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The Indicator from Planet Money - Stocks jump, the temperamental peso, and other election aftermath indicators

It's ... Indicators of the Week! It's that time of week when we look at the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.

On today's episode: Election aftermath. Stocks jump, the temperamental Mexican peso, and which states are raising minimum wage.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Origin of Words and Phrases: Nautical

If you happen to be feeling blue because you feel like a loose cannon, fear not, because I happen to like the cut of your jib.

Perhaps if you have a square meal, you’ll be riding high, and by and large, you might avoid being three sheets to the wind. 

If you know the ropes and don’t cut and run, you might be above board without being taken aback. 

Learn more about the origin of words and phrases that come from the nautical world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Tías and Primas’ and ‘Linguaphile’ are new nonfiction books on family and language

Two new nonfiction books blend research and memoir to explore ideas of family, language and culture. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's Tías and Primas draws on her experience being raised in a large Nicaraguan family, one that she describes as messier than the typical nuclear model. Her relationships with her mother, cousins, and aunts shaped her view of the world and the female archetypes that exist within Latin American culture. In today's episode, Rodríguez speaks with NPR's A Martínez about how nuance is lost in Latina stereotypes, the cultural significance of ghost encounters, and practicing critique from a place of love. Then, Julie Sedivy is a linguistics and psychology professor who started speaking five languages before first grade. Growing up in diverse linguistic environments inspired her memoir Linguaphile, which explores the relationship between language, emotion and life. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about the way linguistic divisions reflect our social reality and the surprising strengths of the aging brain.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - The story behind Cuba’s economic dysfunction

This week, a powerful hurricane hit Cuba, causing nationwide electricity outages — right after a string of power failures that have plagued the country in recent months. These power outages are a low point for a country that has struggled economically for years and is experiencing mass emigration.

Today on the show, we explain why Cuba is struggling to keep the lights on and investigate the root causes of the Caribbean nation's dramatic fall.

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Curious City - ‘So many connections:’ Chicago indicator species are trying to tell us something

A Curious City listener wanted to know about the decline of frogs in our area. We looked into what’s been happening with these species over the last couple decades in Chicago. It turns out, frogs are some of the animals we call “indicator species.” How well or poorly they’re doing in their habitat can tell us about the health of our own. And they’re not the only ones; there are numerous plants and animals that serve as nature’s alarm system, so to speak. Erin Allen talks with conservation researcher, Dr. Allison Sacerdote-Velat, about the indicator species that are most vital to us in the Chicago area and why we should be paying attention.
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Bay Curious - The Explosive History Hidden in Glen Canyon Park

These days, Glen Canyon Park is a tranquil urban park with hiking trails, soccer fields and a playground, which makes it all that more difficult to imagine that it was once home to the first dynamite factory in the United States. Today we’ll join reporter Gabriela Glueck to learn how dynamite made its way to San Francisco and why it was such a transformative product in this state. Plus, we'll explore the stories of Chinese laborers who often had the most dangerous jobs of all in the high explosives industry.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of the Little Big Horn

One of the most famous battles in the history of the American West took place in June 1876. 

An alliance of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes faced off against the United States cavalry. 

The battle was a route and one of the most devastating losses for the American military, as well as one of the greatest victories for Plains Indians. 

The victory, however, was only temporary as the victory led to an even bigger response, and the loss was actually glorified in the United States for decades.

Learn more about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and how it shaped the American West on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Sutro and the Tides

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com. 

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  • Two versions of Good Morning Melody by Lullatone.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies plays his own composition, Farewell to Stromness.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Big Jim and the White Boy,’ a new graphic novel, reinterprets a Mark Twain classic

Since its publication in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been celebrated as one of the great American works of literature. But the novel has also been criticized for how Mark Twain stereotyped Black characters like Jim, the enslaved man who befriends Huck Finn. Now, author David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined this story with Jim at its center. Their new graphic novel, Big Jim and the White Boy, is an action story filled with adventures, fight sequences and an acknowledgment of the danger of the world Jim operates within. In today's episode, Anderson and Walker join NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the novel, including what they did to turn Jim into a multidimensional character, their decision to keep the N-word in their retelling and whether Huck and Jim were ever really friends.

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