Category: DailyShorts

Today's episode is all about tech. First, Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about his new book, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and the ways autocratic governments can rely on AI for repressive surveillance tactics. Then, Duke University professor Nita Farahany and NPR's Ailsa Chang discuss a potential nightmare: employers' ability to track worker's brains for productivity. Farahany's new book, The Battle for Your Brain, tracks advancements in neurotechnology and advocates for cognitive liberty.

In the very days of the United States, the country was mostly made up of farmers. 

They primarily ate the food they grew and maybe hunted to supplement their diet. 

They also drank. Alcohol. A lot of alcohol. In fact, the amount of alcohol consumed by early Americans on average might have been more than any other people in human history. 

Learn more about the alcohol consumption habits of early Americans on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Paris Hilton is ubiquitous with early 2000s pop culture: She graced the cover of magazines, her own reality TV show and even Billboard charts. But the heiress now says she was playing a character – one she built to hide from the trauma she endured earlier in her life. In Paris: The Memoir, Hilton finally takes control of her own narrative. She spoke to NPR's Juana Summers about what made her want to start breaking down the walls between her public persona and her private life, and how paparazzi and influencer culture has changed during her time in the spotlight.

In the 19th century, the first real American sport took off in popularity: baseball. 

It went from a children's game to one of the most popular and lucrative professional sports in the world. 

Yes, its origins have been shrouded in mystery, in no small part because of all the legends and myths surrounding it. 

Learn more about baseball, how it really came to be and grew into the global sport it is today on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Author Dina Nayeri was young when she found out that there's a stark difference between credibility and belief – and it's a disconnect at the center of her new book, Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough. Nayeri's family came to the U.S. as refugees from Iran in 1979. As she tells NPR's Juana Summers, that asylum process showed her how subjective belief can be – and she explains why, for her, the meaning of believing continued to shift, through faith and vulnerability, even as she was writing the book.

On March 27th, 1964, the second-greatest earthquake in recorded history stuck the state of Alaska. 

It was an absolute monster of an earthquake, completely devastating communities, including Alaska’s capital, Anchorage. 

The quake was so great that people could feel it 1,200 miles away in Seattle. 

Despite its power, the secondary effects of the earthquake might have been even worse.

Learn more about the 1964 Alaska earthquake on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's new novel, Dust Child, takes a closer look at the often-fraught relationships between Vietnamese women and American soldiers during the war. In today's episode, the author tells NPR's Scott Simon how she was always fascinated by the stories of the forgotten children from those relationships – often left behind, abandoned, and raised with a deep resentment for their mixed roots. The novel follows both the perspective of that generation – trying to find a better future – and that of the servicemembers being forced, decades later, to confront their past decisions.