by Jack Underwood
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Monty Hall Problem
For over 30 years, Monty Hall was the host of the game show Let’s Make A Deal.
In the show, they played a very simple game where you would choose one of three doors. This simple game has led to one of the most controversial and public kerfuffles amongst mathematicians, which caused many distinguished mathematicians to have egg on their face.
Learn more about the Monty Hall Problem on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Read Me a Poem - “Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska
Amanda Holmes reads Wislawa Szymborska’s poem, “Love at First Sight,” translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. 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 - The Trans Haggadah Companion
By Bev Yockelson
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Legend of Andre the Giant
On May 19, 1946, André René Roussimoff was born into the world in Coulommiers, France. At birth, he weighed 13 pounds or 6 kilograms...and from there, he only got bigger.
He eventually topped out at 7 feet, four inches tall, weighed 520 pounds, and became a worldwide phenomenon as a professional wrestler and actor.
He is one of the few humans to whom the adjective “legendary” can truly be ascribed. Today people still speak of his incredible feats in awe.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Two Nudes
By Mary Jo Bang
Everything Everywhere Daily - Jack the Ripper
In 1888, the city of London was terrorized by its most infamous serial killer. Anywhere between 5 and 11 murders were committed over a three-year period in the Whitechapel area of London, and the crimes have never been solved.
In the decades since then, a cottage industry has developed of amateur sleuths who have tried to determine the identity of this killer, that the newspapers dubbed Jack the Ripper.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Dream of Ink Brush Calligraphy
By Karen An-Hwei Lee
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Super Bowl
One Sunday every year, the United States celebrates its biggest non-official holiday: Super Bowl Sunday.
The championship game of the National Football League is almost always the biggest television audience of the year, and one of the most expensive tickets for any sporting event.
However, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it wasn’t even called the Super Bowl.
Learn more about the Super Bowl and how it became so big on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Harold and the Purple Crayon
By D. Gilson