by Mary Ruefle
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Dunbar Number
There is a number, a very special number, which is inside all of us. It is inside you, inside me, and inside every person on Earth.
It dictates our social interactions. It has determined the size of communities, Christmas Card lists, and has implications for social media.
Learn more about the Dunbar Number on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Metallica—“Enter Sandman”
Rob explores thrash metal icon Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” by discussing the band’s trajectory from their early work to their mainstream turn and their wide influence thereafter.
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: Dave Chang
Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles
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Everything Everywhere Daily - D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a man who identified himself as Dan Cooper purchased a $20 ticket for a short 30-minute flight from Portland to Seattle.
He had with him a briefcase filled with dynamite and wanted $200,000.
After getting his money, the plane took off again, Dan Cooper took the money, jumped out of the plane and into history.
Learn more about DB Cooper, and the world’s only unsolved skyjacking, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Afternoon Walk: The Sea Ranch
by Sandra Gilbert
Everything Everywhere Daily - Surströmming: The World’s Smelliest Food
There are many foods that are considered an acquired taste. Foods that might not be very palatable the first time you try it, or something that just doesn’t sit right with most people.
It could be something as simple as blue cheese, or something like the Filipino delicacy, balut, which is a boiled, fertilized egg with the embryo still inside.
Sweden has its own acquired taste delicacy which has spawned hundreds of reaction videos as people and caused it to be banned by airlines.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Fever
Life Raft - Bonus Episode: Confronting The Loss That Climate Change Promises
Happy New Year, Life Raft listeners!
We’re busy readying the second half of the Life Raft season, but we still wanted you to feast your ears on some climate content, so here’s a story for you.
It’s all about our attachment to place in the face of climate change — our connection to the land, our ways of life, and how we emotionally process what it means for those places to be threatened by climate change.
This story was originally produced by Davis Land for Houston Public Media. Davis is currently a senior producer for Slate’s daily news podcast, What Next.
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Read Me a Poem - “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Amanda Holmes reads Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress.” 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 - Hispania
Before Spain became Spain, it was part of the Roman province of Hispania.
To understand the language, and geography of not just Spain but of the entire Iberian Peninsula, you have to understand Hispania.
Learn more about one of the greatest provinces in the Roman empire, and how it created modern Spain on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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