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Bay Curious - Purissima: The Ghost Town Hidden Near Half Moon Bay

Bay Curious listener Julia Thollaug is a teacher in the coastal town of Montera. She stumbled on the remnants of a little town called Purissima, just south of Half Moon Bay, and wondered what happened to its residents. It's a ghost town now, but what went on there when it was thriving, and why did it die out?


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Hollywood Sign

Located in the hills above the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, is one of the most iconic signs in the world. 

The sign consists of just nine letters, made out of steel and painted white. Each letter stands 45 feet tall, and together they represent the entire motion picture industry. 

Yet, this historic sign was never intended to become an icon or even represent where it is located. 

Learn more about the Hollywood sign and the area known as Hollywood on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Curious City - Chicago teens went to dance and find connection at Medusa’s

Medusa’s was “like a community center for weirdos and freaks and everybody else in between,” say some Chicagoans who went there as teens in the 1980s and ’90s. In this week’s episode Axios Chicago reporter Monica Eng finds out how the club got started, what it was like to hang out there and why, despite its popularity, it closed its doors in 1992.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Gaia Vince details how migration will help billions survive in new book

The main argument Gaia Vince makes in her book Nomad Century is that in order for three to five billion people on Earth to survive, it will require a planned and deliberate migration of the kind humanity has never before undertaken. NPR's Scott Simon discusses this possibility with Vince as she explains how human kind has hampered the success of migration through "artificial bordering of nation states," and as she talks of the need to "rethink how we decide where someone is allowed to live" in order to have a chance of survival in a warming climate with extreme temperatures.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Very Strange Life of Ida Wood

Ellen Wood was born in 1838 in England. 

She moved to the United States, changed her name, climbed the social ladder, and wound up an extremely wealthy woman. 

In 1907, she abruptly disappeared from public life. 

Then 25 years later, she appeared once again, and her life became tabloid fodder that shocked the world.

Learn more about Ida Wood and her very unique life on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Touch’ is a love story with elements of mystery, time, and loneliness

Olaf Olafsson's new novel Touch is a combination of mystery, memories lost, and love. It puts the idea of "the one that got away" front and center and explores how loneliness can be felt in many different ways. In an interview with Mary Louise Kelly, Olafsson shares why the pandemic was the perfect time to write this story.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Ranked Choice Voting

All around the world, more jurisdictions are implementing a voting system known as ranked choice voting. 

Ranked choice voting is very different from voting for a single candidate. 

As such, many people who have been voting for years don’t understand how ranked choice voting works or why it is being implemented. 

Learn more about ranked choice voting, how it works, and its drawbacks and benefits on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Path Lit by Lightning’ showcases Jim Thorpe’s resilience until the end of his life

In the book Path Lit by Lightning, author David Maraniss does more than just write Jim Thorpe's life story. He delves into what caused misconceptions and false narratives about the great athlete, examines how exploitation of Native Americans by the U.S. government helped shape Thorpe's resilience, and offers a different perspective on the last few years of Thorpe's life as something admirable. In conversation with NPR's Don Gonyea, Maraniss explains these details and why they matter.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Wiliam Marshall: The Greatest Knight in History

The middle ages didn’t have sports like we have today, but they did have competitions. 

These competitions were tournaments between knights where they demonstrated their martial prowess. 

During this period, there was one knight who stood out amongst all the rest. 

He never lost a match and rose to a level where he was the king of England in all but name.

Learn more about William Marshall, and greatest knight in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Executive Producer: Darcy Adams

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