Safety is one of the main reasons Mary chooses to attend Liberty University. But her perception of the school changes dramatically after a terrible experience at a party. Mary files a complaint about what happened to her, part of a growing number of shocking allegations about Liberty from inside the community.
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Amanda Holmes reads Adrienne Rich’s poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.” 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.
If you were to call someone a snake oil salesman, it usually means they are trying to defraud someone, and more specifically it often implies making false medical claims.
But what exactly is snake oil, and why did it develop such a bad reputation, and why specifically do we use snake oil for such a negative metaphor?
Learn more about snake oil and why we still reference it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
S2 Ep8. A cow’s amazing stomach could hold the key to stopping wastewater pollution. Engineers have designed a new sewage treatment plant based on a cow’s unique digestive process. Wastewater is progressively cleaned by microorganisms until it’s safe enough to be released into the environment. This new plant does not need electricity to operate, so it’s environmentally-friendly.
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There are few things that are truly universal across all cultures and throughout history. These things are often so obvious that we overlook them and forget how they are things that make us human.
One such thing which seems so simple yet actually has profound origins: singing children to sleep.
Learn more about the lullaby and how it is one of the things which all humanity has in common, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
On Friday, October 21, 1966, the small Welsh village of Aberfan suffered woke up to a typical autumn day. Many of the men in the village went to work at the local coal mine and the children went to the local school.
At 9:15 am, the lives of everyone in the village had changed forever. The village suffered one of the worst industrial accidents in British history.
Learn more about the Aberfan Disaster, its causes, and its aftermath, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.