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Consider This from NPR - How a punishing two years shaped Pope Francis

Long before he was elected to run the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis was essentially exiled from his Argentinian Jesuit order. Francis often referred to this two-year period, which happened when he was in his 50s, as a "dark night" and a "crisis" in his life.

For our weekly Reporter's Notebook series, we talk with NPR religion editor Daniel Burke about what he learned by digging into this little known period of Francis' life that shaped him and his papacy.

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Motley Fool Money - The Rise of Prediction Markets

This past presidential election was the first where Americans could legally bet on the outcome. That event proved prediction markets to be a source of truth.


This episode offers two looks at prediction markets. In the first half of the show, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour joins Ricky Mulvey to discuss:


- What he learned about Kalshi from this past election.

- The difference between an events contract and gambling.

- How prediction markets could disrupt sports betting.


Then, New York Magazine Features writer, Jen Wieczner, joins Mary Long to discuss her reporting on the billion-dollar betting platform Polymarket, and its legal challenges in the United States.



Read Wieczner’s piece on Polymarket here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/is-polymarket-legal-politics-betting-shayne-coplan.html


Company discussed: HOOD


Hosts: Mary Long, Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Tarek Mansour, Jen Wieczner

Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd


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The Journal. - Neom, Pt 2: The Emperor’s New Clothes

Andy Wirth and Tony Harris moved halfway across the world to help build Neom: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s futuristic new city in the Saudi desert. But what they found wasn’t the desert utopia of Neom’s marketing. Instead, they found a project bleeding cash, led by a screaming CEO, where very little was actually being built. 


WSJ’s Rory Jones and Eliot Brown explain how Neom fell years behind schedule – and went billions of dollars over-budget – thanks to a culture of runaway spending and never telling the boss “no.” Hosted by Ryan Knutson. 


Further Listening:

- Neom, Pt 1: Skiing in the Desert 

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: 5 Facts You Didn’t Know About Bitcoin!

The untold story of "Bitcoin Pizza Guy"! Satoshi's wanted POKER in Bitcoin? Bitcoin has bugs? Is 21 million a MYTH?


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Charlie and Colin explain 5 things you probably didn’t know about Bitcoin. Satoshi's original Bitcoin client included a poker program. Did you know Bitcoin has an off-by-one error in Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment? We debunk the myth that the 21 million cap is mentioned in the whitepaper and explore three critical inflation bugs that threatened Bitcoin. Lastly, we tell the story of how "Bitcoin Pizza Guy" Laszlo Hanyecz was actually a pioneering contributor to Bitcoin's development and mining technology.


Notes:

- Original Bitcoin client included a poker client

- Difficulty adjustment calculation uses 2015 not 2016 blocks

- 21M supply cap not mentioned in Bitcoin whitepaper

- 2010 inflation bug created 184 billion Bitcoin

- Bitcoin Pizza guy spent ~100,000 BTC, not just 10,000


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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:05 Bitcoin & Poker

09:12 Difficulty Adjustment 2015 Blocks

13:02 21M Supply (or not?)

17:55 Arch

18:28 3 Bugs

29:06 Bitcoin Pizza Guilt

39:58 BONUS: HFSP

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Key To Finding Edible And Medicinal Plants In Your Neighborhood

Dave Odd has been supplying Chicago restaurants with foraged produce for years, and now he’s focusing on helping members of the public learn about the edible plants that are all around us. He hosts tours of different Chicagoland neighborhoods to help people identify plants that “could be the difference between life or death.” Reset chats with Dave to learn more about his approach. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Banks and Banking

One of the biggest and most important industries in the world is banking. 

Banks are large, control an enormous amount of money, and are often the most influential economic institutions in most countries. 

Yet, banks are not a modern invention. Banks, in one form or another, have been around for thousands of years and have evolved into the modern institutions we have today over that time.

Learn more about the history of banking and how it came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Lorna Gibb, “Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages” (Princeton UP, 2025)

An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. 

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Princeton University Press, 2025) tells the stories of the world’s rare and vanishing languages, revealing how each is a living testament to human resilience, adaptability, and the perennial quest for identity. Taking readers on a captivating journey of discovery, Lorna Gibb explores the histories of languages under threat or already extinct as well as those in resurgence, shedding light on their origins, development, and distinctive voices. She travels the globe—from Australia and Finland to India, the Canary Islands, Namibia, Scotland, and Paraguay—showing how these languages are not mere words and syntax but keepers of diverse worldviews, sites of ethnic conflict, and a means for finding surprising commonalities. Readers learn the basics of how various language systems work—with vowels and consonants, whistles and clicks, tonal inflections, or hand signs—and how this kaleidoscope of self-expression carries vital information about our planet, indigenous cultures and tradition, and the history and evolution of humankind. Rare Tongues is essential reading for anyone concerned about the preservation of endangered languages and an eloquent and disarmingly personal meditation on why the world’s linguistic heritage is so fundamental to our shared experience—and why its loss should worry us all.

Lorna Gibb is associate professor of creative writing and linguistics at the University of Stirling.

Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network.

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