by Frederick Feirstein (read by Rich Topal)
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Lost Civilization of Atlantis
In the Dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called Atlantis. Atlantis was a place where the citizens were half-gods and half-men, yet it was destroyed in a cataclysmic event.
Ever since then people have been speculating about where Atlantis was and who the Atlantians were.
Learn more about the history of Atlantis and the various theories of where it was and if it even existed, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn wasn’t always a part of New York City. It used to be a separate city located across the East River from New York, which at the time was only on the island of Manhattan.
For decades, people talked about a bridge to connect New York and the growing city of Brooklyn to facilitate travel and commerce.
In 1883, that bridge finally opened.
Learn more about the Brooklyn Bridge on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - If You are Over Staying Woke
By Morgan Parker
Everything Everywhere Daily - Decimation (Encore)
You are probably familiar with the term decimation. The word is usually used in English to mean “to cause great destruction or harm”.
However, to ancient Rome, the word had a very different and very specific meaning.
It was one of the most devastating and brutal forms of punishment that the military could inflict.
Learn more about Decimation, the ultimate collective punishment, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In song and poetry, ‘Nina’ and ‘Just Us’ offer ways to start a conversation on race
After the protests last year, we heard the phrase "racial reckoning" a lot, as some groups of people struggled to catch up with what's just been reality for many others. This week we've got two books that might help you reckon with that reckoning, in two different ways: Traci Todd and illustrator Christian Robinson's bright and powerful picture book biography Nina: A Story of Nina Simone and poet Claudia Rankine's Just Us: An American Conversation, in which she puts together poetry, essays and images to bring readers into an uncomfortable but necessary conversation about race.
Audio Poem of the Day - Page
By Jane Hirshfield
Everything Everywhere Daily - Moore’s Law
In 1965, the director of research at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore, made a prediction about the future of semiconductors. He said that over the next ten years, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years.
His prediction didn’t just hold true for the next 10 years, but it has held true for almost 60 years, and it had driven the global computer industry.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Fiona Hill’s new Trump-era memoir is less about Trump than it is about us
In her memoir, Fiona Hill extends her riveting testimony from Donald Trump's first impeachment trial. And while she might not dish as much dirt as other Trump-era memoirists, the former senior National Security official writes movingly about Trump and about polarization and other threats to American democracy. She points to Russian history to suggest that distrust in government and political systems can lead to collapse. And while she describes Trump as the symptom of that division and distrust, she also says he put a spotlight on what needs fixing.