In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we dig up Mike’s 2005 NPR reporting on the hit documentary March of the Penguins. Then we listen back to Wednesday’s Spiel about the dreaded 6-3 Supreme Court.
Straddling the border of Switzerland and France is the largest scientific instrument ever created.
It sits in a tunnel 27 kilometers or 17 miles long, at points, it rests 175 meters or 574 feet below the surface, and it cost a whopping €7.5 billion.
It consists of thousands of powerful magnets and a vacuum chamber and uses a great deal of energy. With it we can probe the secrets of the basic particles that make up the universe.
Learn more about the Large Hadron Collider, how it works, and why it was built on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Sponsors
Expedition Unknown Find out the truth behind popular, bizarre legends. Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe. With direct audio from the hit TV show, you’ll hear Gates explore stories like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific and the location of Captain Morgan's treasure in Panama. These authentic, roughshod journeys help Gates separate fact from fiction and learn the truth behind these compelling stories.
InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed.
Today, we’re talking about the ongoing standoff between Hollywood’s writers and the studios that employ them. Los Angeles Times staff writer Anousha Sakoui is here to discuss how the strike impacts the shows and movies many of us watch, why technology is at the core of the negotiations, and much more.
On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes and CBS's Caitlin Huey-Burns look back on the state of the nation a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. We'll have the latest on the fate of that Titan submersible that was lost near the Titanic. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a look at a report from the Anti Defamation League and the advocacy group GLAAD finding that extremists were involved in nearly half of anti-LGBTQ+ incidents of harassment and assault from June 2022 through April 2023.
Heavily rising diabetes cases worldwide by 2050, and US coast guard investigates what went wrong with the submersible expedition to the Titanic, More questions arise about the vessels safety.
Kadia Goba, politics reporter for Semafor talks about the Republicans breaking ranks and fracturing over gas stoves and coming together over pistol braces and whether or not any positive legislation will be enacted. Plus, an FBI agent stole documents, which, while certainly illegal, may not offer clarifying insight into the cases of Trump, Biden, or Hillary Clinton. And a Senate panel discusses trans rights by questioning the experts they agree with and ignoring those they don't.
The celebrification of running for president continues to grow, Boebert and MTG are a couple of ignoramuses, Schiff gets censured instead of Santos, RFK Jr is a Putin stooge, and Trump is a joke—but the joke's on us. Tim O'Brien joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
Frustrated with the current state of popular film, the boys pitch “Pixar’s Sodas”.
Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes!
www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
