Category: DailyShorts

In the mid-19th century, a Hungarian physician advocated for an incredibly simple technique that would go on to save millions of lives.

However, when he first proposed it, his idea wasn’t just ignored, it was vehemently rejected by the very people who could have used it to save lives. Not only was the idea rejected, but he was ridiculed to a point that might have led to his early death.

Learn more about Ignaz Semmelweis and how no good deed goes unpunished, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 19, 2022

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Engagement’ looks at the complicated history of marriage equality

Journalist and author Sasha Issenberg has written a book about the history of marriage equality in America. The Engagement details how messy and complicated this fight was at times. Issenberg told NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben that within the LGBT community, there were, and are, many different policy concerns that didn't always gel. Marriage ended up being a top priority for some but not everyone agreed it should be.

January 18, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Antikythera Mechanism

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In the year 1900, a crew of Greek sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the island of Antikythera. While they were searching, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck.

The wreck contained over 30 marble statues, pieces of glasswork, one corroded metal object that no one could identify.

75 years later, using new technology, they discovered what that hunk of metal was designed for.

Learn more about the Antikythera Mechanism and how it forever changed our views of the ancient world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 18, 2022

NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Of Women And Salt,’ women weave the future out of scraps

"We are force." This line is originally from a Victor Hugo letter to Cuban independence fighters, but it's also found throughout Gabriela Garcia's novel, Of Women And Salt. The book, new in paperback, is about generations of Cuban and Salvadoran women navigating patriarchal societies. She told NPR's Sarah McCammon that she was especially inspired by this phrase because she "was thinking about all of the multitudes within women - how they're more than just immigrants or mothers or any of these other labels that are sort of imposed on them."

January 17, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Sports Curses

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What do a goat, Babe Ruth, a witch doctor, the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and a Japanese statue of Colonel Sanders all have in common?

They are all supposedly responsible for curses placed upon sports teams that prevented them from winning for years, sometimes even centuries.

While such curses might be difficult or impossible to prove, they certainly are real for the fans who think they are affected by them.

Learn more about some of the greatest sports curses in the world and how they supposedly started, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 17, 2022

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Three Mothers’ who paved the way for three extraordinary men

This Martin Luther King Jr. day we focus on the woman who raised Dr. King, his mother, Alberta. His mother and those of two of his contemporaries take center stage in Anna Malaika Tubbs' book, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation. Tubbs told 1A's Jenn White that history is often told by and about men, but knowing these women's stories - "taking their lives from the margins and putting them in the center" - is just as important. As Tubbs notes, "If they'd never had these famous sons, they still were worthy of being seen."

January 16, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Prime Numbers

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Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up.

Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understand, yet they remain at the center of some of the most puzzling problems in mathematics.

Learn more about prime numbers, what we know about them, and what we don’t know, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 15, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Mandarins and the Chinese Imperial Exams

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In the year 607, the Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty implemented a reform whereby a series of exams would be administered throughout the empire to create a bureaucratic elite that would administer the country.

That reform became one of the bedrocks of Chinese society, through every dynasty, for the next 1,300 years. The effects of these exams can still be felt in Chinese society today.

Learn more about the Mandarin class and the Imperial Examination system on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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January 14, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

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In the aftermath of World War II, the newly formed United Nations placed a group of Pacific Islands into a trusteeship that was to be administered by the United States.

After several decades, that trusteeship was dissolved and it resulted in three independent countries, one US territory, and a unique system of international relations.

Learn more about the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the countries of Micronesia, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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