Rob explores the legendary R&B quartet Boyz II Men’s record-smashing single “End of the Road” by discussing the group’s universal appeal, their unprecedented success, and the massive footprint they left on the music industry.
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.
You’ve probably heard the stories of many titans of industry. People like John D. Rockefeller, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos grew their companies to become large enterprises and then became fantastically wealthy.
To be sure, having intelligence, skill and foresight can certainly lead to success in business.
But sometimes, it is far better to be lucky than good, and no one embodies this more than Lord Timothy Dexter.
Amanda Holmes reads Christina Rossetti’s poem “Remember.” 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.
Almost everyone has a black sheep in their family. Someone who maybe gets in trouble with the law and doesn’t follow rules.
But what if you had the misfortune to be related to someone truly horrific? What if you had a relative who was in the upper echelon of the Third Reich?
For a handful of people, they had to live with the legacy of parents who were responsible for the murder of millions.
Learn more about the children of Nazis on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
S2 Ep5. Scared of wasps? They could help keep you alive, perhaps transforming life-saving keyhole surgery. Parasitic wasps possess a long tube which can reach inside the body of their host where they lay their eggs.
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Every element on the periodic table has a completely different story. They behave differently, they exist in different abundances, and humans have totally different uses for them.
One of the most controversial elements, if that is in fact a thing, is uranium.
Uranium can provide power, it can use destruction, and most people really don’t understand it.
Learn more about uranium, the last of the natural elements, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
