Month: March 2022

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Curious City - What Happens When A Pothole Damages Your Car

Chicago’s streets are covered in asphalt and the city pays out a lot of money to drivers whose cars have been damaged by the poor condition of our roads. So why does Chicago use a material like asphalt, which requires so much repair, to pave its streets? And is there any recourse when your car gets damaged from hitting a pothole? Find out in this week’s episode.
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NPR's Book of the Day - A meet-cute followed by real life: ‘Party of Two’ is about love in the real world

Romance writer Jasmine Guillory writes beautiful love stories – but that doesn't mean they aren't based in reality. Her novel Party of Two from the summer of 2020 is about a Black woman and a white man who have a meet-cute and start a casual long distance relationship. But race does have an impact on their connection because of the different ways the world has impacted them. Guillory told former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro that real life couples have these conversations so her characters should too.
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Oprahdemics - Presenting Oprahdemics: The Study of The Queen of Talk

Kellie Carter Jackson and Leah Wright Riguer are historians, best friends, and Oprah obsessives. Now, it’s time to pour through the archives to relive and rehash the most iconic episodes from the decades-long run of the Oprah Winfrey Show.

New episodes of Oprahdemics start on March 30th! Each season will dive into 15 iconic episodes.

More information at oprahdemics.com

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Ernest Shackleton and the Rescue of the Endurance


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Checkout 19’ explores the magic of escaping with a good book

The nameless narrator in author Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, absolutely loves books. Their mere presence puts her at ease. But her lifelong love of reading is, in part, because she feels let down by the people around her. Bennett told NPR's Scott Simon that loving to read is amazing, but there's a danger in always living other's experiences before having some of your own.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Hydrogen: The First Element


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There is one substance that makes up 98% of the observable matter in the universe, yet you will almost never encounter it in its native form. 


It is inside your body right now and life wouldn’t be possible without it, yet it is an extremely dangerous substance that could kill you if handled improperly. 


I am of course talking about hydrogen.


Learn more about hydrogen, the lightest and most fundamental of all the elements, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Peach Blossom Spring’ interrogates the meaning of home

Can you belong to more than one home? Author Melissa Fu sets out to answer that question in her debut novel Peach Blossom Spring. The story of the Peach Blossom Spring was first told by a poet over one thousand years ago: A fisherman stumbles upon a paradise of peach trees and has to decide whether to abandon his old life and stay in this beautiful place or go back home. That is the same predicament that Fu's main character Renshu faces. Fu told NPR's Ailsa Chang that it's hard to live in two cultures but she wouldn't have it any other way.
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Read Me a Poem - “Kisses” by Gabriela Mistral

Amanda Holmes reads Gabriela Mistral’s poem “Kisses,” translated from the Spanish especially for this podcast by Carolyn Forché. 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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