Hey Uncivil listeners! We want to share a new show we think you’ll love, made by one of our producers. Resistance is a show about refusing to accept things as they are. Stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change. In this first episode, 22-year-old Chi Ossé goes out to protest and the trajectory of his life is changed forever. If you like this episode, follow now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Amanda Holmes reads Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem, “Wind-Up Doll,” translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé. 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.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
How many continents are there? That sounds like a really easy question. After all, there are only so many giant landmasses on the planet and we can easily count them with our fingers.
Yet, for something seemingly so simple, the answer to the question can be surprisingly complicated.
Learn more about the continents on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
I’m sure everyone is familiar with the word outlaw. It mostly used as a synonym for “criminal”.
However, if I can paraphrase Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, “that word does not mean what you think it means.”.
Learn about the ancient punishment of outlawry, and how it was used throughout the world and throughout history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest explosion the world had ever seen, before or since.
The explosion was so large, that it permanently changed the course of nuclear weapons development.
Learn more about the Tsar Bomba, the world’s largest nuclear explosion, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
If you have ever taken out a loan, you are probably familiar with the details of taking on debt. You have an amount that is borrowed, an interest rate, and a term over which the debt is paid back.
However, sometimes, a term might be extremely long. In a few cases, the debts can be served in perpetuity.
Learn more about the extremely old debts which took forever to pay off on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
If you’re like us, climate change leaves you with a lot of questions, and they’re not about the rate of ocean warming — they’re about practical things that affect our everyday lives. So, for us and for you, we created a podcast about it.array(3) {
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Every four years, citizens of the United States sit down for one or more nights to watch something which is called the Presidential Debates.
The debates have become a centerpiece of US Presidential elections, but it wasn’t always that way.
Learn more about the history of presidential debates, or the lack thereof, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Rob explores the 1992 jangle-rock hit “Hey Jealousy” and how it integrates the darkness of its lyrical content into its bright sonic framework.
This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music.
In a previous episode, I talked about how you can win by not losing. That is called the Fabian Strategy named after Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus.
However, the opposite is true as well. You can lose by winning. Here too, ancient history has examples for us, this time in the case of King Pyrrhus, who defeated the Romans but ultimately lost without losing a battle.
