In Life Hacks for a Little Alien, both the narrator and protagonist are unnamed. The debut novel from Alice Franklin is written from a second-person perspective and follows a little girl who experiences the world differently. Little Alien is neurodivergent, but undiagnosed, and often finds that people don't understand her. When she encounters an ancient text written in an unknown language, she sees parallels between its indecipherability and her own experiences. In today's episode, Franklin speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the way she plays with language in her story, her own diagnosis journey, and our collective definition of normalcy.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - What the cluck is happening with egg prices?
We visit a local egg farm and talk to an industry analyst to get to the bottom of why the prices of eggs are soaring so quickly and when they might come back to earth.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Eric Adams Got His Charges Dropped
The Justice Department ordered New York federal prosecutors to drop charges against Eric Adams, claiming his indictment was preventing him from aiding in Trump’s immigration crackdown. The move has prompted multiple high level Justice Department officials to resign, and raised concerns of a quid pro quo.
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Short Wave - When AI Cannibalizes Its Data
Asked ChatGPT anything lately? Talked with a customer service chatbot? Read the results of Google's "AI Overviews" summary feature? If you've used the Internet lately, chances are, you've consumed content created by a large language model. These models, like DeepSeek-R1 or OpenAI's ChatGPT, are kind of like the predictive text feature in your phone on steroids. In order for them to "learn" how to write, the models are trained on millions of examples of human-written text. Thanks in part to these same large language models, a lot of content on the Internet today is written by generative AI. That means that AI models trained nowadays may be consuming their own synthetic content ... and suffering the consequences.
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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #465 – “Mayor Cerberus” with James Fritz & Quincy Johnson II
In this episode, Rivers is hangin' out at Disgraceland Studios with TWO of our all-time favorite guests, comedians James Fritz and Quincy Johnson II. We test out a discontinued energy drink created in association with the incredibly lame white rapper, Jack Harlow. We take a tour of James and Quincy's hometowns of College Station, Texas and Princeton, Kentucky, respectively. Brantley Gilbert's "Bottoms Up" is our JAM OF THE WEEK! Thanks for tuning in! Follow Quincy Johnson II on all forms of social media @QuincyJohnsonII and follow James Fritz on all forms of social media @FritzIsDead. Follow the show on all the socials @TheGoodsPod Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for the UNCUT video version of this episode as well as TONS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt here: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
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Read Me a Poem - “Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop
Amanda Holmes reads Elizabeth Bishop’s “Faustina, or, Rock Roses.” 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.
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It Could Happen Here - Coffee Unions Spread to Peet’s
Mia talks with Dino and Cole, two organizers with the Peet's Labor Union, about their ongoing campaign and how the rise of delivery services has increased their exploitation.
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