Month: January 2022

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Antikythera Mechanism

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In the year 1900, a crew of Greek sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the island of Antikythera. While they were searching, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck.


The wreck contained over 30 marble statues, pieces of glasswork, one corroded metal object that no one could identify.


75 years later, using new technology, they discovered what that hunk of metal was designed for.


Learn more about the Antikythera Mechanism and how it forever changed our views of the ancient world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Of Women And Salt,’ women weave the future out of scraps

"We are force." This line is originally from a Victor Hugo letter to Cuban independence fighters, but it's also found throughout Gabriela Garcia's novel, Of Women And Salt. The book, new in paperback, is about generations of Cuban and Salvadoran women navigating patriarchal societies. She told NPR's Sarah McCammon that she was especially inspired by this phrase because she "was thinking about all of the multitudes within women - how they're more than just immigrants or mothers or any of these other labels that are sort of imposed on them."
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Read Me a Poem - “A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde

Amanda Holmes reads Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany of Survival.” 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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Everything Everywhere Daily - Sports Curses

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What do a goat, Babe Ruth, a witch doctor, the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and a Japanese statue of Colonel Sanders all have in common? 


They are all supposedly responsible for curses placed upon sports teams that prevented them from winning for years, sometimes even centuries.


While such curses might be difficult or impossible to prove, they certainly are real for the fans who think they are affected by them.


Learn more about some of the greatest sports curses in the world and how they supposedly started, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Three Mothers’ who paved the way for three extraordinary men

This Martin Luther King Jr. day we focus on the woman who raised Dr. King, his mother, Alberta. His mother and those of two of his contemporaries take center stage in Anna Malaika Tubbs' book, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation. Tubbs told 1A's Jenn White that history is often told by and about men, but knowing these women's stories - "taking their lives from the margins and putting them in the center" - is just as important. As Tubbs notes, "If they'd never had these famous sons, they still were worthy of being seen."
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30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - Insects and mobile phone

S2 Ep 30. Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders! A multi-animal special episode, marking the season 2 finale. Patrick explores what could be an insect inspired phone of the future! There’s the story of the fire ants and bark beetles and a new camera lens with a much greater field of view. The hairs on butterflies, moths and spiders could help with an amazing new microphone. Moths might make it easier to look at our phones in bright sunlight. There’s also a waterproof, anti-bacterial cover which could be based on the wings of cicadas. Thanks for listening and please help us spread the word. #30Animals
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Prime Numbers

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Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up.


Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understand, yet they remain at the center of some of the most puzzling problems in mathematics.


Learn more about prime numbers, what we know about them, and what we don’t know, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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