By John Lennox
Everything Everywhere Daily - Robert Smalls: Man of Action (Encore)
Robert Smalls was born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina. From that humble beginning, he went on to become a war hero, a ship captain, a presidential advisor, and a member of the US House of Representatives.
However, he is best known for one of the most daring exploits of the entire Civil War.
Learn more about Robert Smalls on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Texting & Language Evolution w/ Grammar Girl
Language, and our perception of it, has gone through some big changes over the last decade, especially as we communicate more over text. As you may have noticed, the smallest punctuation marks can now make the difference between sounding friendly or angry.
We’re talking about this evolution with the “Grammar Girl” herself, Mignon Fogarty. She’s celebrating 15 years of her award-winning podcast. She has also written seven books about grammar and she’s even shared her grammar expertise with Oprah Winfrey.
Mignon explains the common mistakes we all make and whether it’s ever ok to correct someone else’s grammar.
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Cato Daily Podcast - New York’s Counterproductive Half Measure on Sex Work
When New York decided to stop cracking down on sex workers, it maintained harsh policing of sex workers' customers. Kaytlin Bailey of The Old Pro Project explains why New York should just decriminalize the whole enterprise.
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Byzantium And The Crusades - Mongols and Mamluks Episode 11 “Heading Towards Disaster”
The year is 1287. The final countdown to the destruction of the Crusader states in the Holy Land has begun. But there is a strange air of complacency among the last Crusaders as the final storm begins to build.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Breaking Climate Records
June saw a brutal heatwave shatter a number of all-time temperature records in Canada and the Northwest of the USA. But when can we attribute new records to man-made climate change, rather than natural variation? Peter Stott, an expert in climate attribution at the UK?s Met Office, explains how climate change has dramatically increased the probability of seeing such extremes.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Nathan Gower
Cato Daily Podcast - Trade Is Good for Your Health
James Bacchus is author of the new paper, "Trade is Good for Your Health.”
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Audio Poem of the Day - Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 07/30
CDC concerned over just how fast the Delta variant is spreading. COVID outbreaks at camps leads to worries about schools. Allegations of doping in the Olympic pool. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Korean Axe Murder Incident
Ever since the cease-fire which ended the Korean war, the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been a tense stand-off. Standing only a few meters from each other, soldiers from North Korea stand on one side with soldiers from South Korea and the United States on the other.
On August 18, 1976, the two sides came as close as they ever have to igniting another war.
Learn more about the Korean Axe Murder Incident on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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