By Catherine Carter
Everything Everywhere Daily - Tuvalu: The Least Visited Country in the World
Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world. The country has only one proper hotel and that has just 9 rooms.
Once you visit the country, there is no car rental service, there isn’t an ATM machine anywhere in the country, and the entire country doesn’t take credit cards.
Oh, and good luck trying to get online.
Learn more about Tuvalu, the least visited country in the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Innocence of Solomon” by Nick Joaquin
Amanda Holmes reads Nick Joaquin’s poem “The Innocence of Solomon.” 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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Audio Poem of the Day - At a Standstill
By Samuel Menashe
Everything Everywhere Daily - A History of Blue Jeans
Unquestionably, the most popular clothing innovation of the last 150 years has been blue jeans.
They can be found all over the world, yet they have become synonymous with American culture.
While the modern blue jeans are definitely American, their origin actually goes back centuries earlier to Europe.
Learn more about the history of blue jeans and how they became so popular on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Of Late
by George Starbuck
Everything Everywhere Daily - Did We Already Find Life On Mars?
On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first robotic lander to land on Mars. On September 3, its sister Viking 2 followed suit.
Both of them carried experiments to test for biology on Mars, something which no subsequent Mars lander since has replicated.
The results from these chemical experiments have divided researchers for decades and have been the cause of one of the greatest debates in planetary science.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Falling Leaves and Early Snow
By Kenneth Rexroth
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
In 1990, filmmaker Peter Brosnan set out to find a legendary Egyptian city that was lost to time and buried by sand dunes. After years of battling local officials, he finally was given the approval to begin an archeological dig.
What he found were 35-foot tall statues of the Pharoah Ramses II and enormous sphinxes weighing over 5 tons.
Where did they make this discovery? Near Santa Barbara.
Learn more about the lost city of Cecil B. DeMille on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Exorcism
By Joyce Sutphen