Month: March 2024

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Influenced - Welcome to Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat

Have you ever been trapped in a group chat nightmare, either grabbing the popcorn or wondering how to leave without causing a scene? Who’s the admin in your family group, and do they wield that power responsibly? Do you ever wonder if it’s appropriate to use emojis when talking to your boss?

The rise of instant messaging has made our social and professional lives faster, more casual — and more chaotic. But amid all the discussion of the effects of public social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, there has been relatively little attention paid to private social networks—the direct message and the group chat — and how they are shaping our relationships and our world.

In this series, Helen Lewis looks at the secret world of instant messaging, meeting a woman who married a chatbot, discovering how Russian dissidents are fighting a propaganda war, and hearing the inside story of how Britain ended up governed from a single WhatsApp group. It’s a strange new world where workplace rebellions are conducted through duelling emojis and military secrets are traded on chat forums about a video game . It’s also a world where you can never be quite sure who you’re talking to—and who’s eavesdropping on you.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Unbelievable Life of Adrian Carton de Wiart

Throughout history, there have been some truly remarkable people who have done some truly remarkable things. 

One such person was Adrian Carton de Wiart. If you don’t know who he is, thanks, ok, because by the end of this episode, you surely remember his story, if not his name. 

He was courageous, a little bit insane, and extremely hard to kill. 

Learn more about Adrian Carton de Wiart and his incredible life on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Charles Spencer’s memoir ‘A Very Private School’ opens up about boarding school abuse

A new memoir by historian Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and brother of Princess Diana, details a difficult childhood marked by alleged physical and sexual abuse at Britain's Maidwell Hall in the 1970s. In today's episode, Spencer tells NPR's Scott Simon how childhood naivete – thinking his parents were all-knowing authorities who must've known about the school's cruelty when they sent him there – prevented him and others from speaking up about what was happening, and why writing A Very Private School felt like an important reclamation of his boyhood.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The War of the Currents (Encore)

In the late 19th century, several of the world’s foremost investors engaged in a public battle for the future of electricity. The battle was fought in boardrooms and newspapers, and there was seemingly nothing that was off-limits. 

The battle eventually took the lives of several people…..and several dogs.

Learn more about the current wars between George Westinghouse, Nikolai Tesla, and Thomas Edison on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Read Me a Poem - “Said Hanrahan” by John O’Brien

Amanda Holmes reads John O’Brien’s “Said Hanrahan.” 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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