Experts are saying that Houston just suffered a one in 500 year storm but what does that mean?
The Nod - BONUS: Eric Hates Reading The Credits
In this week's outtakes: Eric struggles with names, and Brittany has good foundational skincare.
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Curious City - Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison Camp
Camp Douglas’ deadly reputation was kept in shadows but now there’s a surprising movement to bring it to light.
Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast - Dr. Jamie Wood
Interview with Dr. Jamie Wood about Isidore of Seville.
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Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast - Dr. Sarah Lynch on Late Medieval Education
Join me as I talk with Dr. Sarah Lynch about her book Elementary and Grammar Education in Late Medieval France: Lyon, 1285-1530.
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Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast - Welcome to Agnus
Introduction to the Agnus project.
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - S-Bend
If you live in a city with modern sanitation, it’s hard to imagine daily life being permeated with the suffocating stench of human excrement. For that, we have a number of people to thank – not least a London watchmaker called Alexander Cumming. Cumming’s world-changing invention owed nothing to precision engineering. In 1775, he patented the S-bend. It was a bit of pipe with a curve in it and it became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet – and, with it, public sanitation as we know it. Roll-out was slow, but it was a vision of how public sanitation could be – clean, and smell-free – if only government would fund it. More than two centuries later, two and a half billion people still remain without improved sanitation, and improved sanitation itself is a low bar. We still haven’t reliably managed to solve the problem of collective action – of getting those who exercise power or have responsibility to organise themselves.
Producer: Ben Crighton
Editors: Richard Vadon and Richard Knight
(Image: S-bend, Credit: ericlefrancais/Shutterstock)
The Gist - Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Hosting today’s Gist is Robert Smith from NPR’s Planet Money.
On the show, he’ll talk to Lina Khan, whose research encouraging tighter regulations on Amazon caught some heat from the company’s general counsel. Khan works at the Open Markets Program, formerly housed under the New America Foundation.
And in the Spiel, Robert Smith observes a new trend in broadcast news: reporters becoming heroes on live television. What could possibly go wrong?
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Coming Debt Fight
Choosing the size of the national debt is a fight worth having. So why doesn't anyone want to have it? Michael Tanner comments.
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CrowdScience - Spider Silk and Super Fly Senses
CrowdScience is uncovering the super-powers of spiders, flies and the most irritating mosquitos.
Anand Jagatia meets spider specialist Jamie Mitchells at London Zoo to find out how spiders create such vast webs and speaks to researchers in Sweden about how they are trying and succeeding in recreating spider’s silk.
Rory Galloway heads to Cambridge University’s Fly Lab to find out how their tiny brains process the world up to four times faster than humans.
And Bobbie Lakhera is at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to find out how attractive she is to mosquitos and how they use their super-senses to home-in on our blood.
Do you have a question we can turn into a programme? Email us at crowdscience@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Laura Hyde
(Image: Close-up of a Jumping Spider. Credit: Getty Images