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Episode summary: Rose and David share a collection of their favorite personal automations ranging from task and project management to home automation.
Episode summary: This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does...
Episode summary: Episode 88: Fascinating Things: A Conversation With Craig Morris, Director of the Western Wheat Quality Lab - WA Grains
Episode summary: When we had Tracy Chou on the show in 2021, she was rolling out software to give users a revolutionary toolset to block harassment on Twitter, and she was doing it with the Twitter corporation’s help. Fast forward to today, when she’s one of Time Magazine’s 2022 Women of the Year an...
Episode summary: Get your headphones on for this episode! Rob dives into three remarkable examples of scoring. He features examples from the Serial/NYT series “The Retrievals,” scored by Phoebe Wang, “My Mother Made Me” from PRX’s Radiotopia Presents scored by Ian Coss, and The Atlantic’s “Holy Week...
Episode summary: The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 years starting in 1978. Before the FBI started investigating Ted Kaczynski, they looked into a number of suspects, including a group of friends who loved playing Dungeons & Dragons. This...
Episode summary: Dan Saladino hears from the bakers in Ukraine supplying fresh bread to the frontline, and journalist Felicity Spector travels across the country to visit the bakeries supplying people in need, the elderly, displaced and soldiers. Produced by Dan Saladino.
Episode summary: 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 ma...
Episode summary: There’s a body buried in the grounds of Windsor Castle whose real home is thousands of miles away. Since 2007, there have been calls for Prince Alamayu’s remains to be returned to Ethiopia. But how exactly did this young royal end up alone in England, and buried at Windsor Castle? T...