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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Wonderful World of Tin

In the ancient world, only seven metals were identified and named: gold, silver, iron, lead, copper, mercury, and tin. 

Tin probably doesn’t rank up there with the other metals in terms of how interestingness….or usefulness. Nonetheless, tin was incredibly important to the ancient world and remains incredibly important today. 

In fact, tin is probably playing a role in your life right now, and you don’t even know it.

Learn more about the wonderful world of tin on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Ken Starr gives an inside look on Clinton investigation in his memoir, ‘Contempt’

Ken Starr's 2018 memoir, Contempt, gives an inside look into his investigation of the Clinton administration that led to President Clinton's impeachment. In an interview from back when the book was published, Starr, who died this week, discusses in a conversation with Steve Inskeep his perspective on the president and the law, which at times may seem to conflict with his later stance on President Donald Trump.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Berlin Airlift

On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union placed a blockade on Berlin's American, British, and French-occupied zones. 

No food, fuel, or supplies could enter the area known as West Berlin. 

Many people thought that either the allies would have to capitulate or engage in an armed conflict. However, the Americans and British eventually figured out another way around the blockade.

Learn more about the Berlin Airlift and how it shaped post-war Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘She’s Nice Though’ tackles the burdens of being nice

Mia Mercado's essay collection She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good examines the reasons why one would want to be viewed as "nice." She explores why one would want to be liked, what we try to accomplish by being nice, and how constraining being agreeable can be. NPR's Ailsa Chang discusses this with Mercado, as well as how this plays into gender and dating.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - All About Sushi

You can find restaurants serving Japan’s greatest cultural export all over the world: sushi. 

While many people enjoy sushi, most people have no idea of the origins of sushi beyond the fact that it comes from Japan. 

There is also a great deal of confusion about what proper sushi etiquette is and what constitutes real sushi. 

Learn more about the history of sushi and the global sushi industry on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Dinners with Ruth’ shows how friendship can flourish despite clashing careers

In Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, NPR's own Nina Totenberg documents her friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and how it would sometimes be at odds with their professional duties. Totenberg talks with Steve Inskeep about their respect for each other's obligations as a journalist and a Supreme Court judge, and how they lifted each other up in a time when women were even more undervalued.
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Gatecrashers - Ep. 2: Princeton and the ‘Dirty Bicker’ of 1958

Back in the 1950s, the Princeton eating clubs were essential. The dining hall was only meant for freshmen and sophomores. The club you joined as a sophomore became not just a place to eat but the center of your Princeton social life, a place to hang out, nurture friendships, and make connections. 

According to one estimate, by the late 1950s, the school was about one seventh Jewish. But the Jewish students were about to find out that just because you’re admitted doesn’t mean you’re accepted. In February 1958, at the end of the bicker process—like fraternity rush, but for eating clubs—there were 35 sophomores who got no bids at all. And most of them were Jewish. The scandal was immediately dubbed “the dirty bicker” by the national press; it was reported in the New York Times, the New York Post, Newsweek, and more. It nearly caused the downfall of the eating clubs.

In Episode 2 of Gatecrashers, you’ll hear about the dirty bicker from students who were there, and learn what it tells us about class, acceptance, and belonging. You’ll hear from best-selling author Michael Lewis, Steven C. Rockefeller, novelist Geoffrey Wolff, Abby Klionsky, who wrote her senior thesis about the development of Jewish life at Princeton, Joel Davidow, Paul Rochmis, Jerry Spivak, and more.

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Gatecrashers - Ep. 1: Columbia and Its Forgotten Jewish Campus

Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors in history. He was best known as a pathbreaking sci-fi writer, but his more than 500 books also included volumes on the Greeks, the Romans, Shakespeare, the Bible, and much more. He was one of the most learned men in history. 


But in 1935, 15-year-old Asimov was rejected by Columbia University. Admissions officials instead directed him to Seth Low Junior College, a separate campus in Brooklyn, 11 miles from Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus. 


What was Seth Low Junior College, and why was the brilliant Isaac Asimov sent there instead? Seth Low Junior College, which existed from 1928 to 1938, was one of Columbia’s many attempts to deal with a changing student population that they felt was contaminating its pristine, Protestant campus. And it’s part of the bigger story of how the Ivy League resistance to outsiders shaped all of higher education as we know it. 


In the first episode of Gatecrashers, a new podcast from Tablet Studios, you’ll hear about the lengths Columbia went to in order to limit the number of Jewish students. The invention of the college application itself, the admissions interview, the push for geographical diversity, and more—all elements of the college admissions process as we know it today—trace back to Columbia’s effort to keep out the Jews. You’ll hear from NPR’s Robert Siegel, former Columbia College Dean Robert Pollack, historian Robert McCaughey, sci-fi scholar Alfred Guy, and Dr. Leeza Hirt, whose undergraduate reporting unearthed the history of Seth Low Junior College.