Today's Daily Detail is a continuing report on conversations held this past year regarding the Health, Wealth, and Spiritual well being of this nation Today's audio are comments made by Gerrick Wilkins on the 1819 News Podcast And Marc Andreessen on the "Joe Rogan Experience"
December is a time of celebration, family feuds, and now scientific rivalries. It's also one of the most wasteful months of the year, with festivities in full swing across the globe. No wonder the world is overflowing with rubbish—both literal and metaphorical!
Unexpected Elements dives headfirst into the scientific bin to wallow in waste. Could worms be the unexpected heroes of our plastic pollution crisis? How much garbage have we jettisoned into space? And why is part of our very own genome called "junk DNA"?
But it’s not all rubbish, we’re also talking trash. While celebrations can bring people together, spending too much time with loved ones can lead to tense moments. Rafi Kohan shares expert tips on how to outsmart your opponent during a heated board game debate.
And don’t think trash talk is limited to sports fields. The world of science has its share of drama, too. We’ll explore some of history’s most scandalous squabbles with scientists behaving badly.
Come waste an hour with us on Unexpected Elements!
Presenter: Caroline Steel, with Chhavi Sachdev and Candice Bailey
Producers: Harrison Lewis, Imaan Moin, Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, William Hornbrook and Eliane Glaser
Sound engineer: Gavin Wong
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment.
Playgrounds: The Experimental Years (Reaktion, 2024) tells the story of how waste grounds and bombsites were transformed into hives of activity by children and progressive educators. It shows how a belief in the imaginative capacity of children shaped a new kind of playground and how designers reimagined what playgrounds could be. Ben Highmore tells a compelling story about pioneers, designers, and charities--and above all--about the value of play.
Who controls currently federal lands can tell us quite a bit about how wildfire risks are likely to be managed. Hannah Down of the Property and Environment Research Center comments.
Canada is a really big country—the second largest in the world, in fact.
Its size can hide the fact that it is a country with enormous geographical diversity.
It has a geography that is unlike any other country in terms of its landscape and population distribution. It isn’t all just a cold wasteland…..although much of it is.
Learn more about the geography of Canada and how it has shaped the country into what it is today on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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We'll tell you how the weather is impacting holiday travel from the Northwest to the Midwest to the South.
Also, we have the findings from a yearslong ethics investigation into former Congressman Matt Gaetz.
And we'll explain one of the most significant moves taken against the death penalty in presidential history.
Plus, why experts think whooping cough is surging, which brand of eye drops is being recalled this time, and what's behind a lawsuit that pits two Hollywood stars against one another.
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If you live in a U.S. city, you've likely seen a rat or two running around. According to the pest control company, Orkin, an estimated 21 million U.S. homes face rodent invasions, each fall.
But rats play a much larger role in human history. These creatures have been sacrificed for the advancement of scientific research.
Rats are complicated — and it inspire equally complicated feelings in us.
This year, New York City held its first ever annual national urban rat summit to address the city's chronic rat problems.
Rats pose real health and safety risks to human, we discuss what we lose by only seeing them as pests.
In pop culture, squirrels are often seen as jerky, excited critters on the hunt for nuts to stuff themselves with and tuck away for later. But squirrels are on the hunt for something a bit meatier in the California Bay Area. Their target: local voles. The entire process — from hunt to kill — was captured on video.
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