Author Marisha Pessl has always loved puzzles and board games. She's intrigued by the feeling of forced companionship that comes from solving a puzzle together. Her new novel, Darkly, follows a teen named Arcadia and six others as they embark on an internship with the renowned game design company Darkly. Working on the mysterious island that houses the Darkly headquarters, they come across mysteries of the company and its owner. In today's episode, Pessl speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the idea of contained chaos and how the mysteries of the past can unlock the mysteries of the present.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Boeing’s biggest blunder? Financial engineering.
Boeing continues to struggle. Safety concerns, a door blowing off mid-flight, a labor strike, impending layoffs ... and that's just the past year.
What's gone wrong at Boeing? For many observers, the mistake was shifting focus from engineering to financial engineering.
Today on the show we explain what financial engineering is and why this cultural change at Boeing may have led to the company's current problems.
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What's gone wrong at Boeing? For many observers, the mistake was shifting focus from engineering to financial engineering.
Today on the show we explain what financial engineering is and why this cultural change at Boeing may have led to the company's current problems.
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Help Wanted at Boeing
Boeing's woes, Bilt jilts, and the Indicator's stock rally
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3303: Wood Graining
Episode: 3303 Painting wood grain to express alternate realities. Today, painting the swirls of wood grain.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Tea (Encore)
Sometimes over 3000 years ago, somewhere in Southwestern China, a leaf from the Camellia sinensis plant may have accidentally found its way into a pot of boiling water.
Noticing that the leaf had turned the water a different color, some person unknown to history drank the concoction and found that it was good.
That was the start of something that is today a globe-spanning multi-billion dollar industry that millions of people indulge in every day.
Learn more about tea, its origins, and how it spread around the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In comedian Youngmi Mayer’s new memoir, laughter is a lifeline
Comedian, writer and podcast host Youngmi Mayer was raised in Korea and Saipan with a Korean mom and a white American father. Their relationship was strained at times as Mayer navigated her family's generational trauma and often took on a parental role. She pushed through these struggles, and others, through humor–and that strategy frames her new memoir, I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying. Mayer speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about her family story in today's episode. They also discuss Mayer's original pitch for the book's title, relatability in Asian American storytelling and how she became a standup comedian.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How Trump’s tariffs plan might work
President-elect Donald Trump made a lot of economic promises on the campaign trail, but none as sweeping as his plan to enact tariffs. Trump believes taxing imports from other countries will help reduce the U.S. trade deficit and raise money for things like tax cuts. Today on the show, how might these tariffs work and will they work? Or is everything about to get more expensive?
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Find more of Kyla Scanlon's work on YouTube and TikTok.
Related episodes:
What are Trump's economic plans (Apple / Spotify)
Why tariffs are SO back (Apple / Spotify)
Trade wars and talent shortages (Apple / Spotify)
A brief history of tariffs
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1291: Sheet Music
Episode: 1291 In which sheet music offers a record of our country. Today, America's story spins out in the songs we sing.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions and Answers: Volume 25
December is upon us, and we should be cognizant of the fact that December is based on the Latin word Decem, meaning tenth, which is why December is the 10th month of the year……except that it is actually the 12th month.
The reason why the 12th month is named the 10th month is because the original Roman calendar was perhaps the dumbest calendar even used in all of human history, where they had a full two months that were pretty much unaccounted for.
Fast forward over 2000 years and December is just another opportunity for Questions and Answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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