By John Ashbery
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Tunguska Event (Encore)
In 1908, in the middle of the Siberian wilderness, near the Tunguska River, an explosion took place which was equivalent in size to the detonation of a 5 megaton nuclear bomb.
But it wasn’t a nuclear bomb. Such things didn’t even exist then. It was a mystery that scientists are still trying to figure out today.
Learn more about the Tunguska Event on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Some San Francisco Poems: Sections 5-10
By George Oppen
Everything Everywhere Daily - How and What Do Astronauts Eat in Space?
When the space race first began, scientists didn’t even know if it was possible for humans to eat in a zero-gravity environment. Once they figured out it was possible, it didn’t mean that it wasn’t without problems.
There was a host of issues with eating in a zero-g environment that had to be overcome. Some foods were able to be made edible in space, and some never were.
Learn more about what astronauts eat in space and how they do it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - An Autopsy of an Era
By Mary Jo Bang
Everything Everywhere Daily - The World’s Greatest (Worst?) Misers
Have you ever known someone who was really cheap? Like they would wear clothes until disintegrated? Or they would never pick up the tab? Or maybe they are horrible tippers?
Well, there is cheap and then there is cheap. Some people are so cheap that they appear to live in destitute poverty, even though they actually be quite wealthy.
This is the world of misers.
Learn more about some of the world’s most famous misers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Of the Shining Underlife
By Carl Phillips
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Rise and Dramatic Fall of Sejanus
The second Roman emperor was Tiberius. His right-hand man was the leader of his Praetorian Guard, Lucius Aelius Seianus, known to us as Sejanus.
Over the years, Sejanus slowly gained power and influence and a host of enemies throughout Rome. Eventually, however, all of his social-climbing and power acquisition eventually came to an end in one spectacular and disastrous day.
Learn more about Sejanus and his spectacular downfall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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On Our Watch - Neglect of Duty
An officer is repeatedly disciplined for not turning in his police reports on time. A mom goes to the police asking for help with her missing daughters. In the fifth episode of On Our Watch, we look at what can happen when police don't follow through on reports of victimization, and an accountability process that doesn't want to examine those failures.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Gibraltar: The Only Park of the UK in Continental Europe
Located on a peninsula off of Southern Spain, best known for the massive rock which dominates its landscape, Gibraltar is one of the most strategic locations in the world.
It has been fought over for millennia, been the focus of many sieges, and is still the subject of diplomatic disputes in the 21st Century.
It also has the only population of wild monkeys in Europe.
Learn more about Gibraltar on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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