By Tomás Q. Morín
Everything Everywhere Daily - Tarrare: The Hungriest Man in History
Have you ever been really full after a meal? Like really really full?
Could you imagine eating and never feeling full? Like going to an all you can eat fish restaurant and then getting kicked out for eating too much and going fishing so you can eat more fish?
Well, there was one Frenchman who could never be satiated and the results of this condition were….astonishing.
Learn more about Tarrare and his medical condition on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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This is California: The Battle of 187 - Introducing “The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times,” hosted by Gustavo Arellano
“The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times” is a new podcast hosted by columnist Gustavo Arellano along with reporters from the L.A. Times’ diverse newsroom. Every weekday, the show takes listeners beyond the headlines, with our West Coast outlook on the world. News, entertainment, the environment, immigration, politics, the criminal justice system, the social safety net, food and culture — “The Times” exists at the epicenter of it all. Through interviews and original stories, “The Times” is the audio guide you need to understand the day’s news, the world and how California shapes it.
Follow and listen to "The Times" wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find “The Times” at https://latimes.com/the-times.
the memory palace - Episode 181: The Adventures of Pearl
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Music:
Suite from A Hatful of Rain from the GOAT, Bernard Herrmann
Sexfaldur from amiina
Piano 1 from Emily Sprague
Earring from Julia Wolfe and Lisa Moore
The Squirrel, from Herrmann’s score to The Three Worlds of Gulliver
All in Circles by Shida Shinabi
Them by Nils Frahm
Audio Poem of the Day - The Other Side
By Jennifer Foerster
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mercator Projection (Encore)
Have you ever looked at a map and said to yourself “Wow, Greenland is really big!”, only to then look at a globe and realize, that Greeland wasn’t actually that big?
If so, then you have discovered the Mercator Projection. A map that was originally created in 1569 and is still with us today.
Learn more about the Mercator Projection, its problems, and its benefits, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Lilacs on my Birthday
By Joyce Peseroff
Everything Everywhere Daily - REALLY Expensive Musical Instruments
For a professional musician, their instrument is their livelihood. If making music is your career, it isn’t surprising that many top musicians will pay the equivalent of a new car on their instrument.
However, there is a class of musician which have instruments which are far more valuable than a car. They are the price of a mansion.
Learn more about the world of extremely expensive musical instruments, and why musicians play them, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Portrait of Christian Berard
By Gertrude Stein
Everything Everywhere Daily - Scurvy
When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages, the most deadly thing they encountered wasn’t enemy navies, starvation, or even shipwrecks.
It was a painful disease where your body would literally start falling apart and it killed more than 2,000,000 sailors between the voyage of Columbus to the middle of the 19th century.
Learn more about scurvy and how it was eventually conquered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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