Everything Everywhere Daily - Happy Pi Day!

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Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi. 


It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years. 


Today there are still more we are discovering about this number with the help of supercomputers. 


Learn more about pi and how our knowledge of it has advanced over time, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Former Attorney General William Barr says he was just doing his job

The former attorney general under former President Trump, William Barr, is out with a new memoir called One Damn Thing After Another. In it, he agrees with President Trump on many things: modern day culture wars and that the progressives are dividing the country. But Barr also gives his own version of the events of the Trump White House and disagrees with the former president about the "stolen election." Barr told NPR's Steve Inskeep "after the election, [Trump] didn't seem to listen to anybody except a group of sycophants who were telling him what he wanted to hear."

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Three Age System: Stone, Bronze, and Iron

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Scientists love to classify things. Archeologists are no exception. One of the very first classifications systems that were developed, classified ancient history into three broad eras. 


This system was crude and it isn't really used among professionals anymore, but its simplicity has ensured that it still survives in casual use. 


Learn more about the three ages system: the stone age, the bronze age, and the iron age, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Otto Rahn: The Real Life Indiana Jones Villain

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In the Indiana Jones movies, Indiana is usually searching for a rare artifact with mystical powers while some other nefarious archeologist, usually a Nazi, is trying to find the artifact before Indy.


Believe it or not, that trope of a Nazi archeologist looking for an item of incredible power actually has a kernel of truth to it. 


Sort of.


Learn more about Otto Rahn and the real-life Nazi search for the Holy Grail on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Were the Dark Ages Really That Dark? (Encore)

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The term Dark Ages has been used to refer to a period in European history when culture supposedly regressed and civilization was in decline.

The idea of a Dark Ages is one that was prevalent amongst historians for centuries.

But lately, historians have been reconsidering the idea of a Dark Age and questioning if there really was a Dark Age.

Learn more about the Dark Ages and if they were really that dark, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Nikole Hannah Jones and Adam Rubin aim to make children’s books more accessible

Our interviews today are both children's books and even though they are about wildly different topics, they both aim to make reading more accessible for kids. Nikole Hannah Jones, with the help of Renee Watson, has turned the 1619 Project into a picture book called Born On The Water. They told NPR their goal was "to say to young people - to young Black Americans, you belong here." Next, Adam Rubin has written a collection of short stories that are all different but have the same title: The Ice Cream Machine. Rubin told NPR's Rachel Martin that there are so many ways to tell a story.