
Pub date: 2024-06-12
What role does gossip play in human societies? In this episode, Bridget Alex and Emily Sekine, editors at SAPIENS magazine, chat with host Eshe Lewis to explore gossip as a fundamental human activity.They discuss gossip’s evolutionary roots, suggesting it may have developed as a form of "vocal grooming" to maintain social bonds in groups. It also helps enforce social norms, they argue, offering a way to share information about people’s reputations and control free riders. Their conversation also touches on how gossip can aid in navigating uncertainties and expressing care.Bridget Alex earned her Ph.D. in archaeology and human evolutionary biology from Harvard University. Supported by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and other awards, her research focused on the spread of Homo sapiens and extinction of other humans, such as Neanderthals, over the past 200,000 years. Prior to joining SAPIENS, Bridget taught anthropology and science communication at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena City College, and Harvard University. Her pop-science stories have appeared in outlets such as Discover, Science, Archaeology, Atlas Obscura, and Smithsonian Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @bannelia.Emily Sekine is an editor and a writer with a Ph.D. in anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Prior to joining the team at SAPIENS, she worked with academic authors to craft journal articles and book manuscripts as the founder of Bird’s-Eye View Scholarly Editing. Her anthropological research and writing explore the relationships between people and nature, especially in the context of the seismic and volcanic landscapes of Japan. Emily’s work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Society of Environmental Journalists, among others, and her essays have appeared in publications such as Orion magazine, the Anthropocene Curriculum, and Anthropology News.Eshe Lewis is the project director for the SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Program. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida and has spent the past 10 years working with Afro-descendant peoples in Peru on issues of social movements, women’s issues, Black feminism, and gender violence. Eshe is based in Toronto, Canada.Check out these related resources:"What Is Linguistic Anthropology?""Why Envy Might Be Good for Us""Why Do We Gossip"
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Podcast: Dressed: The History of Fashion (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Kimono: Art, Craft, Storytelling with Keita Motoji and Mark McNulty of Ginza Motoji, Part I
Pub date: 2024-05-29
Today, we are joined by Keita Motoji and Mark McNulty of Ginza Motoji, Japan's premiere speciality kimono purveyor dedicated to preserving and celebrating the art--and artisans--of kimono. In Part I of this episode, they take us behind the seams of the kimono process to meet the makers responsible for its creation.
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Podcast: Good on Paper (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Great Remote-Work Experiment
Pub date: 2024-06-04
Four years after the Great Remote-Work Experiment began, the public debate has boiled down to: Bosses hate it and workers love it. But is that all there is to it? Who really benefits from remote work—and who doesn’t? And why is it that women with more job experience suffer the most?
Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Natalia Emanuel, a labor economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who co-authored a paper looking at the effects of remote work. Do people understand the tradeoffs they’re making when they choose to work from home? What’s the impact on the team if even one person is remote? And does remote work benefit older workers at the expense of younger ones?
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Podcast: Animal
Episode: Episode 2: Puffins
Pub date: 2024-05-30
As his daughter prepares to leave for college, Sam visits a remote island.
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Podcast: Origin Story (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor Mill – Part One – Liberalism's original power couple
Pub date: 2024-05-29
Back for season five, Origin Story continues to explore the misunderstood ideas and people that shape our politics today. With Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey.
In this two-parter Ian gets seriously into the research by mining his own book for episode ideas and comes up smiling with this tale of love, bravery and feminism. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor are the mother and father of liberalism, a joint writing team who produced the most seminal books about freedom in the modern era. But while he was worshipped by those who came afterwards, she was mocked, lambasted and then erased from history.
In part one, Ian explains Mill's devastating childhood, Taylor's cutting social commentary, their love affairs which rocked Victorian London, the evidence for her co-authorship of several key liberal books, and how they delivered some of the earliest works of British feminism.
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Reading list
Ian Dunt - How to be a Liberal (2020) (Has anyone heard of this book? Is it any good?)
Jo Ellen Jacobs (ed) - The Complete Works of Harriet taylor Mill (1998)
John Stuart Mill (and Harriet Taylor Mill) - On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart Mill (and Harriet Taylor Mill) - The Subjection of Women (1869)
John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham - Utilitarianism and Other Essays (1987)
Richard Reeves - John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007)
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Podcast: Legacy (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Margaret Thatcher | The Making of the Iron Lady | 1
Pub date: 2024-05-28
The daughter of a methodist shopkeeper, Margaret Thatcher has never believed in luck. She knows that together with her strength of character, hard work is what will bring her success. And soon enough, she proves herself one of the most formidable politicians the country has ever seen.
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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Anagnosology (READING) with Adrian Johns
Pub date: 2024-05-29
Clay tablets! Printing presses! Old timey audio books! Speed reading strategies! Attention spans! Dyslexia history! Literacy campaigns! Dr. Adrian Johns is an historian, professor, and author of the book “The Science of Reading” and we have a nice mellow chat about when humans started to “read,” what that means, being Hooked on Phonics, Dick, Jane, character languages, audiobooks, e-readers, school segregation, literacy rates, and how long we can focus at a time. He literally wrote the book on it.
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Podcast: The Supermassive Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 52: BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?
Pub date: 2024-05-23
The UK witnessed the most amazing Northern Lights in years.... And Izzie missed it.
In this bonus episode, Dr Becky Smethurst, Dr Robert Massey and Izzie Clarke talk about those Northern Lights and answer your questions. What is Jupiter's giant blue dot? If the sun is losing mass (by giving out energy) will that affect the gravity and orbit of the solar system? And how do you date a rock?
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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
Pub date: 2024-05-08
For many on the political left, the end of capitalism is a cherished ideal - but what if capitalism ended and we found ourselves with something worse? This week we're exploring the possibility that Western liberal democracies could be sliding in the direction of "neofeudalism" and devolving into a much nastier set of economic and social structures than the ones we presently have.
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Podcast: Drama On One (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney
Pub date: 2024-04-26
To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers' Memorial Day, 28th April 2024, which this year is focussing on the impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health, we offer a podcast of A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney.
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Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 49. Weather Forecasts
Pub date: 2024-05-20
With industries relying on them and profits to be made, weather forecasts are more precise and more popular than ever. But there are clouds on the horizon. Zachary Crockett grabs an umbrella.
- SOURCES:
- Steve Adelman, head of Adelman Law Group, PLLC and vice president of the Event Safety Alliance.
- Peter Neilley, director of weather forecasting sciences and technologies for The Weather Company.
- RESOURCES:
- "Traders Have Turned Betting on the Weather, a Technique Pioneered by Enron, Into a Booming $25 Billion Market," by Dylan Sloan (Fortune, 2024).
- "Why Your Weather Forecasts May Soon Become More Accurate," by Dan Stillman (The Washington Post, 2023).
- "The High-Tech Race to Improve Weather Forecasting," (The Economist, 2023).
- "Study: Climate Change Has Increased Atmospheric Instability Over Past 40 Years," by University at Albany (Phys.org, 2023).
- "Beyoncé Concert In D.C. Suburb Highlights Complex Weather Challenges," by Marshall Shepherd (Forbes, 2023).
- "Forecast Process," by the U.S. National Weather Service.
- EXTRAS:
- "How Will We Handle the Heat?" by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
- "The Folly of Prediction," by Freakonomics Radio (2011).
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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Collective Narcissism is Everywhere w/ Agnieszka Golec
Pub date: 2024-05-23
This week Scott is joined by Dr. Agnieszka Golec, the world’s expert on collective narcissism. Scott and Agnieszka dive deep into this relevant and rich topic, touching on the effects that this thinking has on broader society, how it has fanned the flames of populism around the world, and how it can be curbed to bring people closer together and foster more peace.
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Podcast: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Song 174B: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” Part Two, “It Takes Two”
Pub date: 2024-05-24
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”. This week we’re looking at the career of Marvin Gaye from 1963 through 1970, as well as his duet partners Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Tammi Terrell, whose tragically short life comes with a great many content warnings.
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Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode, on “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly
And if you just can’t get enough of me talking, I’ve also guested this week, with Tilt and Gary from The Sitcom Club, on our friend Tyler’s podcast Goon Pod, talking about the 1974 film Man About The House.
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Podcast: The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes
Episode: Has the US finally borrowed too much?
Pub date: 2024-05-20
US government debt is high, and it's getting higher. The US debt-to-GDP ratio is more than 100% of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office thinks the deficit is headed to 6% of GDP, and a lot of that is just the debt interest. Those numbers sound pretty scary, and neither political party seems ready to do anything about it. Today on the show, we worry about it with Jason Furman, the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, and current professor of economics at Harvard.
Soumaya Keynes writes a column each week for the Financial Times. You can find it here
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Podcast: The Atlas Obscura Podcast (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A Rogue Trip with Amir Siraj
Pub date: 2024-05-22
We catch up with Amir Siraj – friend of the show, scientist and world wanderer – who visited a new observatory in a Chilean desert that could help his search for rogue planets
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Podcast: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother
Pub date: 2024-01-23
In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up in this battle both as collaborators and targets between the years of 1956 - 1960. We also meet a propagandist responsible for the CIA’s cinematic version of 1984 (Operation Big Brother) and “books that don’t smack of propaganda” aimed at European Intellectuals - including James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son.
Shownotes: Françoise Vergès is the author of A decolonial Feminism, James Campbell is the author of Paris Interzone and Talking at the Gates, Jelena Ćulibrk writes on IRD and Newsreels, Tony Shaw writes on British Cinema and the Cold War,
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Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 418. Urban Myths: Challenging the Green City Idea feat. Des Fitzgerald
Pub date: 2024-05-08
Are there reasons to doubt the conventional wisdom of greenery as the cure-all for urban ills. What are the roots of the Garden City movement, and how has the reality of it been different than the theory?
Des Fitzgerald is a professor of medical humanities and social sciences at University College Cork Ireland, and also the author of a recent book titled, The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great. (released in the UK with a different title: The City of Today is a Dying Thing.
Greg and Des discuss how urban landscapes aren't just about aesthetics; they're intricately linked to our national identity and cognitive functions. Des helps us uncover how architecture influences our sense of place and impacts our brains, and explores the role of culture in shaping our environmental perceptions. The conversation spans everything from peat briquettes to Georgian-style facades. Des also guides us through an enlightening discussion on the burgeoning field of medical humanities and the innovative concept of green social prescribing within the NHS.
unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.
Episode Quotes:The transformative shift in environmental neuroscience
39:32: Something that is becoming really interesting in this space is the emergence of environmental neuroscience, as I think a relatively new, increasingly interesting, and powerful discipline. Environmental neuroscience exists for a whole bunch of reasons, but certainly the increasing sense that we're able to take a brain measure while a person moves around the space in three dimensions. That's, I think it's something that can be done imperfectly now. It's still very much in progress, but at least we have a horizon in which that's going to become pretty possible at kind of high-resolution research grade relatively soon. And that is transformative, actually, if the three dimensions of a space become truly available as a variable for brain measurement. Then something does happen, and something does change in that moment.
What’s wrong with planting a lot of trees?
43:13: What concerns me about urban tree planting is what we're not talking about when we're talking about urban trees, right? So the amount of social and public problems that trees are meant to solve is ridiculous. It's everything from mental health to youth crime to skills in some parts of England, where they're planting trees in an English town because it's like the people of the town have low skills for some reason. It just seems to go for not tackling boring social problems, right? So, for instance, it's very real that there are major mental health problems in cities. I think there is something very serious about the way we have constructed the contemporary city—that it has bad effects for lots of people.
We need to stop centering urban discourse on charismatic megafauna of global urbanism
45:37: We need to stop centering urban discourse on the kind of charismatic megafauna of global urbanism, right? And look at the kind of, what I would genuinely call the crap cities, right? The kind of second-tier, slightly stronger places, like places like Cork, Cardiff in Wales, where I used to live. I'm not sure what your go-to North American examples would be, but I'm still in those kinds of, like, lower-tier, maybe Poughkeepsie, Peoria, these kinds of places. That's your kind of modular urban experience, I think. And those are places I think we need to take much more seriously culturally and socially.
Interdisciplinarity in medical humanities
49:09: I think what folks in the field are trying to do is do something a little bit more collaborative and a little bit more imaginative, and not just have the philosopher who will sign off your ethics forms, but try to think seriously about how philosophy can inform experimental design. How philosophical work can itself be informed by stuff that's happening in biology and the life sciences. I'm trying to really get at the kind of complex space between those things where you're doing work that is not quite humanities or science but some kind of magic third thing.
Show Links:Recommended Resources:
- Le Corbusier
- Garden city movement
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Ebenezer Howard
- John Muir
- Plan Voisin
- Edwin Lutyens
- Port Sunlight
- William Lever
- Samuel Smiles
- Neom
- Edward C. Tolman
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann
- Napoleon III
- Medical humanities
- Wellcome Trust
Guest Profile:
- Faculty Profile at University College Cork
His Work:
- Amazon Author Page
- The City of Today is a Dying Thing
- The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great
- The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City
- Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
- Google Scholar Page
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Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #930 Rebecca Earle: The History and Politics of the Potato
Pub date: 2024-04-19
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Dr. Rebecca Earle is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. She is a historian, specializing in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is the author of books like “The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700”, “Potato”, and “Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato”.
In this episode, we talk about the history and politics of the potato. We start by talking about the origins of the potato,how good it is as a crop, and the status of potatoes in South America. We then discuss how the potato came to Europe and spread across the globe. We talk about the political significance of nutrition in the Enlightenment and the modern era. We discuss the Great Famine in Ireland and the response of the British government, and different political views about the potato. Finally, we discuss attempts by governments to regulate the food market, how people react to them, and whether we really choose what we eat.
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Podcast: Let the Kids Dance! (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Part 1: City Gone Crazy
Pub date: 2024-04-04
The genesis of Seattle’s Teen Dance Ordinance begins at a nightclub called the Monastery. In the early 1980s, this all-ages disco was renowned on the West Coast for cutting-edge music and all-night parties. Some experienced the Monastery as a radically inclusive refuge where queer youth find community. Others described it as a den of illicit drugs and predatory behavior. Both are likely right.
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Podcast: Imaginary Worlds (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
Pub date: 2024-04-10
When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the diaspora. Africanfuturism mixes the traditional with the futuristic in a way that resembles modern life in Africa, and many of these stories grapple with climate change. Although the writer Chinelo Onwualu says cli-fi isn’t a subgenre for African writers. It’s often baked into a lot of Africanfuturism because the continent is already at the forefront of climate emergencies. And the writers Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Wole Talabi explain that Africanfuturist cli-fi isn’t as dystopian as Western cli-fi. These visions of the future may feel daunting but there is often a sense of hope and the solutions are more community focused. The actress Nneka Okoye reads from their stories, and other works by African writers.
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Reading list from this episode:
- Works of Nnedi Okorafor
- Wole Talabi’s anthology Convergence Problems
- Suyi Davies Okungbowa's novella Lost Ark Dreaming
- Chinelo Onwualu’s short story Letters to My Mother
- Dilman Dila’s story The Leafy Man from the book A Killing in the Sun
- Mame Bougouma’s story Lekki Lekki from Africanfuturism: An Anthology
- Omenana Magazine
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Podcast: Private Passions (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Percival Everett
Pub date: 2024-05-12
The American writer Percival Everett is enjoying a moment in the spotlight: his novel The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022; an earlier book, Erasure, was adapted into the recent Oscar-winning film American Fiction; and his latest novel, James, is already a best-seller in the United States. It’s a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved friend Jim.
In the past four decades he's published two dozen novels, and another dozen books of stories and poetry, but he's just as happy away from the world of literature, fly-fishing or painting. He's also worked as a horse trainer, a cowboy and a jazz guitarist. Jazz and blues feature among the music he shares with us, along with Dvorak, Schoenberg, Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
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Podcast: Reflector (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Sea Change
Pub date: 2024-04-30
Why aren’t Americans embracing the most promising medications for treating over-drinking?
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Alcohol consumption increased more during the COVID-19 pandemic than it had at any time in the past 50 years. Even though bars were closed for weeks on end and fewer people were out on the road doing their daily commuting, Americans were drinking so much that from 2020 through 2021 there were approximately 178,000 alcohol-related deaths - which is more deaths than from all drug overdoses combined, including opioids.
Yet, even as we return to 1960’s Mad Men era drinking habits - most Americans with a drinking problem never speak to their doctors about their drinking and less than 6% of them receive any form of treatment whatsoever. 12-step programs like Alcoholic Anonymous remain at the heart of a majority of American rehab programs, even though their “success rate” (which has historically been very hard to study) hovers around the single digits, while there are more effective medical options available.
Why?
On today’s episode, our friend Katie tells the story of her self-experimentation with the drug Naltrexone to combat her alcohol addiction and helps us grapple with why such medications are so rarely used to help problem drinkers in America.
Our thanks to our guests: Addiction psychiatrist Dr. Mark Willenbring and journalist Gabrielle Glazer.
Music in this episode from Cobey Bienart and Peter Lalish
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Other links:
Glazer’s 2015 article in The Atlantic.
Andy’s 2015 public radio story on addiction treatments.
Washington University’s National Survey Study.
CDC’s study on recent alcohol-related deaths.
2014 NYTimes stories on how Naltrexone and other drugs are rarely used.
2021 NYTimes story on how things have not changed.
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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?
Pub date: 2024-04-30
There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for much of human history, 15 hours of work a week was the standard, followed by leisure time with family and fellow tribe members, telling stories, painting, dancing, and everything else. Work was a means to an end, and nothing else.
So what happened? Why does work today define who we are? It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like?
To answer these questions, today’s guest James Suzman, author of Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same.
Arguing that we are in the midst of a similarly transformative point in history, Suzman argues that automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our world.
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Podcast: Broomgate: A Curling Scandal (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: E1: The Mystery Broom
Pub date: 2024-05-06
It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique and the special broom that enabled it. It was the start of the biggest scandal in curling history.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 579- Towers of Silence
Pub date: 2024-04-23
Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely -- a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived in a relatively undeveloped state in the middle of this gargantuan city. Importantly, it’s also home to an ancient tradition in crisis -- one that is central to the lives (and deaths) of a particular population.
There’s a certain point in this forest beyond which almost no one can step -- only special caretakers of these grounds can go any further. They go by many names: khandia, nassassalar, pallbearer, corpse bearer. Their work here is holy. They carry dead bodies to their final resting place – atop stone structures that stand gray against the lush green. These buildings are called Towers of Silence.
Towers of Silence
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Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision
Pub date: 2024-05-07
The pop music competition is facing boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding and historian Tess Megginson explain why the apolitical event keeps getting political.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-21
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America's largely forgotten posture panic--a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America(Princeton UP, 2024) also tells how this period continues to feed today's widespread anxieties about posture.
In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement and fears of disability gave slouching a new scientific relevance. Bad posture came to be seen as an individual health threat, an affront to conventional race hierarchies, and a sign of American decline. What followed were massive efforts to measure, track, and prevent slouching and, later, back pain--campaigns that reached schools, workplaces, and beyond, from the creation of the American Posture League to posture pageants. The popularity of posture-enhancing products, such as girdles and lumbar supports, exploded, as did new fitness programs focused on postural muscles, such as Pilates and modern yoga. By 1970, student protests largely brought an end to school posture exams and photos, but many efforts to fight bad posture continued, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
A compelling history that mixes seriousness and humor, Slouch is a unique and provocative account of the unexpected origins of our largely unquestioned ideas about bad posture.
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Resetting the body’s many internal clocks to cure jet lag
Pub date: 2024-04-29
A Canadian PhD graduate invents a new colour of light and uses artificial intelligence to fool our bodies into shifting time zones faster. She tells IDEAS how this potential cure for jet lag could also help astronauts on Mars. *This episode is part of our series Ideas from the Trenches, which showcases fascinating new work by Canadian PhD students.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 445. The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty
Pub date: 2024-05-01
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg dynasty's mightiest ruler, was at once King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Lord of the Netherlands and Duke of Burgundy. With a lineage supposedly stretching back to Noah’s Ark, and a name born in Ancient Rome, the Habsburgs are one of the most influential dynasties in all of European history, shaping and changing the course of nations and empires. The first great Habsburg, Rudolph, was made King of the Romans in 1273, though it was from 1500, through a series of tactical marriages, that their ascendancy truly began. Key among these was the marriage of Maximilian I, Charles V’s grandfather, to the powerful heiress Mary of Burgundy. The resulting gigantic Habsburg dominion would eventually split into two dynastic branches, located in Spain and Vienna, forging remarkable, multinational empires, that dominated central Europe until the twentieth century. But is there any truth to the claim that the Habsburg’s notorious proclivity for inbreeding resulted in genetic deformities that would see the downfall of the family?
In this week’s episode, Dominic and Tom are joined by none other than Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, to discuss his illustrious family’s tumultuous history, its most famous members, strange death rituals, romantic legends, and the seven rules he’s derived from the stories of the House of Habsburg.
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Podcast: If Books Could Kill (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: "Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried
Pub date: 2024-05-02
Peter and Michael discuss Michael Lewis’s bestselling book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, a young prodigy whose only flaw was that he dreamed too big.
Where to find us:
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- Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase
Sources:
- Michael Lewis Is Buying What Sam Bankman-Fried Is Selling
- Michael Lewis Likens Critics of His New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried to a 'Mob'
- The SBF trial is a reminder that crypto is a rotten business
- Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
- The Curious Case of FTX’s ‘Company Therapist’ (vice.com)
- FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident
- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis review – falling for the antihero
- The Second FTX Asset Recovery Report Is Packed With Bombshells
- Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried
- Caroline Ellison Testifies Against Sam Bankman-Fried, Blaming Him for Crimes
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Podcast: Crash Course Pods: The Universe
Episode: Ep. 1: The First Fraction of a Second
Pub date: 2024-04-24
"Part of me was there?"
Dr. Katie Mack teaches John Green about the beginning of the Universe - including that we are not just made of stardust; we are also made of Big Bang stuff, with pieces of us directly born in the vast, first cacophony.
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Podcast: The Culture Journalist (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the hipster economy went mainstream
Pub date: 2024-04-11
The problem with talking about hipsterism is that the term is almost impossible to define. Hipsters, whether they can still be said to exist as a subculture at all at this point, famously like denying that they are hipsters. And while you could say that the figure of the hipster has become a sort of nebulous catch-all for everything we love to hate about the 21st century, liberal-arts educated, neighborhood-gentrifying creative class (see: Brad Troemel’s excellent “Hipster Report” for more on that tip), you can’t really study a group that doesn’t identify as such.
That’s part of why Alessandro Gerosa, a researcher in cultural sociology at the University of Milan, wrote a book examining hipsterism from a different, potentially more use angle. It’s called The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism, and it’s a fascinating (and open source!) look at hipsterism as an economic phenomenon — one oriented around the consumption and production of cultural goods that stand out for their authenticity and distinctiveness, and in the process, sort of magically endow their owner with those same qualities.
Far from being “over,” he argues, the “hipster economy” has become dominant “aesthetic regime of consumption” in our time. But the book also goes deeper, drawing on Alessandro’s study of cocktail bar owners, food truck restaurateurs, and other neo-craft entrepreneurs to show how at bottom, the hipster economy is driven by a centuries-old impulse to carve out spaces of autonomy and self-determination within industrial capitalism.
He joins us from Milan to discuss the surprisingly long history of our cultural obsession with the idea of authenticity, and how hipster taste is a complex interplay between authenticity and kitsch. We also get into how the hipster economy grew out of the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, the impact of the hipster economy on cities, and how hipsterism isn’t just a reaction to the dominant culture, but also a reaction to the state of work.
This podcast was edited by Ben Newman.
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Podcast: Oxford Sparks Big Questions (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Can we talk to bees?
Pub date: 2024-03-27
We are out in the wild today talking to bees!
In this behind the scenes episode, we visited Dr Rachel Parkinson’s bee recording studio to see insect neuroscience research in action.
You might know that honeybees communicate with each other using the waggle dance, a minute choreography that shows other bees the way to the flower buffet. But little is known about how bumblebees communicate.
To understand more about bee behaviour, Rachel has created a series of small arenas with cameras and microphones. Using AI, visual and audio recordings can be matched up to create a database of sounds and behaviours which will, in time, hopefully reveal the secret language of bees!
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Podcast: Hollywood Exiles (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 1. An American dream
Pub date: 2024-01-22
Charlie Chaplin was one of Hollywood’s first and biggest stars. He helped create the art and industry of movies. But by the 1960s, he was exiled. Oona Chaplin follows her grandfather’s rise from the grinding poverty of his childhood in Victorian London to wealth and fame in Hollywood. In many ways, it seemed like the embodiment of the American Dream. But almost as soon as he hit the big time, Chaplin made some powerful enemies. Federal investigators were suspicious of his political beliefs and began to build a file on him. We learn how Hollywood became the battleground for the soul of America.
From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts.
Archive:
Communism Condemned, Universal Newsreel, 1947Hedda Hopper's Hollywood show, 14 January 1951Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before HUAC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1947
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Podcast: The Apple & The Tree
Episode: Laura & Ana
Pub date: 2024-04-19
In Flitwick in Bedfordshire, we meet Ana and her daughter, Laura. Ana was born in Romania and moved to the UK when she was just 20 and expecting a child. Laura wanted to talk to her mum about her life in Romania, the shame culture the country still suffers with and how her parents built the good life that they all now enjoy.
Ana talks about the racism and prejudice she has faced - and sometimes still faces - being Romanian in the UK, while Laura wanted to talk about her own desire to interact more with Romania, a country she feels part of, even if that country doesn’t seem to love her back.
To get in touch just email vogue@mailonline.com. You can find us on Instagram and X @appletreepod. Let us know about your family stories - who knows, maybe we can meet next time!
Presenter: Vogue Williams
Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick
Editing: Tony Onu
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
Music written by Aloysius James and performed by Perry Ap Gwynedd and Lunar June
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Podcast: Heroes & Humans of Football (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise of Arsène Wenger
Pub date: 2024-04-18
From his humble beginnings in an Alsatian village to his revolutionary tenure at Arsenal from 1996 to 2004, Wenger's journey is a testament to his innovative spirit and enduring influence on English football. Exploring Arsène Wenger's meteoric rise at Arsenal, this first episode of a two-part series delves into the origins and golden years of one of the Premier League's most unforgettable managers.
Starting in Duttlenheim, where Wenger grew up in the post-WWII era, his early experiences in a village transitioning back to French control from Germany set the stage for his European outlook and multilingual skills. His transition from a modest playing career to groundbreaking coaching stints across Europe, including a life-changing period in Japan, laid the groundwork for his Arsenal legacy.
With three Premier League titles and a remarkable undefeated season with "The Invincibles" in 2003-04, Wenger's Arsenal redefined footballing excellence. His emphasis on a cosmopolitan approach, meticulous attention to player development, and a pioneering embrace of sports science and dietary regimens marked a departure from traditional English practices.
When Simon and Mehreen reflect on Wenger's journey, a picture emerges of a man whose dedication to football verged on obsession, often at personal cost. His love for the game and commitment to innovation left an indelible mark on Arsenal and the Premier League. His early triumphs remind us of the profound impact one individual can have on a sport, a club, and its global fanbase. Wenger's story is a blend of ambition, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of excellence—qualities that made him great and defined an era of football that continues to inspire and resonate.
Timestamps:
00:00 Excitement for Wenger, his legacy, and fan culture.
04:22 The French manager becomes known for his unstylish appearance.
08:20 Father's health recovered after World War 2.
11:50 University of Strasbourg graduate, economist, Arsenal manager.
12:52 Fascinated by Germany, no war hatred. Coaching.
17:57 Wenger, an economist, uses data to analyse football performance.
21:49 Wenger arrives at a small, hidden stadium. Different.
22:19 Club guest talks to woman about crucial figure.
27:41 England offers the manager a job; Wenger turns it down.
30:45 Players arrived at training under the influence of alcohol.
35:24 Wenger identifies talented players, signs them.
37:14 Wenger's scouting approach and successful player development.
40:39 The manager uses data to guide player substitutions.
42:53 Drogba's "impressive" performance against Arsenal for Chelsea.
45:34 Arsenal's confident old city, winning medals profusely.
49:09 Wenger goes from admired to joke.
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Podcast: Unholy: Two Jews on the News (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The 11th Plague - with Fania Oz-Salzberger & Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Pub date: 2024-04-19
In an episode recorded before Israel’s reported targeting of Iranian sites in the early hours of Friday morning, Yonit and Jonathan discuss the ongoing fallout from Iran’s attack on Israel six days earlier — assessing the arguments and dilemmas that have gripped Israel’s policymakers. Plus: a conversation about the future for Israelis and Palestinians when the current war in Gaza is finally over, with Israeli scholar and thinker Fania Oz-Salzberger and Palestinian writer and analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib. And, of course, some thoughts for the seder table as Pesach, or Passover, approaches
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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out!
Pub date: 2024-04-18
Today we go down the road a bit, thumbs out, to explore the rich history of hitchhiking.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The poker parent
Pub date: 2024-04-18
An eight-year-old girl holds two cards in her hand. She places several plastic poker chips into the middle of the dining room table and makes a bet. Science writer Alex O’Brien has been teaching her daughter how to play poker for three years. She believes that the game will give her daughter important life lessons for the future - critical thinking skills, empowerment, controlling emotions and understanding psychology, probability and risk. But when the game is associated with casinos, gambling and men (95% of players are male), not every one agrees with her decision - including poker players.
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Podcast: Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Julia Gets Wise with Ina Garten
Pub date: 2024-04-17
On this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia gets enlightened by 76-year-old cook and author Ina Garten. From working on nuclear policy at the White House and operating her famous specialty food store Barefoot Contessa, to penning best-selling books and hosting hit TV shows – Ina has done it all. Her culinary influence goes beyond technique; it's about simplicity and connection. Ina shares how aging has changed her taste in food and how she deals with passive-aggressive people.
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Podcast: The Curious History of Your Home (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Wallpaper
Pub date: 2024-03-26
A wasp leads to the invention of paper in ancient China. Rich Europeans have to find another way to decorate their walls when coal fires ruin their valuable tapestries. Anger over wallpaper helps ignite the French Revolution. And a silent killer is found hiding in plain sight on nursery walls across Victorian Britain…
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 577- The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
Pub date: 2024-04-09
Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since the 1970s, sapeurs (from: le sape, short for "Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes") have been known for donning technicolored three-piece suits with flamboyant accessories like golden walking sticks and leopard-print fedoras, and then cat-walking through their city streets.
In recent years, Solange, Kendrick and SZA have all featured sapeurs in their music videos. The iconic British menswear designer Paul Smith did a whole spring line of sapeur-inspired suits and bowler hats.
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons
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Podcast: Have You Heard This One? (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Feed Drop: Let The Kids Dance! from KUOW
Pub date: 2024-04-11
Seattle in the 90s: A tidal wave of unforgettable music roars out of the city. Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam take over global pop culture and Seattle is declared the world's coolest place to be. But here, reality is different for young people. For almost two decades, the Teen Dance Ordinance has made it illegal for anyone under 18 to attend concerts without a parent or guardian. Police raid punk shows and hip-hop clubs. Politicians ban show posters on electric poles. All-ages music is criminalized. And young people begin to fight back. Let the Kids Dance! is a seven-part docuseries chronicling an untold chapter of pop-culture history. It’s a story about moral panic, grassroots activism and an unstoppable music community that fought for its freedom. Let the Kids Dance! is created and hosted by Jonathan Zwickel. It is produced by KUOW in Seattle, a member of the NPR Network.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dehumidified
Pub date: 2024-04-05
One baffling online scam – involving a £138 dehumidifier – and a humiliated BBC producer who will not rest until she has a return address for it.
January 2024. Polly Weston’s toddler has a terrible cough, no one in the house is getting any sleep, and, as is traditional for Bristol Victorian Terraces, her house has a lot of damp patches. So she decides to invest in a dehumidifier.
A very convincing review online, by a real consumer journalist called Luke Edwards, recommends one company.
The company's sleek website reads “Dewett UK – Better Air, Better Life.”
Sold. She orders one for £138… Then it begins.
Luke, it turns out, had his identity stolen. Day after day he receives the same desperate phone calls from people across Britain who have fallen victim to his “byline”. The story is always the same. Once the dehumidifier arrives, it doesn’t work, and you can’t return it – Dewett will not give you a return address. It's come from China, they say, and there is no point in you sending it back. The email exchanges become increasingly wild.
But what starts out as the story of one BBC producer, on a vendetta to find a return address (and to prove, despite being duped, she’s still a good journalist)… will take us to corners of the world we never could have predicted. It might just end in us accidentally blowing the lid on something much, much bigger...
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Podcast: Culture Study Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: We know sitting is bad for us. But what are we supposed to do instead?
Pub date: 2024-04-03
Driving, attending meetings, hunching over laptops, zooming, commuting, absentmindedly scrolling Instagram — so much of contemporary life encourages if not outright demands that we sit. But study after study (and maybe just your own body) has told you: this much sitting is not great for us. But what are we supposed to do instead? Can we get rid of the junk wellness moralizing (10,000 steps a day!) and figure out small things that actually make our bodies feel better?
Turns out, yes! And Manoush Zomorodi is here to talk about all of it — including whether those walking pads are b**t. And I promise: this show won't make you feel like a horrible person for sitting. But it might give you some ideas about how you can listen to your body more.
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Podcast: Legacy (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Turing | Cracking the Code | 2
Pub date: 2024-04-09
The stakes are high for Turing and his team of codebreakers as they try to decrypt Nazi messages. Known as “Prof”, Turing and his eccentricities are central to life at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Will he and his team be able to turn the tide in Britain’s favour?
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Podcast: Silhouettes: The Fashion History Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Short History of Mirrors
Pub date: 2024-01-29
Mirror, mirror, on the wall.. On this episode of Silhouettes, we reflect on the fascinating and often fragile history of mirrors. Starting with polished glass, to scientific developments in treated glass, mirrors hold up a reflection to our societies; dictating when, why and how vanity, self-styling and personal care have become important throughout time. Examples include use in Greek mythology, their importance in Roman culture, cultural impact across high society and the important role of empowerment mirrors played during the slave trade.
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Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Mega Corporations That Control What Americans Eat
Pub date: 2024-03-28
Walk into a grocery store today and there are seemingly endless shelves of product to choose from. But behind all those different options are a handful of agricultural giants that have grown to dominate the food industry. Companies like Walmart and Cargill are well-known at this point, but there are also dominant players in everything from berries to dairy to pig farming. In this episode, we speak with Austin Frerick, an antitrust and agricultural expert. His new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry, details the behemoths behind American agriculture and how they got so big. He talks about the choices that went into our current agricultural system, the impact of all that concentration, and what can be done to change it.
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Podcast: Poetry Unbound (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf
Pub date: 2024-02-16
Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley’s gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English epic poem roaring into this century, showing you why this tale of fraught family ties, power plays and posturing, and mighty, imperfect people is as relevant as ever.
Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation(MCD X FSG Originals, 2020). Her novel The Mere Wife(MCD X FSG, 2018), an adaptation of the Beowulf poem set in suburban America, was named by The Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. Her essays on gender, chronic illness, politics, propaganda, and mythology have been published and covered in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Nieman Storyboard, and elsewhere. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.
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Podcast: The We Society (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: S5 Ep4: Is geography destiny? with Rosie McEachan
Pub date: 2024-04-03
Professor Rosie McEachan is leading one of the most exciting research projects in Britain - the Born In Bradford study.
It's one of the largest research studies in the world, tracking the lives of over 30,000 Bradfordians to discover what factors most influence health and well-being. In particular, they are focussing on how genetic, nutritional, environmental, behavioural and social factors impact health and development during childhood and, subsequently, adult life.
Thanks to the study, Bradford has already seen the creation of Clean Air Zones, areas with limited traffic, and investment in green spaces.
Professor McEachan is the Director of the Born in Bradford Research programme. She is an experienced behavioural scientist with particular expertise in developing and evaluating complex interventions.
Season 5 of the We Society Podcast from the Academy of Social Sciences tackles the big questions through a social science lens. Throughout this series, you'll be hearing some of the best ideas to shape the way we live.
Hosted by journalist and Academy President Will Hutton, we interview some of Britain’s top social scientists and public figures from across the globe to explore their evidence-led solutions to society’s most pressing problems.
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Podcast: The Butterfly King (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1: The Mender of Broken Dishes
Pub date: 2024-03-21
It’s 1943 during a crucial turning point in the Second World War. Caught in the crossfire, King Boris III of Bulgaria has a make-or-break meeting with a key ally. Boris is a reluctant politician and a family man, sucked into the bloodiest conflict in history. Someone resents his influence and wants him out of the way for good. Could Boris’s fate be linked to the company he keeps?
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Artwork: Vanessa Lilak
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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Rachel S. Gross, "Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America" (Yale UP, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-26
Rachel S. Gross's Shopping All the Ways to the Woods (Yale University Press, 2024) tells the fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping. With consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing and equipment each year as they seek out nature, the American outdoor sector grew over the past 150 years from a small collection of outfitters to an industry contributing more than 2 percent of the nation’s economic output.
Gross argues that this success was predicated not just on creating functional equipment but also on selling an authentic, anticommercial outdoor identity. In other words, shopping for the woods was also about being—or becoming—the right kind of person. Demonstrating that outdoor culture is commercial culture, Gross examines Americans’ journey toward outdoor expertise by tracing the development of the nascent outdoor goods industry, the influence of World War II on its growth, and the boom years of outdoor businesses.
Rachel S. Gross is a historian of the outdoor gear and apparel industry and an outdoor enthusiast. She is assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, a history tour guide, and a curator of museum exhibits. She lives in Denver, CO. Twitter. Website.
Brian Hamilton is chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy. Twitter. Website.
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Podcast: Don't Drink the Milk
Episode: Bagels: Coming full circle
Pub date: 2024-02-06
The bagel is in its rainbow era, but this beloved bread's journey goes way back. We're rounding off season one with a dense, doughy episode that's both scrumptious and surprising. We trace the humble bagel's roots to medieval Poland and follow its North American makeover (are you team New York or Montreal?). A snack for queens, laborers and trendsetters – here's the real story of the bagel.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Approaches to death
Pub date: 2024-03-27
Viking burials, preserving archaeology in Uganda, the morgues of Paris and New York and the medieval attitude to dying are our topics as Chris Harding hears about new research from archaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen and Pauline Harding, and historians Cat Byers and Harriet Soper.
Catriona Byers is completing a PhD at King’s College London on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New YorkDr Marianne Hem Eriksen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. You can find an Essay she has written for BBC Radio 3 drawing on her research available now on BBC SoundsDr Harriet Soper is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of BristolPauline Harding is working on a PhD at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, about spirits and approaches to cultural heritage in Uganda
Producer: Robyn Read
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Podcast: 53 Minutes (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Hustler, Hoaxer or Hero?
Pub date: 2024-03-19
Ali Dia is the Premier League’s most mysterious and misunderstood footballer. But what’s the truth about his infamous appearance for Southampton in November 1996? More than 25 years on, does he deserve his reputation as “the worst Premier League player of all time”? Josh Widdicombe and Dara Ó Briain unpick the truth from the myth.
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Podcast: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Fleetwood Mac's “Dreams”: The Strange and Beautiful Life of a Breakup Classic
Pub date: 2024-03-13
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs list is one of the most popular — and most-argued over — features the magazine has ever produced. It’s a trip through eight decades of pop music, from Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello, Aretha to Ariana, hip-hop to art-pop, and beyond. Its rankings are hugely influential, and — if you disagree enough with them, at least — infamous. In the first episode of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs podcast, hosts Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield dive into the history, significance, and weird quirks of the list, zeroing in on its most recent version, from 2021.
The hosts are joined by special guest and Rolling Stone staffer Angie Martoccio as they pivot to “Dreams,” the iconic 1977 Fleetwood Mac song that finished 9th on the most recent version of the 500 Greatest Songs list. In recent years, the Stevie Nicks masterpiece found new life — and a new audience — as a tik-tok mainstay and Gen-Z touchstone, but its history runs deep. The hosts delve into the fascinating story of the song, placing it within the context of the nonstop romantic drama that was Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s. Amazingly, Nicks wrote the song “in about 10 minutes,” as a mystical elegy to her fading relationship with Lindsey Buckingham. But its legacy is so much greater than that story would suggest — it’s a testament to making great art amid turmoil, and to the singular, shawl-clad sorcery of Stevie. “Dreams” sums up everything we love about her in four brilliant minutes.
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Podcast: A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: What’s the Difference Between Jam & Jelly?
Pub date: 2024-03-20
Today, Josh and Nicole identify the main differences between jam and jelly from taste to culinary uses.
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Podcast: People vs Algorithms (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Algorithmic Sameness with Kyle Chayka
Pub date: 2024-03-21
In this episode of 'People vs. Algorithms,' hosts Brian Morrissey, Troy Young, and Alex Schleifer engage in a wide-ranging discussion on how algorithms shape our cultural landscape, the future of AI in content creation, and the consequences of a digitally dominated world. They share insights from the Game Developer Conference about the optimism among independent studios and discuss the ramifications of algorithmic sameness across media. The episode features a detailed conversation with Kyle Chayka, a writer at the New Yorker and author of 'Filterworld,' centering on how algorithms are flattening culture and what it means for creators and consumers alike.
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- 00:00 Kicking Off at the Game Developer Conference
- 06:42 The Future of AI in Gaming: Opportunities and Challenges
- 08:40 Navigating the Complexities of AI Ethics and Open Source Debates
- 19:49 The Middle Management Dilemma: Efficiency vs. Human Touch
- 27:33 Listener Questions: The Future of Learning and AI's Role
- 34:01 The Digital Dilemma: Navigating Education and Work in a Tech-Driven World
- 34:48 Rethinking Education: A Vision for the Future
- 35:08 Introducing Kyle: A Deep Dive into Algorithms and Culture
- 35:48 The Impact of Algorithms on Culture and Individuality
- 38:41 Exploring the Future: The Role of Algorithms in Shaping Our World
- 43:02 The Algorithmic Influence: From Consumption to Creation
- 47:29 Navigating the Algorithmic Landscape: Personal Experiences and Strategies
- 51:36 The Future of Culture in the Age of Algorithms
- 55:59 The Personal and Professional Impact of Living Online
- 59:01 Envisioning a Future Beyond Algorithmic Feeds
- 01:06:28 Exploring Good Products
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Podcast: Nordic Mythology Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 200 - Norse Myths That Shape How We Think With Carolyne Larrington & Margrethe Havgar
Pub date: 2024-02-29
In this special 200th episode, Dan, along with Margrethe Havgar, sits down with Carolyne Larrington to talk about how her translations of the Poetic Edda have become the most widely used translation in the scholarly world.
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Podcast: The Spy Who (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Spy Who Inspired 007 | A Friend Among Foes | 1
Pub date: 2024-02-27
It’s 1940 and Serbian playboy Duško Popov hopes to sit out World War Two in Belgrade. But when his best friend, Johnny Jebsen shows up at his door to call in an old debt, Popov finds himself sucked into the wartime spy game – as an agent for both Nazi Germany and Britain’s MI6.
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Podcast: The Essay (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Germany’s Mary Wollstonecraft
Pub date: 2024-03-14
Amalia Holst's defence of female education, published in 1802, was the first work by a woman in Germany to challenge the major philosophers of the age, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Unlike Mary Wollstonecraft writing in England, Holst failed to make headway with her arguments. New Generation Thinker Andrew Cooper teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick. His essay explores the publishing of Holst's book On The Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education.
Andrew Cooper is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can hear more from Andrew in a Free Thinking discussion about The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe available as an Arts & Ideas podcast and on BBC Sounds.
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Podcast: History of the 90s (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Traveling Music Festivals | 58
Pub date: 2024-02-07
In the summer of 1991, the first ever Lollapalooza festival brought a seven act, nine hour alternative music spectacle to 23 cities across North America
Lollapalooza was the hottest event of the summer and it set the blueprint for traveling music festivals that would dominate the rest of the decade.
On this episode of History of the 90s we look back at the traveling summer music festival from Lollapalooza to Lilith Fair.
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Podcast: Black Box (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 5 – The white mask
Pub date: 2024-03-18
In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tip not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all
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Podcast: Deep Questions with Cal Newport (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 291: Do Better, Do Less
Pub date: 2024-03-11
What does the story of the rise of the singing superstar Jewel teach us about escaping busyness in our knowledge work jobs? In this episode, Cal makes the connection, extracting a key lesson about quality as an engine for slowness, and then providing concrete advice and examples for applying this lesson to your own professional life. Also: listener questions and the books Cal read in February.
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Deep Dive: Doing Better, Do Less [5:00]
- Is my job too hard? [38:25]
- How do I sell myself better? [42:52]
- How do I convince myself to do actual hard work? [45:42]
- How do I find time to get better if I'm busy? [48:46]
- What is the values plan? [53:23]
The 5 books Cal read in February 2024 [1:01:45]
The Sabbath (AJ Heschel)
Making Movies (Sidney Lumet)
Killer of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
The Good Shepherd (CA Forestor)
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)
Pub date: 2024-02-02
At the height of World War Two, British intelligence began receiving reports that the enemy was developing a rocket weapon. The idea seemed fantastical — resources in Nazi Germany were scarce and a rocket-building program defied economic logic.
But one intelligence chief took the reports of a rocket weapon seriously and he managed to convince Winston Churchill to heed the threat too. The British Prime Minister gave the order to bomb Germany’s rocket factory to rubble, and 600 bomber planes embarked on a full-scale attempt to obliterate it.
From the air, the damage appeared devastating. The British thought they had succeeded in crushing the rocket-building program. But they were wrong.
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Podcast: Oceans: Life Under Water (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 4 | Antarctica
Pub date: 2024-03-11
Antarctica is one of the harshest environments you can imagine. Winds can reach 200mph and the lowest temperature ever recorded was -89 degrees Celsius. But the monochrome above the waves is matched by the explosion of colour beneath them. The Southern Ocean is home to more than 9000 species, many of which can only be found there. Hannah is joined by scientist Lucy Woodall, who led the first expedition to find Shackleton's ship Endurance, and Antarctic historian John Dudeney.
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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Many Economists (and I) Got Wrong About This Economy
Pub date: 2024-03-05
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2024 was to do more episodes with people who think I'm wrong about something. For example, I've done several episodes about how the U.S. economy is doing much better than most Americans think. Today’s guest says my analysis (and that of many economists and economic commentators) is missing something big. Official inflation measures do a poor job of capturing the effect of higher interest rates. When a home goes from $200k to $220k, that’s a 10 percent increase in the value of the home. But, with higher rates, the monthly cost of living in that house with a mortgage might go up 300 percent. The same is true for financing a new car with higher interest rates. Or paying credit card debt. Judd Cramer, an economist who teaches at Harvard University, is the coauthor of a new paper on how our inflation data doesn't properly account for skyrocketing interest rates—and why the so-called "vibecession" isn’t as much of a mystery as we think.
If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com.
Host: Derek Thompson
Guest: Judd Cramer
Producer: Devon Baroldi
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Podcast: The Louis Theroux Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: S2 EP6: Sanjeev Bhaskar on his ground-breaking comedy show The Kumars at No. 42, 'browning up’ in 1970s comedy, and his outrageous rider demands
Pub date: 2024-02-27
Louis meets star of Goodness Gracious Me and Unforgotten, Sanjeev Bhaskar. They discuss the late Queen’s favourite comedy programme - The Kumars At No. 42, 'browning up’ in 1970s comedy, and outrageous rider demands. Plus, Louis plays ‘Culture Wars Bingo’.
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Podcast: The Nightingale of Iran (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1 - The Time Machine
Pub date: 2024-02-06
Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up in a Jewish American family band: The Dardashti Family. They sang international folk music in 12 languages – English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese and more – but never any songs in Persian. This seems odd to them since both their father and grandfather were famous Iranian singers during the “Golden Age” for Jews in Iran, before the Islamic Revolution. Danielle and Galeet make a discovery that takes them back in time, and helps them find answers to their questions about why their family left Iran and abandoned their Iranian identity.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Dardashti and Galeet Dardashti
The Nightingale of Iran - nightingaleofiran.com
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Producer / Musical Director / Subject Matter Expert - Galeet Dardashti
Audio Editors / Sound Designers - Rebecca Seidel and Zachary Goldberg
Story Editor - Rider Alsop
Story Consultant - Asal Ehsanipour
Composer of Theme Song - Galeet Dardashti: “Melekh” from her album Monajat, featuring Younes Dardashti (with Shanir Blumenkranz, Max ZT, Zafer Tawil, Philip Mayer)
In Episode 1, The Time Machine, you heard our conversations with: Farid and Sheila Dardashti, Shahla Javdan, Homa Sarshar, Lili Keypour, and Nahid Pirnazar.
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Dedication: This is for you Dadders!!! We love you (and Mommy) so much!!!! xox
We are so grateful for: our extraordinary husbands, Roni Sarig and Mason Weisz, who have contributed in countless ways big and small; Danielle’s amazing kids, Uri Dardashti Sarig and Raquel Dardashti Sarig, who have lent their talents in story editing, sound capture, episode cover art design, and more; and Galeet’s kids -Yaniv and Adin–for being such incredible humans.
There are so many people we want to thank for their love, guidance, support, and inspiration on this project: Houri & Younes Dardashti, Millie & Louie Heifetz, Michelle Dardashti, Yadid Dardashti, Shahnaze Dardashti, Hamid Dardashti, Louise Motevassel, David Dardashti, Oren Motevassel, Niloo Dardashti, Schelly Dardashti, Jina Aziz-Zadeh, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Dawne Bear Novicoff, Vicki Compter Lefkowitz, Jeni Friedman, Rebecca Friedman, Rebecca Guber, Debbie Kolben, Ami Eden, Caleb Guedes Reed, Sharon Nazarian, Jessamyn Rodriguez, Yonah Schiller, Richard Kay, Mark Kligman, Sarah Lefton, Janine Okmin, Arielle Nissenblatt, Ilana Nevins, Lauren Passell, Habib Partow, Alan Niku, Ruth Abusch-Magder, Julian Voloj, Melina Rosenberg, Lior Sternfeld, Houman Sarshar, Edwin Seroussi, Laura Younai, Rachel Nazarian Ehsagpour, Mohsen Mohammadi, Manucher Bibiyan, Haideh Herbert, Homa Sarshar, Shahla Javdan, Lili Keypour, Nahid Pirnazar, Tarlan Rabizadeh, Evan Mateen, Hasan Sarbakhshian, Sierra Ulrich, David Shofet, Sarah Benor and Hadas Bram.
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Podcast: The Recipe with Kenji and Deb (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mac and Cheese
Pub date: 2024-02-26
Most people are familiar with the stuff in the blue box, but what might seem like a simple dish holds many nuances, from achieving that perfectly smooth cheese melt to avoiding greasiness or lumpiness. Find out why mac and cheese holds a special place in Kenji's heart and the results of Deb’s experience making Kenji’s three ingredient recipe.
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Podcast: The Critic and Her Publics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Hannah Goldfield
Pub date: 2024-02-27
Hannah Goldfield is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering restaurants and food culture. Previously, she was a fact checker at The New Yorker and an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine and the Times, among other publications.
Recorded November 7, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University
Edited by Michele Moses
Music by Dani Lencioni
Art by Leanne Shapton
Sponsored by the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of Books, Lit Hub, and Knopf
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Podcast: Many Minds (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
Pub date: 2024-02-22
Brains are not cheap. It takes a lot of calories to run a brain, and the bigger your brain, the more calories it takes. So how is it that, over the last couple million years, the human brain tripled in size. How could we possibly have afforded that? Where did the extra calories come from? There's no shortage of suggestions out there. Some say it was meat; others say it was tubers; many say it was by mastering fire and learning to cook. But now there's a newer proposal on the table and—spoiler—it's a bit funky.
My guests today are Katherine Bryant, Postdoctoral Fellow at Aix-Marseille University, and Erin Hecht, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. Katherine, Erin, and another colleague are the authors of a new paper titled 'Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion.' In it, they argue that fermented foods could have provided the caloric boost that allowed our brains to expand.
Here, we talk about how the human body differs from the bodies of other great apes, not just in terms of our brains but also in terms of our bowels. We discuss the different mechanisms by which fermented foods provide nutritional benefits over unfermented foods. We consider how fermentation—which basically happens whether you want it to or not—would have been cognitively easier to harness than fire. Along the way, we touch on kiviaq, chicha, makgeolli, hákarl, natto, Limburger cheese, salt-rising bread, and other arguably delectable products of fermentation.
This is a fun one friends. But before we get to it: a friendly reminder about this summer's Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute. This a yearly event in St Andrews, Scotland; it features a rich program of lectures and events devoted to the study of cognition, mind, and intelligence in all its forms. If you have a taste for cross-disciplinary ferment and bubbly conversation, DISI may be for you. The application window is now open but is closing soon. You can find more info at DISI.org. That's D-I-S-I.org.
Alright, friends, on to my conversation with Erin Hecht and Katherine Bryant. Enjoy!
A transcript of this episode is available here.
Notes and links
3:00 – A popular science article about the “infectiously delicious confection” that is salt-rising bread. A recipe for the bread.
6:00 – An article about makgeolli, a Korean rice wine. An article about chicha, the traditional corn-based fermented beverage that has been banned in some places.
11:30 – An article about the role of the arcuate fasciculus in language processing. A recent paper by Dr. Bryant and colleagues comparing the arcuate in humans and chimpanzees.
12:30 – A recent article by Dr. Hecht and colleagues on the evolutionary neuroscience of domestication.
13:00 – For discussions of the encephalization quotient (aka EQ) and of human brain evolution, see our previous episodes here and here.
15:00 – The classic paper on the “expensive tissue hypothesis.”
22:00 – An article about the role of meat in human evolution; an article about the role of tubers. The cooking hypothesis is most strongly associated with Richard Wrangham and his book, Catching Fire.
26:00 – A recent article on evidence for the widespread control of fire in human groups by around 400,000 years ago.
31:30 – A paper on how fermenting cassava reduces its toxicity.
38:30 – There have been various claims in the ethnographic literature that the control of fire has been lost among small groups, such as in Tasmania. See footnote 2 in this article.
44:30 – A popular article about kiviaq.
45:00 – The article from the New Yorker, by Rebecca Mead, about the foodways of the Faroe Islands.
53:00 – For more discussion of the so-called drunken monkey hypothesis, see our previous episode about intoxication.
1:00:30 – A popular article about hákarl, which is fermented Greenland shark.
Recommendations
The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Katz
Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Katz
“How humans evolved large brains,” by Karin Isler & Carel van Schaik
Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Counter Disinformation Based on Science
Pub date: 2024-02-25
If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you know we’ve spent countless hours together talking about the problems of mis- and disinformation, and what to do about them. And, we’ve tried to focus on the science, on empirical research that can inform efforts to design a better media and technology environment that helps rather than hurts democracy and social cohesion.
Today’s guests are Jon Bateman and Dean Jackson. The two have just produced a report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that looks at what is known about a variety of interventions against disinformation, and provides evidence that should guide policy in governments and at technology platforms.
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Podcast: The Atlas Obscura Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Jerry’s Hat Museum
Pub date: 2024-02-28
We visit Jerry’s Hat Museum, where a retiree has turned to an old chapel to house a collection of thousands of hats, pens, odds, ends and other artifacts from his Illinois hometown.
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Podcast: Better Offline (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro
Pub date: 2024-02-21
Apple's $3500 face computer is here, and after spending far too many hours inside it, Ed Zitron has found Apple's vision of the future to be equal parts exciting and frustrating - and a dark omen for the future of tech. He also sits down with the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern to talk about her experience as one of the early reviewers of the Vision Pro.
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Podcast: Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 01. Course Overview
Pub date: 2022-06-11
An introduction and course overview.
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Podcast: On Humans (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 36 | How Did Consciousness Evolve? Did It? ~ Eva Jablonka
Pub date: 2024-02-14
We are conscious creatures. But why? Why did consciousness evolve? Can we use biology to explain the origins of feeling and meaning? Or will consciousness forever escape the grip of the scientific method?
Eva Jablonka has thought hard about these issues. An eminent evolutionary biologist, she became famous for her pioneering work on epigenetic inheritance. More recently, she has produced very original work on the evolution of consciousness with her colleague, neuroscientist Simona Ginsburg. So invited him on the show to discuss the evolution of consciousness, or what she beautifully calls "the sensitive soul".
In this episode, we discuss themes such as:
(03:00) What is consciousness?
(10:45) Four links between evolution and consciousness
(27:30) Are robots conscious? Consciousness and vulnerability
(30:45) Which animals are conscious? Consciousness and the Cambrian Explosion.
(34:30) Can science fully explain consciousness?
As always, we end with Jablonka’s reflections on humanity.
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Books: Evolution of the Sensitive Soul, Picturing the Mind (both my Eva Jablonka & Simona Ginsburg)
Terms: Sensitive soul, phenomenal consciousness, intentionality (i.e. "aboutness"), the Cambrian explosion, cephalopods, anthropods, vertebrates
Names: Aristotle, Simona Ginsburg, Jonathan Birch, Antonio Damasio
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Dining at the Top of the World: Arctic Adaptation, Abundance, and...Ice Cream
Pub date: 2024-02-06
You may feel like it's cold where you live, but in the Arctic, the average temperature is well below freezing all year round. In winter, it's also pitch black for weeks on end—not an ideal environment for growing food. Still, for thousands of years, people in the Arctic have thrived in a landscape that most outsiders would find fatally inhospitable. This episode, we point our compasses north on a journey to discover how traditional knowledge, ingenuity, and a lot of hard work—combined with genetics and microbes—have allowed the indigenous populations of the far North to not only successfully feed themselves, but also develop a distinctive and remarkable cuisine. Tune in now for the secrets of a dish that feels like Fourth of July fireworks in your mouth, the story of Iceland's second-most famous celebrity (after Björk), and the science behind how to avoid scurvy on an almost vegetable-free diet. Just don't forget your long underwear!
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Podcast: Like A Version Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: RAYE covers Nina Simone’s 'Feeling Good' for Like A Version
Pub date: 2024-02-08
In the midst of her debut Australian tour, RAYE stops by the Like A Version studio to deliver her take on a Nina Simone classic.
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Podcast: Radio 1 Vintage (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Steve Wright: Radio Show
Pub date: 2018-12-22
Steve Wright picks his own personal highlights of his years at Radio 1.
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Podcast: One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Guillermo del Toro & Alfred Hitchock
Pub date: 2024-02-07
Peter Bogdanovich sits down with his friend and fellow director, Guillermo del Toro, for a conversation about the life and career of "the master of suspense", Alfred Hitchock. This uniquely in-depth, candid and personal discussion features never-before-heard audio from interviews that Bogdanovich conducted with Hitchcock in the 1960s.
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Podcast: Lore (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Legends 20: Food & Folklore
Pub date: 2024-02-05
Food and folklore. They go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or arsenic and lace. Throughout history, cultures around the world have paired the favorite meals with specific rituals, cooking up some amazing stories in the process.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Aaron Mahnke and Harry Marks and research by Alex Robinson.
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Podcast: Unsung History (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Pinball
Pub date: 2024-02-05
In January 1942, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia sent New York City police out on an important mission; their objective: to find and destroy tens of thousands of pinball machines. But some of pinball’s most important innovations, including the development of flippers, happened in the decades that it was banned in New York and many other US cities. This week we dig in to the fun – and sometimes surprising – history of pinball.
Joining me in this episode is illustrator and cartoonist Jon Chad, author of Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball. I’m also joined by a special guest co-host, my son, Teddy.
Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music is “Caterpillar,” by Gvidon, available for use under the Pixabay content license. The episode image is “Playing the pinball machine at the steelworkers' Serbian Club in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania,” photographed by Jack Delano, 1941, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.
Additional Sources:
- “The Backstory: The Comte d’Artois, pinball’s original wizard, lived life at full tilt,” by By Brendan Kiley, Pacific NW Magazine, December 1, 2019.
- “The Human Side of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette,” by Joe McGasko, biography.com, October 14, 2020.
- “Bagatelle patent model patented by Montague Redgrave,” Smithsonian.
- “Baffle Ball,” The Internet Pinball Database Presents.
- “Bally MFG Company, est. 1932,” by Andrew Clayman, Made in Chicago Museum.
- “That Time America Outlawed Pinball,” by Christopher Klein, History.com, Originally published November 15, 2016, and updated October 5, 2023.
- “How the Mob Made Pinball Public Enemy #1 in the 1940s,” by Allison McNearney, Daily Beast, November 14, 2021.
- “Chicago once waged a 40-year war on pinball,” by Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, May 5, 2018.
- “How One Perfect Shot Saved Pinball From Being Illegal,” by Matt Blitz, Gizmodo, August 16, 2013.
- “‘These Things Are Works of Art’: Chicago’s History as the Manufacturing Center for Pinball Machines,” by Meredith Francis, WTTW Chicago, January 26, 2024.
- “An Industry Suffers as Few People Play a Mean Pinball Anymore,” Washington Post, July 30, 2000.
- “Inside America's Last Great Pinball Factory,” by Peter Rugg, Popular Mechanics, March 27, 2017.
- “The Inside Story of Pinball's Renaissance,” by Mike Mahardy, IGN, May 20, 2017.
- “A Look At The Unlikely Resurgence Of Pinball In The Mobile Age [video],” NBC News, October 1, 2017.
- Pinball Map
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Podcast: Empire (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World
Pub date: 2024-02-13
1979 was the year that set the Islamic world on the path to today. In Iran, the revolution established the nation as a theocracy that sought to defend Shi'ism across the world. In Saudi Arabia, the siege of the Holy Mosque led to the nation embracing a more radical Sunni Islam that it began to export around the world. Almost immediately they began to clash, with great impact across the globe. Listen to William and Anita as they speak with Kim Ghattas about the birth of this rivalry.
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Podcast: ParentData with Emily Oster (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Household Division of Labor: Making the invisible work fair, if not equal
Pub date: 2024-02-15
Invisible labor. It’s the work — in our households especially — that has to happen but that no one sees. It’s making the doctor’s appointment, ensuring the Valentine’s cards are purchased, remembering the milk. When we think about equity in household labor, we often find that there are already inequities in the visible work, and they can become insurmountable when the invisible work is added in.
Today on ParentData, Eve Rodsky joins with some solutions to this seemingly endless task list of problems. Her book, “Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live),” and the movement it’s inspired, aims to rebalance workloads and encourage hard conversations, saving time, sanity, and even marriages along the way.
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Podcast: Why Do You Hate Me? (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 3. Sadiq Khan: I Didn’t Say That!
Pub date: 2024-02-13
Last November, a faked audio clip of London's mayor went viral. Marianna Spring talks to Sadiq Khan about the impact it had and tracks down it's suspected creator.
The clip used artificial intelligence to create a replica of Mr Khan's voice saying words scripted by the faker, disparaging Remembrance weekend with an expletive and calling for pro-Palestinian marches to take precedence.
In this series, Why Do You Hate Me?, Marianna Spring delves into her inbox to investigate extraordinary cases of online hate like this one. She meets the people at the heart of the conflicts, and in some cases brings them together, to see if understanding – and even forgiveness – is ever possible.
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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: UFOs, UAPs, and Rock
Pub date: 2024-02-07
I really, really want to believe…there are trillions of galaxies in the observable universe, each containing billions of stars…there’s gotta be something out there…we can’t be alone…
Organisms floating in the acid clouds of Venus…remains of bacteria in the Martian soil…creatures swimming in vast oceans below the ice of Europa…something lurking in the methane lakes of Titan…and that’s just the start…
Roswell…the “wow” signal…fast radio bursts…the possibility of a Dyson sphere around “Tabby’s Star”…hints of something on the hydrogen line frequency of 1.42 405 755 117 gigahertz…and now both nasa and the U.S. government have admitted that they don’t know what’s going on with those strange objects that have been buzzing the planet…
Our culture has absorbed these mysteries and possibilities…and our music reflects that…this is UFO, UAP’s, aliens, and rock…
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Podcast: Dressed: The History of Fashion (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Dressed Classic: The Incredible Origin of Cat-Eye Glasses
Pub date: 2024-01-24
What do millionaires, harlequins and cigarettes have to do with the iconic cat-eye frame? Tune into this fascinating episode from the Dressed archive to find out.
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Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally
Pub date: 2024-02-03
Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss how to reflect on a life lived well.
Martha Nussbaum is a philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Nussbaum is the author of many books, including, most recently, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss the need for an overlapping consensus between citizens of profoundly different beliefs; how regarding animals as sentient beings might change our behavior towards them; and why one ought to be a “happy warrior” for moral causes.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hotel Room Art
Pub date: 2024-02-06
The inside story of art in hotel rooms - and why hoteliers think it's so important to get it right. Ian McMillan has always been fascinated by the artworks he finds on his travels. Here he encounters mass produced flowers, abstract excitement and ancient artefacts. In three very different hotel bedrooms he meets curators, designers and artists - but most importantly he meets the art, and asks why we have ‘art’ hotels .
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Podcast: Very Special Episodes (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Boat Trip: The Attempted Sinking of Titanic
Pub date: 2024-01-31
On the last day of filming in Nova Scotia, someone poisoned the cast and crew of James Cameron’s Titanic with PCP. Bedlam ensued on a tight-knit set. Everyone became a suspect. Almost three decades later, we unravel a ‘90s Hollywood mystery.
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Podcast: Why? (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why can't we predict earthquakes?
Pub date: 2024-02-01
Without warning a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on New Year’s Day, raising the sea floor above the water and causing devastating damage and death. Even with all humanity’s deep scientific knowledge and discoveries, we still cannot predict when an earthquake will strike. Why is that? What mysteries do the earth’s tectonic plates hold, and are we getting closer to solving them?
Professor Tim Wright tells Emma Kennedy how scientists are working to relieve the seismic strain on the earth’s mantle – and new discoveries about the shifting world beneath our feet.
Every Monday and Thursday WHY? takes you on a wild adventure to the edge of knowledge. Follow on your favourite app so you never miss an episode.
WHY? is written and presented by Emma Kennedy. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Artwork by James Parrett. Music by DJ Food. Exec Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Lead Producer: Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. WHY? is a Podmasters Production.
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Podcast: Q with Tom Power (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bob Geldof: Live Aid, staying hopeful, and the power of music to effect change
Pub date: 2024-02-02
You might know Bob Geldof as an activist and one of the organizers of Live Aid — the epic 1985 benefit concert to raise funds for Ethiopia famine relief — but first and foremost, he’s a musician. Bob is the lead singer-songwriter of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats, which is largely remembered for their 1979 hit “I Don't Like Mondays.” When The Boomtown Rats had a new album out a few years ago, Tom had a chance to talk to Bob about his music, his memories of Live Aid, how he’s used his platform to effect political change, and his concerns about the world today.
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Podcast: Acquired (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Pub date: 2024-01-22
Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company. And the pull for Acquired to finally tackle healthcare (18% of US GDP!) became too strong for us to resist. While we didn’t know much about Novo Nordisk before diving in, our first thought was, “wow, seems like these new diabetes and obesity drugs mean serious trouble for big insulin companies.”
And then… we realized that Novo Nordisk IS the big insulin company. And in a story befitting of Steve Jobs and Apple, they’d just disrupted themselves with the drug equivalent of an iPhone moment. Once we dug further, we quickly realized this company has it all: an incredible 100+ year history filled with Nobel Prizes, bitter personal rivalries, board room dramas, a generation-defining silicon valley innovation, lone voices persevering against all odds — and oh yeah, the world’s largest charitable foundation at its helm. Tune in for one incredible story!
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Podcast: In The Dark (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Runaway Princesses, Episode 1: Sisters
Pub date: 2024-01-30
As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. British authorities look the other way after one of the sheikh’s own daughters tries to escape."The Runaway Princesses" is a four-part narrative series from In the Dark and The New Yorker. Subscribers to The New Yorker have early, ad-free access to all episodes. Visit newyorker.com/dark to subscribe.
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Podcast: Ghost in the Machine (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1 - The end of blood doping; the rise of the motor
Pub date: 2024-01-15
“I truly believe that motors were used to win bike races” - Greg LeMond, three-time winner of the Tour de France.
In January 2016,19-year-old Belgian cyclist Femke van den Driessche was caught with a collection of wires, motors and batteries buried deep inside her bike at the Cyclo-cross World Championships.
She was then suspended for six years and bore the wrath of global media as the only rider ever to be banned by The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for having a motor in her bike, despite numerous previous suspicions of other competitive cyclists that have never been confirmed or disproved.
Eight years later, Chris is on a mission to reveal the truth around motors in cycling as he peers beneath the surface of sports' most incredible discovery...and beyond.
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Podcast: Music From 100 Years Ago (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mozart's Birthday 2024
Pub date: 2024-01-23
Celebrating the 268th Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Excerpts from the Symphony #39, Piano Sonata #17, String Quartet #23, Horn Concerto #4 and The Magic Flute.
Performers include: Herbert Von Karajan, Claudio Arrau, The Budapest String Quarter and Dennis Brain.
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Podcast: Cut the Craft (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 060: Addison de Lisle
Pub date: 2023-06-27
Recorded April 18, 2023.
Addison de Lisle is a metalsmith who primarily focuses on non-ferrous metals but with a very eclectic range of forms. Within his breadth of interests, Addison makes an effort to set himself a few parameters; his work is metal, should at least hint at utility, and shouldn’t shy away from conceptual ideas. In other words, he’s free to explore! During the course of our conversation he shares the view that craftspeople are alchemists who are a bridge between nature and culture, that new processes such as 3D printing have a place in craft and how his experiences at craft schools have influenced his career.
To find more of Addison’s work visit his website: www.addisondelisle.com , Instagram: @de_lisle_iron .
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Podcast: Significant Others (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Malcolm Gladwell on Dr. Spock
Pub date: 2022-09-08
Best-selling author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell joins Liza to discuss the concept of “celebrity doctors” and the destructive dynamic between the famous Dr. Spock and his complicated wife Jane.
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Podcast: The Vanishing Point (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hoopa Valley
Pub date: 2023-10-25
Hoopa Valley is located in the Pacific Northwest. It is a beautiful place with a rich history and culture but this land holds a dark secret, the high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The Tenderfoot TV team heads to Hoopa to investigate why this tribal community is vulnerable to these issues and to hear the stories that have been ignored for so long.
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Podcast: The Three Ravens Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Dying Arts #6: Fan Making
Pub date: 2024-01-18
In this Bonus Episode, Eleanor and Martin explore the history of Fan Making, a critically-endangered craft.
Part of the "Dying Arts" series, they start off chatting about the 3,000 year-old legacy of fans from China, Japan, and Africa, then dig into the European craze for fans, including their religious uses, their styles, hidden compartments, and secret language. After exploring the shifts the 19th century offered around fan culture, including their place in merchandising, make-up, and mass production, they also discuss how and where collections of fans might be seen today, and where to go if you want to learn how to make them using traditional methods...
The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.
Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...
With Bonus Episodes released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus a range of exclusive content on Patreon, audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?
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Podcast: The Strange Brew - artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Denmark Street
Pub date: 2024-01-12
Denmark Street, Britain’s Tin Pan Alley, played a pivotal role in the music industry. Peter Watts takes us from through the street’s history including its 1960s heyday; with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and David Bowie frequenting it for guitars, meetings and recording. Despite its decline, it became the rehearsal space for the Sex Pistols and today remains a hub for music.
Further informationDenmark Street: London’s Street of Sounds by Peter Watts
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Podcast: Things Fell Apart (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S2. Ep 2: We’re Coming After You, Honey
Pub date: 2024-01-09
How a chance encounter in a yacht club in the early 2000s between a bartender and a very wealthy couple with a daughter sick with a mystery disease ended with the creation of the first great covid conspiracy theory.
Written and presented by Jon RonsonProduced by Sarah ShebbeareOriginal music by Phil Channell
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Podcast: Talking Pictures (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Nancy Meyers
Pub date: 2024-01-16
Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben Mankiewicz talks with Meyers about casting Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, getting script advice from Sunset Boulevard director Billy Wilder, and they discuss what it’s like to become famous for her interiors. Spoiler: it’s frustrating! Nancy Meyers also answers our Super 8 questionnaire and reveals which film had her running from the theater in absolute terror.
FILMS MENTIONED:
- Something’s Gotta Give
- It’s Complicated
- The Holiday
- Sunset Boulevard
- His Girl Friday
- Harry and Walter Go To New York
- Terms of Endearment
- About Schmidt
- Reds
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly*
- The Misfits
- The Graduate
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- North by Northwest
- Private Benjamin
- Baby Boom
- Double Indemnity
- Stalag 17
- Ace in the Hole
- Some Like it Hot*
- Sabrina
- The Apartment
- Lost Weekend
- The Philadelphia Story
- Bringing Up Baby
- Trouble in Paradise
- The Intern*
- The Exorcist*
- Love in the Afternoon*
- Rear Window
- Day For Night
- A Man and a Woman
- Paddington 2
- The Worst Person in the World
- Modern Times*
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- The Great Escape
*Available on Max as of 1/16
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Podcast: CHAINS – A MacGuffin Podcast
Episode: Chains - Episode 1 - City Bank Of Loan!
Pub date: 2023-01-11
In episode 1 of CHAINS, we meet a longstanding and satisfied customer, and go behind the scene to meet the staff.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Chatter: Lessons from the Decade of Mass Protests, with Vincent Bevins
Pub date: 2024-01-04
From the protests in Brazil initially focused on bus fares to the protests in Hong Kong seeking to stop an extradition bill to the protests across the Middle East now collectively referred to as the "Arab Spring," the political and economic mass demonstrations from 2010 to 2020 made it a decade of public protest like no other. Yet the vast majority of these efforts failed to bring about their desired changes--and many of them actually led to the opposite of what they wanted. Vincent Bevins, author of the new book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, has chronicled this decade with stories from his on-the-ground reporting and extensive interviews with activists in ten countries around the globe.
David Priess spoke with Vincent about why mass protests during this decade so often fell short of their objectives, the principle of horizontalism, the role of social media in mobilization and action, and other themes as they relate to the mass protests in Brazil, Turkey, Hong Kong, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, South Korea, and other countries.
Among the works mentioned in this episode:
The book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
The movie The Candidate
The book From Mobilization to Revolution by Charles Tilly
The book Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
The book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus by Georgi Derluguian
Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Noam Osband and Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.
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Podcast: Craftsmanship (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Cowboy Folklorist
Pub date: 2024-01-12
Though he calls himself simply a “songster and storyteller,” Andy Hedges is compiling a rich, unique audio archive of cowboy music and poetry—and bringing the legends of the genre together on CD and stage.
"The Cowboy Folklorist" originally appeared in Craftsmanship, a digital magazine about master artisans and innovators, and the architecture of excellence. You'll find many more stories, videos, audio recordings, and other resources on our site — free of charge and free of ads.
You can see more fantastic photos of cowboy poets by Meredith Lawrence on the Craftsmanshipwebsite. That’s also where you can make a donation to support our independent journalism. We’re funded by grants and individual donations, and every bit of financial support goes a long way.
Written and photographed by MEREDITH LAWRENCE
Introduction by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Narrated by GÖRAN NORQUIST
Produced by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Music by ANDY HEDGES, DOM FLEMONS, RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT, JACK THORP, BRENN HILL, MAGGIE ROSE HEDGES, BLUE DOT SESSIONS.
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Podcast: The Rest Is Entertainment (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How panel shows really work and is WWE high drama?
Pub date: 2023-12-26
We asked, you answered... and then we answered. It a first Q&A episode.
Richard and Marina work through some of your burning questions on the world of entertainment from why do people go on property shows and not buy anything? Has Marina come face to face with anyone she's taken to task in an article? And Richard fills us in on how much of shows such as Have I Got News For You are scripted plus other more Boxing Day tasty entertainment secrets.
Twitter: @restisents
Email: therestisentertainment@gmail.com
Producer: Neil Fearn
Executive Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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Podcast: Made You Think (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 104: Are We Destined to Be Pets? Novacene by James Lovelock
Pub date: 2023-11-15
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're diving into Novacene by James Lovelock, a book which challenges the very essence of human intelligence. Get ready for a thought-provoking conversation that delves into the realms of evolution, deep oceans, and the enigmatic dance between humanity and artificial intelligence.
We cover a wide range of topics including:
- Gaia hypothesis and its connections to the book
- Intelligence beyond the human-centric view
- How the evolution of organisms has affected global temperatures
- The uncovered mysteries of the deep ocean
- Will AI be a friend or foe to humans?
And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode.
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Mentioned in the Show:
- Gaia hypothesis (1:53)
- Tesla Bot (23:52)
- Stealth (25:05)
- Cruise (27:26)
- Waymo (27:26)
- Arrival (35:54)
- Bees playing soccer (39:32)
- Brilliant Earth (49:01)
- They Did The Math (49:42)
- Dark Forest theory (55:16)
- Rooted Local (1:02:16)
Books Mentioned:
- The Three-Body Problem (0:03) (Book Episode) (Nat’s Book Notes)
- Homo Deus (0:46) (Book Episode) (Nat’s Book Notes)
- Breath (13:35) (Nat's Book Notes)
- Deep (13:37)
- The Hidden Life of Trees (19:14)
- Permutation City (21:12) (Book Episode)
- Where Is My Flying Car? (22:35) (Book Episode)
- Antifragile (36:24) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes)
- The Fighter’s Mind (37:41) (Nat's Book Notes)
People Mentioned:
- James Lovelock (1:54)
- James Nestor (13:36)
- Nassim Taleb (36:24)
Show Topics:
(1:46) Buckle up for this episode as we discuss Novacene, authored by the originator of the Gaia Theory, James Lovelock. The book probes into humanity's role in the world and speculates on a future where machines might supersede us.
(4:34) Lovelock wrote this book with the help of his assistant when he was 99 years old. We talk about what exactly the Gaia Theory is and the end of the age of Anthropocene.
(9:50) We go deeper into sharing our thoughts on the Gaia Theory and how the evolution of organisms have affected the regulation of the global temperature.
(13:10) How much do we actually know about the deepest parts of the ocean? Plus, learn about the author’s involvement with designing instruments for NASA.
(16:40) Nat, Neil, and Adil make connections from Novacene to The Three-Body Problem. Historically, we've looked for life on other planets the way we would measure life on earth, but are extraterrestrial species carbon-based like we are?
(19:04) Our idea of time here on Earth is based on our life and our own orbit around the sun, but another civilization could view time in a completely different way.
(24:21) Addressing AI predictions, military applications, and the challenges of AI intervention, including experiences with self-driving cars.
(32:08) Is our technology watching us?
(35:28) The limitations of language as an information interface and the intuitive nature of processing multiple inputs. Speaking, for example, is completely linear. However, when you have multiple inputs, you're able to be more intuitive.
(39:18) We talk about exploring intelligence beyond the human-centric view, considering the collective intelligence of species like bees.
(42:05) It’s powerful the progress that has been made with ChatGPT, but there still remains the question of whether or not it will be a linear process to AGI (artificial general intelligence).
(46:02) The intersection of crypto mining, Bitcoin, and futuristic energy societies, along with the possibility of harnessing CO2 for creation.
(52:24) Earth is a rare, one-of-a-kind planet. How the universe had to align for habitability on earth, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
(58:29) Would AI have the potential for parallel processing capabilities?
(1:00:35) Nat and Neil share their final thoughts on Novacene and Lovelock's charming writing style. If you were intrigued by our discussions in this episode, make sure you pick up a copy!
(1:01:59) That concludes this episode! Stay tuned for our next episode on the The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode.
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Podcast: U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
Pub date: 2023-12-04
A case in which the Court will decide whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by non-debtors against non-debtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent.
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Podcast: Radio Atlantic (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Don’t Buy That Sweater
Pub date: 2023-12-21
We’re in the coldest season. We’re in the shopping season. We’re in the season of hygge. All the cues point to buying yourself a new cozy sweater. Don’t do it, until you hear what Atlantic staff writer Amanda Mull has to say about the cratering quality of knitwear. For years I’ve wondered why my sweaters pilled so quickly, or why they suffocated me, or smelled like tires. And then I read Mull’s recent story, “Your Sweaters Are Garbage.” It turns out that international trade agreements, greedy entrepreneurs, and my own lack of willpower have conspired to erode my satisfaction.
In this episode, Hanna talks with Amanda Mull—who writes the Atlantic column “Material World”—about why so many consumer goods have declined in quality over the last two decades. As always, Mull illuminates the stories the fashion world works hard to obscure, about the quality of fabrics, the nature of working conditions, and about how to subvert a system that wants you to keep buying more. “I have but one human body,” she says. “I can only wear so many sweaters.”
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Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: History of Ideas 1: Montaigne
Pub date: 2023-12-25
Episode one in our series on the great essays is about Montaigne, the man who invented a whole new way of writing and being read. From the fear of death to the joys of life, from the perils of atheism to the pitfalls of faith, from sex to religion and back again, Montaigne wrote the book of himself, which was also a guide to what it means to be human. Elephants, civil war, gout, cosmology, torture, tennis balls, disease, diets, and politics too: all life is here.
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Podcast: Design Matters with Debbie Millman (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Rick Rubin
Pub date: 2023-03-13
Exploring Rick Rubin’s production discography is like taking a tour through the commanding heights of American music over the past few decades. From Run-DMC to Jay-Z to Adele, the record producer joins to talk about his legendary career making classic songs with the best musicians in the world.
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Podcast: Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 350: Korean folklore: Ghosts and Goblins
Pub date: 2024-01-03
Three(ish) stories from the Korean peninsula about ghosts and goblins. Kind of. Some are actual ghosts and goblins (도깨비). Some are the ghosts of happier times and the lives we thought we wanted. Some goblins literally beat us up when they cheat at board games. There's a lot to learn this week.
The creature is the Kting Voar, a creature that definitely does not exist, but not for lack of being extremely normal and boring.
Kting Voar article: https://myths.link/academicrigorcryptidstyle
Cow eating snake (NOT the Kting Voar): https://myths.link/snakeyum
Story 1 (the literary man): https://myths.link/literaryman
Story 2: https://myths.link/snakesrevenge
Story 3: https://myths.link/charan
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 73 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How to Discover Your Own Taste
Pub date: 2024-01-09
Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms, it’s become a lot easier to find movies or TV shows or music that fits our preferences pretty well. But it feels harder to find things that are strange and surprising — the kinds of culture that help you, as an individual, develop your own sense of taste.
This can be a fuzzy thing to talk about. But Kyle Chayka, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a whole book on it, the forthcoming “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.” We talk about how today’s internet encourages everything to look more the same and is even dulling our ability to know what we like. And we discuss what we can do to strengthen our sense of personal taste in order to live a richer, more beautiful life.
Mentioned:
“Quartets: Two: II. Warmth” by Peter Gregson
Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
Book Recommendations:
“In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki (essay)
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Carole Sabouraud.
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Podcast: Lost Women of Science (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Adventures of a Bone Hunter
Pub date: 2024-01-04
Annie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, amateur paleontologist, and the founding benefactor of two venerated research collections at UC Berkeley - the UC Museum of Paleontology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. She was born in 1867, the daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, but she never quite fit in with her high society peers. Instead, Annie created for herself a grand life out of doors, away from the constraints of the era: she funded expeditions up and down the West Coast, hunting fossils. And sometimes she wore pants!
But there was a catch. Annie always had to be accompanied by a female chaperone, as it was considered unseemly for a woman to travel surrounded only by men. Luckily, this worked out well for Annie: One of those female chaperones would become her life partner.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 565- Mini-Stories: Volume 18
Pub date: 2024-01-09
Our second and final set of mini-stories for the season: We'll be covering upside-down construction, the linguistics of filler and a fire that has been burning for decades.
Check out Lizzie No's latest album Halfsies on Band Camp. She's on tour in 2024. Go see her and say hi for me!
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Best of 2023: The strange survival of Guinness World Records
Pub date: 2023-12-22
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. From June: For more than half a century, one organisation has been cataloguing all of life’s superlatives. But has it gone from being about the pursuit of knowledge to simply another big business?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Dollarizing Argentina
Pub date: 2023-12-21
Argentina has been on a decades-long search for economic stability, but it always seems to be out of reach. High inflation has been plaguing the country and just surpassed 160% a year.
Over the past couple of years, the local currency has collapsed. One U.S. dollar used to be worth 20 Argentinean pesos in 2018. Today, one U.S. dollar is worth 1,000 pesos on the black market. And that means for Argentineans, the real prices of everything — from groceries to gas — have spiked.
In a country where the local currency is in free fall, promising to replace that currency with the US dollar can seem like a magical solution.
Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, won in part by promising to do just that - to dollarize. To scrap Argentina's peso and replace it with the relatively stable, predictable, boring United States dollar.
On today's show, what does dollarizing mean? Why dollarize, how to do it, and will it even work?
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Venezuela's Fugitive Money Traders
Why Ecuador Uses The Dollar? : The Indicator from Planet Money
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Podcast: The Dark Is Rising (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Midwinter Eve
Pub date: 2022-12-19
This night will be bad. Tomorrow will be beyond all imagining. December 20, the day before Will’s 11th birthday, and all he wants is snow. But something is not right. On his way to Dawson’s Farm, a hunched old man scuttles into trees, the animals are disturbed. And then Will receives a present. It is a Sign. Listen on headphones for 3D immersive sound. #TheDarkIsRising
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Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: EU vs. AI
Pub date: 2023-12-18
The EU has advanced first-of-its-kind AI regulation. The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed tells us whether it will make a difference, and Columbia University’s Anu Bradford explains the Brussels effect.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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Podcast: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Naomi Alderman, novelist (The Power, The Future).
Pub date: 2023-11-06
My guest today is an award-winning novelist, journalist, writer of games, and presenter of radio programmes. She grew up in London, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, then received an MA in creative writing at the UEA. Her first novel, Disobedience, was released in 2006 and later adapted into a feature film starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. In 2012 she co-created the story-based fitness game Zombies, Run! – which has been downloaded several million times and continues to be a market leader.
In April 2013 she was named one of Granta’s Best British Novelists in their famous once-a-decade list. Her 2016 novel The Power, was featured in former US President Barack Obama’s best books of the year list, and won the 2017 Baileys’ Women‘s Prize for Fiction. The book was also adapted for television, debuting on Amazon earlier this year. If that weren’t enough, she is a regular presenter of science programmes on BBC Radio 4, Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Play the console:
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- Myst
- Diablo II
- Journey
- Citizen Sleeper
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Empire of Tea - Episode 1
Pub date: 2023-12-15
George Orwell described tea as “one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.” But how did this foreign plant become so British? Sathnam Sanghera speaks to Orwell expert Jean Seaton, cultural historian Kate Teltscher, and ramblers with flasks of tea in the Peak District, to try and figure out how and why tea became a national obsession.
Produced by Paul Martin for BBC Audio Wales
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 563- Empire of the Sum
Pub date: 2023-12-13
Keeping track of numbers has always been part of what makes us human. So at some point along the way, we created a tool to help us keep count, and then we gave that tool a name. We called it: a calculator. But depending on what era you were born in, and maybe even what country, what constituted a 'calculator' varied widely.
Keith Houston wrote about the evolution of the calculator in his latest book, Empire of the Sum The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator. It is exactly the kind of nerdery we like to get up to here at 99% Invisible -- history explained through the lens of an everyday designed object.
Empire of the Sum
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Podcast: What Could Go Right? (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Not Too Late for the Climate with Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
Pub date: 2023-11-08
Is climate discourse doomerism based on the right facts and frameworks? Are we not giving the potential of change enough credence? And where does the climate movement go from here? Today, we hear from the authors of "Not Too Late," Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, whose climate activism is deliberately removed from despair.
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Podcast: The Republic
Episode: IBB: The ‘Evil Genius’
Pub date: 2023-10-22
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida or ‘IBB’ became the military president of Nigeria in 1985, after overthrowing General Muhammadu Buhari (yes, we know what you’re thinking and you’re right) in a military coup. On becoming president, IBB sold himself as the military leader who would usher in Nigeria’s democracy; but what continues to puzzle historians is why he repeatedly delayed the democratic transition until 1993.
In this episode, Wale Lawal finds some answers. Learn more at republic.com.ng/podcasts/.
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Podcast: Classy with Jonathan Menjivar (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are Rich People Bad?
Pub date: 2023-06-21
Jonathan has some hangups about class. In the first episode of this series, he takes us from a nightclub outside LA to the halls of a fancy Manhattan prep school, and asks sociologist Rachel Sherman 'are rich people bad?'
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Podcast: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Too Many People
Pub date: 2023-12-06
Many observers have tried to pinpoint the specific events that lead to Lennon-McCartney, the formidable songwriting partnership, transitioning to Lennon v. McCartney. But the fact is there is no single truth regarding why the beloved duo split. So instead of investigating the why, we look at the aftermath: legal battles, hurtful accusations in song and, ultimately, a sense of resolution. “Too Many People” opens Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album, “RAM” and serves as an opening to explore Lennon-McCartney’s dissolution ahead of ultimately resolving their differences and rekindling a friendship.
“McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries.
The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; written by Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O’Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with sound design by Pejk Malinovski. The series is executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger.
Thanks to Lee Eastman, Richard Ewbank, Scott Rodger, Aoife Corbett and Steve Ithell.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: The rise and fall of French cuisine
Pub date: 2023-12-06
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: French food was the envy of the world – before it became trapped by its own history. Can a new school of traditionalists revive its glories?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: A History of the World in Spy Objects (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Lynette Nusbacher: Button Compass
Pub date: 2023-11-28
How can a button save your life?
It depends on who your tailor is.
Military history expert Lynette Nusbacher and host Alice Loxton discuss an ingenious piece of covert pathfinding technology, designed for RAF pilots stranded behind enemy lines in World War Two.
From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series produced by Alex Burnard, Morgan Childs, Claire Crofton, Joe Foley, Frank Palmer, Kellie Redmond and Isabel Sutton. Music by Nick Ryan.
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Podcast: Being Roman with Mary Beard (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 5: Battling Bureaucrats
Pub date: 2023-11-08
Beneath starched Shakespearean togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. To know what it was to be Roman you need to gather the scattered clues until they form a living, breathing human, witness to the highs and horrors of Europe’s greatest empire. Mary Beard, Britain’s best-selling historian of the ancient world, rebuilds the lives of six citizens of the Roman Empire, from a slave to an emperor. Her investigations reveal the stressful reality of Roman childhood, the rights of women and rules of migration, but it’s the thoughts and feelings of individual Romans she’s really interested in. In the second episode we meet a woman caught up in a brutal civil war. Turia’s story starts with the murder of her parents. She tracks down their killers and fights off scavenging relatives desperate for a piece of her inheritance. Before she has a moment to settle her new husband is forced on the run, fleeing the murderous junta that’s taken over the empire after the murder of Julius Caesar. She’s badly beaten by the leadership's thugs as she pleads her husband’s case, but will her sacrifices ensure his safety? Producer: Alasdair Cross Expert Contributors: Greg Woolf, UCLA; Matthew Nicholls, Oxford University; Helen King, Open University Cast: Voice of Laudatio Turiae read by Don Gilet Special thanks to the National Museum of Rome, Baths of Diocletian
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Podcast: Critics at Large | The New Yorker (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Martin Scorsese’s America
Pub date: 2023-10-26
Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has traced crime, greed, and corruption across American life. In his new film, he turns his gaze to the violence of whiteness. Set in nineteen-twenties Oklahoma, “Killers of the Flower Moon” tells the story of a series of murders targeting the people of the Osage Nation, perpetrated by white settlers in pursuit of the community’s oil wealth. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the trajectory of Scorsese’s style, from the “whirling limbs” and “short, sharp cuts” of films like “Goodfellas” to the elegiac restraint of more recent works like “The Irishman.” They’re joined by The New Yorker’s David Grann, the author of the 2017 book that formed the basis for Scorsese’s film, who describes how he first came upon the story and how members of the Osage community became involved in—and responded to—the adaptation. Then the hosts consider the multilayered coda of the film, which raises increasingly pressing questions about representation and ownership. “Killers of the Flower Moon” recounts the atrocities committed against the Osage, but it’s also an indictment of racialized evil writ large. “The trauma of this experience of course belongs most intimately to the Osage people,” Cunningham says. “But the proclivities that gave rise to it, the sensibilities that survive in our culture today—that’s something that every person that has anything to do with the United States needs to engage with.”
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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism
Pub date: 2023-11-29
John Gray is a philosopher and writer renowned for his critical examination of liberalism, atheism, and the human condition. His unique perspective is shaped over a decades-long career, during which he has authored influential books on topics ranging from political theory to what we can learn from cats about on how to live a good life. His latest book, The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, delivers a provocative examination of the 2020s' political landscape, challenges liberal triumphalism with a realistic critique of ongoing global crises and the persistent allure of human delusions.
Tyler and John sat down to discuss his latest book, including who he thinks will carry on his work, what young people should learn if liberalism is dead, whether modern physics allows for true atheism, what in Eastern Orthodoxy attracts him, the benefits of pessimism, what philanthropic cause he’d invest a billion dollars in, under what circumstances he’d sacrifice his life, what he makes of UFOs, the current renaissance in film and books, whether Monty Python is still funny, how Herman Melville influenced him, who first spotted his talent, his most unusual work habit, what he’ll do next, and more.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Kissinger
Pub date: 2023-11-30
Few people can claim as much influence over the shape of the modern world as Henry Kissinger. The former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace laureate is loved, loathed and listened to - for the decisions he took, the attitude he espoused and for his knowledge and analysis of world affairs. In 2022, James Naughtie travelled to Kissinger's home to discuss six great leaders and the lessons they taught, as Kissinger reflected on his own role in creating the modern world.
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Podcast: Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: Bug’s Plan
Pub date: 2023-06-07
It’s 2014. Adelanto is a bankrupt city in the California desert known for its massive detention centers and not much else. Then, a stranger comes to town with a wild idea to make Adelanto great again: Become the first city in Southern California to legalize commercial weed cultivation.
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Podcast: Starting a Riot (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: “They are our revenge”
Pub date: 2023-06-15
Host and She Shreds Media founder Fabi Reyna introduces us to the movement known as riot grrrl. It started in Olympia, Washington in the early 1990s and it was more than just music – it was zines, feminism and community. Riot grrrl kicked open a door that women had been prying open for decades. But the histories of riot grrrl that have been told before haven’t felt fully representative of BIPOC and queer people. We’re leaning into that gap and listening to people on the margins, people who felt left out, people who insisted on being part of the conversation anyway.
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Podcast: ParentData with Emily Oster (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Parenting Through Divorce: The ultimate "no option C"
Pub date: 2023-10-19
Even under the best of circumstances, the decision to end a marriage is often painful and always complicated - and even more so when kids are involved. Today on ParentData, writer and social worker Miranda Featherstone delves into the endless choices that accompany divorce, including making the initial decision, what it means to share your kids, what (and how much) to tell them, and other ways of thinking about the emotional and logistical aftershocks of making the right choice for yourself.
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Podcast: Everything is Alive (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Animals: Hari, Butterfly
Pub date: 2023-11-23
Hari is a butterfly, and he’s just trying to stay grounded.
Featuring Hari Kondabolu. Hari’s Youtube comedy special is called “Vacation Baby.” You can find more from him at his website, his Instagram, and his Twitter.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence
Pub date: 2023-11-21
The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement and ability to reshape the future—has put the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in an awkward position. He is known as the godfather of A.I. because of his groundbreaking work in neural networks, a branch of computer science that most researchers had given up on, while Hinton’s advances eventually led to a revolution. But he is now fearful of what it could unleash. “There’s a whole bunch of risks that concern me and other people. . . . I’m a kind of latecomer to worrying about the risks, ” Hinton tells The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman. “Because very recently I came to the conclusion that these digital intelligences might already be as good as us. They’re able to communicate knowledge between one another much better than we can.” Knowing the technology the way he does, he feels it’s not currently possible to limit the intentions and goals of an A.I. that inevitably becomes smarter than humans. Hinton remains a researcher and no longer has a financial stake in the success of A.I., so he is perhaps franker about the downsides of the A.I. revolution that Sam Altman and other tech moguls. He agrees that it’s “not unreasonable” for a layperson to wish that A.I. would simply go away, “but it’s not going to happen. … It’s just so useful, so much opportunity to do good.” What should we do? Rothman asks him. “I don’t know. Smart young people,” Hinton hopes, “should be thinking about, is it possible to prevent [A.I.] from ever wanting to take over.”
Rothman’s Profile of Geoffrey Hinton appears in a special issue of The New Yorker about artificial intelligence.
Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI (which created ChatGPT), spoke with David Remnick on this episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Pumpkin Spice Hero: The Thrilling But Tragic True Story of Nutmeg
Pub date: 2023-11-07
No pumpkin spice latte, cookie, candle, or seasonal can of Spam (yes, really) would be the same without one of its key flavors: nutmeg, a warm, woody spice grated from the seed of a tropical fruit. But back in the 1600s, nutmeg wasn’t so common that you could put it in everything from coffee to soap. In fact, nutmeg once grew only in one place in the entire world: the Banda Islands, a Pacific archipelago too tiny to even appear on regular maps. To get their precious nutmeg, European sailors had to brave a three-year journey filled with the possibility of shipwreck, storms, scurvy, dysentery, starvation, and death—so it's not surprising that the spice was so valuable that the crew weren't allowed to have pockets in their clothing, in case they smuggled some ashore for themselves! But how did one heroic Brit, Nathaniel Courthope, end up changing the course of nutmeg history—and, with it, the fate of not just pumpkin spice lattes, but also the city of New York? Listen now for the spicy, swashbuckling tale behind the season's favorite flavor.
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Podcast: A CRISPR Bite: How gene-editing technology is changing our food (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Tomatoes
Pub date: 2023-10-04
Can tomatoes made using CRISPR help relieve stress? In this episode, we take you to Japan to learn more about the first CRISPR food available on the market. Resources
- For a firsthand look at the invention of the first GMO whole food, our team highly recommends Dr. Belinda Martineau’s book,
First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods (2001).
Interviews
- Dr. Belinda Martineau, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy & Research
- Haruka Nakata
Credits
A CRISPR Bite is supported by the Jean Monnet Network, which is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union through the GEAP-3 Network of scientists. More about our project here. This podcast does not reflect the views of our funders.
This podcast was co-written and hosted by Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr. Our executive producer is Corinne Ruff. She co-wrote, edited and produced the show. Jake Harper edited this episode. The show was sound designed and engineered by Adriene Lilly. Aaron Crossland made our theme music. Rachael Marr designed our logo. Legal support from New Media Rights.
Thank you to the GEAP-3 team! Special thanks to Matthew Schnurr, Klara Fischer, and Glenn Stone for their support and advice on this podcast. Special thanks to Fumino Tamaki for her help with organizing the Japanese interview.
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Podcast: How to Keep Time (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: ‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths
Pub date: 2023-07-27
A lot of people are plagued by the feeling that society used to be better, that neighbors were more helpful, that strangers once talked to you. Some people channel that belief into political action, as in the Make America Great Again movement. A new study explains why the sense that people and the culture have gotten worse is a psychological illusion. This special episode features Hanna Rosin, the host of Radio Atlantic. Subscribe and find new episodes of Radio Atlantic every Thursday.
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Pub date: 2023-11-16
What does a pilot sound like? Malcolm and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey take off on a long, strange investigation that takes them from Las Vegas to Family Guy to the airspace over the Mojave desert and the cold waters of the Hudson river.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read
Pub date: 2023-11-15
To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the Long Read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Sophie Elmhirst and Samanth Subramanian • The Guardian Long Read magazine is available to order now. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Fish of the Week! (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Cui-ui: Pyramid Lake Suckers
Pub date: 2023-11-13
Meet a beautiful, long-lived sucker found nowhere else on Earth except Nevada's Pyramid Lake (known also as Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu/"Cui-ui Standing Water" by the Northern Paiute people) and the lower Truckee River. We deep dive into the changes this system has seen and what's being done to conserve this endangered fish. Our guest is U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish biologist Erik Horgen.
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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
Pub date: 2023-11-07
We’ve got a good one today. I’m talking to former President Barack Obama about AI, social networks, and how to think about democracy as both of those things collide.
I sat down with Obama last week at his offices in Washington, DC, just hours after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order about AI. You’ll hear Obama say he’s been talking to the Biden administration and leaders across the tech industry about AI and how best to regulate it. My idea here was to talk to Obama the constitutional law professor more than Obama the politician. So this one got wonky fast.
You’ll also hear him say that he joined our show because he wanted to reach you, the Decoder audience, and get you all thinking about these problems. One of Obama’s worries is that the government needs insight and expertise to properly regulate AI, and you’ll hear him make a pitch for why people with that expertise should take a tour of duty in the government to make sure we get these things right.
Links:
- Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines
- Clarence Thomas really wants Congress to regulate Twitter moderation
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares impact of AI to electricity and fire
- Sam Altman sells superintelligent sunshine as protestors call for AGI pause
- The Skokie case: How I came to represent the free speech rights of Nazis
- Disinformation is a threat to our democracy
- World leaders are gathering at the U.K.'s AI Summit. Doom is on the agenda.
- George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
- A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled
- Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23712912
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Decoder is a production of The Verge and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt. It was edited by Callie Wright.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 384. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)
Pub date: 2023-11-06
The meeting of the controversial Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the formidable Emperor Montezuma in 1519 was one of the great hinge moments of world history, and the beginning of the end for the mightiest of the New World empires: the realm of the Aztecs.
The build-up to this extraordinary encounter is at once a thrilling adventure story and a tragic tale of violence, brutality and loss. It’s a story of temples and sacrifices, exploration and imperialism, with cataclysmic consequences for human history.
Join Tom and Dominic in the first episode of this sensational saga, as they follow the young Cortés across the Atlantic to the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba, where the search for gold comes at a terrible price …
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 559- The Six-Week Cure
Pub date: 2023-11-07
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada -- not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marriages. The city became known as the "Divorce Capital of the World." For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced -- and for a time, this was true in the New World as well. But Reno provided the cure: The Six-Week Cure.
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Podcast: Missing Pages (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Paradigm Shift: The Colleen Hoover Story
Pub date: 2023-10-23
Colleen Hoover created a book empire through self-publishing, in part due to the power of social media. Is her career a sign of a changing landscape where publishing gatekeepers are losing power while readers are gaining power? We speak with Laura Miller, Books and Culture columnist at Slate, Jim Milliot, Co-Editorial Director at Publishers Weekly, and Jennie Young, an Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, to find out.
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Podcast: More or Less: Behind the Stats (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
Pub date: 2023-11-04
The cultural importance of gold in India as a symbol of wealth, prosperity and safety is well known – but how much do Indians actually own? Reporter Perisha Kudhail looks at a widely circulated claim about Indian women owning 11% of the world’s gold, with the help of Delhi based journalist Mridu Bhandari and Joshua Saul, CEO of the Pure Gold Company. Presenter: Ben Carter Reporter and Producer: Perisha KudhailSeries Producer: Jon BithreyEditor: Richard Vadon Sound Engineer: James Beard
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Podcast: The Official Gilded Age Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep. 1: “You Don’t Even Like Opera” with Lord Julian Fellowes
Pub date: 2023-10-30
Easter Sunday, 1886, and a new war is brewing in Gilded Age society. Are you ready to pick a side? Join out hosts, Alicia Malone and Tom Meyers, dissect Episode 201, “You Don’t Even Like Opera,” with our extraordinary guest, Lord Julian Fellowes.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 182. Siblings of Chaos
Pub date: 2023-09-24
Lexicographer, author and Dictionary Corner resident Susie Dent has been studying words to make us feel happy. She brings etymologies concerning cows, gas, guts and fat, of bellies and breathing and bonanzas. And some that came from the high seas and aren't made up!
Find out more about this episode and the topics therein, and obtain the transcript, at theallusionist.org/siblings-of-chaos.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: Fiction (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live
Pub date: 2023-11-01
Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Varieties of Exile,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” and the story collection “Old Babes in the Wood,” which was published earlier this year. This is the first episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast to be recorded in front of a live audience. It was taped at the Hot Docs podcast festival, in Toronto, on October 21, 2023.
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Podcast: The Planet Earth Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 2. Getting There
Pub date: 2023-10-29
Mike Gunton dives into the heavy-duty logistics of wildlife filmmaking, revealing just what it takes to get crews to some of the most remote parts of our planet. Sir David Attenborough recalls the reality of shooting on location 50 years ago when even a working telephone was hard to come by, whilst Line Producer Bronwen Thomas tells us what it’s like to film in more recent times to deliver one of the biggest and most ambitious series to date with Planet Earth III. Filmmaker Abdullah Khan also shares his experience of filming the Indus river dolphin and what happens on location when the original plan has to change on the fly.
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Podcast: Science Vs (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: UFOs: The Truth Is Right Here
Pub date: 2023-10-19
A whistleblower claims that the U.S. government is covering up what it knows about aliens on Earth, and several military pilots recently testified to seeing strange objects in the sky. It kinda feels like the tide is turning on UFOs — even NASA is taking these sightings seriously. So what’s going on here? Have aliens visited? And will we ever find alien life somewhere … out there? We speak to astrophysicists Prof. Kevin Knuth, Dr. Sara Webb, and Prof. Adam Frank.
Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsUFOs2023
Check our previous episode on UFOs here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/60oChXf4TK7dN4NZslVUpx
Prof. Adam Frank's new book, The Little Book of Aliens, comes out October 24.
Chapters:
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Chapter 1: Congress takes on aliens
(03:04) Chapter 2: Why is Rose Muldering?
(05:44) Chapter 3: The ‘Tic-Tac’ incident
(13:54) Chapter 4: We need a Scully
(26:45) Chapter 5: The new science on searching for alien life
This episode was produced by Rose Rimler, with help from Wendy Zukerman, as well as Michelle Dang, Joel Werner and Nick DelRose. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bobby Lord, Bumi Hidaka, Emma Munger, Peter Leonard, and So Wylie. Special thanks to Matt Shilts and Walter Rimler. An extra special thanks to researchers we spoke to for this episode – including Prof. Seth Shostak and Julio Plaza Del Olmo.
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Podcast: The Dream (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: S2 E7: Green Eggs and Scams
Pub date: 2020-02-03
Influencing a new generation of wellness.
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Podcast: SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Flapper of the South Seas
Pub date: 2023-10-24
In 1925, Margaret Mead set sail for American Samoa. What she claimed she found there—teenagers free to explore and express their sexuality—instantly captivated her audience in the U.S. Her book became a bestseller, and Mead skyrocketed to fame.
But what were her actual methods and motivations? We trace Mead’s legendary nine-month journey in the South Pacific.
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Podcast: AirSpace (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Vast and Beckoning Seas
Pub date: 2023-10-12
Europa Clipper is soon to be on its was to the outer solar system to study one of Jupiter's most interesting moons. In addition to the really awesome science it will do ('sniffing' gases with a mass spectrometer to find out what they're made of?!? How cool is that??), the spacecraft will carry a "message in a bottle" etched with your names and a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. Icy moons, science, and poetry, all our favorite things!
Thanks to our guest on this episode:
- Dr. Bob Pappalardo, JPL, Project Scientist-Europa Clipper
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Podcast: The Cows Are Mad (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Zombie Apocalypse
Pub date: 2023-10-23
Hidden deep in the heart of the Kent countryside is an abandoned factory with a dark past. In the 1980s and 1990s it processed tens of thousands of dead cows - some of which are thought to have been infected with a disease that would devastate British farming.
Then, when early human cases of BSE began to emerge in people living close to the rendering plant, paranoia also infected Kent’s countryside communities. People wanted answers - but there were none.
Today, science has failed to definitively answer two major questions about mad cow disease - where did it originally come from and how did humans get it?
Written, presented and produced by Lucy Proctor.
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Podcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler Cowen
Pub date: 2023-10-18
Tyler Cowen is one of the top thinkers in the world: the thinkers’ thinker.
A professor of economics at George Mason University, he has one of the most popular economics sites on the internet, Marginal Revolution, where he’s blogged every day for over 20 years. It also runs the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University. However, he may be best known for his popular podcast, Conversations with Tyler.
Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, having written 19 books, including Average is Over, The Great Stagnation, Discover Your Inner Economist, and Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World.
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Podcast: Everything is Alive (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Animals: Deirdre, Jellyfish
Pub date: 2023-10-11
Deirdre is a jellyfish, and she’s just trying to go with the flow.
Featuring Maeve Higgins. Maeve’s new album “A Very Special Woman” is available on bandcamp.
Choral music in this episode from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche and William Byrd, in the public domain. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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Podcast: Fixing the Future (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Your Life As A Digital Ghost
Pub date: 2023-10-18
Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wong talks with senior editor Eliza Strickland about how the increasing datification of our lives could make this prospect possible—with or without our consent.
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Podcast: Critics at Large | The New Yorker (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Spies, Sex, and John le Carré
Pub date: 2023-10-12
In 1963, a British spy writing under the pen name John le Carré published a novel that shot to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. After the success of “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” le Carré became known as the king of the modern spy thriller, and his gritty, political books helped define the genre until his death, in 2020. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz dive deep into the le Carré œuvre, delighting in the “glorious confusion” of works like “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “The Constant Gardener,” and “A Perfect Spy.” They also discuss le Carré’s life in light of two retrospectives out this month: “The Pigeon Tunnel,” an Errol Morris documentary on Apple TV+; and “The Secret Life of John le Carré,” an addendum to Adam Sisman’s definitive biography that exposes decades of affairs in which the novelist ran women like agents. With these details as a jumping-off point, the hosts explore the themes of intimacy and romance across the spy genre, including the Martini-soaked romps of Ian Fleming’s James Bond and the FX show “The Americans,” where romance functions as a metaphor for spycraft. “One question I’m asking is, Why are sex and love so much part of the archetype of the spy?” Schwartz says. “When you’re pretending and playing at being so many different things, love is usually one place where the truth must out.”
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Podcast: Heavyweight (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #52 Lenny
Pub date: 2023-10-05
Lenny was Jonathan's childhood best friend, but they drifted apart as they grew into adulthood. Now, Lenny is dying and needs a friend. So Jonathan makes the call.
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Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.
This episode was produced by supervising producer Stevie Lane, along with Phoebe Flanigan. The senior producer is Kalila Holt.
Production assistance by Mohini Madgavkar. Editorial guidance from Emily Condon.
Special thanks to Lauren Silverman, Neil Drumming, and Jackie Cohen.
The show was mixed by Bobby Lord.
Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Blue Dot Sessions, Katie Condon, Paper Rabbit, Boxwood Orchestra, Principle, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records.
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Podcast: Economist Podcasts (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: An interview with a Hamas leader
Pub date: 2023-10-11
How does the Palestinian militant group justify the atrocities committed in Israel? Why has it done this? What does it plan to do with the hostages? In a conversation with Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior official, Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor-in-chief, presses for answers.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Subtitles: On
Pub date: 2023-09-20
In recent years, the dialogue in movies and TV shows has gotten harder and harder to understand. No one seems to agree on who or what the main culprit is, much less how to fix the problem. In this episode, we wade into the murky waters of The Great Dialogue Debate, and maybe, just maybe, find a solution. Featuring Production Sound Mixer Tom Curley and Slashfilm Senior Writer Ben Pearson.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Pub date: 2023-10-06
Until recently, the Murdoch's formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. Michael Wolff the acclaimed author of a trilogy of books about the the chaotic Trump presidency and the biographer of Rupert Murdoch comes to Intelligence Squared to discuss this real life Succession with Justin Webb.
The episode was produced and edited by Conor Boyle
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Podcast: Infamous International: The Pink Panthers Story (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 1: Heist at the Wafi Mall
Pub date: 2023-09-14
Three young jewel thieves from Eastern Europe arrive in Dubai with a plan for a spectacular heist that will make them both rich and famous. They’ll drive two luxury sedans through the glass entrance doors of a high-end shopping mall and make off with millions in diamonds and jewelry — all in under a minute. Meet the Pink Panthers.
Hosted by Natalia Antelava
Written by Katrina Wolfe, Adam Pincus, Suzanne Myers and David Markowitz with help from Brent Katz and Matt Levin.
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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS) with Karen Munroe
Pub date: 2023-07-26
Flying squirrels. Fox squirrels. Giant squirrels. Tiny ones. Grey ones. Black ones. Fluorescent ones? Alie is losing her mind talking to dream guest and Sciuridologist, Dr. Karen Munroe. This Baldwin Wallace University professor has studied squirrels for decades and addresses where they sleep, how many babies they have, if they bite each other’s junk, how they find their acorns, Marvel movies, birdfeeder drama, imported squirrels, melanistic morphs, world domination, fistfights with birders, the rarest squirrel, the best place for squirrel tourism and more. You’ll scatter hoard so many nuggets of squirrel trivia. Enjoy.
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?
Pub date: 2023-10-05
John Ray is an emergency C.E.O., a bankruptcy expert who takes over companies that have succumbed to failure or fraud. He’s currently cleaning up the mess left by alleged crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried. And he loves it.
RESOURCES:
- "United States of America v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, a/k/a 'SBF,'" by the United States District Court Southern District of New York (2023).
- "Does FTX’s New CEO Have the Worst Job in Corporate America?" by Ben Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2022).
- "John J. Ray III, a St. Joseph’s Grad From Pittsfield, Is Earning $1,300 an Hour to Sort Out the Remains of the FTX Cryptocurrency Collapse," by Larry Parnass (The Berkshire Eagle, 2022).
- "'Pit Bull' Fights to Pick Up Enron's Pieces," by Ameet Sachdev (Chicago Tribune, 2007).
EXTRAS:
- “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.,” series by Freakonomics Radio (2018-2023).
- "Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with Moneyball?" by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
- "Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?" by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
- "What Can Blockchain Do for You?" series by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
SOURCES:
- John Ray, C.E.O. of FTX.
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Podcast: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Eleanor Rigby
Pub date: 2023-10-04
Face cream, a Bristol liquor business, and a lifelong reverence for the elderly are just a few of the rather ordinary and disparate inspirations Paul McCartney brought together in the creation of a masterpiece: “Eleanor Rigby.” In this episode, McCartney and Paul Muldoon tease out the song's lyrical inspirations and discuss the influence a Bernard Herrmann score for a Hitchcock film had on the lead single from 1966’s “Revolver."
“McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries.
The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; written by Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O’Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with sound design by Pejk Malinovski. The series is executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger.
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Podcast: Uncharted with Hannah Fry (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 4. This Train Has Been Delayed
Pub date: 2023-09-25
Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the military are at a loss: no-one can figure out what is causing the problem. Until Jason Bay and his team of data scientists assemble an old-fashioned timetabling graph, first developed in 19th century France, which exposes an invisible culprit.Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. And mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. Hannah Fry tells a tale of data detectives and very naughty trains.Presenter: Hannah FryExecutive Producer: Martin SmithSeries Producer: Lauren Armstrong-CarterEpisode Producer: Ilan GoodmanA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 554- Devil in the Details
Pub date: 2023-09-26
This week we have two stories featuring the devil.
An infamous "training video" teaching cops how to spot and stop "satanic crimes." And a stretch of highway with the misfortune of being officially named US Route 666.
Devil in the Details
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Podcast: The Book Review (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Audiobooks are the Best
Pub date: 2023-09-29
You love books. You love podcasts. Ergo, we assume you love audiobooks the way we do — we hope you do, anyway, because this week we’ve devoted our entire episode to the form, as Gilbert Cruz is joined by a couple of editors from the Book Review, Lauren Christensen and Tina Jordan, to discuss everything from favorite narrators to regional accents to the ideal listening speed and the way audiobooks have to compete with other kinds of media.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How to live like a Roman emperor
Pub date: 2023-09-25
What did Roman emperors actually do all day? Were they really as bloodthirsty as legend would suggest? And why was food so important? Speaking to Matt Elton, popular historian, author and broadcaster Mary Beard tackles some of the big questions about life as a Roman emperor, profiling some extraordinary figures along the way.
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Podcast: The Life Scientific (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate change
Pub date: 2023-09-19
With the world's biodiversity being lost at an alarming rate, Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has made it his life's mission to protect it. He is a bio-geographer revealing how changes to the Earth's landscape, such as the formation of mountain ranges and rainforests, leads to the evolution of new species and causes plants, fungi and animals to move around the world.
His work is a masterclass in joined-up thinking, bringing together different fields of research by starting conversations between scientists who would rarely talk to one another. Together, they paint a more holistic picture of how our planet's biodiversity has developed in the hope of informing how we can protect it in the future.
Alex tells presenter Jim Al-Khalili about a life spent in the wild, beginning with his earliest memories of growing up in Brazil cataloguing life in the Atlantic Rainforest. That passion is still with him today. We've only scratched the surface of understanding what lives here on Earth, he says, more than 4,000 new species are found every year. Alex is passionate that we need to speed up the rate at which we document the richness of life, arguing if we don't identify what there is we can't protect it.
Presented by Jim Al-KhaliliProduced by Tom Bonnett
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Podcast: The Lonely Palette (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)
Pub date: 2023-09-12
The neoplatonic ideal of beauty, the girl on the half-shell, the naked chick riding a clam. Her tilted head and fluttery hair are recognized by everyone and their grandma, but no one - experts included - can explain just why in the heck this painting is so iconic. Shell we take on the challenge?See the images:https://bit.ly/3LeIwxuMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”Joan Baez, “Diamonds and Rust”The Blue Dot Sessions, “TwoPound,” “Coulis Coulis,” “Delmendra,” “No Smoking,” “Belle Anette,” “Rue Severine,” “Ranch Hand,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Khfett”Lady Gaga, “Venus”Episode sponsor:https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
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Podcast: the memory palace (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 208: In the Gallery
Pub date: 2023-09-21
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Music
- The Theory by Clem Leek
- Hiddensee by Caeys
- The Clock Tower by Hampshire and Foat
Notes
- If you want to know more about Gardner, I’d suggest Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, by Mark Katz.
- On Brady, Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson.
- I’d also suggest reading the New York Times’ review of the exhibit. It’s pretty stunning.
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson
Pub date: 2023-09-14
Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns?
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Driverless Dilemma
Pub date: 2023-09-15
Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy.
That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are great for thought experimentation and conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. Now, new technologies are forcing that moral quandary out of our philosophy departments and onto our streets.
So today, we revisit the Trolley Problem and wonder how a two-ton hunk of speeding metal will make moral calculations about life and death that still baffle its creators.
Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from the Moral Machine group at MIT. Also thanks to Fiery Cushman, Matthew DeBord, Sertac Karaman, Martine Powers, Xin Xiang, and Roborace for all of their help. Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students who collected the vox: Chelsea Donohue, Ivan Flores, David Gentile, Maite Hernandez, Claudia Irizarry-Aponte, Comice Johnson, Richard Loria, Nivian Malik, Avery Miles, Alexandra Semenova, Kalah Siegel, Mark Suleymanov, Andee Tagle, Shaydanay Urbani, Isvett Verde and Reece Williams.
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Podcast: History As It Happens (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: What If? Kennedy and Vietnam
Pub date: 2023-09-14
This is the first episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history.
As the 60th anniversary of his assassination approaches, a question still hangs over John F. Kennedy’s legacy: had he lived and been reelected, would he have withdrawn from Vietnam? It’s a tantalizing counterfactual, not only because LBJ’s escalation led to an epic tragedy, but because of the relevant lessons we can apply to our foreign policy dilemmas today. In this episode, eminent Vietnam scholar Fredrik Logevall separates fact from myth concerning Kennedy's ideas and intentions for withdrawing U.S. military advisors from the Cold War theater of Southeast Asia.
Note: The source of the Kennedy audio tapes is millercenter.org at the University of Virginia.
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Podcast: Rigged (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Herb, Ep 1: The Panic
Pub date: 2023-07-21
In the 1970s, Mobil Oil had invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person with a unique personality and opinions that deserved to be heard. When public backlash threatened to undermine their approach, they launched a campaign that would change the course of U.S. history. Transcript
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Podcast: Incubation (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Polio: The Last Mile
Pub date: 2023-09-14
Why has polio been so challenging to eradicate? Karen Torghele tells the story of two polio vaccines and the two rival scientists who developed them: Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk. Then, Dr. Ananda S Bandyopadhyay explains our best bet for eliminating the disease worldwide.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
Pub date: 2023-09-15
- Jørn Utzon receives a phone call: he's just won an international competition to design a brand new opera house for the Australian city of Sydney. Utzon is unknown in the field, so this is a triumph. The young architect couldn’t have imagined what a bitter victory it would turn out to be...
The Guggenheim in Bilbao; the Burj Khalifa in Dubai; the Shard in London. These days, everyone seems to want an iconic building. But Sydney Opera House was the first, the greatest – and the most painful. It's now fifty years since the Opera House was opened. This is its origin story.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A Master Class with David Grann
Pub date: 2023-09-08
David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two nonfiction books that topped the best-seller list this summer: “The Wager” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” from 2017, which Martin Scorsese has adapted into a film opening in October. Grann is among the most lauded nonfiction writers at The New Yorker; David Remnick says that “his urge to find unique stories and tell them with rigor and style is rare to the vanishing point.” Grann talks with Remnick about his beginnings as a writer, and about his almost obsessive research and writing process. “The trick is how can you tell a true story using these literary techniques and remain completely factually based,” Grann says. “What I realized as I did this more is that you are an excavator. You aren’t imagining the story—you are excavating the story.” Grann recounts travelling in rough seas to the desolate site of the eighteenth-century shipwreck at the heart of “The Wager,” his most recent book, so that he could convey the sailors’ despair more accurately. That book is also being made into a film by Scorcese. “It’s a learning curve because I’ve never been in the world of Hollywood,” Grann says. “You’re a historical resource. … Once they asked me, ‘What was the lighting in the room?’ I thought about it for a long time. That’s something I would not need to know, writing a book.” But Grann is glad to be in the hands of an expert, and keep his distance from the process. “I’m not actually interested in making a film,” he admits. “I’m really interested in these stories, and so I love that somebody else with their own vision and intellect is going to draw on these stories and add to our understanding of whatever this work is.”
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Podcast: OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Big Bad Chocolate
Pub date: 2022-11-16
Remember the Mast Brothers scandal? Think you are eating sustainable, small batch chocolate? It's way more complicated than that. Plus: when three idealists try to tackle the evils of Big Chocolate, they realize treacherous roads, nails and bullets are just the beginning of their problems.
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Podcast: One Year (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1955: The Team Nobody Would Play
Pub date: 2023-08-31
The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on the field. In the year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus, these Black 12-year-olds became unlikely civil rights pioneers—and faced the wrath of a white society that wasn’t ready to change.
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Podcast: Selected Shorts (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Way I See It
Pub date: 2023-08-17
On this Selected Shorts, host Meg Wolitzer offers up stories about limited viewpoints and larger visions. In “You Can Find Love Now" by Ramona Ausubel, performed by Amy Ryan and Martin Short, an unusual character drops into the dating pool; in “The Weave,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Arnell Powell, a heist gets hairy; and in J. Robert Lennon’s “Blue Light, Red Light,” a child's fears find his family seeking tech support. It’s performed by Fred Hechinger.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Pub date: 2023-09-05
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and he had led a 2009 expedition to the South Pole. But Worsley planned an even greater challenge. At fifty-five, he set out to trek alone to ski from one side of the Antarctic continent to the other, hauling more than three hundred pounds of gear and posting an audio diary by satellite phone. The New Yorker staff writer David Grann wrote about Worsley’s quest, and spoke with his widow, Joanna Worsley, about the painful choice she made to support her husband in a mortally dangerous endeavor.
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Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Nine Lives of Credit Suisse: Part One
Pub date: 2023-09-01
In March 2023 the unthinkable happened: Credit Suisse, that giant of Swiss banking, collapsed. Like the proverbial cat, it had run through its nine lives. From the Chiasso saga to unprecedented corporate fines, via troubled times on Wall Street, Credit Suisse had always lived dangerously. And finally, in 2023, the financial winds caught up with them. In this first part of a two-part special of A Long Time in Finance, Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins are joined by experts Josef Ackermann, former President of Credit Suisse's executive board, financial historian Philip Augar, and banking analyst Frances Coppola, to look at the history of a bank that lived fast and died young.
Part two of the story of Credit Suisse will be in your feeds next Friday – so please subscribe now.
Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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Podcast: The Big Flop (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Quibi Bites the Dust with Connor Ratliff & Matt Bellassai | 1
Pub date: 2023-08-28
Remember Quibi? The app with short videos you could only watch on your phone? No?! That's because it only lasted SIX months before shutting down. On the first episode of The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes) and Matt Bellassai (Diss & Tell) to spin the tale of the little video platform that couldn't. Come for the rapid rise, stay for the even more rapid fall.
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Podcast: Endless Thread (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Artist: Known
Pub date: 2023-09-01
The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a rainbow-winged centaur and a green, glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not anymore... Endless Thread cracks the case!
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Podcast: BirdNote Daily (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Swifts Roost in Chimneys
Pub date: 2023-09-03
What could bring crowds of people out after sunset on a September evening to stare at ... a chimney? Swifts, of course! Scores of swifts form a funnel-shaped cloud above the right kind of chimney, then they begin their descent. First one, then a few more, then dozens, then hundreds swirl right down into the chimney. You can help Chimney Swifts and Vaux's Swifts by providing a roosting tower.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Voice Inside
Pub date: 2023-08-23
Many of us talk to ourselves in our heads pretty much all day long. But it turns out that there are plenty of people who don’t. In fact, thinking comes in many shapes and sizes, and no two minds are exactly alike. In this episode, we explore the peculiar world of how we think, and consider the pros and cons of inner speech. Featuring psychologists Charles Fernyhough and Russell Hurlburt, and lots of 20K listeners.
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Podcast: The New Bazaar (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Malcolm Gladwell's Next Chapter
Pub date: 2023-08-29
Last summer, Cardiff interviewed Malcolm Gladwell for another podcast that he hosts called The Next Chapter, by American Express Business Class.
On that show, Cardiff interviews bestselling book authors (like Gladwell) to find out what they’ve been up to since their earlier book was published, and to learn what they would add to it now that some time has passed—hence the “Next Chapter” of the title.
And in the case of Gladwell, what he’s been up to in the last few years is podcasting. Specifically, he co-founded Pushkin Industries, a podcast production company for which he hosts his own excellent show, called Revisionist History, and has written an audiobook, The Bomber Mafia.
As it happens, Gladwell and Cardiff have the same favorite dead economist, Albert O Hirschman. And since Hirschman comes up a few times in their chat, and because the chat also covers a number of fascinating economic themes generally, it's the perfect episode to also air on The New Bazaar. The chat was recorded at Gladwell’s offices in Hudson, New York, last year.
And if you like the episode and want to hear more of these interviews, please consider subscribing to The Next Chapter on your podcast app of choice. There you'll find other interviews hosted by Cardiff with guests like Adam Grant on how to think creatively; David Epstein on why it’s good to be a generalist; Susan Cain on introversion; and Mashama Bailey and John O Morisano on entrepreneurship and partnership in business.
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Podcast: The Essay (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
Pub date: 2023-06-09
Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
In this final essay of the series, Geoff Dyer retraces a pilgrimage to New Mexico, where DH Lawrence’s ashes were supposedly built into a concrete shrine near Taos at the request of his estranged wife Frieda. But were they actually his ashes?
Dyer is a multi-award winning novelist and non-fiction writer. His many books include Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence, and his latest The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, which was published in 2022.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
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Podcast: Blowback (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: S4 Episode 1 - "Snake Eater"
Pub date: 2023-08-25
Welcome to Season 4: Afghanistan.
Podcast: Field Recordings (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Moncrieffe Island, Perth, Scotland at midday on 12th June 2023 – by Eleanor McDowall
Pub date: 2023-08-08
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Podcast: The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ronan Farrow on the Rule of Elon Musk
Pub date: 2023-08-23
In this week’s magazine, Ronan Farrow has published a major story about the business practices of Elon Musk. Farrow, who has reported extensively on abuses of power for The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Musk has become an essential yet unofficial part of American governance, holding the keys to the green transition, the space race, and even the war in Ukraine. The reason for this, Farrow explains, is not Musk’s outrageous personality; it’s the structures of neoliberal capitalism that allowed a person like Musk to ascend. Read more by Ronan Farrow on Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, Britney Spears’s conservatorship, and the Israeli surveillance agency Black Cube.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 179. Andy Quiz
Pub date: 2023-08-12
It's the annual etymology quizlusionist! I’m on a family holiday for the first time since 1988, so enlisted my brother Andy Zaltzman of the Bugle podcast to test his/your wits on singing goats, explosives, mythological Greek sweeteners, attics, left-handedness and whales.
Can you beat Andy’s score? Play along using the interactive scoresheet at theallusionist.org/andyquiz.
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Podcast: Effigy
Episode: The Steel Battleship
Pub date: 2023-08-11
Cold open read by Jeff Dorchen, (Lord Melbourne, Letter to Durham County Magistrates, 1832.)
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Clips:
(21:27) Pete Gergich interviewed by Eric Margolis, February 1978. Colorado Coal Project, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Podcast: Far From Home (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 01: Getting Started
Pub date: 2016-06-02
My friend Rosi from Australia contacts my brother and me to invite us to join her on an 11,000 mile road trip this summer across Europe and Asia, and we weigh the risks, challenges, and rewards of driving to Mongolia in a tiny car that’s totally not built for such a journey.
Learn more about our trip and follow our adventures at farfromhomepodcast.org and teamdonundestan.com. And if you like what you hear, please do me a favor and leave a quick rating or review in iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Podcast: Sold a Story (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 1: The Problem
Pub date: 2022-10-20
Corinne Adams watches her son's lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: He can't read. Little Charlie isn't the only one. Sixty-five percent of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. Kids need to learn specific skills to become good readers, and in many schools, those skills are not being taught.
Read: Emily Hanford’s reading list
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up
Pub date: 2023-08-06
Bjorn Andersen killed 111 minke whales this season. He tells us how he does it, why he does it, and what he thinks would happen if whale-hunting ever stopped.
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Podcast: The Dispatch Podcast (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: AG Sulzberger on NYT, Objectivity, and Media Bias
Pub date: 2023-07-05
The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger joins Steve Hayes and Sarah Isgur in a special interview recorded from The Times' building in New York. They discuss Sulzberger's recent CJR piece on objectivity in journalism (and its discontents), digging into the historically hostile relationship between right wing media and The Times, the challenges of fighting "bias" in news, and the possible paths to rebuilding public trust in institutional journalism.
Show Notes:
-A.G Sulzberger's article for the Colombia Journalism Review
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Balsall Heath Bohemians: Stewart Lee Celebrates the Birmingham Surrealists
Pub date: 2023-08-04
Stewart Lee takes us into a world of life-sized chess pieces, alcohol-guzzling nuns and crucified naked bespectacled men. The story of British Surrealism began, not in Bohemian north London, but in a Birmingham suburb.
Today, the tradition continues with Birmingham artist Cold War Steve, whose work is featured on the website. His detailed collages evoke the surrealist world of the original Birmingham Surrealists.
The seminal moment for British Surrealism was the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition when Salvador Dali donned a diving suit and walked through Piccadilly. But art historian and critic Ruth Millington reveals that the actual crazy beating heart of British Surrealism had already begun. A Birmingham group of artists refused to take part in that Exhibition, viewing the other British artists chosen as ‘overnight surrealists'.
The Birmingham group, including Conroy Maddox and John Melville, were the first and truest expression of the movement in the UK, meeting in the Kardohmah café in New Street and the Trocadero pub in Temple Street.
Later joined by Emmy Bridgwater and zoologist Desmond Morris - who left a giant elephant skull in Broad Street - they frequented Maddox’s house in Balsall Heath. Inside were life-size chess pieces and wallpaper handprinted by an adapted washing mangle. They held parties where communists, Caribbean immigrants and naked women in high heels smashed pottery underfoot.
Activities included Maddox being crucified, naked and bespectacled while a nun drank from a two pint bottle of local brew Mitchell and Butler. Maddox wanted to replicate this in shop windows in Birmingham but the Council refused.
Stewart Lee explores the creative explosion in the Surrealist court of Birmingham and the art it produced.
Artwork above by Cold War Steve.
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Podcast: Norah Jones Is Playing Along (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Seth MacFarlane
Pub date: 2023-05-23
Whether it’s producing, directing, writing, animating, comedy, voice-overs or singing - Seth MacFarlane can do it all! You may know him as the creator of “Family Guy”, “The Orville”, or the movie “Ted”, but in this episode, Seth and Norah take a step back in time to visit some old jazz standards, and duet on their Oscar-nominated collaboration. They may bond on some deep cuts, but can you guess the one era of music they don’t agree on? Listen in to find out! Recorded 2/7/23.
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Podcast: This Is Actually Happening (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 277: What if you survived the Bosnian genocide?
Pub date: 2023-05-09
From an idyllic childhood in communist Yugoslavia, as a teenager, Mirsad’s world becomes a living nightmare as the Bosnian War brings shelling, torture, murder and ethnic cleansing to his village, leaving deep scars that haunt and transform his life.
Today's episode featured Mirsad Solakovic. If you would like to contribute to help the Solak Gym (a charitable organization) that Mirsad helped create, you can donate through PayPal at solakgym@hotmail.com. You can see and find out more about the gym on Instagram @solakgym. You can also find out more about Mirsad on Instagram @mickey_solak and on Twitter @MirsadSolakovic, there you can find links to his memoir "The Boy Who Said Nothing"
Producers: Whit Missildine
Content/Trigger Warnings: war, murder, ethnic cleansing, graphic violence, torture of a minor, graphic bodily injury, rape, suicidal ideation,explicit language
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Podcast: The Explorers Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ibn Battuta - Part 1 - Mecca
Pub date: 2023-05-26
The early life of Ibn Battuta is covered in the first episode of our series - plus our explorer's first major journey - a trek to Mecca in 1325-26. It is the start to one of the great stories in the history of exploration and travel.
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Podcast: Everybody in the Pool (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 13: Food Waste: Hidden Climate Flood
Pub date: 2023-08-09
This week on Everybody in the Pool, a climate entrepreneur and tech veteran solving big climate problems in unexpected ways. Matt Rogers is the co-founder of Mill, a kitchen appliance that turns food waste into dried, odorless grounds that consumers drop in the mail and that get upcycled into chicken feed. And Matt just happens to have also co-founded a little company called Nest, which has been a powerful driver of energy efficiency. He and Molly talk about how food waste is the unexpected giant emitter that requires major behavior change, and sometimes, a sexy gadget is just what you need to make that change.
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Podcast: Stuff The British Stole (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Zero Marks The Spot
Pub date: 2023-07-18
It’s round. It has a hole in it. It symbolises nothing and yet it is the possibility of something... meet zero. The zero we know and love today is the foundation of our modern world. And we have India to thank for it; in particular one special Indian birch bark book — the Bakhshali manuscript.
This is the story of how these fragile pages travelled to Oxford University and what their future looks like.
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Podcast: The Atlas Obscura Podcast (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Burj Al Babas
Pub date: 2023-08-08
An incomplete luxury housing development in Turkey is a mashup of fairy tale and ghost town, and almost everyone has an opinion of (or wants to see) this place.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/turkey-castle-ghost-town
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Podcast: The Banksy Story (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. The Mild, Mild West
Pub date: 2023-07-17
James Peak isn't an art critic, or even a journalist. He's a Banksy super-fan, and in this series he, and his soundman, Duncan, get closer than close to Banksy's secret world - telling the story of the graffiti kid who made spraying walls into high art, the household name who is completely anonymous, the cultural phenomenon who bites the hand that feeds him.
James persuades a member of Banksy's secret team – someone who worked closely with the artist when they were starting to cut through – to talk about the experience. The story that results is a rollercoaster ride.
In this episode, how did the city of Bristol, in the south west of England, help to shape Banksy and his art? And will James and Duncan find the person they're looking for?
Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak Sound & Commentary: Duncan Crowe. Voices: Keith Wickham & Harriet Carmichael Music: Alcatraz Swim Team & Lilium Series Mixing: Neil Churchill Executive Producer: Philip Abrams With special thanks to Hadrian Briggs, Pete Chinn, Patrick Nguyen, John Higgs and Steph Warren.
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Podcast: More Perfect (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Not Even Past: Dred Scott Reprise
Pub date: 2023-07-20
Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the most infamous cases in Supreme Court history: in 1857, an enslaved person named Dred Scott filed a suit for his freedom and lost. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney wrote that Black men “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” One Civil War and more than a century later, the Taneys and the Scotts reunite at a Hilton in Missouri to figure out what reconciliation looks like in the 21st century.
Voices in the episode include:
• Lynne Jackson — great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, and president and founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation
• Dred Scott Madison — great-great-grandson of Dred Scott
• Barbara McGregory — great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott
• Charlie Taney — great-great-grandnephew of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
• Richard Josey — Manager of Programs at the Minnesota Historical Society
Learn more:
• 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford
• The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation
Special thanks to Kate Taney Billingsley, whose play, "A Man of His Time," inspired the episode; and to Soren Shade for production help. Additional music for this episode by Gyan Riley.
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Podcast: Darknet Diaries (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 135: The D.R. Incident
Pub date: 2023-07-04
Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cyber security incident erupted. Omar walks us through what happened and the incident response procedures that he went through.
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Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
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Mixing by Proximity Sound.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Invading the past: Russia and science fiction
Pub date: 2023-08-01
Science fiction flourished from the earliest days of the Soviet Union. A rare space to explore other realms and utopian dreams of progress. But with the Soviet Union's collapse different narratives bubbled up. Many of them reactionary, imperial, violent with one sub genre flourishing above all - Popadantsy: accidental time travel where protagonists return to World War Two or the Imperial past to set the path of Russian history on the 'right' course, Historian Catherine Merridale explores how the once visionary world of Russian science fiction shifted in the time of Vladimir Putin to become a reactionary playground.
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Podcast: Unhedged (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The billionaire charged with insider trading
Pub date: 2023-07-27
Joe Lewis, 86, is a billionaire. He made his money trading currency, among other things. And he likes to keep a low profile. That could change with his appearance in court this week in New York, responding to insider trading charges. His bail is set at $300mn. Legal correspondent Joe Miller joins Ethan Wu to discuss how not to break the law. Also, we go long medical innovations and short the UK’s most respectable bank.
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story
Pub date: 2023-07-27
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real thing he made up—a taxonomy of the modern mystery story—with a focus on murder mysteries and police procedurals. From Dragnet, to John Grisham, to Sherlock Holmes, it's all in there...and all connected to how we view real policing.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Editing Agatha Christie
Pub date: 2023-07-12
How do we approach offensive language in texts from previous times?
Thank you to my guest, Subhadra Das. You can find more information about her work at her website subhadradas.com and her book (Un)Civilised: Ten Lies That Made the West is available for pre-order.
Mentioned in this episode:
— The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, introduction by Shafquat Towheed
— And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
— Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Mentioned Shedunnit episodes:
— A Mysterious Glossary
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Great Post Office Trial - Nowhere Near Over
Pub date: 2023-07-21
After the introduction of a new computer system in the early 2000s, the Post Office began using its data to accuse sub-postmasters of falsifying accounts and stealing money.
Many were fired and financially ruined; others were prosecuted and even put behind bars. But many of the accused insisted that they had done nothing wrong and that they were being held accountable for computer errors they could not control. After being contacted by a man who insisted that his pregnant wife had been jailed for a crime she didn’t commit, journalist Nick Wallis started investigating what some are already describing as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.
In this ten-part series, Nick gets right to the heart of the story, as he talks to those whose lives were ruined and follows the twists and turns of a David and Goliath courtroom battle as the sub-postmasters tried to fight back. Could they have been victims of what they saw as institutionalised corporate cruelty from the Post Office?
Presenter: Nick Wallis Producer: Robert Nicholson Executive Producer: Will Yates
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Podcast: The Santiago Boys
Episode: Ep 1: A blast in Manhattan
Pub date: 2023-07-22
As Allende's victory sends shockwaves through the world, giants of industry and government plot his downfall. From the unlikely quarters of Britain's corporate world, an unexpected saviour emerges. Can this enigmatic maverick turn the tides in Allende's favor?
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Podcast: OUTLAWS: The Good Thief (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Rob Banks and Influence People
Pub date: 2023-07-12
Miles and the team learn how Vassilis and his gang pulled off the biggest bank robbery in Greek history without firing a single shot.
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Podcast: Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Paul Simon
Pub date: 2023-07-18
Paul Simon is one of the greatest living songwriters. Since debuting with Art Garfunkel in 1957, Paul Simon has written countless songs quintessential to the American psyche. This year, at 81 years old, he’s released the latest addition to his beloved catalog, Seven Psalms, to an outpouring of critical acclaim.
In 2021, Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam released the audiobook, Miracle And Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. It’s an intimate look into Simon’s songwriting alongside never-before-heard live studio versions of hits including “The Boxer," “The Sound of Silence," and “Graceland.” This fall, we'll also be releasing an updated version of the audiobook with a brand-new chapter featuring even more from Malcolm and Paul's newly-recorded deep dive into Seven Psalms, some of which you'll hear today.
To celebrate the latest chapter in Paul Simon’s 65-year-career, on today’s episode Malcolm Gladwell sits back down with Paul to discuss the creation of his latest album. Paul explains why he feels music reviews are more about the writer than the piece of music being critiqued, and he talks about why many of his lyrics take a conversational bent. He also recalls how the title came to him in a dream after he considered never writing again.
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Podcast: New Things Under the Sun
Episode: How to Impede Technological Progress
Pub date: 2023-07-13
Most of the time, we think of innovation policy as a problem of how to accelerate desirable forms of technological progress. But there are other times when we may wish to actively slow technological progress. The AI pause letter is a recent example, but less controversial examples abound. A lot of energy policy acts as a brake on the rate of technological advance in conventional fossil fuel innovation. Geopolitical rivals often seek to impede the advance of rivals’ military technology.
Today I want to look at policy levers that actively slow technological advance, sometimes (but not always) as an explicit goal.
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Podcast: You're Wrong About (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Bonnie and Clyde (and Blanche and Buck) with Jamie Loftus
Pub date: 2023-07-17
“Why don’t something happen?” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died in 1934, but their legend gets bigger every year. This week, Jamie Loftus brings us back to reality with a tale of prison breaks, FBI malfeasance, love, guitars, and hot dog breakfasts.
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Podcast: Field Trip (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: White Sands National Park
Pub date: 2023-07-12
White Sands National Park contains a geological rarity: the largest field of gypsum sand dunes anywhere on earth. The blinding white dunes stretch for miles in every direction, dazzling tourists, inviting selfies and sled rides.
But there’s much more to this park than meets the eye. White Sands National Park, one of the newest in the system, is embedded within White Sands Missile Range, the largest military installation in the country. Today the missile range is a testing ground for cutting-edge weapons. It’s also home to the Trinity site, where the first test of an atomic bomb was conducted in 1945. In that instant, the sand beneath the bomb fused into greenish glass. And life changed forever for people living in communities nearby.
That same sand also holds evidence of humanity’s origins on this continent. One observant park ranger at White Sands National Park has spent years uncovering footprints delicately preserved in the shifting sand. Those tracks have painted a picture of prehistoric families living alongside mammoths and giant ground sloths. They’ve also raised new questions about just how long ago the first people might have crossed into North America.
In this episode of “Field Trip,” Washington post reporter Lillian Cunningham visits these two very different sites in the New Mexico desert and asks why this landscape has been both safeguarded and sacrificed.
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Podcast: Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Donor Daddy
Pub date: 2023-07-10
He donated sperm to help a friend start her family. A decade later that gift shattered this own. Esther talks through the consequences of a secret.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When Parakeets Plundered New York
Pub date: 2023-07-14
Cautionary Conversation: An invasive parakeet species began spreading in New York City - and the government decided to kill every last bird. Tim Harford is joined by Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, host of The Last Archive, to talk about the great parakeet panic of the 1970s and a history of anxieties about population growth.
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Podcast: The Book Review (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
Pub date: 2023-06-23
Recently, two giants of modern American literature died within a single day of each other. Gilbert Cruz talks with Dwight Garner about the work of Cormac McCarthy’s work, and with Pamela Paul and Emily Eakin about the life and legacy of Robert Gottlieb.
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Podcast: The Last Archive (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Parakeet Panic
Pub date: 2023-07-06
When invasive parakeets began to spread in New York City in the 1970s, the government decided it needed to kill them all. Today: The offbeat panic about wild parrots, and a history of anxieties about population growth.
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Podcast: The Retrievals
Episode: Episode 1: The Patients
Pub date: 2023-06-29
Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.
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Podcast: Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: When Hollywood met China – the battle for the big screen
Pub date: 2023-07-09
Following controversies involving films like 'Top Gun', 'Mulan' and now 'Barbie', there's been growing pushback against China's perceived influence over Hollywood. But are these calls too little, too late?
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Podcast: Unsung Science (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Man Who Invented QR Codes
Pub date: 2023-07-07
In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn?
And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows up on restaurant menus, billboards, magazine ads — even tattoos and gravestones. But even that, says Hara-san, is only the beginning.
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Podcast: Into the Zone (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Last Archive: The Word For Man Is Ishi
Pub date: 2023-06-29
In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encountered the new Anthropology department at Berkeley University. What happened next helped to define the ethical quandaries of the field and, in a strange turn, the history of science fiction. This episode: That story and the moral stakes of imagining the past and the future.
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Incredible Egg (encore)
Pub date: 2023-06-27
We love eggs scrambled, fried, or poached; we couldn't enjoy a quiche, meringue, or flan without them. But for scientists and archaeologists, these perfect packages are a source of both wonder and curiosity. Why do eggs come in such a spectacular variety of colors, shapes, and sizes? Why are we stuck mostly eating chicken eggs, when our ancestors feasted on emu, ostrich, and guillemot eggs? This episode, we explore the science and history of eggs, from dinosaurs to double-yolkers! (encore episode)
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 346. The Mystery of the Holy Grail
Pub date: 2023-06-29
“Who drinks the water I shall give him, will have a spring inside him welling up for eternal life.” A deeply mysterious object which doesn’t appear in the Bible, was the Holy Grail really the chalice used by Jesus during the Last Supper, and the very cup that caught his blood at the crucifixion? Or is it merely a symbol representing Christ’s bloodline? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the Holy Grail, the origin of the tradition, and the role it played within medieval Christendom.
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Podcast: The Last Archive (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Word For Man Is Ishi
Pub date: 2023-06-29
In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encounteredthe new Anthropology department at Berkeley University. What happened next helped to define the ethical quandaries of the field and, in a strange turn, the history of science fiction. This episode: That story and the moral stakes of imagining the past and the future.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
Pub date: 2023-06-27
In recent years, the attorney Jonathan Mitchell has become a crucial figure in the anti-abortion movement. Advising a Texas state senator, Mitchell developed Texas’s S.B. 8 legislation, which allows for civil lawsuits against individuals who have helped facilitate an abortion—acts like driving a patient to an appointment. The law was crafted to evade review by the Supreme Court in the period before Dobbs ended the precedent of Roe v. Wade. Opponents of the law have called it state-sponsored vigilantism. Mitchell is now representing a man seeking millions of dollars in civil damages from friends of his ex-wife—who helped her access abortion medication—in a wrongful death lawsuit. And yet, despite his conservative politics, Mitchell has something in common with some legal thinkers on the left: a critique of the Supreme Court and its extraordinary power. As an opponent of the belief in judicial supremacy, Mitchell asks, “Why should it be the Supreme Court and not Congress?” to have the last word on what the Constitution means. “Why should it be the Supreme Court and not a state legislature that might have a different view?” Mitchell rarely gives interviews, but he agreed to speak with The New Yorker’s contributor, Jeannie Suk Gersen, a professor at Harvard Law School who clerked for the former Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
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Podcast: Knowable (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How the placebo effect went mainstream
Pub date: 2023-06-27
Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the placebo effect by Harvard anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher was nonetheless remarkable and influential. It paved the way for sounder drug trials and pushed scientists to better understand how we process pain. To explore its significance, Host Charlotte Stoddart enlisted the help of Ted Kaptchuk, director of the Program in Placebo Studies at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who knows the paper well.
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Podcast: Without (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Antibiotics
Pub date: 2023-06-21
The last time scientists produced a new batch of effective antibiotics was in 1987. Since then, we've seen virtually no new ones. About 700,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria worldwide every year and in the next couple of decades, that number is expected to soar.
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Podcast: Sound of Cinema (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The world of director Wes Anderson
Pub date: 2023-06-24
With the appearance this week of Wes Anderson's latest film, Asteroid City, Matthew Sweet looks back at one of Hollywood's most distinctive auteur director's films through the music written to serve them. Titles such as the award-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr Fox.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams
Pub date: 2023-06-23
A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling to move across state lines, to the adjacent city of Moorhead, Minnesota. This spring, Witt returned to talk with Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic’s director. Kromenaker says the clinic’s new home has had some notable upsides—a parking lot that shields patients from protestors, for example—but North Dakota patients are increasingly fearful as they reach out for care, afraid even to cross the state line for an abortion. Plus, The New Yorker’s Alex Ross discusses John Williams, who has written scores for generations of blockbusters, including “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” and many films of Steven Spielberg. Ross considers him the last practitioner of Hollywood’s grand orchestral tradition, and his retirement will mark the end of an era in music: at ninety-one years old, Williams has said that his score for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” may be his last.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Can humans ever understand how animals think?
Pub date: 2023-06-23
A flood of new research is overturning old assumptions about what animal minds are and aren’t capable of – and changing how we think about our own species. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 541- The Frankfurt Kitchen
Pub date: 2023-06-20
After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of residents were in dire straits, and in the second half of the 1920s, the city built over 10,000 public housing units. It was some of the earliest modern architecture — simple, clean, and uniform. The massive housing effort was, in many ways, eye-poppingly impressive, with all new construction and sleek, cutting edge architecture. But one room in these new housing units was far and away the most lauded and influential: and that was the kitchen.
Many consider the Frankfurt Kitchen to be nothing less than the first modern kitchen. A few of these kitchens still exist, some in museums. And it's strange to see one there, because to modern eyes, it doesn’t appear to be high art. It just looks like a kitchen.
The Frankfurt Kitchen
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Podcast: Working It (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to be more productive at work
Pub date: 2023-06-13
We all want to achieve more - and produce better work - without spending more time at our desk. Isabel Berwick asks senior FT columnist Tim Harford how best to tackle the problem of productivity. Tim shares some of his top tips for avoiding distraction and creating a state of “flow” at work. Plus, could AI come to the rescue?
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Podcast: And Also Some Women (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mary Magdalene
Pub date: 2023-05-16
In our debut episode, hosts Junia Joplin and Anne Thériault delve into Mary Magdalene, a figure who has been depicted in many different ways: as a sex worker, as the apostle to the apostles, even as Jesus’ wife. In this episode they'll try to figure out what, if any, of those characterizations are accurate.Guests: Diana Butler Bass, Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, Nikole MitchellFor more information about this episode, including reading links, sources, a full transcript & more, visit broadview.org/podcasts
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Podcast: What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The George Soros Succession
Pub date: 2023-06-18
One son was preparing to take over George Soros’s multi-billion-dollar empire. Then, there was a falling out, and a new heir-apparent was chosen.
Who is Alex Soros? And, as he takes over for one of the most influential figures in American politics, what can we expect from him?
Guest: Gregory Zuckerman, special writer at the Wall Street Journal
Host: Emily Peck
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Podcast: Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Cry Havoc! #1 - After Caesar
Pub date: 2023-06-01
Ancient Rome, 42 BC. Top gents Mark and Gaius begin their first day of running the entire Roman Republic together. How hard could it possibly be?
Transcripts: https://bit.ly/3MNrckc
Content Notes:
- Abuse of Power (recurring theme)
- Vicarious Embarrassment
- Threats of violence/murder
- War/Warfare
- Innuendo/Sexual References
- Alcohol & Alcohol use
- Manipulation
- Historical Sexism
- SFX: Misophonia (eating/drinking/coughing/belching/kissing), crowds, stabbing
Created by David K. Barnes
Directed by Amani Zardoe
Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner
Written by David K Barnes
Produced by Natalie Winter, Katherine Lindeman, Natasha Johnston, and April Sumner
Creative Consultation by Amani Zardoe
Historical Consultation by Dr. Emma Southon
Special Thanks to Arienne King
Sensitivity Consultation by Salt and Sage
Featuring
Kazeem Tosin Amore as Mark Antony
Harry Roebuck as Gaius Octavius Caesar
Sarah Agha as Charmian
Lara Sawalha as Cleopatra
Sarah Lambie as Octavia
Andy Secombe as Lepidus
Beth Eyre as Fulvia
Ahmed Aljabry as Ptolemy
Pip Gladwin as Drusus
Mark Nicholson as Rufus
Dialogue Editor – James Austin, Lowri Ann Davies
Sound Designer - Tessa Vroom, Meg McKeller, Katharine Seaton
Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella
Music and Scoring by Sam Jones (listen to the album here)
Art by Guerrilla Communications
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Podcast: Seldon Crisis – The Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Asimov and Reason
Pub date: 2023-05-31
Space based solar energy generation was originally imagined in 1941 by none other than Isaac Asimov, in the robot story Reason. This episode features a reading of the classic story and commentary about how relevant it is for our times and our preoccupation with the looming threat of artificial general intelligence.
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Podcast: 60 Songs That Explain the '90s (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: “If It Makes You Happy”—Sheryl Crow
Pub date: 2023-06-07
Rob is back to share the 10 worst songs he performed during his college open-mic-night phase, as he dives into Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy.” Later, Rob is joined by 'Baltimore Banner' columnist Leslie Gray Streeter to discuss Sheryl Crow’s career and the mistreatment of women music stars by the media (53:00).
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Leslie Gray Streeter
Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles
Additional Production Support: Chloe Clark
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Podcast: The Book Review (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Remembering Martin Amis
Pub date: 2023-05-26
The writer Martin Amis, who died last week at the age of 73, was a towering figure of English literature who for half a century produced a body of work distinguished by its raucous wit, cutting intelligence and virtuosic prose.
On this week’s podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks with The Times’s critics Dwight Garner (who wrote Amis’s obituary for the paper) and Jason Zinoman (who co-hosts a podcast devoted to Amis’s career, “The Martin Chronicles”) about the life and death of a remarkable figure who was, as Garner puts it, “arguably the most slashing, articulate, devastatingly clear, pungent writer of the last 25 years of the past century and the first almost 25 of this century.”
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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Pub date: 2023-06-01
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory collection of Biblical texts, legal documents, community rules and literary writings.
In 1946 a Bedouin shepherd boy was looking for a goat he’d lost in the hills above the Dead Sea. He threw a rock into a cave and heard a hollow sound. He’d hit a ceramic jar containing an ancient manuscript. This was the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of about a thousand texts dating from around 250 BC to AD 68. It is the most substantial first hand evidence we have for the beliefs and practices of Judaism in and around the lifetime of Jesus.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of how the texts that make up the Hebrew Bible were edited and collected. They also offer a tantalising window onto the world from which Christianity eventually emerged.
With
Sarah Pearce Ian Karten Professor of Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton
Charlotte Hempel Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham
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George Brooke Rylands Professor Emeritus of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester
Producer Luke Mulhall
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 544. Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent
Pub date: 2023-06-01
He turned a small Hollywood talent agency into a massive sports-and-entertainment empire. In a freewheeling conversation, he explains how he did it and why it nearly killed him.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 539- Courtroom Sketch
Pub date: 2023-06-06
As electronic news gathering was gaining prominence in the early 20th century, the American Bar Association began to fear its effect on court trials and adopted something called Canon 35. This condemned the use of photography, motion picture, and radio recording within the confines of the courtroom. It wasn't a law, per se, but a code of ethics that cautioned against recording technology in the trial process. Many state and federal courts followed suit...making way for illustrators. Cameras began to creep their way back into courtrooms over the decades, but courtroom artists are still constantly used in high profile cases.
Courtroom Sketch
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Podcast: The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Enigmas of Foreign Accent Syndrome
Pub date: 2023-05-30
Can you really collapse and wake up speaking a totally new language? Not quite. But “foreign accent syndrome” is a real, frightening—and bizarre—neurological disorder...
Podcast: Science Vs (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Dentist: Toss the Floss? Flush the Brush?
Pub date: 2023-05-25
The dentist tells us to floss, brush, avoid certain food and drinks ... but what actually matters when it comes to having healthy teeth? We're drilling into the science on all of it. Plus, we go undercover to find out how many dentists are trying to upsell you when you go in for a checkup. We talk to epidemiologist and dentist Professor Philippe Hujoel, dentist Dr. Alisha Virmani, and economist Dr. Felix Gottschalk.
Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/sciencevsdentist
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Chapter 1: Oral hygiene is confusing
(02:08) Chapter 2: Do flossing and tooth brushing prevent cavities?
(11:07) Chapter 3: Flossing: Good for the gums?
(16:42) Chapter 4: Does seltzer mess up our teeth? What about other food and drink?
(22:26) Chapter 5: How dodgy are dentists?
Credits:
This episode was produced by Meryl Horn, with help from Wendy Zukerman, R.E. Natowicz, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang and Joel Werner, We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Gimlet’s managing director is Nicole Beemsterboer. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Music written by Bobby Lord, Emma Munger, So Wiley, Peter Leonard, and Bumi Hidaka. Thanks to all the researchers we spoke to including Dr. Joshua Emrick, Dr. Arosha Weerakoon, Professor Stephen Peckham, Professor Marie Bismark, Professor Steven Levy, Dr. Abdul Ghoneim, Dr. David Okano, Professor Christof Dörfer, and Dr. Patrick Fee. Special thanks to Chris Suter, the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.
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Podcast: Overheard at National Geographic (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: She Sails the Seas Without Maps or Compasses
Pub date: 2023-05-09
For nearly 50 years, a group of Hawaiians have been sailing on traditional voyaging canoes using the methods that early Polynesian explorers relied on to navigate the Pacific Ocean—without maps and modern instruments, and relying on the stars, ocean waves, birds, and other natural elements to guide them. We meet National Geographic Explorer Lehua Kamalu, the first woman to captain a long-distance voyage on Hōkūleʻa, a double-hulled Polynesian canoe that was built in Hawaii in the 1970s. She describes what it’s like to navigate in incredibly rough waters, what it means to keep Polynesian navigation alive in the 21st century, and about her next big adventure: a four-year circumnavigation of the Pacific Ocean.
For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard.
Want more?
Learn about the Polynesian Voyaging Society and their upcoming voyage, Moananuiākea, a 47-month circumnavigation of the Pacific.
Read about Hōkūleʻa’s 2022 journey to Tahiti, which involved traveling 3,000 miles over three weeks.
Also explore:
A small number of people speak ‘ōlelo, Hawaii’s native language, which teetered on extinction during the mid-20th century. Learn about how some young Hawaiians are using TikTok and Instagram to make the language more accessible.
Hear Nat Geo Explorer Keolu Fox on a previous Overheard episode share how he’s working with Polynesian and Indigenous communities to study how their genomes have been shaped by history and colonialism, and how that data can help them reclaim land and improve health outcomes for their communities.
Visit National Geographic for more stories throughout Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 176. Fat part 1
Pub date: 2023-05-15
It should just be an accurate descriptor of my body, but the word 'fat' has shaped so much more of my life, and our society. "There is this whole set of baggage that we are all culturally bringing to this word all the time," says Aubrey Gordon, writer of the new book You Just need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, star of the documentary Your Fat Friend, and podcaster of Maintenance Phase.
In the next episode, Aubrey and I will discuss how the word 'fat' is often aligned with 'unhealthy', despite ample research demonstrating otherwise.
Content note: this episode contains discussions of body size, body image, weight, fat, and anti-fatness.
Find out more about this episode at theallusionist.org/fat1, where there's also a transcript, and head to the Contact page if you want to send me a voice note or written message about the role the word 'fat' has played in your life.
The Allusionist is produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. Martin Austwick provides the original music. Hear Martin’s own songs via PaleBirdMusic.com. The cast of The Flab is Felix Trench of Wooden Overcoats podcast, find more of his acting and writing work via FelixTrench.com.
Support the show at theallusionist.org/donate and as well as keeping this independent podcast going, you also get glimpses into how the podsausage is made, regular livestreams and watchalong parties, AND to hang out with your fellow Allusionauts in the delightful Allusioverse Discord community, sharing trinket pics, favourite podcasts, and awful portmanteaus.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 335. The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory
Pub date: 2023-05-25
A grubby, secretive cabal of devil worshippers that run the world, or a fraternity of like-minded individuals who enjoy eccentric rituals? Freemasonry, originating in the Middle Ages, played a significant role in the formation of the new American nation under George Washington, held the British empire together, and later served as a tool for authoritarianism and revolutionary conspiracy.
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by historian John Dickie on a journey to uncover the true history of the Freemasons, a society which has counted among its ranks Mozart, Benjamin Franklin, the Duke of Wellington, Shaquille O'Neale, and many more…
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 177. Fat part 2
Pub date: 2023-05-27
“The starting point is, and the research questions are all framed by: 'We know it's terrible to be fat, but how terrible is it?' Not: 'What would it take to give effective healthcare to fat people?'” says Aubrey Gordon, writer of the new book You Just need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, star of the documentary Your Fat Friend, and podcaster of Maintenance Phase. And it's not just healthcare where the alignment of 'fat' with 'unhealthy' - and 'thinner' with 'healthier' - becomes problematic and often very dangerous. "I really don't think people contend with the ways in which they are sending a message to everyone around them that there is a weight limit for people that they will love."
Content note: this episode contains discussions of body size, body image, weight, anti-fatness, illness including cancer, diet culture, weight loss - intentional and un - and eating disorders. And there are some category A swears.
This is the second of two episodes about the word ‘fat’. In Fatlusionist part 1, Aubrey and I discuss euphemisms for fat, why people avoid saying ‘fat’, what else people mean when they say ‘fat’ and how it would be quite good if people said ‘fat’ as just a descriptive term for ‘fat’.
Find out more about this episode and the topics therein at theallusionist.org/fat2, where there's also a transcript.
Thanks so much to everyone who sent in their thoughts and feelings about the word 'fat'.
The Allusionist is produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. Martin Austwick provides the original music. Hear Martin’s own songs via PaleBirdMusic.com. The cast of The Flab is Felix Trench of Wooden Overcoats podcast, find more of his acting and writing work via FelixTrench.com.
Support the show at theallusionist.org/donate and as well as keeping this independent podcast going, you also get glimpses into how the podsausage is made, regular livestreams and watchalong parties, AND to hang out with your fellow Allusionauts in the delightful Allusioverse Discord community, sharing trinket pics, favourite podcasts, and awful portmanteaus.
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Podcast: ICYMI (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Only People Who Made Money From Tumblr
Pub date: 2023-05-31
On today’s show, Rachelle and Candice are joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie. The three go back in time to 2010 when a lucky few creators of Tumblr blogs like Hipster Puppies, This is Why You’re Fat and Garfield Minus Garfield were able to leverage their popularity into book deals. They discuss the blog to Urban Outfitters pipeline and the optimism that colored the memes created in that era, an optimism that starkly contrasts against the layered irony of today’s memes.
And at the top of the show, Rachelle and Candice revive an age-old debate: Team Edward vs. Team Jacob.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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Podcast: The Sarah Silverman Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: My Beautiful Parents | The Sarah Silverman Podcast
Pub date: 2023-05-18
It’s been a minute and we’ve missed you all very much. Sarah returns to the pod and talks about both her parents who sadly passed away recently. This special episode is in loving memory of her beautiful parents.
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Podcast: Sliding Doors (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: SD25: The Iconic Sliding Doors Moment
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Sliding Doors 25, in partnership with TfL, is a four-part series that delves into the iconic film’s backstory. Speaking with cast and crew about their very own ‘Sliding Doors’ moments alongside a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this iconic 90s movie classic, 25 years after its release.
In this episode we unpick THE Sliding Doors moment when Gwyneth Paltrow runs to catch the tube and find out all about how this was created. We speak to the cast about their experiences on set, favourite scenes and discuss THAT haircut that defined the 90s. We find out about the process of GP playing and portraying two different contrasting lives in the film and of course some BTS audio footage from the set of the film!
This series is in partnership with TfL. 2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the Tube. TfL and the London Transport Museum are delivering a programme of activities throughout the year to celebrate London Underground’s role as the lifeblood of the city. Keep your eyes peeled for activities throughout the year and how you can celebrate with TfL
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Make Me a Match (Ep. 209 Update)
Pub date: 2023-05-25
Sure, markets work well in general. But for some transactions — like school admissions and organ transplants — money alone can’t solve the problem. That’s when you need a market-design wizard like Al Roth. Plus: We hear from a listener who, inspired by this episode, made a remarkable decision.
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: William the Conqueror’s invasion plans
Pub date: 2023-05-22
William the Conqueror famously defeated King Harold at the battle of Hastings in 1066. But in order to achieve this victory, he first had to get his army (and some 2000 horses) across the sea from Normandy. So how exactly did he manage that gargantuan task? Speaking to David Musgrove, Rebecca Tyson reveals how a wealth of maritime knowledge and experience was required to pull off this extraordinary feat.
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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Enigmatology (WORD PUZZLES) with David Kwong
Pub date: 2022-12-06
Crosswords! Puzzles! Wordles! Magic? Ah yes, world-renowned Enigmatologist David Kwong drops in to chat about the intersection of sleight of hand and brain games, covering everything from Scrabble strategies to how to get away with a surprise party unsuspected. Also: crosswords and dementia, how puzzles are like hot sauce, a secret group of Hollywood magicians, his most clever clues, cryptic crosswords, international slang, Wordle’s many derivatives, and how to get over your intimidation of all those empty squares.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 334. Athens and the Birth of Democracy
Pub date: 2023-05-22
What did "demos" really mean to the Athenians? Why were women such a crucial part of Athenian democracy? And who was the Tom Wamsgams of Athens? Join Tom and Dominic as they explore whether Athenian democracy really was the precursor to modern day democracy, or whether it was something entirely different.
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Podcast: Fukushima (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fukushima: 1. Tsunami
Pub date: 2023-05-14
Japan’s nuclear plant is hit as an immense wave surges past defences and floods reactors. It’s a desperate fight to contain a disaster. A drama about the events of March 2011. Cast:Suto: Togo IgawaAkiko: Ami Okumura JonesYoshida: Eiji MaharaSaito: Sadao UedaIto: Matt McCooeyShimada: Akira KoieyamaNarrator: Romola GaraiReporter: Kevin ShenReporter: Naoko Mori Worker: Nino FuruhataFukushima is written by Adrian PenkethSound design is by Peter RingroseProduced by Toby Swift and Sasha YevtushenkoCommissioned by Simon Pitts for BBC World Service
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Podcast: The Langley Files: CIA's Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: FILE 010: CIA Travel Safety 101
Pub date: 2023-05-18
How do CIA officers stay safe while traveling to some of the most dangerous places in the world? And how can you apply the CIA’s best practices to help stay safe during your own travels? On this episode of The Langley Files, a CIA security expert talks Dee and Walter through a notional trip abroad to reveal how he watches his back on the go—and shares how you can, too.
Look Inside FILE 010:
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Looking for a handy checklist of CIA’s travel safety tips? Check out the “Ask Molly” column on the topic .
Going abroad? U.S. citizens can establish comms with their home base by registering with the State Department’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP).
Put CIA’s world knowledge to work for you—check out the CIA World Factbook’s travel facts before you go, for key information on everything from climate to local tipping practices.
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Best Of: A Weird, Wonderful Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
Pub date: 2023-05-12
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one of the most astute observers of how planets look, feel and work. His Mars Trilogy imagined what it might be like for humans to settle on the red planet. His best-selling novel “The Ministry for the Future” is a masterful effort at envisioning what might happen to Earth in a future of unchecked climate change. Robinson has a rare command of both science and human nature, and his writing crystallizes how the two must work together if we are to rescue our collective planetary future from possible ruin.
In his 2022 book, a rare turn to nonfiction called “The High Sierra: A Love Story,” Robinson trains his attention on the planet we inhabit in the here and now, particularly on one of his favorite places on Earth: the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California and Nevada. The new book is part memoir, part guidebook, part meditation on how time, space and even politics take shape in a wondrous geological landscape.
In this conversation, recorded in July 2022, we discuss why Robinson decided to start writing outdoors, what it was like to experience the Sierras on psychedelics in his youth, what “actor-network theory” is and how it helps us understand our relationship to the planet and to our own bodies, why we should think of climate change more like we do plane crashes, what hiking backpacks say about American consumerism, how we should change our relationship to technology in order to be happier, why the politics of wanting are so confusing yet important, why Robinson is so excited about ideas like a wage ratio and rewilding schemes, how the “structure of feeling” around climate has changed, why Robinson is feeling more hopeful about Earth’s future these days and more.
We’ll be back with new episodes next week.
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“The Most Important Book I’ve Read This Year” by Vox Conversations
“Your Kids Are Not Doomed” by Ezra Klein
“Design for the Real World” by Victor Papanek
“Thomas Piketty’s Case for ‘Participatory Socialism’” by The Ezra Klein Show
Book Recommendations:
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
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This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Isaac Jones and Sonia Herrero; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Executive produced by Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.
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Podcast: From Our Neurons to Yours (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Brain Fog
Pub date: 2023-05-11
One of the strangest and most disconcerting things about the COVID 19 pandemic has been the story of long COVID.
Many COVID long-haulers have continued experiencing cognitive symptoms long after their initial COVID infection — loss of attention, concentration, memory, and mental sharpness — what scientists are calling "brain fog". For some patients, the condition is so serious that it can be impossible to go back to their pre-COVID lives.
Today’s guest, actually had an early intuition that COVID-19 could trigger a neurological health crisis.
Michelle Monje is a pediatric neuro-oncologist here at Stanford who treats kids with serious brain cancers. She also runs a neuroscience research lab that studies how the brain develops during early life. For the past decade, she has been focused on how chemotherapy triggers a cascade of inflammation in the brain that leads to so called “chemo-fog” — a very similar set of symptoms that we now see in many people with long covid.
In this episode, Monje helps us understand what brain fog is, what seems to be causing it, and how her team and others are trying to develop treatments that could help with other conditions linked to inflammation in the brain, such as chronic fatigue syndrome.
References
- Fernández-Castañeda A, Lu P, Geraghty AC, et al. (Iwasaki A, Monje M) Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation. Cell. 2022;185(14):2452-2468.e16. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.008
- Monje M, Iwasaki A. The neurobiology of long COVID. Neuron. 2022;110(21):3484-3496. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2022.10.006
Read more about Monje's work
- One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood (The Atlantic)
- Brain fog after COVID-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain,’ Stanford-led study finds (Stanford Medicine)
- In ‘chemo brain,’ researchers see clues to unravel long Covid’s brain fog (STAT News)
- Even Mild Covid-19 Can Cause Brain Dysfunction And Cognitive Issues (Forbes)
Episode Credits
This episode was produced by Michael Osborne, with production assistance by Morgan Honaker, and hosted by Nicholas Weiler. Art by Aimee Garza.
Thanks for listening! Learn more about the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Podcast: Re: Dracula (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: May 5: The Dead Travel Fast
Pub date: 2023-05-05
May 5: Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula.
This episode references the racist pseudoscience of craniometry. Transcript here.
This episode featured: Ben Galpin as Jonathan Harker; Sivan Raz as the Hungarian Man and additional voices; Mihai Matei as the driver and additional voices; Madi Opincaru as the German-speaking traveller and additional voices; Ioana Adăscăliței with additional voices; Graham Rowat as Peter Hawkins; and Karim Kronfli as Dracula. Directed by Stephen Indrisano. Dialogue editing by Stephen Indrisano. Sound design by Tal Minear. Produced by Ella Watts and Pacific S. Obadiah, with executive producers Stephen Indrisano, Tal Minear, and Hannah Wright. A Bloody FM Production.
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Podcast: Kabul Falling (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1 - The Fall: Escape from Afghanistan Begins
Pub date: 2022-10-20
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban regained control of Kabul, nearly 20 years after the US Army and Coalition Forces had cast them out of power. To many Afghans and observers watching from abroad, the fall of Kabul came as a shock. The news thrust thousands of Afghans into a terrifying journey to flee the country, leaving their old lives behind. In this episode, you’ll hear from Ogai Wardak, a young journalist at a women’s TV station, and Abdul, a former CIA interpreter and father of four, describing how they began planning their escape as Taliban fighters patrolled the streets.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”
Pub date: 2023-04-03
Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Songbugs
Pub date: 2023-05-10
Why do bugs make the sounds they do? And how do they make them? In this episode, we explore the un-bee-lievable world of insect sounds, including crickets who craft tools to make themselves louder, and moths who can jam the natural sonar of bats. By the time it’s over, you’ll never hear these buzzes and chirps the same way again. Featuring entomologists Natasha Mhatre and Nancy Mioreli.
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How you fight a squatting goat
Pub date: 2023-05-06
Back in 2005, Burt Banks inherited a plot of old family land in Delaware. But when it came time to sell it, he ran into a problem: his neighbor had a goat pen, and about half of it crossed over onto his property.
Burt asked the goats' owner to move the pen, but when neighborly persuasion failed to get the job done, he changed his strategy. He sued her. And that is when things got complicated.
Protecting private property is one of the fundamental jobs of the American legal system. If you hold a deed saying you own a plot of land, it's your land. End of story. Right?
But, as Burt would soon learn, the law can get really complicated when it comes to determining who actually owns something. And when goats are involved ... anything can happen.
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Podcast: Pod Save the UK (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Raving for a Republic
Pub date: 2023-05-04
Pod Save the UK is on a mission: to free the royals, and the country, from the madness of monarchy. Has King Charles’s coronation sent the UK into a frenzy of royal fervour, a bored stupor or a republican rage? Nish Kumar and Coco Khan work out how to ditch the Windsors and replace them with something better. Professor Amelia Hadfield, head of politics at Surrey University, has spotted some pitfalls for Pod Save the UK’s revolutionaries. Labour MP, Clive Lewis, joins the pod. His opinions on monarchy have got him into trouble with his own party. But who wants to be the killjoys spoiling everyone’s street party? Coco has a plan: rave for the republic.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Are coincidences real?
Pub date: 2023-05-08
The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Novel that Unravels Democracy
Pub date: 2023-04-27
David talks to Ian McEwan about Italo Calvino’s The Watcher (1963), one of the greatest of all works of political fiction. Challenging, disturbing, redemptive: this is a book about who gets to count and who doesn’t, and what identity politics really means. David and Ian also discuss how political fiction works - and why the climate change novel is so hard to write. Plus they argue about whether children should be allowed to vote.
Next week: Helen Thompson on Dallas and the end of oil.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Modi's Big Con
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Accused of ‘the largest con in corporate history’, Indian magnate Gautam Adani has lost half his net worth and the indulgence of financial journalists. As Adani comes under increasing scrutiny, so do his troubling political connections – not least with India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. Pankaj Mishra joins Tom to discuss Adani and Modi’s intertwined careers, and their shared role in shaping an increasingly ethnonationalist, plutocratic India.
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Podcast: This American Life (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 352: The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
Pub date: 2023-04-30
In 1912 a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi. In 2004, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather's kidnapping, a secret whose revelation would divide her own family, bring redemption to another, and become the answer to a third family's century-old prayer.
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Podcast: Quartz Obsession (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The World’s Fair: Tech’s bygone showcase
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Once the globe’s largest festival, World’s Fairs provided a glimpse into inventors’ newest creations, technologies, and human-contrived feats. The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair alone debuted electric irons, sewing machines, and laundry machines, along with the Ferris Wheel and Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, an early device for displaying motion pictures. So why do we no longer gather at massive exhibitions to show off our latest and greatest inventions? And what does the rise and fall of the World’s Fair tell us about the way technology and society are changing?
Presented by Deloitte
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Podcast: Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Julia Gets Wise with Fran Lebowitz
Pub date: 2023-04-18
In this edition of Wiser Than Me, Julia gets schooled by 72-year-old writer and legendary New York City resident Fran Lebowitz. This is an interview for the ages – literally. Fran gives Julia her best advice for plotting revenge, being a bad girlfriend, and avoiding modern technology at all costs. Plus, Fran shares what she learned about forgiveness from her late friend Toni Morrison. And Julia and her mom Judith reminisce about how Julia’s sense of humor got her in trouble in high school.
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Podcast: Babbage from The Economist (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Babbage: The unfinished genomics revolution
Pub date: 2023-04-19
Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project was completed. It unveiled a mostly complete sequence of the 3 billion pairs of building blocks that make up the code within every set of human chromosomes. These are the instructions that create humans. Almost all of human biology research uses the Human Genome Project’s findings in some way, from understanding why some people are more likely to develop diseases than others, to uncovering the secrets of our ancestors and evolution. But for genomics to become a part of everyday medicine, paving the way for personalised medicines, the hard work is still ahead.
Natasha Loder, The Economist’s health editor and Geoff Carr, our senior editor for science and technology, reflect on the completion of the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s and the gaps that still remain. Natasha also visits the Wellcome Sanger Institute, to explore the next frontiers for genomics in medicine—she meets the outgoing director, Mike Stratton; the incoming director, Matt Hurles; and the boss of the European Bioinformatics Institute, Ewan Birney. Plus, Mathew Davies, an engineer at the Sanger Institute, and his team, discuss the challenges with storing and processing vast amounts of sequencing data. Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor, hosts.
To dive deeper on genomics, find our recent episode from the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, or explore the power of gene therapies, and also an explainer on how genomic sequencing works.
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Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Nobel Prize in Economics for Poets
Pub date: 2023-03-31
Who knew that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, opium-nibbling author of Kubla Khan, also had views on the business cycle and foreshadowed Keynes' ideas by a century? Or that Walter Scott extolled the virtues of paper currency so powerfully that he saved the Scottish banknote, which bears his image in gratitude to this very day? Neil and Jonathan talk to John Ramsden author "The Poets Guide to Economics" about the economic insights of some of our greatest poets from Defoe to (Ezra) Pound, and how they helped to shape the world in which we live today.
Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.
With John Ramsden.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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Podcast: The Jolly Swagman Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #143: Dyads, And Other Mysteries — Daniel Kahneman
Pub date: 2023-04-13
Daniel Kahneman is widely regarded as the most influential psychologist alive. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002) for his work on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, much of it done jointly with his late collaborator Amos Tversky. He is the author of the bestselling books Thinking, Fast and Slow and Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (written with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein).
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Podcast: Maintenance Phase (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The 10,000 Steps Myth
Pub date: 2023-04-25
This week we're digging into the weird history of an omnipresent fitness goal. Episode comes free with a happy meal.
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- McDonald's removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
- A Very Serious Review of McDonald’s Flesh-Burning Fitness Tracker
- McDonald’s quietly ended controversial program that was making parents and teachers uncomfortable
- Watch your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science
- When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
- Why Counting Your Steps Could Make You Unhappier
- How many steps are enough?
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Podcast: Everything is Alive (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Sebastian, Alex, and Alex, Russian Dolls
Pub date: 2019-05-08
Sebastian, Alex, and Alex get to know each other, inside and out.
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Podcast: Hidden Brain (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Crying Wolf
Pub date: 2023-04-10
It used to be that we tried our best to conceal disadvantages, hardships, and humiliations. But new research explores a curious shift: some people are flaunting limitations that don't exist. This week, we talk to psychologists Karl Aquino and Jillian Jordan about the strange phenomenon of wanting to seem worse off than we really are.
Think back to the last time you tried to win an argument. What could you have done to bolster your case? Check out our recent episode "Less is More" for helpful strategies. And if you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org.
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Podcast: Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Roger McGuinn
Pub date: 2023-04-20
Roger McGuinn is best known as the driving force behind The Byrds. But McGuinn is also a preservationist of traditional folk music. For the past 27 years he’s been re-recording traditional folk songs and sharing them on a section of his website called The Folk Den.
On today’s episode Rick Rubin talks to Roger McGuinn about his decades-long career, which started in the early ‘60s at Greenwich Village cafes where he played with the likes of Bob Dylan and Richie Havens. McGuinn reminisces about the vibrant music scene in LA, and he also talks about meeting his Byrd’s bandmate David Crosby.
We’ll also hear Roger McGuinn play his guitar throughout the interview, and talk about how playing basketball with Bob Dylan helped inspire Dylan’s storied tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue.
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Podcast: Hi-Phi Nation (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Digital Future of Grief
Pub date: 2023-04-11
When Justin’s mom was diagnosed with cancer, he knew he wanted to keep talking to her after she died. So together they made an AI version of her, training it on her speech patterns and memories. Now he is scaling his findings so that anyone can continue their relationships with loved ones after their deaths. Justin even believes this can one day lead to digital immortality.
Grief experts are only now dealing with bereaved people who create digital versions of their loved ones. We look at what they say about the phenomenon, and what philosophers think about whether the best AI version of a person can actually be them.
Co-produced with Alexandra Salmon, guests include Justin Harrison, CEO of You, Only Virtual, Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor, and Dr. Debra Bassett.
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Podcast: KILLED (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Blueprint
Pub date: 2022-09-01
A journalist unlocks a secret in New York’s Chinatown; This American Life drops the hammer.
Featuring Aaron Reiss and Stephanie Foo.
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Podcast: Bad Seeds (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Unscrupulous Collection
Pub date: 2023-04-12
In 2020, police in Italy raided an apartment in a small coastal town in the Adriatic. Inside it were one million euros worth of stolen goods. But Italian police didn’t find firearms, drugs, or other contraband; they found succulents. Specifically, 1,000 specimens of Copiapoa cacti, all stolen from the Atacama desert in Chile.
This is just one of many stories like this. There’s a growing black market that deals in stolen plants. Since the pandemic, theft of plants has become more rampant and more lucrative. Not only is it causing more crime, but this “unscrupulous collection” of plants is one of the leading causes of extinction among plants. And the loss of biodiversity takes its toll on all of us. Join plant expert and author Summer Rayne Oakes as she plunges into the world of plant poaching.
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Library of Alexandra
Pub date: 2023-04-07
How much does knowledge cost? While that sounds like an abstract question, the answer is surprisingly specific: $3,096,988,440.00. That’s how much the business of publishing scientific and academic research is worth.
This is the story of one woman’s battle against a global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research. In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan had just moved home to Kazakhstan after a disappointing few years trying to study neuroscience in the United States when she landed on an internet forum where a bunch of scientists were all looking for the same thing: access to academic journal articles that were behind paywalls. That’s the moment the very simple, but enormously powerful, website called Sci Hub was born.
The site holds over 88 million articles and serves up around half a million downloads to people in practically every country on the globe. We travel to Kazakhstan to meet the mysterious woman behind it all and to find out what it takes to make everything we know about anything available to anyone anywhere, for free.Special thanks to Vrindra Bhandari, Balázs Bodó, Stephen Buranyi, Ian Graber-Stiehl, Joel Joseph, Noorain Khalifa, Aparajita Lath, Steve McLaughlin, Marcia McNutt, Randy Scheckman Tanmay Singh, Deborah Harkness, Joe Karganis, Lawrence Lessig, Glyn Moody, and Steven Press.
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Podcast: This is History: A Dynasty to Die For (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Queen on The Run
Pub date: 2022-09-20
This episode contains descriptions of violence or sexual content that may not be suitable for all listeners.
Until yesterday, Eleanor of Aquitaine was the queen of France. Now, divorced and dethroned, she’s running for her life. Noblemen are lying in wait to capture her and lay claim to her lands. But, if she can escape them, and reach her destination in time, she’ll become more powerful than ever before. This is the beginning of the bloodiest dynasty in European history.
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Podcast: The Problem With Jon Stewart (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: London Edition: Satire in the Age of Murdoch and Trump
Pub date: 2023-03-08
Bloody hell! Jon is in London to talk about populism. Turns out it’s not unique to America! Jon is joined by Ian Hislop, editor of the satirical current affairs publication Private Eye Magazine, to discuss the reign of Rupert Murdoch, the economic consequences of a government run by lunatics, and the explicitly corrupt yet unbeatable right-wing propaganda machine.
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Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Ian Hislop
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Freddie Morgan
Digital Producer: Cassie Murdoch
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements Producer: Kenneth Hull
Clearances Producer: Daniella Philipson
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
Pub date: 2023-03-22
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Higher Animals with Michael Specter
Pub date: 2023-04-06
Malcolm talks with his old friend, the brilliant science writer Michael Specter, about the future of life on Earth. Michael's response to the Covid-19 pandemic was to create a new audiobook on how the mRNA vaccines have sparked a biotechnology revolution: Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life. He and Malcolm talk about how this scientific revolution is bigger than many that came before it, about the promise of heritable vaccines for endangered species, and about how a smallpox infection could genuinely have wiped out New York in 1947. Also, we share a portion of Higher Animals' first, thrilling chapter. To purchase your own, complete copy of Michael Specter's Higher Animals, visit Pushkin.fm.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
Pub date: 2023-03-31
Air traffic controllers are meant to stop aircrafts from flying into one another... and if they fail, computer systems are installed to warn pilots of a coming collision. But sometimes these humans and computers give conflicting and confusing advice. Who to believe?
When a cargo plane and a Russian airliner collided in just such a situation, the authorities scrambled to work out how to prevent a repeat of the disaster... but a grieving father decided to seek revenge on those he held responsible.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive – The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany
Pub date: 2023-04-05
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: On 15 September 1981, 10-year-old Ursula Herrmann headed home by bike from her cousin’s house. She never arrived. So began one of Germany’s most notorious postwar criminal cases, which remains contentious to this day. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Switched on Pop (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Reinventing Bach
Pub date: 2023-03-28
If you’ve ever learned classical piano, you probably tried to play one of Bach’s Inventions. The composer wrote fifteen pieces containing the most important fifteen keys in order to teach his son the fundamentals of piano and composition. Today, they remain some of the most popular pieces of piano music. Acclaimed jazz pianist Dan Tepfer recently revisited his childhood music books seeing them in a way he’d never realized as a student: the Inventions are much more than novice piano works.
For Tepfer, each of the Inventions not only highlight masterful command over harmony and counterpoint, but also contain moving character arcs that resemble the hero’s journey. A character is introduced at home in place of safety in act I. And then they are thrust into chaos and must overcome unsurmountable challenges in Act II. Finally, in Act III, our hero overcomes their final battle and returns home transformed by the journey. Once Tepfer heard this character arc, he started to apply it to his own free improv.
Through studying Bach, Tepfer conceived a new album: Inventions / Reinventions. In this project Tepfer fills in the missing keys from the Bach to complete all twenty four keys (there are twelve major and twelve minor keys) while updating the music with modern improvisation. In this conversation Tepfer walks co-host Charlie Harding through his process of playing Bach and applying it to jazz improv.
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Podcast: The PloughCast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 51: Tom Holland on the Christian History of Pain
Pub date: 2023-03-22
How did the crucifixion of Jesus change how humanity thinks about suffering? Peter Mommsen speaks with the well-known historian about the way that Christianity challenged and transformed classical ideas about suffering and the good life.
They discuss the contrast between the story of Laocoön and of the crucifixion of Saint Peter, as portrayed in two contrasting artworks in the Vatican. Then they discuss the nature of crucifixion, how pain was seen by the Romans, and the utterly subversive way in which Christianity transformed the understanding of suffering in the West.
They talk about why it took so long for it to become common to portray Jesus suffering on the cross in Christian art, and how late medieval understandings of the self and the body contributed to this, and explore the ways that contemporary political movements incorporate Christian ideas outside of the context of Christianity.
Finally, they look at the lives of several exemplary Christians, whose lives of redemptive suffering in imitation of Christ make no sense except under the paradigm of the Christian transformation of the meaning of suffering.
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Podcast: SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Story of Icelandic Skulls
Pub date: 2023-03-28
“Prime harvest”—that’s how one early 20th-century explorer described his collection of Icelandic human skulls. But why did he “harvest” those skulls in the first place? And what should happen to them now more than a century after they were collected? This case of the Icelandic skulls reveals an interconnected story of eugenics, international law, and the limits of current repatriation efforts.
As reported by Adam Netzer Zimmer, an Iceland-based anthropologist, we hear how a community once targeted by anthropologists is now expanding our ideas of how to ethically handle human remains.
SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by House of Pod. Cat Jaffee was the editor for this piece, with help from producer Ann Marie Awad. Seth Samuel was the audio editor and sound designer. The executive producers were Cat Jaffee and Chip Colwell.
Adam Netzer Zimmer is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst, specializing in biocultural anthropology. His research focuses on the rise of race-based anatomical science in 19th- and early 20th-century Iceland and the U.S. He is also interested in queer and feminist perspectives in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, particularly in the history of science. Adam’s work has been supported by a Fulbright/National Science Foundation Arctic Research Grant, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship. Previously, he was the laboratory manager for the UMass Taphonomic Research Facility and is currently a co–primary director of the Rivulus Dominarum Transylvanian Bioarchaeology project in Baia Mare, Romania.
SAPIENS is an editorially independent podcast funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.
Check out these related resources:
· “Harvard’s Eugenics Era” in Harvard Magazine
· Museums: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
· Discovery: The Autobiography of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
· Traveling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson by Gísli Pálsson
Episode sponsor:
· This episode is included in season 5 of the SAPIENS podcast, which is part of the SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship funded with the support of a three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 530- The Panopticon Effect
Pub date: 2023-03-29
The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. In the original design, all the cells are built around a central guard tower, designed to maintain order just by making prisoners believe that they are constantly being watched. Over time, the panopticon has turned into something way bigger than just a blueprint for penitentiaries. It’s become the metaphor for the surveillance state. Philosopher Michel Foucault had probably the most popular take on the panopticon concept. He used it to warn society that what actually keeps all of us in check isn’t necessarily that someone is watching you. It’s just the feeling that someone might be watching you. But very few actual prisons were built around this idea. Breda Dome is one of them.
The Panopticon Effect
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Podcast: The Langley Files: CIA's Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: FILE 008 - CIA's Analytic Chief on the Tradecraft Behind the Agency's Assessments
Pub date: 2023-03-29
In this episode of The Langley Files, Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis, Linda Weissgold, joins Dee and Walter to discuss what makes a good CIA analyst, the unusual working hours required to be the President's briefer, and the importance of the Agency's apolitical assessments. Along the way, she shares lessons from her decades-long career with CIA - and what it's like delivering bad news to the most powerful person on the planet.
Look Inside FILE 008
Want to dive deeper into today’s episode? Here's a look into Langley's (unclassified) files:
Overview of CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and the analytic positions available at the Agency
Is perhaps the most exclusive publication in the world still delivered on paper? Check out the evolution of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB)
Curious about the women OSS members Linda mentioned? Read stories from the “Sisterhood of Spies”
See the iconic words inside the final President’s Intelligence Checklist (PICL) ever produced by CIA
Want to try your hand at searching out the answer to today’s trivia question? Head over to the CIA World Factbook—where that information, and much more, awaits.
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Podcast: Reading Our Times (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why tax is fun: In conversation with Michael Keen
Pub date: 2022-12-20
Nick Spencer speaks to Michael KeenThe late great American novelist David Foster Wallace, who had worked in a tax office, once remarked, “The whole subject of tax policy and administration is dull. Massively and spectacularly dull.” But he was wrong, massively and spectacularly wrong. Tax is ultimately about the different ways we live together, and express our values - and there is nothing more interesting than that.
In this episode, Nick Spencer talks to Michael Keen and his book Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue.
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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 306: Long Walk
Pub date: 2023-03-06
In October 1569, a captain of a French ship off the northern coast of Nova Scotia was summoned on deck. Alongside was a canoe, and in it were three Englishmen–David Ingram, Richard Browne, and Richard Twide. They claimed to be the survivors of a group of 100 men marooned on the Gulf coast of Mexico by an English slave-trading expedition. From that point, the three of them had walked north for 3,600 miles, making the journey in about a year.Thirteen years later, in August 1582, David Ingram was interviewed and his answers recorded by none other than Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s secretary of state and chief of intelligence. Shortly after the publication of his testimony, and ever after, Ingram has been regarded as one of the great liars of his era. He described such impossibilities as large cities, kings carried about in crystal chairs, American natives working with and using iron, and the appearance of penguins and elephants along the eastern seaboard of North America. Add to that the claim of his extraordinary journey, and little wonder that Samuel Purchas in 1625 observed of his account that “the reward of lying is not to be believed in truths.”But Dean Snow, who once believed like most people that Ingram was at best given to tall tales, has changed his mind about Ingram’s journey. In his new book The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America, Snow reconsiders the evidence and recreates the context of Ingram and his journey through an America that just fifty years after his long walk had faded away.Dean Snow is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Penn State. A past President of the Society for American Archaeology, he is particularly known for his work on archaeology of native North America with a long-standing focus on the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) people.For Further Investigation If you haven't already, get a great overview of David Ingram's era in Episode 303 when Lucy Wooding described some of the characteristics of Tudor England; and while we didn't talk about him in the conversation, Dean Snow has a lot to say about Thomas Harriot. If you listen to Episode 109, you can find out why Thomas Harriot is one of the most fascinating intellectuals that you have never heard of. When Dean Snow referred to Francis Drake escaping from the Battle of San Juan de Ulua in small ship, he was not getting. Drake's Judith was just 5o tons. By way of comparison the Pride of Baltimore II, a modern reconstruction of a early 19th century Baltimore sailing ship, is 97 tons. And that doesn't mean it's a particularly big ship... The Susquehannock town that Ingram visited was probably the "Schultz site"; you can find out more about the Susquehannocks' culture and landscape here. There are apparently a lot of crystal mines in upstate New York, enough for a great vacation.
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Steven Spielberg, director
Pub date: 2023-01-15
Steven Spielberg is the most successful director of his generation and the highest-grossing director of all time: his films have taken more than $10 billion worldwide. From Jaws to E.T. and Jurassic Park to Schindler’s List, his storytelling has captivated audiences around the world. Steven grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, where he started making films as a young boy. In 1958 he made a short Western which won him a Boy Scout merit badge. He screened it to his entire Scout troop and their laughter and applause got him hooked on film making.In 1971 he directed a television movie called Duel about a motorist who is pursued by a murderous truck driver. The film attracted good reviews from critics, and before the age of 30, Steven had directed his first global hit: Jaws grossed $471 million worldwide and is credited as heralding the arrival of the blockbuster era. He now says Jaws was ‘a free pass into my future.’ He has won three Academy Awards, and has received eight nominations for best director. The Fabelmans, his most recent film, is a semi-fictionalised account of his own coming of age, drawing on his film-making experiences as a child. Steven is married to the actor Kate Capshaw, who starred in his film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and they have seven children. DISC ONE: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Gene PitneyDISC TWO: Fugue in G minor, BMW 578 – “The Little” arranged by Leopold Stokowski, composed by J.S Bach, performed by Philadelphia Orchestra and conducted by Yannick Nezet-SeguinDISC THREE: Michelle by The Beatles DISC FOUR: What the World Needs Now Is Love by Jackie DeShannon DISC FIVE: Come Fly with Me by Frank SinatraDISC SIX: The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen DISC SEVEN: Somewhere, composed by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, performed by Reri Grist DISC EIGHT: Coolhand by Buzzy Lee BOOK CHOICE: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck LUXURY ITEM: H-8 Bolex camera CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Coolhand by Buzzy Lee Presenter Lauren LaverneProducer Paula McGinley
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies
Pub date: 2023-03-23
A.O. Scott started as a film critic at The New York Times in January of 2000. Next month he will move to the Book Review as a critic at large.
After 23 years as a film critic, Mr. Scott discusses why he is done with the movies, and what his decision reveals about the new realities of American cinema.
Guest: A.O. Scott, a longtime film critic for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films.
- A.O. Scott’s review of “65.”
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”
Pub date: 2023-03-06
Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021.
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Podcast: The Psychology Podcast (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Eli Finkel || How the Best Marriages Work
Pub date: 2023-02-16
Today we welcome Eli Finkel. He is a professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the psychology department and the Kellogg School of Management. In his role as director of Northwestern’s Relationships and Motivation Lab (RAMLAB), he has published more than 160 scientific papers and is a guest essayist for The New York Times. The Economist declared him “one of the leading lights in the realm of relationship psychology.” His latest book is called The All-Or-Nothing Marriage.
In this episode, I talked to Eli Finkel about how the best marriages work. The institution of marriage has evolved throughout the decades. People used to tie the knot for socioeconomic purposes, but nowadays we seek to fulfill our higher need for self-actualization in relationships. According to Eli, higher expectations are not necessarily bad for marriages if people can use them strategically. Eli also shares love hacks we can implement to improve our relationships with our partners.
Website: elifinkel.com
Twitter: @EliJFinkel
Topics
02:54 Pleasure vs meaning in romance
05:49 There’s no rule for marriages
08:15 The pre-industrial mindset of marriage
10:39 Vertical integration of needs in a relationship
13:55 Expectations, goals, & fulfillment
17:53 The evolution of marriage
22:30 The All or Nothing Theory of Marriage
25:21 Mate evaluation theory and other studies
34:48 The value of love hacks
38:21 Positive attribution bias
39:36 Third-party reappraisal on conflict
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Podcast: TED Talks Daily (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How to escape the cynicism trap | Jamil Zaki
Pub date: 2023-03-02
Some days, it's hard to be optimistic. But cynicism -- the idea that people are inherently selfish, greedy and dishonest -- is making humanity lonelier and more divided, says psychologist Jamil Zaki. Presenting fascinating research on cooperation, empathy and trust, Zaki makes the scientific case for optimism and shows us how to break out of the cynicism trap.
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: On Background: White-Collar Crime and Punishment
Pub date: 2023-03-14
Why do people commit white-collar crimes? And how has the way we think about — and prosecute — white-collar criminals changed over time? As part of the background research for his next book, which is about Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, Michael Lewis wants the historical view of financial fraudsters, embezzlers and Ponzi schemers. So he speaks with Eugene Soltes, professor at the Harvard Business School and author of Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal.
If you have a question for Michael Lewis about his writing process, head to atrpodcast.com.
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Podcast: Decoding the Gurus (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab Leak
Pub date: 2023-03-11
The question of the SARS-CoV-2 origin: whether it was a zoonotic spillover from a wet market, or an engineered virus that escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is seemingly a debate that will never go away. Most interestingly, while scientists with specific domain expertise seem to be building a consensus towards the former, public opinion appears to be trending towards the latter. This delta between expert and popular opinion has been helped along by the frothy discourse in mainstream and social media, with most figures that we cover in this podcast dead-set certain that it came from a lab.
Most recently, Sam Harris hosted on his Making Sense podcast the molecular biologist Alina Chan and. science writer Matt Ridley, spokespersons for the lab leak case, and authors of "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19". To a layperson, and certainly to Sam, they put forward a rather watertight case. Intrinsic to the arguments advanced were the ideas that (a) experts in the area were refusing to engage with and unable to answer their arguments, and (b) a strong implication that there is a conspiracy of silence among virologists not just in China but internationally, to suppress the lab leak hypothesis.
So, as a case study in the public understanding of science, it seems like a pretty pickle indeed. To help unravel the pickle(?) in this somewhat special episode, we are joined by three virologists who are amply qualified to address the topic; both in terms of the evidence and whether they are involved in a conspiracy of silence.
Kristian Andersen is a Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research. He focuses on the relationship between host and pathogen, using sequencing, fieldwork, experimentation, and computational biology methods. He has spearheaded large international collaborations investigating the emergence, spread and evolution of deadly pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, Zika virus, Ebola virus, West Nile virus, and Lassa virus.
Prof Michael Worobey, is the head of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. His work focuses on the genomes of viruses, using molecular and computational biology, to understand the origins, emergence and control of pandemics. Recently, his interdisciplinary work on SARS-CoV-2 has shed light on how and when the virus originated and ignited the COVID-19 pandemic in China and how SARS-CoV-2 emerged and took hold in North America and Europe.
Prof Edward "Eddie" Holmes, is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow & Professor of Virology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Sydney University, a member of the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of The Royal Society. He is known for his work on the evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, particularly the mechanisms by which RNA viruses jump species boundaries to emerge in humans and other animals. He has studied the emergence and spread of such pathogens as SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, dengue virus, HIV, hepatitis C virus, myxoma virus, RHDV and Yersinia pestis.
All three researchers have specialist expertise and decades of experience directly applicable to tracking viruses and their adaption to humans, and, fair to say, are fairly eminent in their fields (Eddie in particular!). Further, they are among the relatively small set of researchers collecting and analysing primary evidence on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, communicating their findings in top-ranked journals, including Nature and Science.
In this episode, Chris and Matt put to this trio of Professors the claims rasied by lab leak advocates to see what these (~~damn conspirators)~~ experts have to say for themselves.
Links
- Sam Harris Making Sense #311 - DID SARS-COV-2 ESCAPE FROM A LAB?
- Bad Boy of Science YouTube Channel: Is The COVID Lab Leak Hypothesis Dead? w Kristian Andersen, Mike Worobey & Philipp Markolin
- Good article from Philipp Markolin on 'The manipulation playbook of anti-science actors'
- Stuart Ritchie's article for the i: "Stop blindly believing or dismissing the Covid lab-leak theory – focus on the evidence" (references discourse surfing!)
- Wall Street Journal: Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says
- Our previous episode discussing the Lab Leak and other Covid controversies with Stuart Neil
Relevant Research Papers & Letters
- Calisher, C., et al. (2020). Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19. The Lancet, 395(10226), e42-e43.
- Andersen KG, Rambaut A, Lipkin WI, Holmes EC, Garry RF. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nat Med. 2020 Apr;26(4):450-452.
- Bloom, J. D., et al. (2021). Investigate the origins of COVID-19. Science, 372(6543), 694-694.
- Holmes, E. C., et al. (2021). The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review. Cell, 184(19), 4848-4856.
- Worobey, M., et al. (2022). The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Science, 377(6609), 951-959.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
Pub date: 2023-03-03
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: for decades, the world of romantic fiction has been divided by a heated debate about racism and diversity. Is there any hope of a happy ending?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How to think like a mathematician
Pub date: 2023-03-04
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Jo Brand. mathematicians Prof Hannah Fry and Dr Eugenia Cheng and xkcd webcomic creator Randall Munroe to discover how thinking like a mathematician could solve some tricky everyday conundrums. From the optimal strategy to finding your true love, to how to fix a wonky table in the pub, thinking like a mathematician can help you in some very unlikely situations. They discover how mathematical thinking can help answer some truly out of this world questions as well: how much soup would it take to fill the solar system? What would happen if you shrink Jupiter to the size of a house? Not problems we'd encounter in every day life maybe, but all questions sent to Randall Munroe for his "What If?" series of books. At first glance the questions may seem impossible, but, as it turns out, maths and physics can provide an answer to these headscratchers, as the panel discover.Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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Podcast: Love Letters (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S7E9: From Roz With Love
Pub date: 2023-01-03
Finding and sustaining love takes real work. It takes intention. But we never know when life is going to throw someone important in front of us. Then we’re forced to confront a big question: Is my heart open to love, or is it not? The story of Roz and Ralph is all about that: being open — remaining open — across six decades, multiple states, one bowl of pea soup, and a whole lot of letters. Email us at loveletters@boston.com.
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Podcast: You're Wrong About (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Beanie Babies with Jamie Loftus
Pub date: 2022-12-12
They’re winsome and soft and so fun to cuddle/ With one of Ty’s Beanie Babies, you could never go wrong/ But they were all born from a toxic puddle/ It really was capitalism all along.
This week, Jamie Loftus tells us the story of the greatest toy fad of the 90s, and liberates us from our tiny plastic boxes.
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Podcast: Start the Week (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
Pub date: 2023-02-27
It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism is the title of the new book by the US politician Bernie Sanders. In it he castigates a system that he argues is fuelled by uncontrolled greed and rigged against ordinary people. He tells Tom Sutcliffe it’s time to reject an economic order and a political system that continues to benefit the super-rich, and fight for a democracy that recognises that economic rights are human rights.The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Martin Wolf looks more closely at how and why the relationship between capitalism and democracy appears to be unravelling. But despite the failings – slowing growth, growing inequality and widespread popular disillusion – he argues in The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism that the relationship remains the best system for human flourishing. But the economist Kate Raworth believes that mainstream economics has had its day. Its failure to predict and prevent financial crises, while allowing extreme poverty, inequality and environment degradation to persist, means its contributing to, not solving, societal unrest. She argues that her theory – Doughnut Economics – offers a new model for a green, fair and thriving global economy.Producer: Katy Hickman
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Scientist and the Swindler
Pub date: 2023-03-03
Cautionary Conversation: Celebrated physicist Professor Paul Frampton was on his way to Brussels to meet the love of his life, swimwear model Denise Milani. Or so he thought. When he found himself in jail, he realized he’d fallen prey to a confidence trickster.
Tim Harford is joined by Maria Konnikova - journalist, psychologist and best-selling author - to talk about swindlers: what motivates them; what they look for in their victims; and how to avoid being conned altogether.
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Podcast: The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed
Pub date: 2023-02-23
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion is joined by Erika Lentz, host of the podcast The Turning to discuss the impact of ballet culture and the legacy of George Balanchine on dancers of all levels.
In Slate Plus, how ballerinas and nuns have more in common than you think.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Tori Dominguez with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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Podcast: Normal Gossip (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: S3 Ep9: Big Business Announcement Episode (new partner and new season!!!)
Pub date: 2023-02-25
We're back with some big announcements and answers to your questions, like: * Where have you been? * Who is your new partner? * What does it mean that you have a new partner? * What will change about the podcast? * Will you please have a live show in my city pleasseee? * WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK
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Normal Gossip is hosted by Kelsey McKinney (@mckinneykelsey) and produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs).
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Podcast: Other People's Pockets (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Cord Jefferson, Hollywood writer & producer
Pub date: 2023-03-01
He is winning Emmys these days, but not long ago, Cord Jefferson was a blogger with one plastic fork to his name. Cord “did what he loved” and the money actually followed… how tf?!
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Podcast: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: Plotted In Darkness
Pub date: 2023-02-21
Host Megan Phelps-Roper writes a letter to J.K. Rowling—and receives a surprising invitation in reply: the opportunity for an intimate conversation in Rowling’s Scottish home.
Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, and Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the Real Secret Formula
Pub date: 2023-02-28
Coca-Cola's red and white logo is so iconic that supposedly nine out of every ten people on Earth know it on sight. Nearly two billion servings of Coke are sold a day, enough for one out of every four people on the planet. Yet while a glimpse of a billboard or bottle might start you humming one of their catchy jingles, this legendary brand was actually created by a morphine-addicted, down-on-his-luck pharmacist desperate for a big break. In fact, the first Coca-Cola product was actually a knockoff of the Pope's favorite drink, a concoction featuring red wine and cocaine. So how did Coke transcend its dubious origins to become one of the world’s biggest companies, not to mention a globally recognized symbol of all things American? It’s a story that involves Sigmund Freud, US military assistance, international drug treaty loopholes, and a New Jersey facility that extracts and burns piles of cocaine (yes, really, cocaine!) just miles from Manhattan. Gastropod’s here with Coca-Cola’s real secret formula for success, and we didn’t even need to break into their vault to get it.
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Podcast: Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Man Named Malec
Pub date: 2023-03-01
Giles and Sarah set off on their quest to discover what happened to Lionel Crabb. A chance encounter leads them to ex-diver, Commander Julian Malec, the last living link to the Crabb mystery. He tells them of a story cloaked in secrecy.
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Podcast: Next Year in Moscow (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Next Year in Moscow 1: This damn year
Pub date: 2023-02-22
For Russians opposed to Vladimir Putin, everything changed the moment they awoke to news of the invasion of Ukraine a year ago. They felt a range of emotions: pain, fury and shame. And they had to figure out what to do next.
The Economist’s Arkady Ostrovsky has been speaking to them, because their stories help solve the mystery of why this senseless war began – and how it might end.
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Podcast: City of the Rails (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: I've Gone and Made a Fool of Everyone
Pub date: 2023-01-18
When her daughter Ruby skips town to hop trains, Danelle follows her into the train yard. Yes, there still are hobos, and they live in a secret city filled with unforgettable characters. Train hopping photographer Mike Brodie shows her how to catch a train, and explains why he rides in head-to-toe Gucci.
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Podcast: The Joy of Why (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Will the Universe End?
Pub date: 2023-02-22
Big Freeze, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Bounce or vacuum decay? Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack about the five ways that scientists think the universe could come to an end. The post How Will the Universe End? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Is This Painting a Masterpiece? AI Is On the Case
Pub date: 2023-02-22
Almost 30 years ago, Anthony Ayers spotted a dusty, wood-panel painting tucked behind an armoire in an antique shop. Over the decades, he and the group of people that helped him buy it have been on a quest to prove it was painted by Renaissance artist Raphael. WSJ’s Kelly Crow reports on a possible break in the case and the technology that brought it about.
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- Is This Painting a Raphael or Not? A Fortune Rides on the Answer
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Podcast: The PloughCast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 48: Canada’s Euthanasia Industry
Pub date: 2023-02-21
We talk with Alexander Raikin & Leah Libresco Sargeant on MAID, and take your questions. Raikin discloses his recent reporting on Canada’s massive ramp-up in medically assisted death.
How can this cultural disaster have happened, and what can we do to prevent this approach to life and death from taking hold in our own families and churches?
Then we answer your questions: what are the implications of the fact that marriage is becoming the province of the upper middle and upper classes, while increasingly out of reach for the working class and the poor? Are plunging birthrates such a bad thing? Plus, responses to Matthew Lee Anderson on IVF, and more.
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Podcast: ZOE Science & Nutrition (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to maximize health in your later years
Pub date: 2023-02-16
Why do some people remain fit and healthy in their later years while others become increasingly frail?
Researchers from Kings College London have been following thousands of twins for 30 years in an effort to understand how each of us ages differently. And some of their findings will surprise you!
In today’s episode, Jonathan speaks to Claire Steves to better understand what all this means, shedding light on how aging works and what we can do about it:
- Dr. Claire Steves is a senior lecturer at King's College London, a medical doctor, and the clinical director at TwinsUK
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - Topic introduction
01:39 - Quickfire questions
03:16 - Claire’s work during the pandemic
05:17 - What happens in our bodies when we age?
08:26 - Genes and aging
09:33 - What factors affect aging?
11:39 - Effects of physical activity
12:23 - Microbiome effects on aging
13:33 - Claire’s research
19:11 - What evidence is there that we can slow the effects of aging?
21:44 - What are some modifiable factors that can help reduce aging effects?
23:06 - Alzheimer's and dementia
28:21 - Stimulating your brain
29:45 - The importance of social interaction for the brain
31:02 - Diet. health and aging
35:27 - Menopause
37:30 - Actionable advice about maximizing health while aging
39:14 - The biggest myth about aging
42:20 - Summary
43:41 - Goodbyes
43:50 - Outro
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Podcast: Frozen Head (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mother Melters | 1
Pub date: 2023-01-23
Two dead bodies. Two ordinary deaths… or so it seems. But these two cases, decades apart, will pit cryonicists against mother melters.
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Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 4. Used Hotel Soaps
Pub date: 2023-02-13
Hotel guests adore those cute little soaps, but is it just a one-night stand? Zachary Crockett discovers what happens when we love ’em and leave ’em.
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: On Background: Bad Actors on the Blockchain
Pub date: 2023-02-14
For his next book, Michael Lewis wants to find out how investigators manage to trace the murky trail of illicit crypto. Cryptocurrency started with the dream of cash changing hands without a trace. But that dream has turned into a nightmare for many would-be criminals. A new field has emerged of data geeks and law-enforcement experts trying to find out who’s behind transactions on the blockchain. Michael calls up Andy Greenberg, senior cybersecurity writer for WIRED and author of “Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency” to find out how investigators crack the code of crypto.
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Podcast: Burn Wild (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: The Elves are watching
Pub date: 2022-09-06
An underground group of radical environmentalists become a domestic terror priority. Then two go on the run. And this series goes in an unexpected direction.CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Collective, composed performed and produced by Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant; recorded, mixed and produced by Fabien LeseureArtwork by Danny Crossley with Art Direction by Amy FullaloveScript recorded and mixed by Slater Swan at Anjuna Recording StudioSeries Mixing and Studio Engineer: Sarah HockleyEditor: Philip SellarsAssistant Commissioner: Natasha JohanssonCommissioner: Dylan HaskinsFeaturing footage from the FBI. Plus news footage from KGW News, 4 News Now, GB News, Energy GOP, The Hill.Burn Wild is a BBC Audio Documentaries Production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live.
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Podcast: Snowcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Professor Sophie Scott
Pub date: 2023-02-14
Sophie Scott is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL and an award-winning lecturer, whose TED talk, titled Why We Laugh, has been watched over 5 million times.
Her new book, The Brain, features ten enjoyable essays which cover how brains have evolved over time, their composition and chemistry, and how they interact with the world around us.
Sophie loves brains and hers is full of mind-blowing facts about, what she calls, “one of the most miraculous structures in the known universe.”
If you listen to this interview, you’ll be doing your own brain a favour, as Sophie shares some brain hacks that might help keep your mind sharp. There's some good news for evening crammers and a bit of motivation for those disinclined to exercise.
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Podcast: Svetlana! Svetlana! (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Princess of the Kremlin
Pub date: 2023-01-30
In the midst of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliuyeva, decides to flee Mother Russia to start a new life in America. But with the KGB on her tail, how on earth is she going to get out? Playwright Dan Kitrosser unravels her story.
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This episode was written and produced by Adam Weber, Alison Joy, and Kathryn Isaac and Dan Kitrosser, who also hosts. They also serve as Executive Producers.
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At iHeart team, the Supervising Producer is Casey Pegram and Executive Producer is Maya Howard with editing assistance from producers Christina Loranger and Joey Patt.
Original music by Ilan Isakov.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution
Pub date: 2023-02-06
It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 3. My Sharona
Pub date: 2023-02-06
Can a hit single from four decades ago still pay the bills? Zachary Crockett f-f-f-finds out.
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Podcast: This American Life (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 790: You're It
Pub date: 2023-01-29
Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.
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Podcast: The Randomly Generated History Club (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1347: The Bulgarian Lobster Rebellion
Pub date: 2023-01-10
In this episode, we cover the year 1347 and all it entails, including: The Gelfs and the Giblians, aesthetically pleasing monks, the Byzantinnies, Serbian Mills & Boon, Anti-Stagma, the Sultan’s HR department, and the Emperor’s brown M&Ms.
Topics Discussed: Ibn Battuta, Dušan the Mighty, and Cola di Rienzo.
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Podcast: The Simply Vegan Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep136. How a music genre became an animal rights movement, with MOBY
Pub date: 2023-01-26
In part 1 of today’s episode, we discuss the fact that Vegan Runners is now Parkrun’s biggest club – and share how you can help keep them at the top spot.
We also discuss stand up desks, vegan seafood alternatives, losing our cooking mojo and how to make a lasagne in a pan to save on washing up.
But part 2 is the main event, when we chat to musician, DJ, producer and director –Moby. We talk about his new film, The Punk Rock Vegan Movie, which covers the history of punk rock and its roots in politics, animal rights and activism. Moby explains why he went vegan in the 80s, back when no one even knew how to pronounce the word, and why it's so much more than just rebelling against the system.
We also discuss why veganism is not a belief but something that's based on science and fact and how we can adapt our behaviours to encourage others to go vegan, too.
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Podcast: The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Why Chief of Staff Is “the Hardest Job in Washington”
Pub date: 2023-01-27
The White House chief of staff is the second most powerful but hardest gig in Washington, D.C. Dick Cheney blamed the job for giving him his first heart attack, during the Ford Administration. A hapless chief of staff can break a Presidency; effective ones get nicknamed the Velvet Hammer. On Friday, the Biden Administration announced that Ron Klain will depart as chief of staff, after two long years in the job. The staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos gather for their weekly conversation to look at what Klain accomplished and what to expect from his replacement, Jeffrey Zients.
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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words
Pub date: 2023-01-11
Katherine Rundell is, in a word, enthusiastic. She’s enthusiastic about John Donne. She’s enthusiastic about walking along rooftops. She’s enthusiastic about words, and stories, and food. She has often started her morning with a cartwheel and is currently learning to fly a small plane. A prolific writer, her many children’s books aim to instill the sense of discovery she still remembers from her own unruly childhood adventures—and remind adults of the astonishment that still awaits them.
She joined Tyler to discuss how she became obsessed with John Donne, the power of memorizing poetry, the political implications of suicide in the 17th century, the new evidence of Donne’s faith, the contagious intensity of thought in 17th century British life, the effect of the plague on national consciousness, the brutality of boys’ schooling, the thrills and dangers of rooftop walking, why children should be more mischievous, why she’d like to lower the voting age to 16, her favorite UK bookshop, the wonderful weirdness of Diana Wynne Jones, why she has at least one joke about Belgium in every book, what T.S. Eliot missed about John Donne, what it’s like to eat tarantula, the Kafka book she gives to toddlers, why The Book of Common Prayer is underrated, and more.
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Recorded September 2nd, 2022
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Podcast: The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How a Man Writes Women Protagonists
Pub date: 2023-01-26
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by author and Slate editor Dan Kois to talk about men writing women. Dan’s new book, Vintage Contemporaries, is the coming of age story of Em and the two women who had a meaningful impact on her life. Dan and Cheyna talk about how Dan wrote true to life female characters without falling into the #menwritewomen trap, why he told a story with female characters, and how to navigate the tricky world of writing characters of the opposite sex.
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Podcast: The Sleepy Bookshelf: Audiobooks for Sleep (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny | The Tale of Two Bad Mice | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Pub date: 2022-11-24
Tonight, Elizabeth reads "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny," "The Tale of Two Bad Mice," and "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" from "The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter," a collection of Potter’s stories and short books from the early 1900s.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive – The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend
Pub date: 2023-01-25
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2015: The Kray twins wanted everyone to know who they were – and indeed they were always better at fame than crime. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Babbage from The Economist (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Babbage: How to detect a deepfake
Pub date: 2023-01-18
Digital fakery, from the latest generation of deepfakes to lower-tech trickery, threatens to erode trust in societies and can prevent justice from being served. But how can technology be used to both detect deepfakes and authenticate real images?
Patrick Traynor, a professor at the University of Florida, explains a novel method to expose audio generated by artificial intelligence. Ilke Demir of Intel Labs demonstrates how to spot visual fakery by analysing colour changes in the face. Plus, The Economist’s Benjamin Sutherland investigates the flipside of deepfakes: how to prove that footage is real. And Wendy Betts of eyeWitness to Atrocities explains how her technology is being used as evidence for war crimes. Alok Jha hosts.
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Podcast: Bone Valley (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1 | God Help Us
Pub date: 2022-09-21
Chapter 1 of 9
Author Gilbert King receives a message from a Florida judge who claims that there is an innocent man in prison, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife back in 1987. King and researcher Kelsey Decker meet Leo Schofield in prison and learn about the disappearance of 18 year-old Michelle Schofield.
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Podcast: The Slow Newscast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Westminster Accounts
Pub date: 2023-01-09
Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of fully understanding who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. This is the story of the money flowing into our politics, hidden in plain sight.
Podcast: Song Stories
Episode: Tools of the Trade
Pub date: 2022-07-27
These days, you don't need a studio or a $10,000 microphone to make a good sounding record. In fact you probably have everything you need available on whatever you're using to listen to this podcast!
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Podcast: 70 Over 70 (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: “70 Sounds Young to Me” with Dr. Diane Meier
Pub date: 2021-12-07
Paul Price shares what he has learned about how to make the most of the time we have left. Then Max talks with Dr. Diane Meier, a geriatrician and founder of Mount Sinai’s Center to Advance Palliative Care, about what she has learned from helping so many people make meaning of their lives, how to have hard conversations with people we care about, and why 70 feels exciting and unknown.
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Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Pavel Haas, Symphony
Pub date: 2023-01-12
This February, I have the great honor of joining the Indianapolis Symphony for the North American premiere of Pavel Haas’ remarkable unfinished symphony. Pavel Haas, a Czech Jewish composer, wrote the existing music for his symphony between 1940 and 1941 before his deportation to the Terezin ghetto/concentration camp. He was a full participant in the well known cultural activities of the camp, but was unable to complete the symphony before he was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. What Haas did manage to complete is not just a piece that is worth hearing as a historical curiosity, but is one of the towering testaments of both the time in which it was written, and of the unique and innovative Czech symphonic tradition. We are left with 1 fully completed movement, one fully sketched movement, and a "torso" of a third movement. The symphony was completed by the Czech composer Zdenek Zouhar after World War II.
The story of Haas’ death, which we will learn about on the show today is, of course, devastating. Hearing his music reminds all of us of the individual voices that we have lost. The voices of the 6 million Jews, and 6 million others whom the Nazis murdered. But this music also reminds us of the proof that Pavel Haas lived. Haas was one of the truly unique composers of the 20th century, and while his tragic story cannot be detached from his music, the music itself transcends its time and acquires the universality of all great music. It Is truly an honor to be bringing this music to the North American stage for the first time, and at a time of rising Anti-Semitism around the world, I hope that his story, his music, and his voice, will reach far and wide. Join me to learn about this remarkable work.
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Podcast: Shameless Acquisition Target (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1 | Turning Chicken Sh&t Into Chicken Seed
Pub date: 2022-07-21
Laura explains why she cares so very much about acquisitions And, hopefully, why you should care, too!
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: First Contact
Pub date: 2023-01-09
For thousands of years we have gazed up at the stars and wondered: is anybody out there? The idea of meeting aliens has been the inspiration for countless books and films; for art and music. But today, thinking about meeting life on, or from, other planets is no longer dismissed as pure make-believe – it’s the focus of political consideration and cutting-edge space science. Farrah Jarral presents the story of the fantasy and the reality of preparing for first contact with extra-terrestrials.
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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Citizen Kane
Pub date: 2023-01-12
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' film, released in 1941, which is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, films yet made. Welles plays the lead role of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate, and Welles directed, produced and co-wrote this story of loneliness at the heart of a megalomaniac. The plot was partly inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst, who then used the power of his own newspapers to try to suppress the film’s release. It was to take some years before Citizen Kane reached a fuller audience and, from that point, become so celebrated.The image above is of Kane addressing a public meeting while running for Governor.With Stella BruzziProfessor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College LondonIan ChristieProfessor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of LondonAnd John David RhodesProfessor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of CambridgeProducer: Simon Tillotson
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Podcast: The Essay (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Dying Breed
Pub date: 2023-01-06
Great empty buildings, which only a few decades ago were bustling convents, tower over most towns and villages in Ireland, but they represent a world which is disappearing along with the once all-powerful Irish Roman Catholic Church. In this series of The Essay, Olivia O'Leary, convent-educated and a lapsed Catholic, asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.Olivia's final essay is about the end of the tradition of religious orders. Ireland has fallen out of love with the Catholic Church. Hardly a month goes by without more revelations of harsh treatment of girls in institutions run by nuns and of sexual abuse of boys in institutions run by brothers and priests. Nuns have to deal with being despised in a country that used to see them as saints. ‘Before, we were on a pedestal we didn’t deserve’ one nun said to Olivia. ‘Neither do we deserve the gutter. But we took the pedestal, so now we have to take the gutter.’Presenter Olivia O'LearyProducer Claire CunninghamA Rockfinch production for BBC Radio 3
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Podcast: Pale Blue Pod (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: SETI in a Beauty Salon
Pub date: 2023-01-09
Moiya and Corinne talk about the MILLIONS of pieces of debris floating around Earth from asteroids and comets to broken spacecraft. They discuss where it all came from and what we humans are doing to keep Earth safe from it.
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Pale Blue Pod is an astronomy podcast for people who are overwhelmed by the universe but want to be its friend. Astrophysicist Dr. Moiya McTier and comedian Corinne Caputo demystify space one topic at a time with open eyes, open arms, and open mouths (from so much laughing and jaw-dropping). By the end of each episode, the cosmos will feel a little less “ahhh too scary” and a lot more “ohhh, so cool!” New episodes every Monday.
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Middle of Everything Ever
Pub date: 2022-12-09
After graduating from high school, without a clear plan for what to do next, Laura Andrews started asking herself a lot of questions. A spiral of big philosophical thoughts that led her to sit down and write to us with a question that was … oddly mathematical. What is the most average size thing, if you take into account everything in the universe. So, along with mathematician Steven Strogatz, we decided to see if we could sit down and, in a friendly throw down of guesstimates and quick calculations, rough out an answer.
Special thanks to all the listeners who sent in their responses to this question.
Episode Credits:Reported by - Soren Wheeler and Alex NeasonProduced by - Annie McEwenwith mixing help from - Arianne WackFact-checking by - Natalie A. Middletonand Edited by - Alex Neason
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Podcast: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Silly Studies: The Pre-Series Teaser
Pub date: 2023-01-05
The new series kicks off very soon! As a little aperitif, Hannah and Adam review some surprising studies published in scientific journals. Warning: contains fruity language and grisly medical scenarios…
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Podcast: The Plot Thickens (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jamestown
Pub date: 2021-10-12
In a small town in New York, young Lucille Ball becomes enamored with showbiz after watching vaudeville acts and silent movies at the amusement park near her home. As a teenager, she falls for a handsome 21-year-old bootlegger, and is promptly shipped off to drama school in New York City. But Lucy soon returns home as a life-altering tragedy threatens to tear apart her family.
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Podcast: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 156: “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder
Pub date: 2022-10-25
Episode one hundred and fifty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Was Made to Love Her", the early career of Stevie Wonder, and the Detroit riots of 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Groovin'" by the Young Rascals.Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ResourcesAs usual, I’ve put together a Mixcloud playlist of all the recordings excerpted in this episode.The best value way to get all of Stevie Wonder's early singles is this MP3 collection, which has the original mono single mixes of fifty-five tracks for a very reasonable price. For those who prefer physical media, this is a decent single-CD collection of his early work at a very low price indeed.As well as the general Motown information listed below, I’ve also referred to Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder by Mark Ribowsky, which rather astonishingly is the only full-length biography of Wonder, to Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul by Craig Werner, and to Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove.For Motown-related information in this and other Motown episodes, I’ve used the following resources:Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George is an excellent popular history of the various companies that became Motown.To Be Loved by Berry Gordy is Gordy’s own, understandably one-sided, but relatively well-written, autobiography.Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall is a collection of interviews with women involved in Motown.I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B by J. Andrew Flory is an academic look at Motown.The Motown Encyclopaedia by Graham Betts is an exhaustive look at the people and records involved in Motown’s thirty-year history.How Sweet It Is by Lamont Dozier and Scott B. Bomar is Dozier’s autobiography, while Come and Get These Memories by Brian and Eddie Holland and Dave Thompson is the Holland brothers’.Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson by "Dr Licks" is a mixture of a short biography of the great bass player, and tablature of his most impressive bass parts.And Motown Junkies is an infrequently-updated blog looking at (so far) the first 694 tracks released on Motown singles.PatreonThis podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them?TranscriptA quick note before I begin -- this episode deals with disability and racism, and also deals from the very beginning with sex work and domestic violence. It also has some discussion of police violence and sexual assault. As always I will try to deal with those subjects as non-judgementally and sensitively as possible, but if you worry that anything about those subjects might disturb you, please check the transcript.Calvin Judkins was not a good man. Lula Mae Hardaway thought at first he might be, when he took her in, with her infant son whose father had left before the boy was born. He was someone who seemed, when he played the piano, to be deeply sensitive and emotional, and he even did the decent thing and married her when he got her pregnant.She thought she could save him, even though he was a street hustler and not even very good at it, and thirty years older than her -- she was only nineteen, he was nearly fifty. But she soon discovered that he wasn't interested in being saved, and instead he was interested in hurting her. He became physically and financially abusive, and started pimping her out.Lula would eventually realise that Calvin Judkins was no good, but not until she got pregnant again, shortly after the birth of her second son. Her third son was born premature -- different sources give different numbers for how premature, with some saying four months and others six weeks -- and while he apparently went by Stevland Judkins throughout his early childhood, the name on his birth certificate was apparently Stevland Morris, Lula having decided not to give another child the surname of her abuser, though nobody has ever properly explained where she got the surname "Morris" from.Little Stevland was put in an incubator with an oxygen mask, which saved the tiny child's life but destroyed his sight, giving him a condition called retinopathy of prematurity -- a condition which nowadays can be prevented and cured, but in 1951 was just an unavoidable consequence for some portion of premature babies.Shortly after the family moved from Saginaw to Detroit, Lula kicked Calvin out, and he would remain only a peripheral figure in his children's lives, but one thing he did do was notice young Stevland's interest in music, and on his increasingly infrequent visits to his wife and kids -- visits that usually ended with violence -- he would bring along toy instruments for the young child to play, like a harmonica and a set of bongos.Stevie was a real prodigy, and by the time he was nine he had a collection of real musical instruments, because everyone could see that the kid was something special. A neighbour who owned a piano gave it to Stevie when she moved out and couldn't take it with her. A local Lions Club gave him a drum kit at a party they organised for local blind children, and a barber gave him a chromatic harmonica after seeing him play his toy one.Stevie gave his first professional performance when he was eight. His mother had taken him to a picnic in the park, and there was a band playing, and the little boy got as close to the stage as he could and started dancing wildly. The MC of the show asked the child who he was, and he said "My name is Stevie, and I can sing and play drums", so of course they got the cute kid up on stage behind the drum kit while the band played Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love":[Excerpt: Johnny Ace, "Pledging My Love"]He did well enough that they paid him seventy-five cents -- an enormous amount for a small child at that time -- though he was disappointed afterwards that they hadn't played something faster that would really allow him to show off his drumming skills. After that he would perform semi-regularly at small events, and always ask to be paid in quarters rather than paper money, because he liked the sound of the coins -- one of his party tricks was to be able to tell one coin from another by the sound of them hitting a table.Soon he formed a duo with a neighbourhood friend, John Glover, who was a couple of years older and could play guitar while Stevie sang and played harmonica and bongos. The two were friends, and both accomplished musicians for their age, but that wasn't the only reason Stevie latched on to Glover. Even as young as he was, he knew that Motown was soon going to be the place to be in Detroit if you were a musician, and Glover had an in -- his cousin was Ronnie White of the Miracles.Stevie and John performed as a duo everywhere they could and honed their act, performing particularly at the talent shows which were such an incubator of Black musical talent at the time, and they also at this point seem to have got the attention of Clarence Paul, but it was White who brought the duo to Motown. Stevie and John first played for White and Bobby Rodgers, another of the Miracles, then when they were impressed they took them through the several layers of Motown people who would have to sign off on signing a new act. First they were taken to see Brian Holland, who was a rising star within Motown as "Please Mr. Postman" was just entering the charts. They impressed him with a performance of the Miracles song "Bad Girl":[Excerpt: The Miracles, "Bad Girl"]After that, Stevie and John went to see Mickey Stevenson, who was at first sceptical, thinking that a kid so young -- Stevie was only eleven at the time -- must be some kind of novelty act rather than a serious musician. He said later "It was like, what's next, the singing mouse?"But Stevenson was won over by the child's talent. Normally, Stevenson had the power to sign whoever he liked to the label, but given the extra legal complications involved in signing someone under-age, he had to get Berry Gordy's permission. Gordy didn't even like signing teenagers because of all the extra paperwork that would be involved, and he certainly wasn't interested in signing pre-teens. But he came down to the studio to see what Stevie could do, and was amazed, not by his singing -- Gordy didn't think much of that -- but by his instrumental ability. First Stevie played harmonica and bongos as proficiently as an adult professional, and then he made his way around the studio playing on every other instrument in the place -- often only a few notes, but competent on them all.Gordy decided to sign the duo -- and the initial contract was for an act named "Steve and John" -- but it was soon decided to separate them. Glover would be allowed to hang around Motown while he was finishing school, and there would be a place for him when he finished -- he later became a staff songwriter, working on tracks for the Four Tops and the Miracles among others, and he would even later write a number one hit, "You Don't Have to be a Star (to be in My Show)" for Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr -- but they were going to make Stevie a star right now.The man put in charge of that was Clarence Paul.Paul, under his birth name of Clarence Pauling, had started his career in the "5" Royales, a vocal group he formed with his brother Lowman Pauling that had been signed to Apollo Records by Ralph Bass, and later to King Records.Paul seems to have been on at least some of the earliest recordings by the group, so is likely on their first single, "Give Me One More Chance":[Excerpt: The "5" Royales, "Give Me One More Chance"]But Paul was drafted to go and fight in the Korean War, and so wasn't part of the group's string of hit singles, mostly written by his brother Lowman, like "Think", which later became better known in James Brown's cover version, or "Dedicated to the One I Love", later covered by the Shirelles, but in its original version dominated by Lowman's stinging guitar playing:[Excerpt: The "5" Royales, "Dedicated to the One I Love"]After being discharged, Clarence had shortened his name to Clarence Paul, and had started recording for all the usual R&B labels like Roulette and Federal, with little success:[Excerpt: Clarence Paul, "I'm Gonna Love You, Love You Til I Die"]He'd also co-written "I Need Your Lovin'", which had been an R&B hit for Roy Hamilton:[Excerpt: Roy Hamilton, "I Need Your Lovin'"]Paul had recently come to work for Motown – one of the things Berry Gordy did to try to make his label more attractive was to hire the relatives of R&B stars on other labels, in the hopes of getting them to switch to Motown – and he was the new man on the team, not given any of the important work to do. He was working with acts like Henry Lumpkin and the Valladiers, and had also been the producer of "Mind Over Matter", the single the Temptations had released as The Pirates in a desperate attempt to get a hit:[Excerpt: The Pirates, "Mind Over Matter"]Paul was the person you turned to when no-one else was interested, and who would come up with bizarre ideas. A year or so after the time period we're talking about, it was him who produced an album of country music for the Supremes, before they'd had a hit, and came up with "The Man With the Rock and Roll Banjo Band" for them:[Excerpt: The Supremes, "The Man With The Rock and Roll Banjo Band"]So, Paul was the perfect person to give a child -- by this time twelve years old -- who had the triple novelties of being a multi-instrumentalist, a child, and blind.Stevie started spending all his time around the Motown studios, partly because he was eager to learn everything about making records and partly because his home life wasn't particularly great and he wanted to be somewhere else. He earned the affection and irritation, in equal measure, of people at Motown both for his habit of wandering into the middle of sessions because he couldn't see the light that showed that the studio was in use, and for his practical joking. He was a great mimic, and would do things like phoning one of the engineers and imitating Berry Gordy's voice, telling the engineer that Stevie would be coming down, and to give him studio equipment to take home. He'd also astonish women by complimenting them, in detail, on their dresses, having been told in advance what they looked like by an accomplice.But other "jokes" were less welcome -- he would regularly sexually assault women working at Motown, grabbing their breasts or buttocks and then claiming it was an accident because he couldn't see what he was doing. Most of the women he molested still speak of him fondly, and say everybody loved him, and this may even be the case -- and certainly I don't think any of us should be judged too harshly for what we did when we were twelve -- but this kind of thing led to a certain amount of pressure to make Stevie's career worth the extra effort he was causing everyone at Motown.Because Berry Gordy was not impressed with Stevie's vocals, the decision was made to promote him as a jazz instrumentalist, and so Clarence Paul insisted that his first release be an album, rather than doing what everyone would normally do and only put out an album after a hit single. Paul reasoned that there was no way on Earth they were going to be able to get a hit single with a jazz instrumental by a twelve-year-old kid, and eventually persuaded Gordy of the wisdom of this idea.So they started work on The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, released under his new stagename of Little Stevie Wonder, supposedly a name given to him after Berry Gordy said "That kid's a wonder!", though Mickey Stevenson always said that the name came from a brainstorming session between him and Clarence Paul. The album featured Stevie on harmonica, piano, and organ on different tracks, but on the opening track, "Fingertips", he's playing the bongos that give the track its name:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (studio version)"]The composition of that track is credited to Paul and the arranger Hank Cosby, but Beans Bowles, who played flute on the track, always claimed that he came up with the melody, and it seems quite likely to me that most of the tracks on the album were created more or less as jam sessions -- though Wonder's contributions were all overdubbed later.The album sat in the can for several months -- Berry Gordy was not at all sure of its commercial potential. Instead, he told Paul to go in another direction -- focusing on Wonder's blindness, he decided that what they needed to do was create an association in listeners' minds with Ray Charles, who at this point was at the peak of his commercial power. So back into the studio went Wonder and Paul, to record an album made up almost entirely of Ray Charles covers, titled Tribute to Uncle Ray.(Some sources have the Ray Charles tribute album recorded first -- and given Motown's lax record-keeping at this time it may be impossible to know for sure -- but this is the way round that Mark Ribowsky's biography of Wonder has it).But at Motown's regular quality control meeting it was decided that there wasn't a single on the album, and you didn't release an album like that without having a hit single first. By this point, Clarence Paul was convinced that Berry Gordy was just looking for excuses not to do anything with Wonder -- and there may have been a grain of truth to that. There's some evidence that Gordy was worried that the kid wouldn't be able to sing once his voice broke, and was scared of having another Frankie Lymon on his hands.But the decision was made that rather than put out either of those albums, they would put out a single. The A-side was a song called "I Call it Pretty Music But the Old People Call it the Blues, Part 1", which very much played on Wonder's image as a loveable naive kid:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "I Call it Pretty Music But the Old People Call it the Blues, Part 1"]The B-side, meanwhile, was part two -- a slowed-down, near instrumental, version of the song, reframed as an actual blues, and as a showcase for Wonder's harmonica playing rather than his vocals.The single wasn't a hit, but it made number 101 on the Billboard charts, just missing the Hot One Hundred, which for the debut single of a new artist wasn't too bad, especially for Motown at this point in time, when most of its releases were flopping. That was good enough that Gordy authorised the release of the two albums that they had in the can.The next single, "Little Water Boy", was a rather baffling duet with Clarence Paul, which did nothing at all on the charts.[Excerpt: Clarence Paul and Little Stevie Wonder, "Little Water Boy"]After this came another flop single, written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Janie Bradford, before the record that finally broke Little Stevie Wonder out into the mainstream in a big way.While Wonder hadn't had a hit yet, he was sent out on the first Motortown Revue tour, along with almost every other act on the label. Because he hadn't had a hit, he was supposed to only play one song per show, but nobody had told him how long that song should be. He had quickly become a great live performer, and the audiences were excited to watch him, so when he went into extended harmonica solos rather than quickly finishing the song, the audience would be with him. Clarence Paul, who came along on the tour, would have to motion to the onstage bandleader to stop the music, but the bandleader would know that the audiences were with Stevie, and so would just keep the song going as long as Stevie was playing.Often Paul would have to go on to the stage and shout in Wonder's ear to stop playing -- and often Wonder would ignore him, and have to be physically dragged off stage by Paul, still playing, causing the audience to boo Paul for stopping him from playing. Wonder would complain off-stage that the audience had been enjoying it, and didn't seem to get it into his head that he wasn't the star of the show, that the audiences were enjoying him, but were there to see the Miracles and Mary Wells and the Marvelettes and Marvin Gaye.This made all the acts who had to go on after him, and who were running late as a result, furious at him -- especially since one aspect of Wonder's blindness was that his circadian rhythms weren't regulated by sunlight in the same way that the sighted members of the tour's were. He would often wake up the entire tour bus by playing his harmonica at two or three in the morning, while they were all trying to sleep.Soon Berry Gordy insisted that Clarence Paul be on stage with Wonder throughout his performance, ready to drag him off stage, so that he wouldn't have to come out onto the stage to do it.But one of the first times he had done this had been on one of the very first Motortown Revue shows, before any of his records had come out. There he'd done a performance of "Fingertips", playing the flute part on harmonica rather than only playing bongos throughout as he had on the studio version -- leaving the percussion to Marvin Gaye, who was playing drums for Wonder's set:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (Parts 1 & 2)"]But he'd extended the song with a little bit of call-and-response vocalising:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (Parts 1 & 2)"]After the long performance ended, Clarence Paul dragged Wonder off-stage and the MC asked the audience to give him a round of applause -- but then Stevie came running back on and carried on playing:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (Parts 1 & 2)"]By this point, though, the musicians had started to change over -- Mary Wells, who was on after Wonder, was using different musicians from his, and some of her players were already on stage. You can hear Joe Swift, who was playing bass for Wells, asking what key he was meant to be playing in:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (Parts 1 & 2)"]Eventually, after six and a half minutes, they got Wonder off stage, but that performance became the two sides of Wonder's next single, with "Fingertips Part 2", the part with the ad lib singing and the false ending, rather than the instrumental part one, being labelled as the side the DJs should play.When it was released, the song started a slow climb up the charts, and by August 1963, three months after it came out, it was at number one -- only the second ever Motown number one, and the first ever live single to get there. Not only that, but Motown released a live album -- Recorded Live, the Twelve-Year-Old Genius (though as many people point out he was thirteen when it was released -- he was twelve when it was recorded though) and that made number one on the albums chart, becoming the first Motown album ever to do so.They followed up "Fingertips" with a similar sounding track, "Workout, Stevie, Workout", which made number thirty-three. After that, his albums -- though not yet his singles -- started to be released as by "Stevie Wonder" with no "Little" -- he'd had a bit of a growth spurt and his voice was breaking, and so marketing him as a child prodigy was not going to work much longer and they needed to transition him into a star with adult potential.In the Motown of 1963 that meant cutting an album of standards, because the belief at the time in Motown was that the future for their entertainers was doing show tunes at the Copacabana. But for some reason the audience who had wanted an R&B harmonica instrumental with call-and-response improvised gospel-influenced yelling was not in the mood for a thirteen year old singing "Put on a Happy Face" and "When You Wish Upon a Star", and especially not when the instrumental tracks were recorded in a key that suited him at age twelve but not thirteen, so he was clearly straining."Fingertips" being a massive hit also meant Stevie was now near the top of the bill on the Motortown Revue when it went on its second tour. But this actually put him in a precarious position. When he had been down at the bottom of the bill and unknown, nobody expected anything from him, and he was following other minor acts, so when he was surprisingly good the audiences went wild. Now, near the top of the bill, he had to go on after Marvin Gaye, and he was not nearly so impressive in that context. The audiences were polite enough, but not in the raptures he was used to.Although Stevie could still beat Gaye in some circumstances. At Motown staff parties, Berry Gordy would always have a contest where he'd pit two artists against each other to see who could win the crowd over, something he thought instilled a fun and useful competitive spirit in his artists. They'd alternate songs, two songs each, and Gordy would decide on the winner based on audience response. For the 1963 Motown Christmas party, it was Stevie versus Marvin. Wonder went first, with "Workout, Stevie, Workout", and was apparently impressive, but then Gaye topped him with a version of "Hitch-Hike". So Stevie had to top that, and apparently did, with a hugely extended version of "I Call it Pretty Music", reworked in the Ray Charles style he'd used for "Fingertips".So Marvin Gaye had to top that with the final song of the contest, and he did, performing "Stubborn Kind of Fellow":[Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow"]And he was great. So great, it turned the crowd against him. They started booing, and someone in the audience shouted "Marvin, you should be ashamed of yourself, taking advantage of a little blind kid!"The crowd got so hostile Berry Gordy had to stop the performance and end the party early. He never had another contest like that again.There were other problems, as well. Wonder had been assigned a tutor, a young man named Ted Hull, who began to take serious control over his life. Hull was legally blind, so could teach Wonder using Braille, but unlike Wonder had some sight -- enough that he was even able to get a drivers' license and a co-pilot license for planes.Hull was put in loco parentis on most of Stevie's tours, and soon became basically inseparable from him, but this caused a lot of problems, not least because Hull was a conservative white man, while almost everyone else at Motown was Black, and Stevie was socially liberal and on the side of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam movements.Hull started to collaborate on songwriting with Wonder, which most people at Motown were OK with but which now seems like a serious conflict of interest, and he also started calling himself Stevie's "manager" -- which did not impress the people at Motown, who had their own conflict of interest because with Stevie, like with all their artists, they were his management company and agents as well as his record label and publishers.Motown grudgingly tolerated Hull, though, mostly because he was someone they could pass Lula Mae Hardaway to to deal with her complaints. Stevie's mother was not very impressed with the way that Motown were handling her son, and would make her opinion known to anyone who would listen. Hull and Hardaway did not get on at all, but he could be relied on to save the Gordy family members from having to deal with her.Wonder was sent over to Europe for Christmas 1963, to perform shows at the Paris Olympia and do some British media appearances. But both his mother and Hull had come along, and their clear dislike for each other was making him stressed. He started to get pains in his throat whenever he sang -- pains which everyone assumed were a stress reaction to the unhealthy atmosphere that happened whenever Hull and his mother were in the same room together, but which later turned out to be throat nodules that required surgery.Because of this, his singing was generally not up to standard, which meant he was moved to a less prominent place on the bill, which in turn led to his mother accusing the Gordy family of being against him and trying to stop him becoming a star. Wonder started to take her side and believe that Motown were conspiring against him, and at one point he even "accidentally" dropped a bottle of wine on Ted Hull's foot, breaking one of his toes, because he saw Hull as part of the enemy that was Motown.Before leaving for those shows, he had recorded the album he later considered the worst of his career. While he was now just plain Stevie on albums, he wasn't for his single releases, or in his first film appearance, where he was still Little Stevie Wonder. Berry Gordy was already trying to get a foot in the door in Hollywood -- by the end of the decade Motown would be moving from Detroit to LA -- and his first real connections there were with American International Pictures, the low-budget film-makers who have come up a lot in connection with the LA scene.AIP were the producers of the successful low-budget series of beach party films, which combined appearances by teen heartthrobs Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in swimsuits with cameo appearances by old film stars fallen on hard times, and with musical performances by bands like the Bobby Fuller Four. There would be a couple of Motown connections to these films -- most notably, the Supremes would do the theme tune for Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine -- but Muscle Beach Party was to be the first.Most of the music for Muscle Beach Party was written by Brian Wilson, Roger Christian, and Gary Usher, as one might expect for a film about surfing, and was performed by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, the film's major musical guests, with Annette, Frankie, and Donna Loren [pron Lorren] adding vocals, on songs like "Muscle Bustle":[Excerpt: Donna Loren with Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, "Muscle Bustle"]The film followed the formula in every way -- it also had a cameo appearance by Peter Lorre, his last film appearance before his death, and it featured Little Stevie Wonder playing one of the few songs not written by the surf and car writers, a piece of nothing called "Happy Street". Stevie also featured in the follow-up, Bikini Beach, which came out a little under four months later, again doing a single number, "Happy Feelin'".To cash in on his appearances in these films, and having tried releasing albums of Little Stevie as jazz multi-instrumentalist, Ray Charles tribute act, live soulman and Andy Williams-style crooner, they now decided to see if they could sell him as a surf singer. Or at least, as Motown's idea of a surf singer, which meant a lot of songs about the beach and the sea -- mostly old standards like "Red Sails in the Sunset" and "Ebb Tide" -- backed by rather schlocky Wrecking Crew arrangements.And this is as good a place as any to take on one of the bits of disinformation that goes around about Motown. I've addressed this before, but it's worth repeating here in slightly more detail. Carol Kaye, one of the go-to Wrecking Crew bass players, is a known credit thief, and claims to have played on hundreds of records she didn't -- claims which too many people take seriously because she is a genuine pioneer and was for a long time undercredited on many records she did play on.In particular, she claims to have played on almost all the classic Motown hits that James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers played on, like the title track for this episode, and she claims this despite evidence including notarised statements from everyone involved in the records, the release of session recordings that show producers talking to the Funk Brothers, and most importantly the evidence of the recordings themselves, which have all the characteristics of the Detroit studio and sound like the Funk Brothers playing, and have absolutely nothing in common, sonically, with the records the Wrecking Crew played on at Gold Star, Western, and other LA studios.The Wrecking Crew did play on a lot of Motown records, but with a handful of exceptions, mostly by Brenda Holloway, the records they played on were quickie knock-off album tracks and potboiler albums made to tie in with film or TV work -- soundtracks to TV specials the acts did, and that kind of thing.And in this case, the Wrecking Crew played on the entire Stevie at the Beach album, including the last single to be released as by "Little Stevie Wonder", "Castles in the Sand", which was arranged by Jack Nitzsche:[Excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder, "Castles in the Sand"]Apparently the idea of surfin' Stevie didn't catch on any more than that of swingin' Stevie had earlier. Indeed, throughout 1964 and 65 Motown seem to have had less than no idea what they were doing with Stevie Wonder, and he himself refers to all his recordings from this period as an embarrassment, saving particular scorn for the second single from Stevie at the Beach, "Hey Harmonica Man", possibly because that, unlike most of his other singles around this point, was a minor hit, reaching number twenty-nine on the charts.Motown were still pushing Wonder hard -- he even got an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in May 1964, only the second Motown act to appear on it after the Marvelettes -- but Wonder was getting more and more unhappy with the decisions they were making. He loathed the Stevie at the Beach album -- the records he'd made earlier, while patchy and not things he'd chosen, were at least in some way related to his musical interests. He did love jazz, and he did love Ray Charles, and he did love old standards, and the records were made by his friend Clarence Paul and with the studio musicians he'd grown to know in Detroit.But Stevie at the Beach was something that was imposed on Clarence Paul from above, it was cut with unfamiliar musicians, Stevie thought the films he was appearing in were embarrassing, and he wasn't even having much commercial success, which was the whole point of these compromises. He started to get more rebellious against Paul in the studio, though many of these decisions weren't made by Paul, and he would complain to anyone who would listen that if he was just allowed to do the music he wanted to sing, the way he wanted to sing it, he would have more hits.But for nine months he did basically no singing other than that Ed Sullivan Show appearance -- he had to recover from the operation to remove the throat nodules. When he did return to the studio, the first single he cut remained unreleased, and while some stuff from the archives was released between the start of 1964 and March 1965, the first single he recorded and released after the throat nodules, "Kiss Me Baby", which came out in March, was a complete flop.That single was released to coincide with the first Motown tour of Europe, which we looked at in the episode on "Stop! In the Name of Love", and which was mostly set up to promote the Supremes, but which also featured Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, and the Temptations. Even though Stevie had not had a major hit in eighteen months by this point, he was still brought along on the tour, the only solo artist to be included -- at this point Gordy thought that solo artists looked outdated compared to vocal groups, in a world dominated by bands, and so other solo artists like Marvin Gaye weren't invited.This was a sign that Gordy was happier with Stevie than his recent lack of chart success might suggest. One of the main reasons that Gordy had been in two minds about him was that he'd had no idea if Wonder would still be able to sing well after his voice broke. But now, as he was about to turn fifteen, his adult voice had more or less stabilised, and Gordy knew that he was capable of having a long career, if they just gave him the proper material.But for now his job on the tour was to do his couple of hits, smile, and be on the lower rungs of the ladder. But even that was still a prominent place to be given the scaled-down nature of this bill compared to the Motortown Revues. While the tour was in England, for example, Dusty Springfield presented a TV special focusing on all the acts on the tour, and while the Supremes were the main stars, Stevie got to do two songs, and also took part in the finale, a version of "Mickey's Monkey" led by Smokey Robinson but with all the performers joining in, with Wonder getting a harmonica solo:[Excerpt: Smokey Robinson and the Motown acts, "Mickey's Monkey"]Sadly, there was one aspect of the trip to the UK that was extremely upsetting for Wonder. Almost all the media attention he got -- which was relatively little, as he wasn't a Supreme -- was about his blindness, and one reporter in particular convinced him that there was an operation he could have to restore his sight, but that Motown were preventing him from finding out about it in order to keep his gimmick going. He was devastated about this, and then further devastated when Ted Hull finally convinced him that it wasn't true, and that he'd been lied to. Meanwhile other newspapers were reporting that he could see, and that he was just feigning blindness to boost his record sales.After the tour, a live recording of Wonder singing the blues standard "High Heeled Sneakers" was released as a single, and barely made the R&B top thirty, and didn't hit the top forty on the pop charts. Stevie's initial contract with Motown was going to expire in the middle of 1966, so there was a year to get him back to a point where he was having the kind of hits that other Motown acts were regularly getting at this point. Otherwise, it looked like his career might end by the time he was sixteen.The B-side to "High Heeled Sneakers" was another duet with Clarence Paul, who dominates the vocal sound for much of it -- a version of Willie Nelson's country classic "Funny How Time Slips Away":[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder and Clarence Paul, "Funny How Time Slips Away"]There are a few of these duet records scattered through Wonder's early career -- we'll hear another one a little later -- and they're mostly dismissed as Paul trying to muscle his way into a revival of his own recording career as an artist, and there may be some truth in that. But they're also a natural extension of the way the two of them worked in the studio. Motown didn't have the facilities to give Wonder Braille lyric sheets, and Paul didn't trust him to be able to remember the lyrics, so often when they made a record, Paul would be just off-mic, reciting the lyrics to Wonder fractionally ahead of him singing them.So it was more or less natural that this dynamic would leak out onto records, but not everyone saw it that way. But at the same time, there has been some suggestion that Paul was among those manoeuvring to get rid of Wonder from Motown as soon as his contract was finished -- despite the fact that Wonder was the only act Paul had worked on any big hits for.Either way, Paul and Wonder were starting to chafe at working with each other in the studio, and while Paul remained his on-stage musical director, the opportunity to work on Wonder's singles for what would surely be his last few months at Motown was given to Hank Cosby and Sylvia Moy.Cosby was a saxophone player and staff songwriter who had been working with Wonder and Paul for years -- he'd co-written "Fingertips" and several other tracks -- while Moy was a staff songwriter who was working as an apprentice to Cosby. Basically, at this point, nobody else wanted the job of writing for Wonder, and as Moy was having no luck getting songs cut by any other artists and her career was looking about as dead as Wonder's, they started working together.Wonder was, at this point, full of musical ideas but with absolutely no discipline. He's said in interviews that at this point he was writing a hundred and fifty songs a month, but these were often not full songs -- they were fragments, hooks, or a single verse, or a few lines, which he would pass on to Moy, who would turn his ideas into structured songs that fit the Motown hit template, usually with the assistance of Cosby. Then Cosby would come up with an arrangement, and would co-produce with Mickey Stevenson.The first song they came up with in this manner was a sign of how Wonder was looking outside the world of Motown to the rock music that was starting to dominate the US charts -- but which was itself inspired by Motown music. We heard in the last episode on the Rolling Stones how "Nowhere to Run" by the Vandellas:[Excerpt: Martha and the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"]had inspired the Stones' "Satisfaction":[Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"]And Wonder in turn was inspired by "Satisfaction" to come up with his own song -- though again, much of the work making it into an actual finished song was done by Sylvia Moy. They took the four-on-the-floor beat and basic melody of "Satisfaction" and brought it back to Motown, where those things had originated -- though they hadn't originated with Stevie, and this was his first record to sound like a Motown record in the way we think of those things.As a sign of how, despite the way these stories are usually told, the histories of rock and soul were completely and complexly intertwined, that four-on-the-floor beat itself was a conscious attempt by Holland, Dozier, and Holland to appeal to white listeners -- on the grounds that while Black people generally clapped on the backbeat, white people didn't, and so having a four-on-the-floor beat wouldn't throw them off.So Cosby, Moy, and Wonder, in trying to come up with a "Satisfaction" soundalike were Black Motown writers trying to copy a white rock band trying to copy Black Motown writers trying to appeal to a white rock audience.Wonder came up with the basic chorus hook, which was based around a lot of current slang terms he was fond of:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "Uptight"]Then Moy, with some assistance from Cosby, filled it out into a full song. Lyrically, it was as close to social comment as Motown had come at this point -- Wonder was, like many of his peers in soul music, interested in the power of popular music to make political statements, and he would become a much more political artist in the next few years, but at this point it's still couched in the acceptable boy-meets-girl romantic love song that Motown specialised in. But in 1965 a story about a boy from the wrong side of the tracks dating a rich girl inevitably raised the idea that the boy and girl might be of different races -- a subject that was very, very, controversial in the mid-sixties.[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "Uptight"]"Uptight" made number three on the pop charts and number one on the R&B charts, and saved Stevie Wonder's career. And this is where, for all that I've criticised Motown in this episode, their strategy paid off. Mickey Stevenson talked a lot about how in the early sixties Motown didn't give up on artists -- if someone had potential but was not yet having hits or finding the right approach, they would keep putting out singles in a holding pattern, trying different things and seeing what would work, rather than toss them aside.It had already worked for the Temptations and the Supremes, and now it had worked for Stevie Wonder. He would be the last beneficiary of this policy -- soon things would change, and Motown would become increasingly focused on trying to get the maximum returns out of a small number of stars, rather than building careers for a range of artists -- but it paid off brilliantly for Wonder."Uptight" was such a reinvention of Wonder's career, sound, and image that many of his fans consider it the real start of his career -- everything before it only counting as prologue.The follow-up, "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby", was an "Uptight" soundalike, and as with Motown soundalike follow-ups in general, it didn't do quite as well, but it still made the top twenty on the pop chart and got to number four on the R&B chart.Stevie Wonder was now safe at Motown, and so he was going to do something no other Motown act had ever done before -- he was going to record a protest song and release it as a single.For about a year he'd been ending his shows with a version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", sung as a duet with Clarence Paul, who was still his on stage bandleader even though the two weren't working together in the studio as much. Wonder brought that into the studio, and recorded it with Paul back as the producer, and as his duet partner. Berry Gordy wasn't happy with the choice of single, but Wonder pushed, and Gordy knew that Wonder was on a winning streak and gave in, and so "Blowin' in the Wind" became Stevie Wonder's next single:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder and Clarence Paul, "Blowin' in the Wind"]"Blowin' in the Wind" made the top ten, and number one on the R&B charts, and convinced Gordy that there was some commercial potential in going after the socially aware market, and over the next few years Motown would start putting out more and more political records.Because Motown convention was to have the producer of a hit record produce the next hit for that artist, and keep doing so until they had a flop, Paul was given the opportunity to produce the next single. "A Place in the Sun" was another ambiguously socially-aware song, co-written by the only white writer on Motown staff, Ron Miller, who happened to live in the same building as Stevie's tutor-cum-manager Ted Hull. "A Place in the Sun" was a pleasant enough song, inspired by "A Change is Gonna Come", but with a more watered-down, generic, message of hope, but the record was lifted by Stevie's voice, and again made the top ten. This meant that Paul and Miller, and Miller's writing partner Bryan Mills, got to work on his next two singles -- his 1966 Christmas song "Someday at Christmas", which made number twenty-four, and the ballad "Travellin' Man" which made thirty-two.The downward trajectory with Paul meant that Wonder was soon working with other producers again. Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol cut another Miller and Mills song with him, "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday":[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"]But that was left in the can, as not good enough to release, and Stevie was soon back working with Cosby. The two of them had come up with an instrumental together in late 1966, but had not been able to come up with any words for it, so they played it for Smokey Robinson, who said their instrumental sounded like circus music, and wrote lyrics about a clown:[Excerpt: The Miracles, "The Tears of a Clown"]The Miracles cut that as album filler, but it was released three years later as a single and became the Miracles' only number one hit with Smokey Robinson as lead singer.So Wonder and Cosby definitely still had their commercial touch, even if their renewed collaboration with Moy, who they started working with again, took a while to find a hit. To start with, Wonder returned to the idea of taking inspiration from a hit by a white British group, as he had with "Uptight". This time it was the Beatles, and the track "Michelle", from the Rubber Soul album:[Excerpt: The Beatles, "Michelle"]Wonder took the idea of a song with some French lyrics, and a melody with some similarities to the Beatles song, and came up with "My Cherie Amour", which Cosby and Moy finished off.[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "My Cherie Amour"]Gordy wouldn't allow that to be released, saying it was too close to "Michelle" and people would think it was a rip-off, and it stayed in the vaults for several years. Cosby also produced a version of a song Ron Miller had written with Orlando Murden, "For Once in My Life", which pretty much every other Motown act was recording versions of -- the Four Tops, the Temptations, Billy Eckstine, Martha and the Vandellas and Barbra McNair all cut versions of it in 1967, and Gordy wouldn't let Wonder's version be put out either.So they had to return to the drawing board.But in truth, Stevie Wonder was not the biggest thing worrying Berry Gordy at this point. He was dealing with problems in the Supremes, which we'll look at in a future episode -- they were about to get rid of Florence Ballard, and thus possibly destroy one of the biggest acts in the world, but Gordy thought that if they didn't get rid of her they would be destroying themselves even more certainly. Not only that, but Gordy was in the midst of a secret affair with Diana Ross, Holland, Dozier, and Holland were getting restless about their contracts, and his producers kept bringing him unlistenable garbage that would never be a hit. Like Norman Whitfield, insisting that this track he'd cut with Marvin Gaye, "I Heard it Through the Grapevine", should be a single. Gordy had put his foot down about that one too, just like he had about "My Cherie Amour", and wouldn't allow it to be released.Meanwhile, many of the smaller acts on the label were starting to feel like they were being ignored by Gordy, and had formed what amounted to a union, having regular meetings at Clarence Paul's house to discuss how they could pressure the label to put the same effort into their careers as into those of the big stars. And the Funk Brothers, the musicians who played on all of Motown's hits, were also getting restless -- they contributed to the arrangements, and they did more for the sound of the records than half the credited producers; why weren't they getting production credits and royalties?Harvey Fuqua had divorced Gordy's sister Gwen, and so became persona non grata at the label and was in the process of leaving Motown, and so was Mickey Stevenson, Gordy's second in command, because Gordy wouldn't give him any stock in the company.And Detroit itself was on edge. The crime rate in the city had started to go up, but even worse, the perception of crime was going up. The Detroit News had been running a campaign to whip up fear, which it called its Secret Witness campaign, and running constant headlines about rapes, murders, and muggings. These in turn had led to increased calls for more funds for the police, calls which inevitably contained a strong racial element and at least implicitly linked the perceived rise in crime to the ongoing Civil Rights movement. At this point the police in Detroit were ninety-three percent white, even though Detroit's population was over thirty percent Black.The Mayor and Police Commissioner were trying to bring in some modest reforms, but they weren't going anywhere near fast enough for the Black population who felt harassed and attacked by the police, but were still going too fast for the white people who were being whipped up into a state of terror about supposedly soft-on-crime policies, and for the police who felt under siege and betrayed by the politicians.And this wasn't the only problem affecting the city, and especially affecting Black people. Redlining and underfunded housing projects meant that the large Black population was being crammed into smaller and smaller spaces with fewer local amenities. A few Black people who were lucky enough to become rich -- many of them associated with Motown -- were able to move into majority-white areas, but that was just leading to white flight, and to an increase in racial tensions.The police were on edge after the murder of George Overman Jr, the son of a policeman, and though they arrested the killers that was just another sign that they weren't being shown enough respect. They started organising "blu flu"s -- the police weren't allowed to strike, so they'd claim en masse that they were off sick, as a protest against the supposed soft-on-crime administration.Meanwhile John Sinclair was organising "love-ins", gatherings of hippies at which new bands like the MC5 played, which were being invaded by gangs of bikers who were there to beat up the hippies. And the Detroit auto industry was on its knees -- working conditions had got bad enough that the mostly Black workforce organised a series of wildcat strikes.All in all, Detroit was looking less and less like somewhere that Berry Gordy wanted to stay, and the small LA subsidiary of Motown was rapidly becoming, in his head if nowhere else, the more important part of the company, and its future. He was starting to think that maybe he should leave all these ungrateful people behind in their dangerous city, and move the parts of the operation that actually mattered out to Hollywood.Stevie Wonder was, of course, one of the parts that mattered, but the pressure was on in 1967 to come up with a hit as big as his records from 1965 and early 66, before he'd been sidetracked down the ballad route.The song that was eventually released was one on which Stevie's mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, had a co-writing credit:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her"]"I Was Made to Love Her" was inspired by Wonder's first love, a girl from the same housing projects as him, and he talked about the song being special to him because it was true, saying it "kind of speaks of my first love to a girl named Angie, who was a very beautiful woman... Actually, she was my third girlfriend but my first love. I used to call Angie up and, like, we would talk and say, 'I love you, I love you,' and we'd talk and we'd both go to sleep on the phone. And this was like from Detroit to California, right? You know, mother said, 'Boy, what you doing - get off the phone!' Boy, I tell you, it was ridiculous."But while it was inspired by her, like with many of the songs from this period, much of the lyric came from Moy -- her mother grew up in Arkansas, and that's why the lyric started "I was born in Little Rock", as her inspiration came from stories told by her parents. But truth be told, the lyrics weren't particularly detailed or impressive, just a standard story of young love. Rather what mattered in the record was the music.The song was structured differently from many Motown records, including most of Wonder's earlier ones. Most Motown records had a huge amount of dynamic variation, and a clear demarcation between verse and chorus. Even a record like "Dancing in the Street", which took most of its power from the tension and release caused by spending most of the track on one chord, had the release that came with the line "All we need is music", and could be clearly subdivided into different sections."I Was Made to Love Her" wasn't like that. There was a tiny section which functioned as a middle eight -- and which cover versions like the one by the Beach Boys later that year tend to cut out, because it disrupts the song's flow:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her"]But other than that, the song has no verse or chorus, no distinct sections, it's just a series of lyrical couplets over the same four chords, repeating over and over, an incessant groove that could really go on indefinitely:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her"]This is as close as Motown had come at this point to the new genre of funk, of records that were just staying with one groove throughout. It wasn't a funk record, not yet -- it was still a pop-soul record, But what made it extraordinary was the bass line, and this is why I had to emphasise earlier that this was a record by the Funk Brothers, not the Wrecking Crew, no matter how much some Crew members may claim otherwise. As on most of Cosby's sessions, James Jamerson was given free reign to come up with his own part with little guidance, and what he came up with is extraordinary.This was at a time when rock and pop basslines were becoming a little more mobile, thanks to the influence of Jamerson in Detroit, Brian Wilson in LA, and Paul McCartney in London. But for the most part, even those bass parts had been fairly straightforward technically -- often inventive, but usually just crotchets and quavers, still keeping rhythm along with the drums rather than in dialogue with them, roaming free rhythmically.Jamerson had started to change his approach, inspired by the change in studio equipment. Motown had upgraded to eight-track recording in 1965, and once he'd become aware of the possibilities, and of the greater prominence that his bass parts could have if they were recorded on their own track, Jamerson had become a much busier player. Jamerson was a jazz musician by inclination, and so would have been very aware of John Coltrane's legendary "sheets of sound", in which Coltrane would play fast arpeggios and scales, in clusters of five and seven notes, usually in semiquaver runs (though sometimes in even smaller fractions -- his solo in Miles Davis' "Straight, No Chaser" is mostly semiquavers but has a short passage in hemidemisemiquavers):[Excerpt: Miles Davis, "Straight, No Chaser"]Jamerson started to adapt the "sheets of sound" style to bass playing, treating the bass almost as a jazz solo instrument -- though unlike Coltrane he was also very, very concerned with creating something that people could tap their feet to. Much like James Brown, Jamerson was taking jazz techniques and repurposing them for dance music. The most notable example of that up to this point had been in the Four Tops' "Bernadette", where there are a few scuffling semiquaver runs thrown in, and which is a much more fluid part than most of his playing previously:[Excerpt: The Four Tops, "Bernadette"]But on "Bernadette", Jamerson had been limited by Holland, Dozier, and Holland, who liked him to improvise but around a framework they created. Cosby, on the other hand, because he had been a Funk Brother himself, was much more aware of the musicians' improvisational abilities, and would largely give them a free hand.This led to a truly remarkable bass part on "I Was Made to Love Her", which is somewhat buried in the single mix, but Marcus Miller did an isolated recreation of the part for the accompanying CD to a book on Jamerson, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, and listening to that you can hear just how inventive it is:[Excerpt: Marcus Miller, "I Was Made to Love Her"]This was exciting stuff -- though much less so for the touring musicians who went on the road with the Motown revues while Jamerson largely stayed in Detroit recording. Jamerson's family would later talk about him coming home grumbling because complaints from the touring musicians had been brought to him, and he'd been asked to play less difficult parts so they'd find it easier to replicate them on stage."I Was Made to Love Her" wouldn't exist without Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby, Sylvia Moy, or Lula Mae Hardaway, but it's James Jamerson's record through and through:[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, "I Was Made to Love Her"]It went to number two on the charts, sat between "Light My Fire" at number one, and "All You Need is Love" at number three, with the Beatles song soon to overtake it and make number one itself.But within a few weeks of "I Was Made to Love Her" reaching its chart peak, things in Detroit would change irrevocably.On the 23rd of July, the police busted an illegal drinking den. They thought they were only going to get about twenty-five people there, but there turned out to be a big party on. They tried to arrest seventy-four people, but their wagon wouldn't fit them all in so they had to call reinforcements and make the arrestees wait around til more wagons arrived. A crowd of hundreds gathered while they were waiting. Someone threw a brick at a squad car window, a rumour went round that the police had bayonetted someone, and soon the city was in flames.Riots lasted for days, with people burning down and looting businesses, but what really made the situation bad was the police's overreaction. They basically started shooting at young Black men, using them as target practice, and later claiming they were snipers, arsonists, and looters -- but there were cases like the Algiers Motel incident, where the police raided a motel where several Black men, including the members of the soul group The Dramatics, were hiding out along with a few white women. The police sexually assaulted the women, and then killed three of the men for associating with white women, in what was described as a "lynching with bullets". The policemen in question were later acquitted of all charges.The National Guard were called in, as were Federal troops -- the 82nd Airborne Division, and the 101st Airborne from Clarksville, the division in which Jimi Hendrix had recently served. After four days of rioting, one of the bloodiest riots in US history was at an end, with forty-three people dead (of whom thirty-three were Black and only one was a policeman). Official counts had 1,189 people injured, and over 7,200 arrests, almost all of them of Black people.A lot of the histories written later say that Black-owned businesses were spared during the riots, but that wasn't really the case. For example, Joe's Record Shop, owned by Joe Von Battle, who had put out the first records by C.L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha, was burned down, destroying not only the stock of records for sale but the master tapes of hundreds of recordings of Black artists, many of them unreleased and so now lost forever.John Lee Hooker, one of the artists whose music Von Battle had released, soon put out a song, "The Motor City is Burning", about the events:[Excerpt: John Lee Hooker, "The Motor City is Burning"]But one business that did remain unburned was Motown, with the Hitsville studio going untouched by flames and unlooted. Motown legend has this being down to the rioters showing respect for the studio that had done so much for Detroit, but it seems likely to have just been luck. Although Motown wasn't completely unscathed -- a National Guard tank fired a shell through the building, leaving a gigantic hole, which Berry Gordy saw as soon as he got back from a business trip he'd been on during the rioting.That was what made Berry Gordy decide once and for all that things needed to change. Motown owned a whole row of houses near the studio, which they used as additional office space and for everything other than the core business of making records. Gordy immediately started to sell them, and move the admin work into temporary rented space. He hadn't announced it yet, and it would be a few years before the move was complete, but from that moment on, the die was cast. Motown was going to leave Detroit and move to Hollywood.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Bennett: Diary for 2022
Pub date: 2022-12-27
Alan Bennett reads his 2022 diary (with some extra bits), in which he buys his dad a violin, goes to Venice with a goat, and tries to make the queen laugh.
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Podcast: The Bowery Boys: New York City History (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs
Pub date: 2022-12-21
Crosswords, jigsaws, mazes, rebuses, Rubik's cubes, Myst, Words With Friends -- and now Wordle? Not only have people loved puzzles for centuries, they've actually gone wild for them. Every few years, a new tantalizing puzzle comes along to captivate the nation.
But each of these little games has an extraordinary history and for this special show, we have the "the puzzler" himself to help us unravel these unique mysteries.
Joining the show today is AJ Jacobs, author of The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life, who leads Greg and Tom down a maze of fascinating origins for the world's most popular puzzles -- many with a connection to New York City.
FEATURING:
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-- The utterly madcap Rebus Craze of 1937
-- The Secretand the possible treasure buried underneath New York's very streets
-- Stephen Sondheim's glorious contributions to the puzzling world
PLUS: A special New York City-themed anagram game!
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Podcast: The Economist Podcasts (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Drum Tower: Startle the heart
Pub date: 2022-12-19
“Spring Landscape”, a poem written over 1,000 years ago, remains one of China’s most celebrated literary works. Composed by the 8th Century Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, it is still memorised by every schoolchild in the country. Why is the poem still so resonant today?
The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, and senior China correspondent, Alice Su, consider whether the ambiguity of classical Chinese makes it ideal for poetry. Our deputy editor Edward Carr explores how close he can get to the poem in translation. Nicolas Chapuis, a former ambassador to China who is translating Du Fu’s complete works into French, examines the meaning of one particular couplet of the poem. And Eileen Chengyin Chow of Duke University takes us outside China’s poetry canon.
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Podcast: Nobody Panic (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Get Involved in Christmas Around the World
Pub date: 2022-12-20
From Krampus to the Crapping Log, journey with us around the world in Christmas traditions. Let Stevie and Tessa offer a canapé board of traditions you can incorporate this year IF YOU WISH. Or just launch these out as facts at the dinner table.
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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War
Pub date: 2022-12-15
Was it ever possible for the Soviets to win the Cold War? Looking back, its defeat seemed inevitable. The USSR had a political system hated by much of its population, a backwards economy, and harsh geographic conditions that made development challenging. But as late as the 1980s, few thought it would fall apart as catastrophically as it did.
How close was the USSR to victory? Was it structurally doomed to fail, or could better internal management and more strategic blunders from the United States brought it victory? If so, how? To explore this alternate reality and its level of plausibility is Dr. Robert Farley, a professor of security and diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and author of “Patents for Power: Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology.”
Few who fought in the Cold War thought American victory was inevitable. Rather, they thought that U.S dominance – or even survival – depended on investments in cutting edge military technologies and extensive interventions across the globe, with Korea and Vietnam being only a couple of examples. We will explore the arguments on each side, and what the Soviet Union would have done if it had in fact won the Cold War.
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Podcast: Wild for Scotland (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Where it all began - Glencoe
Pub date: 2022-11-22
'Where it all began' is a story about a walk through one of the most beautiful places in the Scottish Highlands. I'm taking you with me as I hike the Two Lairigs route from Glen Coe to Glen Etive and back. Along the way, I tell you about my personal relationship with this glen, the exact moment I fell in love with Scotland and I reflect on some of the conflicting feelings that always cross my mind when I find myself in the Highlands.
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Podcast: Fixing the Future (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering
Pub date: 2022-11-01
Silver Lining's executive direction Kelly Wanser explains why rising temperatures are behind the push to geoengineer the world's climate, the most plausible technologies, and why we need a lot more research to find out if it's a good idea, and if so, how to do it on a global scale. Hosted by IEEE Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Scenes from a Russian Draft Office
Pub date: 2022-12-15
This fall, as Russia’s losses mounted in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced a draft. Almost immediately, hundreds of thousands of men fled the country, though many more stayed.
Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent for The Times, spoke to Russians at a draft office in Moscow to gauge how they felt about going to war and who they blame for the fighting.
Guest: Valerie Hopkins, an international correspondent covering the war in Ukraine for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- Across Moscow, there are noticeably fewer men at restaurants, stores and social gatherings. Many have been called up to fight in Ukraine. Others have fled to avoid being drafted.
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Podcast: Better Known (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 250th episode: Alan Rusbridger
Pub date: 2022-12-04
For the 250th episode, Alan Rusbridger discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Alan Rusbridger was Editor in Chief of the Guardian from 1995-2015. He is currently editor of Prospect Magazine and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Until 2021 he was Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
During his time at the Guardian, both he and the paper won numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Journalism. The Guardian grew from a printed paper with a circulation of 400,000 to a leading digital news organisation with 150m browsers a month around the world. He launched now-profitable editions in Australia and the US as well as a membership scheme which now has 1m Guardian readers paying for content.
He was born in Zambia, was educated at Cambridge and lives in London. He is the co-author of the BBC drama, Fields of Gold. He is a keen amateur musician and the author of Play it Again. His memoir of journalism and its future, Breaking News, was published in 2018. He is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board. His latest book, News and How to Use it, was published in 2020.
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Podcast: Where There's A Will, There's A Wake (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Here Lies Joe Lycett
Pub date: 2022-12-06
It’s a shot to the back of the head in a hammock, a reincarnation as a diddling monkey and an unexpected musical accompaniment to the cremation – it could only be one thing, Joe Lycett’s fantasy funeral.
It wasn’t easy to let you go, Joe.
Also check out ‘Joe Lycett – More, More, More! How Do You Lycett? How Do You Lycett?’ which is streaming now at watch.joelycett.com. Joe Lycett vs David Beckham: A Got Your Back Christmas Special airs at 9pm on Channel 4 on 15th Dec.
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Podcast: Drum Tower (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Drum Tower: Zero no more
Pub date: 2022-12-05
The zero-covid policy, a source of pride for Xi Jinping, has sparked protests across China. Public frustration is growing, covid cases are rising, and confusion reigns. How did zero-covid turn into a trap? How can China escape it?
The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, and senior China correspondent, Alice Su, talk to Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong University, about the lessons from the omicron wave there.
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Podcast: The Economist Podcasts (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Drum Tower: Zero no more
Pub date: 2022-12-05
The zero-covid policy, a source of pride for Xi Jinping, has sparked protests across China. Public frustration is growing, covid cases are rising, and confusion reigns. How did zero-covid turn into a trap? How can China escape it?
The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, and senior China correspondent, Alice Su, talk to Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong University, about the lessons from the omicron wave there.
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration
Pub date: 2022-12-06
Yachts, private jets, caviar, champagne—all standard ingredients in the lifestyles of the rich and famous. But, every so often, at parties and special occasions, we mere mortals get to live large and enjoy fancy fish eggs and fizz, too. In this first episode of our two-part miniseries on the foods of celebration, Gastropod explores how something that Russian peasants ate as a form of religious penance became one of the world's most expensive foods. Join us this holiday season as we get up close and personal with the source of caviar by giving a sturgeon an ultrasound, and tell the story of the long-lost town of Caviar, New Jersey. Get out your mother-of-pearl spoon and dive in!
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Podcast: Neutrinowatch (LS 33 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: You can really get to know someone by leafing through their diary [Almanac]
Pub date: 2022-10-31
Wendy does her best to understand her friend John Welles through the daily digital diary he’s been keeping.
This episode may best be enjoyed with its transcript.
Created by Martin Austwick, with help from Jeff Emtman.
With thanks to Tim McSmythurs, Dave Pickering and Lily Sloane.
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Podcast: As the Season Turns (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: December
Pub date: 2022-12-01
December's episode features a tree dressing ritual to light the winter dark. We spend a final moment with our oak tree and beehive, and hear some pointers for planting evergreen shrubs. We hear about Holda, an ancient winter goddess, listen to the songs of tiny wrens and mark the winter solstice.Ffern Golden Tickets are available at ffern.co/gifts'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern and presented by the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac Lia Leendertz. Each episode, released on the first of every month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co
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Podcast: The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 5 - The Greatest Museum You'll Never See
Pub date: 2022-12-01
A top secret mission to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A legendary CIA officer who postponed retirement to lead the Agency's response to 9/11. An entire building turned into a listening post. Where can you find artifacts from these chapters of hidden history and many more? The museum at the heart of CIA Headquarters. Since this museum is not open to the general public, in this episode of The Langley Files, Dee and Walter catch up with the museum's director and deputy director for a behind the scenes tour ... podcast-style.*Nothing in this podcast should be construed to be an endorsement by the CIA or the US Government of any particular company, product, or service.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Clerical Crimes
Pub date: 2022-11-16
Why do murder mysteries contain so many vicars?
The Shedunnit Pledge Drive now has a stretch goal! If we get to 175 new members of the Shedunnit Book Club by the end of 2022, I’ll do a livestreamed episode of Shedunnit accessible to all listeners. If you feel able to offer some support, please visit shedunnitshow.com/pledgedrive.
Mentioned in this episode: — Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain by Clive D. Field — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers — Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James — The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie — Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers — Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie — “The Blue Cross” by G.K. Chesterton from The Innocence of Father Brown — Literary Distractions by Ronald Knox — The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters — Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser — St Peter’s Finger by Gladys Mitchell — Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert — The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert — Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin — “The Guilty Vicarage” by W.H. Auden — Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers — Christianity and the Detective Story edited by Anya Morlan and Walter Raubicheck — The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
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Podcast: The History of English Podcast (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 155: Back to Basics
Pub date: 2022-01-04
In the 1553, Mary Tudor became the first queen to rule England as the head of the government. She promptly turned back the clock on the religious reforms that had taken place over the prior few years. Meanwhile, scholars of English were also trying to turn back the clock. They wanted to return the language to its roots and eliminate the so-called ‘inkhorn’ terms which were so common at the time. In this episode, we explore those parallel attempts to go ‘back to basics.’
TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 155
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Podcast: Powerplay: The House of Sepp Blatter
Episode: Episode 4: The Underdog
Pub date: 2022-11-22
When two World Cups come up for grabs in 2010, the bidding contest reveals questionable practices and a power struggle that threatens to bring Sepp Blatter down.
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Podcast: The Conversation Weekly (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Uncharted Brain 1: a lifelong study unlocks clues to Alzheimer’s
Pub date: 2022-11-17
This week we're running a three-part series called Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia exploring new research searching for answers to how dementia works in the brain and the damage it leaves behind.
The series is hosted by Paul Keaveny and Gemma Ware and was initially published via The Anthill podcast from the team at The Conversation in the UK.
In the first episode, we explore how a study which began just after the end of the second world war is revealing new insights into the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. Featuring Marcus Richards, professor of psychology in epidemiology and Jonathan Schott, professor of neurology, both at UCL in the UK and David Ward, one of the cohort study participants.
Uncharted Brain was produced by Tiffany Cassidy with sound design by Eloise Stevens. The executive producer is Gemma Ware. The Conversation Weekly theme music is by Neeta Sarl.
Further reading:
- We’ve been studying the same people for 76 years – this is what we’ve found out about Alzheimer’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease: surprising new theory about what might cause it
- New Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive decline – and may be available as early as next year
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How Reading — Not Scanning, Not Scrolling — Opens Your Mind
Pub date: 2022-11-22
Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles, sift through text messages and emails, scroll through our social-media feeds — and that’s usually before we even get out of bed in the morning. In 2009, a team of researchers found that the average American consumed about 34 gigabytes of information a day. Undoubtedly, that number would be even higher today.
But what are we actually getting from this huge influx of information? How is it affecting our memories, our attention spans, our ability to think? What might this mean for today’s children, and future generations? And what does it take to read — and think — deeply in a world so flooded with constant input?
Maryanne Wolf is a researcher and scholar at U.C.L.A.’s School of Education and Information Studies. Her books “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain” and “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World” explore the relationship between the process of reading and the neuroscience of the brain. And, in Wolfe’s view, our era of information overload represents a historical inflection point where our ability to read — truly, deeply read, not just scan or scroll — hangs in the balance.
We discuss why reading is a fundamentally “unnatural” act, how scanning and scrolling differ from “deep reading,” why it’s not accurate to say that “reading” is just one thing, how our brains process information differently when we’re reading on a Kindle or a laptop as opposed to a physical book, how exposure to such an abundance of information is rewiring our brains and reshaping our society, how to rediscover the lost art of reading books deeply, what Wolf recommends to those of us who struggle against digital distractions, what parents can do to to protect their children’s attention, how Wolf’s theory of a “biliterate brain” may save our species’ ability to deeply process language and information and more.
Mentioned:
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse
How We Read Now by Naomi S. Baron
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Yiruma
Book Recommendations:
The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson
World and Town by Gish Jen
Standing by Words by Wendell Berry
Love’s Mind by John S. Dunne
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Thoughts? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. (And if you’re reaching out to recommend a guest, please write “Guest Suggestion” in the subject line.)
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life
Pub date: 2022-11-23
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2018: Five years after his last taste of alcohol, William Leith tries to understand its powerful magic. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Away From Home (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode One: We believe in miracles
Pub date: 2022-11-07
In this episode, The Athletic’s Adam Crafton speaks to Taras Stepanenko, the captain of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk, as he and his young family take refuge in an underground shelter when war breaks out in Ukraine.
Adam also meets with Shakhtar's Croatian head coach, Igor Jovicevic, who was separated from his family when Russia invaded.
Meanwhile, as the team prepares for their first match in Europe’s elite competition, the Champions League, we hear from Shakhtar midfielder Ivan Petryak, who lost a family member to the war with Russia. With all the odds against Shakhtar, can the Ukrainian club pull off a shock victory against the German club Red Bull Leipzig?
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Presenter: Adam Crafton
Producers: Adam Crafton, Abi Paterson, Mike Stavrou
Sound mixing: Ollie Bellwood
Featuring footage from: The Daily, AP, ABC News, Sport BILD, DW News, Al Jazeera, and BT Sport
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Podcast: Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: It’s cheaper to save the planet than destroy it
Pub date: 2022-11-21
Hello! Ed's just come back from COP27 where he was roving with his mic. He spoke to some experts on how we shift to zero carbon power and break our dependency on fossil fuels. We talk to Kingsmill Bond about why the transition to renewables makes economic sense. Tzeporah Berman tells us about the potential of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to constrain supply. And Mohamed Adow tells us why the continent of Africa could lead the way in becoming a renewable energy superpower, and what that means for its development.
Guests
Kingsmill Bond, Energy Strategist, Rocky Mountain Institute (@KingsmillBond) (@RockyMtnInst)
Tzeporah Berman, Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (@tzeporah) (@fossiltreaty)
Mohamed Adow, Director, Power Shift Africa (@mohadow) (@PowerShftAfrica)
More info
Read about past and current peaks in fossil fuel demand (RMI)
Visit Kingsmill Bond's website to read about the drivers of change for the transition to renewables and the myths of the incumbency
Listen to Kingsmill on the Volts Podcast
Learn more about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Access the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels (Carbon Tracker; Global Energy Monitor)
Watch Tzeporah's TED Talk
Visit Power Shift Africa's Website
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Synth War
Pub date: 2022-11-02
In the United States, the East Coast and West Coast have rivalries across food, sports, music and more. But there’s another rivalry that’s less well known, but just as important. This standoff created sounds that were unlike anything that had been heard before. It redefined what a musical instrument could be. And it changed the sound of pop music forever. Featuring journalist Ryan Gaston and composer David Rosenboom.
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Listen to David’s Rosenboom’s Buchla music via Black Truffle Records.
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Podcast: Ukrainecast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who fired the missile into Poland?
Pub date: 2022-11-16
After a fraught few hours, Nato said the missile that hit Poland - one of its members - was most likely fired by Ukraine in defence. The organisation says it was not intentional.
We hear reaction from Ukraine, the US and Russia, with analysis from the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and Sam de Bendern , a political analyst with Chatham House and a former adviser to Nato.
We also hear a moving account of life on the front line from a team of Ukrainian medics in the Donbas.
Today’s episode is presented by the BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, and Vitaliy Shevchenko, the head of the BBC’s Russia monitoring team.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson, Luke Radcliff and Fiona Leach. The technical coordinator was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The assistant editor is Alison Gee. And the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480.
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 522. Is Google Getting Worse?
Pub date: 2022-11-17
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?
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Podcast: One Year (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1942: The Year Everyone Got Married
Pub date: 2022-10-27
There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a single year in American history. But how many of them would last? 98-year-old Millie Summergrad tells the story of one that did: her own. And a pair of brothers explain what it was like to grow up inside the busiest chapel in Yuma, Arizona—the wedding capital of the United States.
One Year is produced by Evan Chung, Sophie Summergrad, Sam Kim, and Josh Levin.
Derek John is senior supervising producer of narrative podcasts and Merritt Jacob is senior technical director.
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Podcast: Backlisted (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Springs Of Affection By Maeve Brennan
Pub date: 2022-11-15
There can be few writers more deserving of Backlisted’s attention than the Irish writer, Maeve Brennan. An adopted New Yorker, Brennan died there in 1993 and was by that time so thoroughly forgotten in her native land, that she received no obituaries in any Irish papers. We are joined by the writers Sinéad Gleason and David Hayden to discuss her collection, The Springs of Affection – subtitled ‘stories of Dublin’ – which was first published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin in 1997, although all but one of these first appeared in the New Yorker, where Brennan was a staff writer for twenty-seven years. It was the enthusiastic praise from other writers including Alice Munro, Edna O’Brien and Mavis Gallant among others, that helped get The Springs of Affection the kind of international attention that the two collections published in Maeve’s lifetime failed to achieve. Since then, Maeve Brennan’s reputation has grown steadily, and her stories are now regularly and favourably compared to those of Joyce, Chekov and Colette. In Ireland, in particular, she has won the admiration of a new generation of women writers, who in Anne Enright’s phrase, see her as ‘a casualty of old wars not yet won.’ This episode also features Andy revisiting the Linda Nochlin’s classic 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? while John is impressed by Orlam, P.J. Harvey’s dark and brooding verse novel, written entirely in Dorset dialect.
Timings: 08:44 - Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin 16:16 - Orlam by P.J. Harvey 22:46 - The Springs Of Affection By Maeve Brennan
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Podcast: The We Society (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep1: Sir Lawrence Freedman: Military defeat happens gradually then suddenly
Pub date: 2022-10-31
Professor Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London joins us to talk about all things Ukraine.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World
Pub date: 2022-11-11
Thomas Midgley's inventions caused his own death, hastened the deaths of millions of people around the world, and very nearly extinguished all life on land.
Midgley and his employers didn't set out to poison the air with leaded gasoline or wreck the ozone layer with CFCs - but while these dire consequences were unintended... could they have been anticipated?
For a full list of sources used in this episode visit Tim Harford.com
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Podcast: Martini Shot (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Martini Shot: The 'Produced-By' Guy
Pub date: 2022-11-02
When Rob’s credit card was declined this week, he hopped on the phone with card security, and then — thanks to the sober reality check — decided he didn’t really need to buy that expensive toy. And thus, the benefit of “a service that interrupts you while you're in the process of buying something expensive and unnecessary.” On a set, that’s known as the line producer. And today, Rob pays tribute to one of the best, Steve Grossman, a 35-year industry veteran (Newhart, Hope & Gloria, George and Leo, Love & Money, Lateline) who was the secret weapon for sitcom success — and to whom the industry recently bid farewell.
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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why
Pub date: 2022-10-27
Steve Cagle is the CEO of Clearwater Compliance, which is a cybersecurity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Basically, they lock down hospital computer systems, which contain a huge amount of personal data, and are so mission critical that ransomware attackers know that hospitals are more likely to just pay up. If the cryptocurrency explosion has accomplished anything, it’s making ransomware attacks easier and more lucrative for bad guys.
Steve told me there’s so much personal information in a hospital system that a single patient’s record can sell for a huge premium over somthing like a credit card number. And we talked about amount of regulation needed to secure that data and that some insurance providers require hospitals to have a minimum level of security, or they won't be covered. It's a fascinating one.
Links:
Cyber Security Week 2022
Penetration test
Cyberattack delays patient care at major US hospital chain
Average Healthcare Data Breach Costs Surpass $10M, IBM Finds
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23175031
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
It was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott. Research by Liz Lian and it was edited by Jackson Bierfeldt.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Podcast: Articles of Interest (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: American Ivy: Chapter 1
Pub date: 2022-10-26
A trend forecaster follows up on a trend report from 2016. A prominent fashion buyer tells me his trends for fall 2022. And Avery wonders why one particular trend, against all odds, seems to come back over and over again
To see the jeans of the future, along with more images, notes and transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
With album art by Helen Shewolf Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
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Podcast: If Books Could Kill (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Freakonomics
Pub date: 2022-11-02
In 2005, two men named Steven and Stephen published the quintessential airport book. In 2022, two men named Mike and Peter started a whole podcast just to make fun of it.
Where to find us:
- Peter's other podcast, 5-4
- Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase
Sources:
- The 2003 NYT article
- Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?
- A Review of Freakonomics
- Dismal Science
- Freak-Freakonomics
- The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment
- The Abortion–Crime Link: Evidence from England and Wales
- The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socioeconomic Outcomes of Children: Evidence from Romania
- Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?
- On the Choice of Control Variables in the Crime Equation
- Steven Levitt on Abortion and Crime: Old Economics in New Bottles
- The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime
- The Great American Mystery Story: Why Did Crime Decline?
- Is There an iCrime Wave?
- The Great Crime Decline
- The Crime Drop in America
- 10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline
- What Caused the Crime Decline?
- Freaks and Geeks: How Freakonomics is ruining the dismal science.
- Interesting Questions in Freakonomics
- Incentives And The Economic Point Of View: The Case Of Popular Economics
- Abortion and Crime in Australia
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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Podcast: Sidedoor (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Wronging the Wrights
Pub date: 2022-11-02
It took pride, deceit, and a giant catapult to set off the feud between the Wright brothers and the Smithsonian. On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made history when he flew over 800 feet across a blustery beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The airplane he flew that day is now a centerpiece of the National Air and Space Museum’s collection. This is the story of how it nearly wasn’t.
Guests:
Peter Jakab, senior curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
Tom Crouch, senior curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
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Podcast: Noisy by Nature (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Startling Crested Pigeons
Pub date: 2022-10-31
Ann is trying to find the perfect picnic spot in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne/Naarm. Suddenly, an alarm goes off - but it isn't coming from a car or a building, but from some animals on the move.
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Podcast: The Last Resort
Episode: 1 | The Tipping Point
Pub date: 2022-10-18
Could California really secede from the United States? A group of activists believe it’s not just possible – it’s inevitable. They call their movement CAL EXIT.
Sources:
- The Washington Post
- PBS NewsHour
- The New Yorker
- ABC7 News
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- @Phil_Lewis_ on Twitter
- Pigeons & Planes
- BBC Music
- NewsNation
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- Bloomberg
- The Washington Post
- News 5 Cleveland
- Newsweek
- Associated Press
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- Jesse Dollemore on YouTube
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- CrowderBits
- The Daily Wire
- Fox News
- Netflix
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- Skavlan
- United Nations
- Fox News
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Podcast: Hot Pipes One Hour Podcast m4a (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hot Pipes Podcast 299 – Halloween
Pub date: 2022-10-31
Halloween
Start
Name
Artist
Album
Year
Comments
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Trio con Brio
Tales From The Chambers
2010
First United Methodist Church, Portland, OR; 107 rank Mary L. Collins sanctuary pipe organ; Allen R-370 Mary Naito chapel organ; plus Allen L-8 classical and Allen Q-311 theatre organs
4:25
Blue Is The Night
Bill Vlasak
Concert: Manual High School 25 June 1991
1991
3-26 Wurlitzer, Manual High School, Indianapolis, IN
7:34
Dark Eyes
Dick Leibert
Transcriptions EQ
3-14 Wurlitzer, Broadcast Studio, Radio City Music Hall, New York
9:56
Horror Of Erik
Verne Langdon
Phantom of the Organ [Electric Lemon PLP 1909]
1973
Unknown Theatre Pipe Organ
12:43
Mars, The Bringer Of War
Isao Tomita
Back To The Earth
1988
Moog Synthesizer
17:37
The Music Of The Night
Christian Cartwright
Tuned Up 3! [Pipes in The Peaks CD]
2019
3-18 Compton-Wurlitzer, Pipes in the Peaks, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
21:11
Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
John Buzon Trio
Organs in Orbit: Ultra Lounge 11 [Capitol CD]
1996
24:13
Black Moonlight
Tony Fenelon
Concert: Dickinson High School 2004-05-22 [DTOS 136]
2004
3-66 Kimball, Dickinson High School, Wilmington, DE
27:47
Whistling Away The Dark
Robert Maidhof
Opening Night [DSP-1407]
2014
4-23 Robert Morton, Loew's Theatre, Jersey City, NJ
31:31
Grim, Grinning Ghosts
Trio con Brio
Tales From The Chambers
2010
First United Methodist Church, Portland, OR; 107 rank Mary L. Collins sanctuary pipe organ; Allen R-370 Mary Naito chapel organ; plus Allen L-8 classical and Allen Q-311 theatre organs
38:16
Night On Bald Mountain
David Gray
ATOS 2013 Atlanta [Here With The Wind] Highlights
2013
4-32 Wurlitzer, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL
50:17
Funeral March of a Marionette
Scott Foppiano
I Remember You [SBTOS CD]
2011
4-27 Robert Morton, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara; ex 1929 Loew's Jersey Theatre, Jersey City (4-23)
55:49
Hell's Bells
Don Baker
The Birmingham [Concert Recording CR-0174]
4-20 Wurlitzer, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL
Intro & playout: Suite Gothique - Toccata
Thomas Trotter
Sounds Spectacular
2003
Klais Organ, Birmingham Symphony Hall, England
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Weather Report
Pub date: 2022-10-28
Meteorologists are as common as the clouds these days. Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon and night they tell us what to wear and where to plan our picnics. They’re local celebrities with an outsized influence. But in the 1940s, there was really only one of them: Irving P. Krick. He was suave and dapper, with the charm of a sunbeam and the boldness of a thunderclap. He was a salesman who turned the weather into a product.
Today, listen to the story of Krick and his descendants, a crew of profit prophets who have found fame and fortune staring at the sky and seeing the future. We follow them from the bloody beaches of World War II to the climate changed coasts of today, exploring their impact and predicting what they’ll mean in our wackier weather world.
Special Thanks:Special thanks to Xandra Clark, Homa Sarabi, Santi Dharmawan, Francisco Alvarez, Maureen O’Leary and everyone at NOAA, Shimon Elkabetz, Jack Neff, Joe Pennington, Brad Colman, Morgan Yarker, Megan Walker, Eric Bramford, Jay Cohen and Irving Krick Jr for supplying us with tons of great archival footage and audio.
Episode Credits:
Reported by Simon Adler and Annie McEwenProduced by Annie McEwen and Simon AdlerSound & Music by Simon Adler and Annie McEwenMixing help from Arianne WackFact-checking by Diane KellyEdited by Soren Wheeler
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If you’re curious to know more about the history of weather forecasting, go check out Kris Harper’s book Weather by the Numbers.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 513- The Safety Bicycle
Pub date: 2022-10-25
The basic mechanics of the bike are pretty simple --- it’s basically a triangle with wheels and a chain drive to propel it forward. No batteries or engines. It seems obvious in hindsight .... And that’s why most people guess the bike was invented a long time ago. Yet the ‘running machine,' a kind of early proto-bike, debuted around 1817.
For much more on the history of the bicycle, check out Jody Rosen's book: Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.
The Safety Bicycle
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Podcast: Cover Story (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Mind Your Own Business
Pub date: 2022-10-25
In a cabin in Whitefish, Montana, two ex-spies tell us an outlandish story: right here in town, a billionaire philanthropist is allegedly running a sexual enterprise, importing young women into safehouses. One of the spies knows this because he was the billionaire’s right hand man, and best bro friend. He claims to know a shocking amount about this billionaire’s affairs, personal and professional.
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Podcast: The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Episode: E188: Richard Osman: The Untold Story Of A TV Legend's Addiction
Pub date: 2022-10-20
Richard Osman is a television host, former creative director of a world-leading production company, and the author behind the biggest literary sensation since Harry Potter., the Thursday Murder Club series.
In this one-of-a-kind conversation, Richard reveals for the first time what has motored him from a working class, single parent household to the top of the television and literary worlds.
There’s more to Richard than meets the eye. He’s had to battle through self-doubt, addiction, imposter syndrome to have one of the most remarkable, multi-faceted and varied careers we’ve ever featured. We’ll let Richard take it from here.
Topics:
- Early years
- Knowing the impact not to see your dad would you act differently now?
- Being shaped more by your mum
- Watching the TV when you were younger
- Your disability Being too tall
- The 'Storm' in your 20s - your addiction
- Unlocking ideas from your therapist
- Why were you successful?
- What is creativity to you?
- How intentional is success
- Groups making creatives ideas vs individuals
- You wrote this book without showing anyone
- Tell me about your doubts
- What clouds did you connect to create this book
- How has it affected your happiness?
- What is happiness to you?
- Family Monogamy
- What is this book doing for people?
- The last guest question
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Podcast: How to Build a Happy Life (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Spend Time on What You Value
Pub date: 2022-10-24
We try to use our time wisely—both at work and in leisure—but we often waste it. We may blame work for stripping us of recreation, but when valuable free time comes around, we can often revert back to more work.
What explains the gap between how we use our time and how we want to use our time? A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans helps us analyze our complex relationship with time and how to orient our time use around what we value.
This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and is hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Matthew Simonson.
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Click here to listen to more full-length episodes in The Atlantic’s How To series.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers
Pub date: 2022-10-19
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2017: A bitter battle is raging within the mole-catching community over the kindest way to carry out their deadly work. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Dish (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad and creamy pasta with chard & lemon
Pub date: 2022-10-12
Nick and Angela welcome culinary greatness to DISH HQ.
It’s fair to say that this chef, restaurateur and author has transformed the way the world prepares and shares food. Yotam Ottolenghi creates a feast for the eyes (that INSTA grid) and a feast for our tables too. His cuisine is a masterclass in colour and combinations and he champions the humble vegetable like no other. Today he is joined by the esteemed recipe creator and head of his Test Kitchen, Noor Murad.
The pair discuss their new book Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things, which is full of ‘flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something 'extra' to your next meal’. They share their memories of food growing up and give British desserts a very interesting review.
Keen to impress her peers, Angela carefully crafted a rocket and cannellini bean bruschetta followed by a creamy pasta with lemon and chard and washed down with a Blueprint white burgundy.
Just so you know, our podcast might contain the occasional mild swear word or adult theme.
All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes
A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish
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Podcast: Reverberate (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Reverberate, episode 3: the call and response that changed Cairo
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Ten years ago the Arab spring spread into north Africa’s biggest country as more than a million Egyptians, enraged by police brutality and a collapsing economy, took over Tahrir Square – the heart of Cairo’s police state. It was Ramy Essam’s moment. In a remarkable communion with the crowd, his spine-tingling song, Irhal, became the rallying cry for an entire generation. And when the dictator Hosni Mubarak resigned, they couldn’t believe their success – but nor could they predict what would happen next. Ramy and the writer Mona Seif, who covered the events firsthand, take us back to those fateful days when Egypt, and the entire Arab world, chose its future
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 3. The Super Magnets
Pub date: 2022-09-30
Misha Glenny explores the world of rare earth metals. Neodymium is vital for wind turbines and electric motors but can the world become less dependent on China to supply it?
Guests: Dr Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware and author of Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. Ian Higgins, managing director of Less Common Metals. Paul Atherley, chairman of Pensana.
Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Hugh Levinson Sound engineer: James Beard Production coordinator: Janet Staples
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tom Stoppard on “Leopoldstadt,” and Geena Davis talks with Michael Schulman
Pub date: 2022-10-12
Tom Stoppard has been a fixture on Broadway since his famous early play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” travelled there in 1967. Stoppard is eighty-five years old, and has largely resisted the autobiographical element in his work. But now, in “Leopoldstadt,” a play that has just opened on Broadway, he draws on his family’s tragic losses in the Second World War. Stoppard talks with the contributor Andrew Dickson about his latest work.
And the Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning actor Geena Davis, best known for her role in “Thelma and Louise,” talks with the staff writer Michael Schulman about her life and career. Davis ascribes much of her early experience on- and offscreen to a certain level of politeness, a character trait ingrained in her from childhood. “I learned politeness from minute one, I’m sure,” she tells Schulman. “That was my family: very old-fashioned New Englanders.” She reflects on her childhood, her iconic roles in the eighties and nineties, and her “journey to badassery” in her new memoir, “Dying of Politeness,” out this month.
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Podcast: The Economist Podcasts (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Prince episode 1: Redder than red
Pub date: 2022-10-01
Xi Jinping is born into the top rung of China's elite. But his family is torn apart while he is still a child. The Economist's Sue-Lin Wong finds out why Xi kept faith in the Communist revolution.
Podcast: The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
Episode: Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration
Pub date: 2022-05-24
Discover how cutting-edge scientific techniques are transforming our understanding of medieval manuscripts, and how book production began to recover under King Alfred and his successors
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Podcast: How To! (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How To Put Your Town on the Map
Pub date: 2022-10-11
If you’ve ever vacationed on the beaches of Delaware, chances are you drove right by Smyrna. It’s a small but charming town that’s been bypassed by the main highways. Which is why Mike, a small business owner on the town council, wants to create a spectacular, engaging roadside attraction to tempt tourists into town. The only snag? He doesn’t know what to actually build.
On this episode of How To!, we bring on roadside attraction aficionado Erika Nelson. She’s the creator of The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things. She’s also an artist who helps towns like Smyrna develop their own car-stopping attractions. She decodes the magic of the most wondrous roadside attractions and explains why hosting a Guinness world record-holding object is not the only key to success. You also have to tell a good story.
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Podcast: The Great Women Artists (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tracey Emin
Pub date: 2022-10-04
WELCOME BACK TO SEASON 8 OF THE GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS PODCAST!! ...and what better way to kick it off with than an INTERVIEW with the world renowned artist, TRACEY EMIN!
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TW: This episode contains discussions around abortion and suicide.
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Tracey Emin's an oeuvre that encompasses painting textiles, sculpture, neons, film, installations and more, and is some of the most frank, personal, confessional, and visceral to ever exist. She speaks universal two truths on a personal level, drawing on love, desire, loss and grief.
Whether it be her 18.2 tonne or nine metre high bronze, The Mother – as recently installed outside the Munch Museum in Oslo – or an intimate watercolour drawing, Emin’s works holds so much power. They are alive with energy and have the ability to send us to places that resonate, that make us feel, that are somehow incredibly familiar, but make us question so much. Just as she has said, “True art should resonate. It should make you feel it's not a picture. It's not a thing. It's not an object. It is a true thing that has energy. That's what makes it art.”
Born in Croydon, and raised in Margate -- where the artist resides today and where she has just been named a free woman -- Emin studied at Maidstone Art College, followed by the Royal College of Art. It was in the 1990s that she came to the fore with a shop she ran with fellow artist, Sarah Lucas, in 1993. And her hugely significant biographical works, from Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1963–1995) to My Bed, 1998, works that changed the course of art history and have been just as contemporary and relevant today and in the years to come. In 2007 She represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, and in 2008, she had her first major retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
In recent years, she has installed a poignant Nan in St. Pancras station, I Want My Time With You; taken painting to new heights with her incredibly strong and emotive works -- as recently exhibited at her joint exhibition with Edvard Munch at the Royal Academy of Arts -- and her current exhibition at Jupiter Artland in Scotland. Following a severe illness in 2020, she has, in her words, made her most “honest and complete” work to date, as witnessed in her incredible show earlier this year, a journey to death at Carl freeborn gallery in Margate, Tracey Emin,
Tracey Early Works: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/23/tracey-emin-unseen-paintings-bed-margate-first-time
Tracey The Shop (1993): Interview and Hilton Als and others on The Shop: https://www.frieze.com/article/tracey-emin-and-sarah-lucas-shop
Fun short video of them partying in the shop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pn6mh
Last night of the Shop (1993): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-lucas-the-last-night-of-the-shop-3-7-93-t07605
Tracey on How it Feels (1996): https://whitecube.com/channel/channel/tracey_emin_on_how_it_feels/type/Tracey%20Emin
My bed (1998): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-my-bed-l03662
Tracey at Venice 2007: https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/jun/07/emin
I Want My Time With You (2018) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/terrace-wires-tracey-emin
The Mother in Norway (2022): https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/about/the-mother-at-inger-munchs-pier/
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Podcast: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Problem of Infinite Pi(e)
Pub date: 2022-09-06
Hungry for pi? Chow down on this!
Pi is the ratio between a circle’s diameter and its circumference. Sounds dull – but pi turns out to have astonishing properties and crop up in places you would never expect. For a start, it goes on forever and never repeats, meaning it probably contains your name, date of birth, and the complete works of Shakespeare written in its digits.
Maths comedian Matt Parker stuns Adam with his ‘pie-endulum’ experiment, in which a chicken and mushroom pie is dangled 2.45m to form a pendulum which takes exactly 3.14 seconds per swing.
Mathematician Dr Vicky Neale explains how we can be sure that the number pi continues forever and never repeats - despite the fact we can never write down all its digits to check! She also makes the case that aliens would probably measure angles using pi because it’s a fundamental constant of the universe.
NASA mission director Dr Marc Rayman drops in to explain how pi is used to navigate spacecraft around the solar system. And philosopher of physics Dr Eleanor Knox serves up some philoso-pi, revealing why some thinkers have found pi’s ubiquity so deeply mysterious.
Hannah grins with delight for most of show. It’s all maths!
Producer: Ilan Goodman
Contributors: Matt Parker, Dr Vicky Neale, Dr Marc Rayman, Dr Eleanor Knox
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 63 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
Pub date: 2022-10-03
A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Better Known (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Anton Muscatelli
Pub date: 2022-10-02
Economist Anton Muscatelli discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow since 2009. An economist, his research interests are monetary economics, central bank independence, fiscal policy, international finance and macroeconomics.
Sir Anton was Chair (2016-21) of the First Minister’s Standing Council on Europe, a non-political group providing expert advice to Scottish ministers on Scotland’s relationship with the EU. He was a member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisers 2015-21, and subsequently advised them on the National Strategy for Economic Transformation. He is a member of the advisory group for Sir Paul Nurse’s Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape. From 2017-20 he was Chair of the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities. He has been a special adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on fiscal and monetary policy, and he has advised the European Commission and the World Bank. He holds an honorary degree from McGill University in Canada.
- The life of James McCune Smith https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24115&type=P&o=&start=0&max=20&l=
- The importance of central bank independence https://www.ft.com/content/c233c60e-7d88-465a-9b8b-c35b6a5ca339 (paywall)
- Cooking with fresh (Apulian) artichokes https://personalpuglia.com/2012/11/27/an-abundance-of-artichokes-food-itlay/
- Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/21/pereira-maintains-tabucchi-review
- The game of Maniglia/Manille https://www.pagat.com/manille/mariglia.html
- Basilica of St Nicholas in Bari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Nicola
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Podcast: The Joy of Why (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why Do We Die Without Sleep?
Pub date: 2022-03-23
The reasons why sleep is so vital often hide in unexpected parts of the body, as host Steven Strogatz discovers in conversations with researchers Dragana Rogulja and Alex Keene. The post Why Do We Die Without Sleep? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse
Pub date: 2022-09-21
"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy," insists New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. "Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount," The Guardian reports. Though these headlines are framed as exploratory questions, news media seem to have their minds made up: the problem with Washington is that it’s chock full of geezers. In recent years, we’ve often heard that U.S. policymaking, helmed at the federal level by seventy- and eighty-somethings like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, and at the state level by the similarly aged Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Pat Leahy, is simply growing too old and out of touch with the electorate. There’s some credence to this, of course. It’s certainly true that those occupying the most powerful positions in U.S. government, on the whole, don’t legislate to the needs of the public – whether on healthcare, policing, education – the list goes on and on. But is that really because of legislators' age? Why does age have to be the focus in this analysis, rather than policy positions and, relatedly, class interests, which exist independent of age? Who does it serve to reduce the causes of U.S. austerity politics and violence to pat, Pepsi marketing-style "generation gap" discourse? On this episode show, we detail how "generations" analysis is ineffectual and, more often than not, misses the mark. We'll discuss how fears of a "gerontocracy" can – if not in intent, in effect – malign old age itself, stigmatize the elderly and, above all, distract from what could be a substantive critical analysis of real, more profound vectors of oppression such as class, racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ currents. Our guest in Winslow Erik Wright.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Roger Federer on Retirement and His Evolution in Tennis
Pub date: 2022-09-23
Roger Federer is playing the last professional tennis match of his career this week. It’s the end of an incredible run. Over two decades, he has demonstrated an unmatchable court intelligence and temperament, winning twenty Grand Slam titles and spending three hundred and ten weeks as the top-ranked men’s player.
In 2019, on the eve of playing in his nineteenth U.S. Open, Federer spoke with David Remnick about how he got over an early hot temper and predilection for throwing racquets on the court. At the advanced age of thirty-eight—and as a father of young children—Federer explained what he had to give up in order to keep playing professionally. “I think it’s nice to keep on playing, and really squeeze the last drop of lemon out of it,” he told Remnick, “and not leave the game of tennis thinking, Oh, I should have stayed longer.”
This segment originally aired on August 23, 2019.
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Podcast: The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1 - CIA Director Bill Burns Brings the Agency Out from the Shadows
Pub date: 2022-09-22
On this debut episode of The Langley Files, CIA Director Bill Burns joins our hosts, Dee and Walter, to dispel some common misconceptions about the CIA, provide insights into the character and skills of the Agency’s workforce, and share some personal anecdotes about what it means to him to lead the world’s premiere foreign intelligence organization.
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Podcast: Someone Dies In This Elevator (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S1E6 - Most Secure Vault
Pub date: 2021-07-05
Someone Dies In This Elevator 006 - Most Secure Vault
Gedeon enters the most secure vault to make a deposit, but her withdrawal has an unexpected bang.
Rating: PG-13. This episode contains violence, explosive terrorism, corporate greed, and death in an elevator.
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Podcast: The Witness: In His Own Words (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 01: The Milkman
Pub date: 2021-05-24
Dublin, 1997. An unexpected visitor calls to the door, and twelve-year old Joseph O'Callaghan gets himself a job on the milk round.
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Podcast: Missing Pages (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dreams vs. Reality
Pub date: 2022-09-26
In writers’ dreams, every published author is a millionaire, every title sells at auction, every editor is brilliant and attentive, and every book hits the bestseller list. Alas, writers’ dreams and the publishing industry’s reality don’t always mesh. Bethanne breaks down the lifespan of a book and the overworked and underpaid workers who make the industry (barely) run.
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Podcast: Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jack White
Pub date: 2022-09-20
We have friend of the show Jack White back on the show today along with a legendary special guest. This conversation with Rick Rubin is full of fascinating ideas, asides and musical history that let you know just how deep Jack White is. Jack's work and a business ethic is unparalleled. His label Third Man Records has a rich roster of artists and three retail stores. They also own one of the few fully operational vinyl pressing plants in the U.S. which has been working overtime to keep up with the surging demand for vinyl. Jack also released two full length albums this year, and he’s currently on a worldwide tour.
After a recent two-night stand in Los Angeles, Jack stopped by Shangri-La to talk to Rick Rubin about the early Garage Rock scene in Detroit that helped shape him and The White Stripes. He also shared potential theories about why the “Seven Nation Army” riff is so catchy. And then he treats Rick and a surprise guest to an acoustic performance of his new song “A Tip From You To Me.”
And to cap it all off, we will hear exclusive details about an exciting new project Rick’s been working on, that will be out soon.
You can listen to a playlist that includes Jack White's latest album, along with all of our favorite songs from him, The White Stripes, and a sampling of his many side projects HERE.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower
Pub date: 2022-09-23
Inventor Franz Reichelt wants to test his novel "parachute suit" from as tall a structure as possible - and the Eiffel Tower seems ideal. Previous trial runs used a mannequin strapped to the chute and have not ended well. Despite this, his plan is to make the Eiffel Tower jump himself. Can he be persuaded to see sense?
Self-experimentation - particularly in the field of medicine - has a long and checkered history. Can we learn anything useful from such unorthodox experiments, or are they reckless acts of egotism and hubris?
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Podcast: Short Wave (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: What The Universe Is Doing RIGHT NOW
Pub date: 2022-09-14
A century ago, astronomers were locked in a debate about the scope of our universe. Were we it?
The answer is no. There are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way, and they are speeding away from us. Answering that question left astronomers with an even bigger puzzle. Why is everything sprinting away from us and what does that mean for the center of the universe? Today, Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber brings back astronomer Dr. Vicky Scowcroft for the final episode in our series on cosmic distances and humanity's place in the universe. It's a big one: The mystery of our expanding universe.
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- The Stars that Settled The Great Debate
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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dubbing Gerry Adams
Pub date: 2022-09-16
The ‘broadcasting ban’ on 11 Northern Irish organizations including Sinn Fein was finally lifted by Prime Minister John Major on 16th September, 1994, one fortnight after an IRA ceasefire had been achieved.
The regulations, implemented six years earlier by Margaret Thatcher and her Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, prevented British TV networks from broadcasting interviews with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, lest they drum up sympathy for Republicanist terrorism. So the broadcasters found a workaround: they employed voice actors to dub over the interviews.
In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly re-examine some of the absurd circumstances in which the ban was implemented and avoided; consider the pushback to the policy from the Labour party and miffed BBC staffers; and explain how the ban played into Cuba’s hands…
Further Reading:
• ‘Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain By Robert J. Savage’ (Oxford University Press, 2022): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Northern_Ireland_the_BBC_and_Censorship/UJtjEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%27sinn+fein%27+and+%27broadcast+ban%27&printsec=frontcover
• ‘The 'broadcast ban' on Sinn Fein’ (BBC News, 2005): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4409447.stm
• ‘Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Voiced By An Actor’ (BBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf4xOdas1g
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Podcast: The Radio Academy Podcast
Episode: How radio covered The Queen's death
Pub date: 2022-09-14
In-line with most broadcasters in the past week, this episode of The Radio Academy Podcast is a break from our scheduled programming, as we talk to the leaders of three radio stations about how they covered the sad death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II last week.
Joining Christian this week is Nick Pitts (Content Director of Jazz FM and Deputy Chair of The Radio Academy); Rebecca Frank (Content Director of the KISS network) and Tim Levell (Programme Director of Times Radio).
In a roundtable discussion, they talk about the practicalities of the well-rehearsed Obit process; how much planning and preparation went in to that moment; and making rapid adjustments to the schedule, music and tone of their stations.
We'll be bringing you highlights of this year's Radio Academy Festival in the coming weeks.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 232. The Loch Ness Monster
Pub date: 2022-09-12
Does the Loch Ness Monster exist? When was the first mention of it recorded in history? And who are the people who have claimed to have seen it?
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss how a few 'sightings' of a mysterious creature took the world by storm...
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The salvage car Silk Road
Pub date: 2022-09-08
A practically brand new Lexus with a New Jersey inspection sticker lands on an auto body lot in Turkmenistan. How did it get there? To find out, we journey into the bizarro economy for misfit cars. And we follow a very different kind of journey – of the auto body repairman from Turkmenistan who brought us this story in the first place. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 160. Coward
Pub date: 2022-09-09
“Anxiety is the parrot sidekick that rides on my shoulder and occasionally squawks warnings in my ear,” says Tim Clare, poet and podcaster and author of the book Coward: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It. We talk about anxiety, cowardice, magic bullets vs silver bullets, the scary Bible, and seagulls.
Content note for discussion about mental health, unsurprisingly, and colonial and military harmful practices.
Find out more about this episode and some sources of the information therein at theallusionist.org/coward, where there's also a transcript. Find Tim's books, podcasts, writing courses and more at timclarepoet.co.uk.
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Podcast: Field Recordings (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Thunderstorm through skylight, London, UK at 11.20pm on 5th September 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall
Pub date: 2022-09-05
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Podcast: I Spy (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Spycatcher
Pub date: 2022-05-31
On this episode, FBI agent Eric O'Neill goes undercover to catch a suspected spy in the bureau: Robert Hanssen. O'Neill is just 26 at the time. Hanssen turns out to be one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty
Pub date: 2022-09-09
A meter is longer than a yard. An ounce is heavier than a gram. We harmlessly mix them up sometimes, but a "unit conversion error" when you're filling up the fuel tanks of an airliner can be fatal. Which is exactly what happened to Air Canada Flight 143.
Tim Harford talks to mathematician and comedian Matt Parker about how the aircraft came to take off without the proper fuel load, how no one noticed until it was too late, and why such errors give us an insight into just how important maths is to keeping our complex world working as it should.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tokyo Rose
Pub date: 2022-09-07
In World War II, the Japanese military operated a propaganda station called Radio Tokyo. Along with jazz music, the station featured several English-speaking female announcers, who became collectively known as Tokyo Rose. But who was Tokyo Rose? And was she really the treacherous villain that the US government made her out to be? This story comes from the History Daily podcast.
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Podcast: How We're Wired (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Focus - Why We Forget
Pub date: 2022-08-24
Why does our memory sometimes fail us? Would you recognise an implanted memory? And what implications do the risks of false memories have for society?
In this Focus episode of How We’re Wired, join producer Dr Eva Higginbotham as she explores the murky depths of our imperfect memories; from whether a brain scan can identify whether a memory is true or false to the potential for memory-numbing drugs as a treatment for PTSD.
With special thanks to Daniel Schacter.
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Podcast: Missing Pages (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: J.T. LeRoy: The Last Literary Rockstar
Pub date: 2022-08-22
Raw, transgressive, and true: Praise for hard-hitting books like Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things made Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy the talk of the town. But was J.T. who he said he was? Follow our winding journey as we parse good intentions and messy outcomes in one of the book world’s most complicated stories and biggest hoaxes.
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Podcast: Empire (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. The East India Company
Pub date: 2022-08-16
Welcome to Empire, a brand new history podcast hosted by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
The first series looks at the British in India: The East India Company, The Raj, Gandhi, Independence and Partition.
In the opening episode, William and Anita discuss the rise of The East India Company, exploring how a small corporation founded in Tudor England - with only a handful of employees - came to rule India.
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Wake up and smell the fraud
Pub date: 2022-08-26
Sometimes online shopping can feel a little unsavory. There are the listings that make you question if you'll really be getting exactly what's advertised. And there's no worse feeling than paying for something and then not getting it. But when Nina Kollars ordered coffee pods and got WAY more than she asked for, it made her feel just as uneasy. Her quest for answers and what it teaches us about a new generation of online fraud. | Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How Gorbachev Changed the World
Pub date: 2022-09-01
Few leaders have had as profound an effect on their time as Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who died this week at 91.
It was not Mr. Gorbachev’s intention to liquidate the Soviet empire when he came to power in 1985. But after little more than six tumultuous years, he had lifted the Iron Curtain and presided over the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, ending the Cold War.
Guest: Serge Schmemann, a member of The New York Times’s editorial board.
Background reading:
- Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, Mr. Gorbachev weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, decisively altering the political climate of the world.
- With the war in Ukraine, Russia’s current leader, Vladimir V. Putin, is trying to unravel Mr. Gorbachev’s legacy.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leeds: Life in the Bus Lane
Pub date: 2022-08-23
Rima Ahmed takes the bus into Leeds and tries to find out why it is “the biggest city in Western Europe without a mass transit system”. Rima meets passengers, campaigners and history buffs as well as local politicians to delve into why the city has had so many failed attempts to improve its public transport system since its tram was abolished in 1959.
Leeds was a transport pioneer - it introduced the first electric trams and trolleybuses in the country. In the 1970s and 80s, local councillors proudly declared Leeds “the motorway city” hailing the building of a massive urban motorway right through the city centre. In the 1990s, Sheffield was already building its supertram network and Leeds was also asking government to fund its own version. Despite funding being approved in 2001, £70 million had been wasted by the time Leeds’s supertram project was pulled by Transport Secretary Alastair Darling in 2005. A “trolleybus” scheme mooted in 2012 was also scrapped.
Now, the citizens of Leeds have been told that, if they are lucky, they may get a new mass transit system by 2040. Work may begin sometime by the end of the decade. In the meantime, the commuters of Leeds continue to live life in the bus lane.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed Producer: Johnathan I'Anson Sound mix: Craig Boardman Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Nicola Addyman
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Podcast: The News Agents
Episode: The Emily Maitlis MacTaggart Lecture
Pub date: 2022-08-25
We’re launching for real on Tuesday 30th, but for now listen to Emily’s keynote lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, with some post-match analysis from Emily and Jon. The speech looks at the challenges and solutions for good journalism in the age of populism.
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Podcast: Object Of Sound (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Playlists for our Future Selves (feat. Moses Sumney)
Pub date: 2021-01-15
When one song sits next to another, a new story is told. We talk with Moses Sumney about composing the arc of his album græ, making playlists, and how he honors his own work by refusing to define it. Welcome to Object Of Sound.
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For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit here.
Moses referenced the album Speaker Box and The Love Below by Outkast.
Hanif and Moses recommend cleaning your house to Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa.
Moses says the albums Forever, Ya Girl by KeiyaA and Hannah by Lomelda are the music that'll be his archive of this moment in time.
Moses' two-part album is græ.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July
Pub date: 2022-08-22
The August 29, 2022, issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, bringing together pieces from past issues of the magazine on the theme of Celebrity. It features the story “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Instead of a Writer’s Voice episode, this week we are rereleasing an episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, taped in 2012, in which David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Roy Spivey.”
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Podcast: The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Case of The Missing Gorilla
Pub date: 2022-08-16
DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?
Good! But how does that work!?
Our intrepid science sleuths explore why some things immediately catch your eye - or ear - while others slip by totally unnoticed. Even, on occasion, basketball bouncing gorillas.
Professor Polly Dalton, a psychologist who leads The Attention Lab at Royal Holloway University, shares her surprising research into ‘inattentional blindness’ - when you get so absorbed in a task you can miss striking and unusual things going on right in front of you.
Dr Gemma Briggs from the Open University reveals how this can have dangerous everyday consequences: you are four times more likely to have a crash if you talk on the phone while driving -even handsfree.
Drs Rutherford and Fry also hear from stroke survivor Thomas Canning, who developed the tendency to ignore everything on the left side of space, despite his vision being totally intact. And Dr Tom Manly, from the University of Cambridge’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, helps our sleuths unpack the neuroscience of this fascinating condition.
Producer: Ilan Goodman Contributors: Professor Polly Dalton, Dr Gemma Briggs, Dr Tom Manly
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: TikTalk
Pub date: 2022-08-24
In 2018, voiceover artist Bev Standing recorded 10,000 sentences for the Chinese Institute of Acoustics. Bev was told the recordings would be used for a translation app, but three years later, she was shocked to discover that she had become the default voice of TikTok in North America. On TikTok, Bev heard herself saying all kinds of wild and inappropriate things. So, she decided to sue. In this episode, Bev tells her story, and we hear from the voice who replaced her.
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Podcast: The Big Picture (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The 20 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2022
Pub date: 2022-08-22
It’s been a grim summer movie season, but a promising fall awaits. Amanda and Sean break down the summer doldrums at the box office and then share the 20 fall films of 2022 they’re most excited to see.
Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins
Producer: Bobby Wagner
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Podcast: The Frost Tapes (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 7: Lauren Bacall
Pub date: 2022-07-18
The dame of Hollywood’s golden age, Lauren Bacall was known for much more than just her so-called "look.” David Frost talks to Bacall about her big break, the eternal problems facing Hollywood, and what she learned from her famous marriage with Humphrey Bogart.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Cosmic Questions
Pub date: 2022-08-19
What is a black hole? Why do we remember the past but not the future? If time had a beginning, does it have an end?
We don’t have the answers to some of the universe’s biggest questions. What we do know often feels bleak, such as the notion that in a billion years there will most likely be no life on Earth. Or the reality that someday the entire human race will probably be forgotten.
Nonetheless, people search for answers. These are some of the cosmic questions that haunt the human experience.
Guest: Dennis Overbye, the cosmic affairs correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- When the largest space observatory ever built sent its images back to Earth, here’s what astronomers saw.
- In space you can’t hear a black hole scream, but apparently you can hear it sing. Hear what that sounds like.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future
Pub date: 2022-08-16
Electric cars, compared to cars with internal-combustion engines, are nearly silent, which can present a danger to cyclists and pedestrians. So car companies are turning to sound engineers to craft artificial soundtracks for things like backing up, or starting the engine. John Seabrook, who writes often about music, reported on the composers and designers who are building a new soundscape for the streets and highways of America. Plus, a visit with Ada Limón, who was recently named the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate. Limón lives in Kentucky, and in 2018 she took the Radio Hour to her favorite racetrack, and spoke about her lifelong love of horses.
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Podcast: Proof (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Vanishing Ants
Pub date: 2022-08-04
Leafcutter ants have been a traditional Colombian foodfor millennia, long predating Spanish colonization. But the ants, eaten by Colombians since the indigenous Guane peoples inhabited the area of Santander, are now in peril. What does the future hold for this ancient food source? Reporter Camilo Garzón reports.
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tinder turns 10: what have we learned from a decade of dating apps?
Pub date: 2022-08-12
Dating apps have opened up opportunities to meet more people, but what have they done to our psyche? Emily Witt looks at how they have shifted the way we understand modern love, sex and relationships. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: Life Kit (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How to thrive while working in a hybrid setup
Pub date: 2022-04-26
More companies are offering hybrid work schedules, allowing office workers to split their time between the office and home. A hybrid set up has plenty of benefits, but can be challenging to navigate. These tips can help you and your team ease into it. (This episode originally aired in July 2021.)
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Silent Mind
Pub date: 2022-08-09
‘Today I found out that not everyone has an interior monologue, and it’s ruined my day.’ A little while ago this blog post went viral, triggering an intense online debate. Why do some people have loud, intrusive voices running in their head seemingly all the time, and others a totally ‘silent mind’? Psychologist and author Professor Charles Fernyhough finds out what it’s like to have no inner speech, and asks - why are we often totally wrong about what’s going on inside our own heads? 'Silent Mind' clip by Alan Watts courtesy of alanwatts.org
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Podcast: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 3: The Tables Are Tipping
Pub date: 2022-05-09
This week, Jamie goes to a table tipping class — a Spiritualist tradition that uses tables to connect people with their dead. Elsewhere in the past, the Fox sisters go on tour, where the skeptics put increasing pressure on the teenagers to meet their hype.
Further Reading:
Talking to the Dead, Barbara Weisberg
Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton
The Road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
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Podcast: Sidedoor (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Sumo Wrestlers vs. Firefighters
Pub date: 2022-08-10
In 19th century Japan, two sumo wrestlers faced down dozens of firefighters in a brawl so epic it inspired a Kabuki play. But the story of what really happened —and who the heroes are— is all a matter of perspective. Underdogs, antiheroes and villains. How do we decide who plays what role?
Guests:
Kit Brooks, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Frank Feltens, Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Escape
Pub date: 2022-08-05
This episode originally aired in 2012.
An all-star lineup of producers — Pat Walters, Lynn Levy, and Sean Cole — bring you stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.
We kick things off with a true escape artist — a man who’s broken out of jail more times than anyone alive. Why does he keep running... and will he ever stop? Next, the ingeniously simple question that led Isaac Newton to an enormous intellectual breakthrough: why doesn’t the moon fall out of the sky? In the wake of Newton's new idea, we find ourselves in a strange space at the edge of the solar system, about to cross a boundary beyond which we know nothing. Finally, we hear the story of a blind kid who freed himself from an unhappy childhood by climbing into the telephone system, and bending it to his will.
Now sit back, relax and enjoy what we hope will prove to be a welcomed Escape.Episode Credits:Reported and produced by Pat Walters, Lynn Levy, and Sean Cole
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Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 85. What It Takes to Know Everything
Pub date: 2022-08-06
Victoria Groce is one of the best trivia contestants on earth. She explains the structure of a good question, why she knits during competitions, and how to memorize 160,000 flashcards.
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Podcast: The Bowery Boys: New York City History (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #380 Dorothy Parker's Last Party
Pub date: 2022-01-28
Dorothy Parker was not only the wittiest writer of the Jazz Age, she was also obsessively morbid.
Her talents rose at a very receptive moment for such a sharp, dour outlook, after the first world war and right as the country went dry. Dorothy Parker’s greatest lines are as bracing and intoxicating as a hard spirit.
Her most successful verse often veers into somber moods, loaded with thoughts of self-destruction or wry despair. In fact, she frequently quipped about the epitaph that would some day grace her tombstone. Excuse my dust is one she suggested in Vanity Fair.
In this episode, Greg pays tribute to the great Mrs. Parker, the most famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, and reveals a side of the writer that you may not know -- a more engaged, politically thoughtful Parker.
Death did not end the story of Dorothy Parker. In fact, due to some unfortunate circumstances (chiefly relating to her frenemy Lillian Hellman), her remains would make a journey to several places before reaching their final home -- Woodlawn Cemetery.
Joining Greg on the show is author and tour guide Kevin Fitzpatrick of the Dorothy Parker Society who has now become a part of Parker's legacy.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 216. Pigeons
Pub date: 2022-08-01
‘If it became necessary immediately to discard every line and method of communications used on the front, except one, and it were left to me to select that one method, I should unhesitatingly choose the pigeons’, wrote Major General Fowler, Chief of Signals and Communications of the British Army, after the First World War.
On today's podcast Tom and Dominic are joined by Gordon Corera, the BBC's Security Correspondent and author of 'Operation Columba: The Secret Pigeon Service', to discuss the often under-appreciated role of pigeons throughout the course of history.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Four Hundred Years of Women's Football
Pub date: 2022-08-02
Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA for half of the 20th – and what may happen next.
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Podcast: The Failing Writers Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep16: David Quantick interview
Pub date: 2022-07-17
This week we are honoured to welcome Emmy award winning writer David Quantick. We talk window goats, having big ideas, getting the sack and chat to David about the reams and reams of amazing work he's done. It's fair to say we think this episode is Quanticky AND quality.
LINKS
https://davidquantick.com/
The first EVER internet sitcom "The Junkies" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOayYFu7Fs
That Star Wars bit from "The Think Of It" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-pnGFbwMQ
New novel "Ricky's Hand" - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rickys-Hand-David-Quantick-ebook/dp/B09DV2CVCB
How to Write Everything: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Write-Everything-David-Quantick/dp/1783191031
All My Colours, David's novel about a failing writer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41840158-all-my-colors
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Podcast: Cold Takes Audio (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Track Record of Futurists Seems ... Fine
Pub date: 2022-06-30
We scored mid-20th-century sci-fi writers on nonfiction predictions. They weren't great, but weren't terrible either. Maybe doing futurism works fine.
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Podcast: The Rest Is History (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 214. The Battle of Stalingrad
Pub date: 2022-07-25
Stalingrad: the bloodiest battle of the Second World War.
Tom and Dominic are joined by Iain MacGregor to discuss the build up, context and outbreak of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Nobodies
Pub date: 2022-07-27
Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction.
Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic.
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Mentioned in this episode: — The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith — The Suburbans by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland — "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot — The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie — After the Funeral by Agatha Christie — The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie — The Big Four by Agatha Christie
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Podcast: Radiolab Podcasts (Radiolab) (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: You v. You
Pub date: 2022-07-22
This episode, originally aired more than a decade ago, attempts to answer one question: how do you win against your worst impulses? Zelda Gamson tried for decades to stop smoking, but the part of her that wanted to quit couldn’t beat the part of her that refused to let go. Adam Davidson, a co-founder of the NPR podcast Planet Money, talked to one of the greatest negotiators of all time, Nobel Prize-winning Economist Thomas Schelling, whose tactical skills saw him through high-stakes conflicts during the Cold War but fell apart when he tried them on himself in his battle to quit smoking. And a baby Pat Walters complicates things — in a good way — with the story of two brothers, Dennis and Kai Woo, who forged a deal with each other that wound up determining both of their futures.
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Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing
Pub date: 2022-07-23
The author of Sapiens has a knack for finding the profound in the obvious. He tells Steve why money is fiction, traffic can be mind-blowing, and politicians have a right to say stupid things in private.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
Pub date: 2018-11-20
Last year, the Mexican government finally agreed to extradite the notorious drug kingpin El Chapo to the U.S. Born Joaquín Guzmán Loera, he was once ranked by Forbes as one of the most powerful people in the world. His trial began in New York, on November 5th, and Guzmán faces seventeen counts related to drugs and firearms; prosecutors have said that they will also tie him to more than thirty murders. The government’s star witnesses against the notoriously elusive drug lord are identical twins from Chicago, Pedro and Margarito Flores. While still in their twenties, the Flores brothers became major drug traffickers, importing enormous quantities of drugs from the Sinaloa cartel. They avoided violence and feuds with rivals, but eventually got caught in the middle of a cartel war. It was a dangerous position, and the only way out was to seek government protection. The Flores brothers flipped; they began working secretly for prosecutors—recording their business calls with Guzmán and others—in exchange for leniency in their own trials. Tom Shakeshaft, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney who flipped them, tells The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe how it all went down.
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Podcast: Off Leash (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 6. Genes
Pub date: 2022-06-14
“What breed is she?” Every owner of a mixed-breed dog is eventually asked this when out on a walk. But how much do dogs' breeds — and genes — really tell us about who they are? Alexandra Horowitz asks Soledad O'Brien about her dog Coco's ancestry (and her own), then talks to a pioneer in the field of canine DNA.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Shock Horror (A)
Pub date: 2022-07-13
There’s a certain musical phrase that you’ve probably heard hundreds of times. It’s used to emphasize dramatic moments in movies, cartoons, commercials and musicals, most often as a gag. But while this little melody is everywhere today, the question is: Where did it come from? In this episode, we investigate the mysterious origins of a famous 3-note sting. Featuring Sound Historian Patrick Feaster and Composer Dick Walter.
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Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Music of Olivier Messiaen
Pub date: 2022-07-07
There is one composer who I’ve never devoted a full show to that fills me with the same devotion and ecstasy as the people who claim that Wagner almost immediately dissolves them into tears. His music is widely played, but it has never been totally embraced by the wider classical music audience. There are a variety of reasons for this, but his uniquely 20th century language of tonality mixed with atonality mixed with something completely different from anyone who has ever written music makes it sometimes difficult to pin down his vast contribution to the world of music. His music is as deeply connected to his religious faith as any composer in history, and yes, that includes Bach. His music is as deeply connected to Nature as any composer who ever lived, and his music is tied directly to the colors he saw as he played and listened to it. His name is Olivier Messiaen, and he is one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. I wish I could describe to you the otherworldly feeling I get when I listen to his music, but for a very long time, I shied away from it. Perhaps the reason is that it’s extremely hard to talk about Messiaen’s musical outlook without talking about his religious faith. I’m a non-religious Jewish person, so the depths of devotion that Messiaen describes regularly as his inspirations were and are foreign to me. And yet, the first time I heard his L’Ascension, every single hair on my body seemed to stand on end. I was completely blown away by these ravishing harmonies, how light seemed to shine off of them, how Messiaen translated his religious devotion into sound. I’ve not talked about Messiaen’s music on the show because it’s not easy to grapple with, but I can’t wait any longer. Today I’ll tell you a bit about Messiaen’s life, his upbringing, his musical and religious revelations, and then I’ll discuss some of his greatest pieces using three frameworks - religion, nature and specifically birdsong, and color. Join us!
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Podcast: You're Dead To Me (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Ice Cream
Pub date: 2021-11-12
Greg Jenner and his guests Dr Annie Gray and Richard Osman get the inside scoop on the history of our favourite frozen food while packing in as many of their 'flavourite' ice cream puns as possible (final count: 15!). They savour the dubiously 'legendairy' origins of frozen cream dishes, explore some weird early flavours (including whale vomit!), and discover how ice cream went from glamorous luxury to dangerous health risk. Plus Dr Annie teaches us how to make our own ice cream in the Nuance Window!
Research: Chris Wakefield Script: Emma Nagouse, Chris Wakefield and Greg Jenner Project management: Siefe Miyo Edit producer: Cornelius Mendez
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Podcast: Promenade
Episode: 1: Shivvy
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Track 1 - Shivvy
The sound of the sea evokes many feelings for people from calmness to loneliness but for Shivvy the sound of the sea brings memories of teenage romance, internet chatrooms and a feeling of what could have been.
Written and performed by Shivvy Hickey. Promenade is curated and produced by Andy Gaffney for The Shift Podcast Network. Music in this episode: Two Become One - Outside the sky, Near You - Acreage, Sunset On The Beach - Komiku.
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Podcast: My Unsung Hero (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Juleus Ghunta's Story
Pub date: 2022-07-05
Juleus is in elementary school, and he can't read. But then a new teacher convinces him to believe in himself.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: South Pole Race: David and Goliath on Ice
Pub date: 2022-07-15
1910: Two men are racing to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott heads a well-financed, technologically-advanced expedition - aiming to reach the pole in the "proper" and heroic way... on foot. Roald Amundsen's effort is more modest, relying on cheap sled dogs to carry him to victory.
Scott - for all his money, for all his fancy equipment, for all his backing from the mighty Royal Navy - is doomed to failure in the icy wastes of Antarctica. Why?
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Podcast: Martini Shot (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: But Mine Is Different
Pub date: 2022-07-06
An Argentine writer named Jorge Luis Borges once declared that there are only four stories that are told and re-told. Or maybe there are seven — it depends who you ask. Regardless, Rob Long explains in this week’s episode why writers would be better off ignoring those rules. And why everyone else should ignore people who insist that the summer is over on July 5th.
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Podcast: All About Sound (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Amy Liptrot on the Sea
Pub date: 2022-06-27
Where would our language be without the sea? Aground, adrift, the wind taken from our sails.
In today’s episode, Lemn is diving beneath the surface into the British Library Sound Archive (see full credits below) to hear how language, on this island nation, has been shaped by the sea.
To help on his quest, he’s joined by Scottish writer Amy Liptrot, whose 2018 memoir The Outrun won the PEN Ackerley Prize and the Wainwright Prize. In the book, Amy returns to the wildness of Orkney, an archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland where she grew up. There, she immerses herself in the sea and the island that she once left, and journeys towards recovery from addiction.
Together, they listen to sea shanties sung in Cornwall; coastguards responding to the aftermath of shipwrecks; tourists enamoured with Orkney’s inebriating charms and more...
Recordings in the episode in order of appearance:
An interview with Violet Bonham Carter recorded by the BBC. The original recording was part of the Aberdeenshire Museums Service John Junner Collection and it was digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.
British Library shelfmark: UNLS028/254 S2 C3
Coastguards David Jackson and Graham Hale recall responding to the aftermath of a shipwreck. The interview was conducted in St Levan in 2001 and the original recording is held at the Telegraph Museum in Porthcurno and it was digitised as part of the Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.
British Library shelfmark: UBC035/7
Farmer Wilfred Keys and fish salesman Thomas Kyle speak in Belfast in 2013 about the superstitions of fishermen. Their conversation was part of the Listening Project recorded for the BBC © BBC.
British Library shelfmark: C1500/0416
Kei Miller reading his poem ‘The Law Concerning Mermaids’ in 2012. The recording was made by the British Library at The Power of Caribbean Poetry – Word and Sound conference in Homerton College, Cambridge.
British Library shelfmark: C1532/12
Sea shanty group The Oggymen performing their version of ‘The Mingulay Boat Song’ at the The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival in 2017
British Library shelfmark: DD00010583
‘Scapa Flow’ on melodeon performed by Jimmy Leslie. This recording was made in 1955 in St Ola, Orkney and is part of the Peter Kennedy Collection.
British Library shelfmark: C604/1128
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Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why do we need foodbanks?
Pub date: 2022-05-04
Contributor(s): Dr. Aaron Reeves, Laura Lane, Daphine Aikens | As food and energy prices soar, it’s predicted that the demand for food banks will reach record highs as those on low incomes and benefits face an uphill battle to make ends meet. Joanna Bale talks to LSE’s Aaron Reeves and Laura Lane, as well as Daphine Aikens, founder and CEO of Hammersmith and Fulham food bank, and some of her clients.
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Podcast: Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: CL: Deconstructing Atlantis: Finding Atlantis in the Depths of Plato’s Imagination (Part 1)
Pub date: 2022-01-11
The story of Atlantis has fascinated the world for centuries... But how many of us know where the story came from, or what is actually included in the original source? Episode one of Deconstructing Atlantis dives into the story of Atlantis as it exists in the Timaeus and Critias.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources/Further Reading: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, quotes translated by Benjamin Jowett; A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato’s Ideal State by Stephen P. Kershaw (includes alternate translation of Plato); PDF: Truth, Lies, and History in Plato's Timaeus and Critias by Thomas K Johansen, 1998. Listen to the episode on the myth of the Great Flood and Deucalion and Pyrrha here.
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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Are the Police So Bad at Solving Murders?
Pub date: 2022-07-06
Today’s episode is about the story of the moment—gun violence. There’s been a surge of violent shootings, mass shootings, and gun-related murders in the last few years. Today, Derek investigates a mystery behind this surge of violence: Why are the police so bad at solving murders? According to FBI statistics, in the 1960s nearly 100 percent of all murders were "cleared" by police, typically by arrest. In 2020, the clearance rate hit an all-time low of nearly 50 percent. Today, half of the murders in the United States go unsolved. Why? Today’s guest is Jeff Asher, a crime analyst, writer, and cofounder of AH Datalytics, which analyzes data for local government agencies like police departments. We talk about seven possible explanations for this alarming trend before settling on one particular explanation that's probably the most important.
Host: Derek Thompson
Guest: Jeff Asher
Producer: Devon Manze
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Podcast: This Day in Esoteric Political History (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Dinner Where It Happened (1790)
Pub date: 2022-06-21
It’s June 21st. This day in 1790, in lower Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison sit down in a meeting brokered by Thomas Jefferson to work out a major compromise involving the Treasury department and the location of the US Capitol.
Jody, Niki and Kellie discuss the meeting, the myths around it, and how it was ultimately a major test of a new democracy in action.
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Podcast: MUBI Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Only in Theaters Episode 1: The Cinémathèque Française Launches Two Revolutions
Pub date: 2022-06-30
In 1940s France, a little 50-seat cinema opened that would launch one revolution on international movie screens...and arguably a second one in the streets of Paris. Host Rico Gagliano delves into the wild history of the Cinémathèque Française and its legendary founder, Henri Langlois.
Featuring interviews with directors Barbet Schroeder (BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) and Luc Moullet (BRIGITTE ET BRIGITTE), plus New Yorker writer Louis Menand, Amy Nicholson of the podcast "Unspooled" and many more.
The second season of the MUBI Podcast titled “Only in Theaters” tells surprising stories of individual cinemas that had huge impacts on film history, and in some cases, history in general.
After listening, check out an extended interview with Barbet Schroeder in the latest “MUBI Podcast: Expanded” piece. The filmmaker dives deeper into memories of the French New Wave, talks about his Oscar-winning film REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, and recalls working with Pink Floyd in the late ‘60s. Read the article here.
To stream some of the films we've covered on the podcast, check out the collection Featured on the MUBI Podcast. Availability of films varies depending on your country.
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And with MUBI GO, members in select countries can get a hand-picked cinema ticket every single week, to see the best new films in real cinemas. To learn more, visit mubi.com/go
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Podcast: Slow Radio (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Day in the Life of Honey the Dog
Pub date: 2022-07-03
Join Honey, a 15-year-old fox-red labrador, as she goes about her day.
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Podcast: Lecker: A Food Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S5 Ep5: Just Cooking Outdoors with Helen Graves
Pub date: 2022-06-13
Helen Graves talks about illegal rooftop barbecues, the joy of cooking and eating together outdoors, and why tenderstem broccoli is the thing everyone needs to grill.
Helen's new book Live Fire is published by Hardie Grant.
Helen Graves is a food and recipe writer and editor and she used to write a much loved blog called Food Stories.
The Guardian podcast I mentioned in this episode is called Let's Eat!
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
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Podcast: Strict Scrutiny (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: This Maximalist Conservative Supermajority
Pub date: 2022-06-27
The pace of opinion releases has accelerated considerably as we speed toward the end of June and the justices' vacations. Even though last week brought us blockbuster cases about guns and abortions, there are still lots of consequential opinions getting overlooked. Leah, Kate, and Melissa break them down-- after a few more thoughts about Dobbs [5:32]. Plus, Melissa gets to finally flex her British Royals Brain in the court culture segment [1:05:28].
Opinions discussed:
Marietta Memorial Hospital v. Davita [20:23]
- A case about a Medicare statute and end-stage renal disease
US v. Taylor [25:24]
- A habeas with a positive outcome!
Carson v. Makin [43:41]
- In which the Supreme Court embiggens free exercise rights
Shoop v. Twyford [1:00:28]
- If you’re seeking relief, the answer is “no” & the only question is "why"
Berger v. NC State Conference of NAACP [1:01:56]
- Involves a challenge to North Carolina's voter ID law
Becerra v. Empire Health [1:02:52]
- Related to Medicare reimbursement rates, with a really weird 5-4 line-up
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- If you missed our episode "What's next in a post-Roe world," you should definitely go back and listen to get a sense of the fight ahead.
- You’re angry. We’re angry. Let’s do something about it. From directly supporting patients who need abortions right now, to electing pro-choice candidates in 2022 and building a progressive majority over the long term, you can find everything you need to fight back in our Fuck Bans Action Plan hub at votesaveamerica.com/roe.
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Podcast: The Secret Life of Prisons podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Secret Life of Lifers: Part 1
Pub date: 2021-11-01
What is it like to receive a life sentence?
We're joined by two people who have had this experience - both have been to prison and are now outside living with a 'life licence'.
They join Phil and Paula in the studio, along with criminologists Serena Wright and Susie Hulley.
Serena is a researcher and Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research on prisons and penology has focused on short-term sentences and post-release ‘frustrated desistance’ among women, and the experience of long-term incarceration among life-sentenced prisoners.
Susie is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. She is interested in how young people are affected by the criminal justice system, particularly their experiences of criminalisation and imprisonment. Her recent work focuses on the application of ‘joint enterprise’ by criminal justice practitioners (including lawyers and the police) and the impact of this legal doctrine on young people.
Further reading:
Experiencing long-term imprisonment from young adulthood (Wright, Crewe, Hulley): Ministry of Justice
Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood (Wright, Crewe, Hulley): Palgrave Macmillan
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Podcast: Talk Art (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mary Moore & Hannah Higham on Henry Moore, presented by BMW
Pub date: 2022-05-31
Talk Art SPECIAL EPISODE!!!! We travel to Somerset to have an exclusive 5am visit to Stonehenge and an art adventure to Hauser & Wirth in Bruton. We visit Henry Moore's exhibition 'Sharing Form' for a guided tour with the artist's daughter Mary Moore and curator Hannah Higham. Hauser and Wirth Somerset present a comprehensive survey spanning six decades extends across all five gallery spaces, in addition to an open-air presentation of seminal works including: ‘The Arch’ (1963/69), ‘Large Interior Form’ (1953 – 1954) and ‘Locking Piece’ (1962 – 1963).
The exhibition takes as its starting point the artist’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge, which Moore first encountered the prehistoric monuments under the moonlight as a young man in 1921, fifty-two years later he embarked on a series of lithographs on the subject. Moore was fascinated by the relationship between the towering masses of ancient stone, their size and siting in the landscape, and the mysterious ‘depths and distances’ evoked on his returning visits. For Moore, the power and intensity of such large forms set against land and sky precipitated career-long investigations into scale, material and volume and the juxtaposition of art and nature, which are presented throughout the exhibition.
Alongside Moore’s most celebrated works, the viewer is immersed in a deeply personal selection of artworks and objects curated by Mary Moore, set within the centre of the exhibition. The collection contains almost 100 items from her father’s studio and home, providing an insight into the working life of the sculptor and intimate memories she holds through these objects. The unique experience brings together Moore’s visual library and the vocabulary of ideas that he developed during his working life. The exhibition was organised with support from the Henry Moore Foundation.
Alongside Moore’s most celebrated works, the viewer is immersed in a deeply personal selection of artworks and objects curated by Mary Moore, set within the centre of the exhibition. The collection contains almost 100 items from her father’s studio and home, providing an immersive insight into the working life of the sculptor and intimate memories she holds through these objects. This exhibition was organised with support from the Henry Moore Foundation.
BMW has been involved in cultural projects across varied genres for over 50 years creating unique content initiatives with key partners such as artists, galleries, passionate collectors, art fairs and digital art platforms (such as Talk Art!). As a long-term partner, creative freedom is key – and as essential for groundbreaking works as it is for major innovations within our company.
Thanks to @BMWUK we had the opportunity to experience the all new fully-electric BMW i7 on our trip to Somerset. The car is BMW’s new flagship, demonstrating how an exclusive driving experience and the ultimate feeling of on-board wellbeing can be combined with an unwavering commitment to sustainability.
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Podcast: Analysis (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Germany and Russia: It's Complicated
Pub date: 2022-06-20
In late February, three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a landmark speech in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The invasion, he declared, represented a 'Zeitenwende' - a turning point.
The speech has been much discussed since - was Mr Scholz referring simply to the fact of the invasion, or to the way Germany needed to respond to it?
The speech contained a number of policy statements, the boldest of which was the commitment to set up a 100 billion Euro fund to re-equip Germany's outdated armed forces.
The question now is whether Germany will live up to Mr Scholz' promises, or will the cultural, political and economic bonds that have tied Germany and Russia together get in the way?
Presenter: Caroline Bayley Producer: Tim Mansel
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Podcast: Martini Shot (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Pitch Face
Pub date: 2022-06-18
In the entertainment business, pitch meetings are an essential part of selling ideas — and getting jobs. So as a public service, Rob gives his expert guide to pitch meeting success, starting with what beverage one should order (it matters!) and ending with the post-pitch conversation in the car.
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Podcast: Bring Birds Back (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How to Be a More Ethical Birder
Pub date: 2022-06-22
Since her bird journey began, Tenijah’s been learning how to be a better birder —but not just with new birding skills. There’s also the important lesson of how to be an “ethical birder” or treating the birds with respect. Tenijah talks to writer Martha Harbison about “the rules” of birding and how we can be more thoughtful to our feathered friends. But these rules can also be twisted and weaponized against birders from marginalized backgrounds, so she talks to photographer David Lei about how to make sure we’re also being thoughtful to our fellow birders.
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Podcast: The Joy of Why (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Is Life?
Pub date: 2022-06-15
Without a good definition of life, how do we look for it on alien planets? Steven Strogatz speaks with Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist, and Sheref Mansy, a chemist, to learn more. The post What Is Life? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Podcast: Unpacked by AFAR (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Let's Scale Back That Revenge Travel, Shall We?
Pub date: 2022-06-16
Today, we're talking about revenge. Well, sort of. In this episode, writer Paige McClanahan—host of the Better Travel Podcast—explores the concept of "revenge travel." While it's so tempting to want to take revenge on the time we lost to Covid, Paige invites us to think more deeply about our impact on communities around the world, many of which are more vulnerable coming out of the pandemic. Through conversations with Harold Goodwin of the UK-based Responsible Tourism Partnership and Judy Kepher-Gona, of Kenya's Sustainable Travel & Tourism Agenda, Paige offers tips on how to be kinder, more aware travelers—and how to have a little fun along the way.
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 507. 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work
Pub date: 2022-06-16
Kevin Kelly calls himself “the most optimistic person in the world.” And he has a lot to say about parenting, travel, A.I., being luckier — and why we should spend way more time on YouTube.
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Podcast: ROCKING OUR PRIORS (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 3 Things I Got Wrong About Patriarchy
Pub date: 2022-06-15
I want to make a confession. In the past I have got things wrong, seriously wrong. Allow me to share why I was so mistaken and how I came to revise my priors.
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Podcast: Burnout with Connor Franta (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The System Was Built This Way, But We Can Rebuild It
Pub date: 2022-05-31
This week, we look at how burnout is inevitable in a system set up to squeeze all the juice out of its workforce. Everyone’s suffering. Does it have to be this way? We don’t think so. Listen to find hope in a burned-out world: for you, for all of us.
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Podcast: WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Back to Nature - Plant Dyes at Chelsea Flower Show
Pub date: 2022-05-25
Fancy wearing a dress coloured sunny yellow by daffodils or a shirt dyed blue with woad? This week we're talking natural dyes and the magic of textiles derived from plants for a special episode produced with Fashion Revolution and guest-hosted by Carry Somers.
Carry's talking with garden designer Lottie Delamain and natural dyes expert Kate Turnbull. Together, they've created a garden for Chelsea Flower Show "to inspire visitors to re-imagine the link between what we can grow and what we wear, showcasing creative possibilities and innovative thinking around how we can use our resources to create more sustainable solutions."
They say: "Throughout history plants have played a fundamental role in fashion – as dye, as fibre and floral motifs, connecting us to a place or culture. In our global world this connection has been lost. Today our clothing is likely to be created using fossil fuels and toxic chemicals, damaging human health and nature’s ecosystems."
We say: we love the power of plants!
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Podcast: Longform (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 490: Matt Levine
Pub date: 2022-06-08
Matt Levine is a finance columnist for Bloomberg News. His newsletter is Money Stuff.
”I write a lot about people who have gotten in trouble with the SEC or the Justice Department. And a surprising subset of them will email me. And often I will have made fun of them, and they'll be like, ‘That was pretty fair.’”
Show notes:
- @matt_levine
- Levine's Bloomberg News and Money Stuff newsletter archive
- 19:00 "The Goldman Sachs Aluminum Conspiracy Was Pretty Silly" (Bloomberg News • Nov 2014)
- 22:00 "Don’t Insider Trade NFTs" (Bloomberg News • Jun 2022)
- 23:00 "Elon Has a New Bot Excuse" (Bloomberg News • Jun 2022)
- 24:00 "The GameStop Game Never Stops" (Bloomberg News • Jan 2021)
- 24:00 "Crypto Is Going Through Some Things" (Bloomberg News • May 2022)
- 39:00 Levine's Dealbreaker archive
- 44:00 Noahpinion (Noah Smith • Substack)
- 45:00 "Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud" (Bloomberg News • Jun 2019)
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Podcast: Beneath the Surface: An Infrastructure Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Industrial Ballet: An Investigation into Global Supply Chains
Pub date: 2022-05-31
Thanks to the global supply chain crisis, millions of consumer goods, from computer chips to couches to cell phones are in high demand but short supply. It would be tempting to think that the pandemic is the main culprit for the backup of global trade flows—but COVID merely exposed existing fault lines in our infrastructure.
The advent of just-in-time manufacturing and a relentless focus on short-term earnings have left companies with little inventory in case of emergencies, making our supply chains less resilient. Ryan Petersen—CEO of Flexport, which manages global trade and logistics for some of the largest companies in the world—has some thoughts about how we can fix that.
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Podcast: Freakonomics, M.D. (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Distractions are everywhere — including in the operating room. So, what happens if a surgeon loses focus? A tap dancer, a health researcher, and a surgeon help Bapu Jena find out.
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Podcast: The Sporkful (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jason Mantzoukas Sees Every Meal As A Threat
Pub date: 2022-04-25
Actor and comedian Jason Mantzoukas is known for playing characters that are overzealous, exuberant, and more than a little wacky. But these characters are the exact opposite of how Jason felt growing up — like a “boy made of glass.” Jason has a life-threatening allergy to eggs, and that constant threat has forced him to live a life of vigilance. Dan and Jason talk about how that’s affected Jason’s comedy. They also get into New England roast beef sandwiches, food grievances — and to top it off, Dan comes up with a way for Jason to take a break from the allergy.
The Sporkful production team includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Johanna Mayer, Tracey Samuelson, and Jared O'Connell.
Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.
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Podcast: About A Girl (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Anita Pallenberg & Keith Richards
Pub date: 2022-05-23
A heat-seeking young beauty rockets through Europe, ricocheting off Fellini, Warhol, & Nico, before landing with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. But she falls for Keith Richards, and together they extricate her from Brian. Anita Pallenberg is with the Stones as they grow into world's premiere rock and roll band; she sings with them in the studio, makes films with Jane Fonda and Mick Jagger, her powerful aura a guiding force, but when things start to go bad, she discovers that a woman will only be allowed that position of power for so long.
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Podcast: The Maris Review (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 157: Elif Batuman
Pub date: 2022-05-26
Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel is called Either/Or.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 155. The Tiffany Problem
Pub date: 2022-05-27
The name Tiffany has been around for some 800 years. But you can't name a character in a historical novel 'Tiffany', because people don't believe the name is old. Science fiction and fantasy author Jo Walton coined the term "The Tiffany Problem" to express the disparity between historical facts and the common perception of the past.
Find out more information about the topics in this episode at theallusionist.org/tiffany, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word.
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game
Pub date: 2022-05-17
In which several people, including Rebecca Solnit, Katty Kay, and Maria Konnikova, help Michael understand the not-so-secret power of men to offer themselves up as experts, when they clearly are not.
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Podcast: Undark: Truth, Beauty, Science (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 61: When Accents Speak Louder Than Words
Pub date: 2022-05-31
For scientists who come from abroad to live and work in America, accents can be personal. It's discouraging to be misunderstood, even when they think they’re speaking clearly. Sometimes, it could even be a career liability. Is the problem the accent, or those on the receiving end?
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Podcast: Off Leash (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Smell
Pub date: 2022-05-17
Dogs are, above all, creatures of the nose. What can they sniff out, and what can we learn about smelling by following them? Alexandra Horowitz talks to a detection-dog handler and a food critic about olfaction, then puts some Freakonomics hosts' noses to the test.
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Podcast: White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cutting Back and Cutting Out
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Some family doctors struggling with huge patient loads, paperwork and the pandemic are cutting back or cutting out of medicine altogether. Montreal family doctor Marc Cotran has handed in his medical licence at the age of 45. Dr. Rashmi Bhalla in London has reduced her clinical hours to better cope.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On Olympia
Pub date: 2022-05-24
James Romm talks to Tom about the site of the Ancient Greek games, the subject of a new book by Judith Berringer, Olympia: A Cultural History. They discuss the various contests in which athletes competed, the punishment for those found cheating, the importance of the games as a political platform, and the colossal statue of Zeus in whose honour they were held.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Romantic History: The Bayeux Tapestry
Pub date: 2022-04-12
Who put the arrow in Harold’s eye? Why did Dick Whittington have a cat? Where did the pointed arch come from? These are all questions that the boundlessly curious and energetic antiquarians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries asked, and often managed to answer.
In the third episode of her series looking at how history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill talks to Roey Sweet about the new breed of multi-disciplinary investigators, who, in the years after the French Revolution, studied everything from woollen threads to tombstones in their efforts to imagine the past.
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Battle Over Reparations at Georgetown
Pub date: 2022-05-06
In 1838, the Jesuits who founded Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off the school's debts and keep the college afloat. Nearly 200 years later, the Jesuits want to make amends. But as Lee Hawkins explains, the path to racial healing can be a messy one.
Further Reading:
- For Georgetown, Jesuits and Slavery Descendants, Bid for Racial Healing Sours Over Reparations
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Podcast: Slightly Foxed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women
Pub date: 2022-04-15
A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonplace . . . The novelist Barbara Pym became beloved and Booker Prize-nominated in the late twentieth century, yet many rejections, years in the literary wilderness and manuscripts stored in linen cupboards preceded her revival.
Paula Byrne, author of The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, and Lucy Scholes, critic, Paris Review columnist and editor at McNally Editions, join the Slightly Foxed team to plumb the depths and scale the peaks of Barbara Pym’s writing, life and loves. From Nazi Germany to the African Institute; from London’s bedsit land to parish halls; from unrequited love affairs with unsuitable men to an epistolary friendship with Philip Larkin; and from rejection by Jonathan Cape to overnight success via the TLS, we trace Pym’s life through her novels, visiting the Bodleian and Boots lending libraries along the way. There’s joy in Some Tame Gazelle, loneliness in Quartet in Autumn, and humour and all human experience in between, with excellent women consistently her theme.
We then turn from Pym to other writers under or above the radar, finding darkness in Elizabeth Taylor, tragicomedy in Margaret Kennedy and real and surreal rackety lives in Barbara Comyns. To round out a cast of excellent women, we discover Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was foretold in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Vera, and we recommend an eccentric trip with Jane Bowles and her Two Serious Ladies, as well as theatrical tales from a raconteur in Eileen Atkins’s memoir. (Episode duration: 57 minutes; 16 seconds)
Books MentionedWe may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.
- Flora Thompson, Lark Rise and Over to Candleford & Candleford Green, Slightly Foxed Edition Nos. 58 and 59 (1:39)
- Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (2:11)
- Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow is out of print (4:28)
- Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn (6:33)
- Barbara Pym, The Sweet Dove Died is out of print (8:16)
- Barbara Pym, Some Tame Gazelle (14:07)
- Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (19:06)
- Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings (22:14)
- Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves is out of print (32:28)
- Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor (36:33)
- Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (37:00)
- Elizabeth Taylor, Angel (38:27)
- Barbara Comyns, The Vet’s Daughter (41:16)
- Barbara Comyns, The House of Dolls (42:16)
- Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (42:45)
- Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (43:03)
- Barbara Comyns, A Touch of Mistletoe (43:46)
- Elizabeth von Arnim, Vera (47:47)
- Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys, McNally Editions (48:59)
- Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies (50:37)
- Eileen Atkins, Will She Do? (52:39)
Related Slightly Foxed Articles * Not So Bad, Really, Frances Donnelly on Barbara Pym, Issue 11 * Hands across the Tea-shop Table, Sue Gee on Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek and Nicola Beauman, The Other Elizabeth Taylor, Issue 58 * There for the Duration, Juliet Gardiner on Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs Lippincote’s, Issue 13 * Sophia Fairclough and Me, Sophie Breese on the novels of Barbara Comyns, Issue 42
Other Links * McNally Editions is an American imprint devoted to hidden gems (2:47) * In the Paris Review Re-Covered column, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be * Lucy Scholes is the host of the Virago OurShelves podcast * The Barbara Pym Society
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Podcast: Philosophy Bites (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Peter Singer on Consequentialism
Pub date: 2022-05-19
Peter Singer is probably the most famous living philosopher. He recently won the million-dollar Berggruen Prize and promptly gave all that money to charity. His positions on this, on animals, poverty, altruism, and much else besides are underpinned by his consequentialism. Here, in conversation with Nigel Warburton he explains his consequentialism and its implications.
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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent
Pub date: 2022-05-18
If Tyler and Daniel's latest book can be boiled down into a single message, it would be that the world is currently failing at identifying talent, and that getting better at it would have enormous benefits for organizations, individuals, and the world at large. In this special episode of Conversations with Tyler, Daniel joined Tyler to discuss the ideas in their book on how to spot talent better, including the best questions to ask in interviews, predicting creativity and ambition, and the differences between competitiveness and obsessiveness.
They also explore the question of why so many high achievers love Diet Coke, why you should ask candidates if they have any good conspiracy theories, how to spot effective dark horses early, the hiring strategy that set SpaceX apart, what to look for in a talent identifier, what you can learn from discussing drama, the underrated genius of game designers, why Tyler has begun to value parents more and IQ less, conscientiousness as a mixed blessing, the importance of value hierarchies, how to become more charismatic, the allure of endurance sports for highly successful people, what they disagree on most, and more.
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Podcast: Speaking with Joy (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Expect the End of the World with Paul Kingsnorth
Pub date: 2022-03-08
Joy speaks with Paul Kingsnorth, a man who has been many things in his life: a poet, an eco-activist, and eco-pessimist, a warlock, and most recently, an Eastern Orthodox christian.
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #229: The Intelligence Gatherers
Pub date: 2022-05-06
Russia and China recently agreed to be partners “without limits,” but from the 17th to the 19th century, their relationship wasn't so warm. As Georgetown historian Gregory Afinogenov writes in his recent book, Spies and Scholars, pencil-pushing Russian bureaucrats posted in China or along the border doubled as spies. These career apparatchiks succeeded at gathering intelligence on the Qing dynasty from their quotidian positions at diplomatic offices, religious missions, and frontier outposts, though they never seemed to get much credit for their work. The irony is that while the intelligence they shared bought Russia greater prestige among European powers, these encounters with European ideals of intellectualism also radically changed what kind of “intelligence” was considered worthwhile. This episode originally aired in 2020.
Go beyond the episode:
- Gregory Afinogenov’s Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
- Itching to learn Manchu? Check out the Manchu Studies Group, which includes examples of Manchu script
- For 20th-century Russian spying, no one beats John le Carré, in life or fiction
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Podcast: WorkLife with Adam Grant (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out
Pub date: 2022-04-05
Dolly Parton is a living legend. Her hit songs like “9 to 5”, “Jolene”, and “I Will Always Love You” have captured generation after generation, and her career is far from slowing down. Her latest project, “Run, Rose, Run” is both a novel co-authored with James Patterson AND its brand-new, full-length companion album. In today’s episode, Adam talks to Dolly about her creative process, how she balances getting things right with getting things DONE, and how she manages the hefty cup of ambition she pours herself each morning. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/T4G26
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Baby Judge School
Pub date: 2019-05-07
Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.
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Podcast: Public Books 101 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: PB 101 presents … Primary Sources: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt
Pub date: 2022-05-09
From Public Books and Type Media Center, this is Primary Sources, the show where writers and intellectuals talk about some of the greatest influences on their work. Primary Sources is hosted by Eyal Press.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is best known for his writing about racism in America – in particular, his 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations,” and his 2015 book, Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi's readers know that the toll racism has inflicted on the bodies of Black people, and the enduring power of white supremacy, have long preoccupied him. On this show, however, he’ll be talking about a subject—or rather an influence—that few people associate with his work.
That influence is the late Tony Judt, a British historian. In 2005, Judt published his magnum opus, Postwar, a sweeping, 933-page history of modern Europe.
In this conversation, which was recorded last fall, Ta-Nehisi talks about why Postwar had such a profound impact on him. He explores the preface he wrote to Ill Fares the Land, another of Judt's books, which has just been reissued by Penguin. He also talks about the power of language to help us imagine a better world, whether he identifies as an Afro-pessimist, and what it’s like to grow up in a nationalist household.
Primary Sources is a co-production of Public Books and Type Media Center. Our show’s executive producer is Caitlin Zaloom, the founding editor of Public Books. Our producer is DJ Cashmere. Our engineer is Jess Engebretson. Special thanks to Kelley Deane McKinney, the publisher and managing editor of Public Books and Taya Grobow, executive director of Type Media Center. Our theme music is “Kitty in the Window,” composed by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License).
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Podcast: More Than A Feeling (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Jealousy: Friends & Lovers
Pub date: 2022-05-03
We cannot do a show about emotions without an episode on jealousy: it brings the drama! We all experience jealousy at one time or another. But it's not exactly a great feeling to experience. In this episode, we talk with social psychologists Keelah Williams and Jaimie Arona Krems about how jealousy may not always be such a bad thing. Then we connect with historian Niamh Cullen to hear how Italians dealt with an epidemic of jealousy in the 1950s and 60’s that coincided with unprecedented economic growth and prosperity. And from a surprising source, we get some advice about how to work with tough emotions like jealousy.
The Ten Percent Happier app has several meditations for working with strong emotions like jealousy. Check out “Caring for Strong Emotions” with Kaira Jewel Lingo or “Opening to Strong Emotions” with Joseph Goldstein. There’s also a great video course on relationships featuring Oren Jay Sofer. To try it all for free, go to tenpercent.com/more.
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Podcast: Short Wave (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When Our Star Erupts - The 1859 Solar Storm And More
Pub date: 2022-05-05
In 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was studying the Sun when he witnessed the most intense geomagnetic storm recorded in history. For two days, giant solar flares erupted on the Sun's surface, sending brilliant auroral displays across the globe and causing electrical sparking and fires in telegraph stations.
Short Wave's scientist-in-residence Regina G. Barber talks to solar physicist Dr. Samaiyah Farid about what's now known as the Carrington event and about what may happen the next time a massive solar storm hits Earth.
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Podcast: Margins of Error (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Do I Sound Funny to You?
Pub date: 2022-05-03
No one thinks they have an accent … but it turns out we all do. However, is it possible our distinct ways of speaking across the U.S. are disappearing? If so, what else is getting lost along the way? Harry Enten goes on a journey to find out if conformity is affecting how we converse. Plus, get ready to hear Harry with entirely new accent!
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Podcast: The Politics of Everything (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: So Long, DDT. See You Around Soon.
Pub date: 2022-05-04
In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human health, corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for decades—until countries finally began outlawing its use, for precisely those reasons. On episode 47 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with Elena Conis, the author of How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT. They explore how corporations dismissed the dangers of DDT to protect profits, how pioneering environmentalists like Rachel Carson fought back, and why harmful chemicals may cause problems long after their usage has ceased.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Julian Barnes: Flaubert at 200
Pub date: 2022-05-03
Julian Barnes reads his memoir about a lifetime of reading Flaubert.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The End of Invention
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Someone born in the late 19th century would have lived through the most rapid period of technological progress in human history. By comparison, people born since the Second World War have seen stagnation and sclerosis. At least, that’s what some people claim - that we are living through “the great stagnation”.
The productivity of scientists and inventors is slowing - and economist Sam Bowman is worried. There are fewer new drugs coming to market, and it takes more and more people to make smaller computer chips. It takes longer for PhD students to finish their studies, and research grants go to ever older scientists.
The balance of research funding has shifted from government to companies, and companies look for profitable inventions rather than necessarily revolutionary ones. It looks as though big new ideas are getting harder to find. Can we fix the system, or are we doomed to permanent slowdown?
Presenter: Sam Bowman Producer: Jolyon Jenkins Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey Sound Design & Engineering: Rob Speight A Novel production for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 1: Not a Cult
Pub date: 2022-04-25
American Spiritualism is a frequently invoked, rarely understood religion that hinges on speaking with spirit through mediums. In our first episode, Jamie Loftus puts your little baby brain at rest -- it's not a cult. But what is it?
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Podcast: a16z Podcast (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Of Emojis and Innovation
Pub date: 2019-10-15
This rerun podcast (first recorded in 2015, now being rerun as one of our evergreen classics/ favorites) -- is ALL about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about: through the tension between open standards vs. closed/ proprietary systems; the politics of time and place; and the economics of creativity, from making to funding.
So yes, this podcast is all about emoji. But it's also about where emoji fits in the taxonomy of social communication, and why that matters -- from making emotions machine-readable to being able to add "limbic" visual expression to our world of text. And if emoji is a language, why can't we translate it; why so ambiguous?? How do emojis work, both technically underneath the hood... and in the (committee) Room Where It Happens?
Joining this episode are former VP of Data at Kickstarter Fred Benenson (and the man behind 'Emoji Dick'); and former New York Times reporter and current Unicode Emoji subcommittee vice-chair, Jennifer 8. Lee (and one of the women behind the dumpling emoji) -- in conversation with Sonal Chokshi.
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: REBROADCAST: The Hand of Leonardo
Pub date: 2022-04-26
Season Three of Against the Rules continues in this feed next Tuesday. In the meantime, Michael Lewis has an update on one of the most popular episodes from his first season, about a painting that may or may not have been done by Leonardo.
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Podcast: Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Michael Stipe
Pub date: 2022-04-26
Today we have a conversation between old friends Rick Rubin and Michael Stipe. Along with his former band R.E.M., Stipe's expert, open-hearted lyrics gave voice to the sensitive and misunderstood among us with hits like “The One I Love,” “Everybody Hurts,” and “Losing My Religion.”
After R.E.M. broke up a little over a decade ago, Stipe followed other creative pursuits like photography. But now Stipe has found his way back to music and is working on his first ever solo album. On today’s episode, Michael plays Rick his new song, “Future If Future” produced by Andy LeMaster. Michael Stipe also talks about why he decided to record a solo album, and how he always intended to be super famous—and what it was like when that actually happened.
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Podcast: More or Less: Behind the Stats (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
Pub date: 2022-04-09
Could an explosion in tea-drinking explain a decline in deaths in England during the industrial revolution? Professor Francisca Antman, an economist at the University of Colorado Boulder believes it might.
Tim Harford discovers that dusting down the data from tea shipments and local burial records gives us surprising insight into how boiling water for tea accidentally improved public health.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
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Podcast: 28ish Days Later (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Day One: Power
Pub date: 2022-03-21
India Rakusen journeys into the womb with Dr. Dornu Lebari, and Dr. Jackie Maybin. We peel back the layers and meet the fallopian tubes, ovaries, cervix and the endometrium.
India is also joined by Dr. Elinor Cleghorn to discuss the ancient theories of wandering wombs, evil uterus’ and the myths that surround the womb in history.
Credits: Presented by: India Rakusen. Assistant Producer: Jorja McAndrew. Producer: Ellie Sans. Executive producer: Suzy Grant. Original music composed and performed by Rebekah Reid. Sound Design by Olga Reed.
Special thanks to all contributors and audio diarists.
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Podcast: Other People's Problems (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Megan and Clark: Learning how to be married all over again
Pub date: 2018-04-16
Megan and Clark are going through some major life changes. Clark welcomes the change. Megan is supportive yet can't help but miss what's been lost along the way.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever”
Pub date: 2022-04-11
Sheila Heti reads her story “Just a Little Fever,” from the April 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Heti is a Canadian writer, whose books of fiction and nonfiction include the novels “How Should a Person Be,” “Motherhood,” which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and “Pure Colour,” which was published earlier this year.
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Podcast: The New Bazaar (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The power of glamour
Pub date: 2022-04-14
Glamour is a misunderstood concept. A lot of people associate it with glossy pictures of movie stars and celebrities in ritzy settings, or with other concepts like charisma or dazzle. Glamour is something a little different. It’s mysterious and concealing. It’s an illusion and it can be deceptive, sometimes so in problematic ways.
But whether we’re talking about a glamorous object or a glamorous person, glamour also provides a canvas on which people can project their own desires and longings. So when you find something glamorous, that something is also revealing what you yearn for in life.
This nuanced understanding of glamour is the subject of a book by one of Cardiff’s favorite writers, Virginia Postrel. It’s called The Power of Glamour, and in the book, Virginia defines glamour and provides specific examples of how it applies to our own lives. She talks to Cardiff about all of this, as well as the ways in which glamour influences our economic decisions.
Links from the episode:
- Virginia’s books and writing at vpostrel.com
- Virginia’s “Unglamorous background on the red carpet” Pinterest collection
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Podcast: Monocle 24: The Menu (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Slow Wine Fair
Pub date: 2022-04-15
We visit Bologna’s inaugural Slow Wine Fair, hear from Oslo’s culinary mastermind Esben Holmboe Bang and leaf through ‘Serviette’, a new magazine celebrating the best in food and drink.
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Podcast: You're Wrong About (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Juliet's Balcony w. Chelsey Weber-Smith
Pub date: 2022-03-28
What do Chopin, Kylie Jenner, baby carrots, and the War of the Worlds all have in common? They’re all part of Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith’s speedrun through common misconceptions—plus a little Satanic Panic, as a treat.
Here’s where to find Chelsey:Chelsey + American Hysteria
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- Juliet's Balcony: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/romeo-and-juliets-balcony-scene-doesnt-exist/381969/
- Is that a chicken: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UxxGOYmC1u0
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Podcast: Rumble Strip (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Forrest Foster, Independent Dairyman
Pub date: 2022-03-04
Forrest Foster is a farmer in Hardwick, Vermont. It’s an organic dairy farm, seventy cows total and about forty milking at any given time. I spent an afternoon following Forrest around the barn, his sugarshack, we took a long ride in his tractor, out past his deer camp. He took me to the place where he cuts cedar and hemlock boughs for deer in the winter, and dispatches his old animals to feed the bear and the deer and the coyotes and the ravens.
Forrest would rather trade services than exchange money. He’ll give you meat if you can’t afford it, and he’ll expect you’ll do some chores in exchange. What I love about Forrest Foster is that he’s always practical and always generous, and these things are always the same thing.
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Podcast: Working (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Morgan Rhodes Syncs Music to Picture
Pub date: 2021-09-12
This week, host Isaac Butler talks to music supervisor Morgan Rhodes.
In the interview, Morgan explains what a music supervisor is, how she researches music for film and TV projects, and the challenges she deals with in securing the rights to that music.
After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about specific examples of music in film and TV that have stood out to them—for better or for worse.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Isaac asks Morgan about how and when she likes to use well-known music in her projects.
Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675.
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic)
Pub date: 2022-04-13
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Podcast: A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Go Forth and Multiply
Pub date: 2022-04-12
In this episode, Matt finds out how a runaway algorithm created the world’s most expensive book, Helen searches for the most singable fruit fly genes and Steve considers whether donating a kidney is easier than buying a house:- Steve's bit (00:46)
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Podcast: The Negotiators (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Road to Repatriation
Pub date: 2021-12-21
This week, we hear from Jussi Tanner, a Finish ambassador and special envoy who negotiated the release of some 30 women and children from detention in northern Syria.
Podcast: Jackie the Ripper (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: A Cock and Balls Story
Pub date: 2021-10-25
In the first of five chapters, the story of Jackie the Ripper begins on the morning of August 31st. The body and testicles of Mark Alan Nichols are found behind Whitechapel tube station, but his penis? Nowhere to be found.
In the midst of a strike by the Metropolitan Police, Lead Detective Freddie Abberline of Scotland Yard reluctantly joins forces with his former department, The City of London Police, to crack this gruesome murder.
Jackie will return with new episodes every day this week, Monday to Friday. Make sure to subscribe so you catch all five chapters!
Starring:
Paul Waggott as Lead Detective Freddie Abberline
Jennifer Tierney as Chief Inspector Donna Swanson
Acushla-Tara Kupe as Jill Hunter
Adam Jarrell as Acting Police Commissioner Henry Smith
Helena Doughty as PC Sally Maybrick
Amina Koroma as Dr. Alyssa Helson
Karim Kronfli as Met. Commissioner Sir Charles Warren
Nalân Burgess as Pria Campbell
Ant McGinley as PC Jonas Mizen
Fisun Burgess as Angela
George Still as Charles Lechmere
Additional voices:
Sara Lynam
Jonny Blain
John Brannoch
John Walker
Jo Price
Joaquin Augusto Quinteros
Written by:
Joel Emery
Directed by:
Adam Jarrell
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The False Dawn of the Electric Car
Pub date: 2022-04-08
Sir Clive Sinclair was a computer whizz and business mogul to rival Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. He was a visionary who could do no wrong... until he tried to launch an electric vehicle.
The C5 “electrically assisted pedal cycle" doesn't seem so outlandish to us now... but 1985 just wasn't ready for the "aerodynamic bathtub" on wheels. Sir Clive was ridiculed and his business ruined. How did it all go so wrong?
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 91 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why Proving War Crimes Is Difficult and Rare
Pub date: 2022-04-06
This episode details graphic scenes.
Many around the world are calling the indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Bucha, a suburb northwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, a war crime.
But investigating such atrocities is painstakingly complicated. Could one case that resulted in convictions — the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s — offer lessons on how to proceed?
Guest: Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau chief for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
- With Russian forces retreating, Ukrainians in Bucha are finding scores of bodies in yards and on the roads amid mounting evidence of intentional and indiscriminate killings.
- The images from Bucha spurred Western leaders to promise even tougher sanctions against Russia.
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Podcast: Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nothing Is Real - Season 6 Episode 1 - The Unmade Third Movies
Pub date: 2022-03-23
S06E01: The Unmade Third Movies
The plan was that 1966 would follow the template of 1964 & 1965: a movie and two albums. The problem was that after A Hard Day’s Night & Help! where could the Fab Four go next?
Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real.
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Podcast: The History of the Twentieth Century (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 268 A Private from Bohemia
Pub date: 2022-01-23
Germany held four national elections in 1932, and a number of state elections besides. The NSDAP, the Nazi Party did quite well, but fell short every time. By the end of the year, there were signs the Party was losing steam.
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Podcast: The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 87: Peter S. Goodman
Pub date: 2022-04-01
“Davos Man’s domination of the gains of globalization,” journalist Peter S. Goodman writes in “Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World,” “is how the United States found itself led by a patently unqualified casino developer as it grappled with a public health emergency that killed more Americans than those who died in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. Davos Man’s marauding explains why the United Kingdom was still consumed with Brexit—an elaborate act of self-harm—at the same time that it was failing to get a handle on the pandemic. It explains how France became roiled by a ferocious protest movement, and how even Sweden, a supposed bastion of social democracy, now seethes with anti-immigrant hate. This is not how history was supposed to unfold.”
This week on the podcast, Lewis H. Lapham speaks with Peter S. Goodman, author of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, about that history, starting with the robber barons of the Gilded Age, stopping by the Reagan era, and ending with 2022.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 484- Dear Hank and John and Roman
Pub date: 2022-03-30
So why don't we have mouth Roombas? Is the universe full of chickens? What scientific advances are happening? What was the first internet purchase? How do I convince my parents to let me check a bag? What is Twitter? What's the difference between a telescope and a camera? Are sea monkeys natural? Hank Green and Roman Mars have answers!
In their podcast Dear Hank & John, hosts John and Hank Green (who are also authors and YouTubers) offer both humorous and heartfelt advice about life’s big and small questions. They bring their personal passions to each episode by sharing the week’s news from Mars (the planet) and AFC Wimbledon (the third-tier English football club)."
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 151. The Bee's Knees
Pub date: 2022-03-18
Bad hats, cat's pyjamas, banting, goops, creatures, and playing possum - what WERE people going on about during the Golden Age of detective fiction? Caroline Crampton of Shedunnit podcast and I get sleuthing into the slang of the mystery novels of the 1920s and 1930s.
Find out more information about the topics in this episode at theallusionist.org/beesknees, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word. Versions of this episode were originally released by Caroline Crampton's Shedunnit podcast and the Shedunnit Book Club. Find both at shedunnitshow.com.
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Podcast: The Last Bohemians (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S3 Ep2: Dana Gillespie: the Swinging Sixties wild child on sex, spirituality and Ziggy Stardust
Pub date: 2022-03-17
Dana Gillespie (1949-) is one of the few remaining women who was at the centre of the Sixties and Seventies in London and in New York, having been best mates with David Bowie and pretty much anyone who was anyone back then. Eric Clapton was very nearly her guitar teacher, Led Zep’s Jimmy Page played on her early folk records and she was in and out of the tabloids with Bob Dylan as a teenage girl. She has recorded with Elton John, had her portrait screen printed by Andy Warhol's Factory, and shared a stage with rock’n’roll greats Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and the Stones. She's lived a life as starry and storied as Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenburg – so why hasn't anyone heard of her? In the 1970s, Dana went glam-pop with the track Andy Warhol, which Bowie had written for her, and released the 1974 album Weren’t Born A Man, where she appears in a corset and stockings on the cover. But then Bowie’s management company went bust and The Thin White Duke stopped returning her calls. Unable to get out of her contract for years, she turned to acting and starred in musicals, though the tabloids were always distracted by her buxom image. In the 1980s, she reinvented herself as a blues singer, founded the Mustique blues festival and has now released upwards of 70 albums, including 13 in Sanskrit. Dana is perhaps just as famous for her long list of lovers, including Keith Moon, Michael Caine and Sean Connery. But Dylan clearly recognised that she is one of a kind and, in the 90s, invited her to open up for him on his UK tour. She has also become a rock star of the spiritual world, having performed in front of a million people at her guru Sai Baba’s birthday celebrations. Her style of blues is saucy and knowing, and you can still see her performing every month at a venue called the Temple of Music And Art in south London. Truth be told, Dana has lived such a life that we could have made an entire series about her. If you want more of her no-holds-barred tell-alls, check out her 2020 memoir, Weren’t Born A Man. In this episode, she talks about coming from money, her infamous basement hangout in South Kensington, her love of the blues, how she met Bowie, her freewheeling attitude to sex, love and forgiveness, her spiritual awakening, making music into her 70s and how she hopes she won't be forgotten in the pantheon of great British artists.
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Podcast: Sacred and Profane Love (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 47: Justin E. H. Smith
Pub date: 2022-03-18
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Podcast: Longform (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 481: Hanif Abdurraqib
Pub date: 2022-03-23
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. His new book is A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance.
“I learn from hearing my elders tell stories. There’s an inherent knowing of yourself as a vessel for narration who also has to—is required to—hold the attention of others at all costs. And that’s essentially what I’m trying to do. The broader project of my writing is almost a constant pleading of: Don’t leave yet. Stay here with me for just a little bit longer.”
Show notes:
- @NifMuhammad
- abdurraqib.com
- Abdurraqib on Longform
- 02:00 A Little Devil in America (Random House • 2021)
- 09:00 Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Lester Bangs • Anchor • 1988)
- 10:00 The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Poetry • 2016)
- 14:00 They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio • 2017)
- 20:00 Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (University of Texas Press • 2019)
- 25:00 Stakes Is High (De La Soul • Tommy Boy, Warner Brothers • 1996)
- 33:00 Black Movie (Danez Smith • Button Poetry • 2014)
- 37:00 Abdurraqib's MTV News archive
- 39:00 "Mo Salah Is Ready to Make the Whole World Smile" (Bleacher Report • Jun 2018)
- 44:00 Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games • 2010)
- 47:00 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo • 2017)
- 47:00 Elden Ring (Bandai Namco Entertainment • 2022)
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Balloons That Ate Cleveland (A Cautionary Tales Short)
Pub date: 2022-03-25
When Disneyland released one million helium balloons to set a new world record, Cleveland, Ohio looked on in envy. Could it top the Magic Kingdom? What did citizens hope to gain from getting into the record books... and at what cost?
This is a special Cautionary Tales Short - a bitesize warning for history. To hear FOUR more Cautionary Tales Shorts (plus other exclusive and ad-free Pushkin content) join Pushkin+ in Apple Podcasts or at https://www.pushkin.fm/plus/ .
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again
Pub date: 2022-03-08
If you hopped in a time machine for a cup of coffee from a 17th-century London coffeehouse, you would probably be a bit disappointed by their stale, bitter brews. We told you the story of how coffee jumped from its native soil in Africa to achieve near-world domination in Grounds for Revolution, the first episode in our two-part series. This episode, tune in for the story behind how new technologies, over-the-top advertising, and a forgotten female coffee visionary helped coffee go from bad, to a little better, to downright terrible, before reaching today’s Nirvana of coffee choice and quality. After all, why is a recipe with just two ingredients so hard to get just right? For the answer, we explore the science of coffee brewing, roasting, and flavor, and meet the people who shaped humanity’s pursuit of the perfect cup. All that plus Frank Sinatra, unicorn Frappuccinos, and a whole latte more in our fresh-brewed episode.
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Podcast: Sugar Maple (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: “Sweet Licks” Bobby Lindro
Pub date: 2022-03-15
In the series premiere, we meet our narrator, Terrance Woodridge, who brings us a tale he’s chased down: the story of Sugar Maple, the guitar of legend with a timeless sound that's passed from hand to hand over the years.
In this episode, we go back to 1951 and hear the story of "Sweet Licks" Bobby Lindro, an orphan from the farmlands outside Chicago. When his brand new Telecaster’s neck is destroyed, he's sure nothing can replace it, until his Aunt procures mysterious wood that seems to make Bobby's guitar truly sing, and gives Bobby dreams that carry him places he never meant to go.
Sugar Maple is presented by Osiris Media. Be sure to listen to the premiere of the song from this episode, Brimstone Lampfire, on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to music. Please check out the limited edition poster for this episode, and the limited NFT release of episode and series art. If you like what you hear, please give us a review wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Episode 1 stars Fred Savage as Terrance Woodrige, Ricky Gee as Bobby Lindro, Connie Castanzo as Becky, Jo Walker as Rebecca Woodridge, Deborah Geffner as Aunt Buggy, Daniel Light as Del Faucet, and Michelle Hurst as Doc.
Brimstone Lampfire was written by Patrick Hart and Michael John Hancock.
The Executive Producers of Sugar Maple are Tom Marshall and RJ Bee. Produced, Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Brad Stratton. Story by Ben Colmery, A.R. Moxon, and Tom Marshall. Episode 1 written by A.R. Moxon and Ben Colmery. Directed by James Masciovecchio. Musical direction by Don Hart. Produced by Tom Sullivan. Production assistance from Zach Brogan and Christina Collins. Art by Mark Dowd. Legal assistance from Gerald Gottesman.
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Podcast: What's Your Problem? (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Launching Drone Delivery
Pub date: 2022-03-17
Keenan Wyrobek is the co-founder of Zipline. His problem: How do you fill the skies with delivery drones and keep them from crashing into each other?
Zipline’s drones already make hundreds of deliveries a day in Ghana and Rwanda. But to expand to the U.S. he has to solve a fundamental problem. Americans’ love of freedom and the open skies makes it hard to build a drone business here.
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Podcast: New Lines Magazine
Episode: Writing a Revolution: Ukraine’s Maidan Uprising — with Kalani Pickhart and Lydia Wilson
Pub date: 2022-03-10
Eight years before the recent Russian invasion, a popular uprising in Kyiv overthrew the old Moscow-backed government in favor of moving toward the European Union — an act for which Russia has been punishing Ukraine ever since.
It is those events that inspired Kalani Pickhart’s recent novel, “I Will Die in a Foreign Land.” Hailed as one of the best books of 2021, it has found renewed relevance in the aftermath of the invasion. In this podcast, she joins New Lines’ Lydia Wilson to discuss what first drew her to the story, the relationship between fiction and journalism, and how the long history of Russian aggression against Ukraine led to the current crisis.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Pub date: 2022-03-11
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire was a catastrophe from which Russia has yet to recover. Some experts, including John Mearsheimer, have blamed NATO expansion for the invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it has provoked Vladimir Putin to defend his sphere of influence. Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, and a research scholar at the Hoover Institution, respectfully disagrees. Putin’s aggression is “not some kind of deviation from the historical pattern,” he tells David Remnick. Russia in the nineteenth century looked much as it does today, he says. “It had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West.” Kotkin describes how and why the Putin regime has evolved toward despotism, and he speculates that the strategic blunders in invading Ukraine likely resulted from the biases of authoritarian rulers like Putin, and the lack of good information available to them. Kotkin is the author of an authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin, two volumes of which have been published; a third is in the making.
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Timothy Snyder on the Myths That Blinded the West to Putin’s Plans
Pub date: 2022-03-15
“Americans and Europeans were guided through the new century by a tale about ‘the end of history,’ by what I will call the politics of inevitability, a sense that the future is just more of the present, that the laws of progress are known, that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing really to be done,” writes the Yale historian Timothy Snyder in his 2018 book, “The Road to Unfreedom.”
The central thesis of “The Road to Unfreedom” is that different understandings of the past, its myths, histories and memories create radically different politics. Snyder wrote the book as a way of understanding Vladimir Putin’s 2014 invasion of Crimea and the West’s response, but its argument has become only more salient in recent weeks. You can’t understand Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine without understanding his metaphysical attachment to the era of empire, his mythological telling of Russian-Ukrainian history, and his semi-mystical construction of what constitutes the Russian nation.
But Snyder’s more radical argument is that the West is also operating under its own mythological understanding of time — one that is so deeply ingrained in our collective psyche that it masquerades as common sense. And that understanding the influence of the “politics of inevitability” is essential to make sense of everything from the West’s misreading of Putin’s motivations to the internal fracturing of the European Union to the decline of liberal democracy across the globe.
So that’s where we start: with the central myths at the heart of the modern Western project — and the blind spots they have created. But Snyder is also a renowned historian of European great-power conflict who has written six books entirely or partly about Ukraine. So we also discuss the chasm between the radicalness of European integration and the tedium of European governance, why Snyder thinks Putin’s invasion is fundamentally the product of a Russian identity crisis, Ukraine’s unique history as a battleground for a great-power war, how Ukrainian identity transcends ethnicity and language, why Western leaders and analysts consistently fail to decipher Putin’s intentions, the huge difference between a Russian nation premised on myth and a Ukrainian nation forged by collective action, how Ukrainian resistance could inspire a Western vision for the future and more.
Mentioned:
“Bloodlands” by Timothy Snyder
“On the History Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” by Vladimir Putin
Book recommendations:
“Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” by Peter Pomerantsev
“The Origins of Totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt
“The Gates of Europe” by Serhii Plokhy
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Podcast: Two for Tea with Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 121 - Nicholas Christakis - Living Through the Plague
Pub date: 2022-03-03
General
Follow Nicholas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NAChristakis
The Human Nature Lab at Yale University, of which Nicholas is the director: https://www.humannaturelab.net/
Buy Nicholas’ books, including his latest, ‘Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live’: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001HCYWRM?_encoding=UTF8&node=283155&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader
References
Nicholas’ previous appearance on the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/25-nicholas-christakis-a-blueprint-for-universal-liberal-humanism
Timestamps
0.00 Opening and introduction.
2:10 The history of plagues and the typical three-phase cycle (immediate, intermediate, and post-pandemic) of respiratory pandemics—and how Covid has conformed to that pattern. Have we reached “the end of the beginning” (i.e. the end of the immediate phase) rather than “the beginning of the end” of this pandemic? What will the intermediate and post-pandemic phases look like? What if there is a new, vaccine-resistant, more lethal variant?
11:36 Is the lifting of all Covid restrictions in England premature? How vaccination/exposure rates affect whether or not it is wise to lift restrictions.
18:22 What might the long term effects of infection with Covid be? Could there be long term disabling effects on those who survive a Covid infection? What are Nicholas’ views on “long Covid”?
23:34 How effective are masks in preventing Covid infection/transmission?
28:34 Which countries have been worst affected by the pandemic? Why?
31:06 Which countries fared best? Why?
36:41 Whence distrust in health authorities during the pandemic? How should public health messaging be communicated? Plus: how Covid hit us at an already very vulnerable moment and exploited pre-existing social, cultural, and economic issues. How should we encourage vaccination uptake?
48:36 The psychological impacts of pandemics, historically and today: the search for meaning in religion, politics, and more.
52:35 How has Nicholas’ own life changed because of the pandemic? Plus: biological vs social endings of pandemics.
56:38 Last words and outro.
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Podcast: Monocle 24: The Urbanist (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: For Ukraine
Pub date: 2022-03-03
As Russian bombardments continue to target Ukraine’s urban centres, forcing citizens to the borders or to seek shelter underground, we ask people from all over the country to tell us about the place they call home.
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Podcast: The Politics of Everything (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Too Fast or Too Furious?
Pub date: 2022-03-09
Over the past few years, deaths from car accidents in the United States have spiked dramatically. Journalists and commentators have been quick to point to pandemic-induced stress and anxiety to explain the increase. But is that account too pat? On episode 44 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with three guests about road design, automobile regulation, and what’s wrong with blaming crashes on reckless drivers. Guests include Charles Marohn, the author of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer; Jessie Singer, the author of There Are No Accidents, and Jason Slaughter, the creator of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes.
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Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 64. How Larry Miller Went from Prison Valedictorian to Nike Executive
Pub date: 2022-02-26
Climbing the corporate ladder to become head of Nike’s Jordan brand, he kept his teenage murder conviction a secret from employers. Larry talks about living in fear, accepting forgiveness, and why it was easier to be bookish behind bars.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Rachel Kushner Reads "Stanville"
Pub date: 2018-02-06
Rachel Kushner reads her story "Stanville," from the February 12 & 19, 2018, issue of the magazine. Kushner is the author of two novels, "Telex from Cuba" and "The Flamethrowers," both of which were finalists for the National Book Award. Her third novel, "The Mars Room," from which this story was adapted, will be published in May.
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Podcast: The Conversation Piece (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Menaka Thakkar: Dance is a Universal Language
Pub date: 2022-03-09
The late Menaka Thakkar was an accomplished dancer and instructor, but in her 2017 talk, she was full of words about the impact of dancing. And it goes so much further than her artistry - into the power of culture and the beauty of seeing yourself in the art on stage. Thakkar spoke at The Walrus Talks We Desire a Better Country in 2017.
Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
Pub date: 2022-02-24
A proud Hungarian by birth, Franz Liszt was a pioneer both in his piano playing and in his compositions. He was also the nearest thing to a rock star that classical music had in the 19th century. Fans would reportedly swarm over him, try and grab his gloves, even smoke his discarded cigars! Liszt lived up to his public image in his private life, with hectic touring schedules and colourful relationships with numerous women. But he was also generous to a fault – for example, frequently teaching for free - and he was a great champion of other composers.
Rajan Datar is joined by three people for whom Liszt and his music occupy a central position in their professional lives: Dr. Rena Mueller, a musicologist emerita at New York University who is working on a complete thematic catalogue of Liszt's music; Dr. Éva Polgár who teaches at Azusa Pacific University in California and is a pianist noted for her championing of not just Liszt's works but all the music from her native Hungary; and professor Kenneth Hamilton, Head of School of Music at Cardiff University, who is not just a distinguished pianist but also an author and broadcaster.
Examples from Liszt’s works used in the programme: Mazeppa (S.138) played by Leslie Howard Totentanz performed by Krystian Zimerman , Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa La Campanella (Études d'exécution transcendente d'après Paganini, S.140) played by Leslie Howard Apparition No. 2 played by Ashley Wass Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II) played by Wilhelm Kempff Chase Neige (12 Études d'exécution transcendante, S.139) played by Boris Berezovsky Wilde Jagd (Études d'exécution transcendante, S.139 ) played by Daniil Trifonov Mazeppa (orchestral version, S. 100) performed by Wiener Philharmoniker, Giuseppe Sinopoli Ballade No. 2 played by Kenneth Hamilton Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 played by Arcadi Volodos Csardas Obstinée played by Éva Polgár Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III) played by Egon Petri
(Image: Detail from a 19th-century caricature of Franz Liszt, Bibliothèque-Musée De L'Opéra National De Paris-Garnier. Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images)
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Podcast: Lady Lucy (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Foin Inn
Pub date: 2020-02-01
Here is where our story begins, not too far from Lucy’s inn. Where African immigrants by the hundred’s dwell, north of London… in Clerkenwell.
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Writer/Director- Rachel Jarvis
Sound Designer- Jalen Anderson
Theme Song Composer- Genaro Ortiz
Lucy- Kami
Isabell- Morayo Adeagbo
Nadia- Leah de Gruchy
Phillip/Butcher/Richard/Patron- HanJie Chow
Bishop Thomas Randall- Nicholas Barker Pendree
Constable- Jeffin Kunjumon
Abdul- Rena Jarvis
Production Coordinators- Rebekah Jarvis and Rachel Min
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
Pub date: 2022-02-25
When we play Monopoly or basketball, we know we are playing a game. The stakes are low. The rules are silly. The point system is arbitrary. But what if life is full of games — ones with much higher stakes — that we don’t even realize we’re playing?
According to the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, games and gamified systems are everywhere in modern life. Social media applies the lure of a points-based scoring system to the complex act of communication. Fitness apps convert the joy and beauty of physical motion into a set of statistics you can monitor. The grades you received in school flatten the qualitative richness of education into a numerical competition. If you’ve ever consulted the U.S. News & World Report college rankings database, you’ve witnessed the leaderboard approach to university admissions.
In Nguyen’s book, “Games: Agency as Art,” a core insight is that we’re not simply playing these games — they are playing us, too. Our desires, motivations and behaviors are constantly being shaped and reshaped by incentives and systems that we aren’t even aware of. Whether on the internet or in the vast bureaucracies that structure our lives, we find ourselves stuck playing games over and over again that we may not even want to win — and that we aren’t able to easily walk away from.
This is one of those conversations that offers a new and surprising lens for understanding the world. We discuss the unique magic of activities like rock climbing and playing board games, how Twitter’s system of likes and retweets is polluting modern politics, why governments and bureaucracies love tidy packets of information, how echo chambers like QAnon bring comfort to their “players,” how to make sure we don’t get stuck in a game without realizing it, why we should be a little suspicious of things that give us pleasure and how to safeguard our own values in a world that wants us to care about winning the most points.
Mentioned:
How Twitter Gamifies Communication by C. Thi Nguyen
Trust in Numbers by Theodore M. Porter
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
“Against Rotten Tomatoes” by Matt Strohl
“A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon” by Reed Berkowitz
The Great Endarkenment by Elijah Millgram
Game recommendations:
Modern Art
Root
The Quiet Year
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Other People’s Money: Ira Glass on Finding Your Voice
Pub date: 2022-03-01
Michael Lewis did not rest long on his laurels after publishing Liar’s Poker. In the 1990s, he hit the presidential campaign trail, writing a series of magazine pieces. Some of his dispatches got adapted for audio by a then-new public radio show called “This American Life.” Michael speaks with the show’s creator, Ira Glass, about how they both found their voices as storytellers. Trigger warning: this episode contains vintage NPR sounds.
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Podcast: Field Recordings (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fireworks, Meersbrook Park, Sheffield, UK on 5th November 2021 – by Joe Wilkins
Pub date: 2022-02-21
“People gather on 5th of November in Meersbrook Park to watch the fireworks over Sheffield. From the top of the park you can see across the city to the hills beyond. The view is stunning. A five and a half minute recording of fireworks exploding near and far. A dad helps his young son have a wee in the bushes, a mom teaches her children how to wipe dog poo off their shoes and families head home to check on their pets. Recording made with a Zoom H4N Pro, photograph made with a Mamiya 645 and Kodak Portra 400.”
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Podcast: Sporting Witness (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: India's Luge pioneer
Pub date: 2022-01-27
Shiva Keshavan was the first Indian to compete in one of the most dangerous events at the Winter Olympics – the luge. At the 1998 games in Japan, the 16-year-old was the only athlete in the Indian team and had to lead himself out in the opening ceremony in Nagano. Shiva Keshavan took part in a further five Winter Olympics and is credited with boosting awareness of snow sports in India. In 2020, he spoke to Farhana Haider.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Italy’s hidden sins
Pub date: 2022-02-17
With the seat of the Catholic Church on its doorstep and the highest number of priests of any country, Italy is a bastion of global Catholicism. And yet, unlike many other countries, it has failed to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse. It keeps no official statistics on the issue and the number of convictions remains shockingly low. Survivors of abuse have fallen foul of a combination of cover-ups, complicity and legal failings in their search for justice. After a report in France last year found that there had been some 3,200 paedophile priests there since the 1950s, pressure is growing on Italy for a similar reckoning. For Assignment, Mark Lowen has set out to ask how and why abuse has been hidden in Italy, speaking to survivors, confronting those accused and meeting officials working to uncover the dark secrets that the Italian authorities have been unwilling to investigate.
Reporter: Mark Lowen Producer: Julian Miglierini in Rome and Michael Gallagher in London
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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World
Pub date: 2022-02-22
About 400 years ago, a dark and mysterious stranger arrived in Europe and sent the jitters—really, shock waves—through society. That newcomer was the coffee bean, and it's hard to overstate its effects on the world. From its early days as a religious aid to its pivotal role in the founding of the London Stock Exchange, the first scientific society, and even one of the earliest forms of social media, this bitter brown beverage has democratized culture and sparked innovation, all while fueling capitalism and inequality. With the help of Gastropod's own founding godfather, Michael Pollan, as well as a crew of all-star historians, coffee growers, botanists, and coffee scientists, this episode we're telling the story of how coffee has changed everything it touched, from the humble workday to the fate of nations. This is the first of a two-part series on coffee, sponsored by Nespresso: listen now, and then come back in two weeks for the scientific secrets behind the perfect cup.
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Podcast: In Our Time: Philosophy (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Walter Benjamin
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most celebrated thinkers of the twentieth century. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, critic, historian, an investigator of culture, a maker of radio programmes and more. Notably, in his Arcades Project, he looked into the past of Paris to understand the modern age and, in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, examined how the new media of film and photography enabled art to be politicised, and politics to become a form of art. The rise of the Nazis in Germany forced him into exile, and he worked in Paris in dread of what was to come; when his escape from France in 1940 was blocked at the Spanish border, he took his own life.
With
Esther Leslie Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London
Kevin McLaughlin Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English, Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University
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Carolin Duttlinger Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford
Producer: Simon Tillotson
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #218: The Frigid Fringe
Pub date: 2022-02-18
The North has been a blank, snowy canvas for our best and worst fantasies for thousands of years, home to biting winds, sea unicorns, fearsome Vikings, and even a wintry Atlantis. And it is also home, of course, to Indigenous communities, whose existence and culture could be inconvenient to myths of Aryan purity. Historian Bernd Brunner explores this curiosity cabinet of a region in his new book, Extreme North, translated by Jefferson Chase. Brunner argues that the North was as much invented as it was discovered by the European explorers, colonists, and armchair enthusiasts who ventured there. Encounters with the cultures of the North would inspire epic storytellers (Tolkien, Wagner), grifters (James Macpherson and his Poems of Ossian), racists (Hitler), and countless other complicated figures (Franz Boas, Nanook of the North). Brunner joins us on the podcast to explore the outer, icy limits of the known world and why it still has a hold on us today.
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- The Poems of Ossianhas been called the “Harry Potter of the 18th century”—except the boy wizard wasn’t a literary hoax
- How the handshake came to Nunavut
- Why the top of the map faces north
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Podcast: Microphilosophy with Julian Baggini
Episode: Existentialism Today
Pub date: 2022-02-18
This was recorded at one of my series of Philosophy Salons at St Georges, Bristol. My guests were Kate Kirkpatrick, the author of the biography Becoming Beauvoir: and Jonathan Webber, author of Rethinking Existentialism. We covered a lot of ground, including the nature and degree of human freedom, whether existentialism was capable of grounding a credible ethics and the revealing differences between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simon de Beavoir’s versions of existentialism.
Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Super-prime mover: Britain's most successful estate agent
Pub date: 2022-02-18
Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, £1m was a big deal. Now he sells for £50m, £100m, even £200m. What does it take to stay on top in this cut-throat business? By Sophie Elmhirst. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Other People’s Money: Dash Riprock and the Human Piranha Revealed
Pub date: 2022-02-15
Liar’s Poker describes many of the mentors Michael Lewis had at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. He chose to keep some of their identities secret, out of a well-founded fear that the book might cost them their cushy Wall Street jobs. Now for the first time, we get to hear their side of the story and learn their names.
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Podcast: Namedropping (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 5: Rona Akbari Misses Weather Talk
Pub date: 2022-02-09
Writer and artist Rona Akbari always loved her name. Then, COVID-19 happened.
Follow Rona on Twitter @theronalisa.
Episode transcript here.
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Podcast: The Harper’s Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Voice Lessons
Pub date: 2022-02-15
It’s often thought that world-famous athletes hype themselves up into a fit of frenzy or descend into a state of serene calm in order to excel in front of huge crowds. But many athletes can’t help but hear one voice inside their heads—that of their coach, who seems to guide them every step of the way. Stanford anthropologist T. M. Luhrmann spent two years interviewing elite athletes about what went through their heads while competing, and she joins web editor Violet Lucca to discuss her findings. Lucca and Luhrmann discuss the lingering effects for athletes who cede internal authority, as well as how others groups of people—such as evangelicals and those with schizophrenia—experience the voices that guide or threaten them. These relationships are often complex, and Lucca and Luhrmann explore the idea that hearing voices isn’t necessarily cause for alarm, but a part of our rich mental landscape that often goes undiscussed. By understanding how culture and human intention affect our interior world, we may come to a deeper understanding of the mind.
Read Lurhmann’s story here: https://harpers.org/archive/2022/03/voice-lessons-how-coaches-get-in-athletes-heads
This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins
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Podcast: Shamima Begum: The Blame Game (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: The Disappearance
Pub date: 2022-02-06
In February 2015, 15 year old Shamima Begum left the UK with two of her school friends. They were travelling from the UK to Syria to join the ISIS Caliphate.
In the first few hours of the investigation, the girls seem to be on their way to Turkey. Their families and the police aren’t yet ready to make a public appeal. Everyone wants them to come back without their names and faces being pictured all over the newspapers but at Gatwick Airport the CCTV cameras have captured a powerful piece of evidence. The girls have been filmed strolling through the terminal on their way to catch their flight.
As the timeline of their journey starts to unravel, ITV’s Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo revisits the headlines to ask why they left and ultimately, who is to blame?
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
Pub date: 2022-01-31
Hu Xijin is China’s most famous propagandist. At the Global Times, he helped establish a chest-thumping new tone for China on the world stage – but can he keep up with the forces he has unleashed? By Han Zhang. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Analysis (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why worry about future generations?
Pub date: 2022-02-07
What do we owe future generations? Everyone who is alive, has rights. And governments have obligations to their citizens. But what about people who are not yet born? Should their interests be taken into account - even though they don’t yet exist? David Edmonds draws upon the thinking of the late philosopher Derek Parfit to address this vexing question, which has consequences for real-world policy now in areas such as climate change. Presenter: David Edmonds Producer: Nathan Gower Editor: Hugh Levinson
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Podcast: 6 Months or Less (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 16: What Do I Say? Talking to Someone with a Terminal Illness
Pub date: 2021-03-10
Do you ever find yourself not knowing what to say to someone with a terminal illness? Maybe you want to show your support but fear you might say the wrong thing. These conversations can be tricky to have, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to figure out how to have them. People I have interviewed from previous episodes, including Clair Fisher, Adam Hayden, Jennifer Dunn, and Glenn Buckland, share their perspectives on what is helpful and what is unhelpful. Perhaps their insights can help make these conversations a little easier for everyone.
Thank you so much to Clair, Adam, Jennifer, and Glenn for sharing your insights!
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Podcast: Secretly Incredibly Fascinating (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bricks
Pub date: 2022-01-24
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writers/podcasters Conor Lastowka and Michael J. Nelson (Rifftrax, '372 Pages We'll Never Get Back' podcast) for a look at why bricks are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.
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Podcast: Knowable (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The science of dreams
Pub date: 2022-02-01
Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scientists think the opposite: that the dreaming brain is quite similar to our awake, conscious state. But dreaming is a very personal experience and one that we can’t share — making the phenomenon very difficult to study. We still don’t know for sure why we dream, but in this episode, we'll hear how psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers have been trying to answer that question.
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers”
Pub date: 2021-12-27
Jennifer Egan reads her story “What the Forest Remembers,” from the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. Egan is the author of six books of fiction, including “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and “Manhattan Beach,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2018. A new book, “The Candy House,” will be published in April.
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Podcast: In Our Time: Culture (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Iliad
Pub date: 2018-09-13
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great epic poem attributed to Homer, telling the story of an intense episode in the Trojan War. It is framed by the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles, insulted by his leader Agamemnon and withdrawing from the battle that continued to rage, only returning when his close friend Patroclus is killed by the Trojan hero Hector. Achilles turns his anger from Agamemnon to Hector and the fated destruction of Troy comes ever closer.
With
Edith Hall Professor of Classics at King's College London
Barbara Graziosi Professor of Classics at Princeton University
And
Paul Cartledge A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture at Clare College, Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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Podcast: Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Pages 1 - 28 │Telemachus│Read by Will Self
Pub date: 2022-02-01
Pages 1 - 28 │Telemachus│Read by Will Self
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Podcast: This Day in Esoteric Political History (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Early Prohibition and The Rise of Weird Liquor Laws (1838)
Pub date: 2022-01-27
IT’s January 27th. This day in 1838, some 80 years before national prohibition, the country’s first liquor restriction was passed.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss how the temperance movement gained momentum alongside other moral crusades in the mid-19th century, and how we are still living with a weird patchwork of alcohol laws around the country.
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Podcast: GABA (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Grace of André Leon Talley
Pub date: 2022-01-21
A Wagnerian meditation on The Grace of André Leon Talley.
Podcast: Slightly Foxed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 39: Idle Moments: Literary Loafers through the Ages and Pages
Pub date: 2022-01-15
In the spirit of Plato’s Symposium, the Slightly Foxed team enter into lively dialogue with two distinguished magazine editors, Tom Hodgkinson of the Idler and Harry Mount of the Oldie, and learn lessons from notable loafers in literature. We begin with Doctor Johnson, an icon of indolence who wrote an essay called ‘The Idler’ and liked time to ponder; this lazy lexicographer claimed his dictionary would take three years to write when in fact it would take nine . . .
The wisdom-loving philosophers of Ancient Greece made a case for carving out leisure time, while the anchorite Julian of Norwich favoured a life of seclusion in which ‘all shall be well’. At the age of thirty-eight Michel de Montaigne retired to a grand book-filled chateau to test out ideas in essays, while George Orwell wrote book reviews in hungover misery. Izaak Walton found contemplation in The Compleat Angler and Jerome K. Jerome found humour in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, while the autodidactic Mitford sisters sought wild freedom.
We enjoy a leisurely spell with loungers in fiction, visiting Lady Bertram and her pug in Mansfield Park, taking to Lady Diana Cooper’s bed in A Handful of Dust, retreating to Aunt Ada Doom’s room in Cold Comfort Farm, settling into the quiet comfort of Mycroft Holmes’s Diogenes Club and meeting Thomas Love Peacock’s Honourable Mr Listless along the way. And, to finish, there are the usual wide-ranging reading recommendations for when you have an idle moment. (Episode duration: 46 minutes; 56 seconds)
Books MentionedWe may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.
- Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (9:49)
- Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays (11:48)
- Sarah Bakewell, How to Live (13:05)
- Plato, Symposium (17:51)
- Janina Ramirez, Julian of Norwich (18:58)
- Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (26:53)
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (28:21)
- Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat; Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is out of print (29:44)
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy will be available in a new edition in July 2022 (32:29)
- Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (34:41)
- Geoffrey Willans, The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth is out of print (39:51)
- Gamel Woolsey, Death’s Other Kingdom (40:40)
- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey (42:29)
- David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (43:28)
- Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris (46:56)
Related Slightly Foxed Articles
- ‘Study to be quiet’, Ken Haigh on Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Issue 54 (9:49)
- The Great Self-Examiner, Anthony Wells on the essays of Michel de Montaigne, Issue 69 (11:48)
- Poste-Freudian Therapy, Michele Hanson on Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, Issue 10 (34:41)
- Peacock’s Progress, J. W. M. Thompson on Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall; Crotchet Castle, Issue 5 (42:29)
Other Links
- The Idler magazine
- The Oldie magazine
Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
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Podcast: Beatrix Greene (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. In Which Our Heroine Receives an Unexpected Visitor and Strikes a Devilish Deal
Pub date: 2021-04-01
England, 1892. When spiritual medium Beatrix Greene is approached by scientist James Walker with a job offer to conduct a seance, she fears he plans to expose her as a fraud.
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Podcast: WILD (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 7: How Do I Love Someone? Starring Megan Tan
Pub date: 2021-07-26
We made a rom-com! Falling in love during a pandemic unexpectedly distorts time to an exponential degree. In a fiction meets non-fiction romantic comedy, Megan Tan explains.
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Podcast: Deep Cover: Mob Land (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: The Walk-In
Pub date: 2022-01-24
March 1986. A high-rolling lawyer named Bob Cooley walks into a federal prosecutor’s office and says that he has information that could bring down the mob.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: From the archive: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
Pub date: 2022-01-19
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. No language in history has dominated the world quite like English does today. Is there any point in resisting? By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Ourshelves (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: OurShelves with Linda Grant
Pub date: 2020-09-17
How can we reconsider failure?
In this episode of OurShelves Lucy Scholes interviews Linda Grant, a multi-award-winning author whose latest novel, A Stranger City, is out now in paperback. In this episode Lucy and Linda discuss Barbara Pym, Mrs. America and the importance of recalling our failures as well as our successes.
Podcast: Edith! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Two Old Ghosts | Episode 1
Pub date: 2021-06-21
"Waging a war against half the globe has been really stressful for me."
Sure World War I is over, but the brutal war inside the White House has only just begun. And the unelected traitor in the President's midst might not be who you think it is.
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Podcast: The Wellcome Collection Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hello Happiness: Tranquillity
Pub date: 2021-10-27
When was the last time you felt utterly tranquil?
Moya Lothian-McLean searches for an oasis of calm, taking Wellcome Collection’s ‘Tranquillity’ exhibition as a point of inspiration.
She visits St Bartholomew’s Hospital to experience the installation ‘Regarding Forests’ by Chrystel Lebas. Hear tips from staff and visitors as they share how they find a moment of peace in the middle of a bustling hospital.
Moya speaks with three young people from RawMinds, Fawaz Sajid, Malika Sandover and Tahmina Sayfi and they talk about whether phones can ever help us to find calm in our busy, modern lives.
Brain injury survivor and gardener Keith Emmanuel and environmental psychologist Dr Eleanor Ratcliffe talk with Moya about the importance of being in nature for our health and wellbeing. They meet in the garden at Homerton Hospital Mothers and Babies Ward where Keith volunteers.
Even if you can’t escape to a green oasis, you have the right to rest wherever you are. Artist Rhiannon Armstrong has created a meditation to help you do just that. The meditation is part of a larger work called Public Selfcare System, shaped by Rhiannon’s lived experience as a disabled artist with chronic debilitating conditions that mean she has become an expert at resting in public.
Presented by Moya Lothian-McLean
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
Sound design by Micky Curling
Music by Sola
Executive producer Emily Wiles
Meditation by Rhiannon Armstrong
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 471- Mini-Stories : Volume 12
Pub date: 2021-12-22
It's that time of year again! When 99pi producers and friends of the show join Roman to tell shorter stories, many of which have been sitting on our idea shelves, just waiting for this moment. Our first set of minis delves into the surprisingly controversial logo of a major sports league; a wild goose chase into erroneous statistics; the largely forgotten arts competitions of the Olympic Games; and a Modernist penguin pool that is beloved by preservationists but not so adored by actual penguins. And this is the first batch of our turn-of-the-year mini-stories. Tune back in for more minis at the beginning of 2022!
Mini-Stories: Volume 12
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Podcast: Sweet Bobby
Episode: 1. Sliding doors
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Kirat is a successful marketer and radio presenter. Online, she’s contacted by a man she vaguely knows called Bobby, and they start chatting. Slowly, they become close… and she’s reeled in to a scam of epic proportions.
Podcast: Vox Conversations (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Are we living in a simulation?
Pub date: 2022-01-10
Sean Illing talks with philosopher David Chalmers about virtual worlds and the nature of reality, and other topics that stem from Chalmers's new book Reality+. In this far-reaching discussion, Sean and Prof. Chalmers get into the makeup of human consciousness, the question of whether we're living in a computer simulation, and — of course — The Matrix. Are digital worlds genuine realities, or will their proliferation lead to a troublesome turning away from the physical world?
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox
Guest: David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, NYU; co-director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
References:
- Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J. Chalmers (Norton; 2022)
- Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1641)
- "Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?" by Nick Bostrom (Philosophical Quarterly vol. 53 (211); 2003)
- The Matrix (1999), dir. by The Wachowskis; The Matrix Resurrections (2021), dir. by Lana Wachowski
- Free Guy (2021), dir. by Shawn Levy
- Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson (1992)
- Anarchy, State, and Utopiaby Robert Nozick (1974)
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Zzzzzzzzzzzrr...
Pub date: 2021-11-10
If you’re a human being, chances are, you know someone who is a big time snorer. You're falling asleep to the gentle sounds of crickets, and then BAM, you hear a snore that sounds like an angry troll. So who was the first snorer? And why is snoring still so popular after all these years? This story, which is definitely about snoring, comes from the podcast Endless Thread.
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Podcast: Throughline (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: History Is Over
Pub date: 2021-12-09
As the end of the 20th century approached, Radiohead took to the recording studio to capture the sound of a society that felt like it was fraying at the edges. Many people had high hopes for the new millennium, but for others a low hum of anxiety lurked just beneath the surface as the world changed rapidly and fears of a Y2K meltdown loomed.
Amidst all the unease, the famed British band began recording their highly anticipated follow ups to their career-changing album OK Computer. Those two albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, released in 2000 and 2001, were entrancing and eerie — they documented the struggle to redefine humanity, recalibrate, and get a grip on an uncertain world. In this episode, we travel back to the turn of the millennium with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood and the music of Kid A and Amnesiac.
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
Pub date: 2020-01-01
Inflation in Brazil was out of control for a decade. Four former drinking buddies from grad school fixed it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
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Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: "Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
Pub date: 2021-12-15
Most of us think we know the story of Bambi—but do we? The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest (Princeton UP, 2022) is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film—an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence—which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator.
Originally published in 1923, Salten’s story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. Jack Zipes’s introduction traces the history of the book’s reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life—as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution.
With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story.
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Podcast: Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 35 - Susan Wolf, “Moral Saints”
Pub date: 2021-09-28
This episode is about Susan Wolf’s 1982 article “Moral Saints.”
You’re probably a moral enough person. But have you ever had that nagging feeling that you should be even better? That if you were really good, you would devote your life to the cause, whatever cause that might be? That you should become some kind of moral saint?
People who devote their entire lives to being as morally good as possible are held up as objects of admiration, as a kind of saintly standard that the rest of us feel vaguely guilty for not living up to.
Susan Wolf says we shouldn’t feel bad about not being saints because no rational person should want to be a saint in the first place. In this episode, I explain her argument for why it makes more sense to be cool like Paul Newman than good like Mother Teresa.
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Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Betty White and Alan Alda Fall Desperately in Love
Pub date: 2020-03-24
She's a Golden Girl, a national treasure, and a true character of great character. The one and only Betty White joins Alan Alda this week as our special guest. At time when love and humor are needed most, we hope this heart-warming episode brings a smile to your face.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Bennett: Diary for 2021
Pub date: 2021-12-28
Alan Bennett reads his diary for 2021, in which he falls over Philip Roth, changes the course of English history, and considers selling his har on eBay.
Bennett read the first part of this diary earlier this year, for his Diary from the Pandemic Year.
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Podcast: The Moth (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Grinch Rides Again: Mary Gaitskill
Pub date: 2021-12-17
This week, a story for everyone who might feel just a little grinchy around the holidays. This episode is hosted by Moth Producer Michelle Jalowski.
Hosted by: Michelle Jalowski
Storyteller: Mary Gaitskill
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Podcast: Blowback (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Episode 1 - "The Jupiter Menace"
Pub date: 2021-04-19
Welcome back. Brendan and Noah reveal this season’s subject, explore the USA’s unrelenting Cuba mania, and introduce the cast of characters.
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Podcast: A Slight Change of Plans (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Wired for Change
Pub date: 2021-11-08
John Elder Robison is a gifted sound engineer whose rare ability to understand machines propelled him to work with the likes of Kiss and Diana Ross. But the one thing he always felt was lacking was his ability to understand people emotionally. In an effort to see if he could change that, he volunteered to participate in an experimental brain study.
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Podcast: Chinese Whispers (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The power of Weibo
Pub date: 2021-12-13
When the tennis star Peng Shuai had a row with her former lover, the retired Party cadre Zhang Gaoli, she took to Weibo, the Chinese social media platform, where she had half a million followers. It was in that statement that she accused Zhang of starting their affair with sexual assault.
The statement was taken down within minutes, demonstrating the power, speed – and, arguably, the manual nature – of China’s online censors. On this podcast, we’ve previously talked about the nature of journalism in China – but what about social media, that inherently decentralised medium? What role does the digital space play in Chinese lives, how reliable is it as a source of Chinese public opinion, and how do people feel about being monitored and, potentially, censored?
On the podcast, I speak to Manya Koetse, the founder of whatsonweibo.com, which collates and translates the latest trends and topics from the platform into English; as well as Shen Lu, a reporter for Protocol who covers China and tech.
With Manya, we muse about what censorship does to a nation's online discussion: the focus turns to policy issues like health and safety standards, or more superficial discussions like pets and travel. Yet during the early days of the pandemic last year, we both witnessed an incredible night where, on Weibo, WeChat, and other platforms, Dr Li Wenliang's death prompted a universal outpouring of grief. Manya tells me that: ‘Dr Li was a story that was too big to censor... censoring all of those discussions would have actually caused more unrest’.
Since the pandemic, the digital sphere has also become more nationalistic:
'The Hong Kong protests definitely was the moment when I saw this new wave of nationalism online, which you’ve always had, but especially the last two years it’s been so clear. Covid-19 has only strengthened the wave that started back then’
I also speak to Shen Lu, who tells me about her experience being censored on Weibo when reporting on China's MeToo movement. Censorship has only become worse in recent years – she tells me: ' I can no longer tell which friend is which, because we started to self-censor'. More optimistically though, Lu tells me that all the same political conversations among liberal minded young Chinese are still happening – simply offline, these days.
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Podcast: Darknet Diaries (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 73: WannaCry
Pub date: 2020-09-01
It is recommend to listen to episodes 53 “Shadow Brokers”, 71 “FDFF”, and 72 “Bangladesh Bank Heist” before listening to this one.
In May 2017 the world fell victim to a major ransomware attack known as WannaCry. One of the victims was UK’s national health service. Security researchers scrambled to try to figure out how to stop it and who was behind it.
Thank you to John Hultquist from FireEye and thank you to Matt Suiche founder of Comae.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 91 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why Was Haiti’s President Assassinated?
Pub date: 2021-12-14
In July, a group of men stormed the presidential compound in Haiti and assassinated the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse. Months later, the case remains unresolved.
Investigating the killing, the Times journalist Maria Abi-Habib found that Mr. Moïse had begun compiling a list of powerful Haitian businessmen and political figures involved in an intricate drug trafficking network.
Guest: Maria Abi-Habib, bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
- Mr. Moïse took a number of steps to fight drug and arms smugglers. Some officials now fear he was killed for it.
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Podcast: STORYCAST (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: StoryCast '21: EP 17/21 Batman raids Buckingham Palace
Pub date: 2021-11-29
In September 2004, Jason Hatch dressed up in a Batman costume and broke into the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The Queen's home is protected by some of the tightest security measures in the world - but they weren't tight enough for this caped crusader, who climbed on the iconic building and made his way to the main balcony. A casual observer might have been forgiven for thinking Batman had stolen into the palace to execute a daring rescue.
But in reality Mr Hatch was risking his life because he hadn't seen his children in more than eight years - and this superhero dad was set to stage a protest that would soon be beamed around the world.
Would the British establishment bend to the will of Batman?
In 2021, Sky News is marking some of the century’s biggest news events through the personal stories of lives defined by unforgettable moments from the last 21-years.
Batman raids Buckingham Palace is episode 17 of the 21-part series StoryCast ’21
CREDITS -
Batman Raids Buckingham Palace was recorded by Tom Gillespie and Rob Mulhern.
Production, writing and sound design by Rob Mulhern
Special thanks to our contributors Jason Hatch and Martin Brunt
Archive, Daniel Franklin
TV treatment, Victoria Hudson-Grant
Digital, Tom Gillespie
Sky News Head of Radio, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Samuel Gould
Email: storycast@sky.uk
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
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Podcast: Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S2 | Ep 1: Dis-Orientation
Pub date: 2021-09-29
Bennington. Autumn, 1982. Donna, Jonathan and Bret arrive on the campus of the school nicknamed “The Little Red Whorehouse on the Hill.” One of them comes with a steamer trunk. One of them comes with a Kangol cap. One of them comes with a “suitcase full of drugs.”
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Podcast: Recipe Club (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Spaghetti
Pub date: 2021-04-20
Dave Chang and Chris Ying are rejoined by Priya Krishna to discuss the three recipes they’ve chosen to represent one of the most ubiquitous pantry items of all time: spaghetti.
Find the recipes for this episode and all previous episodes on The Ringer’s website and follow along with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying
Guest: Priya Krishna
Producer: Isaac Lee
Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall
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Podcast: Nice Try! (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Mattress
Pub date: 2021-11-11
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actual, biological needs for sleep. Enter the mattress: a lightning rod for sleep performance, and a tool for modern self-improvement that's as mysterious and necessary as sleep itself.
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Podcast: Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: I Write Sins, Not Tragedies, Part 1
Pub date: 2021-10-16
“Punk happened, past tense.” That’s what Boomer-era critics and true-believer punks told the younger generations. Punk’s whole reason for being was rejecting the mainstream. But punk wasn’t just a movement—it was also a genre. And 20 years after it first emerged, punk went from underground to overground, dominating the radio for the first time.
In this episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy traces how punk traveled from Sid Vicious to strip mall, through the lineage of ’90s bands Green Day, Offspring and Blink‑182, and ’00s emo artisans Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and their skinny-jeans-wearing, smarty-pants contemporaries. From the CBGB era to the current Billboard Hot 100, punk is no historical artifact—it’s still morphing and adapting. And for all its supposed opposition to convention, the dirty little secret is: Punk has always been catchy.
Podcast production by Asha Saluja with help from Rosemary Belson.
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Podcast: Weird Walk (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Weird Walk with Charlie Cooper
Pub date: 2021-12-01
The quest begins. Charlie Cooper (writer, actor, BAFTA winner) sets out on the South Downs Way in Sussex in search of the Green Man, the spirit of spring in human form and a totemic figure in British folklore.
Music featured in this episode: Bittern and Magdalina’s Dance by Bert Jansch, May Morning Dew as performed by Brigid Mae Power, Ye Olde Morris by Morris On, Morris Medley by Albion Country Band & Good Ale (Bob & Ron) by The Copper Family
Executive Producers: Weird Walk. Producer: Eva Krysiak. (c) 2021 Weird Walk Ltd
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “A, S, D, F”
Pub date: 2021-05-25
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story from the May 31, 2021, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction, in 2014. A new collection, “American Estrangement,” will be published in August.
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 484. “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.”
Pub date: 2021-12-02
The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the dollars). Beneath the surface is a tangled web of dealers, curators, auction houses, speculators — and, of course, artists. In the first episode of a three-part series, we meet the key players and learn how an obscure, long-dead American painter suddenly became a superstar. (Part 1 of “The Hidden Side of the Art Market.”)
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Podcast: Switched on Pop (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Beatles get back to their roots
Pub date: 2021-11-30
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ final album, Let it Be. To commemorate the occasion, the remaining members of the band have remixed the album and unleashed an eight-hour-plus documentary directed by Peter Jackson that lays bare the making of the record. For super-fans this video memoir reveals a lot about the messiness of the creative process: The Beatles nearly broke up while making it! Author Tim Riley says that the band approached Let It Be with an aesthetic challenge: to get back to playing as a live band. But the original release of the album deviated from that mission and received mixed reviews. Over the decades, The Beatles have revisited this work with multiple mixes and alternative takes that try to show the original spirit of this direct-to-tape, live album. Charlie and Nate listen back, warts and all, to get to the heart of this enigmatic project.
Songs Discussed
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Strawberry Fields, Dig A Pony, Good Golly Miss Molly, I’ve Got A Feeling, One After 909, Get Back, Two Of Us, The Long & Winding Road, Let It Be, I Me Mine
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
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Podcast: Words To That Effect (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 53: Fiction & Food
Pub date: 2021-06-11
How do we use fiction in food? What does a character's choice of food reveal about them? Do you simply have to go and make a dish when it's described beautifully in a book?
On this very special episode, a collaboration with the wonderful Spice Bags podcast, we discuss everything from 17th century Spanish literature to contemporary American horror, Italian detective novels to Japanese magical realism. Grab yourself a glass of Amarone and have a listen!
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Podcast: Radiolab (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Animal Minds
Pub date: 2021-11-26
In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication.
When we gaze into the eyes of a wild animal, or even a beloved pet, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they're experiencing something close to human emotions? Or is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN'T feeling something like that? We get the story of a rescued whale that may have found a way to say thanks, ask whether dogs feel guilt, and wonder if a successful predator may have fallen in love with a photographer.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 467- Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
Pub date: 2021-11-23
The French bulldog is now the second most popular breed in America. Their cute features, portable size, and physical features make for a dog that can easily travel and doesn't require a lot of exercise. But these characteristics sometimes have a detrimental effect on the dog's health. Tove K. Danovich writes "Rather than requiring human owners to change their lives to accommodate a new dog, the French bulldog is a breed that’s been broken to accommodate us."
Historically, dogs were bred for functional reasons, not aesthetics. But evaluating a breed based on how they accomplish a task is tricky, leading to the rise of visual standards more easily judged. As breed standards were formalized, purebred dogs grew in popularity and became a luxury of sorts; but with a limited genetic pool, this popularity naturally led to a lot of inbreeding to maintain breed consistency.
Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
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Podcast: Fugues (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why so Irrational?
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Why are we so prone to bad logic? We’re going to hear two everyday fugues in this episode: the search for a lost spatula and a spilled beer. The real story here is how easy it is to be irrational. Who is “we” in this episode? It’s me and my inner voice obviously. Inner Voice and I will do some post-fugue analysis to find out what mental phenomena are at play while I make really bad assumptions about events in my surroundings.
By the end of the episode maybe you’ll appreciate why we’re actually doing a lot better than we think we are as a society given how mistake-prone our brains are.
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Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music and sound design - Grant Zubritsky
Opening and closing music: Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
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References:
- Apophenia in the Queen’s Gambit
- Apophenia in Stranger Things
- Wacky Conspiracy Theory showing Back to the Future predicted 9/11
- How Netflix uses big data to inform its content
- The Brain’s Autopilot (Scientific American)
- Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 vs 2 Thinking (article)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (book)
- Anil Seth’s TED talk
- How Much of What You See is Hallucination (TED Ex)
- Abracadabra! A Classic Magic Trick Fools Expectations, Not Eyes
- My Special Egg Spatula
Episode Song Playlist:
- Delirious - Prince
- Memories Can’t Wait - Talking Heads
- Not My Own - Monuments
- Where is My Mind - The Pixies
- Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
- There There - Radiohead
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Podcast: Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Who Killed This Bear?
Pub date: 2021-11-02
A dead bear shows up in an unlikely place, and the discovery of how it died and how it got there makes me question my life’s work. A warning: This episode contains details of performing a necropsy of the bear in the woods. It contains language that may not be acceptable for young listeners or those with queasy stomachs.
Please like and follow us (and give us a review!) if you like the show!
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Regarding the pain of others
Pub date: 2021-11-20
BBC special correspondent Allan Little addresses the gulf between the reality of war and our ability to comprehend it from afar. His mission as a reporter has been to convey the experiences of people in the midst of war, to draw attention to injustices; to celebrate acts of heroism. So what stops us the listener or viewer, from engaging? Inspired by the philosopher Susan Sontag's essay.
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Podcast: the memory palace (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Pub date: 2020-12-29
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Music
- Waltz for Sky by Muriel Botsdorp
- A Gathering to Lead me When You're Gone by Brian McBride
- 20 (Lichen) by Brendan Eder Ensemble
- Electronium Movie Score by Raymond Scott
- Someday We'll Linger in the Sun by Gaelynn Lea
- 32 (Harp) by Nearly Oratorio
Notes
- By far the most fun and helpful thing I read for this episode was Michael O'Malley's, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time.
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Podcast: It's a Continent (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lesotho: Africa's Enclave
Pub date: 2021-11-02
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a country enclaved within South Africa. The country’s formation stemmed from the work of King Moshoeshoe I (1786-1870) who founded the Basotho nation and helped define what it meant to be Basotho. In this episode, we’ll explore the country’s formation, its complicated relationship and history with South Africa, and recent political challenges which have shaped the nation.
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Sources for further reading:
- https://www.britannica.com/place/Lesotho
- https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/flag-of-lesotho-facts-history-and-design
- Dreams for Lesotho - Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development by John Aerni-Flessner
- https://lestimes.com/its-time-to-give-women-a-chance-ramakoae/
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/02/matsepo-ramakoae-and-lesothos-lost-chance-to-elect-its-first-female-leader
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Podcast: Minds Almost Meeting
Episode: Distant Signals
Pub date: 2021-11-09
Notes from The Audio Browser:
This week's Browser Interviews guests discuss the problems of trying to impress others, near and far.
View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/distant-signals
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
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Podcast: Project Brazen Originals (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #1: Paper Ships
Pub date: 2021-10-05
Notes from The Audio Browser:
The subject of today's Browser Interview, 'Fat Leonard' is a shocking tale of corruption in the U.S. Navy
Leonard Francis became the most powerful military contractor in the Pacific, running a mafia organization at the heart of the U.S. Navy. He’s over 300 pounds, and charming. We meet him in jail, and explore why he’s talking exclusively to our host, author and journalist Tom Wright. We explore Leonard’s troubled childhood. It turns out this isn’t his first time in prison.
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Podcast: The Art of Curation (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Escaping the echo chamber through curation 🔎 Uri Bram, The Browser
Pub date: 2021-11-23
Notes from The Audio Browser:
The Browser's Uri Bram talks abaout the art of curation
“What the internet really needed was a great curator; someone who would read and select and present the finest pieces to you so that you could ignore the noise and get straight to the quality.” — Uri Bram, The Browser
Mission accomplished. If you subscribe to The Browser, you can rest easy knowing that a steady stream of fascinating pieces you didn’t know you wanted to read will flow effortlessly to you. A manageable five per day, in fact, plus extra bits in the postscript, like a video, podcast and quote.
That’s after the small team sifts through hundreds of stories every day. “The only real criteria we have at The Browser is: Will this piece be as interesting 10 years from now as it is today?” CEO Uri Bram reveals.
But it’s not just the stories that are interesting; so are the sources. The Browser curates from an extremely long tail of publishers and voices, almost all accessible for free, so there was much to unpack about the art of curation.
Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:
- What problem The Browser is trying to solve
- What makes a story right for The Browser
- What makes a curator right for The Browser
- A typical day for the team
- Collecting 10+ years of RSS feeds
- What grabs a curator’s attention in the firehose
- The thinking behind their haiku-like subject lines
- What's hard about running The Browser
- Discovering The Browser and publishing to Ghost
- Ghost vs Substack
- The Browser as a source: copying or compliment?
- Incorporating YouTube into their content strategy
- Which newsletters Uri loves himself
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Podcast: The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jürgen Klopp
Pub date: 2021-11-10
A hero to many, Jürgen Klopp has achieved what very few have. In the often tribal world of football, he's united fans, pundits and players alike, whilst successfully leading Liverpool FC to domestic and European triumph. Outspoken and easy to laugh, yet measured and deliberate too, his virtues off and on the pitch are celebrated in equal measure. But, now 54, does the bond with his youngest players flow as freely? Is he as authoritarian as he once was? And, could we ever see him leave the pitch to lead a country? By his own admission Jürgen will not hesitate to devour the contents of a full fridge, so you’ll also hear from the best-selling author and nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, who tells us how her book 'The Science of Nutrition' can help us maintain a healthy relationship with the food we love.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’
Pub date: 2015-07-29
Julian Barnes on Van Gogh.
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Podcast: Post Reports (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The zebra files
Pub date: 2021-11-05
When you hear hoofbeats, think zebras — especially if you’re in the D.C. suburbs, where fugitive zebras have been on the run from a local farm for many weeks. Buckle up for a wild ride as we delve into this suburban safari.
Read more:
For more than two months, fugitive zebras in the Maryland suburbs have captured the imaginations of children, neighbors and members of Congress alike. Post Reports producer and amateur zoologist Emma Talkoff started looking into what she thought was a cute local news story — only to unravel a much wilder tale.
Read more from The Post on the zebras from reporters Dana Hedgpeth, Katie Mettler and Maura Judkis.
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Podcast: Home. Made. (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Home. Alone.
Pub date: 2021-05-24
In this episode: Two very different stories about communication issues, and how being home alone can become a catalyst for connection.
In our first story, Audrey Murray finds herself in Shanghai – completely unable to speak Chinese. When she discovers the Magic Number, however, she finds she doesn’t need to. Audrey comes to rely on it for everything, but when she’s invited to a banquet because of her constant use of the Magic Number, she realizes she needs to break out of her English-speaking bubble.
In our second story, married couple Rebecca and Shawne Huff face an unhappy life together unless they can learn how to communicate. With two teenaged kids and many years of marriage on the line, the stakes are high. Rebecca discovers something called “living apart together,” a unique living arrangement that could be the answer to her and Shawne’s relationship problems. They quickly learn that this new reality will require a lot of trust to make it work.
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Podcast: Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 211. WHO GETS ON IN MODERN BRITAIN: breaking the class ceiling
Pub date: 2021-10-03
Hello! Sociologist Sam Friedman has spent years exploring how class shapes our society. He argues Britain faces a powerful ‘class ceiling’ that affects who can access certain jobs and then progress in them. We chat to Sam about why that is and what we can do about it. Then Isabel Farchy from the Creative Mentor Network tells us how her charity is working to widen access to careers in the creative industries.
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Podcast: Whistle Through The Shamrocks (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Whistle Through The Shamrocks: Episode 1
Pub date: 2021-11-01
"A fierce wind did whistle through the shamrocks. Tis an ill wind, bringing change..."
Episode 1:
In the sleepy Irish village of Ballysnavougherenn, it’s just a normal day of chip making and town cranking for the humble and impoverished O’Flanerhyn family. Things take an unexpected turn, however, with the arrival of their evil English landlord, his drippy wife, and their very pretty and very English daughter…
Can a family survive on love and potatoes alone? Or will the O’Flanerhyns crumble under the weight of British oppression?
A comedy written and created by Nicola Coughlan and Camilla Whitehill.
Editors – Alexis Adimora & Diggory Waite
Producer - Chris Jones
Executive Producer – Claire Broughton
Ep 1 Cast
Jamie Beamish
Nicola Coughlan
Ed Gamble
Louisa Harland
Ben Miller
Brenock O’Connor
Amalia Vitale
Camilla Whitehill
Susan Wokoma
A Hat Trick Podcast 2021
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Podcast: Directors in Conversation
Episode: Tom Stoppard and Nicholas Hytner on The Hard Problem
Pub date: 2015-03-10
The director and writer discuss the new play, The Hard Problem.
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Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Peter Singer on How to Reduce Suffering
Pub date: 2021-10-30
Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is one of the most influential philosophers of the past fifty years. A leading exponent of utilitarianism, he has often explored how individuals can improve the lot of those in need with their own choices.
In this week’s conversation, Peter Singer and Yascha Mounk discuss what utilitarianism gets right, whether the effective altruism movement is effective, and why freedom of inquiry is crucial to improving the world.
This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
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Podcast: The Guardian UK Culture Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Short story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley
Pub date: 2010-12-21
Ali Smith reads a ‘breathtaking, breathgiving’ look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughter In the original version of this podcast, Ali Smith’s reading was cut short. The version below has been corrected with the full-length reading
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Podcast: The Paris Review (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 19. A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his Art of Poetry interview; the Italian poet Antonella Anedda discusses her poem “Historiae 2” with her translator Susan Stewart before the American vocal ensemble Tenores de Aterúe re-imagines the poem as a song in the folk tradition of Anedda’s native Sardinia; and Yohanca Delgado reads her story “The Little Widow from the Capital,” a tale of mystery, heartbreak, and embroidery set in a New York apartment building.
Robert Frost’s December 16, 1959, interview with Richard Poirier appears courtesy of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University's Houghton Library. PS3511.R94 Z467 1959x. HOLLIS Permalink: 990023780790203941.
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Podcast: Rigged (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S1 Ep1 | Fake Experts and Real Bacon
Pub date: 2021-10-26
In this episode we'll meet the godfathers of American PR, Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays, and explore the origins and evolution of industry-funded experts who shaped everything from the breakfast table to our understanding of the economy and science.
Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 462- I Can't Believe It's Pink Margarine
Pub date: 2021-10-19
Margarine is yellow, like butter, but it hasn't always been. At times and in places, it has been a bland white, or even a dull pink. These strange variations were a byproduct of 150-year war to destroy margarine, and everything that it stands for. During this epic fight for survival, margarine has had to reinvent itself, over and over again.
I Can't Believe It's Pink Margarine
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Podcast: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: George Saunders Reads “The Mom of Bold Action”
Pub date: 2021-08-24
George Saunders reads his story “The Mom of Bold Action,” from the August 30, 2021, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” and “Tenth of December.”
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Podcast: Hi-Phi Nation (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Man of Many Worlds I
Pub date: 2021-10-16
David Lewis was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, who few outside of academia know much about. By the time of his death in 2001, he was the greatest systematic thinker in metaphysics since the Enlightenment. In Part 1 of a four-part series, we follow his journey from sick little boy in Oberlin, Ohio to teenager learning about free will from Iris Murdoch. We accompany the story of his early life with his theory of time, time travel, and the self. Guest voices include R. Jay Wallace, Mark Schroeder, Steffi Lewis, Donald Lewis, Ellen Lewis, Alan Hajek, John Bigelow, and Meghan Sullivan.
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Podcast: Flash Forward (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: What If We Could Shrink Technology?
Pub date: 2021-10-13
Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny.
Guests:
- Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us
- Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California
- Inge Hermann -- chemical engineer at ETH Zürich
- Raj Bawa -- biotechnologist at Bawa Biotech
- Richard Handy -- environmental toxicologist at University of Plymouth
- Lisa Yaszek -- professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech
Voice Actors:
- Harry Purvis -- Brett Tubbs
- Parvis Tech -- Chelsey B. Coombs
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Podcast: The MoMA Magazine Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Broken Nature | Is Corn Feeding a Lie?
Pub date: 2021-04-26
Showing up in food, cosmetics, fuel, medicine, and even the air we breathe, corn has become one of the most ubiquitous presences in our lives. In this episode of The Broken Nature Series, host Paola Antonelli talked to Bex, who runs the blog Corn Allergy Girl, cultural anthropologist Alyshia Galvez, and community organizers Yira Vallejo and Jonathan Barbieri about the proliferation of corn and its consequences for our health, environment, and communities.
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Podcast: Blind Landing (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Vault: Part 1
Pub date: 2021-07-19
Elise Ray, America’s top gymnast, qualified for the 2000 Olympics with big dreams –– but during the all-around final, high expectations clashed with reality and came crashing down. Literally.
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Podcast: Wine Times (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ed Gamble
Pub date: 2021-10-18
Popping corks with Miquita Oliver and Will Lyons this week is the comedian and podcaster Ed Gamble - who loves a good dessert wine. As well as three great wines to taste; Ed talks about getting back on the road for his new tour Electric, Will has a peculiar tip for storing wine in an unusual place, and Miquita tries to learn how to properly use a spittoon.
2020 Bourgogne Aligoté, L'Étrangère, Burgundy, France
2019 Invivo Pinot Noir, Central Otago, New Zealand
2020 Cabernet Sauvignon, Excelsior of Robertson, South Africa
All the wines in the series are available at www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk
Producers: Leigh Meyer and Ben Mitchell
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Podcast: The Comedian's Comedian Podcast (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 168 - Joe Lycett (Live at Machynlleth Comedy Festival)
Pub date: 2016-05-24
Urbane, charming and totally in touch with what makes him funny, Joe Lycett is the figurehead for a new generation of British comics. We talk technique in detail, digging into "Pomodoro" and renting an office in which to work. We also cover Joe's bisexuality, the nature of camp and what it means today, and the exact degree of truth involved in his absurdist catfishing of public institutions...
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Podcast: Mr. Difficult (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 3: The Corrections
Pub date: 2021-10-15
In this episode, Erin, Alex, and Eric are joined by the novelist Emily Gould to discuss Jonathan Franzen’s third novel—and Mr. Difficult-consensus best book—The Corrections. In the novel, published days before 9/11, Franzen finally puts it all together: a biting satire of the 1990s, the book is, at heart, a funny, moving, and sometimes scabrous account of a family in turmoil at the turn of the century.
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Podcast: Ministry of Ideas (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Out Of Time
Pub date: 2021-09-01
Many of the earliest time technologies were used to mark sacred time -- time set apart for the divine. But with the Industrial Revolution, efficient time use became its own sacred value. We now live in the age of capitalist time, where time is money and must be spent as productively as possible. As we struggle with a global pandemic, it’s time to rethink what we hold sacred.
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Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, and affiliate associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University.
Mary Gray, associate professor of informatics at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Encounters with Medieval Women: Anchoress
Pub date: 2021-10-12
In the second episode in their series, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the work of mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich, who wrote the first book in English that we can be sure was authored by a woman.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 91 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: ‘They Don’t Understand That We’re Real People’
Pub date: 2021-10-01
This episode contains strong language.
A month ago, Texas adopted a divisive law which effectively banned abortions in the state. Despite a number of legal challenges, the law has survived and is having an impact across state lines.
Trust Women is abortion clinic in Oklahoma just three hours north of Dallas — one of the closest clinics Texas women can go to.
On the day the Texas law came into effect, “it was like a light had been flipped,” said one of the workers who staffs the clinic’s phone lines. “We had everyone’s line lit up for almost eight hours straight.”
We visit Trust Women and speak to workers and patients about the real-world impact of the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
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- The new Texas law prohibits abortions after about six weeks, a very early stage of pregnancy. Many women are now traveling out of state for the procedure.
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Podcast: Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Get Some Houseplants
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Not only do they look good, but surprising research is revealing the health benefits of houseplants. In this episode, Michael Mosley explores the science, discovers which houseplants have the biggest impact, and reveals just how many you need in a room to feel the effects. Michael speaks to Dr Tijana Blanusa of the Royal Horticultural Society, to explore the science behind how houseplants can not only improve productivity and cognition at work, they can also improve air quality, helping you literally breathe easier.
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 13 Ways of Looking at a Cormorant
Pub date: 2022-03-21
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Defenders of the cormorant, including the poet laureate of South Carolina and an expert on John Milton, explain why this bird deserves more attention.
Who will speak for the cormorant? This unusual water bird gets culled by humans for overfishing and killing trees. But maybe it is humans and their cultural assumptions that are the source of the problem, say defenders of the cormorant. *This episode originally aired on October 6, 2021.
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Podcast: Spark & Fire: Epic Creative Stories (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How to spark others: Yo-Yo Ma on the Silk Road Project
Pub date: 2021-06-24
The Silk Road Project was an impossibly ambitious, creatively expansive idea to not only create a category of music that had never been heard before, but also create ensembles to perform it, and audiences who were hungry to hear it. How did Yo-Yo Ma build this vision? He knew from the beginning that it wasn’t about him.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 460- Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
Pub date: 2021-09-28
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Arika Okrent explains why English spelling and pronunciation lurches from the inconsistent to the incomprehensible.
When it comes to English spelling and pronunciation, there is plenty of rhyme and very little reason. But what is the reason for that? Why among all European languages is English so uniquely chaotic today?
To help us answer that question, we spoke with linguist and longtime friend of the show, Arika Okrent, author of the new book Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language. In it, Arika explores the origins of those phonetic paradoxes, and it turns out some of the reasons for confusion are as counterintuitive as the words themselves.
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Laundry Done Right
Pub date: 2021-08-12
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Are you a top-loader or a front-loader? Do you separate darks and lights? Is there a right way to do your laundry? Malcolm Gladwell investigates
Is there a right way to do your laundry? Of course there is. A long look at the science of cleaning your clothes.
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Podcast: This is Love (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 37: What Gets Told
Pub date: 2021-08-25
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Interview with a 99-year-old park ranger and community activist. Descended from slaves, she has a very good memory for all of the societal changes she has witnessed in her long life.
"History was dependent upon people like me remembering." A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
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Podcast: See You In Your Nightmares (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Center: Part I
Pub date: 2021-09-22
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Beginning of a spooky fiction series about a wellness centre that purports to treat insomnia but is actually doing something much darker
Seventeen-year-old Harper Hart arrives at the Lutwidge Wellness Center to get help for crippling insomnia caused by the death of her twin sister. But Dr. Carter’s experimental dream tech unlocks something evil in Harper’s subconscious.
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Podcast: Throughline (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Aftermath of Collapse: Bronze Age Edition (2021)
Pub date: 2021-09-02
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There is much we can learn today from the end of Bronze Age society, when a series of interrelated catastrophes utterly changed the world.
What happens after everything falls apart? The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. Today, scholars have pieced together a story where everything from climate change to mass migration to natural disasters played a role. What the end of the Bronze Age can teach us about avoiding catastrophe and what comes after collapse.
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Podcast: Rationally Speaking Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: "Price gouging" in emergencies
Pub date: 2021-08-19
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Julia Galef discusses the rights and wrongs of selling to the highest bidder in times of great need — "price gouging" to some, "market-clearing" to others — with economists Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer
Every time there’s an emergency, the prices of certain goods skyrocket -- like masks and hand sanitizer during COVID -- and the public gets angry about price gouging. In this episode, two economists (Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer) make the case for why “price gouging” is actually a good thing, and Julia raises potential counterarguments.
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Podcast: No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Cars, Gadgets, Costume: The Craft of Bond
Pub date: 2021-09-19
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Behind-the-scenes podcast from the producers of the James Bond films. Here, the special effects and camera tricks that make the spy's gadgets seem to work on screen are explained.
The James Bond films have always been the epitome of style and innovation. In this episode, we’ll explore what goes into crafting the glamour and the action that has become synonymous with the franchise.
Bond isn’t Bond without a number of beautiful cars, ingenious gadgets, an extraordinary wardrobe, astonishing sets and action sequences that have you on the edge of your seat.
With the help of guests including cinematographer Linus Sandgren, special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, costume designer Suttirat Larlarb, director Cary Fukunaga, as well as Daniel Craig and members of the cast, we’ll hear what is required behind-the-scenes in order to make Bond, Bond.
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Podcast: Sounds Like A Cult (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Cult of Marathon Runners
Pub date: 2021-07-27
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Investigation into how "cultish" the online running community is, with particular focus on marathon training. Fitness trackers emerge as a fairly sinister component.
Welcome to the world of fitness trackers, high-performance athletic gear, nutrition goo, obsessively comparing your stats, and trying to beat your PR… it’s the “cult” of marathoners. Is the seemingly healthy practice of running as pure as it‘s made out to be, or can it take over people’s lives in a disturbingly culty way? With the help of a special guest, fitness influencer (and Isa’s comedy pal) Lydia Keating, we’re talking all things athletics, competition, capitalism, and Tik Tok to try and assess how cultish the running community really is.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Podcast: Why Do I Feel? (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: A Taxonomy of Emotion
Pub date: 2021-09-12
Episode 1 - A Taxonomy of Emotion
Welcome to WHY DO I FEEL? a podcast that takes us on an emotional journey. We share stories to help make sense of our experiences and to know that we are not alone. In this series, real people talk about emotional turning points in their lives. How they felt in these moments, and how their lives were changed. We’ll look at each story through the lens of a single emotion, or at least that’s where we’ll start… but feelings aren’t that simple.
Dougie was betrayed and sought revenge. Cathrine was hurt and unable to talk to the person who hurt her. They both found themselves revelling in the same feeling, but at what cost?
To understand why we feel, we need to understand what a feeling is. That’s where our experts come in. In this episode, we hear from:
Tiffany Watt Smith is the author of The Book of Human Emotions, which tells the stories of 156 feelings from around the world. She is a Reader in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, the BBC News Magazine and The New Scientist. In 2014, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker and in 2019 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme prize. She is the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions. @drtiffwattsmith
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top one per cent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also Chief Science Officer for the Centre for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard University. @LFeldmanBarrett
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Podcast: Future Hindsight (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Chicago 7: Mark Levine
Pub date: 2021-07-08
Publication of Transcript Levine and the co-editors were outraged by what was happening in the trial and wanted to make sure the general public knew what was going on in that courtroom. They decided to buy the transcripts from the court reporter and edited over 22,000 pages of transcript into a compilation of the most shocking colloquies, which reveal the immense effort put forth by the government to quash dissent against the war in Vietnam and the injustice of Judge Hoffman’s court. About 180,000 copies were sold shortly after the book was published.
Injustice Judge Julius Hoffman was anything but fair and impartial during the Trial of the Chicago 7. He openly disdained the defendants and their attorneys, accused them of insulting him, threw some of the defense attorneys in jail, and even ordered the physical gagging of Bobby Seale, the sole Black defendant who was not even part of the protests during the convention, for four days. The guilty verdict and the trial proceedings radicalized a lot of young people at that time.
Power of Protest The Trial of the Chicago 7 helped popularize the anti-war movement, which was critical in America’s eventual withdrawal from Vietnam. In response to the trial and the beating of protesters during the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968, massive marches by conscientious objectors became more intense around the country. The United States ended the war in 1974, not only because it was losing, but also because of public pressure to do so.
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Levine is also an experienced voter protection lawyer. His previous books include Negotiating a Book Contract and The Complete Book of Bible Quotations. A graduate of Columbia College, NYU School of Law, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has taught at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Zicklin School of Business/Baruch College.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Colm Tóibín: Alone in Venice
Pub date: 2021-08-24
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Colm Tóibín reads from his diary for November 2020, when he was visiting a quieted Venice during the pandemic.
Colm Tóibín reads his diary from November 2020, about visiting Venice during the pandemic.
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Podcast: CHRIS EVANS - HOW TO WOW (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #40 - Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert & Dr Catherine Green
Pub date: 2021-07-15
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Two of the scientists behind the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine explain for a lay audience how it was developed and tested so quickly.
For this one-off podcast, we are joined by Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green, two of the leading scientists behind the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Their book ‘Vaxxers’ separates fact from fiction and explains how they made a highly safe vaccine in record time with the eyes of the world watching. It’s out now, and we urge anyone and everyone to buy it!
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Podcast: ICYMI (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who Is Egging Chicago? A Hard-Boiled Detective Story
Pub date: 2021-09-11
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A tongue in cheek account of an investigation into a series of seemingly random egg attacks morphs into a serious discussion of what it takes to build a productive online community
Somebody has been hurling raw eggs at people in Chicago. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison try to crack the case of these egg attacks, and speak to the man who created the Chicago Egg Hunters Facebook group that has been on the hunt for the culprit ever since.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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Podcast: The Just Enough Family (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Perestroika
Pub date: 2021-09-09
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Reported history of the (Saul) Steinbergs, once one of New York City’s richest families. Writer Ariel Levy does an excellent job of evoking the glamour and horror of the 1980s superrich.
Liz Lange grew up in one of New York City’s richest families, and then accidentally started a maternity wear empire that revolutionized the look of American pregnancy— she led a charmed life until all at once, her family went bankrupt, she was diagnosed with cancer, and everything she believed to be dependable was proved precarious.
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Podcast: Algorithm (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Afrikka Didn't Need to Die
Pub date: 2021-06-15
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Beginning of a compelling series about how a reporter built an algorithm that searched FBI data for serial killings in order to catch a murderer.
When Afrikka Hardy was strangled in 2014 it seemed completely random. But it wasn’t. It was part of a pattern.
Lori Townsend reminisces about her daughter Afrikka, and journalist Thomas Hargrove says Afrikka's death could've been prevented.
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Podcast: Science Diction (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise Of The Myers-Briggs, Chapter 1: Katharine
Pub date: 2021-08-17
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First in a three-part series about the origins of the Myers-Briggs type indicator system, and its rise to become the world's most popular personality test
If you’re one of the 2 million people who take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator every year, perhaps you thought Myers and Briggs are the two psychologists who designed the test. In reality, a mother-daughter team created the test essentially at their kitchen table. In this episode, we look at the unlikely origins of the Myers-Briggs, going all the way back to the late 1800s when Katharine Cook Briggs turned her living room into a “cosmic laboratory of baby training” and set out to raise the perfect child.
In this three-part series, we uncover the strange history of the most popular personality test in the world, and how two women revolutionized personality testing—for better or for worse.
Guest: Merve Emre is a writer and English professor at the University of Oxford.
Footnotes & Further Reading: Read Merve Emre’s book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing.
Credits: This episode was produced by Johanna Mayer, Chris Egusa, and Elah Feder. Our music was composed by Daniel Peterschmidt, who also mastered the episode. Fact checking by Danya AbdelHameid. Archival audio was provided courtesy of Peter Geyer. Nadja Oertelt is our Chief Content Officer.
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Podcast: ABC News Daily (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Does the four-day week work?
Pub date: 2021-09-09
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Succinct summary of current thinking on how shortening the work week affects productivity, and why places like Iceland and Scotland are running trials of this schedule.
Being paid the same amount of money to work fewer hours is a strong pitch, so it's easy to see why workers might support a four day week.
Surprisingly though, there's also growing evidence that it'll boost overall productivity.
The four day working week is being trialled from Iceland and Spain to the US and Scotland, with more places contemplating the model.
So if it's a win for businesses and workers, then why isn't it already everywhere?
Featured:
Professor Juliet Schor, Economist and Sociologist, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, Boston, US
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Podcast: Many Minds (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The roots of rhythm
Pub date: 2021-09-01
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Interview with an anthropologist about the origins of music. The conversation explores the idea that understanding of rhythm and melody was an adaptation acquired as humans evolved.
Why do we make music? Why do we love music? Well, you say, because it's in our nature. Our brains were sculpted over the course of evolution to delight in sonic sequences, to remember melodies, to revel in rhythms.
Perhaps. But, actually, not everyone thinks music is an adaptation. Not everything we do was directly shaped by natural selection. And even if music was an evolutionary adaptation, that raises a bunch of further questions, like: Why would musical abilities have been an advantage? Why did music emerge in our species, but not, say, in chimps? What were the first contexts in which music took shape? What were we singing or drumming or making all that racket about?
For today's episode we're going behind a recent paper that explores these questions. My guest is Dr. Ed Hagen, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Washington State University – Vancouver. For a couple decades now, on and off, Ed has been thinking and writing about the origins of music. Along with his co-authors Samuel Mehr, Max Krasnow, and Greg Bryant, Ed recently published a paper in the journal Behavioral & Brain Sciences titled 'Origins of music in credible signaling.'
Ed and I talk about what first got him musing about music, back in graduate school. We consider the functions of vocal signaling in birds, wolves, chimps, and other creatures. We discuss three prominent ideas about the roots of music: Darwin's idea that it evolved as a way for males to advertise their quality, Pinker's idea that music is like cheesecake, and—perhaps the most popular of all—the idea that music evolved to help cement social bonds. And, of course, we dig into the meat Ed and company’s paper, their alternative proposal. They argue that the roots of music lie in two contexts: coalition signaling and infant care. We’ll get into the specifics, of course.
One of my biggest takeaways from this conversation is that it’s a fascinating time to be interested in the deep history of music. Seems like a bit of a subfield is coalescing around the topic. In fact—as Ed and I talk about—their paper was actually one of two papers on the origins of music published in the very same issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. If you want to dive deeper, definitely check out the other article as well.
One last note—and this is something I keep forgetting to mention: If you have ideas about who we should interview, or about which papers or topics we should feature, we would love to hear from you. Just find us on Twitter, or send an email to manymindspodcast@gmail.com. That's manymindspodcast@gmail.com.
Alright, on to my conversation with Dr. Ed Hagen. Enjoy!
A transcript of this episode is available here.
Notes and links
3:00 – A 2003 paper by Dr. Hagen and co-author Greg Bryant about music as a “coalition signaling system.”
10:50 – An example of a gibbon song.
12:00 – The companion paper, led by Patrick Savage, advances the social bonding view.
15:30 – Darwin’s theory of the origins of music was laid out in The Descent of Man.
20:20 – Steven Pinker proposed the “auditory cheesecake” hypothesis in How the Mind Works.
28:30 – An early article on how singing is preserved in aphasia.
42:00 – A paper on chimpanzee pant hoots; a video showing an example.
46:00 – Long-standing listeners will recall that we briefly discussed “contact calls” in our episode on piloerection.
51:00 – The study showing that dance music and lullabies are perhaps the most readily recognized genres of music, and the past episode where Manvir Singh and I discussed this.
55:30 – A book by Brian Hayden on feasting in pre-industrial societies.
1:00:30 – One advocate of the idea that language may have emerged from music is W. Tecumseh Fitch, who wrote The Evolution of Language.
Dr. Hagen recommends you check out the companion paper—which advances the social bonding view and which appeared in the same issue of Behavioral & Brain Sciences—and Steven Mithen’s book, The Singing Neanderthals.
You can find Dr. Hagen on Twitter (@ed_hagen) and follow him at his website.
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Podcast: The Ballad Of Anne & Mary (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Take The Steel
Pub date: 2021-04-29
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Musical series set in 1721, when notorious pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read are imprisoned in London's Newgate Prison. Catchy tunes and a suspenseful story.
Researching for his book on piratical history, cash-strapped journalist Nathaniel Mist arrives at Newgate Prison to interview the two notorious survivors of the captured ship Revenge. He finds Mary Read delirious with fever, and Anne Bonny in no mood for smalltalk. What will he have to bargain in exchange for their stories? Featuring Christina Bianco as Anne Bonny, Sooz Kempner as Mary Read, Karl Queensborough as Nathaniel Mist, John Henry Falle as Jonathan Barnet, Carole Stennett as Bess the Ballad Singer, Dominic Brewer as John Bonny and the Gatekeeper, James Ducker as Turnkey Scratby, Laurence Owen as Daniel, William Cormac and additional voices, Lindsay Sharman as Barbara and additional voices, Colette Boushell as Anne’s Mother, Helen Fullerton as Mrs Cormac and additional voices. Further additional voices by Hayley Evenett and Ivan Wilkinson. Written by Lindsay Sharman. Directed by Lindsay Sharman and Laurence Owen. Music, Sound Design and Editing by Laurence Owen. Artwork by Rebecca Pitt. Sensitivity Reading by Ray Stoeve. Produced by Long Cat Media. Episode 2 is released on May 6th. For transcripts and additional info about this podcast and our other productions, visit http://www.longcatmedia.com/ (www.longcatmedia.com) You can support Laurence and Lindsay by buying them a coffee! Donate a one-off or monthly gift at http://www.ko-fi.com/longcatmedia (www.ko-fi.com/longcatmedia), and get exclusive bonus and behind the scenes content. Follow us @LongCatMedia on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and also @BalladAnneMary on Twitter. This podcast was supported by funding from Arts Council England, the UEA Enterprise Scheme, and our Ko-fi patrons.
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Podcast: Hakai Magazine Audio Edition (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris
Pub date: 2021-08-17
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Absorbing reading of an article about the persistent lure of ambergris, a solid waxy substance originating in the intestine of the sperm whale. It is rare, prized yet useless.
by Mark Wilding • The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs.
The original story, along with illustrations, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
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Podcast: The Golden Goats (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Top 5 Films Set Almost Entirely on a Train
Pub date: 2021-04-14
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Chatty film podcast. On each episode the hosts pick their top five films in an obscure or niche category of their choosing.
In this first class episode Ben and Alan go through their picks for the top 5 films set almost entirely on a train. Class, uncanny valleys and old timey fish practices are all discussed. We then speak to and award our goat statue to a mystery guest connected with the winning film!
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Podcast: The Turning: The Sisters Who Left (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: No Turning Back
Pub date: 2021-05-18
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eginning of a series about what life was like for a young woman who chose to join the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic order founded by Mother Teresa.
PART ONE - We enter a hidden world behind convent walls to learn what it’s like for a young sister to join the Missionaries of Charity. MC sisters take strict vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor. As aspirants, they start to learn the rules of this closed society, one that contains secret ceremonies and countless rituals
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Podcast: Us & Them (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis
Pub date: 2021-08-26
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Widespread drug addiction is remaking family structures. When parents are unable to care for children, it has become common for grandparents to step in.
WVPB’s Us & Them introduces us to an unusual cultural divide, one that exists within families. It’s a generation split that comes when chemical addiction prevents parents from raising their children. Millions of U.S. households have become “grandfamilies,” a new kind of family structure. This generational Us & Them divide, puts pressure on aging adults and spotlights underlying financial issues that cause a strain between parents and their adult children. West Virginia and other Appalachian states are at the epicenter of this trend and West Virginia has created a unique support program called “Healthy Grandfamilies.” It’s a training program designed to support grandparents when they become caregivers the second time around. This episode originally aired in February 2020 and was recently honored with journalism’s national Edward R. Murrow award.
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Podcast: Composer of the Week (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Pauline Viardot and her Circle
Pub date: 2021-06-18
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Lengthy and absorbing exploration of an unjustly overlooked 19C composer, who made a career first as an opera singer before writing her own music.
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 19th-century French singer, pianist, composer and influential society figure, Pauline Viardot.
“When I want to do something, I do it in spite of water, fire, society, the whole world”, an indicator if ever there was one, of the inner steel of this week’s composer.
Born in 1821, Pauline Viardot possessed an array of exceptional qualities. As one of the opera stars of her age, she was admired from Paris to St Petersburg as a sublime interpreter of Rossini, Bellini, Handel and Gluck. Beyond her incomparable voice, her twice weekly artistic salons were a high point in Parisian cultural life. She knew, and was admired by Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix, Liszt, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns to name but a few. While having, according to Saint-Saëns, an unnecessarily modest view of her talent, she was also an accomplished composer. A talented linguist with five languages at her command, her compositions include a substantial body of songs, one or two instrumental works and a series of highly appealing operettas.
This week Donald Macleod will be exploring different facets of her extraordinary life. We’ll be hearing from a range of Viardot’s compositions as well as some of the operatic roles she made famous. He’ll be examining her role in Parisian cultural circles, and her friendships with leading writers among them Charles Dickens, and in particular Ivan Turgenev, and composers such as Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Meyerbeer and Gounod, all of whom created roles specifically for her incredible voice.
Music Featured:
Les filles de Cadix Scène d’Hermione, Act IV: Je ne t’ai point (pas), Cruel? Manuel Garcia Snr: La figlia dell’aria: È non lo vedo…. Son regina Liszt: El Contrabandista Rondo Fantastique sur Un Thème Espagnol, S.252 Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 2, Don Basilio! Cosa veggo? …… briconi, birbanti Rossini: Otello, Act 3, Sc 1, Canzone del Salice: Assisa a pie d'un salice Madrid Hai luli Six Morceaux (I Romance; II Bohèmienne; III: Berceuse) Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act 2, Ah! qual colpo inaspettato! Plainte d’amour (Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 6, No 1) L’Oiselet (Mazurka Op 68, No 2) La Séparation (Mazurka no 14 in G minor Op 24, No 1) Rossini: La Cenerentola, Overture 3 Mörike Songs (no 1. In der Frühe; No 2. Nixe Binsefuss) Berçeuse-cosaque Golden glow of the mountain peaks Do not sing, my beauty, to me Rossini: Il barbiere di siviglia, Act 1, No 5,Una voce poco fa Le dernier sorcier, Act 1, No 1 Par ici; No 2 Chanson de Lelio; No 3 Romance de la Reine 12 songs of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev (No 1, Tsvetok) 5 poems of Lermontov & Turgenev (No 1, Na zare) 10 poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov, Tyutchev and Fet (No 3, Ya lyubila yego) 12 poems of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev (No 4, Polunochnyye obrazy) Bellini: La sonnambula, Act 1 (excerpts) Évocation Le dernier sorcier, Act 2 Finale Gounod: Sapho, Act 3, O ma lyre immortelle…. Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila, Act 1, Printemps qui commence (Dalila, The Old Hebrew) Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Act 5 Sc 2, 3 & 4 Fauré: Puisqu’ici-bas toutes âme Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Act 2, O sink herneider, Nacht der liebe Brahms: Alto Rhapsody Violin Sonatina in A Minor (Allegro finale) Cendrillon (excerpts) Gluck, ed Berlioz: Orphée, Act 1, Sc 4, Amour, viens rendre à mon âme
Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Johannah Smith
For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Pauline Viardot and Her Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wysc
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
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Podcast: Subtitle (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A tale of edible intrigue
Pub date: 2021-07-28
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Who writes the fortunes in fortune cookies, and how did this practice begin? A blend of language analysis and history here explains — it's not a Chinese tradition.
Who writes the fortunes in fortune cookies? Why are so many of them not really fortunes at all? Why did some fortunes turn ominous for a while? (“After today, you shall have a deeper understanding of both good and evil.”) And who was behind the theft of countless fortunes? Lidia Jean Kott has the answers to these questions, and to one more: Where do fortune cookies come from? Hint: It's not China. Music in this episode by Lisa Germano, Podington Bear and Blue Dot Sessions. Photo by Megan Swan/Museum of Food and Drink. Read a transcript of the episode here.
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Podcast: Pop-Up Magazine Presents (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Field Guide: Night Sky
Pub date: 2021-07-21
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A writer, a radio host, a comedian and a photographer each contribute miniature essays to this practical guide to seeing more interesting things after the sun goes down.
Every night, when the sun goes down and the stars come out, the world completely changes. There are plants and animals that come out only at night. People too. And every night the sky puts on a show. Author Roxane Gay (Hunger), radio host David Greene (formerly of NPR’s Morning Edition), author and comedy writer Bess Kalb (Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, Jimmy Kimmel Live), photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva (National Geographic), an 11-year-old who’s afraid of the dark, and more join us as we explore our mysterious world at night.
This episode is part of Pop-Up Magazine’s Field Guide, an audio and art experience made for the world around us. Sponsored by Asana. Find more at popupmagazine.com/fieldguide
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Podcast: Powered By Audio (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How does audio shape professional sports? with IndyCar driver Marcus Ericsson
Pub date: 2021-05-04
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Sound plays a huge role in how people appreciate and understand sport. An audio engineer explains how he mixes a big game live, as it happens.
If you have ever watched sports with the sound off, it just doesn’t feel the same. Great audio not only enriches the experience for the fans, but it is also incredibly important to the participants. In this episode, host Randi Zuckerberg examines the many ways audio impacts sports with IndyCar driver Marcus Ericsson and Fox TV audio engineer Joseph Carpenter.
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Podcast: All The Wiser (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Failure to protect: The children left behind by the Witness Protection program
Pub date: 2021-08-11
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Fascinating interview with someone who was placed in witness protection at the age of seven after her father, a convicted murderer, became a government informant.
Jackee Taylor was put into the Federal Witness Protection program as a 7-year-old girl after her father, Clarence Crouch, a convicted killer and infamous member of the Hells Angels, turned and became a government informant. Jackee and her family have now been in Witness protection for nearly 40 years, but after a life full of hardship and struggle, she had enough and went public with her story - exposing the major flaws of the program and pushing for fundamental change.
In this episode you'll hear:
- What it's like being coached into living a lie.
- How Jackee learns of her father’s secret.
- The struggles that come with a missing identity.
- Why the Witness Protection Program is fundamentally flawed.
- Jackee’s life mission to be the voice for others struggling.
Episode benefitting Project Healing Waters.
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Podcast: I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A new raptor from Tajikistan
Pub date: 2021-07-21
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Enthusiastic conversational podcast about dinosaurs, which keeps listeners abreast with all the latest news in the field of palaeontology.
For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Tanycolagreus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Tanycolagreus-Episode-347/
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Dinosaur of the day Tanycolagreus, a Late Jurassic theropod which is most likely a basal coelurosaurian.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new Velociraptor-sized Dromaeosaur, Kansaignathus, was found in northern Tajikistan
- Ankylosaurs are now known from another province in China, this time Jilin, which is northeast of Liaoning
- In Nagasaki, Japan, researchers found a new ornithopod shoulder which may represent a new species
- In Sichuan, China, a new type of dinosaur footprint has been named Eubrontes nobitai
- In Broome, Western Australia, new sauropod and theropod tracks have been found next to each other
- Munchehagen Dinosaur Park in Rehburg-Loccum, Germany, now has two Plateosaurus skeletons from Switzerland on display
- The Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, will have a new exhibit, Expedition Dinosaurs, Rise of the Mammals
- 21 identical T. rex sculptures around Norwich, England have been decorated to celebrate Dippy at Norwich Cathedral
- There's a new Marvel hero called Reptil who can turn into any dinosaur that he knows about
- John Hutchinson shared tips for early career researchers on PeerJ
- The recently released game "Lemme splash: Soar-o-pods" pokes fun at some recent dinosaur claims and is really fun to play
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Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Who owns Amanda Knox?
Pub date: 2021-08-04
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Amanda Knox, best known for her murder conviction and acquittal in the case of Meredith Kercher, talks about how her life story has become public property.
The new Matt Damon movie, Stillwater, is based on Amanda Knox’s story. She wishes someone had asked her to tell it.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.
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Podcast: Surrogacy: A Family Frontier (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: The Intended Parents
Pub date: 2018-12-06
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Nuanced perspectives on the emotional and ethical issues raised by surrogacy. Written and hosted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.
Dustin Lance Black speaks to gay and straight parents who’ve used surrogacy to build their family.
Producer: Jane Andrews Mixed by: Rob Green Editor: Tracy Williams
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Podcast: Normal Not Normal (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Special: Ed Sheeran and Stuart Camp
Pub date: 2021-07-02
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The twin actors who played Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter films talk to people who, like them, achieved fame or notoriety at a young age.
In this special bonus episode we take a break from our break to welcome Ed Sheeran and his manager Stuart Camp onto the podcast!
We were honoured to host the first interview with both Ed and Stuart together. Over the years the pair have developed a unique friendship, and Stuart and his wife are even godparents to Ed’s daughter Lyra. They still disagree on one big thing, however. Ed is a huge Potter superfan. Stuart isn’t.
We ask why Ed makes Stuart carry a photo of the Weasley twins in his wallet at all times, which ridiculous purchase Stuart had to talk Ed out of, and why Ed asked Rupert Grint to play him in the music video for 'Lego House'.
We’d like to thank HelloFresh, our sponsors for this episode. Go to hellofresh.com/normal14 and use the code normal14 for up to 14 free meals, plus free shipping!
Ed’s ‘3am Questions’:
Favourite book - His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman
Favourite film - The Harry Potter series
Favourite songs - Mama’s Eyes by Justin Townes Ear - Jealous by Labrinth - American Pie by Don McLean
Stuart’s ‘3am Questions’:
Favourite book - Captain Coreli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Favourite film - Alien
Favourite song - Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran!
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We'll see you later this year for the next season!
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Music: 'Not Normal' by Sebastian Forslund and 'Pretty Carolina' by Jontha Links.
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Podcast: The Panto Podcast
Episode: Ep 92 - Anita Harris
Pub date: 2021-08-05
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Long, meandering yet delightful interview with the veteran British actress, who starred in Carry On films in the 1960s and is now a fixture of the winter pantomime circuit.
The wonderful Anita Harris is my guest for this episode. She tells me what it was like working in Las Vegas as a youngster, the privilege of being in the wings watching so many household names and how a chance meeting led to her being part of movie history.
You can follow Anita on Twitter https://twitter.com/theanitaharris
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Podcast: How Good It Is (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 145: I Honestly Love You
Pub date: 2021-07-09
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Bitesize pop trivia podcast tackles the complicated process behind making Olivia Newton-John's 1974 hit song. No cover version has ever measured up
Original cover photo by awatif abdulaziz on Scopio
Olivia Newton-John was already a pretty big star by the time 1974 rolled around, but she still hadn’t scored a Number One hit.
Then along came Peter Allen, who was coincidentally also from Australia. Allen was putting together an album of his own, and he enlisted Jeff Barry to help him with the songwriting. Together they put together “I Honestly Love You” and cut a demo. The intent of the demo was to have something to work from when they recorded it for the album.
Instead the demo wound up in the hands of Olivia Newton-John’s producer, who played it for the singer. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Except, not quite. There were a couple of other things that needed to happen. But if I told you here, why would you bother listening to the episode? I ask you!
Because this episode is running a few days late, you’re getting a treat: Episode 146, which will be an interview with John Hall, founder of the band Orleans, will drop either Monday or Tuesday, depending on how quickly I finish my post-production. Hall was a terrific interview and I hope to do a follow-up with him in the near future.
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Podcast: The Book Club (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Lawrence Wright: The Plague Year
Pub date: 2021-06-09
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New Yorker journalist Lawrence Wright discusses the craft involved in writing a reported book about Covid in America while still living through it.
In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is one of America's foremost magazine journalists, the New Yorker's Lawrence Wright. His new book is The Plague Year: America In The Time of Covid. He tells me what a book brings to recent history that week-to-week journalism can't, about the extraordinary happenstance that put him in contact with one of the unsung heroes of the vaccine race, and the three reasons Covid was such a catastrophe for the US.
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Podcast: Ministry of Ideas (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Public Thinking
Pub date: 2021-06-10
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What is the role of the "public intellectual" at a time when technology makes it possible for anyone to share their ideas — good or bad — with the world?
We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speaking truth to power.” Today, however, online networks and social media mean we are all public intellectuals, and we have new responsibilities that come with this role.
Guests
Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary and author of, among other works, Black Prophetic Fire.
George Scialabba, author of What Good Are Intellectuals Good For?, and many other works.
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Podcast: Atlantic: A Scottish Story (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: A New Arrival
Pub date: 2021-06-20
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Musical drama about the people who once lived on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. There are two parallel narratives, one set in 1897 and one in 1963
1963 - An islander makes his way home after a lifetime across the sea.
1897 - Evie and Quinn prepare for the arrival of a new schoolmistress on Hirta and find a feathered friend in the process. Ms Cameron makes her presence felt in parliament. Carey braces the island for change. Quinn considers his and Evie’s place on Hirta.
Featuring:
Kirsty Findlay as Evie Mccormick
Sebastian Lim-Seet and David Hayman as Quinn Whyte
Blythe Duff as Fiadh Mccormick
Kate Dickie as Ms Cameron
John Kielty as Carey Whyte
Lawrence Smith as Arlo Mccormick
Ainsley Hamill as The Voice Of Hirta
Live Musicians:
Sally Simpson, Matthew Howells, Marissa Waite and John Kielty
Atlantic: A Scottish Story was written and created by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie.
Produced by Noisemaker and The Big Light. For more information about the cast, band and creative team, go to: www.thebiglight.com/atlantic
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Podcast: Shared Space (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Science Behind Healthy Buildings with Emily Anthes
Pub date: 2021-02-23
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Architecture can play a large yet invisible role in public health. The guest here explains how good home design helps to reduce the spread of infectious disease
Emily Anthes is an award-winning science journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Atlantic Wired, Nature, to name a few. Emily has a master's degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor's degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In this episode, we discuss...
Introduction [0:30]
Earliest Memory of Architecture's Impact [02:10]
How Emily Started Writing the Book [03:13]
Link Between Public Health and the Built Environment Then, and Now [04:52]
How Did Our Cities Get These Designs? [09:17]
Shifting the Balance Back [11:50]
Path to a More Inclusive and Universal Design [14:03]
Why Did the Open Office Design Backfire? [18:08]
It's all Just in Good Design [22:13]
Bringing in More Permeability [24:44]
Climate Resilience and The Social Fabric [25:33]
Amphibious Housing [27:11]
Top Recommendation to Design for Connection [27:50]
Final Message [29:24]
Where to Find Emily Anthes
Website: http://emilyanthes.com/
Twitter: @EmilyAnthes
Newsletter: https://emilyanthes.carrd.co/
Resources Mentioned
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
Amphibious Housing: An Innovative Approach to Seasonal Flood Mitigation for Vulnerable First Nations Communities by Ropel-Morski, Zachary, Elizabeth English, and Scott Turner
About the Host
Erin is an architect and design researcher bridging the gap between research and practice with a focus on design for health. She believes in the power of places to heal, connect, and serve vulnerable people — from hospital patients and staff, to people struggling with social isolation and mental health challenges. Erin is driven by a commitment to help others and the joy of working together to solve complex problems with shared purpose.
Website: www.erinpeavey.com
Twitter: @erin_peavey
LinkedIn: Erin K. Peavey
Instagram: @design.for.health
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Podcast: Ladies Who London (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 42 - Waterloo - Necropolis Railway, London's death rail
Pub date: 2021-07-07
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Cheery conversation between two expert tourist guides about a 19C British underground rail service used exclusively to transport coffins to cemeteries
One of London's most curious bits of history this week, as we talk about London's necrotrain - a train designed to transport London's dead, plus their mourners, out to a green leafy cemetery about 25 miles out of London. Was there really an option for coffins to travel in different classes? Emily is very worries about catering - were there sandwiches?! Find out all about it here.
Plus we find out who won the Podcast Pedestal and Emily gets her sweaty hands on the wheel again for another chance to see where we will get to chat about next week.
Let us know what you think on Instagram, or on our websites.
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Thanks to Susie Riddell for our voiceover jingles www.susieriddell.com and our jinglemeister Ben Morales Frost, can be found on www.benfrostmusic.com
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Podcast: A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to change? Let it go...
Pub date: 2021-07-19
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Twin doctors, one overweight and one not, explore the devastating effect of ultra processed food on the body.
Chris and Xand have an emotional conversation about why this project is important and hard for both of them. They speak separately to Alasdair Cant, a behaviour change expert, about how we decide to become different people.
Alasdair also speaks to Chris about how he, like many family members, may be holding Xand back.
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
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Podcast: The Slow Newscast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Left to die - episode 1
Pub date: 2021-06-23
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First of a three-part series about the March 2021 attack on Palma, northern Mozambique, by Islamist militants. As well as its permanent residents, the town also contained foreign contract workers, there to build a gas plant nearby. Two hundred civilians were trapped in a hotel, waiting for a rescue by the security forces that never came. Dramatic in substance, yet measured in tone
In March, Islamist militants attacked the town of Palma, in northern Mozambique – the site of a $20bn gas project. They besieged a hotel, where more than 200 civilians were taking shelter, waiting to be rescued. But help never came. In our new three-part series, we investigate why these men, women and children were abandoned.
Ep1: An Islamist insurgency hits. Nick and Wes, two South African contractors, race to the Amarula Hotel. Over three horrifying days, it becomes clear: no one is coming to help.
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Podcast: Guardians of the River (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Power to Protect
Pub date: 2021-06-10
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Beginning of a five part series documenting an expedition into the Okavango Delta. The rivers that converge to form this unique landscape run through Angola, Namibia and Botswana, and both people and wildlife in those countries rely on the water to live. The mythology and folklore of the place plays a big part in this exploration, as does the way climate change is altering the delta
A team of scientists and tribes members embark on an epic four-month National Geographic expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realize their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like demon named Mukisi.
Show notes:
To learn more, visit www.wildbirdtrust.com.
To watch the original documentary Into the Okavango, visit: https://films.nationalgeographic.com/into-the-okavango.
This podcast is hosted by Kerllen Costa. It is written, recorded, and directed by Cat Jaffee and House of Pod in partnership with the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project. Funding for this project comes from a National Geographic storytelling grant and the Wild Bird Trust. Additional audio recorded for the documentary was provided by Neil Gelinas and Kaya Ensor. Fact checking was conducted by Aimee Machado. Juliette Luini is the producer. The audio editor and sound designer is Jason Paton. The Angolan producer is Kerllen Costa, and the Motswana producer is Thalefang Charles. Story editing comes from Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato.
Geração 80 is the recording studio in Angola.
Music: The Guardians of the River theme song was created by Victor Gama. Victor is a composer and designer of contemporary musical instruments for new music. He performs solo, with his trio or with ensembles playing his large pieces from small to big halls such as the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall or Centro Cultural de Belém. INSTRMNTS - Victor Gama, his award winning interactive exhibition with workshops and concerts, has been installed at London's Royal Opera House, Madrid's Fundación Carlos D'Amberes, UK's National Center for Design and Crafts and many more.
The theme music of this podcast is a journey of sounds from the villagers of Tempue preparing food and drumming on bomb drums while celebrating their faith in village churches, which is interwoven with a greeting song by the children of Tempue sung before the community meeting. There is also a reed harp played by Tom Rethio, a WaYei musician who lives near Seronga in Botswana. Victor also used a number of his own instruments including the kissanje, which is one of the most important traditional instruments in Angola and is found especially in Moxico and the Lundas. Most kissanji have small metal rings on their tines which produce a rattling noise as the musician plays, creating rhythmic patterns. In the music, we aspire to communicate that nature is ever present, that the history of the land has a sound, that learning is joyful, that elders tell stories non-linearly and give their knowledge permission to wander, and that young voices are ready to be heard. In addition to custom pieces from Victor, the music featured in the series also comes from Victor's 2010 album Pangeia Instrumentos. The tracks included on the podcast are O Pescador De Sonhos, Homem Vermelho Homem Verde, A Guerra dos Homens Répteis, O Olho No Anzol, O Diálogo Dos Pernetas, Mibanga.
Art: The episode art for Guardians of the River was illustrated by Fernando Hugo Fernandes. Fernando is an illustrator and graphic artist with over 30 years of experience living in Campinas Brazil. The episode art for the series was meant to encapsulate some of the Guardians of the Okavango River Basin, from the long-standing human residents and indigenous tribes members to the hippos and elephants and bats and dragonflies. There is also a plane. And the hidden dragon-like demon legend, Mukisi. Remember, Mukisi can't be seen with human eyes. How many guardians can you spot? And what makes each of these elements a guardian? Keep listening to find out.
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Podcast: Unravel True Crime: Juanita (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: S5 01 | My Aunt Juanita
Pub date: 2021-07-12
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Australian true crime podcast, about the still-unsolved disappearance in 1975 of Juanita Nielsen, a retail heiress and a leading activist against plans by real-estate developers to gentrify the Kings Cross neighbourhood of Sydney. Organised crime and police corruption play a part in the story. This investigation is partly a family history, and is led by Nielsen's niece
At primary school, Keiran McGee did a talk about her activist aunt Juanita Nielsen telling the class she was murdered by the Kings Cross underground. Her classmates didn’t clap.
Decades later, Keiran is embarking on her own investigation to find answers for her family about Juanita’s unsolved disappearance and get to know the aunt she never knew. Her first interview is Juanita’s ex-boyfriend, who was one of the last people to see her alive.
Keiran, along with Aunty Pip, discovers a trove of documents that other family members have put aside, more than twenty boxes revealing numerous leads and fresh evidence from witnesses who’ve never been made public.
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Podcast: Vox Conversations (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How to forgive
Pub date: 2021-07-12
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Erudite conversation on grudge-holding and forgiveness. Elizabeth Bruenig of The Atlantic argues that contemporary society currently has no viable template for atonement: once someone has owned up to a mistake and made amends, there is no route to forgiveness or continuity with their persona before. In the age of social media, we lack a recognition of our moral frailty
Vox's Sean Illing talks with Elizabeth Bruenig about how hard it is to forgive, how to balance our desire for justice with our humanity, and about how the age-old moral framework of forgiveness has met new challenges in the modern forum of social media.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox
Guest: Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig), staff writer, The Atlantic
References:
- “Not that Innocent” by Elizabeth Bruenig (The Atlantic; June 9)
- “The Man I Saw Them Kill” by Elizabeth Bruenig (New York Times; Dec. 17, 2020)
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- Producer: Erikk Geannikis
- Editor: Amy Drozdowska
- Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey
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Podcast: Instant Genius (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Forensic anthropology, with Prof Sue Black
Pub date: 2021-07-11
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Interview with Professor Sue Black, an anatomist and forensic anthropologist best known for her work identifying remains in Kosovo in the 1990s. She gives an admirably comprehensible summary of the field and its applications here, going in to some details that more squeamish listeners may wish to skip. Her techniques are now also used in digital crime detection
Prof Sue Black explains the science behind identifying a body at a crime scene. Warning: This episode contains a frank and academic discussion about forensic investigation – how it works and what clues a dead body might leave behind – which some listeners may find uncomfortable.
Once you’ve mastered the basics with Instant Genius, dive deeper with Instant Genius Extra, where you’ll find longer, richer discussions about the most exciting ideas in the world of science and technology. Only available on Apple Podcasts.
Produced by the team behind BBC Science Focus Magazine. Visit our website: sciencefocus.com
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Podcast: Sound Africa (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Think African Episode 2
Pub date: 2021-05-21
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Power is a hot topic on the African continent, as this documentary explains. African countries are grappling with the same environmental pressures to reduce emissions as everywhere else, but in many cases without the same resources. Nuclear is a popular choice, although at the moment the continent's only nuclear plant is in South Africa and is now nearly forty years old
The Cost of Power: In this episode we dive into how Africa’s natural resources are managed and the implications of mismanagement on democracy. Is Nuclear power the answer to power generation in Africa? We speak to Environmental Activist, Human Rights Defender and Director of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg, Makoma Lekalakala.
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Podcast: Blind Date With a Book (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: A Teacher in Search of Literary Escape
Pub date: 2021-06-30
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Literary game-show podcast where the hosts use classic dating profile questions to match a reader up with a new book. The exercise was prompted by all three hosts experiencing a "pandemic slump" in their ability to focus on a text. This is an attempt to remove any friction in the reading experience. Worth it for the literary recommendations, and also for the cheerful conversational dynamic
This is Blind Date With a Book, the podcast that matches guests up with their literary soulmates using dating app questions. In each episode, hosts Kristen Evans, Rachel Mans McKenney, and Elena Nicolaou go head-to-head to give the best recommendation.
The guest: Alexa Nicolaou
The picks:
- The Mercies by Kiran Milwood Hargrave. (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9780316529259)
- And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9781631498688)
- Circe by Madeline Miller (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9780316556323)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9780316229296)
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9780525565437)
- The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger (https://www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9780525534976)
Where to find us:
Kristen Evans: Twitter @paperalphabet,
Rachel Mans McKenney: Twitter @rmmckenny, Instagram @rachelmansmckenney
Elena Nicolaou: Twitter @elenawonders, Instagram @booksandelena
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Podcast: Human Resources (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Woolly Morals part 1
Pub date: 2021-06-08
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Welsh cloth, a tough fabric that had been manufactured in central Wales since the 16C, played a little-known but vital part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. European demand for the cloth diminished in the early 1800s, so merchants began selling it to Caribbean plantation owners instead, for use by their slaves. At the peak, Welsh cottage weavers were exporting almost eight million yards a year (29m 58s)
The picturesque County of Powys in Wales, had an abstruse but vital role in the Slave trade. We uncover how everyday families got swept up in the business and production of Welsh Cloth, a cloth used to not only clothe enslaved people but also trade them.
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of brutality, listener discretion advised.
Featuring Dr. Marian Gwynn (https://www.mariangwyn.com/)
Full episode transcript (shorturl.at/cBDNW)
CREDITS
Produced by Renay Richardson
Researchers Dr Alison Bennett and Arisa Loomba
Sound design by Ben Yellowitz
The original song you heard was Tudor Gwynn Suganami Jones which is about Sir Henry Morgan
Steel pan and flute by Sian Herbert
Extra sound recordings - Sandra Dobrozemsky
J Hope on Violin
James Collins - Choral vocals.
Production Assistant is Rory Boyle.
This is a Broccoli Production.
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Podcast: 41256
Episode: Episode 45 - Before They Met Their Inevitable Fate on the Bolsover Road
Pub date: 2018-11-25
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Short collage made out of snatches overheard on BBC radio. The whole feed functions like an audio commonplace book. Each extract is skilfully reedited, with the originals linked if any pique your interest. This one connects together three different but impassioned monologues. For the ultimate union of medium and message, the last clip is from a programme about editing audio
Bits of sound. Short. Every Sunday. An audio commonplace. Helen Mort - BBC Radio 3 - The Essay - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06rwfzn
Natalie Batalha - BBC Radio 4 - Deep Time and the Sparrowhawk - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00017rk
BBC Radio 4 - Archive Hour - Close To The Edit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qxd5b
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The merits of meritocracy
Pub date: 2021-06-21
Adrian Wooldridge discusses his new book Aristocracy of Talent, which explores meritocracy’s role in forging the modern world, and weighs up the challenges and advantages of a system in which people are advanced solely on the basis of their talents.
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Podcast: The Sporkful (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Should You Break Up With Your Gas Stove?
Pub date: 2021-06-28
Which kind of stove do you like better: gas or electric? This debate, and the ad campaigns that have fueled it, have been raging for over a century. While more people in the U.S. today have electric, gas stoves have won the battle for prestige -- chefs prefer it. But now, the gas stove is at the center of a much bigger fight about climate change, as gas companies use the gas stove to try to ensure their future. Sporkful producer Andres O’Hara explains, then tries to convince Dan, a gas stove loyalist, to try a different way of cooking. Hint: It uses magnets. //
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Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.
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Podcast: How To! (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Congrats, You Won the Olympics. Now What?
Pub date: 2021-07-20
Winning the Olympics is everything Steve Mesler ever wanted. So when he and his U.S. bobsled teammates stood atop the podium at the 2010 Vancouver Games, his life seemed golden in every way. But soon after his triumph, Steve began to experience a period of extended mourning. Even though he won a gold medal, he lost his identity and sense of purpose. And he wasn't the only one. On this episode of How To!, the former Olympian, co-founder of Classroom Champions, and current United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee board member talks about the complicated aftermath of achieving an all-consuming pursuit. He discusses his struggles with depression, losing teammates to suicide and what the USOPC is doing to destigmatize mental health treatment.
If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Be a Badass On and Off the Court.”
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Podcast: Descendants (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chidi, Than and The Bolton School
Pub date: 2021-05-28
Narrated by Yrsa Daley-Ward, the poet and writer introduces us to a network of lives, each one connected in one way or another through the legacy of Britain's role in slavery.
Chidi grew up in London, and learned at an early age that he was descended from a late 19th Century Nigerian slave trader called Nwaubani Ogogo. He describes how he came to terms with this and the impact racial stereotyping has had on his life, while his history takes us back in time to a moment in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery, when his ancestor still had a license to trade enslaved people. The rush for Africa was beginning; Britain had turned its attention from the slave trade to palm oil. Nwaubani traded both, and was licensed to a British Corporation.
British businesspeople were desperate to gain access to the palm oil which Nwaubani sold. One man in the North West of England had been trying to strike deals in Nigeria - he wanted to be able to control production and prices himself - and his company would eventually buy the corporation which was licensing Nwaubani. But in the meantime, he turned his attention to the Belgian Congo where King Leopold offered him everything he wanted. The man's name was William Lever - whose company, the Lever Brothers, would eventually become Unilever. Famous across the North of England for his philanthropic endeavours, students and alumni at the school re-founded by him - The Bolton School - are just coming to terms with his legacy. Not technically slavery, but not free labour either.
Producers: Polly Weston, Candace Wilson, Rema Mukena Editor: Kirsten Lass Academic consultants: Matthew Smith and Rachel Lang of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL Additional genealogical research by Laura Berry
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Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
Pub date: 2021-07-06
Contributor(s): Dr Ela Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka, Professor Bradley Franks, Dr Erica Lagalisse | Conspiracy theories fomented by political division and a global pandemic have gained traction in the public consciousness in the last couple of years. For some people these ideas are just fun and entertaining, but for others their interest in them becomes much more consuming. Why do people become involved in this kind of conspiratorial thinking? That’s the question that LSE iQ tackles in this month’s episode. Concerns that 5G phone masts reduce our bodies’ defences against COVID-19 and that vaccines are being used to inject us with micro-chips - allowing us to be tracked and controlled - may seem extraordinary to many of us. But these beliefs have led to the vandalism of 5G phone masts and made some reluctant to be vaccinated. In this episode of LSE iQ, Sue Windebank finds out how left-wing anarchists got caught up in conspiratorial thinking and how Irish parents looking for support and community were accused of spreading a conspiracy. And is LSE unknowingly carrying out the wishes of the Illuminati? Listen to hear how LSE became embroiled in a global conspiracy. Sue talks to: Dr Ela Drążkiewicz from the Institute for Sociology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences; Professor Bradley Franks from LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science; and Dr Erica Lagalisse from LSE’s Institute of Inequalities.
Contributors Dr Ela Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka Professor Bradley Franks Dr Erica Lagalisse
Research Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland (2021) by Elżbieta Drążkiewicz Grodzicka in Journal for Cultural Research Beyond “Monologicality”? Exploring Conspiracist Worldviews (2017) by Bradley Franks, Adrian Bangerter, Martin W. Bauer, Matthew Hall and Mark C. Noort in Frontiers in Psychology Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples (2019) by Erica Lagalisse
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Podcast: Object Of Sound (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Summer of Soul (feat. Questlove)
Pub date: 2021-07-09
For 50 years, footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival – a summer-long fête featuring the likes of Nina Simone, Sly and The Family Stone, and Stevie Wonder – was buried in the archives. And the story of the Harlem Cultural Festival was buried along with it. Finally, the footage is being brought to light by Questlove in the new film ‘Summer of Soul’ a powerful testament to the artists of that era, and an energetic ride into the styles, sounds and politics of 1969. In this episode, our exclusive interview with Questlove on what it takes to correct the historical record, and why we need this film now in 2021. For this episode's custom playlist curated by Hanif, visit https://bit.ly/oos-questlove
/Music In This Week's Episode/
You Caught Me (Smilin’), Sly and the Family Stone
Black Woman, Sonny Sharrock
The Weight, The Staple Singers
My Bed of Thorns, Gladys Knight and The Pips
To Love Somebody, Nina Simone
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, Mahalia Jackson
Almost Seedless, Hugh Masakela
Love’s In Need Of Love Today, Stevie Wonder
/Show Notes/
Questlove’s directorial debut is Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). You can find a list of the festival’s full lineup here.
Hanif and Questlove reference the documentary Amazing Grace, on Aretha Franklin.
The art festival in Columbus was called Holler and organized by the poet and cultural worker Scott Woods.
/Credits/
This show is produced by work by work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Babette Thomas, Mayari Sherina Ong and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair.
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Podcast: Alone Together (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alone But Never Lonely: What We Can Learn From Hermits
Pub date: 2021-06-14
From Yoda to Henry David Thoreau, hermits have something to teach us about loneliness. For centuries, in religious and in secular life, there are people who chose to remove themselves from society.
It could be for long periods of time. Karen Fredette entered a monastery after high school and then to a cabin by herself for six years. Henry David Thoreau lived for two years, two months and two days in the woods.
If you are a hermit, being alone is an option to consider when the world around you doesn’t feel quite right, when there’s something that troubles you.
Solitude can, for some of us, be a better companion than company. Hermits have led the way and they want to share what they’ve learned.
Guests:
Professor Michael Vargas, History Department, SUNY, New Paltz
Paul and Karen Fradette, Ravens Bread Ministries
Jeffrey S Cramer, Curator of Collections at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute Library
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Podcast: Nobody Panic (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Recycle with Jennie Romer
Pub date: 2021-07-13
Want to make sure you’re recycling the right things in the right way? Want to cut down on your single use plastics? Of course you do! And if you don't, well, listen to this chat with plastic recycling expert and author of Can I Recycle This? Jennie Romer and find out what we can do to help the planet.
Follow Jennie on Instagram: @jenniethefreckle and Twitter: @jennie_romer
Buy Jennie's book Can I Recycle This? A Guide to Better Recycling and How to Reduce Single-use Plastics here.
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Podcast: Found: Objects With Meaning (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Yves Behar
Pub date: 2021-06-24
The product designer talks about the tech that inspired him and the ideas that enthuse him, as well as a piece of clothing he longs to get back.
Podcast: The Anfield Wrap (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Hillsborough Survivors Stories: In Their Words
Pub date: 2021-07-05
The first part of Hillsborough survivors Damian Kavanagh, Richie Greaves and Peter Carney talking after the collapse of the final trial.
For too many years too many people impacted by Hillsborough have had to be silent to allow the legal proceedings to run their course.
Damian, Richie and Peter, like many others, were there on the day of April 15, 1989, and they reflect on that day and the 32 years since.
This part focuses more specifically on what it has been like to live with what happened that day and in the aftermath, and how that has taken its toll on each of them.
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Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). If you identify as male, you can call the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) on 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight every day) or use their webchat service.
If you need access to other services than the above, visit the NHS website here to find out who you can talk to.
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Podcast: EdSurge Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Long and Surprising History of ‘Teaching Machines’
Pub date: 2021-06-15
People don’t talk much today about early teaching machines, some of which were made out of wood and brass. And that’s no accident, according to Audrey Watters, a longtime critical observer of edtech who is out with a new book called Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning. On this episode, we’re dusting off these old teaching machines from all the way back to the 1920s, to see what these low-tech devices can teach us about education today.
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Podcast: The Great Women Artists (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ali Smith on Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Boty, Tacita Dean, and Lorenza Mazzetti
Pub date: 2021-05-11
In episode 64 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the acclaimed writer ALI SMITH (!!!!) on Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth, Tacita Dean and Lorenza Mazzetti !!!!
[This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!]
The FINAL episode of Season 5 of the GWA Podcast, we speak to one of the GREATEST authors and writers in the world, Ali Smith, about the artists who act as the 'spine' for her recently-completed series of four stand-alone novels, grouped as the Seasonal Quartet:
Pauline Boty in Autumn, Barbara Hepworth in Winter, Tacita Dean in Spring, and filmmaker Lorenza Mazetti in Summer, who in their own way, as presences as people, spirits, or their work, interweave into each story so beautifully.
Written in the space of four years, between 2016–2020, these books track and are witness to, some of the most unprecedented, and extraordinary events in living history. Beginning with Autumn, known as the first-Brexit novel, the final book in the series, Summer, was written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Born in Inverness, Scotland, and now based in Cambridge, Ali Smith is acclaimed for her fictional work, and non-fiction writing on some of my favourite artists. The author of Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, and MANY OTHERS, Smith has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, The Man Booker Prize, and has won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award for her brilliant novel, How To Be Both.
PAULINE BOTY – AUTUMN One of the most important artists to change the face of British Pop Art (as well as being an Actress, TV star, radio commentator, who read Proust) Pauline Boty EPITOMISED the possibilities of the modern Pop woman. She captured the glamour and vivacity of the 1960s, including those of music stars to film icons, think Marylin to Elvis, Boty worshipped the proliferation of imagery available in the post-War era.
BARBARA HEPWORTH – WINTER The Titan of British sculpture, Hepworth set up a studio in St Ives during World War II, and is hailed for her small-to-colossal hand-carved wooden sculptures. Cast in stone and bronze, sometimes embedded with strings or flashes of colour, and fluctuating between hard and soft, light and dark, round and straight, solid and hollow, the spirit of Hepworth's work is at the spine of Spring and through Ali's incredible writing makes us SEE differently.
TACITA DEAN – SPRING Filmmaker and artist, Dean, seven-metre-wide work The Montafon Letter is a vast chalk drawing on nine blackboards joined together, looms in Spring (and is also an exhibition visited by the protagonist Richard at the Royal Academy). Dean says in some ways the work about Brexit and about hope; “hope that the last avalanche will uncover us”. Much like Smith's post-Brexit novels.
LORENZA MAZZETTI – SUMMER A new artist for me, this story of the Italian-born filmmaker who came of age in the 1960s is one of the most profound in the history of art. I am not going to tell you anything else other than listen to Ali tell her story.
LINKS TO ALI'S BOOKS! https://www.waterstones.com/book/autumn/ali-smith/9780241973318 https://www.waterstones.com/book/winter/ali-smith/9780241973332 https://www.waterstones.com/book/spring/ali-smith/9780241973356 https://www.waterstones.com/book/summer/ali-smith/9780241973370
We also discuss How To Be Both at the very start! https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-be-both/ali-smith/9780141025209
LISTEN NOW + ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Winnie Simon Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield
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Podcast: Out Of The Woods: New Plays from the Balkans
Episode: WHERE IS MR. PRESIDENT? by Agnesa Mehanolli
Pub date: 2021-06-22
When the President of Kosovo fails to appear at a large Independence Day rally, his senior officials go into overdrive to try to locate him. As time ticks on, a power vacuum emerges and to prevent widespread unrest, they appoint the most unlikely of candidates… A hilarious new satire by Pristina-based new writer Agnesa Mehanolli.
Directed by Mingyu Lin. Sound Design by Farokh Soltani. Dramaturgy by Fin Kennedy.
A Miran Hadžić production supported by Tamasha, Intent New Theatre, and Arts Council England
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Podcast: Thinking Allowed (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Rural Idyll?
Pub date: 2021-04-28
The Rural Idyll? Last year the National Trust produced a controversial report which revealed that 93 of its properties have direct links to colonialism and slavery. In this programme, Laurie Taylor talks to Corinne Fowler, Professor of Post Colonial Literature at the University of Leicester, whose new study engages directly with this painful history, uncovering the countryside’s repressed colonial past and its relationship to notions of Englishness. How have pastoral mythologies in English literature served to erase the story of Empire? In what ways do contemporary writers of colour offer a challenge to uncritical celebrations of our 'green and pleasant' land? They’re joined by Paul Readman, Professor of Modern British History at King's College London, whose recent research considers the relationship between landscape and English national identity, from the rural to the urban. Thinking Allowed is produced in partnership with the Open University.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Podcast: Queen Bees with Jane Horrocks and Esther Coles (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: S4 Ep. 1 Bumbly Bees
Pub date: 2021-06-25
The ladies are back! Kicking off with a chat about the hordes of bumble bees in Jane's garden, Esther has also got news on incoming honey and an update on the hives.
Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bach Chaconne for Solo Violin
Pub date: 2021-06-17
The Bach Chaconne is one of the great masterpieces of Western Classical Music, and today we're going to be diving straight into this monumental work. We'll talk about the legends behind its composition, the work itself, different interpretations of the piece, and its many many arrangements. As Brahms wrote about the piece: “On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings." Join us to discuss this towering artistic achievement!
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Podcast: HiberNation
Episode: Sleeping Together
Pub date: 2021-06-10
Links from today’s episode:
Soaring Spirits
Sharing the Covers: Every Couple’s Guide to Better Sleep by Dr. Wendy Troxel
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Podcast: The Retrospectors - Today In History (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Let’s Triangulate Britain
Pub date: 2021-06-21
The Ordnance Survey - a government-funded agency created to aid the military in the event of invasion from France - took receipt of a theodolite on 21st June 1791, and so began the epic task of accurately mapping Britain.
It took them twenty years to do the county of Kent. And another twenty years to do the South Coast. If you wanted a fragment of one of their hand-drawn maps on your wall, it would set you back two weeks’ wages.
In this episode, Olly, Arion and Rebecca pore through their OS Map collection to discover which county has the most commercial greenhouses, the exact location of ‘Britain’s highest pub’, and reveal the OFFICIAL answer to the much-pondered question, ‘Where is the centre of Britain?’...
Further Reading:
• ‘The Quirky History of Ordnance Survey And The UK’S Maps’, from Much Better Adventures magazine (2020):
https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/ordnance-survey/
• ‘A Short History of the Ordnance Survey’ from The Charles Close Society: https://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/HistoryOSGB.pdf
• ‘Attacking Scotland: Five centuries of maps by our enemies’ A lecture by Chris Fleet, Maps Curator of the the National Library of Scotland (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLxGLaJG_s&t=5s
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The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.
Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.
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Podcast: Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Swabber Barons | The Story of Puritan
Pub date: 2021-06-11
You may not have heard of Puritan, but if you’ve gotten a COVID test, you’ve probably had one of their products inside your nose. A family feud almost tore this company apart. Then the White House called.
Read Olivia Carville’s original article for Bloomberg.
Podcast production by Jess Miller and Cleo Levin.
Correction: This episode incorrectly identifies the owner of Hardwood Products. James Cartwright works for Hardwood, but the owner is John Cartwright.
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Podcast: Mission: Commission (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 1: The Composers
Pub date: 2021-04-13
An introduction to our composers: Augusta Read Thomas, Courtney Bryan, and Marcos Balter, as they begin their creative journey to compose a new piece of classical music in 6 weeks for Mission: Commission.
Visit missioncommissionpodcast.com for a full listing of pieces, performers, and recordings included in this episode.
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Podcast: Decoder Ring (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Invention of Hydration
Pub date: 2021-06-22
To say that hydration is an invention is only a slight exaggeration. Back in the 1970’s and ‘80s, no one carried bottled water with them, but by the ‘90s it was a genuine status object. How did bottled water transform itself from a small, European luxury item to the single largest beverage category in America? It took both technological innovation, but even more importantly it took savvy marketing from brands like Gatorade and Perrier to turn the concept of hydration, and dehydration into problem they could solve via their wares. Today, hydration has branched out from athletics to wellness to skincare, but the actual science behind all of it is pretty sketchy. If you love the show and want to support us, consider joining Slate Plus. With Slate Plus you can binge the whole season of Decoder Ring right now, plus ad free podcasts, bonus episodes, and much more.
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Podcast: Backlisted (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain
Pub date: 2021-06-21
Joining John and Andy this week is novelist and host of the books podcast Sentimental Garbage, Caroline O'Donoghue (Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, All Our Hidden Gifts). We are discussing Nuala O'Faolain's revelatory memoir Are You Somebody? (1996), the original publication of which caused a sensation in her native Ireland. The book went on to top the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks; it still has the power to astonish. Also in this episode Andy has been exploring John Higgs's new book William Blake Vs The World and John is moved by Consumed: A Sister's Tale, the family memoir of Arifa Akbar, a former guest on Backlisted.
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Podcast: Neutrinowatch (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The World Outside My Window [Song a Day]
Pub date: 2021-06-14
It’s a song called The World Outside My Window. Every day the words and music are slightly different from the day before.
It contains a Garden of Branching Lyrical Paths; Somehow we always get back to the same place. Sometimes we have to go through a probabilistic journey inspired by Quantum Computing to find our way home.
(There are 573,440 possible variations of this song. Which one did you get?)
Credits:
[Created by Martin Austwick with help from Jeff Emtman.
Find us at neutrino.watch and @neutrinowatch on twitter]
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Podcast: Now & Then (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Investigating Democracy
Pub date: 2021-06-08
On the second episode of Now & Then, “Investigating Democracy,” Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discuss the history of congressional commissions, following the Senate Republican filibuster of the proposed commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection. Heather and Joanne look back on investigations of the 1856 caning of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, the 1871 Ku Klux Klan hearings, and the 1954 back-and-forth between Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Army. In the process, they explore the partisanship and lasting cultural impact of these commissions and what that says about the utility of a January 6th Commission.
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Thank you for listening! Join us each Tuesday for new episodes of Now & Then, and keep an eye out for live events with Heather and Joanne and the rest of the CAFE Team.
For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/investigating-democracy/
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Podcast: Radiotopia Presents: a hit dog will holler (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Blind Guy Travels: Noodle Arms No More
Pub date: 2021-06-02
How can a blind person learn gestures when he's never seen them? As Matthew prepares for a TEDx Talk, he makes his first foray into learning body language.
Blind Guy Travels is a production of Radiotopia from PRX and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed debuting limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices.
Learn more about Blind Guy Travels and access transcripts at radiotopiapresents.fm and discover more shows from across the Radiotopia network at radiotopia.fm.
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Podcast: Which? Investigates (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Is plastic packaging really that bad?
Pub date: 2021-06-03
Supermarkets & brands are often criticised for how much plastic packaging they use, but could removing that from some food products actually increase their environmental impact?
In this first episode of Which? Investigates, Greg Foot uncovers quite how much unrecyclable plastic there is, checks out whether refillables and ‘compostables’ really do help the planet, and unwraps the surprising facts around what plastic could - or perhaps should - stay on the shelves.
Read more in our show note here: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/06/which-investigates-podcast-sustainability/
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Podcast: The Neuromantics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Neuromantics – S2, Ep 7
Pub date: 2021-06-14
Something happens when we go to the theatre, visit an art gallery, or hear music in the company of others, and it’s good for us, whatever our background, whatever the socio-economic indicators that mould our perceptions and expectations of art. That’s the contention – and, in part, the conclusion – of Daisy Fancourt and Alan Steptoe in their paper on Cultural Engagement and Mental Heath: does socio-economic status explain the association? (1982). But Fancourt and Steptoe leave important questions unanswered: what is the difference between the social and the personal experience of art, and how do we measure our collective interest in the kind of art – some poetry might be a good example – that has, over time, exchanged social ritual for individual contemplation? How does this less popular “engagement” with the world of art, music or literature affect our relationship with class, our sense of belonging and obligation, all things that can affect our mood and prevent our interests finding expression in the first place?
Maybe all art involves an exchange of self-consciousness (including class consciousness) for imaginative awareness. An actor discovers the intoxications and responsibilities of presence, we speak of being liberated by music. Those autonomous qualities – presence and the feeling of liberation – are what make artistic activity difficult for authoritarian regimes, and necessary for the artists (and audiences) who must try to survive them. They’re also signposts on the way back from personal contemplation to social significance. The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) wrote lyric verse, but its beautiful vigilance is disturbed by the shadow-side of watchfulness, the presence of the censor, and by his own urgent requirement for what he called “non-naive realism”. In the two poems discussed here – “Night is a Cistern” and “Tierra del Fuego”, both wonderfully translated by Clare Cavanaugh – the poet speaks to us directly and we become his ambiguous political witnesses, at once refugees and bystanders; also, perhaps, spies.
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Podcast: Bay Curious (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build
Pub date: 2021-06-10
As soon as the Bay Bridge was completed in 1936, people wanted a second bridge. Even back then, traffic was terrible. Did you know the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a bridge to cross the San Francisco Bay? This week, why Wright's vision for that second bridge never materialized.
Additional Reading:
- The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build
- Another Bay Bridge? 70 Years of Absurd, Crazy and Downright Dumb Span Plans
Reported by Rachael Myrow. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Isa Mendoza, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Don Clyde.
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Podcast: The Candyman (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 1. The Bucket Family
Pub date: 2021-02-09
“You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.”Madi and Ella introduce their investigation to the world, and the Bucket family are first under the microscope. Millie is tempted by a mysterious visitor.
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Podcast: Nocturne (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Notes in the Trees
Pub date: 2021-03-17
Most parents would never consider leaving their kids in the dark woods at night, and letting them find their way back. The Dutch do just that, and they call it Dropping, and the kids mostly have fun.
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Podcast: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Day of Rest
Pub date: 2021-04-12
Sarah Hurwitz worked 24/7 at Harvard, and barely took time off as she built a career in DC writing speeches for first Hillary Clinton and then Michelle Obama. Sarah would even take her cell phone into the shower.
But as she explored the teachings of Judaism, she began to appreciate the vital importance of the commandment to observe a day of rest, and found that sometimes doing less made her happier.
Sarah is author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There).
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Podcast: Threshold (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Conversations | 10 | Inuit Food Security, Inuit Sovereignty
Pub date: 2021-04-20
“There needs to be a lot more equity given at tables for indigenous knowledge, and for indigenous knowledge to inform decision making,” says Carolina Behe.
Carolina Behe, John Noksana and Mumilaaq Qaqqaq are all pushing for self-determination across the Inuit homelands, which extend from eastern Russia all the way to Greenland. In this episode, producers Amy Martin and Nick Mott talk with Carolina, John, and Mumilaaq about sovereignty in the North.
John, an Inuit hunter from Northern Canada and Carolina, the Indigenous Knowledge and Science Advisor for the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Alaska, discuss how food security fits into a bigger picture of Inuit self-determination. Then, we hear from Mumilaaq, who’s addressing that bigger picture on an even larger stage: in Canada’s Parliament.
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Podcast: Invisibilia (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Eat The Rich
Pub date: 2021-04-22
Invisibilia explores a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth?
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Podcast: Life Changing (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The coalman who could have been a prince
Pub date: 2021-05-05
Keith Williams aka Keith ‘y Glo’ or ‘Keith the coal’ was born in 1952 and brought up as the son of a coal merchant in South Wales. At the age of 13 he found out he had been adopted but it was only when he was in his forties and expecting a grandchild that he started looking into his family history.
He eventually tracked down his birth mother and arranged an emotional reunion. It was at this first meeting that Keith asked her about his birth father and was presented with a bundle of documents and photographs. She told him that his father had been a young Malaysian prince who had also been studying in London. They had fallen in love and started a relationship but he was forced to return to Malaysia, where he later became the Sultan of Perak, one of the country’s nine royal families.
That revelation and Keith’s search for answers has taken him to Malaysia and back as he attempts to piece together who he really is and what defines his identity.
In another life Keith could have been royalty, and while that knowledge has changed him he reflects that he wouldn’t have had what he has now; the warmth and love of his large Welsh family and the strong relationship he built with his birth mother.
If you have a story you would like to share you can contact the programme at Lifechanging@bbc.co.uk
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Podcast: Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Luke Goss - aka '80s heartthrob-turned Renaissance man
Pub date: 2021-05-26
Luke joins Genevieve to reminisce about his rise to fame in Bros, hysterical fans, being the youngest band to play Wembley Stadium and the blistered, bleeding hands that got him there.
He also talks about the hard journey to becoming a Hollywood movie star, making films with Guillermo del Toro, the artwork collection he's created over the past year and his hopes for a Bros tour.
Please note there is mild swearing in this episode
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Podcast: SOUNDPROOF
Episode: Let the Children Boogie
Pub date: 2019-06-19
Lester Alfonso searches his 500 Words Before Second Breakfast for Bowie. Plus, My Bowie Break-up, The Rock and Roll Terminator, and more. #davidbowie
Grateful for the musical contributions of Shaun Friedman, Nostalgic Home Highways. Starman covers by Roberto Cacciapaglia, Seu Jorge, Matt Johnson, Garbage (Destroying Angels), and John C. Reilly. Additional songs: Wild is the Wind by David Bowie and Leaving on a Jet Plane by Peter, Paul and Mary.
SoundProof is produced and edited by Lester Alfonso with help from co-producer Carley Von Spronsen and audio engineer Michael Phillips. Let the Children Boogie includes contributions from Angel Hamilton, Jay Plo, and Lester Alfonso. Check out www.soundsgoodmikey.com for all your professional recording studio needs. Thanks to Alex and to all the staff and volunteers at Trent Radio 92.7FM CFFF in beautiful Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
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Podcast: Getting Emotional (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Presque vu and Jamais vu
Pub date: 2021-04-07
You hear 'vu', you think of 'déjà', right? Yeah, fair enough, most people do. But did you know that déjà has two siblings, often overlooked? I'm talking about presque and jamais, and I'd argue they bring just as much to the table as their big sister does.
The Vus (I like to think of them as a girl band, by the way) comprise of three states of mind, all pretty common, but one just more famous than the others. Déjà, as you may already know, roughly means 'already seen'- but what of the two others? Well, presque is known as 'almost seen' and jamais, 'never seen'. Between them they're equally frustrating, and very common.
So let's find out a little about them! Have you ever felt something on the 'tip of your tongue'? Then you've felt presque vu! And ever not recongnised something you probably should? Then jamais vu is your jam! Of course, I'll go into a little more detail in the episode. Plus, I manage to squeeze in references to The Matrix, Bridget Jones, Beyonce, BTS and Atomic Kitten. Never say I don't have my finger on the pulse.
Also, you may notice there's no guest for this one. Every now and again a feeling that comes along that is...unguestable. I have a list of these emotions, willing to be made into shows, but sadly uncoupled with people to talk about them. So instead I brought in some old friends to provide a bit of context. Wonderful Guy Kelly (@brainmage) discusses his dealings with déjà, and Richard Soames (@RichardSoames) and Benedict Salter help me out with their acting skills.
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Podcast: Proof (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Curious Curator of Culinary History
Pub date: 2021-04-29
The Food Timeline has been a valuable resource for food professionals and laypeople alike. The website chronicles the origins of everything from emmer grain (which, dates back to 17,000 BC), to the modern-day cake pop. Most impressively, the Food Timeline was the creation of one single individual: Lynne Olver. In 2015, however, the future of the Food Timeline suddenly becomes uncertain. In this episode of Proof, we go back in Internet history to witness the Food Timeline's birth and learn about the amazing woman behind it.
Explore the Food Timeline for yourself here: http://foodtimeline.org/
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Podcast: Shipworm (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shipworm
Pub date: 2021-04-26
In this first of its kind feature-length audio movie, Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live.
Shipworm is the fourth podcast from Two-Up, the studio known for breaking ground in fiction (Limetown), musical (36 Questions), and documentary podcasts (The Wilderness).
Shipworm stars Broadway luminaries Quentin Earl Darrington and Miriam Silverman, and is available for free on podcast platforms everywhere.
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Podcast: 365 days with mxmtoon (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: may 1: meet batman
Pub date: 2021-05-01
In this episode of 365 days with mxmtoon, Maia talks about the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics. After, she reflects on Elton John’s boundary-breaking tour. Listen to this episode today and make sure you’re following along with the daily updates @365daysmxmtoon on all platforms.
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Podcast: Go Wild (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Perfumed Mountaineer
Pub date: 2020-07-28
Hayden Lorimer explores the double life of Walter Poucher: mountain photographer and perfumer. Poucher invented the perfume 'Bond Street' and also wrote upland guidebooks. He was a pioneer of mountain photography from the 1930s onwards and devised guidebooks that used photos to help hillwalkers and climbers. But he had a second life as well - in 1923 he had published a three volume handbook on perfumes and cosmetics that remains in print and, working for the perfumers Yardley, he invented one of their signature smells, the perfume Bond Street. These unlikely twin lives came together when he field tested his fragrances and make-up across the hills and fells of Britain. Sweaty mountaineers were not quite sure what to make of Walter but he resolutely and happily continued to mix his two lives and interests. In a celebrated moment of TV history in 1980 the pop singer Grace Jones attacked the chat show host Russell Harty live on air, the other guest on camera at the time was a befuddled looking Walter Poucher. Yet when it came to staging and managing your life Walter perhaps was ahead of the game and knew things that would have surprised both Grace Jones and Russell Harty. Here was a metrosexual man decades before he was supposed to have evolved.
Hayden Lorimer, geographer at Glasgow University and committed hill-runner, explores the life and times of the Perfumed Mountaineer.
Produced by Tim Dee. First broadcast on Monday 14 May 2012.
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Podcast: The Tip Off (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 52 The Exorcist
Pub date: 2021-04-29
Andrew Gold, a freelance journalist, is feeling out of his depth. He is in a church hall on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and the priest he is there to see is not happy.
This is the story of how Andrew tracked down a man who claimed to be exorcising demons.
WARNING: contains descriptions/audio of supposed exorcisms, which some might find upsetting.
Read all about it:
BBC Three Exorcism The Battle for Young Minds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l78hW8qVIWI
Andrew's podcast: On The Edge With Andrew Gold https://podfollow.com/on-the-edge-with-andrew-gold
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Edited by: Alice Milliken
Theme music: Dice Muse
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Podcast: Vanishing Postcards (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 2. Postcard from Seaton - "Sundays at Sefcik Hall"
Pub date: 2021-04-15
Seaton, TX hasn’t had a post office since 1907, and as of last count, its population hovered somewhere around 40. Situated on a lonely stretch of highway, about ten miles east of Temple, it’s not on most maps and is easy to miss. Yet, on Sundays, this town comes alive when couples gather, as they have for nearly 100 years, to dance at Tom Sefcik Hall. We’ll spend an evening getting to know the family that’s kept this place running for generations, share both laughs and tears with a few regulars, and learn about how spaces like these shaped Texas culture as we know it. We’ll even get a little lesson in Czech!
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Podcast: Death, Sex & Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.
Pub date: 2021-04-14
What happened when a 27-year-old listener deep in credit card debt asked their older sister for financial help.
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Podcast: It's Nice to Hear You (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1. Once Upon a Time, a Girl Needs a Distraction in Quarantine
Pub date: 2021-03-18
A lesson on reflection. Meet me, the matchmaker and host, Yves D. Ropper. After being laid off at the beginning of quarantine, I envelope myself in creating an anonymous matchmaking experiment. Participants exchange voice memos for 30 days. No pictures, no names, no direct contact. They are all strangers, yet after listening to their voices, I feel connected to them. This story is as much about the experiment, its participants, as the creator behind it.
Live listening session of Ep 1 and Q&A happening on Club House on Friday 3/26 4:30pm PDT / 7:30pm EDT. www.joinclubhouse.com/event/mgNY0a5B
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Podcast: The Boring Talks (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #53 - Car Boots
Pub date: 2020-06-01
From Anglo-American differences, to escaping kidnappers and celebrating the classic car boot sale. In this Boring Talk, Auto Express journalist Hugo Griffiths climbs inside the 'space of temporariness' that is the car boot.
James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very interesting.... maybe.
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Podcast: Roots and All - Gardening Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast 106 - In Search of Mycotopia with Doug Bierend
Pub date: 2021-04-19
This week I’m speaking to Doug Bierend, journalist and author of In Search of Mycoptopia, a book which documents Doug’s journey of discovery as it pertains to the world of mushrooms. We talk about what sparked this journey, about what, as he puts it in the interview, was his Come to Mushroom moment and how his interest in fungi continues to develop with each new step he takes along the way.
Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Hoverflies
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What we talk about:
- How Doug’s relationship with mushrooms began and what led to the birth of the book
- The future of mycology in terms of research and education
- Citizen science and its relevance to the progression of mycology
- Mushroom farming as an industry
- Why Doug thinks those in the mycological community are so non-competitive and community-minded
- How mycelial networks can be used as potential blueprints for societal organisation
- How mushrooms help improve soil
About Doug Bierend
“Hi, my name is Doug. I'm a freelance writer and recent first-time author based in the Hudson Valley. Over the last decade or so, I've written with a special interest in science, technology, visual and interactive media, food, sustainability and general subversiveness. My first book, In Search of Mycotopia, is due out in March of 2021 with Chelsea Green Books.”
https://dougbierend.com/About-Me
Links
In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend - Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021
www.dougbierend.com
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Podcast: Tell Them, I Am (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Wai Wai
Pub date: 2021-05-05
Wai Wai Nu bonds with her dad by listening to the radio together, but in 1990’s Burma, this is considered a crime.
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Podcast: Tape Notes (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: TN:66 Adam Buxton
Pub date: 2021-03-18
In this very special episode John steps inside the jingle factory of podcaster, comedian, writer, actor and musician Adam Buxton.
Digging into the depths of his archive, Adam charts his life and career breaking down the songs and jingles that punctuated each moment. From finding arpeggiators in music shops and writing ‘smutty’ rhymes with his friends, to applying advice from Nigel Godrich in the epic efforts of Song Wars on the Adam and Joe Show.
Alongside all of the jingle fun, we’re treated to comparisons between the aspects of music and comedy, the effects of cultural fascination and exclusion, as well as thoughts on mental health when writing.
Listen to find out where Adam got the inspiration to combine Scott Walker with Will.I.Am and Britney, why he decided to recreate all of the audio in Star Wars, and the truth behind how irritated he actually got with Joe during Song Wars.
Tracks discussed: The Podcast Groove, Mind of a Pirate, The Counting Song, Special Bath, Playboi Buckles, Like and Subscribe and many many more.
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Podcast: Borrowed (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: That All May Participate
Pub date: 2021-04-07
"To me, what all these books say is independence and personal choice," says Nefertiti Matos of the stacks of Braille books at NYPL's Andrew Heiskell Library. In this episode, we talk about what inclusion means, whether it's creating tactile graphics so that all may encounter the visual world, or making our virtual classes accessible to kids with disabilities.
Read our transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/all-may-participate
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Podcast: What The Denmark | Danish Culture for Expats, Internationals and Danes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Flat Hierarchies: The pros and cons of a high trust Danish workplace
Pub date: 2021-04-08
Denmark and other Nordic countries are celebrated for their flat organisations and inclusive work practices, and for a good reason.
But what are the downsides of this approach? Why do some people coming in from a more hierarchical culture find it demotivating to work this way?
In this episode Sam and Josefine speak with management expert Chris Shern, international CEO Nico Blier-Silvestri and Danish architect Josefine Bols.
The episode covers various topics including:
- A Foundation of Trust
- Flat power distribution in practice
- Story time: dirty dishes
- Practical advice for managers and employees
Read more at: https://www.whatthedenmark.com/blog-post/flat-hierarchies
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe – podcast
Pub date: 2021-05-07
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain. By Arundhati Roy. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Soundtracking with Edith Bowman (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 242: Kevin Macdonald & Chloe Zhao
Pub date: 2021-04-17
We've cheated a bit this week - as one of our guests doesn't really talk about music at all. But given her film Nomadland has just won a sackful of BAFTAs and is nominated for six Oscars too, we thought we'd cut Chloe Zhao a little slack.
To be honest, Edith just wanted to share the interview with you, so much does she love the film - which stars Frances McDormand as a woman who becomes 'houseless' and travels America following the death of her husband.
We're also joined by Kevin Macdonald to discuss his new movie, The Mauritanian. Starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahman and Benedict Cumberbatch, The Mauritanian is based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held for fourteen years without charge in Guantanamo. It's scored by relative newcomer, Tom Hodge, and you'll hear examples of his music throughout the conversation.
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Podcast: ABC News Daily (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Solving the never-ending work day
Pub date: 2021-04-05
Australians work some of the longest hours in the developed world, and for plenty of people the job doesn't finish when they leave the office.
Now at one workplace in Australia, employees and their union are saying enough is enough.
They've incorporated a 'right to disconnect' into their contracts.
So what does that mean in practice?
And could it work for you?
Featured:
Daniel Ziffer, Reporter, ABC TV The Business
Sergeant Rachel Dunkinson, Victoria Police
Wayne Gatt, Secretary, Police Association of Victoria
Danni Hunter, Victorian Executive Director, Property Council of Australia
Professor Emmanuel Josserand, Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Podcast: The Radio 3 Documentary (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: A History of the Tongue
Pub date: 2019-02-11
A succulent & mouth watering portrait of one of the least talked about organs of the body.
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Podcast: ThinkIn with James Harding (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 2: Rhodes Must Fall and the battle for truth
Pub date: 2021-04-19
Our history is up for grabs. Who do we honour with statues and what do we celebrate in our museums? Join James Harding and guests to debate how we deal with empire, slavery, and all the rights and wrongs of our past
Podcast: Beautiful Garbage (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Ready to Rumble
Pub date: 2021-04-20
Beautiful Garbage is a podcast from Osiris Media that traces the development of punk rock from American garages and bars to England and back in the mid-to-late 1970s.
In Episode 1 we explore sound and style, tracing both technological advances and the sociopolitical factors that informed the punk aesthetic. To begin the story we draw a line from rock and roll’s earliest days to two of the genre’s four cornerstones, MC5 and The Velvet Underground, setting up the revolution that followed.
Beautiful Garbage is brought to you by Osiris Media. Written and Narrated by Kevin Hogan. Executive Producer is Adam Caplan. Production, mastering, and artwork by Brad Stratton. Visit Osirispod.com to go deeper and discover more content that connects you to the music you love.
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Podcast: Little Boots - A four part audio drama
Episode: Little Boots Part 1
Pub date: 2021-03-01
37 CE. As the reign of Emperor Tiberius comes to an end, 24 year-old Gaius takes the imperial throne. Lead by the able hand of his beloved sister, Drusilla, he embarks on a wave of reform that upends Roman society and sets him on a collision course with madness.
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Podcast: The Irish Passport (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Irish left: legacies of the Lockout
Pub date: 2021-04-26
A profound industrial dispute rocked Dublin in 1913, playing into a rising tide of nationalism and shaping the unique political landscape of Ireland of the following century. In this episode, Naomi and Tim tell the story of the 1913 Dublin Lockout led by firebrand trade unionist James Larkin. We hear from Jer O'Leary, an artist and actor who portrayed Larkin throughout his life, on what 'Big Jim' meant to ordinary Dubliners and his enduring legacy today. We reflect on the fate of the left following independence, when it struggled for significance against the dominant forces of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Historian Dr Niamh Puirséil talks us through the difficult aftermath of the 1913 Lockout and why it contributed to Ireland's unique political divisions in the 20th century. Finally, Naomi and Tim reflect on the political dynamics of the present day and why a combination of nationalism and left-wing politics is shaking up the status quo once again.
We'll be posting extra content including the full interview with Dr Niamh Puirséil over at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport
Some images discussed in this episode:
The statue of Jim Larkin at the GPO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Larkin_and_GPO_Easter_2016.jpg
Photograph of Jim Larkin giving a speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Larkin_O%27Connell_Street.jpg
'Murphy must go': https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/1043721/original/?width=630&version=1043721
Baton charge against union rally in 1913: https://dublintenementexperience.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/the-baton-charge-batons-from-the-national-museum/
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Podcast: The Anthropocene Reviewed (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Penguins of Madagascar and the Smallpox Vaccine
Pub date: 2021-04-29
Preorder The Anthropocene Reviewed book, out May 18, 2021: https://sites.prh.com/anthropocenereviewedbook
Join John Green and special guests on the The Anthropocene Reviewed virtual book tour! Each ticket purchased will grant access to the respective live event and include a signed copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed. Ticket links and more information at http://www.johngreenbooks.com/appearances.
Tour dates:
Monday, May 17th at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET
Northeast Event in partnership with The Wilbur Theatre
With special guest Clint Smith
Tuesday May 18th at 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET
Western Event
With special guest Sarah Green
Wednesday, May 19th at 4:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET
Southern Event
With special guest Hank Green
Saturday, May 22nd at 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
Midwest Event
With special guest Ashley C. Ford
For every ticket purchased, $2 will be donated to Partners In Health. $1 is included in the ticket price, and my publisher Dutton will match every $1.
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Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 89 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Presenting: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
Pub date: 2021-04-27
Season 5 of Revisionist History included four episodes on the rise of air power during the Second World War. Listeners met Air Force generals Haywood Hansell and Curtis LeMay and heard about the birth of napalm and the firebombing of Tokyo. Malcolm couldn't get that story out of his mind, and so he built an entirely new audiobook around it. The Bomber Mafia.
The Bomber Mafia thought they could re-invent war, in part because of a reclusive genius named Carl Norden. In this excerpt, you hear more about him and his game changing invention, the Norden Bombsight.
If you loved those episodes, you'll be in history heaven with The Bomber Mafia. It features more archival footage, new writing, and enhanced scoring. It's a totally new experience. Purchase the audiobook at www.bombermafia.com, and you'll receive a free Listener's Guide featuring new commentary from Malcolm. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold.
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Podcast: Line by Line (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2: Naomi Alderman and Philip Hensher
Pub date: 2021-04-01
Our guests for this episode are Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction, and Philip Hensher, whose most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany.
Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key
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Podcast: Secrets and Spies (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S5: "Hitler's American Friends" with Bradley W. Hart
Pub date: 2021-03-05
"Hitler's American Friends"
On this of "Secrets and Spies", we are joined by author Bradley W. Hart
We discuss his book "Hitler's American Friends" which takes a look at the history of Nazi sympathisers in America before and during World War Two.
You can get a copy of Bradley's book here: https://t.co/HcyUt8s6mB?amp=1
And you can connect with Bradley on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/DrBHart
Our film "The Dry Cleaner" has been released!
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Podcast: Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Yo-Yo Ma
Pub date: 2018-08-17
Watch the 19-time Grammy winner return to his lifelong passion for J.S. Bach, playing music from the Cello Suites and offering advice on the art of incremental learning.
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Podcast: The Amateur Gourmet Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Karina Longworth's Brothy Beans and Greens with Lemon Pepper Linguine
Pub date: 2020-04-13
Karina Longworth is the creator and host of one of the most popular and beloved podcasts out there, "You Must Remember This," which focuses on the secret and forgotten history of early twentieth-century Hollywood. In today's session, Karina talks about growing up in Studio City in the 1980s, her obsession with old movies from a young age, her mother cooking her way through Bon Appetit Magazine, taking over the cooking duties after her mother's death, and trying to recreate the chocolate mousse pie from the December 1981 edition. We also cover bodies as commodities in Hollywood, going to art school, going to premieres with her husband, Knives Out & Star Wars director Rian Johnson, her love for soup and soft foods, and what Jay-Z and Beyonce ate at the Chateau Marmont.
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Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Overtures, Overtures, Overtures!
Pub date: 2021-04-22
Notes from The Audio Browser:
Excellent classical music history series. The subject for this instalment is overtures, beginning with the form's 17C origins in the operas of Jacopo Peri, and tracing it all the way through the lavish romanticism of Mendelssohn to the tone poems of the 20C and beyond. The host is a professional conductor and offers lucid analysis of the pieces he cites alongside the historical detail
Imagine compressing a 3 or 4 hour opera into 8 minutes of music. You’ve just imagined an overture! Overtures are an integral and beloved part of the opera and concert experience, and the best overtures live on as separate pieces from the work they are attached to. These overtures feature music so wonderful that they become immortal miniature masterpieces. So today I'll take you through 10 of my favorite overtures, from William Tell, to Don Giovanni, to Candide, to Romeo and Juliet, and many more. Enjoy!
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Podcast: Roaring Earth (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Great White Sharks … For Dinner
Pub date: 2021-04-20
Notes from The Audio Browser:
Intriguing podcast that explains the science behind viral videos of animal behaviour. The footage here is of killer whales attacking a shark, which is unusual in coastal waters. To explain it, the reporters delve into the bizarre story of a pair of whales nicknamed Port and Starboard that prowl the waters off Cape Town killing sharks and removing their livers with near surgical precisio
It was clearly the work of a serial killer. When dead great white sharks started washing up, missing their livers, scientists were stumped. The culprit? A creature that really lives up to its name: the killer whale.
In the waters around South Africa and California, orca whales are hunting down great white sharks, and tearing them apart for some gourmet paté. When a boat captain just off the coast of South Africa captured a hunt on camera, the footage was shocking, to say the least.
Experts say it’s probably been happening for a long time, out in the deep ocean. But they’re working to understand why whales closer to shore have started going after Jaws, and what it means for both of these epic – and majorly misunderstood – predators.
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This episode of the Roaring Earth podcast was written and produced by Kate Morgan and Susan Bard. Sound engineering and original music was provided by Joe Bussiere. Jan Renner and Glen Hoffman are the executive producers. The National Park Service recorded the killer whale echolocation sounds. Special thanks to Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Sara Andreotti, and Donavan Smith for their contributions.
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Podcast: Behind the Desk: The Story of Late Night (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Format
Pub date: 2021-04-22
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Detailed history of American late night television and the ripple effect it has had on entertainment. This episode looks at why the extremely recognisable format for these shows — host behind desk, house band, celebrity guests — evolved as it did. This series has been reported in great detail, with plenty of former writers and behind the scenes figures contributing personal stories
The monologue, the desk, the guests, the band. The ingredients of the late night TV formula are familiar, yet fickle. Get them just right and a show can last for decades. Make one mistake and your career is over – fast. In this episode, we explore the alchemy that turns a late night TV show into ratings and social media gold. Jimmy Kimmel, Desus & Mero, David Letterman producer and co-creator of The Daily Show co-creator Madeleine Smithberg, Tonight Show regular Byron Allen and more give us insights into the hardships of mastering the formula perfected by Johnny Carson.
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Podcast: Deviate with Rolf Potts (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Paul Theroux on the necessary obstacles of immersive slow travel [encore]
Pub date: 2021-04-20
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Compelling interview, recorded in 2018, with the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. The specificity of this discussion makes it stand out from the general welter of conversational podcasts; writers and readers alike will find many references to seek out after hearing it. Theroux draws on works by Dickens, Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul and others to elucidate his theory of travel writing
“All writing is trying to destroy a stereotype, and the individual that you’re writing about — the figure in the landscape — is actually the ideal.” —Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux‘s highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, My Other Life, and The Mosquito Coast. His 1975 book The Great Railway Bazaar is credited with revitalizing the genre of literary travel writing, and his more recent travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, and The Last Train to Zona Verde. His newest book, out this month, is Under the Wave at Waimea.
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Paul talk about Theroux’s book Figures in a Landscape, and strategies for writing about the “human architecture of a place” (4:30); the attitude and time-investment required for meaningful travel reportage (19:30); the qualities that determine successful travel writing (24:50); the essential discomforts and obstacles of travel (31:45); the uses and shortcomings of paper maps in developing countries (39:15); and where Paul is traveling next (45:00).
Books, articles, and films mentioned * “Paul Theroux on Blogging, Travel Writing, and ‘Three Cups of Tea’” (2011 Atlantic interview) * The Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux * The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux * The Tao of Travel, by Paul Theroux * Deep South, by Paul Theroux * American Notes, by Charles Dickens * Barbary Shore, by Norman Mailer * Journey Without Maps, by Graham Greene * Sea and Sardinia, by D.H. Lawrence * Travels, by Ibn Battuta * Travels, by Marco Polo * Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan: An Anthology * India: A Million Mutinies Now, by V.S. Naipaul * “Paul Theroux’s Quest to Define Hawaii” (2012 Smithsonian article) * “Mandalay,” by Rudyard Kipling (poem) * Rashomon (1950 Akira Kurosawa film) * The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943 film)
People mentioned * Doris Lessing (novelist and poet) * Tom Wolfe (author and journalist) * Robin Williams (actor and comedian) * Elizabeth Taylor (actress) * Michael Jackson (singer-songwriter) * Rod Steiger (actor) * Mike Nichols (film director) * Margaret Mead (anthropologist) * Colin Turnbull (anthropologist) * Bronislaw Malinowski (anthropologist)
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Podcast: Science Talk (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: National Park Nature Walks, Episode 4: Beautiful Swamp
Pub date: 2021-04-09
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Combination of a soundscape and a nature walk. The host, an ecologist and field recordist, sets out to capture the sound of wildlife at dawn in a nature reserve in northeastern Louisiana, USA. The habitat includes flooded forest and is home to grey tree frogs, crickets and many species of bird. Their calls are enhanced by the inclusion of gentle explanatory interjections from the expert
Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job , an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside. Strap on some headphones, find a quiet place and prepare to experience a riot of bird song inside the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge that will stay with you long after the episode ends. You can catch more episodes in the series here .
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Podcast: A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Daily Grind
Pub date: 2020-09-28
What do prisoners eat? How do we get showers? What's the food like? When he was in prison Chris got dozens of letters asking about the details of life inside. This episode will delve into the nitty gritty of wing life, from getting out the cell, sourcing enough to eat, and trying to stay clean.
Podcast: Aria Code (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Count On a Reckoning
Pub date: 2021-04-21
Maybe you’ve heard this one before: a powerful man abuses his privilege and wealth to exploit the women in his life. When confronted with the fact that they’re not his playthings, he throws a fit and blames everyone but himself. Sound like your daily news alert? It’s Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, but somehow the world of feudal Spain in the 1700s is still distressingly familiar today.
The aria “Hai già vinta la causa” traces the emotions of the aristocratic and imperious Count Almaviva when he realizes that his wife and servants have been plotting his comeuppance. Filled with rage that they won’t bend to his will, the Count offers up one of the great temper tantrums in opera history. And don’t be surprised if the Count’s anger gives you flashbacks to headline news from the very recent past.
The Guests:
Bass-baritone Gerald Finley spent the first decade of his career playing the wily factotum Figaro, and now he sings the controlling Count Almaviva in opera houses around the world. He loves throwing himself into the fire and fury in this aria, but also holds tight to the belief that the Count is truly repentant in the end.
Professor Sharon Marcus teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. When it came to music, her mother insisted that she grow up listening to classical. She first met the Count in The Marriage of Figaro when she was still in grade school.
Laura Bassett is a freelance journalist and an opinion columnist for MSNBC. She originally wanted to be an academic. but the 2008 presidential election convinced her that she needed to be writing stories about the national conversations we're having today. She's written extensively about abuses of power in politics and the instances of sexual harassment that have dominated headlines in recent years.
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Podcast: The Politics of Everything (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Bittman’s Beef with Capitalism
Pub date: 2021-04-21
What we grow determines how we eat, and what we eat determines how we live and die. These simple but overlooked truths drive the work of the longtime food writer Mark Bittman, whose new book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal, takes an ambitious look at the flaws of the industrialized food system and the politics of transforming it. On Episode 29 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with Bittman about the difficulty of eating ethically, the way food connects to nearly every other important issue of our time, and how change starts less with what we buy or cook than how we vote—and organize.
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Podcast: Stories of our times (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Covid-19: The unlikeliest of opportunities
Pub date: 2021-04-20
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused global disruption and changed so many of our lives forever. Today we look at cases in which lockdown has presented individuals with the rarest of opportunities.
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Guests:
-Laura Thompson, Dental hygienist.
-James Bloodworth, Author and journalist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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Podcast: Spy Affair (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | 1
Pub date: 2021-03-29
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Opening of a slick, well produced series about Maria Butina, a Russian arms lobbyist who was arrested in 2018 in Washington DC and charged with operating as a foreign agent. She pled not guilty, but regardless the story of how she embedded herself in American conservatism via the NRA, the Republican Party and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, is fascinating
Graduate student. Gun enthusiast. Political activist. There are several sides to this mysterious Russian woman who arrives in America. But soon, her connections with powerful politicians and wealthy businessmen will begin to raise suspicions.
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Podcast: On the Road with Penguin Classics (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Mill on the Floss with Louis de Bernières
Pub date: 2021-03-04
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Literary visit to Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the birthplace of novelist George Eliot. The host is accompanied by writer Louis de Bernières, and together they explore the terrain and its relationship to Eliot's "most autobiographical novel", The Mill on the Floss. They also meet the man who today does the same job that Eliot's father did in the 1800s — being a "land agent" is rather different now
George Eliot in Nuneaton. The novelist Louis de Bernières explores the landscape around Nuneaton in Warwickshire, the birthplace of Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot. They discuss The Mill on the Floss, visiting the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and the Griff House Beefeater, which was Eliot's childhood home and the inspiration for Dorlcote Mill in the novel. They also meet Adam Weaver, land agent of the Arbury Estate, the same position held by Eliot’s father.
Penguin Classics edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60341/the-mill-on-the-floss/9780141439624.html
Audiobook: https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-mill-on-the-floss/id1528313409?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=audio-books_the_mill_on_the_floss&ls=1
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Louis de Bernières
https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1017789/louis-de-bernieres.html
Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery
https://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/info/20038/museum_and_art_gallery/160/museum_and_art_gallery
Griff House Beefeater
https://www.beefeater.co.uk/en-gb/locations/warwickshire/griff-house
The Arbury Estate
https://arburyestate.co.uk/
George Eliot walking tour of Nuneaton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/george-eliot/george-eliot-walking-tour.shtml
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Podcast: Stuff The British Stole (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Shots Fired
Pub date: 2020-12-19
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Australian perspectives on colonisation and its consequences. This episode deals with the "first contact" in Botany Bay between James Cook's crew and the indigenous Gweagal people. A shield thought to have been taken from this initial conflict is now held by the British Museum in London, and a descendant of its original owner speaks movingly here about his efforts to reclaim it
The Gweagal shield is just one of the things James Cook and his shipmates took from the local people when they landed in Botany Bay. Why has it become the most contentious?
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Podcast: Tagline (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 6. California Milk Processor Board 'Got Milk?'
Pub date: 2021-04-12
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Detailed dissection of a 1990s American advertising campaign. The "got milk?" slogan and accompanying TV adverts — the most famous of which was directed by an early career Michael Bay — became ubiquitous in pop culture. This show zooms in on the craft and conflicts involved in creating such a campaign, and asks whether it was actually effective in getting more people to drink milk
This week we serve up an ice-cold glass of nostalgia as we look at the making of the culture-busting “Got Milk?” campaign from Goodby Silverstein & Partners. It’s the story of a powerful insight, darkly comic creative, a lightning rod of a tagline, and a client who loved partnerships and parodies and gave the world’s blandest product advertising’s hottest campaign. Presented by GSTV.
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Podcast: Things You Don't Need to Know with Ari Cagan (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How to Control Air Traffic
Pub date: 2021-04-01
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Hard to categorise yet delightful podcast fronted by a 19 year old YouTuber. In each episode, Ari Cagan tries out a different occupation or enterprise, such as beating the house at a casino or becoming a pick up artist. In this one, he learns about the oddly pressured mundanity of working as an air traffic controller. The show is made by his direct, detached manner and wry sense of humour
“It all worked out in the end... Some of them didn’t. Some of them were fatal.”
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Podcast: Radio Diaries (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Busman's Holiday
Pub date: 2021-04-15
One day in 1947, NYC bus driver William Cimillo showed up to his daily bus route, but instead of turning left, he turned right. Over the next week, he traveled 1,300 miles in his municipal bus, ending up in Hollywood, Florida. The bus had broken down, he’d run out of money, and had no way of getting home. Plus, he was now the most wanted bus driver in the country.
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare
Pub date: 2021-04-01
Medicine has evolved from a calling into an industry, adept at dispensing procedures and pills (and gigantic bills), but less good at actual health. Most reformers call for big, bold action. What happens if, instead, you think small?
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Podcast: Vox Conversations (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Who is the real George Soros?
Pub date: 2021-04-01
Vox's Worldly host Zack Beauchamp talks with author and New Statesman editor Emily Tamkin about the life and legacy of George Soros. How did a Hungarian billionaire philanthropist become the No. 1 boogeyman of right-wing nationalist movements on both sides of the Atlantic? They unpack the meaning of the smear campaign against him, and the inherent contradictions of a wealthy man trying to use his influence to make societies more democratic.
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Podcast: Working (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Set Decorator Beth Kushnick's Tools Are Furniture and Accessories
Pub date: 2021-02-14
This week host June Thomas discusses the art of set decoration with Beth Kushnick. Beth has worked on dozens of film and TV projects including The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and the new EPIX series Bridge and Tunnel. In the interview she talks about how she sources items and finds authentic furniture and accessories for period pieces. She also explains how physical items can add complexity and biographical details to the characters we see in movies and on television.
After the interview, June and co-host Rumaan Alam talk about Beth’s experience working during the pandemic. Then June talks to Slate writer and editor Dan Kois about a book deal he just landed.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mitchell on Meetings: The Thing
Pub date: 2021-03-26
David Mitchell investigates meetings from the ancient "thing" to zoom. Also on the agenda: executive coach Sophie Bryan teaches David to chair a meeting; fellow comedian Russell Kane explores how different personality types behave in meetings; and Dutch sociologist Wilbert van Vree sums up several millennia of meetings history.
Producer: Chris Ledgard
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Podcast: Subtitle (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The language closest to English
Pub date: 2021-03-31
You may not have heard of Frisian, but it’s spoken by about 500,000 people. Once upon a time, an older form of the language was barely distinct from Old English. We take you to the Dutch province of Friesland to hear why people there care so deeply about their mother tongue. Texting, social media, music […]
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Podcast: Futility Closet (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 338-A Point of Law
Pub date: 2021-04-05
One dark night in 1804, a London excise officer mistook a bricklayer for a ghost and shot him. This raised a difficult question: Was he guilty of murder? In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll consider the case of the Hammersmith ghost, which has been called "one of the greatest curiosities in English criminal law."
We'll also worry about British spiders and puzzle over some duplicative dog names.
Intro:
In 1850, an English doctor claimed to have given first aid to a pike.
In 1970, Air Force pilot Gary Foust ejected from his F-106 and watched it land itself.
Sources for our feature on the Hammersmith ghost:
W.M. Medland and Charles Weobly, A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials, Actions at Law, &c., 1804.
Thomas Faulkner, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith, 1839.
James Paterson, Curiosities of Law and Lawyers, 1899.
Thomas Faulkner, An Historical and Topographical Account of Fulham: Including the Hamlet of Hammersmith, 1813.
R.S. Kirby, Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804.
Jacob Middleton, "An Aristocratic Spectre," History Today 61:2 (February 2011), 44-45.
Alfred Whitman, "A Hundred Years Ago -- 1804," Strand 28:168 (December 1904), 632-638.
Augustus K. Stephenson, "Ghost Stories of 100 Years Ago," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 208:11 (April 1904), 214-220.
John Ezard, "Ghostly Murder Haunts Lawyers 200 Years On," Guardian, Jan. 2, 2004.
"The Case of the Murdered Ghost," BBC News, Jan. 3, 2004.
"Killing of a 'Ghost' That Haunted Courts for 180 Years," [Glasgow] Herald, Jan. 3, 2004.
"Experts to Remember Spectral Shooting," Birmingham Post, Jan. 3, 2004.
Arifa Akbar, "Club Hosts Gathering in Honour of Famous Ghost Case," Independent, Jan. 3, 2004.
Martin Baggoley, "The Hammersmith Ghost and the Strange Death of Thomas Millwood," Crime Magazine, April 9, 2015.
"'Laying' a Ghost," [Brisbane] Telegraph, March 8, 1924.
"A Ghost Story of 100 Years Ago," Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate, Oct. 29, 1910.
"From the Courts," Brisbane Courier, Dec. 22, 1906.
"Strange Stories of London Ghosts," [Melbourne] Leader, Oct. 6, 1900.
"Dream Evidence," [Adelaide] Express and Telegraph, Feb. 21, 1891.
"Ghosts, Witches, and Hangmen," Moreton [Qld.] Mail, Nov. 22, 1889.
"Glimpses of the Past," Bury and Norwich Post, Sept. 7, 1886.
"Resuscitation of the Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Examiner, Dec. 15, 1833.
"The Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Morning Post, Dec. 6, 1824.
"A New Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Morning Chronicle, Dec. 4, 1824.
"Old Bailey," Aberdeen Journal, Jan. 25, 1804.
"Murder -- Hammersmith Ghost," Bury and Norwich Post, Jan. 18, 1804.
"From the London Gazette," Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, Jan. 16, 1804.
"The Hammersmith Ghost," Caledonian Mercury, Jan. 14, 1804.
"The Real Hammersmith Ghost," Staffordshire Advertiser, Jan. 14, 1804.
Trial proceedings from the Old Bailey.
Jane Alexander, "The Time Someone Shot a Ghost Dead in Hammersmith," Londonist, Oct. 25, 2019.
Ross Macfarlane, "The Hammersmith Ghost," Wellcome Library blog, Oct. 31, 2009.
Kelly Buchanan, "The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years," In Custodia Legis, Library of Congress, Oct. 30, 2015.
Gabrielle Keane, Locating Literature in the Ghost Hoax: An Exploration of 19th-Century Print News Media, dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2019.
Jen Cadwallader, Spirits of the Age: Ghost Stories and the Victorian Psyche, dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Listener mail:
"Bing (TV series)," Wikipedia (accessed March 24, 2021).
"List of Bing episodes," Wikipedia (accessed March 24, 2021).
Amber Tully, "Should You Put Ice on a Burn (or Not)?" Cleveland Clinic, June 12, 2018.
"Minor Burns - Aftercare," MedLine Plus, Aug. 13, 2020.
Anahad O'Connor, "The Claim: Ice Is Good for a Skin Burn," New York Times, June 10, 2008.
Luis Villazon, "How Many UK Spiders Are Actually Dangerous?" BBC Science Focus (accessed March 24, 2021).
"Spider," Wikipedia (accessed March 30, 2021).
"Not So False After All: Venom of the Noble False Widow Spider Very Similar to the Venom of 'True' Black Widows," NUI Galway, June 18, 2020.
John P. Dunbar et al., "Venomics Approach Reveals a High Proportion of Lactrodectus-Like Toxins in the Venom of the Noble False Widow Spider Steatoda nobilis," Toxins, 12:6 (June 18, 2020), 402.
"Study Finds Noble False Widow Spiders Bite Can Transmit Harmful Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria to Humans," NUI Galway, Dec. 1, 2020.
This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Stephen Harvey, who sent these corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle).
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Podcast: How Do We Fix It? (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Infrastructure. How To Pay For It: Maya MacGuineas
Pub date: 2021-04-02
Stifle that yawn. Infrastructure just got exciting again.
President Biden announced a $2 trillion plan to rebuild roads and rails, repair bridges, modernize airports and seaports, create hundreds of thousands of union jobs in the solar and wind power industries, boost housing, expand broadband access to regions that are poorly served, and speed-up the transition to a climate-friendly economy. Total spending on his proposals could be as much as $4 trillion over the next decade.
We explain the President's ambitious plan, which amounts to the biggest spending initiatives in decades, and look at how to pay for it with one of the nation's top experts on the budget and taxes— Maya MacGuineas, President of the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Maya MacGuineas praises recent efforts to spend big on COVID relief, and also discusses ways to restore fiscal balance through reducing unproductive tax breaks, and reforming the tax code. "The bad news is that we had a mountain of debt before the crisis and we have a much larger mountain now."
In their conversation in the second half of this episode, Jim takes a deeply skeptical look at the Biden infrastructure proposals, while Richard applauds the President for going big and tackling a huge piece of public policy that was usually neglected by prior administrations.
Recommendations: Richard calls "Minari" and "The Father" two remarkable new films that are well-worth watching.
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Podcast: Witness History (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: David Attenborough's first expedition
Pub date: 2021-04-07
In 1954, the BBC broadcast a new television programme in Britain. It was called Zoo Quest and it launched the career of a man who has since brought the natural world into millions of homes around the world, the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. Louise Hidalgo has been listening back through the BBC archives to Sir David telling the story of the first natural history expedition for Zoo Quest, to Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Picture: David Attenborough, producer of the BBC wildlife documentary series Zoo Quest, and Jack Lester (right), curator of London Zoo's reptile house, planning their next expedition with the help of Gregory the parrot, March 1955 (Credit: William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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Podcast: ABC News Daily (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Meet the Stranded Australians
Pub date: 2021-04-04
No home, no flight, dwindling medical supplies and a depleted bank account.
We're following two of the many thousands of Australians currently stranded overseas.
Affordable flights home are still vanishingly rare, with a strict cap on international arrivals, so the quarantine system isn’t overwhelmed.
So what do you do when you’re stuck on the wrong side of the world during a pandemic?
Featured: Liz & Matt, Australians in London
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Podcast: Word Matters (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 35. 'Fewer' vs. 'Less'
Pub date: 2021-04-07
You might've seen the sign at the grocery store: "12 items or less." Depending on what you've been taught, you might also have considered the sign a grave grammatical sin. Today we'll look at one of the most popular "rules" in the English language. Plus, is there a difference between being 'uninterested' and being 'disinterested'?
Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.
Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.
Transcript available here.
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Podcast: The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Armando Iannucci
Pub date: 2021-04-07
Jeremy has another virtual pint with Armando Iannucci, creator of a litany of comedy hits such In the Loop, The Thick of It, Veep, Alan Partridge, etc. On the menu: comedy, writing, Milton, Boris Johnson, much more. Alas, no beer.
Podcast: History Lab (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Reading the signs
Pub date: 2020-02-17
When was the last time you were asked to sign something and did you stop to think how the strange squiggly mark you make on a page could be used?The signature is a performative act, crucial to the law’s way of knowing, but it’s also been used as an instrument of power and control.In this episode of History Lab we hear from a boy who was stolen, the man who took him away and the Judge who was asked to decide if a mother's thumbprint was a sign of consent.The presence or absence of a signature on a legal document can speak volumes and throughout history Aboriginal people have been reclaiming this marker of individual identity to represent the many and speak back to an empire.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this episode contains the voices and names of deceased persons.
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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Spy talk
Pub date: 2021-04-01
One Cold War spy has his story retold by journalist Simon Kuper, while the granddaughter of another - Charlotte Philby - writes novels that explore the human side and cost of espionage. Nigel Inkster, former MI6 director of operations and intelligence, looks at the role of spying in present day relations between China and the US, while journalist Margaret Coker explains how old school intelligence gathering without any hi-tech bells and whistles has been reaping rewards in Iraq. Rana Mitter hosts a conversation about spying fact and fiction.
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia - The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper is out now. Charlotte Philby's most recent novel is A Double Life. The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy by Nigel Inkster is out now. Margaret Coker's book Spymaster of Baghdad is out now. Penguin Classics is re-issuing Len Deighton's novels.
In our archives you can find Stella Rimington in discussion with Alan Judd https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048ngpw John le Carré in conversation with Anne McElvoy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039q13n The links in the world of French philosophy and spies https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2mfh3 And a playlist of programmes on War and Conflict https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kgbyb
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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Podcast: Iconography (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Mayflower II
Pub date: 2019-03-28
In the 1950s, something must have been in the water, because all of a sudden, there was a movement afoot to put a replica of the Mayflower in the water. For one man to become obsessed with the idea of rebuilding the Pilgrim's famed ship, to throw all his time and money into that single-minded pursuit, well you could just chalk that up as weird, but weird in the way most things are weird. But for two men born during the last year of World War I to determine, at the same time but from opposite sides of the Atlantic, that in the wake of World War II they would build a Mayflower II come hell or high water… that’s cosmically weird. This is the story of Warwick Charlton, Henry Hornblower II, and the ship they pulled out of the history books and put on the Atlantic.
Transcript here: https://iconographypodcast.com/articles/s1!eb6d2
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Podcast: ICYMI (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Clubhouse Doesn't Want You to Hear This
Pub date: 2021-03-27
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Audio tour of hip new app Clubhouse. One of the hosts signed up and then recorded everything she heard from the moment she logged in, and she talks listeners through her one long, strange night moving from room to room inside the audio chatroom platform that has been valued at $1 billion. She overhears a friend watching television who doesn't know he's live, takes a shower with hundreds of other people, cringes at karaoke auditions, and generally deconstructs this buzzy new thing in tech in a smart and insightful way
On the second episode of ICYMI, Slate’s new podcast about internet culture, hosts Madison Malone Kircher and Rachelle Hampton take listeners on an all-access tour of Clubhouse, the invite-only audio app that already has millions of users, including everyone from Elon Musk and Drake to Oprah and Joe Rogan. Madison somehow ends up taking a shower with hundreds of other users? The app also doesn’t allow people to record and publish audio, so this episode will probably get us banned.
Then, they try a new segment that we’re calling High Speed Download, in which each of them must try to summarize all of the drama of a recent internet story in 60 seconds or less. This time: the sagas of relationship guru Derrick Jaxn and Jensen Karp, aka Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Guy.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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Podcast: Home Cooking (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Fronds with Benefits (with Jason Mantzoukas)
Pub date: 2020-10-14
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This show about home cookery was one of the only good things to happen in 2020. It isn't publishing new regularly episodes anymore — although it's worth subscribing in the hope that a surprise special will drop one day — relistening to Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway chat about what they like to cook and eat is still a delight. This episode with universal podcast guest Jason Mantzoukas is a particular highlight, as he brings his novice questions to the hosts, but you can also select one from the feed at random and still enjoy it
We’re joined by actor Jason Mantzoukas, one of our favorite people. He’s a novice in the kitchen who needs a little help getting comfortable with some cooking basics. Plus, we call up Hrishi’s dad, a.k.a. Sumesh Uncle the Food Scientist, for some information on his newest favorite gadget: an air fryer.
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Podcast: The Hedgehog and the Fox
Episode: Jennifer Howard: Clutter: An Untidy History
Pub date: 2021-02-11
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Interview with the author of a history of clutter. She became interested in this topic after spending two years clearing out her mother's overflowing house after a health crisis, and ended up delving deeply into why wealthy nations struggle so much with stuff. When did having possessions go from being a pleasure to being a problem? It can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution and beyond. There are environmental and psychological aspects to all of this accumulation, too, and by the end of the episode listeners will be itching to declutter
In this episode, we delve deep into clutter with Jennifer Howard, author of a recent book entitled Clutter: An Untidy History.
This book is for you if you have a closet that will no longer close because it is so crammed with clothes, or a garage piled with boxes you keep meaning to sort, or a storage unit that you pay for every month without having an exit strategy. Maybe it’s especially for you if you have an older relative with a house piled high with belongings that you know they will never get rid of and you have a growing sense of dread that one day you are going to have to roll your sleeves up and tackle it... Jennifer talks about her own experience of clearing her mother's house and, more broadly, why we seem to have an increasingly vexed relationship with our (many) possessions.
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Podcast: Hidden Paris
Episode: Episode 4 of "Black Paris" : Little Africa
Pub date: 2020-11-16
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Introduction to an overlooked neighbourhood in Paris — "La Goutte d’Or", also known as Little Africa. It lies to the east of Montmatre and is home to a high proportion of people of North and sub-Saharan backgrounds. In the aftermath of the First World War, when France was desperate for immigrants to help rebuild, people from colonies like Algeria Senegal were encouraged to make their homes in this part of the city. Today, it is renowned for its market and its role at the centre of the debate around gentrification in the city
Monique Wells, the founder of @entreetoblackparis - a tour company that offers tours showcasing the contributions of Africans and people of African descent to the history and culture of Paris-, joins me for a fourth episode!
In this episode, she talks to us about an area located in the north of Paris called Little Africa. We talk about the history of the neighborhood, some fun places to check out there and the big word : gentrification.
You can contact Monique at paris@entreetoblackparis.com to book a tour.
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Podcast: Genetics Unzipped (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: S4.03 - A dominant character: The life of JBS Haldane
Pub date: 2021-02-11
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Compact life of an early twentieth century scientist. His physiologist father regularly used his children as test subjects. "Both Haldane senior and Haldane himself had this philosophy that it's all very well to experiment on a rabbit, but a rabbit can’t tell you how it's feeling," one host explains. He didn't make one big flashy discovery, but rather contributed to the advancement of many different fields with "incremental steps, incremental gains and knowledge that eventually add to our understanding of the bigger picture"
Kat Arney and Samanth Subramanian look at the extraordinary life of JBS Haldane, whose work, writing and political leanings made him one of the most interesting characters of 20th century genetics.
Full show notes, transcript, music credits and references online at GeneticsUnzipped.com
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
Pub date: 2021-04-02
Why were soldiers on horseback told to ride straight into a valley full of enemy cannon? The disastrous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is usually blamed on blundering generals. But the confusing orders issued on that awful day in 1854 reveal a common human trait - we often wrongly assume that everyone knows what we know and can easily comprehend our meaning.
Starring Helena Bonham Carter as Florence Nightingale.
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Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Secrets & Lies: Lives lived in shame
Pub date: 2021-04-01
It's Secrets and Lies season on Outlook and we're revisiting some of the most fascinating stories from our archive on the theme. In this episode we hear about secrets borne out of shame.
When Gail Lukasik was growing up in the US, she'd always wondered about her mother's quirky habits. For instance, she always wore a light foundation before she went to bed. Years later Gail would discover that this had been one of her mother's attempts to hide the fact that she was actually multiracial and had 'passed' as white her whole life. Gail wrote a book about her story, White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing. She spoke to Emily Webb in 2019.
Stanley Underhill is a British priest who—at 91—came out as gay. He spent his whole life facing prejudice because of his sexuality but says that for the first time in his life, he's comfortable in himself. He’s written a book about his life called Coming out of the Black Country. He spoke to Emily Webb in 2019.
Do you have a fantastic story involving a secret or a lie? We'd love to hear about it. Record a short voice memo or write an e-mail and send it to us at outlook@bbc.com. If your story is about someone you know, just make sure they're ok with you telling us about it.
Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Fiona Woods Orginal story producers: Alice Gioia and Emily Webb Music: Joel Cox
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’
Pub date: 2021-03-30
For years, I’ve kept a list of dream guests for this show. And as long as that list has existed, Ted Chiang has been atop it.
Chiang is a science fiction writer. But that undersells him. He has released two short story collections over 20 years — 2002’s “Stories of Your Life and Others” and 2019’s “Exhalation.” Those stories have won more awards than I can list, and one of them was turned into the film “Arrival.” They are remarkable pieces of work: Each is built around a profound scientific, philosophical or religious idea, and then the story or the story structure is shaped to represent that idea. They are wonders of precision and craft. But unlike a lot of science fiction, they are never cold. Chiang’s work is deeply, irrepressibly humane.
I’ve always wondered about the mind that would create Chiang’s stories. And in this conversation I got to watch it in action. Chiang doesn’t like to talk about himself. But he does like to talk about ideas. And so we do: We discuss the difference between magic and technology, why superheroes fight crime but ignore injustice, what it would do to the human psyche if we knew the future is fixed, whether free will exists, whether we’d want to know the exact date of our deaths, why Chiang fears what humans will do to artificial intelligence more than what A.I. will do to humans, the way capitalism turns people against technology, and much more.
The ideas Chiang offered in this conversation are still ringing in my head, and changing the way I see the world. It’s worth taking your time with this one.
Recommendations:
"Creation" by Steve Grand
"On the Measure of Intelligence" by Francois Chollet
"CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" by George Saunders
"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
"Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (movie)
"On Fragile Waves" by Lily Yu
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard
Control (video game)
Return of the Obra Dinn (video game)
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Pub date: 1985-04-27
Barbara Taylor Bradford's first novel, A Woman of Substance, which was published in 1980, quickly became a huge international success. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she recalls her childhood in Leeds, her first job as a reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post at the age of 16, becoming a Fleet Street journalist, and her eventual move to New York.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Luxury: Family photograph album
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Podcast: The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Solve a Murder (Pt 1)
Pub date: 2021-01-12
Fingerprints, DNA, blood spatter, ballistics. Before any of those forensic sciences, investigators and courts had a very different suite of tools for solving crime. On this episode, we're looking at some of them. Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting:http://betterhelp.com/theconstant (http://betterhelp.com/theconstant)Visit our Patreon here (https://patreon.com/theconstant).BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! (https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/the-constant-podcast)Music by:Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.sessions.blue/)Lee Rosevere (https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/)Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/)
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Podcast: Lecker: A Food Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S3 Ep7: Bonnag: A Manx Documentary
Pub date: 2020-05-12
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Atmospheric documentary about a pre-pandemic trip to the World Bonnag Championships on the Isle of Man. Bonnag is a traditional kind of sweet soda bread made on this small self governing island in the Irish Sea, and the annual competition to find the best maker of this delicacy is a major event. As well as introducing listeners to the culture and history of this place, the hosts explore why food works so well as an anchor for memory. This piece is a delicious blend of folklore, travel narrative and practical cooking advice
Although she’s originally from the Isle of Man, Katie Callin has never made the most traditionally Manx of all foods: the bonnag - a soda raised baked good with links to the nation’s pre-industrial past, and to its folklore too.
She returns to her family home in St Johns on the west coast of the island to enter the World Bonnag Championships and, under the guidance of her mum Vanessa, she uncovers the secrets of great bonnag making.
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Podcast: Keep the Flame Alive (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 176: Jordan Gray on Decathlon and Heptathlon
Pub date: 2021-02-18
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Olympics and Paralympics fan podcast, keeping their spirits high even though the pandemic postponed last year's competitions. This episode is devoted to the inequality that persists in multi event athletics at the games — men do the decathlon, comprised of ten events, while women can only compete in the heptathlon, which has seven. The guest is a heptathlete who is campaigning to have this discrepancy ironed out, and talks about why there's no logical reason why women today can't do the same events as men
The Olympics touts its gender equity -- but that means an equal number of men and women are competing at the Games, not that they have the same sports and events. On this episode we talk with Jordan Gray, a female decathlete who's working on that latter type of equality. Only men compete in the decathlon at the Olympics now, but Jordan's working to get the women's event included at the 2024 Olympics. She tells us how the decathlon and heptathlon work, and talks about her efforts with Let Women Decathlon.
Follow Jordan on Twitter, Insta (@grit_goddess) and Facebook (Jordan Gray). Check out her website if you're interested in some coaching sessions, and sign the petition to have women's decathlon added to the Olympic program.
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- Phil Andrews
- The dulcet tones of Jason Bryant
Throughout 2021 we're revisiting great stories from Atlanta 1996! For our Atlanta 1996 moment this week, Jill looks at smoking's role in the Atlanta Olympics.
We also have Games Updates from Tokyo 2020.
Keep the Flame Alive: The Podcast for Fans of the Olympics and Paralympics with hosts Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown
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Podcast: The Working Actor's Journey (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Text Work: Hamlet's "Advice to the Players" with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso
Pub date: 2020-03-10
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Practical advice podcast in which experienced actors share their wisdom with the next generation in their industry. This is a short episode, extracted from a longer conversation elsewhere on the feed. It focuses in on a particular text: the monologue from Hamlet in which the hero gives advice to the actors he has hired. "Let your own discretion be your tutor," he says, and the experts here speak to the necessity for actors to hone their own sense of discretion — an instinct and judgement to what each moment of a play needs
In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s "Advice to the Players"—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you.
You'll hear Randall and Annie discuss:
- Some of the most important advice that actors can take from Hamlet’s words
- How an actor can use and develop his or her own “discretion
- How to look at Shakespeare’s First Folio, and how to play with it to find all the clues
Plus we chat about why “updated productions of Shakespeare can make the audience feel distant, and instead, how to make it exciting!
This is such a great session and it was so fun to hear them share how the texts are really like musical scores for actors—showing you how to make sense of these works and perform them! These two are amazing teachers and have so much to share!
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Randall's monologue from Hamlet by Shakespeare - the "Advice to the Players" (from the First Folio) Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you trippingly on the Tongue: But if you mouth it, as many of your Players do, I had as liue the Town-Cryer had spoke my Lines: Nor do not saw the Ayre too much your hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie Tor- rent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle-winde of Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothnesse. O it offends mee to the Soule, to see a robustious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Passi- on to tatters, to verie ragges, to split the eares of the Groundlings: who (for the most part) are capeable of nothing, but inexplicable dumbe shewes, & noise: I could haue such a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it out- Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it. Be not too tame neyther: but let your owne Discretion be your Tutor. Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance: That you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any thing so ouer-done, is frõ the purpose of Playing, whose end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twer the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne Feature, Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and Bodie of the Time, his forme and pressure. Now, this ouer-done, or come tardie off, though it make the vnskil- full laugh, cannot but make the Iudicious greeue; The censure of the which One, must in your allowance o're- way a whole Theater of Others. Oh, there bee Players that I haue seene Play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speake it prophanely) that neyther hauing the accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan, or Norman, haue so strutted and bellowed, that I haue thought some of Natures Iouerney-men had made men, and not made them well, they imitated Humanity so ab- hominably.
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Podcast: Oh My Dog (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Leesa and Bubba
Pub date: 2019-03-21
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Moving stories about the love that exists between people and their dogs. This one is particularly gut wrenching and contains strong language. Its star is a woman who was homeless for many years and suffered many, many traumatic incidents. Her brindled staffy Bubba was her constant companion and kept her going, she says, even though having a dog meant that she was excluded from lots of services and shelters that don't allow animals. However, the kindness of strangers who left food and money for Bubba kept them going
When she became homeless, Leesa’s dogs were her only true companions. One saved her life.
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Podcast: In Machines We Trust (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera
Pub date: 2020-08-12
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Informative show about the creep of automation into all aspects of life and technology. This episode is from a four part series on this feed about facial recognition and specifically its uses and abuses by law enforcement agencies. There are some eye opening examples given — including cameras on a bridge in New York that are supposed to recognise ears and faces through glass — before the producers travel to Las Vegas, a city that both has a well established culture of surveillance and stricter rules about how police can use such images
The use of facial recognition by police has come under a lot of scrutiny. In part-three of our series, host Jennifer Strong takes you to Sin City, which actually has one of America’s most buttoned-up policies on when cops can capture your likeness. She also finds out why celebrities like Woody Harrelson are playing a starring role in conversations about this technology.
We meet:
Albert Fox Cahn, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Phil Mayor, ACLU Michigan
Captain Dori Koren, Las Vegas Police
Assistant Chief Armando Aguilar, Miami Police
Credits:
This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Tate Ryan-Mosley and Emma Cillekens. We had help from Benji Rosen and Karen Hao. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield. Our technical director is Jacob Gorski.
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders
Pub date: 2021-03-23
Bernie Sanders didn’t win the 2020 election. But he may have won its aftermath.
If you look back at Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’s careers, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan, looks a lot like the proposals Sanders has fought for forever, without much of the compromise or concerns that you used to see from Senator Joe Biden. That’s not to take anything away from Biden. He’s the president. This is his plan. And it is to his credit that he saw what the country needed, what the politics of the moment would support and where his party had moved, and met it with full force.
But Sanders’s two presidential campaigns are part of the reason that the Democratic Party had moved, and the politics of the moment had changed. And so I’ve wondered what Sanders makes of this moment. Is it a triumph? A disappointment? A beginning?
And I’ve wondered about his take on some of the other questions swirling around the Democratic Party: Are liberals alienating people who agree with them on economics by being too censorious on culture? Is there room to work with populist Republicans who might be open to new economic ideas even as they turn against liberal democracy itself?
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Catching a Killer Doctor
Pub date: 2021-03-19
Family doctor Harold Shipman got away with murdering his patients for decades. He was one of the most prolific serial killers in history - but his hundreds of crimes largely went unnoticed despite a vast paper trail of death certificates he himself had signed.
Why do we sometimes fail to see awful things happening right under our noses? And how can the systems that maintain quality control in cookie factories be employed to prevent another doctor like Shipman killing with impunity?
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sideways: Siding with the Enemy
Pub date: 2021-02-16
Best-selling author Matthew Syed explores the ideas that shape our lives with stories of seeing the world differently.
A criminal walks into a Swedish bank brandishing a machine gun. He takes a handful of bank workers hostage. The police lock the victims and their captors in the vault and then things start to get weird. Despite being held captive and threatened with violence, the hostages side with the criminals.
Stockholm Syndrome is born.
In this episode, Matthew Syed reexamines the birth of this peculiar psychiatric disorder and discovers that all is not what it seems.
Producer: Gemma Newby Music, Sound Design and Mix: Benbrick Series Editor: Russell Finch Executive Producers: Sean Glynn and Max O'Brien
A Novel production for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: Read Me a Poem (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: “Stanzas by Emily Brontë
Pub date: 2021-03-02
Amanda Holmes reads Emily Brontë’s poem, “Stanzas. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
Podcast: About Buildings + Cities (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 77 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 1/2 — In the Nocturama
Pub date: 2021-01-31
In our first episode of 2021 we discussed 'Austerlitz', the final novel by W.G. Sebald. It's the story, at the most basic level, of an architectural historian, Jacques Austerlitz, who in middle age begins to rediscover his own submerged history. It's a novel driven by architectural spaces, which are mysterious containers of both individual and collective memory and history. Austeritz's own memories of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, his lost parents, and the bloody history of Europe itself are gradually revealed in the images and landscapes that he encounters.
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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Podcast: Sound Africa (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: One Night in Snake Park - Episode 1
Pub date: 2020-09-07
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High quality six part investigative series from a team based in South Africa. It tells the story of the xenophobic attacks in some of the country's townships in 2015, in which a 14 year old boy died after being caught in the crossfire. Looters targeted informal community shops run by migrants, many of them from other African countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia and Malawi. The journalists here do an excellent job of laying bare the systemic oppressions that fostered such violence, while also giving no quarter to prejudice
In January 2015 the killing of the 14-year old Siphiwe Mahori in Snake Park, Soweto ignited a major wave of xenophobic attacks as across South Africa.
Siphiwe Mahori was shot by a Somali shopkeeper who said he was fearing for his life. The story was international news, but quickly forgotten.
“One Night in Snake Park investigates the killing of Siphiwe Mahori. Why was the shooter let off with a suspended sentence? Why was his shop attacked? Why do xenophobic attacks keep happening? Why did Siphiwe have to die?
This podcast is made with the support of a Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism grant. Sound Africa is supported by Hindenburg Systems and the Open Society Foundation’s Program for Independent Journalism.
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Podcast: hmv Presents: My Inspiration (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S3 Episode 10 - Rufus Wainwright on Nina Simone
Pub date: 2020-04-13
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Musical series that blends personal conversations with discussions of artists' greatest influences. This stand out episode features the multifaceted musician Rufus Wainwright, who started out as a child in a folk music dynasty, and has since worked in opera, ballet and musical theatre as well as making his own albums. He cites Nina Simone as his most enduring role model. She gave him a "mystical experience" when he first played one of her records as a young man and has lit the creative path forward for him ever since
We talk to Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright about his return to the pop world with new album Unfollow The Rules and why Nina Simone remains one of his biggest influences.
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Podcast: Happier with Gretchen Rubin (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Little Happier: The Memory of a Delicious Night of Sleep, Four Hundred Years Later
Pub date: 2021-03-08
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Short bonus episode from a show about productivity and happiness. The host reads a short passage from the diary of Samuel Pepys, who chronicled his life in London in the 1660s. He's famous today for his accounts of plague and fire, but this lovely extract is about a really good night's sleep that he and his wife had on a trip together in 1661 — he declared himself a follower of "the Epicureanism of sleep". There was a rainstorm overnight, and they both agreed afterwards that they had never experienced better rest
In the 1600s, Samuel Pepys kept a diary, and of everything he wrote about, including the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London fair, one thing that is remembered, so many hundreds of years later, is a delicious night of sleep he had in 1661.
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Podcast: A Good Drop: All about alcohol.
Episode: Decanter or Not?
Pub date: 2021-01-28
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Alcohol podcast hosted by two genial Australians. Subject matter and format varies widely on this feed. Sometimes they devote an entire episode to one bottle of wine, while at other points they zoom out to look at the varied uses of a single cocktail ingredient or the history of a movement like prohibition. This one is about the virtues of decanting wine before drinking it. In addition to some scientific background, they conduct an on air taste test to determine if decantation really improves the flavour of a drink
Hey everyone!
Welcome to episode 160! This week, we will be exploring the difference that a decanter makes to your wine. Is it worth the fee? Why did we start using them? Tune in to find out!
This week, we're drinking: Rabbit and Spaghetti Grenache.
Thanks for listening!
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Podcast: High Street Tales (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: North Shields | Time and the Shoe Man | story by Celia Bryce
Pub date: 2021-02-10
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Storytelling podcast from the UK's Historic England organisation, which exists to preserve heritage buildings and widen access to them. This show consists of seven separate stories, each created by a different writer in response to the high street in a different place. The pieces combine folk tales and urban legends to create new fiction rooted in regional traditions. This one is from North Shields, a town in north east England, and combines the feel of a fairy story with a modern meditation on the passing of time
In this episode, the musician and writer Celia Bryce explores North Shields high street in an otherworldly tale which follows a mysterious character on his journey through streets of the past to return a lost shoe to its home.
You can download the ebook of all the stories at https://historicengland.org.uk/highstreettales
Made in conjunction with New Writing North and the series was produced by Sonderbug Productions with thanks to Darren Hayman for use of his song Pram Town.
High Street Tales is part of Historic England’s high street cultural programme; four years of nationwide cultural activity helping to make high streets more attractive, engaging and vibrant places for people to live, work and spend time. The programme is run by Historic England, in partnership with Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. Follow us on social using @HistoricEngland and using the hashtag #HighStreetTales to stay up to date with the latest High Street news.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion – podcast
Pub date: 2021-03-19
When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalised capital. By Samanth Subramanian. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How an Art World Outsider Landed a $69 Million Sale
Pub date: 2021-03-16
Fresh off his $69 million sale, the digital artist known as Beeple says he's not trying to "blow up" the contemporary art world. And WSJ's Kelly Crow explains how a new technology led to a historic sale.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Covert Action
Pub date: 2021-03-17
David Kris sat down with David Robarge, the chief historian at the Central Intelligence Agency, to discuss covert action. All together, around 50 covert actions have been declassified over the years, and Kris and Robarge discuss several of them, involving the Middle East, Western Europe, Africa and Central America. They also talked about the legal and policy rules governing covert action, the process by which covert action is reviewed and approved and the famous "Washington Post test."
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Podcast: Anthems (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Helen Zaltzman | TOURIST
Pub date: 2021-03-15
Helen Zaltzman is a writer, broadcaster and podcaster. She produces the linguistics podcast The Allusionist, the entertainment podcast Answer Me This!, and the Veronica Mars recap podcast Veronica Mars Investigations.
Her word of the day is TOURIST.
CONNECT WITH HELEN ZALTZMAN:
T: @HelenZaltzman
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AnthemsWomen is a collection of 31 original manifestos, speeches, stories, poems and rallying cries written and voiced by exceptional women. This is a Broccoli Production.
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Podcast: Slightly Foxed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 29: A Poet’s Haven
Pub date: 2021-03-15
The artist Barrie Cooke had fishing in common with Ted Hughes, and mud and art in common with Seamus Heaney. Dr Mark Wormald, a scholar on the life and writings of Ted Hughes, has brought to light an extraordinary haul of poems, letters and drawings documenting a decades-long triangular friendship and a shared love of poetry and nature. He describes the spine-tingling discovery of Barrie’s cardboard box stuffed with correspondence and traces its history, starting with the first supper at Barrie’s Kilkenny home, and then at Jerpoint, also on the River Nore, where the trio forged their friendship, Seamus began Station Island and a poet’s haven flourished. From Ted’s dream of a burning fox man, climbing into Carrowkeel passage tombs and visits from Robert Lowell and Tom Paulin to fishing diaries, pike spoons and a stuffed trout, subsurface treasures are dredged up as our literary sifting takes us off the beaten track.
Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 46 minutes; 20 seconds)
Books MentionedWe may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. * River, Ted Hughes (6:46) * Lupercal, Ted Hughes (12:56) * Station Island, Seamus Heaney (14:34) * On Seamus Heaney, R. F. Foster (15:09) * Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes (20:13) * Crow, Ted Hughes (20:42) * Opened Ground, Seamus Heaney (25:15) * The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes, Janet Malcolm (39:50) * A Celtic Miscellany, selected and translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (41:38) * The Mission House, Carys Davies (43:12) * Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark (45:48)
Related Slightly Foxed Articles
- Through the Looking Glass, Jane Feaver on life at Faber and Faber, Issue 55
Other Links
- For more information about the Barrie Cooke archive, visit the Cambridge University website
- Barry Cooke’s portrait of Ted Hughes, National Portrait Gallery (5:50)
- Kilkenney Arts Week (33:47)
- Keats-Shelley House, Rome (37:34)
- The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020 (45:48)
Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach
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Podcast: Skillet (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Shabbat Dinner with Whitney Fisch
Pub date: 2019-12-24
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Podcast about food and the memories it evokes. This is a special episode about one family's shabbat traditions, with the host spending time with them as they prepare their Friday night meal. There's enough recipe talk to make the listener extremely hungry — the potatoes described here especially sound delicious — alongside the interview about the intersection of religion and diet. "For me, everything is Jewish food. What separates Jewish food from any other food? Nothing. Jewish food can be Spanish, Italian, it can be everything"
From lighting candles to bringing out big platters of food, the rituals of family meals bring us closer together. For school counselor, mom, and food blogger Whitney Fisch, those rituals also revolve around Judaism. We spend a Friday afternoon with @jewhungry and her extended family as she prepares Shabbat dinner. While the pesto chicken, smashed potatoes, and five other dishes finish cooking, she delves into some of the negative food rituals that bolster diet culture, as well as the warm memories she wants to instill in her kids.
School counselor and mom Whitney Fisch blogs about Jewish food at Jewhungry. She shares Jewish recipes and family life on Instagram at @jewhungry and addresses diet culture and other issues that impact her students at @whitneyfischmsw.
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Podcast: Under the Influence with Jo Piazza (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: If You Build It, They Will Come
Pub date: 2021-03-04
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Alternately hilarious and horrifying series following a journalist's attempts to explore the phenomenon of "mom influencers" from the inside. Suspecting that the pristine white world full of "shoppable links" that she sees inhabited by professional Instagrammers is not all that it seems, the host of this show decided to try this existence for herself, with illuminating results. It's worth listening to her "journey" from the beginning, but this episode about how the pictures we see are really taken is also a good entry point
What goes into making the perfect Instagram post? After being unceremoniously rejected from the Harvard of influencing, Jo manages to convince RewardStyle to let her in anyway. In this episode she puts their lessons to use, and tries her best to turn herself into an influencer, to create a shoppable life. She quickly discovers one of the dirty little secrets of influencing: influencers are hiring professional photographers to take a week or a month of content at once. Yes! Influencer photographers are the new wedding photographers. So Jo hires one and tries to take beautiful pictures of her entire family in matching pajamas. This is a disaster. But is it a profitable one?
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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS) with Bobby Corrigan
Pub date: 2021-01-12
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Interviews with experts about their "ology". This one is not for the faint of heart: the subject is rats, and particularly the ecosystem that they create around human habitation in big cities. The guest here is so incredibly upbeat and positive about the wonders of these creatures, though, that any rodent-based squeamishness is quickly overcome by their enthusiasm. These creatures have "food dialects", impressive memories and are so resourceful that we should be working with them, not against them, apparently
RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has been studying these animals in their big-city ecosystem for decades and he is a wonder-filled joy. Learn about rats’ origin story, the difference between a rat and a mouse, where they live, their preferred “food dialects, and how to (hopefully humanely) keep one out of your house -- or car? Might as well start to love and respect them, because we’re not-too-distantly related and one day… they may be steering the ship.
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Podcast: 41256
Episode: Episode 49 - The Signal Was Never More Than Fairly Faint
Pub date: 2018-12-23
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Sound collage from a feed that describes itself as "an audio commonplace". Each episode offers four minutes and fourteen seconds of unexpected delight, comprising snatches pulled from British radio — mostly BBC stations — and seamlessly edited together. The experience of listening to it feels like tuning an old fashioned wireless set, twiddling the dial to find stations and picking up short bursts of broadcast from each one. In this one we hear from a maritime hostage, a ghost hunter and a family living across the US-Mexico border
Bits of sound. Short. Every Sunday. An audio commonplace.
Colin Freeman - BBC Radio 4 - Wireless NIghts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k1y9j
Ann Winsper - BBC Radio 4 - Ghosts In The Machine -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06q6hy0
Kate Carr & Haydée Jiménez - BBC Radio 3 - Sound Lines - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bkrcs2
Paddy McCaloon - BBC Radio 4 - Wireless NIghts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k1y9j
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Podcast: The Shetland Times Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Charlie Gifford - Lighthouse Keeper
Pub date: 2018-04-12
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Podcast published by the newspaper on Shetland, an archipelago containing 16 inhabited islands in the North Sea about 60 miles off the northern coast of Scotland. Although sadly not being updated any more, this feed is a treasure trove of beautiful conversations with people connected to this remote place. This episode is an interview with a 94 year old Shetlander who spent his life working all over Scotland as a lighthouse keeper, a job that became extinct when navigational beacons became automated
Charlie Gifford served as a lighthouse keeper throughout Scotland. In this episode of The Shetland Times podcast he shares stories of his career with Marjolein.
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Podcast: Aria Code (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps
Pub date: 2021-03-10
Sometimes, the only thing that gets us through the darkest moments is knowing that the sun will rise again on a new day. Puccini's final opera, Turandot, is about courage in the face of adversity, and love triumphing over fear. In other words, it is exactly what the world needs right now.
The aria “Nessun dorma is Prince Calaf’s declaration of love and resounding victory cry. In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens and three guests explore what makes this aria so popular even beyond the opera house, and how it became an anthem of resilience and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode features Italian tenor Franco Corelli in a Metropolitan Opera performance from the Before Times (a.k.a. 1966).
The Guests:
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal. He loves conducting Puccini’s biggest, most majestic opera, but his favorite moments are the intimate arias like “Nessun dorma.
Writer Anne Midgette is the former classical music critic for The Washington Post. She first heard the aria on a Book of the Month Club cassette tape in college, and thinks the secret sauce for “Nessun Dorma is in its climactic underdog declaration of “Vincerò -- “I will win.
Dr. Michael Cho is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s also a violist, and has been playing with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra for more than 15 years. Recently, he joined the National Virtual Medical Orchestra, a group that formed during COVID to give people in the medical field a chance to play together. Watch their performance of "Nessun Dorma" below.
In April of 2020, 700 children across Europe sang a virtual performance of "Nessun dorma" as a message of hope and solidarity, from Europa InCanto. You can meet two of the stars in this episode, and watch their performance below.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 434- Artistic License
Pub date: 2021-03-09
Idaho was the first state to slap a slogan on a license plate, “Idaho Potatoes, which may not seem like a big deal, but it turns out this idea would end up having outsized consequences, and not just for Idaho. Because what started in one state would soon spread. And when it did, the question of what should go on a license plate, and what shouldn't, would prove surprisingly contentious.
Artistic License
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Podcast: The Jab from The Economist (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Jab: Trial and error?
Pub date: 2021-03-08
Large scale covid-19 vaccine trials have taken place at exceptional speed with unprecedented scrutiny. How do they work? And why are the results so politically charged?
We speak to Andrew Catchpole, lead scientist on the first trial to infect volunteers with the virus intentionally.Jason Palmer, presenter of The Intelligence, assists in a trial.
Alok Jha, The Economist's science correspondent, hosts with our health policy editor, Natasha Loder. Slavea Chankova, The Economist's health-care correspondent, and James Fransham, from our data team, join them.
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Podcast: Nocturne (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 86 Days
Pub date: 2021-02-17
When Lia Ditton set out from San Francisco to row alone across the Pacific Ocean she was confident that she would make it to Hawaii. But when you leave land, all you really know is that you're going on an adventure.
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Podcast: The Sporkful (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Mission: ImPASTAble 1 | Spaghetti Sucks
Pub date: 2021-03-01
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Beginning of a five part series documenting a food writer's years long attempt to create, produce and sell a new and better pasta shape than anything you can currently buy. This first episode is mostly about the problems with what's on offer now — long pasta doesn't hold enough sauce and cooks unevenly, short round shapes easily turn to mush in the pan — and how the process of marketing an alternative is much more complicated than he first imagined. It's all highly entertaining, although Italian culinary purists may disagree
Spaghetti doesn’t hold sauce. Angel hair goes from zero to mush. Wagon wheels are gimmicks. These are just a few of Dan’s many frustrations with classic pasta shapes. Three years ago he set out to do better when he embarked on a quest to invent a new pasta shape, actually get it made, and actually sell it. And things have not gone as planned. Starting today, we’re telling the story of Dan’s quest in a five-part series; part 2 is also up now. Will the world have a new pasta shape? Or will Dan’s dreams fall as flat as an overcooked rigatoni?
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Podcast: The Big Loop (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Memory Of A Dress
Pub date: 2021-02-17
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Intriguing and unusual collaboration between a fiction podcaster and a fashion designer to create "an audio only fashion show". Released to coincide with a mostly remote London Fashion Week 2021, this short piece sees a woman use a digital memory tool to excavate the connection between half remembered images and emotions. The contrast of the clinical computer and her increasingly moving descriptions of what she is seeing is quite affecting. A rare case of pictures working better only in the mind
This is a special collaboration between The Big Loop podcast and Edeline Lee Autumn Winter 2021 at London Fashion Week. Starring Lydia Leonard as Georgia. Co-starring Mairin O’Hagan as Computer/Lynne. Writer / Producer: Paul Bae. Producers: Tom Burke and Millie de la Moriniere. Sound Designer: Tom Burke. Casting: Millie de la Moriniere. For more information please visit Edeline Lee.
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Podcast: Working Scientist (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How the academic paper is evolving in the 21st century
Pub date: 2020-03-05
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Overview of the way that the publishing culture for scientific papers is changing in the modern age. The two biggest influences on this previously somewhat arcane and opaque process are the rise of open access journals and the need for researchers to quantify the "impact" of their work for funding purposes. Both result in the use of more accessible language and summaries that are aimed at the lay reader or those outside that specific field. The introduction of crowd sourcing into the peer review process is also covered here
Adam Levy delves into the article of the future, examining the rise of lay summaries, the pros and cons of preprint servers, and how peer review is being crowd-sourced and opened up.
Manuscripts are mutating. These changes range from different approaches to peer-review, to reformatting the structure of the paper itself.
Pippa Whitehouse, an Antarctica researcher at Durham University, UK, commends small changes to the paper's summary over the last few years, telling Adam Levy: “Often now there's a short layman's review of the work. I find those really useful in subjects slightly outside my field.
“I see a title that looks useful and don't quite understand the language in the technical abstract, but sometimes the lay abstract can give me just enough insight into the study.
Sarvenaz Sarabipour, a systems biologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, praised preprint servers from an early career researcher perspective in a February 2019 article published in PloS Biology.
She tells Levy: “It's very beneficial for researchers to deposit their work immediately, because journals are not able to do that. Preprinting is decoupling dissemination from the peer-review process. It's wonderful to have it published earlier.
“The peer review process is inhibitory to dissemination but of course has added value.
“As a very early career researcher you don't have many papers, so it's wonderful to have something out quicker and be able to discuss
that with colleagues and more senior researchers.
"Researchers can notice each others' work quicker. They contact each other if they have something similar and they may start collaborating.
But catalyst researcher Ben List, managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim, Germany, sounds a note of caution about preprints.
"In my field of chemical synthesis it's a bit risky, he tells Levy. "It's a different thing in physics or biology where experiments take a long time. In chemistry you see something and within a few days you can actually reproduce this work. I'm not 100% sure if this is the future of publishing, in chemistry at least."
List is editor-in-chief of organic chemistry journal Synlett. Its approach to peer-review involves e-mailing a paper to a panel of up to 70 reviewers. This "crowd-reviewing" system is both quicker and more collaborative, he argues, and the size of the panel reduces the risk of bias.
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Podcast: Sideways (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 2. 1 in 73 Million
Pub date: 2021-02-10
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Examination of the human ability to comprehend probability, as explored through two tragic stories. The host zeroes in on a major miscarriage of justice that happened in the UK in the early 2000s, when a woman was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons, who the defence claimed had both died from sudden infant death syndrome. A since discredited medical expert claimed that the chances of this happening were "one in 73 million" — a flawed statistic that became extremely influential in the courts and the press
In this episode, Matthew tells two stories, both of which raise profound questions about how we think. A group of terrified teenagers discover a disturbing app on social media. A world renowned doctor sets out to uncover hidden crimes.
The tragic events Matthew examines lead to a mother getting jailed for killing her two children. The key piece of testimony in her trial hinges on a question of statistical probability. But, as Matthew reveals, human beings are extremely poor at understanding the improbable.
Producer: Gemma Newby Music, Sound Design and Mix: Benbrick Series Editor: Russell Finch Executive Producer: Sean Glynn and Max O'Brien
Sideways is produced by Novel for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: Damn Interesting (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Blight On Soviet Science
Pub date: 2021-03-02
Nikolai Vavilov dedicated his life to improving Soviet agriculture and eradicating famine, but his allegiance to science would ultimately lead to his downfall.
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Podcast: The Joy of x (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution
Pub date: 2021-03-02
The paleontologist Neil Shubin talks with host Steven Strogatz about hunting for a 375 million-year-old fossil and finding novel traits that evolved many times.
The post Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Anthony Hopkins on “The Father, and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel
Pub date: 2021-02-26
At an age when many actors are slowing down or long retired, Anthony Hopkins has kept up a feverish pace, with recent roles including Pope Benedict XVI in “The Two Popes and Odin in Marvel’s “Thor movies. In his new film, “The Father, Hopkins’s character, Antony, is beginning to suffer from dementia, but he doesn’t want to accept a caregiver when his daughter, played by Olivia Colman, can no longer live with him. The film brings the viewer into Antony’s experience, particularly his confusion about what’s happening around him. Hopkins tells Michael Schulman that he hasn’t dealt with dementia in his own family, thankfully, but that he wasn’t daunted by the role. “When you’re working with a superb script, it’s a road map, and you follow it, he says. He advises younger actors, “Don’t act too much. Keep it simple. Plus, the writer Patricia Lockwood, who’s just published her first novel, on how she created literature out of the fractured consciousness of an obsessive Twitter user.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Hatboro Blues with Shawn McCreesh
Pub date: 2021-03-02
Inspired by his piece “The Hatboro Blues, Shawn McCreesh joins Lindelani and Nontsi to share his experience on growing up in an American town during the opioid epidemic.
"The Hatboro Blues" was originally published in the Autumn issue of Liberties Journal. The piece has been taken down but if you are interested in reading it, please email editors@thebrowser.com.
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Podcast: In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 1: Fourteen Days
Pub date: 2021-03-01
In her first-ever diary entry, recorded eight days after President John F. Kennedy Jr. is assassinated, Lady Bird presents a dramatic, cinematically detailed moment-by-moment account of those terrible hours in Dallas, and the days that follow. The episode tracks the 14 days from the murder of the president to when the Johnsons move into the White House, days filled with tragic ceremony and heartfelt moments of solidarity between Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird. We hear about the decade-long relationship between the two of them, one that dates back to the Kennedy’s arrival in Washington in the mid-50s, and hear fascinating observations these women make about each other.
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Podcast: Duchess (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill of Blenheim Palace
Pub date: 2021-02-18
Episode Description:
On the third episode of Duchess, our host sits down with Henrietta Spencer-Chuchill in the breathtaking Blenheim Palace. We hear the amazing story of how the Palace came to be, and how one particular woman was fundamental to it’s construction, the ladies chat about Henrietta’s distinguished lineage, Henrietta’s memories of Winston Churchill, we are taken on a tour of the incredible architecture and interiors of Blenheim, and we hear about sacrifices former custodians have made to keep the Palace going.
Have you ever watched Bridgerton, The Crown or Downton Abbey and wondered what it's really like to be a Duchess? If so, this is the podcast for you.
Top Quotes:
“The heartbeat of a private heritage home is the family living in it. Duchess
“My father always said: We are still fighting the battle of Blenheim. The battle doesn’t stop. We will always be fighting for Blenheim. Henrietta
“Nothing is ever thrown away in a large house. The Duchess
“It’s my duty to look after such a wonderful and beautiful home. It’s a part of our heritage. We’re very lucky to be a part of it. Henrietta
“My motto is retain and restore, rather than rip out and replace. Henrietta
About the Guest and Stately Home:
Henrietta Spencer-Churchill is an interior designer, author, and founder of Woodstock Designs. Henrietta, as the youngest child of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, grew up in Blenheim Palace.
Situated in Oxfordshire, the site Blenheim occupies has been associated with history and the aristocracy for centuries: Henry II’s mistress Rosamund Clifford lived on the site, Elizabeth I was imprisoned by Mary I for a time here as well. Blenheim, which is the only non- royal and non-episcopal Palace in Britain, was built by the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in the 18th century. The Palace is replete with magnificent Baroque architecture and contains a number of priceless art pieces and heirlooms - many of which are related to Winston Churchill who was born in Blenheim Palace. Now, the estate hosts events throughout the year; including cinema screenings, concerts, and exhibitions. Blenheim Palace is also recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
About the Host:
Emma Rutland, The Duchess of Rutland, did not always stride the halls of stately homes. Born Emma Watkins, the Duchess grew up the daughter of a Quaker farmer, in the Welsh marsh countryside. She trained as an opera singer in the Guildhall School of Music, and worked as a successful interior designer before meeting her future husband David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland, at a dinner party. Their marriage in 1992 would transform Emma Watkins into the 11th Duchess of Rutland, thrusting her into the world of aristocracy, and handing her the responsibility of one of the nation's great treasures: Belvoir Castle. While simultaneously running the day to day operations of the castle, and raising five children, The Duchess became fascinated with the history and importance of the other stately homes of the UK. Join The Duchess as she embarks on a wonderful journey through time, to learn more about the incredible homes that have defined Great Britain and, most importantly, meet the other extraordinary women who work tirelessly behind their doors to preserve their history and magic for future generations.
Resources:
https://www.belvoircastle.com/
https://www.onefineplay.com/
https://www.blenheimpalace.com/
https://www.emmaduchessrutland.com/
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Podcast: Day Dream: A Radio Drama
Episode: Day Dream 101: "From The First He Was Nameless"
Pub date: 2020-10-12
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Intriguing audio drama that contains two parallel narratives about jazz musicians. One strand features a fictionalised portrait of Billy Strayhorn, who was Duke Ellington's pianist and arranger for 25 years. Here, he is taking part in a 1965 radio interview looking back at his career. The other narrative is about Andre, an aspiring jazz singer in the present day. He is learning how to interpret music and forge a career in the industry in dialogue with Strayhorn's work. Throughout, the music is woven into the stories
In the first episode of Day Dream, we find Billy in a situation where he is charged to replace Duke Ellington's musical library. Will he rise to the challenge?
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Podcast: Tai Asks Why (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How much screen time is too much?
Pub date: 2021-02-17
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Science podcast hosted by a teenager. This episode is about screen time, and the host's age — he's in his early teens — provides a useful perspective beyond the usual adult-focused discussions of this topic. He interviews his own friends about the way screen time is handled in their households ("Thursday was my favourite day because I was allowed to play Angry Birds for ten minutes!") and also asks experts about the evidence that too much time with their devices is bad for children. The pandemic, of course, has shifted this debate very quickly
Tai and all of his friends are in a constant war with their parents over one big thing — screen time. For years, their parents have been telling them that screen time is bad and needs to be limited. But is it really? Tai finds out.
In this episode Tai talks to: - Kara Bagot, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine - Madeleine George, psychologist and analyst at RTI International - Jenny Odell, writer and artist, author of How to Do Nothing.
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Podcast: Spirits (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 217: Theatre Superstitions
Pub date: 2021-02-03
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Cheery conversational rundown of theatrical myths. From the more well known — such as why actors will never say the name of "the Scottish Play" — to the more obscure, there's plenty to enjoy here for those missing live performance. The account of the "ghost light" is a highlight. This is a lamp traditionally left on while the theatre is unoccupied. Although it has a practical purpose, there is a wealth of superstition around this practice, including that the light is there to prevent the theatre's ghost from haunting the production too heavily
We have talked about theatre a LOT over the past five years, so now seems like the perfect time to talk about theatre superstitions! From old classics like the Scottish Play, to some that are totally new to us, we’re talking all things that go bump in the wings.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of bodily harm/broken limbs, suicide, civil unrest, riots, police and military violence, fire, death, stabbings, gun violence, and Covid-19.
Housekeeping
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Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff! (Thanks, Amanda!)
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If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us @SpiritsPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon (http://patreon.com/spiritspodcast) to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. We also have lists of our book recommendations and previous guests’ books at http://spiritspodcast.com/books.
Transcripts are available at http://spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to http://spiritspodcast.com.
About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Podcast: The Olfactory (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 5: Mum's Perfume
Pub date: 2021-02-21
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Beautiful show about scent and memory. The host invites listeners to join her for a cosy session in "the olfactory", the imaginary audio hideaway where she analyses smells. All five of the episodes to date have been surprising and moving, with excellent sound design that provides just enough levity to lessen the sometimes melancholy content. This one is about the heavy, spicy scent of a perfume worn by the guest's mother. "Immediately, it smells to me like my mum's brown jumpers — I feel really happy and really warm"
Brace yourself this week my love, because for your fourth tour we’re going straight into the heart of The Olfactory, as we explore the spicy and fiery scent of “mum’s perfume - submitted by Fun Kids radio presenter and host of the Getting Emotional podcast, Bex Lindsay. If you’ve got a story and scent you want to share with me, write to me at theolfactorypod@gmail.com And if you want to help support my efforts to keep The Olfactory doors open then I would love it if you could subscribe on your favourite podcast app and leave me a rating and review. Or perhaps share your story there! I’d love to hear it. Thanks for listening. Theme music: "Call to Adventure" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Podcast: Stories of our times (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Guns, skis and corruption: Biathlon
Pub date: 2021-02-24
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Fascinating dive into a corruption scandal in a relatively low profile winter sport: biathlon, the one that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting. The international governing body is dealing with allegations of corruption and a former president is accused of taking gifts in exchange for favours. Although this sport is niche, the story raises interesting questions about what integrity should like when a sport is gaining fans and looking to expand. Plenty of parallels with bigger sports are highlighted by the reporters
Three years ago, a dramatic raid at the headquarters of a popular winter sports blew open a scandal at the International Biathlon Union. The former president, Anders Besseberg, has been accused of receiving gifts in return for favours. These are charges he denies. What happens to sporting integrity when those at the top are accused of corruption?
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Guest: David Walsh, Chief sports writer at The Sunday Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: IBU and Euronews.
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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking
Pub date: 2021-02-26
One speechmaker inspired millions with his words, the other utterly destroyed his own multi-million-dollar business with just a few phrases.
Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr (played by Jeffrey Wright ofWestworld, The Hunger Games, and the James Bond films) and jewelry store owner Gerald Ratner offer starkly contrasting stories on when you should stick to the script and when you should take a risk.
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Podcast: Politics on the Couch (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Optimism - how we're drawn to the bright side, even in a pandemic
Pub date: 2021-02-23
Rafael Behr talks to neuroscientist and author Tali Sharot about the optimism hard-wired into our thought processes, how it affects the way we look at the world – and what it means for politics.
The conversation also covers the relationship between emotion and reason, how we should respect some of the more primitive parts of our brains, what messages work best to encourage people to act on climate change, and what connects sourdough and the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine.
Tali Sharot is a professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, where she is Director of the Affective Brain Lab, and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/person/dr-tali-sharot/Sheis
the author of The Optimism Bias:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Optimism-Bias-were-wired-bright/dp/1780332637
and The Influential Mind:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Influential-Mind-Reveals-Change-Others/dp/0349140634/
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Analogous Patisseries
Pub date: 2021-02-23
Mary-Kay Wilmers, who retired as editor of the LRB last month, talks to Andrew O'Hagan about her career, first at Faber and Faber, then the Listener, then for 42 years at the London Review of Books. She talks about working with T.S. Eliot, the importance of being teased, and how a joke by Alan Bennett changed her life.
The episode also contains extracts from Wilmers's 1988 diary for the LRB, 'Putting in the Commas', and O'Hagan's piece about Wilmers in the latest issue of the paper. Read and listen to them in full here:
Mary-Kay Wilmers: Putting in the Commas
Andrew O'Hagan: Miss Skippit
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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Epiphanies and Kidneys
Pub date: 2021-01-14
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard, who, via an old exam paper, emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context (Q1: "Dryads, Hyads, Naiads, Oreads, Pleiads … Does 'Classical influence' in modern poetry always come down to snobbery and elitism?); Zachary Leader reports on the latest offerings from the Joyce Industry; and Jane O'Grady considers how the Enlightenment undid itself.
James Joyce and the Matter Of Paris, by Catherine Flynn
James Joyce and the Jesuits, by Michael Mayo
Panepiphanal World: James Joyce’s epiphanies, by Sangam Macduff
The Enlightenment: The pursuit of happiness 1680–1790, by Ritchie Robertson
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Podcast: The Treatment (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fran Lebowitz: ‘Pretend It’s a City’
Pub date: 2021-01-26
Writer and speaker Fran Lebowitz on her misinterpreted affection for New York.
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986 (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ivy Benson
Pub date: 1971-10-16
Notes from The Audio Browser:
Surviving fragment from a 1971 radio interview with groundbreaking British jazz musician Ivy Benson. Born in Yorkshire in 1913, she initially funded her musical career by simultaneously working in a factory until she could afford her own instruments. During WW2, her all female ensemble became the BBC's house band and were invited to play at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin in 1945. At the start of her career, she says, so called "girl musicians" were seen as freaks — an idea that didn't survive long once she started playing
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Ivy Benson.
Favourite track: Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers Book: London Sparrow by Phyllis Thompson Luxury: Piano
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Podcast: Passport (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: London: The Spy Who Whistled
Pub date: 2020-09-15
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Travel themed podcast that tells a story about a different place in each episode. This one is about a foggy London and the city's history with espionage, both real and imagined. It's a well structured piece, blending the old fashioned "gentleman spy" tropes of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré with more modern caper such as Killing Eve. The non fiction portion is provided by an interview with Annie Machon, an ex MI5 intelligence officer who went on the run after exposing some of the service's secrets
On this episode of Passport, we go to the fog of London, and walk the fine line between the glamorous lifestyle of James Bond and the realities of spies sitting on the complicated grey streets of England’s capital. We see this fictional world through the eyes of writers and films, from Bond to Villanelle, a stylish femme fetal character from the new series, “Killing Eve. We dive into what could possibly have inspired these characters, and the city they all have in common.
Our touch of reality is Annie Machon, a legendary ex-MI5 whistleblower who fled the London streets leaving any possible spy devices at home, to escape one of the most surveilled cities in the world, and disappear into the picturesque countryside of France.
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Podcast: Radio New Frame (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep. 11: A day in the life of a spaza shop
Pub date: 2020-08-14
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Audio portraits of life in Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's biggest townships, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Infections are especially bad in this province of South Africa and thousands of people are unwell. The reporter focuses in on a spaza shop, an informal convenience store called Mani Lizzie's Tuck Shop, which sits in the middle of a main thoroughfare in the community. By recording the conversations that happen around this one place over the course of the day, the episode provides an arresting portrait of how life is lived there
Gauteng is in the eye of a storm. As part of a series of intimate portraits, we capture a day in the life of an Alexandra spaza shop at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hosted by: Musawenkosi Cabe Reporter: Dennis Webster Production: The Good People Editor: Charles Leonard Song: Tom Hark by Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes, Zulu Piano Medley No.1 by Thomas Mabiletsa and Mbaqanga by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
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Podcast: The Weeds (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Antipope in Mar-a-Lago
Pub date: 2021-02-17
Notes from The Audio Browser:
Matthew Yglesias's policy podcast digests the aftermath of Trump's impeachment in a wide ranging and informative conversation. Beyond the minutiae of political procedure and drama, they tackle the bigger question: will the former president attempt to re-enter electoral politics? Because he remains without ready access to social media, we no longer have access to a live feed of his every thought. They also shed some light on how the events of the last two months have affected the status of America's core institutions
Vox's Emily Stewart joins Matt and Dara to wonder about whether and how Trump may rear his head in politics again, and about the future of the Republican party (zombie Paul Ryanism, or dynastic Trumpism?). Plus, a new study about the EITC is examined that leads to a broader discussion about the role of "nudges."
Resources:White paper
Hosts:Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com
Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration Reporter, ProPublica
Emily Stewart (@EmilyStewartM), Business and Politics reporter, Vox
Credits:Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer
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Podcast: Switched on Pop (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)
Pub date: 2021-02-09
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Musical deep dive on the record breaking Netflix period romance series Bridgerton (no need to have watched or even be interested in the show itself to enjoy this). The makers departed from period drama convention to include classical covers of contemporary pop hits by the likes of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish alongside more Regency appropriate original compositions. In exploring how this worked, the hosts capture something of what once made western classical music an exciting, controversial form of mass popular culture
The Netflix series Bridgerton has hooked audiences with its bodice-ripping sex scenes, a colorblind approach period drama casting, and a soundtrack featuring recreations of modern bangers from pop stars like Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish arranged in the style of a classical string quartet. By bringing modern melodies into the proper world of Regency England, the show reminds us that classical music wasn’t always so stuffy and solemn. In its time, it trafficked in the same scandal as modern pop.
Alongside these classical-pop mashups, Bridgerton serves up its own ravishing score from composer Kris Bowers, who joins to break down how he made the past pop.
Songs Discussed:
Vitamin String Quartet - Thank U, Next, Bad Guy, In My Blood
Kris Bowers - When You Are Alone, Flawless My Dear, Strange
Maurice Ravel - Tombeau de Couperin, Prelude
Clara Schumann - Der Mond Kommt Still Gegangen
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No 3 in F Major Op 90, Mvt 3 (for Four Hand Piano)
More
Read Maria Popova on the letters of Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann
and Adrian Daub on Four Handed Monsters
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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Why Printers Are The Worst
Pub date: 2021-02-17
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Moral Philosophy Of Giving with Peter Singer
Pub date: 2021-02-16
Hosts Lindelani and Nontsi discuss the moral ethics of giving with the philosopher Peter Singer focusing on the implications of the ethical code for people living in lower and middle income countries.
Reading material mentioned in the conversation:
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
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Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 452. Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down
Pub date: 2021-02-18
Not so long ago, G.E. was the most valuable company in the world, a conglomerate that included everything from light bulbs and jet engines to financial services and The Apprentice. Now it’s selling off body parts to survive. What does the C.E.O. who presided over the decline have to say for himself?
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Podcast: Word Matters (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 28. The Onomatopoeia Episode
Pub date: 2021-02-17
O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A. The forming of a word in imitation of a sound.
First, we'll look at some words that first described a sound (like pop, or buzz) that then went on to describe completely different things (like pop, or buzz). Then, we'll get into the phenomenon known as back-formation, or, the creation of a word by the alteration of an existing word (like burgle from burglar). It leaves some people feeling less than gruntled.
Hosted by Emily Brewster, Neil Serven, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.
Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.
Transcript available here.
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Podcast: You're Wrong About (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Anti-Vaccine Movement
Pub date: 2021-02-01
Special guest Eric Michael Garcia tells Mike and Sarah about the deep roots of a pernicious modern myth. Digressions include Mary Tyler Moore, British place names and supermodel dating habits. Mike finally gets to talk about Swedish statistical methods.
Here's some of Eric's work on autism and here's his book!
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Podcast: Short Wave (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When Life Gives You Lemons...Make A Battery
Pub date: 2021-02-05
We're going "Back To School" today, revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batteries — powerful enough to turn on a clock or a small lightbulb. But how does the science driving that process show up in household batteries we use daily? Emily Kwong and Maddie Sofia talk battery 101 with environmental engineer Jenelle Fortunato.
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Podcast: Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Post-Pandemic Paradise in Rapa Nui
Pub date: 2020-10-14
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Fascinating glimpse of how Covid-19 has changed global tourism. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is the case study studied here — an extraordinary place from both an anthropological and a biodiversity perspective, its small community of 10,000 people usually plays host to over 120,000 tourists a year. But in the last twelve months, nobody has shown up, for obvious reasons. This story looks at both sides of this sudden halt: tourism has been essential to the economy, yes, but it has also helped to erode traditional ways of life
What happens to a tourist paradise when no one shows up to visit? Rapa Nui, known to many as Easter Island, typically welcomes more than 120,000 visitors each year—which is a lot for a place with only 10,000 residents. After COVID-19 shuts down flights to this remote island, citizens reimagine what their lives, their livelihood, and their home can be without tourism — and dream of what a post-pandemic paradise economy might look like.
Want to talk more about this episode? Chat with host Saleem Reshamwala on Twitter at @kidethnic.
To learn more, check out guest Sergio Rapu Haoa's TEDx talk on "The Mysteries of Easter Island."
Special thanks to Mario Tuki (and Amahiro), Erity Teave for sharing their music with us and to Sergio Matau Rapu for sharing his wisdom about the island and connecting us to everyone you heard in today’s episode.
Pindrop is produced by Jesse Baker and Eric Nuzum of Magnificent Noise for TED. Our production staff includes Sabrina Farhi, Hiwote Getaneh, Kim Nederveen Pieterse, Elyse Blennerhassett, Angela Cheng, and Michelle Quint, with the guidance of Roxanne Hai Lash and Colin Helms. This episode was mixed and sound designed by Kristin Mueller, and our fact-checker is Abbey White.
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Podcast: Campu (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Paper
Pub date: 2020-10-07
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Beautifully told narrative series about the internment of Japanese Americans in the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The majority of them were American citizens; all were placed in concentration camps because of their ancestry rather than their actions. Each episode is themed around a different aspect of life in these camps. This one is concerned with paper and the vast quantity of records that were generated by this policy. Dental records, personality quizzes, loyalty tests — all of these tell a story
After Japanese Americans were released from incarceration, most of what remained were mounds and mounds of paper. Papers that told us about choices the incarcerees made, big and small. About how even in camp, people were still just being people. In this...
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Podcast: teikirisi (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 007. cuba: a vintage playground
Pub date: 2021-02-10
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Clever conversational podcast about Cuban-American culture and history. This one is the best yet and explores a myth often repeated by prospective visitors to the island: "I want to go to Cuba before it changes." Tourists love the vintage cars, the period architecture and the kitschy keepsakes, but they rarely think about what this sentiment means — wanting a place to stay stuck in the past means that its inhabitants don't get to access things the travellers take for granted at home, like high speed internet or new phones
"i want to go to Cuba before it changes," is something we've heard a lot. in this episode carmen & fryda unpack this sticky subject, the harsh realities of what it really means for Cuba to stay the same for touristy selfies
-Recommended listening -
001. ¡oigo!
003. el periodo especial: scarcity and famine
004. eyes and ears
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Podcast: The Experiment (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Loophole
Pub date: 2021-02-04
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First episode of a new American podcast offering "stories from an unfinished country". The theme is loosely political but — refreshingly — takes a thematic and unexpected approach to the question of US democracy that takes it away from the headlines. This piece examines a curious constitutional loophole that created "the zone of death", a small patch of land in Idaho where technically it is possible to commit murder and never be tried for it, and the legal scholar who has been trying to fix this problem for years
When Mike Belderrain hunted down the biggest elk of his life, he didn’t know he’d stumbled into a “zone of death, the remote home of a legal glitch that could short-circuit the Constitution—a place where, technically, you could get away with murder.
At a time when we’re surrounded by preventable deaths, we document one journey to avert disaster.
• Mike Belderrain is a hunter and former outfitter in Montana.• C. J. Box is the author of more than 20 novels, including Free Fire, a thriller set in Yellowstone National Park. • Brian Kalt teaches law at Michigan State University. He wrote a 2005 research paper titled “The Perfect Crime."• Ed Yong is a staff writer for The Atlantic.
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This episode was produced by Julia Longoria and Alvin Melathe, with editing by Katherine Wells and sound design by David Herman.
Music by water feature (“in a semicircle or a half-moon), r mccarthy (“Big Game, “She’s a Gift Giver, She’s a Giver of Gifts, and “Melodi 2), Ob (“Ell and “Ere), Parish Council (“Mopping), h hunt (“11e), Column (“Quiet Song), and Bwengo (“Première Mosrel); catalog by Tasty Morsels. Additional audio from Montana State University Library’s Acoustic Atlas, the National Park Service’s Sound Library, C. J. Box, CNBC, C-SPAN, Vox, NPR’s All Things Considered, Idaho News 6, @ItsKeyes, and C-SPAN’s Book TV.
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Podcast: Object Of Sound (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Oh Say Can You See? (feat. Wesley Morris)
Pub date: 2021-02-05
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Reappraisal of Whitney Houston's performance of the American national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, thirty years on. Her virtuoso performance garnered universal acclaim at the time, with the singer at the peak of her powers: "It looks like no one should be able to do something that great and make it look that easy," one critic says. The gospel inspired arrangement and Houston's soulful flourishes have special significance for Black Americans, making space for a kind of patriotism that includes them in the anthem's sentiments
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and we’ve invited critic Wesley Morris on to talk about Whitney Houston’s jaw-dropping rendition of the Star Spangled banner. On the 30th anniversary of her performance, we explore the beauty and complexity the national anthem holds for Black Americans and ask: how should we be listening to the National Anthem today? For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-wesley
/ Show Notes /
Wesley and Hanif reference Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, and Jimi Hendrix’s versions of the National Anthem.
Wesley and Hanif cite Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s inauguration performances of the National Anthem.
Wesley Morris is the host of the podcast Still Processing, with former Object of Sound guest, Jenna Wortham.
Jahja Ling is the conductor laureate of the San Diego symphony.
John Clayton a jazz musician and composer, set to perform on a Jazz Cruise, in 2022.
/ Music In This Week's Playlist /
Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Sophie, It’s Okay to Cry
Craig David, 7 Days
Fireworks, Oh, Why Can't We Start Old & Get Younger
Shame, March Day
CHIKA, Crown
Jay-Z, Public Service Announcement
People Under the Stairs, Mid-City Fiesta
mxmtoon, All Star (by Smash Mouth)
/ Credits /
Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.
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Podcast: The Indicator from Planet Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Who Let The Doge(coin) Out?
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created in 2013 as a joke, recently broke a $10 billion market cap. The coin's creator tells us how the joke became real and if he has regrets.
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