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NPR's Book of the Day - From ‘Ringmaster’ to ‘Prom Mom,’ NPR staff discuss their favorite reads of 2023

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Books We Love season! In today's episode, Pop Culture Happy Hour host Linda Holmes and our own Andrew Limbong sit down to chat about some of the best books they read in 2023. From Ringmaster — a biography of former WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon — to Prom Mom, a thriller about teenage exes looking back on their very dangerous past, Linda and Andrew find unexpected common ground in the bigger themes behind their respective selections.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Predicting next year’s economic storylines

It's time for another intra-Family Feud! The friendly game-show competition where our hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator duke it out over which indicator will be the leading economic story in 2024. Will interest rates decline? Will 'Bidenomics' catch on? Will junk fees get taken out with the garbage?

Tell us who won by submitting your vote to Planet Money's Instagram or email us with "Family Feud" in the subject line. Voting ends Dec. 31 at midnight, and we'll announce the winner(s) on our Jan. 5 episode.

Related Episodes:
The Indicator of the Year: 2023 (Apple / Spotify)
The 'physics' behind potential interest rates cuts (Apple / Spotify)
Junk fees, unfilled jobs, jackpot? (Apple / Spotify)
We grade Fed Chair Jerome Powell (Apple / Spotify)
Industrial policy, the debate! (Apple / Spotify)

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The Indicator from Planet Money - The ‘Yellowstone’ effect on Montana

Yellowstone first aired in 2018, quickly becoming one of television's most popular shows. The show follows John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner, as he feuds with real estate developers threatening to encroach on his family ranch. Today on the show, how life imitates art in Montana, where tourism has boomed, the population has grown and housing prices have soared.

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Bay Curious - Dialing POP-CORN

For decades there was a phone service in Northern California that would read you the time and date if you dialed POP-CORN, the letters that represented 767-2676. That service went dark back in 2007, and Bay Curious listener George wants to know why. In this nostalgic episode, we take a romp through the innovative technlology that powered time-and-date services, and meet the beloved voice behind POP-CORN, Joanne Daniels.

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Reported by Christopher Beale. This episode was made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho, Christopher Beale and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan, and the entire KQED Family.

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Class’, Stephanie Land fulfills her dream of going to college to become a writer

In the new book Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education, author Stephanie Land juggles single parenthood and going to college. Land is the author of the Netflix miniseries hit Maid, a story where a single mother cleans homes to make ends meet. In today's episode, Land speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about this next challenge of going to college as a single parent to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Non-Euclidean Geometry

If anyone has taken some basic mathematics, you are probably familiar with Euclidian Geometry. Euclidean geometry is what most people just call geometry. 

It is the study of shapes like triangles and circles in a simple plane. This type of geometry was developed over 2000 years ago, and it is based on certain set axioms.

However, later mathematicians challenged one of those axioms, and it completely changed how we thought of geometry.

Learn more about non-Euclidian geometry and what it means in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - How economics can help you stick to your New Year’s resolution

Talk of New Year's resolutions is bubbling up as 2024 quickly approaches. Whether it's a fitness goal, wanting to learn a new skill or just trying to develop better habits, a new year is the perfect excuse to start. However, it can be difficult to maintain as time passes by.

Today on the show, we talk to a behavioral economist about one of the best ways to stick to your New Year's resolutions using the power of economics.

Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work by Uri Gneezy

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Madrid

Every major city in the world has its own unique story. Some cities have an ancient history, and others have a more recent founding.

Madrid, the capital city of Spain, has a history that is unlike any other. 

It went from nothing to being the capital of the world’s largest empire and today is one of the largest cities in Europe. 

Learn more about the history of Madrid, Spain’s capital and largest city, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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