We’ve spent the last couple of months reimagining the Curious City podcast and trying out some new ways to answer your questions. And now, the wait is over. We’re ready to let you hear what we’ve been up to. We’re still going to be answering your questions, but in this episode, we’re collaborating with our audience a little differently. Two WBEZ education reporters share how a family and a teacher are coping with remote learning.
60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Geto Boys—”Mind Playing Tricks On Me”
Rob explores the revolutionary Geto Boys single ‘Mind Playing Tricks On Me’ by highlighting how it expresses raw vulnerability through its lyrics and its legacy in hip-hop to the present day.
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.
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Kiana Fitzgerald
Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Pintupi Nine
In October 1984, nine members of the Pintupi Tribe in Western Australia met some long lost relatives they hadn’t seen in years.
The significance of this event is that those nine people, two women with four boys and three girls, were the last aboriginal people in Australia to have contact with the outside world.
Up until 1984, they had lived their lives the same as their ancestors had for tens of thousands of years.
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Brought to you by... - 60: The Levi’s That Came In From the Cold
At the start of the Cold War, Levi’s jeans represented everything communist governments were trying to stamp out. But Levi’s kept finding their way behind the Iron Curtain, especially into East Germany. There, people could see what they were missing just over the wall that separated them from the West. East German officials started to worry: Could a pair of pants bring down the government?
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Election of 1800
I’ve done several episodes on close and interesting US presidential elections throughout history. Mainly they were to put current events into perspective, so you can realize that the controversies of today are really not all that new.
However, there was one election that might be considered the closest and most interesting in history, but the lessons for today are much less, simply because they changed the rules after the election, and there was never another one like it again.
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Life Raft - Have I Had My Last Good Oyster?
Is climate change coming for oysters? This week on Life Raft we take a dive into the world of food. We drop by a famous New Orleans oyster bar, and visit with an oyster scientist to get a better feel for the ways a changing climate threatens oysters, and what’s being done to help ‘em out.
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Read Me a Poem - “Messiah” by Gulzar
Amanda Holmes reads Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi’s poem, “Messiah,” translated from the Urdu by J.P. Das. 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.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Unique Spanish Festivals
Many communities around the world hold local festivals. They might have some food stalls, a stage for musical acts, and some rides for the kids.
Pretty standard stuff.
But in Spain, they do things differently. Really different.
Learn more about the unique Spanish festivals which aren’t like those anywhere else in the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - A History of Jury Duty
Every so often, adults may be asked to perform a civic duty by sitting on a jury. Usually, the commitment might be nothing more than a few hours or a few days. Occasionally, some juries might get a case that lasts years.
Why do we have juries, and where did this notion come from? Do most countries have juries? What does “a jury of your peers” really mean?
Learn more about the history of the jury system on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Curious City - Where Does Your Poop Go?
In 2015, Satchel Lang was a curious five-year-old Chicagoan who didn’t want poop’s destiny to remain such a mystery. Now 11-years-old, we catch back up with Satchel and revisit the answer to Satchel’s question that reveals how poop and pee in the Chicago area get processed by an agency called the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.