Rob reminisces about the first time he heard “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails, the state of industrial rock during that time, and his deep love for Trent Reznor.
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guests: William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes from .clipping
According to Jessica Hernandez, "as long as we protect nature, nature will protect us." Hernandez, from the Maya Ch'ortí and Zapotec nations, is a University of Washington postdoctoral fellow. In her new book, Fresh Banana Leaves, she makes a plea for the climate conversation to include indigenous expertise, and highlights practices she believes should be more widespread. In an interview with Celeste Headlee on Here and Now, Hernandez said that, if we want to be successful in the fight against climate change, we need to listen to those who have spiritual connections to Mother Earth.
Amanda Holmes reads Kamala Das’s poem “An Introduction.” 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.
Depending on how you define it, there were somewhere between 70 to 100 Roman emperors between the ascension of Augustus to the fall of the western empire in 476. A period of about 500 years.
Some of them managed to be just and competent rulers who ruled for extended periods of peace and prosperity.
Others….were not.
Learn more about the worst Roman emperors who ran the gamut from insane to incompetent, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
When a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that go far beyond its shores. In the aftermath of her death an international team of journalists comes together to continue her work. Along the way they start to uncover clues that might lead to her killers. From Wondery, comes a new story about power, corruption and one woman’s fight for the truth. Hosted by investigative reporter Stephen Grey.
Nailing the balance between humor and heavy, dark topics is a difficult feat. Night of the Living Rez by author Morgan Talty meets the mark. His collection of interconnected short stories tell the story of a Native American woman and her son who return to their reservation island in Maine. The two start living with a volatile alcoholic and the stories chronicle what that life looks like as the son grows up. Debut author Talty sat down with Melissa Block on Weekend Edition Saturday to talk about his work.
It can be consumed in blocks or wheels, strings or curds, slices or cubes.
It can be soft or hard, fresh or old, and it can even be consumed if it smells bad and has mold on it.
Pizza, hamburgers, and crackers depend on it, yet it can also be eaten by itself.
I am of course talking about cheese. Learn more about cheese, how it was discovered, and how it is made, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In the mid-19th century, the various games called football separated and evolved into their own games.
While association football and rugby became dominant on one side of the Atlantic, a totally different version of football evolved on the other side of the Atlantic.
That version of the game over the course of 150 years has grown into the move valuable professional sports league in the world.
Learn more about American Football and how it grew into the game it is today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.