The inaugural citywide Curious City Scavenger Hunt: Chicago Eats Edition is coming to an end, so we’re capping off the past month of unlocking clues by revisiting a family mystery. In this episode from 2018, reporter Monica Eng digs into her family’s past to answer a listener’s question about the history of Chinese gangs in Chicago — and make sure to stick around for an update at the end of the story.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Potpourri Volume I: Survival
In the course of doing research for shows, I often come across interesting facts that wouldn’t really make for an entire episode. They are really interesting, but I’m not sure how I could turn it into even a short daily podcast like this one.
So, the solution was to create an episode where I could just randomly put all these loose ends together.
With that, I bring to you my first potpourri show, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Fist Full of Dollars
The currency in the United States is the dollar. You probably already knew that.
It is also the name of the currency in over 20 other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
What is a dollar exactly, and why is that the name of the currency in these countries?
Learn more about the history of the dollar on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Who Discovered Calculus?
For the last 300 years, a debate has raged between mathematicians about who should be credited with the invention of calculus: Sir Isaac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
The sides of the debate have mostly been based on geography with English mathematicians advocating for Newton, and Continental Europeans siding with Leibnitz.
Learn more about the war over calculus, even if you’ve never taken a calculus course in your life, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Bay Curious - Does the Golden Gate Bridge Howl?
Listener Ryan heard an eerie noise while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge on his motorcycle. He's not the only one -- the sound can be heard from miles away. What's going on?
Additional Reading:
- The Story Behind the Golden Gate Bridge's New Howl
- Why the Golden Gate Bridge Is Now A Giant Orange Wheezing Kazoo
- Engineers discuss the phenomenon on Reddit.
Reported by Rob Speight with support from Gabe Meline. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Don Clyde.
Everything Everywhere Daily - Fallacious Reasoning
We are often told that schools are where you learn how to think, not what to think. Sadly, almost no school curriculum deals directly with logic and the closely related subject of logical fallacies.
Fallacies are all around us. Just read something online or watch a few minutes of television and you’ll probably encounter examples of people using fallacious reasoning and logical fallacies. In fact, you’ve probably engaged in it yourself. We’re all guilty of it.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Fosbury Flop
At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Dick Fosbury won the Gold Medal in the men’s high jump.
He did it by jumping an Olympic record 2.24 meters or 7 feet, four inches.
What was remarkable about his accomplishment wasn’t the height he jumped, but how it did it.
He didn’t just win a gold medal, he revolutionized the sport of high jumping.
Learn more about the Fosbury Flop on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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the memory palace - Episode 169: Beautician
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independent podcasts from PRX.
A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Music
Them by Nils Frahm
Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd
Notes
You can read Myles Horton’s book.
I found The Birth of Citizen Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom by David P. Levine particularly useful.
And especially Clare Russell’s “A Beautician Without Teacher Training: Bernice Robinson, Citizen Schools and women in the Civil Rights Movement.”
Everything Everywhere Daily - An Incredibly Bright Idea
Thomas Edison is often credited with the invention of the light bulb.
Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. If there is any modern invention that really can’t be attributed to a single person, it would be the incandescent lightbulb.
Learn about the history behind the incandescent light bulb, perhaps the most significant invention of the 19th century, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Two-Hour Marathon
Eliud Kipchoge is unquestionably the greatest marathon runner in history. He’s won an Olympic Gold Medal, holds the world’s record, and has won 12 of the 13 marathons he has ever entered.
However, there was one accomplishment that had been out of reach for Kipchoge and every other marathoner: The 2-hour marathon.
On October 12, 2019, Kipchoge managed to break that barrier under some very special circumstances.
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