Month: December 2023

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The Indicator from Planet Money - How economics can help you stick to your New Year’s resolution

Talk of New Year's resolutions is bubbling up as 2024 quickly approaches. Whether it's a fitness goal, wanting to learn a new skill or just trying to develop better habits, a new year is the perfect excuse to start. However, it can be difficult to maintain as time passes by.

Today on the show, we talk to a behavioral economist about one of the best ways to stick to your New Year's resolutions using the power of economics.

Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work by Uri Gneezy

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Madrid

Every major city in the world has its own unique story. Some cities have an ancient history, and others have a more recent founding.

Madrid, the capital city of Spain, has a history that is unlike any other. 

It went from nothing to being the capital of the world’s largest empire and today is one of the largest cities in Europe. 

Learn more about the history of Madrid, Spain’s capital and largest city, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Black AF History’ examines American history from the perspective of Black people

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America re-tells American history from the experiences of Black people. In today's episode, political commentator and author Michael Harriot speaks with Here & Now's Celeste Headlee about how revisiting American history in the context of the Black perspective shows the country's story as one of triumph and survival.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Coyote vs. Warner Bros. Discovery

The movie Coyote vs. Acme was set to release this summer featuring characters from the iconic Looney Tunes cartoons. The studio behind the film, Warner Bros. Pictures, had some other ideas. Instead of releasing the completed film, the studio canceled Coyote vs. Acme, with no intention of ever releasing it.

Today on the show, we explain the Hollywood economics behind why Warner Bros. Discovery might not want to release movies that its own studio spent years putting together.

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​​Why platforms like HBO Max are removing streaming TV shows (Apple Podcasts / Spotify)

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Pete and Alice in Maine,’ a marriage is tested during pandemic

When author Caitlin Shetterly saw an influx of license plates from Massachusetts and New York arrive in her home state of Maine during the pandemic, inspiration struck for her debut novel. Pete and Alice in Maine follows a couple that moves the family out of New York City during the initial COVID-19 scare — but finds the baggage from Pete's affair and Alice's questions about her purpose follow them. In today's episode, Shetterly speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the very complicated idea of forgiveness, and how it eludes both of her characters.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Scurvy (Encore)

When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages, the most deadly thing they encountered wasn’t enemy navies, starvation, or even shipwrecks. 

It was a painful disease where your body would literally start falling apart, and it killed more than 2,000,000 sailors between the voyage of Columbus to the middle of the 19th century. 

Learn more about scurvy and how it was eventually conquered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Read Me a Poem - “The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley

Amanda Holmes reads Loren Eiseley’s “The Mist on the Mountain.” 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.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Would-be weed merchants hit a ‘grass ceiling’

For decades, states have prosecuted and imprisoned people for selling weed. Today, recreational marijuana is legal in almost half of U.S. states, and many want to give individuals who were impacted by marijuana enforcement a chance to sell it legally. But as the roughly $30 billion cannabis industry grows, are these so-called social equity programs living up to their promise?

Today on the show, why many would-be cannabis entrepreneurs find themselves hitting a 'grass ceiling'.

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