Everything Everywhere Daily - Swiss Mercenaries

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When most people think of Switzerland, they of small country embedded in the Alps that makes fine chocolates and is the home of the cuckoo clock.


They have been neutral in European conflicts for almost 500 years and they serve as the headquarters for several international organizations. 


Yet, it was the Swiss who during the Renaissance were some of the most feared and in-demand mercenary fighters in Europe. 


Learn more about Swiss mercenaries and how they instilled fear into Europeans, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - How Göbekli Tepe Changed History (Encore)

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In 1994, a German archeologist named Klaus Schmidt was investigating a site in southeastern Turkey which had been known to be a source of ancient stone tools. 

What he found was far greater. His discovery totally upended the world of archeology and has changed everything we thought we knew about early human civilization.

Learn more about Göbekli Tepe and how it changed our views of early human civilization on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Isabel Wilkerson argues that ‘Caste’ not racism caused The Great Migration

As part of Black History Month, Book of the Day brings you an interview with author Isabel Wilkerson. She followed her book about The Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, with another that looks at why it happened. Caste argues that caste and not racism is actually what Black people were fleeing when they left the Jim Crow South. Wilkerson told Throughline's Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah that the term racism is rooted in hate but caste is about "power and how those other groups manage and navigate and seek to survive in a society that's created with this ranked hierarchy."

Everything Everywhere Daily - How Tides Work

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Every single day, the oceans of the world go through a cycle with two high tides and two low tides. 


For thousands of years, no one knew why the tides rose and fell, and even today, most people only have a vague idea of what drives the tides. 


They dictate the lives of many people who live near the sea, and we might even be able to harness their power in the future.


Learn more about how tides work, and why it is more complicated than you probably think, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Octavia Butler imagines a world without racism

During Black History month, Book of the Day is bringing you some interviews from the archives, including this one with author Octavia Butler. Butler wrote many sci-fi classics, like the Parable series and Kindred, so she's accustomed to imagining different worlds. NPR's Scott Simon asked her back in 2001 to imagine a world without racism. Butler believed that in racism's place we would have to have absolute empathy. But she told Simon that this would most certainly present its own challenges – and we would probably just find something else to fight about.

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Travels of Ibn Battuta

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Prior to the modern era, very few people traveled anywhere. It was rare for anyone to travel more than about 20 miles from where they were born. 


However, there were a few people who managed to travel quite extensively. In particular, there was one man in the 14th century who might have traveled more than any other person up to that point in history. In fact, he was better traveled than even more people alive today.


Learn more about Ibn Battuta and his extensive journeys around the known world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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