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Podcast : Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025) Pub date : 2025-02-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, w...

Podcast : This Is Actually Happening (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 348: What if you survived the Burundian genocide? Pub date : 2025-02-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization During the 1993 mass killing of Tutsis in Burundi, a young man raised in a tight-knit community becomes a target of ethnic cleansing, but as he face...

Podcast : Philosophize This! (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov Pub date : 2025-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we talk about the philosophical themes around love in The Brothers Karamazov. We talk about Dostoevsky's existential, tragic form of Christ...

Podcast : Haptic & Hue (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Tapestries For Troubled Times Pub date : 2025-01-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tapestries for Troubled Times The stitches of the Bayeux Tapestry fix the story of the Norman Conquest of England in our imaginations in an extraordinarily charismatic way. But nearly...

Podcast : Capitalisn't (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum Pub date : 2025-02-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “Homeownership is the American Dream.” This saying is so ingrained in our zeitgeist that most Americans don't even pause to question it. However, according...

Podcast : Shell Game (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 1: Quality Assurance Pub date : 2024-07-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This is the story of what happens when Evan Ratliff, a longtime tech journalist, makes a digital copy of himself, powered by AI, in order to understand how amazing and scary and utterly...

Podcast : It's a Continent (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Ghana’s Exiled King: Prempeh I Pub date : 2025-01-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We're exploring the life of Asantehene Prempeh I, the exiled king of the Asante Empire (modern-day Ghana). From his rise to power, supported by his mother Nana Yaa Kyaa, to his def...

Podcast : Imaginary Advice (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Fifth Tellytubby Pub date : 2025-02-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Don't call it a relapse: Imaginary Advice returns for 2025. Featuring four short pieces written and produced by Ross Sutherland. Also featuring the voice of Emma Spearing and Angus Dunican...

Podcast : EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter) Pub date : 2025-02-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why do we buy stuff we don't need? Maybe for the same reason that some people can't stand stuff at all. Listen as author Michael Easter speaks with EconTalk's Russ Rober...

Podcast : 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Nazi Block Pub date : 2025-02-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the heart of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district sits a hulking, crumbling concrete cylinder—an abandoned relic of a Nazi plan to rebuild the city as a grand imperial capital. But this eerie...

Podcast : Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Thyroidology (THYROID GLAND) with Kepal Patel Pub date : 2025-01-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sad? Cold? Hot? Wired? Blame the thyroid. Maybe. In your throat there is a butterfly-shaped gland under a shield-shaped Adam’s Apple and it controls your wh...

Podcast : Radio Atlantic (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case Pub date : 2025-02-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In a new memoir , the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a mother who left her and a father who was barely there. But there was al...

Podcast : Something You Should Know (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : How Flavor Has Guided Human History & The Threat of Pseudoscience - SYSK Choice Pub date : 2025-02-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Modern kitchen freezers are actually cruel to ice cream and other frozen foods. This episode begins by explaining why t...

Podcast : How to Be Superhuman (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The cyclist who raced 2,750km across Africa on almost no sleep: Abdullah Zeinab S3:E1 Pub date : 2025-02-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Abdullah Zeinab’s epic Rhino Run adventure crossing South Africa and Namibia redefines what’s possible in endurance cycli...

Podcast : The Black Hum (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Service Denied Pub date : 2024-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why did Canada not want a so-called "checkerboard army"? In 1914, the Canadian government called on all able-bodied men to serve their country in the Great War. However, when Black men went to enlist...

Podcast : Many Minds (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : String theories Pub date : 2025-02-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Where would our species be without string? It's one of our most basic technologies—so basic that it's easy to overlook. But humans have used string—and its cousins rope, yarn, cordage, thread, etc.—f...

Podcast : Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets Pub date : 2025-02-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the late '80s and early '90s, a seismic subculture shook the streets… literally. “Boom Cars,” decked out with custom sound systems, roamed neigh...

Podcast : Past Present Future (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther Pub date : 2025-02-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe witho...

Podcast : The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : My family and other Nazis Pub date : 2024-08-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My father did terrible things during the second world war, and my other relatives were equally unrepentant. But it wasn’t until I was in my late 50s that I started to confront thi...

Podcast : Days Like These (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Margie and the Sheep Pub date : 2024-07-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end... The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC Australia, which is the property...

Podcast : Inventory-ing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 4: Kristoffer Tjalve Pub date : 2025-01-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kristoffer is an independent curator and strategist living in Athens, Greece. He is dedicated to keeping the web alive through Naive Weekly, his well-received Sunday email, and Naive Y...

Podcast : Folk on Foot (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Folk on Foot Classic: Julie Fowlis on the Shores of Loch Ness Pub date : 2025-01-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis takes Matthew Bannister for a snowy walk on the dramatic shores of Loch Ness near her home in the Scottish Highlands. Ac...

Podcast : My Unsung Hero (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Virginia Squier's Story Pub date : 2025-01-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization After Virginia's young daughter accidentally boarded a subway train without her, someone unexpected stepped in to help.  Do you have your own story of an unsung hero? We'd love to hear it...

Podcast : The Politics Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Times They Have a-Changed: Where is the protest song now? Pub date : 2025-01-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1966, to the chagrin of his fans and the folk music community, Bob Dylan went electric. The five years leading up to this moment is the focus o...

Podcast : Sinica Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman Pub date : 2025-01-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I know I'd said last time there would be no show this week, but that was before this fascinating episode involving TikTok users signing up en mass...