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  • 1

    346- Palaces for the People

    99% Invisible

    44:07 | Mar 19th, 2019

    7 recommendations

    Social Infrastructure is the glue that binds communities together, and it is just as real as the infrastructure for water, power, or communications, although it's often harder to see. But Eric Klinenb...Show More

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    If you love libraries, you need to listen to this episode on why social infrastructure like libraries are so important to communities. ๐Ÿ“š

  • 2

    340- The Secret Lives of Color

    99% Invisible

    44:58 | Feb 5th, 2019

    8 recommendations

    Here at 99% Invisible, we think about color a lot, so it was really exciting when we came across a beautiful book called The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair Itโ€™s this amazing collection of s...Show More

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    This is a wonderful episode about everything you'd want to know about colours -- something we always take for granted. The storytelling and analysis behind each colour was fascinating. I wished this w...Show More

  • 3

    The End of Empathy

    Invisibilia

    52:13 | Apr 12th, 2019

    21 recommendations

    Invisibilia is a show that runs on empathy. We believe in it. But are we right? In this episode, we'll let you decide. We tell the same story twice in order to examine the questions: who deserves our ...Show More

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    Really enjoyed this episode! Invisibilia gives a young woman an interview test for her producer role to produce a story and contrasts it with what they produced. The analysis in generational differenc...Show More

  • 4

    664: The Room of Requirement

    This American Life

    1:00:52 | Dec 30th, 2018

    4 recommendations

    Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber cafรฉ, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone.ย It's actually kind of ...Show More

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    I loved the last act of this episode about libraries and how it is used. It was so beautiful I actually cried. There are lots of episodes that comment about homeless people using the library as a plac...Show More

  • 5

    Maggie Rogers - Alaska

    Song Exploder

    20:00 | Aug 24th, 2017

    4 recommendations

    Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYUโ€™s Clive Davis Institute. Pharrell Williams visited to her class, and when he heard her song "Alaska," his reaction was dramatic, a...Show More

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    Highly highly highly recommend this episode. It was incredible to hear from Maggie Rogers how she created her song Alaska over years of cumulative life experiences. I had to rewatch the video of her ...Show More

  • 6

    All WeWork And No Play

    The Indicator from Planet Money

    09:58 | Jun 4th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Co-working spaces might just be the future of work. Take WeWork. It's been cropping up in cities all over the world--borrowing billions to fuel its growth. Now, it's planning to go public.

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    Is WeWork the future of work? The hosts go and work out of one for a day. Sounds like a serious subject, but I laughed the entire episode. New favourite podcasts because the hosts have a hilarious dyn...Show More

  • 7

    Taiwan!

    Nancy

    36:00 | May 27th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Note: this is a rerun of a previous episode. Travelingย to Taiwan with her mom, Kathy imaginesย the life she might have lived had her family stayed. Kathy's mom previously appearedย on Nancy in the episo...Show More

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    This was such a beautifully produced episode about Kathy and her mom travelling to Taiwan and imagining if what life would have been like instead if she had lived and grew up there while being queer.

  • 8

    Two strangers who don't speak the same language meet in Haiti and sparks fly... through Google Translate. Plus, untranslatable words of love, and a pair of robots navigating a tumultuous affair.

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    Aweee this is a cute episode about a couple who started and fell in love with the help of Google Translate because they donโ€™t know how to speak each otherโ€™s language.

  • 9

    Puzzle Rush

    Revisionist History

    34:48 | Jun 20th, 2019

    9 recommendations

    Malcolm challenges his assistant Camille to the Law School Admissions Test. He gets halfway through, panics, runs out of time, and wonders: why does the legal world want him to rush? Learn more about...Show More

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    Whatโ€™s wrong with standardized testing when you time it? Who do you privilege in the system? The tortoises or the hares? Whatโ€™s wrong with privileging one over the other? Entertaining and insightful ...Show More

  • 10

    Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales

    How I Built This with Guy Raz

    41:48 | Feb 26th, 2018

    8 recommendations

    During the dot com boom of the late 1990s, Jimmy Wales was running an internet search company. That's when he began to experiment with the idea of an online encyclopedia. In 2001, Wales launched Wikip...Show More

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    "No one will remember me in 500 years, but everyone will remember Wikipedia" Jimmy Wales is incredibly humble.

  • 11

    Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he...Show More

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    This was a hilarious episode with Kara Swisher interviewing NYT's The Daily's Michael Barbaro. This was great insight into Barbaro's career in journalism, how The Daily came about and how they choose ...Show More

  • 12

    #148 Bedbugs and Aliens

    Reply All

    46:33 | Sep 26th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    This week, Yes Yes No returns with a raid on Area 51, and the very worst name you can call a New York Times writer. Listen to the 1st episode of Mogul Season 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/mogul/z3h...Show More

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    This was hilarious. Yes Yes No about the tweet on Area 51 but at NYTโ€™s columnist Brett Stevensโ€™ house to call him a bedbug. ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • 13

    Priya Parker

    Design Matters with Debbie Millman

    57:56 | May 21st, 2018

    7 recommendations

    Debbie talks to author and conflict resolution mediator Priya Parker about meetings and gatherings and why so many of them donโ€™t work.

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    Priya ๐Ÿ‘ Parker ๐Ÿ‘ She talks about her new book on intentional gatherings. Gatherings right now are focused on things like table settings over people (cue IG images on gatherings). She talks about how...Show More

  • 14

    EP. 1: Moaning

    MOONFACE

    30:03 | Oct 9th, 2019

    4 recommendations

    The story begins with a moan.

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    This audio drama about a young gay Korean man who is struggling with his own identity was so beautifully produced. I balled at the last episode. The sound design was ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ I loved how they designed t...Show More

  • 15

    Baby Shark

    Decoder Ring

    38:17 | Feb 25th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Deco...Show More

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    This was hilarious and fun! I always wondered about the addictive Baby Shark song and its origins. Iโ€™m not sure if I believe the origins story entirely but I appreciate the diligent traceback. Also in...Show More

  • 16

    The Jabberwocky of Harry Potter

    How Music Does That

    11:18 | Oct 25th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    How the muggle and wizarding worlds collide in the Harry Potter theme.

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    Harry Potterโ€™s theme song is literally out of this world, because it doesnโ€™t follow the normal music harmonic conventions that we expect as uninteresting muggles. There are even tritones that the chur...Show More

  • 17

    Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet and social media to gain a startling prominence in American politics. One day, he was contacted by a...Show More

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    Wow. Wow. Wow. This was an incredible episode about one woman's journey to becoming a Neo-Nazi. Loved this episode for both the content and storytelling.

  • 18

    Capacity for Wonder and Sunsets

    The Anthropocene Reviewed

    23:38 | Oct 31st, 2019

    9 recommendations

    John Greenย reviewsย humanityโ€™s capacity for wonder and sunsets.

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    This was such a beautiful podcast on the capacity of human for wonder and beauty. In a mere twenty minutes, it covers why the Great Gatsby is loved and scorned as an American classic, why the sun is e...Show More

  • 19

    The Ceremony

    Radiolab

    47:13 | Feb 25th, 2021

    18 recommendations

    In November of 2016, journalist Morgen Peck showed up at her friend Molly Webster's apartment in Brooklyn, told her to take her battery out of her phone,ย and beganย to tellย her about The Ceremony, a mo...Show More

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    This episode literally made my heart skipped. Fascinating story about the elaborate initiation and creation of a more private cryptocurrency called ZCash. This is a great episode whether youโ€™re a cryp...Show More

  • 20

    2. Plaid

    Articles of Interest

    18:55 | Dec 7th, 2018

    3 recommendations

    Lumberjacks wore plaid. Punks wore plaid mini skirts. The Beach Boys used to be called the Pendletones, and they wore plaid with their surfboards. Lots of different groups have adopted the pattern ove...Show More

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    This is a funny and fascinating episode about the origins of plaid. It's more than just a print, but is a symbol to so many different groups today. But does it belong to lumberjacks or lesbians or wor...Show More

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    If there's one thing that sets people apart from machines, it's creativity, right? Automation may take over certain jobs, but what happens when algorithms start to learn from our work to create their ...Show More

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    One of my favourite podcast episodes of all time. A favorite party question of mine is: "If the world was going to implode and all the books in the world are going to burn down, would you save the S...Show More

  • 22

    Restaurateur Danny Meyer takes us back to where it all began for him: a family trip to Europe and a simple plate of pasta. That memorable meal sparked a lifetime practice of discovery that continues t...Show More

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    A beautiful audio essay on travel and food. I was salivating by the end of it. A pasta and wine meal for this would be a marvellous finish to the episode.

  • 23

    BONUS: Tom Hiddleston on The Nutcracker

    The Open Ears Project

    05:06 | Dec 20th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Actor Tom Hiddleston reminisces about his childhood love of Tchaikovskyโ€™s ballet The Nutcracker and reveals that he still turns to the Russian Dance whenever he needs a shot of vitality in his day.

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    Re-recommending this because Tom Hiddleston professing his love for The Nutcracker for 5 min is everything we need this holiday season. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

  • 24

    Man Against Horse

    Radiolab

    58:44 | Dec 28th, 2019

    6 recommendations

    This is a story about your butt. Itโ€™s a story about how you got your butt, why you have your butt, and how your butt might be one of the most important and essential things for you being you, for bein...Show More

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    This episode was so fun, funny and educational! Itโ€™s about why humans have butts. The episode starts off with tiny pigs running on treadmill, then fossils of prehistoric man, and ends with an actual 5...Show More

  • 25

    When Barnett Newmanโ€™s painting Whoโ€™s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was placed in the Stedelijk museum it was meant to be provocative, but one reaction that it received was so intense, so violent,...Show More

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    Man destroys one of those single-colour-on-canvas paintings. Another man restores it. And it goes way downhill from there. Also, atomic oxygen from space used to restore paintings sounds way cool. Thi...Show More

  • 26

    Asma Khan: My life in five dishes

    The Food Chain

    26:16 | Jul 16th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    When Asma Khan was born it was said her mother cried, but not tears of joy. As a second daughter born in 1960s India, Asma felt she was a disappointment, even a burden, because she could not inherit a...Show More

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    This is such a lovely episode about food, a longing for home, and woman power ๐Ÿ’ช Asma Khan, one of popular restaurant Darjeeling Express, talks about her birth in the face of patriarchy, her drive ...Show More

  • 27

    Digging Up Disaster

    Overheard at National Geographic

    27:34 | Oct 15th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    How did an ancient Roman harbor end up in ruins? Scientists realized the culprit was a long-forgotten natural disaster that left tell-tale geological clues -- and possibly an eyewitness account in an ...Show More

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    Wow......This was a terrific episode. Religious text can tell us a lot about actual events in history. This episode about what happened to an ancient Roman harbour that's in ruins. An archeologist fig...Show More

  • 28

    Fighting Fake News, with Anya Schiffrin

    Carnegie Council Podcasts

    24:54 | Sep 5th, 2018

    2 recommendations

    "Disinformation, fake news, online propaganda is a problem that has gotten attention all over the world, and we're seeing very divergent responses," says Schiffrin, author of "Bridging the Gap: Rebuil...Show More

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    Terrific conversation about fighting fake news. I loved Anya Schiffrin's taxonomies and frameworks for media. Her classification of how different types of countries will deal with fake news on social ...Show More

  • 29

    Semisonic - Closing Time

    Song Exploder

    25:05 | Jan 15th, 2020

    4 recommendations

    The song โ€œClosing Timeโ€ by the American rock band Semisonic came out in March 1998. It hit #1 on the Alternative charts, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song. It gets played in stadiums, ...Show More

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    Chills will go down your spine when you hear the part about the day when Closing Time drops as a single. Heartwarming story about the intermingling of music and fatherhood. ๐Ÿ’–

  • 30

    K-poparazzi

    Radiolab

    37:23 | Feb 24th, 2016

    3 recommendations

    In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break.ย  K-pop is a global juggerna...Show More

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    What will K-pop fans do to you if you dishonour their favourite stars? An eye-opening look into the manufacturing of the K-pop dream, the man who unravelled it by importing American paparazzi, and the...Show More

  • 31

    YOLO Apologetics

    Hi-Phi Nation

    44:04 | Jun 22nd, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Drake coined โ€œYOLO,โ€ short for โ€œyou only live onceโ€ in 2011, and then later apologized for all the douchiness it subsequently engendered.ย  But the spirit is ancient, and cross-cultural, speaking deepl...Show More

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    Loved this episode. What does YOLO look like for each of us? Should we YOLO? Deep thoughtful exploration of the concept of YOLO intertwined with hilarious, horrifying and adorable stories. If you like...Show More

  • 32

    In 2009, an old man died in a California nursing home. His obituary included not just his given name, but a long list of the pseudonyms he'd been known to use. In this episode, which we originally rel...Show More

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    This story ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ A daughter discovers who her father really was twice over. One destroyed their relationship. The other she never has a chance to reconcile. Was he a con man or a genius? Either or, i...Show More

  • 33

    Antediluvian

    Floodlines

    32:49 | Mar 12th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    Part I: It all started long before a hurricane named Katrina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    Woooowwwwww......the sound design for this was incredible ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ New Orleans is one of my favourite places in the entire world. I went there a few years after Hurricane Katrina. This new podcast from ...Show More

  • 34

    114- Ten Thousand Years

    99% Invisible

    29:22 | May 13th, 2014

    4 recommendations

    In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They wer...Show More

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    Amazing episode about a group of top experts who were called together to figure out how to design something that will warn people living tens of thousands years from now that they should not touch nuc...Show More

  • 35

    If These Walls Could Talk

    Overheard at National Geographic

    20:02 | Nov 26th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Social Media is not just for modern folk. In ancient Pompeii, people also shared what they thought, who they met with, what they ate... It's just, they had to use different technology. For more inform...Show More

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    Such a delightful episode about the discovery of ancient graffiti in Pompeii (a.k.a. the social media of 2000 years ago). Hilariously random notes that people left on the walls divulging on their dail...Show More

  • 36

    In Case of Death

    Kerning Cultures

    30:21 | Sep 3rd, 2019

    5 recommendations

    What happens when somebody dies in a country that’s not their home? This week on Kerning Cultures, stories about the group of volunteers who help repatriate the bodies of foreigners after they&r...Show More

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    Beautiful episode about the repatriation of bodies when someone dies in a country that is not their home. This episode specific looks at stories of Indian families with loved ones who die in Dubai, bu...Show More

  • 37

    Chapter 1: The Railway Station

    Jungle Prince

    31:03 | Dec 23rd, 2019

    15 recommendations

    The story passed for years from tea sellers to rickshaw drivers to shopkeepers in Old Delhi. In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to ...Show More

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    HOLY $!?&@!!!! How did I only listen to this podcast mini-series now? Incredible story. A+++ journalism. For those who havenโ€™t listened, itโ€™s about a royal family who claims land in India because the...Show More

  • 38

    How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art. * *Donโ€™t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

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    Wow, this is next level art fraud. One of the top art galleries in NYC sells fake paintings. Did they know it was so and was "in" on the scam or were they scammed too? Even though this is a story lite...Show More

  • 39

    Episode 137: Wolf 10

    Criminal

    35:25 | Apr 3rd, 2020

    6 recommendations

    In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. โ€œTheyโ€™re just gone. And thatโ€™s implausible because wolves donโ€™t just disappea...Show More

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    This was a cool episode that's a true crime investigation into the death of a wolf. There's also a part two for this in the Phoebe's other podcast "This is Love" where it's about the same pack of wolv...Show More

  • 40

    Episode 19: The Wolves

    This is Love

    41:28 | Apr 1st, 2020

    17 recommendations

    We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. Weโ€™re tryi...Show More

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    This is the love story version of the wolves, which were also featured in "Criminal". Honestly the sweetest story about wolves and their families. Also, booooo to the sister-in-law!

  • 41

    Jad Abumrad: Radio Host

    Al Empire

    50:32 | Mar 27th, 2020

    4 recommendations

    Host and co-creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, Dolly Partonโ€™s America, and more, Jad Abumrad has inspired the sounds of thousands of podcasts and radio shows around the world (Kerning Cultures Network...Show More

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    You know that feeling when you meet a star you've admire forever and that squeal of excitement in you that never ends? Yea, that's the excitement that exudes through @hebahfisher in this interview wit...Show More

  • 42

    Our worlds have contracted; once expansive, our orbits are now measured by rooms and street blocks. But there are still ways to travel. Today, escape to the worlds contained in three letters โ€” one abo...Show More

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    Three lovely stories about joy, belief, and self reflection from the โ€œLetters of Recommendationsโ€ section of the New York Times Magazine. ๐Ÿ’– Also, the origins of the recommendations column is funny bu...Show More

  • 43

    The world of high end perfume is surprisingly lucrative, considering that scent is often the most ignored of our senses. But one can't judge a scent solely by the brand and shape of the bottle. With t...Show More

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    I have a new appreciation for perfume as an art form. We disregard our sense of smell so easily compared to our other senses, but it could be so complex and interesting like the others. And now I know...Show More

  • 44

    Painting Michelle Obama

    Sidedoor

    24:59 | Apr 25th, 2018

    9 recommendations

    The day that Amy Sherald heard that she had been chosen to paint the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, she called her mom to tell her the news, and then she told her dog. But soon after,...Show More

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    My heart. The story of Amy Sherald painting Michelle Obama's official portrait. The first Black American painter to paint the first Black First Lady. Power to Amy ๐Ÿ’ช

  • 45

    Ginkgo Love

    Outside/In

    42:13 | Jul 2nd, 2020

    2 recommendations

    In 2016,ย weย produced an episode about the ginkgo tree titled "Ginkgo Stink." With its fan-shaped leaves and golden fall foliage, the Ginkgo biloba is a beautiful tree with an incredible history dating...Show More

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    This public radio podcast published a racist episode about the stinky ginkgo tree awhile back. But instead of just taking it off their feed, one of their new producers produced a segment about his cul...Show More

  • 46

    Brian Droitcour is a professional art critic, and a Yelp user. In 2012 he started using the popular review site to post his reactions to galleries and museums, using a distinctly un-art world-y voice....Show More

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    Professional art critics write art reviews on Yelp for fun and become Yelp Elites! This was a fun episode with everything I adore packaged in 10min.

  • 47

    Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., speaks with four distinguished podcasters who work with true crime: Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village, Connie Walker, host of Missing & Murdered, N...Show More

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    Superb episode from some of the top true crime podcasters like Connie Walker of "Finding Cleo" on how to make true crime pods ethically. They get into the nuances of "unscheduled interviews", working ...Show More

  • 48

    One Friday night, a young woman headed out with friends in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a night on the town. She left the bar in the wee hours of the morning, meandering down the street. Then -- she disapp...Show More

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    This case keeps on getting more and more intense! I love Iceland and know exactly where the woman walked before she disappeared. And just watched Eurovision film so feels even more relevant. The Icela...Show More

  • 49

    For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to surviveโ€”and thriveโ€”in the violently anti-black South. He became one of the largest land-owners on the Arkansas Delta, ran several businesses, and was a...Show More

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    If you love Floodlines and 1619, this is a must listen podcast for you. A wealthy southern Black cotton farm owner beat the white farmers at their game, but got lynched and stripped of all his money a...Show More

  • 50

    1 - Behind Bars

    13 Alibis

    16:38 | May 16th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Is Richard Rosario an innocent man? Or is he a murderer? Dan Slepian begins his investigation at a prison in upstate New York, and at the scene of the crime in the Bronx.Learn more about your ad choic...Show More

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    Truly riveting podcast. You'll be hooked from episode 1. A man was put behind bars for life because he was convicted of killing a teen. He claimed he was in Florida that same day the murder happened w...Show More

  • 51

    The Karen

    Decoder Ring

    40:39 | Jul 13th, 2020

    13 recommendations

    The Karen, a white woman who surveys, inconveniences, and terrorizes, service workers and people of color is a relatively new term in the culture, but her character type has been with us for centuries...Show More

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    Terrific episode about the origins of "Becky" (aka "pre-Karen") and "Karen". Pretty amazing how Reddit has so much influence in culture nowadays.

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    Sick of aiming for excellence and feeling miserable when you fall short? Youโ€™re not alone. Explore the upsides of imperfection, lowered expectations, and outright failure with philosopher Daniel Milo,...Show More

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    Truly a gem of an episode: What does it mean to be "good enough"? Why is Darwin's "natural selection" not "selection", but "survival of the good enough"? Why are giraffes built so poorly but survive...Show More

  • 53

    Mrs. Comet and the Man on the Moon

    Great Big Story

    13:42 | Jul 21st, 2020

    8 recommendations

    All his life, Eugene Shoemaker dreamed of stepping foot on the moon. A geologist and planetary scientist known for his work with craters, Gene worked tirelessly in the hopes of becoming an Apollo astr...Show More

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    This episode will make you shed a tear and never look at the moon in the same way again. About a man who was never able to make it to the moon, but became the man on the moon.

  • 54

    EP 1: Hide and Seek

    Bear Brook

    31:24 | Oct 3rd, 2018

    15 recommendations

    Three boys kick over a mysterious barrel in the woods. A small town cop fishes for answers. Evidence is buried, and the case goes cold. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Bear Brook...Show More

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    Just started episode 1 and this definitely lives up to its hype! Very well produced, super intriguing, and larger commentary about society, institutions, and community, outside of the murder case. Sy...Show More

  • 55

    Jamie Dimon - Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

    Coffee with The Greats

    1:07:42 | Jul 15th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon chats about growing up in Queens, what he learned from Abe Lincoln, and how he went from losing his job to becoming one of the top bankers in the w...Show More

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    Candid conversation with one of the top CEO and managers in the world. You get to hear everything from his career to how he organizes his time, hire/fire, does deep work, family life to public policy ...Show More

  • 56

    Sex Appeal

    More Perfect

    55:48 | Nov 23rd, 2017

    7 recommendations

    โ€œEqual protection of the lawsโ€ was granted to all persons by theย 14th Amendmentย in 1868. But for nearly a century after that, women had a hard time convincing the courts that they should be allowed to...Show More

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    RIP RBG. This wonderful episode is about Ruth Bader Ginsburg being as badass as ever! The story of the brilliant ACLU womenโ€™s lead who drove a legal Trojan Horse into Sparta (literally) and got equal ...Show More

  • 57

    60. The History of Madeleines

    The Land of Desire: French History and Culture

    34:32 | Jul 30th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    “A party without a cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child It’s our birthday!! Today, The Land of Desire kicks off itsย fifth year and what better way to celebrate than with a...Show More

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    I was craving a fun escapism episode and this hit the spot! Travel to France with your ears and hear about the delightful origins of the petite gateaus Madeleines and French eating habits that traces ...Show More

  • 58

    101 - Patient #12-D-10 (Sam), Session 1

    The Bright Sessions

    12:56 | Oct 27th, 2015

    2 recommendations

    The Bright Sessions | Season 1, Episode 1 - Session 1 with Samantha Barnes, a young woman with a Level 10, Class D ability. atypicalartists.co/support

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    Iโ€™M OBSESSED. Woman who can time travel visits a therapist. This is audio fiction crack.

  • 59

    Sometimes an illusion is the hardest thing to let go of. For Pucciniโ€™s Madama Butterfly, that illusion comes in the form of a distant ship on the horizon, carrying her long lost husband. Benjamin Fran...Show More

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    My new fave covid past-time is biking downhill and putting Aria Code in full volume. It's truly magnificent. This episode is about one of my favorite operas, Madama Butterfly, and the aria where she l...Show More

  • 60

    Episode 1: What We Know

    Limetown

    33:01 | Jul 21st, 2015

    12 recommendations

    Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the...Show More

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    Finally finished season 1 of Limetown. It's 100% worth the hype and the adaptation to video. I actually wished the reveal was slower and there were more episodes! Two-Up Productions' pods are excellen...Show More

  • 61

    The introduction to Jia Tolentinoโ€™s Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, hit me hard. In her investigation of how American politics and culture had collapsed into โ€œan unbearable supernova of pe...Show More

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    So many gems in here that talks about how the internet has turned us all into little media companies forcing us in an endless performance of ourselves. They talk about everything such as how we're dro...Show More

  • 62

    Ali Wong

    Conan Oโ€™Brien Needs A Friend

    1:08:20 | Mar 2nd, 2020

    5 recommendations

    Comedian Ali Wong feels very new about being Conan Oโ€™Brienโ€™s friend. ย  Ali and Conan sit down to talk about her fatherโ€™s love of pajama pants, why travel is the hardest part of stand-up, the mys...Show More

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    I almost spat out my tea when Ali Wong described how she saw Conan for the first time at the beginning of the segment. The woman needs her own special!

  • 63

    #1368 - Edward Snowden

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    2:59:22 | Oct 23rd, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcont...Show More

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    This is a masterclass in government surveillance and democracy. Listen to Snowden talk for 2.5hours straight from when he broke both of his legs white training to the army to finding himself accidenta...Show More

  • 64

    A man obsessed with meet-cutes falls for all the wrong men and winds up in one mind-boggling situation after another. Will his dream of a fairy-tale romance come true? Plus, a poetic reflection on hom...Show More

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    I laughed so hard during this episode I was running out of breath. A man wants meet-cutes so bad, but ends up in the most hilarious situations instead. I want a whole pod hosted by the guy!

  • 65

    Lebanon, USA 2.0

    Kerning Cultures

    48:16 | Aug 21st, 2020

    3 recommendations

    This week, a special collaboration with one of our all time favourite podcasts: Radiolab. We produced the episode - Lebanon USA - last year, and Radiolab have taken that original story and elevated it...Show More

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    Fabulous collab episode between Radiolab and Kerning Cultures about a man from Lebanon who visits all the Lebanons in the US. The story is so heartwarming ๐Ÿ’– Itโ€™s what great storytelling is all about....Show More

  • 66

    713: Made to Be Broken

    This American Life

    59:51 | Aug 9th, 2020

    12 recommendations

    From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules โ€” big and little โ€” governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can't abide by. In a pitched moment of rule-questio...Show More

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    NATASHAAA!!! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

  • 67

    A lifelong friendship filled with care, love and personal growth takes a shocking turn in the aftermath of a brutal act of violence

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    The nicest person you know who's helped you with life turns out to be a murderer. How would you react? A woman lays it out in the open in this episode. We often don't think about the people around the...Show More

  • 68

    Deep within the Prado in Madrid, an art historian restores Velรกzquez's famous Las Meninas painting while society crumbles outside. A drama by Governor General Award winner Jordan Tannahill.

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    This short audio fiction story actually made me choke back real tears. So beautifully written. It's about an art historian who is hired to restore the most magnificent painting in the Prado museum in ...Show More

  • 69

    #115 The Bitcoin Hunter

    Reply All

    30:58 | Sep 3rd, 2020

    4 recommendations

    Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago? This episode originally aired in January 2018. Further reading: Planet Money's bitco...Show More

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    LOVED THIS EPISODES. When the "don't buy drugs" hit home way harder when you might have hundreds of thousands of dollars of bitcoins at stake.

  • 70

    69: Human Hacker

    Darknet Diaries

    1:07:44 | Jul 7th, 2020

    6 recommendations

    We all know that computers and networks are vulnerable to hacking and malicious actors, but what about us, the humans who interface with these devices? Con games, scams, and strategic deception are fa...Show More

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    This was hilarious and freaky at the same time. Christopher Hadnagy isn't just a white hat hacker and penetration tester of IT systems, he also does human social engineering. He talks through a few ca...Show More

  • 71

    Invisible Allies

    Radiolab

    41:59 | Jul 31st, 2020

    4 recommendations

    As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treatย covid-19, theyโ€™ve come across some unexpected allies. Invisible and primordial, these protectors have been with us all along. An...Show More

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    Must listen for COVID times!!! Vitamin D/sunlight might help fight COVID and copper helps kills microbes! Also, that doctor to the politician -- ok yea systemic racism is a thing, but can we just ge...Show More

  • 72

    #73 Ignacio Nicknamed Nacho

    Food Non-Fiction

    12:04 | Oct 21st, 2020

    2 recommendations

    This Food Non-Fiction episode tells the incredible true story of nachos. This snack was created by and named after Ignacio Anaya who's nickname was Nacho.

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    The inventor of nachos is named Nacho!!! Such a cute story about nachos ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

  • 73

    Queen of Tarot

    Imaginary Worlds

    26:56 | Jan 23rd, 2020

    3 recommendations

    When it comes to tarot cards, there is an artistry to designing a world of emperors, fools, priestesses, hermits and other iconic figures. But few people know about Pamela Colman Smith, the woman who ...Show More

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    About the wild life and adventure of the woman who created the imagery on the most used deck of Tarot cards. A person born in the wrong era, she sounds like the coolest person youโ€™d know today.

  • 74

    100 Women: Women in power

    The Documentary Podcast

    49:34 | Nov 29th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    Mary Ann Sieghart asks what it takes to be a powerful woman and what holds so many back. Sexism, appearance and encouraging fathers are all up for discussion as Mary Ann talks to former Prime Minister...Show More

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    This is a powerful episode about powerful women. Hear original interviews from heads of states, Janet Yellen, and so many more incredibly inspiring women about their path to the top and how they broke...Show More

  • 75

    Chinese restaurants are an essential part of the American landscape. But a century ago, they were almost extinguished by an organized effort to wipe out Chinese eateries altogether.

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    I actually choked back tears when they said the Chinese restaurant was awarded a prestigious award in the category of "All American cuisine" ๐Ÿ˜ญ US and Canada have come a long way when it comes to Chin...Show More

  • 76

    1: Crossing Guard

    Constellation Prize

    38:18 | Jul 14th, 2020

    8 recommendations

    Bianca goes looking for a stranger and meets Sophia, a school crossing guard. They spend six months together.ย Featuring: Sartre, twists, and organ music.

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    If you love S-town and This American Life, this is the pod for you. Each episode is the podcaster talking about another profound question about life and living with another interesting person. The fir...Show More

  • 77

    Bonus Episode: Stacey Abrams

    TED Radio Hour

    25:56 | Jan 6th, 2021

    4 recommendations

    The runoff Senate elections in the state of Georgia have been big news, and a driving force behind the scenes for Democrats is Stacey Abrams. She's a lawyer, politician, author, and founder of Fair Fi...Show More

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    To all the women: Have you been called "too ambitious" and "too calculating" when you're just trying to make it and be strategic about making it? Stacey Abrams drops the mic ๐ŸŽค big time in this episod...Show More

  • 78

    422- In The Unlikely Event

    99% Invisible

    30:25 | Nov 18th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    If youโ€™ve ever flown on a plane, youโ€™ve been directed to study the safety briefing card in your seatback pocket. Every passenger plane, commercial or private, has to have safety cards on board. Mo Lab...Show More

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    Ever wonder why airplane safety briefing cards have no words and the same guy drawn again and again? Well hear it straight from the people who invented it, the illustrators and the guy whoโ€™s the model...Show More

  • 79

    The USS Hope sparks an international frenzy when it mysteriously reappears after a thirty-five year absence. The lone surviving astronaut, Edward (RICHARD MADDEN), looks the exact same age as when he ...Show More

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    What happens when your twin brother goes to space and then arrives 35 years later and not aged a second? I literally have chills when I listen to the audio drama. If you love space and physics, this a...Show More

  • 80

    In honor of the many people who work in nail salons across the country who are struggling to keep their businesses from going under during these long closures, The Kitchen Sisters Present French Manic...Show More

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    A wonderful story about the story of why there are 11k Vietnamese nail salon in the states. A story of migration, survival, and community. Beautifully told and produced.

  • 81

    Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more...Show More

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    Fantastic discussion about the rise of digital parties like Podemos and Five Star Movement, and the flaws of digital parties even thought they give the guise of โ€œdirect democracyโ€.

  • 82

    This episode is slightly different. If you love podcasts as I do then I want to recommend podyssey.fm to you. To be clear I'm not getting anything from this other than sharing a great place to really ...Show More

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    Thanks @pwitham for the lovely shoutout about Podyssey! ๐Ÿ’•

  • 83

    In the summer of 1856, workers quarrying limestone in a valley outside Dรผsseldorf, Germany, found an odd looking skull. It was elongated and almost chinless. William King, a British geologist, suspec...Show More

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    Fantastic essay re-looking at who Neanderthals (pronounced 'nee-an-der-TALS') were and homo sapiens' (aka us) need for supremacy. I love the thought experiments of "what if" we lived in a world with m...Show More

  • 84

    The Missing Archives

    Kerning Cultures

    44:09 | Jun 3rd, 2021

    1 recommendation

    In 1968, a trio of Palestinian filmmakers began making films about life under Israeli occupation. Almost 15 years and over 90 films later, their film unit became a dominant force in the Arab film indu...Show More

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    The lost collection of Palestineโ€™s films that turn up somewhere โ€œunexpectedโ€.

  • 85

    Chinaโ€™s Lunar New Year movie season is like Americaโ€™s summer blockbuster seasonโ€ฆ on steroids.ย  And it got that way thanks to THE DREAM FACTORY โ€” a wry 1997 comedy directed by Feng Xiaogang, whoโ€™d come...Show More

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    Fantastic episode about how a single movie changed the entire film industry in China. New favourite pod!!! Mixes history, film and sociology. So well put together, intriguing, and doesnโ€™t require you ...Show More

  • 86

    If thereโ€™s one thing we might regret at the end of life, itโ€™s that we missed out on moments that matteredโ€”not because we werenโ€™t physically there, but because our mind wandered off to some unknown pla...Show More

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    1 + 1 is more often equal 1 in real life than not. Profound episode about the challenge of living in the moment as humans and why we're so caught up in prospection and retrospection.

  • 87

    The coal plant never saw it coming.When a new coal project was quietly announced, Chibeze Ezekiel began mobilizing his community to resist, by educating them about the danger of fossil fuels. In the e...Show More

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    What a friggin fantastic David and Goliath story about people in Ghana fighting against a new coal plant and ending converting government to commit to 100% renewable energy for all future energy proje...Show More

  • 88

    Ep. 157: JENNY BLAKE: Help Me Do Less!

    Deep Questions with Cal Newport

    1:29:34 | Dec 20th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    In this episode, author Jenny Blake joins me for a conversation about her new book, FREE TIME: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Businessย  (https://itsfreetime.com/book), which helps entrepreneurs engineer...Show More

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    Really powerful episode on how to design your work life for highest focus and leverage for your time so that you are the most calm and least stressed. Jenny Blake even goes through Cal Newport's workl...Show More

  • 89

    The Evening Rocket: Dimension X

    Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket

    32:27 | Nov 1st, 2021

    3 recommendations

    Jill Lepore untangles the strange sci-fi roots of Silicon Valley's extreme capitalism - with its extravagant, existential and extra-terrestrial plans to save humanity. In this world, stock prices can ...Show More

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    What a friggin fantastic podcast! This is definitely going on my all-time favourites list. I 100% did *not* expect a podcast about Elon Musk to into the origins of X, sci-fi, history of math, classic ...Show More

  • 90

    Edward Said

    Great Lives

    28:05 | Apr 26th, 2012

    Edward Said was a man, who, in his own words, lived two quite separate lives. First there was the scholar and literary critic of Columbia University, and then there was the fierce critic of American a...Show More

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