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Bay Curious - Why A Lot of Plastic Isn’t Getting Recycled

Oakland resident Paul Beach cares a lot about recycling. So, he was troubled to hear rumors that all his carefully sorted recyclables might be going into the landfill. He wants to know, how much of our recycling is actually getting recycled? Turns out, when it comes to plastic, not a lot.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift (Encore)

In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa and Europe. 

He proposed that the continents may at one time have been joined and subsequently moved. 

The scientific community laughed at him and rejected his idea.

Learn more about Alfred Wegener and the theory of Continental Drift, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The Last Chairlift,’ John Irving revisits familiar themes with a new perspective

In this episode, NPR's Scott Simon pays best-selling author John Irving a visit in his Toronto home. Across from Irving's family photographs and slanted writing station, they discuss the writer's expansive career, the prevalence of gender and sexual politics in his novels and the newfound personal connection he can make with his characters.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Banned Techniques That Would Smash World Records in Track and Field

In 1968, American high jumper Dick Fosbury introduced a new way to compete in the high jump. His new technique worked so well that he won an Olympic gold medal, and within a few years, everyone used his method of high jumping.

Fosbury’s innovation isn’t the only one in the track and field world. There have been several other technique innovations in other events, which have been shown dramatically improve performance.

Learn about the track and field techniques which would smash world records (if they weren’t illegal) on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Persuaders’ finds power in bridging the political divide

The U.S. is highly polarized – and author Anand Giridharadas thinks writing off people with different opinions is only going to make things worse. In this episode, he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about some of the activists and leaders he talked to for his new book, The Persuaders, and how their mission to actually listen and engage with the other side of the political aisle could actually save democracy.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Presidential Line of Succession

Many movies and television shows have as their plot some disaster that eliminates the United States government. 

As a result, some low-level cabinet official becomes president, who then has to solve the crisis.

How accurate is such a scenario? What really would happen if multiple members of the executive branch were incapacitated? 

Learn more about the Presidential Line of Succession, its history, and what would happen if the unthinkable were to occur on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Signal Fires,’ a tragic accident stretches across time, memory and family secrets

Author Dani Shapiro spent 15 years working on Signal Fires, a novel about how a single accident changes the course of one family's life. In this episode, she tells NPR's Scott Simon how her own trajectory to completing the book upended what she thought she knew about herself and her upbringing.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Panic of 1893

It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen. 

The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit 20% There were soup lines and an army of homeless scattered throughout the country. 

It was not the Great Depression.

Learn more about the Panic of 1893, the forgotten depression which realigned American politics, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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