December 2023 – Page 7

December 12, 2023

Read Me a Poem - “The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand

Amanda Holmes reads Mark Strand’s “The Coming of Light.” 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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December 12, 2023

The Indicator from Planet Money - A countdown to climate action

Since the end of November, diplomats, scientists, activists and lobbyists from nearly every country on Earth have come together for COP 28, the United Nations climate negotiating talks. One of the goals of this gathering is for countries to agree on the best path forward to address human-driven climate change. Stakes are high as average global temperatures continue to approach a key threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times — the level climate scientists say we must stay under to stave off severe climate disruptions that could contribute to flooding, drought, hunger, and conflict.

As it comes to a close, Nathan Rott with NPR's climate desk helps us navigate the take-aways from the pivotal conference.

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December 11, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - Cracking the Enigma Code

During the Second World War, the Germans used what they thought to be an uncrackable encryption system.

It was a really good encryption system, and for the longest time, the Allies had a difficult time cracking the code.

However, thanks to brilliant code breakers, a powerful computing machine, and German mistakes, the British were able to break the code.

Learn more about the Enigma Code and how it was broken on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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December 11, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - Author David Wallace-Wells outlines the biggest climate change misunderstandings

As this year's United Nations Climate Summit wraps up, today's episode examines what people often get wrong about climate change. David Wallace-Wells' 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming outlines three major misunderstandings: the speed, scope, and severity of climate change. Here, Wallace-Wells speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin back in 2019 about the worst-case scenario for human life in 2050 and the optimistic outcome we could expect if we take immediate action.

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December 10, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Quasi-War

In the big scheme of things, the United States is a rather young country. Yet, during its history, it has managed to declare war on a shockingly large number of European countries, including Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Yet, through all the turmoil, there is one country the US has never gone to war with….France.

Except for that time when we sort of, kind of, did.

Learn more about Quasi-War and how the US sort of went to war with France without actually going to war with France on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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December 9, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - Shakespeare’s English (Encore)

English is a very strange language. It is a Germanic language where half of the words come from a Romance language.

We have a host of words that make absolutely no sense in terms of spelling or pronunciation.

Perhaps strangest of all, some of the greatest literary works in the English language are filled with words that aren’t even in the language anymore.

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December 9, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Idlewild’ follows a queer, teen friendship in early 2000s New York

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, two teenagers form a tight bond at their Quaker high school in Manhattan. That's the premise for Idlewild, the debut novel by James Frankie Thomas. But while the girls share an intense common interest in gay culture and fan fiction, their friendship blows up in unexpected ways — something they must reckon with years later. In today's episode, Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Thomas about his take on the prep school novel and discovering some giant truths about himself while trying to understand the lives of his characters.

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December 8, 2023

The Indicator from Planet Money - AI creates, transforms and destroys… jobs

We often talk about the jobs lost due to artificial intelligence. But what about the ones created or even transformed? From the gig work of training AI on good and bad answers through to designing new AI models, AI jobs are popping up like mushrooms.

Today on the Indicator, we talk to people in these new roles and consider what the bots mean for the labor market.

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December 8, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - Novels by Sigrid Nunez and Michael Cunningham tackle the pandemic

Today's episode finds two renowned authors who found solace in writing characters navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. First, NPR's Leila Fadel spoke with Sigrid Nunez about The Vulnerables, which follows a woman, a parrot, and a Gen Z college student unexpectedly taking care of another during lockdown in New York. Then, Michael Cunningham tells NPR's Scott Simon about Day, which chronicles three days — spread out over three years — in the life of a Brooklyn family, and how isolation and companionship changes them over that time.

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