One estimate says 2.4 million people die in the U.S. each year, and burying them is expensive: a typical burial can cost about $10,000. That's a lot of money, caskets, and plots filling up cemeteries. But ... what if there was a cost-effective option to bury people, one that was good for the Earth and your pocket book? Today, we look at the prices and features of sustainable burials.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Monster in the Lake
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Achilles Trap’ analyzes the relationship between the U.S. and Saddam Hussein
Early in today's episode, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Steve Coll why he felt the need to write The Achilles Trap about the Iraq War amidst so many ongoing world conflicts. Coll explains that he hoped enough time had passed to try to answer a lingering question: Why did Saddam Hussein allow the world to believe he harbored weapons of mass destruction when he didn't? Coll's reporting – which includes Hussein's own audio recordings – unravels decades of tension and miscommunication between the U.S. and Iraq, which ultimately cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Napoleon Bonaparte
In 1804, one of the most significant individuals of the 19th century placed a crown upon his head in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and declared himself Emperor of the French.
He went on to revolutionize France and French society, which profoundly affected all of Europe.
His influence was so great the era and the wars of the period were all named after him.
Learn more about Napoleon Bonaparte, his life, and his accomplishments on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Gatekeepers - 5. The Vortex
One of the strange things about our new media universe, is how innocuous decisions taken in Silicon Valley - turning a dial, or adding a few lines of code to increase engagement - can change your life.
In 2016, Instagram introduced a new way of looking at content: the non-chronological feed.
Now, instead of seeing what your friends were posting in the order they were posting it, an algorithm brought you stuff based on search history, likes, and interactions.
That’s how tech engineers saw things back then - not just at Instagram, but at Pinterest, and other platforms too - if you engage with something, that must mean you want more of it.
Ian Russell believes that this algorithmic change may have altered the course of his 14 year old daughter Molly's life.
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Audio Poem of the Day - From “Junk” [“‘Control’ by Janet Jackson is one of the greatest songs”]
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Little Ice Age (Encore)
Approximately 700 years ago, something happened to the Earth’s climate.
The world started to cool down. It wasn’t dramatic enough to cause another ice age and cause ice caps to cover the poles of the Earth, but it did result in significant changes.
In fact, many historians think for a period of about 500 years, this shift in the climate dramatically influenced human history.
Learn more about the Little Ice Age and how it changed humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Mission
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions and Answers: Volume 16
Several centuries ago, many places celebrated the start of the new year in March, not January.
March was originally the first month of the year, according to the Romans, which is why the Latin numbers for seven, eight, nine, and ten all appear in the months of September, October, November, and December.
That, however, is no longer the case. Now March is the third month and it means the end of the first fiscal quarter, the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, and of course questions and answers.
So join me today as I march into your questions on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Wendy’s pricing mind trick and other indicators of the week
It's Indicators of the Week, our weekly look under the hood of the global economy! Today on the show: Tyler Perry halts his film studio expansion plans because of AI, Wendy's communications about a new pricing board goes haywire and a key inflation measure falls.
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The Birth And Death Of The Price Tag
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