A huge catastrophe. Dozens dead. A city without power or water. It’s like a miniature version of the February blackouts.
Except this happened more than 100 years ago in Texas — and leaders faced some of the same questions then as they do now.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Electric Cars
There is an old saying that everything old is new again. This is certainly true with electric cars.
The recent surge in popularity of electric vehicles is technically a resurgence, because believe it or not, there was a time when electric cars were more popular than cars with internal combustion engines.
Learn more about electric cars, their history, future, as well as their benefits and drawbacks, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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the memory palace - Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 2
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I’m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.This is part 2.
Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com
The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.
Back with the third and final part on August 19th. Back with new episodes of The Memory Palace in September.
Audio Poem of the Day - The Geese
By Jane Mead
Everything Everywhere Daily - Salvator Mundi
In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on cradled panel.”
The painting was sold for $1,000.
Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $450 million dollars.
Learn more about Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, and the controversy surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Paradise Flick
by Michael Sharkey
Crimetown - Introducing | Not Past It
From the co-creator of Crimetown and The Ballad of Billy Balls comes Not Past It, a new weekly series from Gimlet. In each episode, host Simone Polanen will pick a moment from that very same week in history — and tell you how it shaped our lives today.
Today we are sharing an episode about the notorious crime boss Ma Barker. On July 26, 1932, Ma Barker's alleged gang of thieves stole over $200,000 from a Kansas bank without firing a single shot. The Barker-Karpis gang stole millions before Ma was killed in a shootout with the FBI. But was she a criminal mastermind or just a scapegoat?
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Other Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known to almost everyone in the world. If he isn’t known, then his music certainly is.
Even though he is one of the greatest composers in history, he was not the only musician in his family. In fact, according to some, he might not have even been the best musician in his family.
Learn more about Maria Anna Mozart, the other Mozart, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Uninvited” by Dannie Abse
Amanda Holmes reads Dannie Abse’s poem “The Uninvited.” 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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Audio Poem of the Day - [Immigration Headline]
By Javier Zamora