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Podyssey Picks

Podyssey Picks (Jul 2)

This week’s podcast picks feature some great community recommendations, including an episode on how schools are dealing with AI cheating, whether you should push on or give up your goals, and the story behind the mummified head donated to a highschool.

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Last Updated: Jul 1st, 2023

Best Episodes of the Week

1. How schools are dealing with AI cheating.

Since its introduction less than a year ago, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence platform that can write essays, solve math problems and write computer code, has sparked an anguished debate in the wo...Show More

2. Should you keep pushing towards your goal or move on because of burnout? Answers here!

If you feel exhausted, burnt out, or uninspired, your body is trying to tell you something! But how do you know for sure? Is it time to keep pushing toward your goals — or give up and move on? In this...Show More

3. The story behind the mummified head donated to a highschool in 1915.

In an old country town high school library there is a glass case that displays something highly unusual and, for some, confronting. Inside that glass case is a mummified head and according to its plaq...Show More

4. What the heck is a Hukou and how does it affect Chinese citizens?

Continuing our cross-cultural dialogue we talk about about a Hukou. What is a Hukou and how does it affect Chinese citizens? Take a listen to our third mini episode to find out. Welcome to the probabl...Show More

5. The driver who decided to turn left one day instead of turning right, and kept on driving until he became the most wanted man in the country.

One day in 1947, NYC bus driver William Cimillo showed up to his daily bus route, but instead of turning right, he turned left. Over the next week, he traveled 1,300 miles in his municipal bus, ending...Show More

6. How to get to know your neighbors.

Are commitment issues impacting our ability to connect with the people who live around us? Relationship building may involve a commitment to the belief that neighbors are worthy of getting to know. In...Show More

New & Notable Podcasts

Dark Valley

Dark Valley is an investigative series about 8 women who were brutally attacked by a yet-unidentified serial killer. He prowled the bucolic borderland of the Connecticut River Valley between 1978-1988. He was known as the Valley Killer. His victims will be known too.
Genres: True Crime

Crawlspace Media

+6 FANS

Featured Episode: Chapter 1 | Begin at the End

46:36 | Jun 16th, 2023

Jane Boroski was seven months pregnant when she was stabbed 27 times by an unknown man. Miraculously, she survived. But, Jane later finds out she is the only survivor a serial killer who prowled the C...Show More

The Retrievals

Dozens of women seeking to become mothers came to a fertility clinic at Yale. A (five-part) narrative series about the shocking events that unfolded there.
Genres: True Crime

Serial Productions & The New York Times

+35 FANS

Featured Episode: Episode 1: The Patients

56:34 | Jun 29th, 2023

10 RECOMMENDATIONS

Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.

For True Crime Lovers

1. Four little Black girls and church goers were murdered by the KKK.

Fifty nine years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.  The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights ac...Show More

2. The story of the Russian MMA fighter who trains with axes and kills people in brutal and extreme ways.

This week, we wade into seriously crazy waters with a Russian MMA fighter, who has killed multiple people, in brutal & extreme ways. Not only participating in death matches, but also in his business l...Show More

Podcast Playlists

Podcasts to Travel with Your Ears

Visit to museums, Dollywood and Disneyworld. Or travel to Chichen Itza, Nepal and Antartica.

Curated by:cesarm

21 episodes

The Best Kids Podcasts for Long Summer Trips

Going for a long drive this summer? Here are Wired's top podcast recommendations to keep kids entertained and parents sane.

Curated by:podysseyapp

8 episodes

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