NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Golden Screen’ chronicles the films that shaped the Asian American diaspora

The Golden Screen, the new book by Jeff Yang, offers a comprehensive guide to some of the most significant films for Asian American representation, including commentary by industry trailblazers like Daniel Dae Kim, Janet Yang and Simu Liu. In today's episode, Yang and book contributor Preeti Chhibber speak with NPR's Ailsa Chang about how Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Bollywood and kung fu movies shaped their identities growing up. They also get to talking about some of the harmful stereotypes we still see on screen today, and why maybe mediocrity isn't such a bad thing.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - How the world economy could react to escalation in the Middle East

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has been going on for more than three months, and is now beginning to spill into other parts of the Middle East. That includes attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, rocket attacks by Hezbollah and U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. On today's show, we'll consider what escalation could mean for global trade and the region's most important export: oil.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Orbital’ captures one day in the life of six astronauts

Author Samantha Harvey tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that she was fascinated by the quotes and insight of astronauts as a child. Her new novel, Orbital, turns that interest into a careful contemplation of Earth, space and humanity — it follows six people on a mission to orbit around our planet for 16 sunrises and sunsets. Harvey and Shapiro discuss the kind of poetry that emerged from imagining the daily routines of cosmonauts, so far up above, together and alone at once.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The London Underground

The 19th century saw an explosion in population in London. The city grew severalfold and became the largest city in the world. 

With so many people and the city growing so rapidly, transportation became a huge problem. 

One solution was to provide the new technology known as locomotives in the city. However, building train tracks would require a great deal of land which simply didn’t exist.

The solution to their problem lay under their feet.

Learn more about the London Underground, its origin, and its growth on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Pasta

There is a very good chance that many of you listening have had pasta, maybe within the last week. 

Pasta is a simple, affordable food that comes in a wide variety of forms. It can be served with almost anything and in a wide variety of styles. 

Despite its current global nature, pasta is a food that originated in Italy……or did it?

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NPR's Book of the Day - Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés’ and Moctezuma’s empires

You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between the Spanish and Aztec empires. But in a fictionalization of Hernán Cortés' arrival in the city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, author Álvaro Enrigue challenges ideas about colonialism, revolution and influential rulers. In today's episode, he speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about finding humor and humanity in the men he writes about — sometimes laughing about, but not with, the powerful ones.

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the memory palace - Episode 211: Cutting and Ned

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  • Je ne pas si c’est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm’s score to the film of the same, long name.

  • Forbin’s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

  • Boo’s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

  • Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

  • L’Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal’s score to Un et a la garoupe

  • The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

  • Je t’ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

  • From a Dream by Oregon

  • A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

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  • Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau’s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.

Everything Everywhere Daily - Swiss Mercenaries (Encore)

When most people think of Switzerland, they think of a small country embedded in the Alps that makes fine chocolates and is the home of the cuckoo clock.

They have been neutral in European conflicts for almost 500 years, and they serve as the headquarters for several international organizations. 

Yet, it was the Swiss who, during the Renaissance, were some of the most feared and in-demand mercenary fighters in Europe. 

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Alternative Forms of Space Flight

Every single rocket that has ever been launched into space has been a rocket that burned some sort of fuel. 

These chemical fuel rockets have worked well for making the short trip to orbit. Beyond that point, however, they are not necessarily the best option for space travel. 

There are a host of proposed methods for space travel that don’t involve rockets, some of which have already been tested. 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Offloading EVs, vacating offices and reaping windfalls

It's Indicators of the Week, that time each Friday when we look at three of the most fascinating numbers from the news. Today we explain why Hertz is trying to sell off part of its EV inventory, why office vacancy rates are still climbing and what Apple's class-action payout yielded one of our hosts.

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