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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Electrical Grid

The modern world runs on electricity. That isn’t a throwaway statement. If we take away electricity, our modern civilization will quickly fall apart.

The power that runs the modern world is dependent on a very technical, and in some cases very fragile, network of electrical generation, transmission, and consumption. 

These electrical networks can be as small as a city or as large as a continent. 

Learn more about the electrical grid, how it works and how may change in the future on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In new memoir, Angela Merkel details her time as Germany’s first woman chancellor

Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany through a number of global challenges: a pandemic, a migrant crisis and military aggression. But she also had to consider dilemmas that were specific to being the first and only woman to hold her position. The former chancellor reflects on this experience, her rise to power and her political record in a new memoir, Freedom. In today's episode, Merkel speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelley through a translator. They discuss going toe-to-toe with leaders like Vladimir Putin, what a second Trump term means for U.S. diplomacy, and whether Merkel sees herself as a feminist.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - What a difference a one-day strike makes

From retail to fast food to nursing, one-day strikes have been a growing trend over the last decade.

But what makes one-day strikes more or less effective than longer strikes? Do they achieve the same goals?

On today's show, what do short strikes say about union power in the US and what can you accomplish with only 24 hours on the picket line.

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What the data reveal about U.S. labor unrest
The Indicator Quiz: Labor Edition
The never-ending strike

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The War of the Roses

For thirty years between 1455 and 1485, England suffered its greatest civil war at that point. 

The war was ultimately over succession to the throne and who should be king.

The period was filled with death and bloodshed, and when the dust settled, it left England a changed country and set the stage for its later ascension. 

Learn more about the War of the Roses, its causes, and its resolution on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - A game design company has mysterious forces at play in the new YA thriller ‘Darkly’

Author Marisha Pessl has always loved puzzles and board games. She's intrigued by the feeling of forced companionship that comes from solving a puzzle together. Her new novel, Darkly, follows a teen named Arcadia and six others as they embark on an internship with the renowned game design company Darkly. Working on the mysterious island that houses the Darkly headquarters, they come across mysteries of the company and its owner. In today's episode, Pessl speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the idea of contained chaos and how the mysteries of the past can unlock the mysteries of the present.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Boeing’s biggest blunder? Financial engineering.

Boeing continues to struggle. Safety concerns, a door blowing off mid-flight, a labor strike, impending layoffs ... and that's just the past year.

What's gone wrong at Boeing? For many observers, the mistake was shifting focus from engineering to financial engineering.

Today on the show we explain what financial engineering is and why this cultural change at Boeing may have led to the company's current problems.

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Help Wanted at Boeing
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