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Everything Everywhere Daily - Spartacus and the Third Servile War

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In the year 73 BC, Rome faced one of its greatest threats to its existence. An army of over 100,000 liberated slaves rose up in revolt and threatened the very fabric of the Roman Republic. 


The revolt was led by a gladiator slave who lead his motley army and, to the astonishment of Rome, managed to defeat many Roman legions. 


The end of this rebellion resulted in one of the most horrific displays in all ancient history.


Learn more about Spartacus and the Third Servile War, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Author Maeve Higgins humorously reflects on her immigrant experience

Author Maeve Higgins starts her new book, Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them, by saying she hopes the pandemic doesn't impart any lessons. This kind of dark humor persists throughout Higgins' book, which is a reflection on America and its many flaws. But, as an immigrant, she can see this country in a way others cannot — with a fresh pair of perhaps more forgiving eyes. Higgins told NPR's Tamara Keith that because she loves this country she wants it to be the best it can be.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Losing P.J. O’Rourke

The podcast crew expresses our heartbreak at the untimely and sudden loss of our friend and contributor P.J. O’Rourke. We discuss his legacy—and guess at how excited he would have been to see the news this morning about a recall of leftist school board members in San Francisco and what that recall might portend. Give a listen. Source

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First Things Podcast - Mark Bauerlein on Literary Theory

Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Mark Bauerlein to talk about his article from the March print edition, “Purveyors of Truth” They discuss the origins of theory in post-war Germany, the exhilaration of being a young scholar during theory’s heyday, and the unfortunate decline in the humanities as theory has been co-opted by diversity bureaucrats.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - More Than You Ever Really Wanted to Know About Sewers

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Sometimes the most important things are things we don’t even want to think about let alone talk about. 


The issue of handling and removing human waste and dirty water is one such problem that has confronted humans since the dawn of time. 


The elimination of waste and excess water was one of the fundamental things which allowed cities to grow all over the world. 


Learn more about sewers…..yep, I’m doing an episode on sewers, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Questioning claims about Covid and children

How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

We scrutinise some scary stats that have been circulating on social and examine what excess deaths figures tell us about the risks of Covid compared to other illnesses.

Plus, with the gift of hindsight, we examine the joys and sorrows of modelling the spread of the virus. Do MPs understand how false positive rates work? And we unwrap the mystery of the nanomoles.

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NPR's Book of the Day - What does ‘The Family Chao’ have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.

Patriarch Leo Chao is murdered at his restaurant at the beginning of Lan Samantha Chang's new novel The Family Chao. Eventually family secrets and bitterness reveal themselves — much like a Dostoyevsky novel, from whom Chao took a lot of inspiration. But NPR's Scott Simon points out that even though this novel is about a murder, it's quite funny. Chang told Simon that she just enjoyed writing it so much that humor became part of it.