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Podcast : The Secret Life of Songs (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : #11 - I Feel Love / Donna Summer Pub date : 2025-08-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When Brian Eno first heard 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer, produced by Giorgio Moroder in 1977, he declared that he had 'heard the sound of the future&apo...

Podcast : Criminal (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Bus Ride Pub date : 2025-08-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit, people who lived in the Fischer Housing Projects were still trapped – and it didn’t seem like anyone was coming to help. So 20-year-old Jabar Gibson came up with a p...

Podcast : Decoder Ring (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Off-the-Wall Stories of Off-Label Use Pub date : 2025-05-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Products often tell you exactly how they’re intended to be used. But why leave it at that? As a culture, we have long had a knack for finding ingenious, off-label uses for th...

Podcast : We call her Emma | Tortoise Investigates (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Three is murder | The Lab Detective Ep1 Pub date : 2025-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Journalist Rachel Sylvester investigates the case of 'Australia's worst serial killer'. And discovers, in a story about mothers who have been ac...

Podcast : Threshold (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Hark | 9 | The Silent Type Pub date : 2025-04-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Birds, frogs, dolphins, and humans—we're all big talkers. Turtles, on the other hand, are considered to be silent. But are they? In this episode, we challenge what we know about some of our...

Podcast : Articles of Interest (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Zippers Pub date : 2025-08-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Zippers are the most common machine all around us. But it's a minor miracle how that came to be.  Pictures of early zippers and other links at articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad c...

Podcast : Post Games (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Games about death improve our lives Pub date : 2025-08-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Two options for full show notes, including links to stories, games, and related topics! Subscribe to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/postgames Subscribe to the free newsletter at w...

Podcast : Your Greek Word On A Sunday (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Cyan Pub date : 2025-07-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Hello, and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the...

Podcast : The Ezra Klein Show (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That? Pub date : 2025-07-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I have had a meditation practice for about 15 years now. I started hoping it would calm me down, and it has. But it’s also made me more aware of the strangeness of my m...

Podcast : The Nasty (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : How it Started: 15 minutes of EICs on the bizarre process of getting hired. Pub date : 2025-07-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Awkward, strange, utterly confounding. Every Editor in Chief has a different origin story and all of them are odd. Featuring Ruth Reichl, Gray...

Podcast : The Economics of Everyday Things (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : 102. “The Starry Night” Pub date : 2025-08-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How does a museum place a value on a priceless work of art? And how much does it cost to keep it safe? Zachary Crockett appraises the situation.   SOURCES: Glenn Lowry ,...

Podcast : Charlie's Place (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 1: Whispering Pines Pub date : 2025-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “Myrtle Beach was a good place, if you stay in your place, I’ll put it like that.” At the height of segregation, when everywhere else was divided. Black and white p...

Podcast : In Our Time (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Evolution of Lungs Pub date : 2025-07-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of lungs and of the first breaths, which can be traced back 400 million years to when animal life spread from rock pools and swamps onto land, a...

Podcast : The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile Pub date : 2025-07-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new...

Podcast : Works in Progress Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes Pub date : 2025-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian Anton Howes discusses how Henry VIII turned Britain into an economic backwater – making it the unlikeliest place...

Podcast : Threshold (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Hark | 12 | Trailblazers Pub date : 2025-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Elephants communicate through a variety of calls, trumpets, and rumbles. But despite being some of the largest land animals on Earth, elephants  can also be incredibly quiet. In this epi...

Podcast : Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? Pub date : 2025-07-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It seems like politicians cannot agree on a lot. But many seem to agree on... manufacturing. Leaders of both political parties have been working to try and make the U.S....

Podcast : Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Fromology (CHEESE) Part 1 with Kyra James Pub date : 2025-07-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Soft. Hard. Fresh. Aged. Stinky. Illegal. Let’s talk cheese with Certified Cheese Professional (CCP) and Fromologist, Kyra James. We chat about proprietary bact...

Podcast : BlomCast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : [45] Laura Spinney — The First Human Language and How We Think Pub date : 2025-07-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Once more a dive into deep history, this time into the question how languages developed, and how it is possible to reconstruct the history and genesis of l...

Podcast : The Audio Long Read (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination Pub date : 2025-07-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no i...

Podcast : IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Focus On What’s Right About Young Men with Barack Obama Pub date : 2025-07-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Former President of the United States Barack Obama sits down with Michelle and Craig to answer a listener’s question about rai...

Podcast : Making Science with Tom Whipple Episode : Are friars electric? Pub date : 2025-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1746, Antoine Nolie conducted an experiment with 200 monks to determine the speed of an electric current - by making the monks stand in a circle holding brass poles and connecting them to a large battery. What c...

Podcast : 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Space Shuttle: 1. The spaceplane Pub date : 2025-07-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Can Nasa build the most complex flying machine in space history? The plan is to create a permanent human presence in space. It’s Spring 1969 - two months be...

Podcast : History Unplugged Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer Pub date : 2025-05-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine,...

Podcast : Here & There: A Canadian Geographic Travel Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : How a king, a president, a railway empire and a hot dog helped save the free world Pub date : 2025-06-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This episode is from Black Cabin Studio archives, which originally aired on North Americana P...