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Bay Curious - Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore?

These days, the Golden Gate Park Polo Field in San Francisco is probably best known as the home to music festivals like Outside Lands. But for nearly 3 decades, polo matches were a regular sight on the field.

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Reported by Ryan Levi. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Thanks also to Sarah Rose Leonard, Lance Gardner, Kyana Moghadam, Amanda Font and Rebecca Kao for their help on this series.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Wallace Line

Charles Darwin is often credited with the discovery of the theory of natural selection. 


This is partially true, but it isn’t totally true. He didn’t do this alone. In particular, there was someone else who did much of the research that lead to the discovery.


In the process, he also made a discovery that bear’s his name and influenced the fields of both biology and geology.


Learn more about Alfred Russell Wallace and the Wallace Line, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Grady Hendrix reimagines the horror movie sequel in ‘Final Girl Support Group’

Grady Hendrix loves horror movies, especially those old 80s slashers. And his new book is a tribute to that "final girl" at the end of so many of them: The one who doesn't necessarily survive by being smarter or stronger, but simply makes it to the end alive by not giving up. NPR's Audie Cornish interviewed him about his novel Final Girl Support Group, which is about exactly what it sounds like, a support group for women who survived psycho murderers — except it seems like someone's starting to hunt them down – again. As Hendrix says, what's the scariest thing for a "Final Girl?" A sequel.
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Bay Curious - Golden Gate Park’s Windmills Were Essential, Then Abandoned for Decades.

The Murphy Windmill is one of the largest windmills outside of Holland. It, along with the smaller and older Dutch Windmill, once provided essential water for irrigating the park. Though they are no longer used, the park still spins them on special occasions. We take a tour inside!

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Reported by Suzie Racho. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Thanks also to Sarah Rose Leonard, Lance Gardner, Kyana Moghadam, Amanda Font and Rebecca Kao for their help on this series.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Yes, We have No Bananas

In the late 19th century, bananas, a fruit that had been popular for thousands of years suddenly became a mass-market sensation.


However, just a few decades after it was popularized, the industry had to completely change what was grown due to a pestilence. 


As a result, the bananas that most people eat today are very different than the bananas that everyone ate before the second world war.


Learn more about bananas, and why your grandparents didn’t eat the same kind, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Jhumpa Lahiri on translating herself and others

Jhumpa Lahiri is best known for her fictional stories about immigration; novels that usually explore themes that arise from living in between two worlds. In her new book of essays, Translating Myself and Others, Lahiri writes about the ways in which she herself has lived between worlds, and the other kind of writing she does: translation. In an interview with All Things Considered, Lahiri spoke to Mary Louise Kelly about how her relationship to language changed with translation and how it ultimately made her a better writer.
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Bay Curious - The Complicated Origins of S.F.’s Beloved Japanese Tea Garden

The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park was originally built as a temporary exhibit for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. But the public loved it so much that it became a permanent fixture of the park. It boasts a tasty claim to fame in the origins of the fortune cookie.

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Reported by Olivia Allen-Price and Suzie Racho. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Kyana Moghadam, Jessica Placzek, Amanda Font, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Jenny Pritchett.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Jupiter: The Biggest Planet in the Solar System

Ever since humans looked up at the night sky and noticed that some of the points of light moved, they have been aware of the planet Jupiter. 


However, it was the invention of the telescope that let us know just how amazing Jupiter was. 


Since then, we’ve sent eight probes to the planet to help us unlock its secrets. 


Learn more about Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Executive Producer: Darcy Adams

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Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast network


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