Everything Everywhere Daily - The Knuckleball

In the game of baseball, it might not seem at first glance that there is much strategy involved in the game. 


However, there is an enormous amount of strategy that goes into every pitch in the game. 


Pitchers have different pitches in their repertoire, which can rise, fall, and curve on their way to the batter in an attempt to fool the batter. 


However, there is one pitch which is unlike any other. It is so challenging that only a tiny percentage of pitchers in history have ever thrown it.


Learn more about the knuckleball, how it works and why it is so rare on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Scientific Method

The modern world is built on science. Today, millions of scientists all over the world are doing research in thousands of different fields and specializations. 


All of these researchers are, to some degree, using a system that was developed over the course of centuries. A methodology that allows for the discovery of scientific truth. 


It isn’t perfect, but it ushered in a scientific revolution and helped create the modern world we live in. 


Learn more about the scientific method, what it is, and how it developed in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.




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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Many, Many Invasions of Sicily

Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is its largest island: Sicily. 


Given its size and location, Sicily has been the key for any empire, kingdom, or civilization that wanted to control the Mediterranean.


As a result, Sicily has been one of the most contested pieces of land in the history of the world. For over three thousand years, one army after another invaded and occupied the island before getting kicked out by the next one.


Learn more about Sicily and its long history of invasion and conquest on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



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The Indicator from Planet Money - Missing taxes, spiking copper and Napster’s re-re-rebirth

On Indicators of the Week, we look at a huge projected tax shortfall, the price of copper and the afterlife of Napster, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service that refuses to die.

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NPR's Book of the Day - John Himmelman, Reginald Dwayne Betts take a populist approach to poetry in new books

The authors of two new poetry collections aspire to reach broad audiences with their work. First, John Himmelman says he wanted to tell stories with as few words as possible. The Boy Who Lived in a Shell, a book of illustrated poems intended for children, is connected by a single narrator, Ivo, who lives in a giant moon snail shell. In today's episode, Himmelman speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about working at a New York library, writing to make himself laugh, and making poetry accessible to short attention spans. Then, lawyer, educator and author Reginald Dwayne Betts spent eight years in prison for a crime he committed at 16. While there, Betts began to write. His latest collection Doggerel plays with the idea of mediocre poetry and a recurring motif of dogs. In today's episode, he speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his Jack Russell terrier, reading poetry to strangers, and an emotional encounter with the police.

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