Month: March 2025

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Bay Curious - Fairy Houses And A Very Green Waterfall

A Bay Area artist in Richmond has been stealthily building and placing fairy houses around his neighborhood. His creations bring ‘endless fun and fascination’ to the East Bay town. And, across the Bay Bridge, a waterfall in Golden Gate Park is sometimes an "alarming shade of green." What's going on with the water there?


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Curious City - How does honoring the dead impact the environment?

How should we decide what happens to our bodies when we die? And what implications does that decision have for the living? It’s common to think a burial at a cemetery is the final resting place for a loved one. But as we heard in our last episode, sometimes the need to progress as a society is in direct conflict with the desire to honor the dead. Today, we talk to one of the leaders of the Green Burial Council, funeral director Samuel Perry. His organization advocates and sets standards for “natural” burials, which he calls “the full body burial of the person directly in the ground with only biodegradable materials.” We talk about the practicality of natural burial in Chicago and the very personal and spiritual decisions that add complexity to this corner of the death care industry.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.13.25

Alabama

  • HB 244 would ban teaching of gender identity in K-12 public schools in AL
  • Gov. Ivey responds to 50% slash of employees in US Dept. of Education
  • Sen. Tuberville approves of steps to reduce Dept of Ed as a "good start"
  • AL House to consider post election audit bill on first day back from break
  • AL National Guard reaches recruitment level sought for 2025 within 6 months

National

  • Dem leader Chuck Schumer threatens a government shutdown over CR bill
  • FBI issues fraud indictment against a director within CBP agency
  • EPA director to resolve air quality cases backlogged during Biden admin
  • Journalist Julie Kelly to follow legal challenge to EPA for cutting off Billions $
  • Border Czar Tom Homan calls out NY governor for resistance to aiding ICE
  • SoS Rubio weighs in on Mahmoud Khalil case and his imminent deportation
  • State of Utah passes a ban on flouride being put in public water systems.
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The Daily Signal - Senate Dems Promise Shutdown, Inflation Cools, Dept. of Edu. Cuts Staff | March 13, 2025

On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

  • Senate Democrats pledge to block the continuing resolution.
  • Inflation cools and we talk tariffs.
  • Trump’s administration cuts Department of Ed. staff and EPA regulations.


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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Andrew Schulz Has Advice for Dems, Jews, and Comics

Each one of us has a different conception story. For some parents, it’s a romantic night out, maybe over a candlelit dinner. For others, like Bari and Nellie, it involves a trip to a fertility clinic in a mall that doesn’t even validate parking. 


And of course, for some it’s a long, challenging, emotional process involving needles, hormones, and many false starts. We know a lot of our listeners can relate to that.  


Now, the topic of infertility often seems like the purview of a doctor’s office or a self-help book, or maybe a women’s health column. Where you might not expect to hear about it in painstaking detail is in Andrew Schulz’s new Netflix special. Schulz’s special is vulnerable, obviously funny, and a look into the taboo topic of male infertility. It’s called Life, and if you haven’t already seen it, blow off your plans tonight and watch Life instead. 


Now, the last time we had Schulz on this show was three years ago. It was in the thick of the woke culture storm, and Schulz was about to release a comedy special on Amazon. But when the streamer asked him to do what a lot of people at the time were being asked to do in comedy—censor his jokes—Schulz said no. He bet on himself and released the special independently. As he tells Bari today, he ended up making five times what he would have made with Amazon. 


We’ve been talking a lot on this show about the vibe shift that’s come for politics and tech. And it’s obviously come for comedy. But actually, we think you could make the argument that comedy created the vibe shift that we’re seeing in so many other parts of the culture. And perhaps that’s because comedians with podcasts have become like the Walter Cronkites of American culture. Theo Von is almost Barbara Walters at this point. And Andrew Schulz has found himself right in the thick of it. 


Last October on his podcast, Schulz sat down with then-candidate Donald Trump as he was running for president, for a candid 90-minute conversation. You can imagine the type of response he got for that. 


Today on Honestly, Bari asks Schulz about that interview with Trump and whether there are certain people who are beyond the pale. They talk about his difficulty conceiving, what it meant for his masculinity, and she asks about the decision to put his—and his wife’s—vulnerability on camera. And finally, she asks how to resist audience capture.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Lunar Eclipses

For as long as humans have been watching the night sky, they noticed that every so often, during a full moon, the moon would briefly go dark, or at least change color. 


They often created mythical explanations for the event.


Eventually, this ancient people began to record its occurrences and were able to calculate when it would happen. 


As we learned more about the universe, the explanation for the moon changing became less mythical and more scientific, but it was still a sight to behold.


Learn more about lunar eclipses and how they work on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Selena Wisnom, “The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World” (U Chicago Press, 2025)

When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia. After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal’s library to the ground - yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets were written in cuneiform: the first written language in the world.

More than half of human history is written in cuneiform, but only a few hundred people on earth can read it. In The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (U Chicago Press, 2025), Assyriologist Dr. Selena Wisnom takes us on an immersive tour of this extraordinary library, bringing ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life. Through it, we encounter a world of astonishing richness, complexity and sophistication. Mesopotamia, she shows, was home to advanced mathematics, astronomy and banking, law and literature. This was a culture absorbed and developed by the ancient Greeks, and whose myths were precursors to Bible stories - in short, a culture without which our lives today would be unrecognizable.

The Library of Ancient Wisdom unearths a civilization at once strange and strangely familiar: a land of capricious gods, exorcisms and professional lamenters, whose citizens wrote of jealous rivalries, profound friendships and petty grievances. Through these pages we come face to face with humanity’s first civilization: their startling achievements, their daily life, and their struggle to understand our place in the universe.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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What A Day - Are We At Risk Of Another Pandemic?

It’s a rough time for people who worry about infectious diseases. A new study shows bird flu is more widespread in U.S. cows than previously thought. Around 250 Americans have been infected with measles, including two people who died. And globally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to contain a Mpox outbreak, Uganda is battling Ebola, Tanzania is fighting Marburg, and Lassa fever is spreading in East Africa. In the face of all that, the Trump administration has gutted funding for programs that help protect Americans from these types of diseases. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at UCLA and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health, talks about what’s worrying her.

And in headlines: Senate Democrats said they’ll vote against a House bill to keep the government open past Friday, new government data showed egg prices hit another record last month, and President Donald Trump hosted the Irish Prime at the White House amid a growing trade war with the European Union.

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The NewsWorthy - Climate Rules Rollback, ‘Have You No Decency?’ & Rare Lunar Eclipse – Thursday, March 13, 2025

The news to know for Thursday, March 13, 2025!

We’re talking about the latest chapter in the trade war… with Canada and Europe now targeting American products like bourbon, bikes, and blue jeans.

Also, the White House’s major turnaround on climate change… and what it means for greenhouse gases in America.

Plus, how to see a rare lunar eclipse tonight, what kind of scam is impacting both iPhone and Android users, and why research shows that what clothes you decide to wear can make a big difference in your day.

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