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Podcast : Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Overconsumed Pub date : 2024-11-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In his previous book,  Junkyard Planet , journalist Adam Minter went around the world to see what happened to American recyclables such as cardboard, shredded cars, and Christmas lights around the...

Podcast : The Man Who Calculated Death (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Last Request: 1 Pub date : 2025-03-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Suzanne and Stephanie Rico dig through their deceased mother's office searching for clues to their dark legacy--a flying bomb built in World War II by a brilliant Nazi grandfath...

Podcast : The Allusionist (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : 204. Lexicat, part 1 Pub date : 2024-11-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Elsie the cat has a set of 120 buttons programmed with words. She uses them to lie, swear, apologise, express grief and frustration and love to her human, the author Mary Robinette Kowal,...

Podcast : Wonder Cabinet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Playing with Words Pub date : 2024-11-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sometime in the last couple of years, America’s collective morning routine shifted. We used to start the day with coffee. Now it’s coffee and Wordle. Or Spelling Bee. Or both, plus the crosswo...

Podcast : Philosopher's Zone (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Sense, sensibility and the authentic self Pub date : 2024-11-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Authenticity, vulnerability and empathy are all positive character traits - but is there something in the modern ritual performance of these traits that can actually...

Podcast : 16 Sunsets (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Secret War Pub date : 2024-11-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A space shuttle stands on the pad, seething in the darkness, ready to go. Its mission is high speed espionage. Launching into the night sky, it heads north toward the pole, lining up over the Soviet Union.&...

Podcast : Hyperfixed (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Eva Needs to Measure Pub date : 2024-09-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week: Eva lives in the UK, loves to bake, and frequently tries to bake American recipes. But Americans measure by volume and everyone else measures by weight — and converting those measurem...

Podcast : The Politics Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Autobahn at 50: How Kraftwerk defined modern music Pub date : 2024-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 50 years ago this month the German band Kraftwerk released Autobahn – an album that not only marked a dramatic departure in their sound, but went on to...

Podcast : Savor (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Going Off on Stroganoff Pub date : 2024-11-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This savory, creamy, starchy dish can be made in all sorts of ways, and it has a tangle of historical ties to match. Anney and Lauren dig into the history and cultures behind stroganoff. See omnys...

Podcast : What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : A London Cabbie Pub date : 2024-10-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Outsmarting drunks, competing with ride-share apps, and discovering that some of your passengers were Spice Girls with Jamie Owens, a London cabbie. How much does it cost...

Podcast : Hidden Brain (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy? Pub date : 2024-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Many of us go to great lengths to be happy. But is our singular focus on feeling good actually making us miserable? This week, psychologist Jordi Quoidbach explores w...

Podcast : Entanglements, by Undark (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Risky Science and Public Consent Pub date : 2024-11-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week on Entanglements: Should citizens decide on risky science? Our hosts talk to an Oxford political scientist and a former law and ethics professor about how democ...

Podcast : Think from KERA (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Cynicism won’t protect you from getting hurt Pub date : 2024-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you’re someone who always thinks the sky is falling, chances are you’re not very happy. Jamil Zaki, professor of psychology at Stanford University and the directo...

Podcast : Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Pack It In Pub date : 2024-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thanks to some well-traveled ladies, our Cabinet has another pair of remarkable stories for you to enjoy. Order the official Cabinet of Curiosities book  by clicking here  toda...

Podcast : The Good Whale (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 1: Save The Whale Pub date : 2024-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When the movie “Free Willy” is released, word gets out that the star, a killer whale named Keiko, is sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. An environmentalist sets...

Podcast : The Best Idea Yet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 🍟 The Happy Meal: A Delicious McMystery | 1 Pub date : 2024-10-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Happy Meal is the most successful meal in human history. With over 35 billion units sold, or about four for every person on Earth, McDonald’s iconic “Food and...

Podcast : Gastropod (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project Pub date : 2024-11-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Klamath River on the California-Oregon border was once the third largest salmon river in the continental U.S. There were so many fish, i...

Podcast : Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers. (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : How linguists solve crimes, with Natalie Schilling Pub date : 2024-10-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 1027. This week, I talk with forensic linguist Natalie Schilling about how people's language gives them away — in manifestos, r...

Podcast : The Gift (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 1. Switched - Part 1 Pub date : 2024-11-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization An at-home DNA test - taken by chance when a game of golf is rained off - forces one man and three women to reassess everything they thought they knew about their families. It’s the perfect gift f...

Podcast : The Science of Birds (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Common Kingfisher Pub date : 2024-08-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode—which is Number 102—we dive into the fascinating world of the Common Kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis ), a small but mighty bird known for its striking blue and orange pluma...

Podcast : Strangers on a Bench (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : EPISODE 7: The Disappearing Cyclist Pub date : 2024-10-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation. This is what happened! Produced by Tom Rosen...

Podcast : Pack One Bag (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Fairytale Escape Pub date : 2024-06-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization EPISODE 1 -- In 1939, Franco Modigliani escaped Fascist Italy for the United States. He'd go on to win a Nobel Prize, but his grandson, David, is most interested in the romance-on-the-run that...

Podcast : Fireside Canada (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Many Names and Stories of the Canada Jay Pub date : 2024-10-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Found in every province and territory of the country, the Canada Jay has inspired countless stories in many different cultures from coast to coast. Hear how this one l...

Podcast : Up In Smoke (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : 1: The Fire Pub date : 2024-10-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization March 4th, 2014. A devastating house fire engulfs the home of the Miller family. The parents, Otto and Lyndsey, escape the flames. But their teenage son Mason, is trapped inside. Police, led by DCI Roy Bu...

Podcast : The Marginal Revolution Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Oil Shocks, Price Controls, and War Pub date : 2024-10-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this second installment of their three-part series on the 1970s, Alex and Tyler unravel the economic and geopolitical forces behind the oil shocks that upend...