Unanswered messages. Endless swiping. An opaque algorithm. The backlash to online dating feels like it's reached a fever pitch recently. For today's Love Week episode, why people are unhappy with online dating and what Hinge's CEO is trying to do about it. Also, a Nobel Prize economist delivers a little tough love.
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Why the publishing industry is hot (and bothered) for romance (Apple / Spotify)
It's Love Week! How the TV holiday rom-com got so successful (Apple / Spotify)
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The dating app paradox
The economics behind sorority rush
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Curious City - What Does “Chicagoland” Mean, And Where Did It Come From?
The origins of "Chicagoland" can be traced back to nearly 100 years ago. Back then, it encompassed an area that went beyond the suburbs.
Bay Curious - How Often Should our Wild Lands Burn?
California has over 33 million acres of forest land, about a third of the state's total area, as well as other wild land areas. For decades we've done everything possible to suppress fires, but they just keep getting bigger and more destructive. And that's partly because of all our suppression efforts. KQED Science reporter Danielle Venton explains how different ecosystems are evolved to burn sometimes, much more often than they have of late.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - East and West Berlin
From the end of the Second World War through 1991, the city of Berlin, the former capital of Germany and its largest city, was split in two.
The two Berlins, East and West, were in a geopolitical situation unlike any that the world had seen before or since.
This one city split into two, was ground zero for the Cold War. Here, the conflict between East and West was a daily reality for the people who lived on both sides.
Learn more about East and West Berlin, how they came to be, and how they came back together on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - A new biography portrays Queen Elizabeth II as the British public’s emotional anchor
Author and essayist Craig Brown is perhaps best known for his sketch comedy writing and satirical columns poking fun at the British government. But he's also a biographer, having written about subjects like Princess Margaret and The Beatles. Now, he's turned his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in a new biography, Q: A Voyage Around the Queen. In the book, Brown portrays the monarch as an anchor for the British public who penetrated the emotional psyche of a nation–even appearing in people's dreams. In today's episode, Brown joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about what Queen Elizabeth II symbolized to people, what she would've done with her life had she not been royalty, and the unchanging nature of her character.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How American heiresses became Dollar Princesses
In the late 19th century, British aristocrats had a big problem. They were short on cash to fund their lifestyles and maintain their vast country estates. In our third installment of Love Week, we look at the economic forces that drove some British men of the time to marry American heiresses, dubbed "Dollar Princesses," forming a union of money, status and, sometimes, love.
For more on Dollar Princesses, Mark Taylor's research paper is published here. Kristen Richardson's book is called The Season: A Social History of the Debutante.
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For more on Dollar Princesses, Mark Taylor's research paper is published here. Kristen Richardson's book is called The Season: A Social History of the Debutante.
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Why the publishing industry is hot (and bothered) for romance (Apple / Spotify)
It's Love Week! How the TV holiday rom-com got so successful (Apple / Spotify)
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Terraforming Mars
Ever since the dawn of the space age, there have been some who have dreamed of establishing a human presence on Mars.
However, despite being really far away, Mars is not exactly hospitable to humans.
Some suggest that the answer might be to completely change Mars's environment, to radically change its atmosphere, and, over time, to turn it into a second Earth where humans could live.
Learn more about the idea of terraforming Mars, what would need to be done, and the challenges it would face in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘How Women Made Music’ reexamines the history of music with women at its center
Earlier this week, several legendary female artists–including Cher, Mary J. Blige and Big Mama Thornton–were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But despite this recognition, the history of women in popular music has always been marked by struggle. How Women Made Music, a new book from NPR Music and edited by Alison Fensterstock, centers and celebrates that radical history by compiling archival interviews, essays and images from the past 50 years. In today's episode, NPR's Ann Powers talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about the multi-platform project that inspired the book and how female artists have changed history by making revolutionary music–not just by telling their stories.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Why the publishing industry is hot (and bothered) for romance
Once relegated to supermarket aisles, romance books are now mainstream. And authors, an often-maligned group within publishing, have found greater commercial success than many writers in other genres. On today's episode of Love Week, our series on the business of romance, we find out how romance novelists rode the e-book wave and networked with each other to achieve their happily-for-now status in the industry.
Read more by Christine Larson, Priscilla Oliveras and Natalie Caña.
Thanks to Grant-Lee Phillips for our theme song and Kaitlin Brito for artwork.
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Rufaro Faith's 'Let the Games Begin' is a rom-com set in the Olympic village
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Read more by Christine Larson, Priscilla Oliveras and Natalie Caña.
Thanks to Grant-Lee Phillips for our theme song and Kaitlin Brito for artwork.
Related listening:
It's Love Week! How the TV holiday rom-com got so successful (Apple / Spotify)
Rufaro Faith's 'Let the Games Begin' is a rom-com set in the Olympic village
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mongol Invasions of Japan (Encore)
In the late 13th century, the Mongol Empire was at the peak of its power.
It was at this time that the Mongol Emperor of China, Kublai Khan, set his eyes on the islands of Japan.
On two separate occasions, the Mongols assembled the largest amphibious fleet in world history. Both times, they discovered the limits of their military conquests.
Learn more about the Mongol invasions of Japan on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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