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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of the Toilet

It is one of the most important inventions in history. Almost everyone listening to this has one. You use one almost every day, and if we didn’t have them, the world would be a very different place. 

I am talking about toilets. 

It isn’t something we like to talk about in public, but the sanitary removal of waste has been one of the critical components of allowing the development of the modern world. 

Learn more about the history of toilets and how this simple invention helped shape the modern world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Oil gluts, Russian bucks, and Starbucks

Indicators of the Week is back! This week, we've got indicators about oil gluts, big bucks for Ukraine and fewer bucks at Starbucks. (Apologies for the slurping.)

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How to get Russia to pay Ukraine
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Dear Sister,’ ‘A Fatal Inheritance’ examine difficult family histories

Today's episode highlights two books that grapple with hardships – and perseverance — within a family. First, Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Michelle Horton about Dear Sister, a memoir chronicling how Horton's sister was arrested for killing her husband, the abuse she'd been suffering at his hands for years, and the family's fight to reduce her prison sentence. Then, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with journalist Lawrence Ingrassia about A Fatal Inheritance, which tracks generations of cancer in Ingrassia's family alongside research and developments in the medical field.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Wu Zetian: China’s Only Female Emperor (Encore)

In the very long history of China, it has had exactly one female ruler. 

She was a woman who managed, against all odds, to inch her way closer to power over a period of years until she reached a point where she could claim power for herself. 

By all accounts, she was beautiful, brilliant, cunning, and absolutely ruthless. 

Learn more about Wu Zetian, China’s only female emperor, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Is Google search getting worse?

There are many anecdotal complaints about Google search not being what it used to be. A German computer scientist and his colleagues put this theory to the test recently focusing on product reviews. Today on the show, we bring their findings to Google's chief search scientist.

Related episodes:
How Fortnite brought Google to its knees (Apple / Spotify)
Microsoft vs. Google: Whose AI Is better? (Apple / Spotify)

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Bay Curious - Why the Name Brotherhood Way in SF?

Which came first: the churches or the street named Brotherhood Way? That's what Bay Curious listener Noor Moughamian wants to know. She attends the KZV Armenian School located on the San Francisco street and has always wondered about the origin of the name.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The US Occupation of the Philippines

The Philippines is one of the largest countries in the world. With a population of 115 million people, it is the 14th largest country in the world in terms of population. 

However, for a period of 48 years, it was a colony of the United States.

That half-century was one of the most important in the history of the Philippines. It saw two major wars, profound social and cultural changes, and laid the foundation for full independence. 

Learn more about the period of American occupation of the Philippines and how it changed both countries on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Chelsea Devantez’s memoir finds the humor in dark situations

Comedian, TV writer and podcast host Chelsea Devantez moved around a lot as a kid. She jokes in today's episode that her mom "loved to get divorced" — but that also led to what she describes as a pretty great co-parenting situation between her mom and godmother for a while. It's one of the many stories in Devantez's new memoir, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This (But I'm Going to Anyway). She spoke to NPR's Elizabeth Blair about the book, her journey as a domestic violence survivor and the experience of being the product, in part, of a sperm donor

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