There is a vacuum at the top of Hamas following the killing of the militant group’s commander in Gaza. Our correspondent tells us about two of the men who could replace him. How black voters may swing the presidential election in Georgia (9:34). And remembering Turkish activist Fethullah Gulen (17:37).
Five undecided voters in swing states speak to Rachel Humphreys about how they're feeling as election day looms. Ryan Knutson and Molly Ball unpack the stakes. Plus, will betting markets predict the winner?
White blobs have been appearing on the beaches in Newfoundland, Canada. They’re kind of doughy-looking, and smell of vegetable oil. As yet, officials are not sure what they could be. Of course, this got the Unexpected Elements team intrigued, so we decided to dedicate the programme to the weird world of blobs, slime and bizarre things that wash up onshore.
We hear about the fabulous hagfish, which produces copious amounts of snot-like slime to defend itself from predators.
But what makes slime so slippery in the first place? And why is ketchup so hard to get out of a bottle? And what makes quicksand so difficult to escape from? It’s all down to fluid dynamics. Professor Daniel Bonn, from the University of Amsterdam, explains the physics behind all these sticky situations.
Also this week, we find out more about a shipment of bath toys that tumbled overboard, and how they have helped scientists to decipher ocean currents.
Plus, we discover more about the restoration of mangrove forests, how flowers can cause weird dreams, the size of the biggest black forest gateau and a species of plankton and how it floats.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Camilla Mota and Phyllis Mwatee
Producer: Emily Knight, with Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Eliane Glaser and Noa Dowling
Sound engineer: Gareth Tyrrell
Dan Fleuette, author of "Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: A Pictorial History of WarRoom," gives an exclusive look into the origins of Stephen K. Bannon's "WarRoom" and its evolution as a hit show.
From an impromptu Sunday afternoon call from Bannon that launched the show to becoming a movement with millions of daily viewers, Fleuette shares intimate details about working with Bannon, photographing guests like Tucker Carlson and Rudy Giuliani, and collaborating with the "WarRoom" posse.
Get a rare glimpse into Bannon's current communication from prison and what to expect upon his release Oct. 29.
Fleuette's new book captures five years of the personalities who shaped this influential platform.
Order your copy of "Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws" now!
Today, we're diving into the October surprises! Kamala Harris compares Trump to Hitler, we discuss Trump’s alleged offensive remarks, and break down Kamala’s Town Hall with Anderson Cooper. Tune in for all the details!
OA1080 - As a weary nation watches the world's richest man try to buy a federal election in plain sight, we stop to consider the question which has so long plagued Elon Musk: There's gotta be a crime here, right? Somewhere?
There has been plenty of debate this week about the legality of Musk’s $1 million daily lottery for registered US voters in swing states, but there is something far more insidious going on in this story beyond the headlines. Matt explains how the Federal Elections Commission has recently taken the Supreme Court’s perfectly good joke way too far before we consider what the rapidly evolving rules around super PACs could mean for the future of fair elections in the United States.
Finally, we drop a seasonal footnote to discuss how some Massachusetts 8th graders recently helped to close out a 332-year-old criminal case.
In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it blew up, becoming the most popular spectator sport in the USSR and growing into a fiercely competitive business with complex regional and national bureaucracies, a strong international presence, and a conviction that victory on the field was also a victory of Soviet supremacy. Writing as both historian and fan, Holmes focuses his study on the provincial Kirov team Dinamo from 1979 to 1985, when the club played at both its worst and its best. Spurred by a dismal 1979 season, the team's administrators and regional authorities had two options: obey Moscow's edict to reduce expenditures on professional sports or seek out new—and often illicit—funding sources to fill out a team of champions. Drawing on rich archival materials as well as newspapers and interviews with former players, Win or Else reveals the foundations of Soviet sports culture—and the hazards that teams faced both in victory and in loss.
Larry E. Holmes was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Alabama. Holmes passed away on November 30, 2022, in Kirov, Russia.
Editor Samantha Lomb is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Vyatka State University in Kirov, Russia. She is author of Stalin's Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution.
On August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, an incredibly grizzly event took place.
Andrew and his wife, Abby Borden, were brutally murdered by repeated strikes with a hatchet to their heads.
The primary suspect in the case was their daughter, Lizzie. In the subsequent trial, there wasn’t enough evidence to convict, and ever since, people have wondered if Lizzie did, in fact, kill her parents, and if she didn’t, who did?
Learn more about Lizzie Borden and Borden's murders on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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