April Ryan and Ayesha Rascoe both know what it's like to cover the White House as Black women. In this episode, the two journalists discuss the importance of taking up space and looking out for one another in that environment, including throughout the Trump presidency. Ryan's new book, Black Women Will Save the World, combines memoir, reporting and analysis to highlight the strength of trailblazers like Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown and herself – but she also opens up about the personal cost of always having to be resilient.
For thousands of years, humans have been using the power of the wind to do useful work.
At first, the wind was just used for sailing ships, but eventually, the wind's power was harnessed for mundane tasks like milling grain and pumping water.
Unlike many ancient energy sources, wind power is still used today, and it has become a major source of electrical generation.
Learn more about how humans conquered the wind and made it useful on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Most people are familiar with the ancient Egyptian civilization, which arose along the banks of the Nile River.
However, the Egyptians were not the only major civilization that existed on the Nile.
Just south of Egypt was a culture that was very similar yet very different, who was Egypt’s sometimes enemies, sometimes trade partners, sometime overlords, and sometimes subjects.
Learn more about the Nubian Civilization and the Kingdom of Kush on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In this episode, we share two interviews on books that look at the ways in which food and family go hand in hand. First, NPR's Scott Simon talks to singer Linda Ronstadt about her memoir Feels Like Home, in which she writes about living by the Mexican-American border and how food brought her closer to those around her. Then, Scott Simon visits French chef Jaques Pepin at his house to talk about his book Art of the Chicken. Pepin tells Simon that cooking a good meal at home helps him hold on to the memory of his late wife. Both books feature recipes close to the writers' hearts.
