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NPR's Book of the Day - Virtual memories live in ‘The Candy House’

It's already pretty hard to tell what's really real when it comes to social media. But Jennifer Egan takes it one step further in her latest novel The Candy House where people can upload their actual memories, and let other people live in theirs. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad talked with NPR's Leila Fadel on Morning Edition about what it means to be "authentic."
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Righties vs Lefties (Encore)

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Statistically speaking, about 90% of you listening to my words right now are right-handed. Of the rest of you, almost all of you will be left-handed. 

The question of why so many more people are right-handed as opposed to left-handed is one that people have asked for centuries. It is an imbalance that has existed throughout history and across every culture.

Learn more about righties and lefties and why the imbalance between them exists, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Money

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Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it.


Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it. 

It has been around for thousands of years, yet there is still innovation being made with it today.

Learn more about the history of money, how it came about and how it developed over time, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Hanseatic League

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One of the most successful enterprises of the Middle Ages was a collection of free cities located in Northern Germany and along the North and Baltic Seas. 


These cities created one of the greatest trade networks that the world had ever seen and for several centuries dominated trade and economics in Northern Europe.


It was the early prototype for successful trade organizations in the future. 


Learn more about the Hanseatic League, also known as the Hansa, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - A Douglas Stuart double feature! ‘Shuggie Bain’ and ‘Young Mungo’

Both interviews today are with author Douglas Stuart. The first about his Booker prize-winning Shuggie Bain; a story based on his own life growing up a queer son of a single mother struggling with addiction. He told NPR's Scott Simon that he hoped people could find comfort in this story. Next, Stuart spoke to NPR's Ari Shapiro about his new book, Young Mungo. It's a story about two boys separated by faith who end up falling in love with each other. Stuart told Shapiro that when he "write[s] about heartbreak or sadness, I'm really only doing that to make the tenderness and the love shine more."
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Bay Curious - West Oakland’s 16th Street Station Was Once A Community Anchor

Listener Tadd Williams often sees the 16th Street Station from I-880. It's a huge, stately building in the Beaux-Arts style. It's looking a little rundown now, but it clearly was grand at one time. He wants to know about its past lives, and how was this spot important to West Oakland's Black community and the Civil Rights Movement.


Additional Reading


Thanks to the Newberry Library in Chicago for use of archival audio from the Pullman Railroad Company Records.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Cryptography

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Ever since people have had secrets, people have taken measures to protect those secrets. 


The first methods to hide secrets were simple and mechanical. Over time they became more elaborate and used machines. Today, they are mathematical and would require an enormous amount of computing power to decipher. 


Learn more about cryptography and how communications are kept secret, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Curious City - Are Chicagoans True Midwesterners?

Geographically, Chicago is smack in the middle of the Midwest. But not everyone seems to think that’s enough to make us “real” Midwesterners. Is being a Midwesterner about where you are on a map, or about state of mind? We found that people’s answer to this question says a lot about how they view Midwestern identity and the growing urban-rural divide.
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Curious City - Are Chicagoans True Midwesterners?

Geographically, Chicago is smack in the middle of the Midwest. But not everyone seems to think that’s enough to make us “real” Midwesterners. Is being a Midwesterner about where you are on a map, or about state of mind? We found that people’s answer to this question says a lot about how they view Midwestern identity and the growing urban-rural divide.