Ologies with Alie Ward - Bonus Episode: COCKROACH MILK with Joshua Benoit and Sinead English

Cockroach milk for Spooktober. STAY HERE. Don’t tell me you like haunted houses and slasher films but can’t listen to a lovely conversation about how cockroaches make milk to feed their young. It’s one of the most nutritious substances on Earth, and I own some. Sort of. Coem along for a brief and enthralling discussion from two researchers, Dr. Joshua Benoit and Dr. Sinead English, all about why and how some insects give live birth and nurse their young. What does it taste like? Will we replicate it for barista use? And why didn’t I get to eat any on TV? 

Watch Alie with bugs on her Tonight Show segment

Blattodeology (COCKROACHES) episode with Dr. Dominic Evangelista

Learn about Dr. Josh Benoit’s lab and Dr. Sinead English’s lab

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It Could Happen Here - Squatting with Andrew

Andrew and James discuss the history and political function of squatting.

Sources:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-hidden-histories-of-resistance

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anders-corr-anarchist-squatting-and-land-use-in-the-west

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Good Bad Billionaire - Evan Spiegel: Snapchat fratboy

Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel dropped out of Stanford Business School when the disappearing messages app made him a millionaire. Four years later, he was named the world’s youngest billionaire at 25. BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng tell Spiegel’s story, from shy schoolboy to partying teen, to tech titan, all in just a few years. Spiegel formed Snapchat with a fraternity buddy and their app soon spread around the world, but old emails and a lawsuit caused controversy. Good Bad Billionaire is the podcast that explores the lives of the super-rich and famous, tracking their wealth, philanthropy, business ethics and success. There are leaders who made their money in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and in high street fashion. From iconic celebrities and CEOs to titans of technology, the podcast unravels tales of fortune, power, economics, ambition and moral responsibility, before asking the audience to decide if they are good, bad, or just billionaires.

To contact the team, email goodbadbillionaire@bbc.com or send a text or WhatsApp to +1 (917) 686-1176. Find out more about the show and read our privacy notice at www.bbcworldservice.com/goodbadbillionaire

It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: Two Tales of Classic Horror, by Saki and Bierce

Margaret reads you "The Open Window" by Saki and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Introducing: Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise

Hello, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise

About the show: John and Ann Bender had hundreds of millions of dollars and one dream: to build a glittering glass mansion deep in the Costa Rican jungle. But paradise soon gave way to paranoia — with abduction plots, armed guards and a bedroom blazing with hundreds of Tiffany lamps. And then one night, it all ended in blood.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Becky Milligan, Hell in Heaven is an eight-part limited series from Blanchard House, Exactly Right Media and iHeart Podcasts.

Follow Hell in Heaven wherever you get your podcasts — and see rare photos from the story at @exactlyright on Instagram.

Listen here and subscribe to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- CZM Rewind: Indigenous Peoples Day

- CZM Rewind: Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 2: Migrant Stories

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 3: The Mutual Aid Response

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 4: The Border Patrol

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Strava Leaks

The modern world is full of apps -- and we don't mean appetizers. Apps are tiny programs that can do countless neat, convenient things... often with a catch. As Ben, Matt and Noel discover in tonight's episode, some apps, even innocuous things for workouts and cycling, can lead to disastrous breaches of personal privacy and national security. This is the story of the Strava Leaks.

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Native America Calling - Friday, October 17, 2025 — Native in the Spotlight: Cannupa Hanska Luger

A new book is just one of multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger’s (Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara and Lakota) many current creative projects. He’s the 2025 artist-in-residence for Verbier 3-D Foundation, a contemporary art non-profit in Switzerland. He has new work that is part of an augmented reality exhibition with other Indigenous artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing. He has a public sculpture installation at the University of Massachusetts Boston. And he designed a terrifying sports mascot costume for the Jordan Peele-produced horror film, “Him.” His new hybrid art book and graphic novel, “Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide,” is a creative take on the Indigenous knowledge necessary for survival in a post-colonial future. We’ll hear from Luger about his creative drive and the message thread throughout all his acclaimed work.

 

Break 1 Music:  Song of Encouragement (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)

Break 2 Music: Reservation of Education (song) XIT (artist) Silent Warrior (album)

It Could Happen Here - CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 4: The Border Patrol

In the final episode James explains some of the history of the border and how CBP grew into an agency that operates without oversight across the USA and the world.

Original Air Date: 6.2.23

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