DailyShorts – Page 255

June 15, 2023

Curious City - Chi-Town Is A Pie Town, But We Search Out The Best Single-Slice Pizza In The City

A New York transplant loves everything about Chicago, but misses the easy access to a big slice of pizza on a paper plate. Our city’s tavern style and deep dish don’t lend themselves to the “slice to go” concept, but slice shops have gained traction over the last few years. We go on a hunt for the city’s best slice, and even get initiated into an underground pizza club.

June 15, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - Rat Eradication on South Georgia Island (Encore)

Humans and rats have lived in an uneasy relationship for millennia. Rats have spread diseases like the bubonic plague, destroyed grain harvests, and stolen our pizzas.

In return, rats have given humans……pretty much nothing.

As such, humans have waged a relentless war against rats, which for the most part has gone nowhere. However, there are some fronts where we have had amazing success.

Learn more about humanity’s war on rats on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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June 15, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Talk’ is a graphic memoir about the experiences of Black children and parents

When Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell was six years old, he had an encounter with a police officer. That event, which he kept secret for much of his life, reaffirmed "the talk" he'd just had with his mother about the way white people and systems of power can cast hostility and harm onto Black children. That conversation – the way it shaped his own childhood, schooling and adulthood – is at the heart of Bell's new graphic memoir, The Talk. He spoke with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about his own approach to discussing race and how it's led him to parent his own child.

June 14, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mongol Invasions of Japan

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, Kubli Khan, set his eyes on the island of Japan.

On two separate occasions, the Mongols assembled the world’s largest amphibious fleet in world history. Both times, they found 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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June 14, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - Inspired by P-22, ‘Open Throat’ follows a queer mountain lion’s lonely survival in LA

When P-22 – the puma that lived in LA's Griffith Park – died in December, Angelenos mourned the loss of one of their wildest celebrities. In his new book, Open Throat, Henry Hoke pays homage to the late cat in a different way; he takes on the voice of a mountain lion living beneath the Hollywood sign, pondering community and climate change and gender identity. In today's episode, Hoke speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about what P-22 represented for Los Angeles residents, and why writing from his perspective raises so many questions about our own humanity and isolation.

June 13, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - Iron

Located at the 26th place on the periodic table is the element iron.

Iron is one of the most important elements in the universe. It has a vital role in almost everything, from the formation of stars to photosynthesis, the Earth’s magnetic field, and even your own health.

Iron has been responsible for the rise of civilization, and there is a good chance there is an object next to you right now that is made of iron.

Learn more about iron, one of the most important elements in the universe, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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June 13, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Between Two Moons’ is a coming-of-age story set during Ramadan

The summer after high school graduation is full of promise. But for twin sisters Amira and Lina, the return of their brother from prison complicates some of those teenage plans. In Aisha Abdel Gawad's new novel, Between Two Moons, the sisters' family finds it's struggling with tensions in and outside of the home during the holy month of Ramadan. In today's episode, Gawad speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about why she wanted to paint a nuanced portrait of the Muslim-American experience and how real-life NYPD surveillance of Arab communities played a role in her writing.

June 12, 2023

The Bookmonger - Episode 460: ‘The Great School Rethink’ by Frederick M. Hess

John J. Miller is joined by Frederick M. Hess to discuss his new book, 'The Great School Rethink.'

June 12, 2023

Everything Everywhere Daily - Gunung Padang

Located on the island of Java in Indonesia, just 100 kilometers from the capital of Jakarta, lies what might be one of the most important archeology sites in the world.

While it has been known to locals for centuries and to professional archeologists for over 100 years, it has only been seriously studied in the last several decades.

Some of the estimates of the age of this site, if true, would radically transform what we know about early human civilization.

Learn more about Gunung Padang, perhaps the oldest and largest pyramid in the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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June 12, 2023

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Built from the Fire’ traces the impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Oklahoma state Rep. Regina Goodwin is a descendant of survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The racist violence, which killed hundreds of Black Tulsans and burned the city's Greenwood District – known as Black Wall Street – is the subject of journalist Victor Luckerson's new book, Built from the Fire. In today's episode, both Goodwin and Luckerson join NPR's Michel Martin to discuss how for more than a century, Greenwood residents have rebuilt their community time and time again, even in the face of urban renewal policies and gentrification practices.