Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Postal Delivery

Since humans began to adopt writing systems, they also created systems for passing along written messages. 

For thousands of years, it would have been possible to get messages to distant parts of whatever empire or kingdom you happened to live in, provided you found the right courier and had enough money. 

Today, the entire globe is integrated into a connected postal system, allowing physical messages to be sent between almost any two people.

Learn more about mail and how our modern system has ancient roots on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

With energy prices in the UK spiralling, Tim Harford asks whether there is an easy and realistic way for bills to be cut. Also the number of excess deaths in the UK is rising ? we?ll hear how much covid is still to blame. We return to the subject of counting in twenties, this time hearing how the Welsh language mixes traditional and decimal systems. And we debunk some spurious social media claims around Liverpool players and asthma medication.

NBN Book of the Day - Jillian Peterson and James Densley, “The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic” (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)

Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic (Harry N. Abrams, 2021) charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Frustrated by reactionary policy conversations that never seemed to convert into meaningful action, special investigator and psychologist Jill Peterson and sociologist James Densley built The Violence Project, the first comprehensive database of mass shooters. Their goal was to establish the root causes of mass shootings and figure out how to stop them by examining hundreds of data points in the life histories of more than 170 mass shooters--from their childhood and adolescence to their mental health and motives. They've also interviewed the living perpetrators of mass shootings and people who knew them, shooting survivors, victims' families, first responders, and leading experts to gain a comprehensive firsthand understanding of the real stories behind them, rather than the sensationalized media narratives that too often prevail. For the first time, instead of offering thoughts and prayers for the victims of these crimes, Peterson and Densley share their data-driven solutions for exactly what we must do, at the individual level, in our communities, and as a country, to put an end to these tragedies that have defined our modern era.

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Land of the Giants - Zuckerberg’s Biggest Bet

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for the future -- that in a few years, we’ll be living our digital lives in a blend of augmented and virtual reality. The metaverse. To pursue that vision, Zuckerberg’s renamed his entire company and invested billions of dollars in a bid to make Meta the leader of the next tech platform. In our season finale: what are the chances his bet pays off, and why it would give Meta more power than ever.

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The NewsWorthy - Risky Nuclear Plant Visit, Binge Eating Implants & Venice Film Festival- Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

The news to know for Wednesday, August 31st, 2022!

We'll tell you about the latest development in the legal battle over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Also, an urgent and risky mission for inspectors in Ukraine trying to protect a nuclear power plant. 

Plus, a potentially record-breaking heatwave building across the American west, how brain surgery could help prevent serious binge eating, and the film festival jam-packed with Oscar hopefuls that kicks off today.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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What A Day - Mississippi’s Crisis Over Troubled Water

The city of Jackson, Mississippi is under a state of emergency because of ongoing problems with its troubled water system, leaving residents without safe drinking water.

Officials in Pakistan say one-third of that country has been submerged by catastrophic flooding, which has left at least 1,100 people dead. And experts warn the worst of the disaster has yet to come.

And in headlines: the Biden administration wiped out $1.5 billion in federal student loan debt for students of a defunct for-profit college, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev died in Moscow, and the West Coast is bracing for a Labor Day heat wave.

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The Daily Signal - Professional Adventurer Colin O’Brady Offers Practical Step on How to Achieve Your Goals


From the time he was a child, Colin O’Brady knew he wanted to climb Mount Everest. It was a childhood dream that easily could have fallen by the wayside as a result of the demands of adulthood. 

Today, at the age of 37, O’Brady has climbed Everest not once, but twice. 

O’Brady’s passion to accomplish what others say is impossible led him to become the first man to walk across Antarctica solo and unaided. As a professional adventurer, O’Brady has crossed Drake Passage, a notoriously dangerous section of ocean between South America and Antarctica, in a rowboat; climbed the tallest peaks on all seven continents; and represented the United States in international triathlon competitions. 

Adventure is a way to “unlock the human potential that I think that we all have inside of us,” O’Brady says. 

But there was a day and time when he would not have dreamed he would be inspiring the world through his exploits.

When he was in his early 20s, O’Brady set out on a trip to see parts of the world he had never experienced. While in Thailand, he suffered an accident and was burned so badly on his legs that doctors were not sure he would ever walk normally again. 

Sitting at his bedside in a hospital in Thailand, O’Brady’s mother challenged him to set a goal. He told her he wanted to run a triathlon. 

“You should start training now," he remembers his mother telling him, even while he was bandaged from the waist down. But taking his mother's advice to pursue a dream, he started lifting weights in bed. 

Eighteen months later, O’Brady won the Chicago Triathlon. 

His stories of grit, courage, and advice on how to overcome the roadblocks in our lives to achieve our dreams are featured in his new book, “The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life.”  His success as an athlete and adventurer has earned him sponsorships and speaking opportunities around the world.

O’Brady joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share how he discovered one practical step that can move anyone closer to accomplishing his or her goals in life. 

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The Daily Signal - Steve Deace: Fauci, Other COVID ‘Authoritarians’ Will Face Accountability in 2023


Dr. Anthony Fauci's year-end retirement doesn’t mean he will avoid congressional oversight and accountability, said Steve Deace, author of “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History.”

On Aug. 22, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, announced he would retire from the government in December.

“There will be meaningful investigations that will uncover meaningful information that especially has to answer the question, after the Obama administration ordered the ending, the ceasing, of gain-of-function research in 2014, by whose authority did it begin again? Where did it start again?” Deace told "The Daily Signal Podcast.”

Deace said the lasting lesson from Fauci’s tenure and “Faucism" is that "never again can this kind of singular power be placed in an unelected official or an agency that's unelected and not directly accountable to the people. Period, end of sentence.”

The host of "The Steve Deace Show" on BlazeTV anticipates Republicans will control at least one house of Congress in 2023, and that the origins of COVID-19 and how agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be held accountable. 

“They won't have a lot of meaningful fights, and so they need to, I think, feed the ecosystem something,” Deace said. “... They will do some meaningful investigating of NIH; NIAID, that's Fauci's department; and NIH under, I mean, Francis Collins, what went on in terms of CDC under both Robert Redfield and now Rochelle Walensky.”

Deace is the co-author of the forthcoming book “Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism With a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again.”

He predicts Fauci and other public health officials who guided COVID-19 policies will have a legacy of being “authoritarians” for consistently doubling down on ineffective policies. 

“It's not that they were just doing gain-of-function. They were doing it specifically to measure spillover potential,” Deace said of the federal funding that found its way to the Wuhan lab in China. “... They wanted to figure out what would cause one of these viruses to jump from an animal to a human. They were provoking that outcome in the lab. So, it's not just how dangerous gain-of-function is, but the functionality they were testing in and of itself was dangerous.”


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Money Girl - 6 Ways to Get More Value from Your Credit Cards

Listener Dave asks: Is it OK to open a credit card for its promotion and close it later? And when it comes to building credit, how many cards are too many? Money Girl Laura Adams explains how to use your cards more strategically.

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