By Carl Phillips
Everything Everywhere Daily - Why Don’t We All Drive on the Same Side? (Encore)
Standards make everything easier. When everyone can agree on a standard way to do things, regardless of how it is done, it can reduce confusion and facilitate progress.
You’d think if there was one thing that would be standardized everywhere, it would be the side of the road everyone drives on. I mean, there are only two options.
Yet, there is no global standard for what side to drive on.
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Read Me a Poem - “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words” by Mahmoud Darwish
Amanda Holmes reads Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words,” translated especially for this podcast by Carolyn Forché. 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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The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout - Trailer: The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout
Join us as we explore the reasons and decisions that ultimately left millions of Texans in the dark during the crippling winter storm of February 2021. KUT’s Mose Buchele reports on what happened, how we got the electric grid we have today and what could be done to fix it in this limited series podcast.
Audio Poem of the Day - Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Everything Everywhere Daily - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Encore)
In 2002 the BBC did a poll where they named the top 100 Britons in history. It had many people you have probably heard of, including Isaac Newton, Princess Diana, John Lenon, and Queen Victoria.
The person who was ranked #2, however, is someone that many people outside of the UK might not have heard of. Yet, he really is one of the most important people when it came to the development of the modern world.
Learn more about Isambard Kingdom Brunel on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Sun Rising
John Donne (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Incredible Polgar Sisters
László Polgár was born just after World War II in Hungary. His field of study was the nature of human intelligence. After studying the lives of over 400 great intellectuals from throughout human history, he came to a startling conclusion: geniuses weren’t born, they were made.
So he set about conducting an experiment on his own children. The results were astonishing.
Learn more about Judit, Susan, and Sophia, the incredible Polgar sisters, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Monsoon Poem
By Tishani Doshi
Everything Everywhere Daily - Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
On May 7th, 1824, in Vienna, Austria, the musical world changed forever.
The assembled crowd in the Theater am Kärntnertor heard one of the most groundbreaking and revolutionary musical performances in history.
However, there was one person in attendance who didn’t hear the performance.
The composer, Ludwig van Beethoven.
Learn more about Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and how it changed the musical landscape forever, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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