Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Aug 6)
mmLast Updated: Aug 6th, 2023
Best Episodes of the Week
1. How modern video games hook us, and kids, so completely.
Recently a feature story in Maclean's magazine described parents who were "losing their kids to Fortnite." While some gamers may hear that and see the kind of rhetoric that has followed video games ar...Show More
2. The cozy secret tea room that served the people working on the atomic bomb, including Oppenheimer himself.
It was top secret. But everyone in Santa Fe knew there was something going on up on the hill in the remote, desert mountains of Los Alamos in 1943. J. Robert Oppenheimer and dozens of the top scientis...Show More
3. How to sleep better.
ABC News anchor and author Diane Macedo shares her personal investigation and insight into how to improve your sleep habits.
4. Why left doesn’t equal woke.
Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sus...Show More
5. Toxic, self-cloning worms are invading Maine.
When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom. Until, tha...Show More
6. The hidden and stolen story behind the true life of the real Pocahontas.
How do you uncover the true life of a woman whose existence is wrapped in myth, propaganda and a famous animated children's movie? This is the true story of Matoaka - a young Powhatan girl who you pro...Show More
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For True Crime Lovers
1. An ex-CIA agent fell out of a hotel window to his death…or so it seemed.
On the evening of November 28th 1953, in New York, Frank Olsen was found on the pavement outside the Statler Hotel having fallen out of a window on the 13th floor. Olsen died shortly after hitting t...Show More
2. An interview with a shooter who was sentenced to die in a Florida prison.
"The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, 'You have a collect call from Ian for Debbie. Will you accept the charges?' And I remember Debb...Show More
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Meet the Curators
Melody and Danny are the co-founders of Podyssey. Every week we curate this round-up with the mission of helping our readers find the hidden gems in the podcast world.
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