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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of the Submarine

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For thousands of years, humans have traveled on the water and have wondered if it was possible to travel under the water like a fish. 


The idea of underwater travel stuck around for centuries, but eventually, humans did figure out how to travel underwater, even if the first efforts were not successful. 


Learn more about the submarine, how it was invented, and how they work, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



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NPR's Book of the Day - Writers Lizzie Damilola Blackburn and Edmund White want to talk about sex

The first interview today is with debut novelist Lizzie Damilola Blackburn about her book, Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? The protagonist Yinka is constantly being hounded by her family to get married. But Damilola Blackburn tells NPR's Sarah McCammon that learning to love oneself first can be important. The second interview is with award-winning writer Edmund White who is out with a new book about sex. A Previous Life follows a couple – they are writing to each other about their romantic pasts. White told NPR's Scott Simon that though the book might offend some, he has always written this way.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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On February 25, 1959, a group of 10 hikers set out in the middle of the Russian Winter on what was to be a 10-day excursion into the wilderness. 


One of the hikers returned early. The other nine were never heard from again. 


Week’s later their bodies were found, and it spawned a mystery that researchers are still trying to solve. 


Lear more about the Dyatlov Pass Incident on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Curious City - People Who Quit Their Jobs During COVID Share Their Stories

By now you’ve probably pretty familiar with that term the “Great Resignation.” We asked our listeners why they quit their jobs and how they’re doing now. We heard from more than a hundred people who talked about burnout, stress and toxic workplaces. And we heard a lot about the fear and risk that comes with quitting a job you know. In this episode we share some of those stories.
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Curious City - People Who Quit Their Jobs During COVID Share Their Stories

By now you’ve probably pretty familiar with that term the “Great Resignation.” We asked our listeners why they quit their jobs and how they’re doing now. We heard from more than a hundred people who talked about burnout, stress and toxic workplaces. And we heard a lot about the fear and risk that comes with quitting a job you know. In this episode we share some of those stories.
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NPR's Book of the Day - How did humans get here? Historian Yuval Noah Harari is thrilled to tell you

Historian Yuval Noah Harari wrote a book back in 2015 that looked at the entirety of human history; from hunter-gatherers to space exploration. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind packs all of this into a mere 400 pages. Harari noted to NPR's Arun Rath that humans have done a great job cultivating power – but where we tend to fall short is translating that power into happiness.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Why Isn’t the West Indies a Single Country?

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If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist of a whole bunch of tiny, independent countries. 


All of these countries became independent around the same time, got their independence from the same country: Great Britain.


Given their common history and location, why are they a bunch of separate tiny countries rather than one larger one? 


Learn more about the West Indies and their modern history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘South To America’ makes the case that southern history shaped our nation

Author Imani Perry is a child of the South. In her newest book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, she gives the reader a look at the South's complicated history, interwoven with her own personal anecdotes. Even though the South has a difficult history, Perry contends, it provides important context for America today. Perry told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that in order to write this book she had to stop romanticizing the place she calls home – and, instead, look at it starkly.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Spice Trade

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When you think of international trade and globalization, you probably think it is a relatively modern phenomenon.


However, the roots of globalization actually go back thousands of years. 


While there were many products that were originally traded, there was one particular category of goods that drove trade like no other: spices. 


Spices are common and ubiquitous today, but centuries ago they were extremely prized and valuable.


Learn more about the spice trade and how it shaped the world we live in today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Enslaved people imagine freedom and beyond in ‘Yonder’

Author Jabari Asim is out with a new novel called Yonder. The story follows a group of enslaved men and women who are forced to work on a plantation by day but dream together about freedom – and what's beyond the world they know – at night. Asim told NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer that he always writes with his ancestors looking over his shoulder: "I feel like I have a responsibility to honor that legacy of labor and sacrifice by doing the best I can and to take what it is that I do very seriously."