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The odds are quite good that somewhere around you right now as you listen to me speak these words, is a battery. 

Whether it is in your smartphone, earbuds, automobile, smoke detector, or laptop, batteries have become ubiquitous in the modern world. 

The origins of chemical batteries go back thousands of years before people knew what electricity was or what they could do with it. The future of batteries looks even brighter as more devices will require more and better batteries.

Learn more about batteries, how they work, and how they have developed over time on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Spooky season is year-round, and so are our episodes about scary stories. First up, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jeanette Winterson about The Night Side of the River, a collection of ghost stories that weaves in the liminal spaces — Metaverses, one might say — created through technology to coexist with the dead. Then, NPR's Juana Summers asks Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about The Black Girl Survives in This One, an anthology of horror stories by Black writers that contend with the genre's relationship to race.


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Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. 

Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from those of its neighbors. 

How it was founded had important implications for all over Europe and may still impact the country's future. 

Learn more about the history of Belgium, how and why it was formed, and what its future may hold on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Music

• A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth's score to his film, Upstream Color, a movie I love deeply. 
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters
• The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays by Charlie Megira
• Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa. 
• Water by So Percussion
• Divertimiento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 4) from Carl Oesterhelt and Johannes Ender.
• Ball by Duval Timothy
• Piece 3 by the great Warren Ellis.
• Chora tua Tristeza from Lalo Schiffrin
• Growing Up from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip
• (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malletted Wood, Two Synthesizers) and (Two Bells) by Josiah Steinbrick
• Main et lee from Michel Portal

While screens have become a totally normalized part of kids' development today, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the negative effects might outweigh the benefits. His new book, The Anxious Generation, details the correlation between an increasingly online social life and rising mental health concerns amongst young people. In today's episode, NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Haidt about how boys and girls experience socialization on the Internet, and how some of these behaviors might be curbed to get kids playing offline.

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