Happy Holidays from The Indicator! For the next week, we're running some of our favorite shows from this year. On today's show, we fire up the gas logs and pour a mug of cocoa to discuss the made-for-TV rom-com machine, and how television executives learned to mass produce seasonal romance.
This piece originally aired October 21, 2024.
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NPR's Book of the Day - New cookbook ‘Jiggle!’ aims to bring gelatin back in style
In the '70s, gelatin was very much in vogue. Gatherings often featured a colorful, molded jello salad that contained surprising ingredients from cottage cheese to tuna. Those dishes have since fallen out of favor, but a new cookbook by Peter DiMario and Judith Choate declares that gelatin is back. Jiggle! includes modernized recipes for sweet, savory and layered dishes, such as Grandma's Ambrosia and Watermelon Margarita Bites. In today's episode, DiMario talks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about the origins of gelatin, how to achieve the perfect suspension, and the fun of updating gelatin dishes with fresh ingredients and flavors.
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Talk Python To Me - #490: Django Ninja
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Ologies with Alie Ward - Cabinology (CABINS) Encore with Dale Mulfinger
The time is right to revisit cabins: Log cabins, woodsy getaways, A-frame cuties, cottages, tiny homes, lake houses. WE GET INTO IT, including 2024 updates. World famous Minnesota architect, author, professional cabinologist and human delight Dale Mulfinger sits down to discuss everything from what makes a cabin a cabin, to why we bond better surrounded by wood, Scandinavian hygge-ness, where to situate windows, cabin history, horror flicks and vacation activities. Alie sits there starry-eyed and stammers a bunch because she's so excited.
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Donations went to: Clarence Wigington Minority Architectural Scholarship & The Slave Dwelling Project
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2024 in Review: Wait, Is JUUL Banned or Not?
While the What Next team takes some rest, enjoy this episode, originally aired on June 12.
Two years ago, the FDA announced it was banning JUUL nicotine vapes from sale in the U.S.—and then quickly announced it was holding off on the ban to allow for review. How did regulating ecigarettes end up playing catch-up?
Guest: Jamie Ducharme, health correspondent at Time, author of Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.
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Short Wave - Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
On Christmas Eve, scientists at field stations across Antarctica sing carols to one another...via shortwave. On today's episode, the Short Wave podcast explores shortwave radio. We speak with space physicist and electrical engineer Nathaniel Frissell about this Antarctic Christmas Carol tradition and his use of shortwave radio for community science.
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Read more about Santa Net, which connects children (known in the shortwave radio community as "little harmonics") with Santa.
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Audio Mises Wire - The Christmas Truce of World War I
Never forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day.
Original article: The Christmas Truce of World War I
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2514: Linear Algebra and Netflix
Episode: 2514 Today, UH math professor Krešo Josić talks about math and your movie choice. How Netflix uses linear algebra to determine what movies you will like best.
The Stack Overflow Podcast - How developer jobs (and the job market) changed in 2024
In this episode: Why developers need to upskill faster than ever, the relationship between stock prices and layoffs, how the job market for developers has changed, and the evolution of engineering roles post-GenAI.
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Read Me a Poem - “Snow” by Louis MacNeice
Amanda Holmes reads Louis MacNeice’s “Snow. 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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