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Feb 12th, 2025
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Episode | Description | Date Aired | Reach | Contacts | Categories | Hosts | Episode Guests | Length | Curator's Notes | Expand | |||||
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"Until recently, issuing a death threat required some effort. Today, anyone wit... | September 21, 2022 | -- | 24:50s | ||||||||||||
"If you want to know where African American English is headed, listen to Shonde... | November 2, 2022 | -- | 18:34s | ||||||||||||
"Are the roots of African American English mainly African? Or English? Or somet... | October 5, 2022 | -- | 23:37s | ||||||||||||
"Guest host Ciku Theuri speaks with music writer Jordannah Elizabeth about the ... | October 19, 2022 | -- | 17:17s | ||||||||||||
"One study from 2018 found that Major League Baseball umpires blow about 14 cal... | February 28, 2023 | -- | 32:49s | ||||||||||||
" If we’ve learned anything from watching the turnover of tech giants like Yaho... | March 7, 2023 | -- | 43:17s | ||||||||||||
"When LA punks were looking for a place to play in the late 1970s, Chinatown we... | February 14, 2023 | 47:26s | |||||||||||||
"In the 20th century, Iowa high school girls basketball was HUGE but it was not... | January 31, 2023 | 46:08s | |||||||||||||
"The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. In the o... | March 29, 2023 | -- | 41:12s | ||||||||||||
"In the 1980s a Polish anti-communist group called the Orange Alternative used ... | February 22, 2023 | -- | 37:10s | ||||||||||||
"Back in 2017 we ran an episode about the history of Brazil's iconic, yellow na... | January 17, 2023 | -- | 34:07s | ||||||||||||
"Back in March, Netflix picked up a long running Japanese TV program based on a... | August 30, 2022 | -- | 29:50s | ||||||||||||
"There's a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be c... | August 23, 2022 | -- | 35:53s | ||||||||||||
"99% Invisible producer emeritus Avery Trufelman traveled from New York to San ... | July 5, 2022 | -- | 47:53s | ||||||||||||
"No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the ... | June 14, 2022 | -- | 38:52s | ||||||||||||
"Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfro... | May 18, 2022 | -- | 43:36s | ||||||||||||
"People have been going back and forth about what makes a healthy and productiv... | February 9, 2022 | 42:36s | |||||||||||||
"In much of the western world, alphabetical order is simply a default we take f... | December 1, 2021 | 31:59s | |||||||||||||
"Fitness trends come and go. But the simple weight is an anchor in the shifting... | November 17, 2021 | -- | 45:39s | ||||||||||||
"There are few dreams as glorified and romanticized as that of becoming an acto... | February 7, 2023 | -- | 47:41s | ||||||||||||
"Part of 'The American Dream' is predicated on home ownership. Conventional wis... | October 18, 2022 | -- | 52:56s | ||||||||||||
"For centuries, the terms male and female have essentially been synonymous with... | January 17, 2023 | -- | 46:43s | ||||||||||||
"Scorpio, Leo, Taurus, Pisces. These are just a few of the Zodiac signs in the ... | October 4, 2022 | -- | 42:29s | ||||||||||||
"Survivor is the most iconic reality television competition of the last twenty ... | September 27, 2022 | -- | 50:25s | ||||||||||||
"Most people veer away from dangerous places. Yet there are some people in this... | September 14, 2022 | -- | -- | 34:09s | |||||||||||
"“Money can’t buy you happiness” … so the adage goes. But deep down, most peo... | August 30, 2022 | -- | 42:22s | ||||||||||||
"Many actors do their best to 'make it' in the entertainment industry. But does... | August 16, 2022 | -- | 52:58s | ||||||||||||
"The works and plays of William Shakespeare have endured for centuries. But wha... | October 25, 2022 | -- | 41:09s | ||||||||||||
"Walking through the meat aisle of a grocery store, do you ever wonder whether ... | April 19, 2022 | -- | 45:27s | ||||||||||||
"There are many people who exist on the shorter end of the height spectrum. For... | November 22, 2022 | -- | 57:58s | ||||||||||||
"There is a preconception that once a romantic relationship ends, the whole rel... | February 14, 2023 | -- | 36:39s | ||||||||||||
"Many of us don't know what to make of napping; does napping provide health ben... | November 8, 2022 | -- | 33:24s | ||||||||||||
"For many years, depression has been treated with selective serotonin reuptake ... | March 14, 2023 | -- | 41:07s | ||||||||||||
"The Aztec Empire famously fell following the arrival of the Europeans in the 1... | March 21, 2023 | -- | 45:52s | ||||||||||||
"In the wake of 'Barbenheimer', there is perhaps more excitement surrounding th... | August 15, 2023 | -- | 37:25s | ||||||||||||
"Shinji Mikamo is a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. His da... | August 8, 2023 | -- | 44:38s | ||||||||||||
"Over the past several years, plunges into freezing cold ice baths have become ... | July 18, 2023 | -- | 47:16s | ||||||||||||
"There are certain things that are just ‘knowns’ in the world, preconceptions i... | April 25, 2023 | -- | 44:32s | ||||||||||||
"Antarctica is one of the most fascinating and mysterious places on Earth. One ... | February 28, 2023 | -- | 55:33s | ||||||||||||
"We all search for meaning in this world. But as we each embark on our own jour... | January 10, 2023 | -- | 32:54s | ||||||||||||
"When we contemplate the word ‘career’, it’s natural to think of one singular p... | December 20, 2022 | -- | 47:33s | ||||||||||||
"The conflict in Israel and Palestine predates even the creation of the state o... | July 11, 2023 | -- | 2:01:17s | ||||||||||||
"In the life of an athlete, one of the major decision points is getting a sport... | August 29, 2023 | -- | 36:51s | ||||||||||||
"It’s an unnatural activity that has become normal. You’re stuck in a metal tub... | February 23, 2023 | -- | 1:01:28s | ||||||||||||
"Thanks to decades of work by airlines and regulators, plane crashes are nearly... | March 2, 2023 | -- | 57:38s | ||||||||||||
"Most travelers want the cheapest flight they can find. Airlines, meanwhile, ne... | March 9, 2023 | -- | 58:00s | ||||||||||||
"Adam Smith famously argued that specialization is the key to prosperity. In th... | February 16, 2023 | -- | 57:06s | ||||||||||||
"Hotel guests adore those cute little soaps, but is it just a one-night stand? ... | February 13, 2023 | -- | 18:25s | ||||||||||||
"Can a hit single from four decades ago still pay the bills? Zachary Crockett f... | February 6, 2023 | -- | 19:06s | ||||||||||||
"How does America's cutest sales force get billions of Thin Mints, Samoas, and ... | January 30, 2023 | 16:07s | |||||||||||||
"When small businesses get bought by big investors, the name may stay the same ... | January 26, 2023 | -- | 49:15s | ||||||||||||
"Big investors are buying up local veterinary practices (and pretty much everyt... | January 19, 2023 | -- | 42:52s | ||||||||||||
"In a special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckwor... | January 5, 2023 | 48:54s | |||||||||||||
"In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to the... | December 29, 2022 | 56:24s | |||||||||||||
"It’s fun to obsess over pop stars and racecar drivers — but is fandom making o... | November 3, 2022 | -- | 47:38s | ||||||||||||
"The last two years have radically changed the way we work — producing winners,... | October 27, 2022 | -- | 43:41s | ||||||||||||
"It was supposed to boost prosperity and democracy at the same time. What reall... | October 20, 2022 | 53:08s | |||||||||||||
"New research finds that bosses who went to business school pay their workers l... | October 6, 2022 | -- | 50:14s | ||||||||||||
"The pandemic provided city dwellers with a break from the din of the modern wo... | September 29, 2022 | -- | 55:08s | ||||||||||||
"In ancient Rome, it was bread and circuses. Today, it’s a World Cup, an Olympi... | June 9, 2022 | 53:34s | |||||||||||||
"We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better lif... | April 21, 2022 | 49:49s | |||||||||||||
"America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase su... | April 28, 2022 | -- | 59:06s | ||||||||||||
"Enrollment is down for the first time in memory, and critics complain college ... | May 5, 2022 | 49:03s | |||||||||||||
"Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been d... | May 19, 2022 | -- | 52:41s | ||||||||||||
"The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of governmen... | April 14, 2022 | -- | 1:11:27s | ||||||||||||
"The benefits of sleep are by now well established, and yet many people don’t g... | July 8, 2021 | 36:50s | |||||||||||||
"We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, ... | July 15, 2021 | 50:19s | |||||||||||||
"According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most in... | July 22, 2021 | -- | 47:30s | ||||||||||||
"The state-by-state rollout of legalized weed has given economists a perfect na... | April 22, 2021 | 35:24s | |||||||||||||
"In this special crossover episode, People I (Mostly) Admire host Steve Levitt ... | April 15, 2021 | -- | 51:26s | ||||||||||||
"Why do so many promising solutions — in education, medicine, criminal justice,... | March 25, 2021 | 46:01s | |||||||||||||
"Backers of a $15 federal wage say it’s a no-brainer if you want to fight pover... | April 29, 2021 | 44:15s | |||||||||||||
"Every year, there are more than a million collisions in the U.S. between drive... | March 24, 2022 | 50:07s | |||||||||||||
"It boosts economic opportunity and social mobility. It’s good for the environm... | August 25, 2022 | 47:04s | |||||||||||||
"How did an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of... | December 8, 2022 | -- | 52:12s | ||||||||||||
"Economists and politicians have turned him into a mascot for free-market ideol... | December 15, 2022 | -- | 1:11:18s | ||||||||||||
"Labor exploitation! Corporate profiteering! Government corruption! The 21st ce... | December 22, 2022 | -- | 52:29s | ||||||||||||
"But as C.E.O. of the resurgent Microsoft, he is firmly at the center of the A.... | June 22, 2023 | 41:40s | |||||||||||||
"Actually, the reasons are pretty clear. The harder question is: Will we ever c... | July 6, 2023 | -- | 50:54s | ||||||||||||
"How did a freshly looted Egyptian antiquity end up in the Metropolitan Museum ... | May 4, 2023 | -- | 59:21s | ||||||||||||
"The world’s great museums are full of art and artifacts that were plundered du... | May 11, 2023 | -- | 52:11s | ||||||||||||
"Museums are purging their collections of looted treasures. Can they also get s... | May 18, 2023 | -- | 56:35s | ||||||||||||
"Artificial intelligence, we’ve been told, will destroy humankind. No, wait — i... | August 24, 2023 | 53:29s | |||||||||||||
"Guest host Adam Davidson looks at what might happen to your job in a world of ... | August 31, 2023 | 53:21s | |||||||||||||
"For all the speculation about the future, A.I. tools can be useful right now. ... | September 7, 2023 | 53:56s | |||||||||||||
"It made headlines worldwide: Hundreds of women raped in one Congolese village.... | August 28, 2017 | -- | -- | 40:21s | |||||||||||
"A day of yoga in the US. A yoga war in India. A court case in California and w... | September 18, 2017 | -- | -- | 31:15s | |||||||||||
"A Syrian refugee in Berlin hopes to find love but is stumped by German dating ... | September 25, 2017 | -- | -- | 38:45s | |||||||||||
"Fed up with government inaction, young people start rebuilding Mosul on their ... | April 17, 2019 | -- | 38:18s | ||||||||||||
"The capture of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann was one of Israel's proudest moment... | May 29, 2019 | -- | 29:14s | ||||||||||||
"When a journalist goes missing in Iraq, his friends and family have to figure ... | June 12, 2019 | -- | 39:23s | ||||||||||||
"A fragile alliance begins to fracture, as a romantic photo of Kamaran resurfac... | June 20, 2019 | -- | 44:25s | ||||||||||||
"If you're the kind of person who thinks you can't be conned, that assumption m... | August 7, 2019 | -- | 34:22s | ||||||||||||
"What happens when the employees of a French McDonald's take the corporate phil... | September 19, 2019 | -- | -- | 43:31s | |||||||||||
"Five personal stories from five continents on the global impact of George Floy... | June 10, 2020 | -- | 29:10s | ||||||||||||
"Resolving conflict through consensus is a very Dutch tradition. But how do you... | June 24, 2020 | -- | 30:17s | ||||||||||||
"Ireland's "cocooning" policy during the coronavirus lockdown asked people over... | July 8, 2020 | -- | 23:25s | ||||||||||||
"How does India's caste system play out in the hiring practices of Silicon Vall... | September 30, 2020 | -- | 32:45s | ||||||||||||
"After a Ugandan scholar is suspended from her university job, she discovers a ... | October 28, 2020 | -- | -- | 44:23s | |||||||||||
"What if more evangelical Christians in the United States fought climate change... | October 14, 2020 | -- | -- | 36:52s | |||||||||||
"What can a young refugee who's survived a war teach a novelist about writing y... | November 25, 2020 | -- | -- | 33:26s | |||||||||||
"France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someo... | December 16, 2020 | -- | -- | 49:55s | |||||||||||
"What happens when your guidebook isn't written with you in mind? Nanjala Nyabo... | February 25, 2021 | -- | 27:15s | ||||||||||||
"Two very different approaches to wooing vaccine skeptics. And how a little FOM... | March 10, 2021 | -- | 21:51s | ||||||||||||
"Our favorite McDonald's in Marseille, France has reached its afterlife. It too... | April 7, 2021 | -- | 50:11s | ||||||||||||
"Heather Hansen used to teach people to speak "perfect" English. Until she real... | April 21, 2021 | -- | 34:51s | ||||||||||||
"As the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan, we look back at a time when Taliban poet... | May 5, 2021 | -- | 45:37s | ||||||||||||
"A jazz dance born in Harlem in the 1920s ends up in a tiny Swedish town. What ... | December 22, 2021 | -- | 43:47s | ||||||||||||
"Vladimir Putin joined the KGB at age 23. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensk... | March 2, 2022 | -- | 31:23s | ||||||||||||
"When protecting a language is used as justification for war, how can its speak... | March 15, 2022 | -- | 40:36s | ||||||||||||
"When Naira calls her parents back home in Russia to talk about the war in Ukra... | March 30, 2022 | -- | 15:50s | ||||||||||||
"What can a blank piece of paper, four ballerinas, a scarf and snuff box mean i... | April 15, 2022 | -- | 17:28s | ||||||||||||
"A video ricochets across Chinese offices, and a scooter thief becomes an icon ... | June 1, 2022 | -- | 39:41s | ||||||||||||
"In 2021, France suspended a law that forbids eating lunch at work. We talk to ... | June 8, 2022 | -- | 31:24s | ||||||||||||
"When Portugal forbade bosses from contacting employees after hours, internatio... | June 15, 2022 | -- | -- | 43:17s | |||||||||||
"Who are you at work? In this episode, two stories of people who really commit ... | June 29, 2022 | -- | -- | 35:22s | |||||||||||
"726 miles in one day. Gas station sushi. Mysterious loading docks. We hit the ... | July 13, 2022 | -- | 31:48s | ||||||||||||
"A hyperlocal news site in Red Hook, N.Y. posts a job opening. A journalist in ... | August 3, 2022 | -- | 40:55s | ||||||||||||
""I talk to so many women who, you know, we talk about huddle and we talk about... | April 28, 2022 | -- | 1:01:32s | ||||||||||||
""When we talk about the ghost of the unsaid, we're talking about the inherited... | May 5, 2022 | -- | 59:20s | ||||||||||||
"“I think the key is to really believe it when you see something that you're do... | May 26, 2022 | -- | 48:28s | ||||||||||||
"“There are 12 questions that enable every person who's willing to, to answer t... | June 16, 2022 | -- | 57:46s | ||||||||||||
"“So natural intelligence has this ability to bring order when we allow it to. ... | July 21, 2022 | -- | 53:22s | ||||||||||||
"“The focus of adulthood has been on stability, just, you know, find a job and ... | July 28, 2022 | -- | 51:20s | ||||||||||||
"“And I just feel that people, I now I have so much more perspective, but at th... | August 4, 2022 | -- | 52:53s | ||||||||||||
"“I talk about dysfunctional relational stances that would repeat over and over... | June 2, 2022 | -- | 53:03s | ||||||||||||
"“If you don't know how to say no, your body will eventually say no for you. I ... | July 14, 2022 | -- | 47:35s | ||||||||||||
"“I tear up at the drop of a hand and got another facilitator who tears up quic... | August 18, 2022 | -- | 51:38s | ||||||||||||
"“What I know is that no one is alone. There's no sense of isolation or sadness... | August 25, 2022 | -- | 1:02:05s | ||||||||||||
"“There seems to be this basic idea that if you make a system including a human... | September 1, 2022 | -- | 53:04s | ||||||||||||
"“I think we all have these stories, you know, whether they come through bereav... | September 8, 2022 | 55:49s | |||||||||||||
"“Where in your life where you're not saying yes, but there's a, yes. That want... | September 15, 2022 | -- | 1:05:33s | ||||||||||||
"“Well, I think of it like the metaphor of the ensemble in a great musical, lik... | October 6, 2022 | -- | 1:01:09s | ||||||||||||
"“But my other favorite thing about the confidence piece, as someone who can be... | October 13, 2022 | -- | 56:48s | ||||||||||||
"“I’m trying to map the territory in the center world, just the way I did with ... | November 10, 2022 | -- | 57:47s | ||||||||||||
""We have offered a model, the seven circles, that helps people to understand t... | November 3, 2022 | -- | 1:07:00s | ||||||||||||
"“There are many places I'd love to see and I know I would learn from. But if I... | January 12, 2023 | -- | 57:43s | ||||||||||||
"“And the moment when she admitted that she had been wrong, that was the greate... | February 9, 2023 | -- | 58:56s | ||||||||||||
"“A conversation that I hope this book sparks, because it's such a fun conversa... | February 16, 2023 | -- | 53:57s | ||||||||||||
"“People have always fought against anyone trying to impose power on them or tr... | March 16, 2023 | -- | 1:00:02s | ||||||||||||
"“We are in a time where everything that we think we have taken for granted in ... | March 23, 2023 | -- | 58:18s | ||||||||||||
"“Ideas don't arrive with a bang. There is no parade. The big thing never screa... | April 6, 2023 | -- | 54:36s | ||||||||||||
"“A million Americans a week are quitting a job. This number is almost twice as... | June 8, 2023 | -- | 1:02:19s | ||||||||||||
"“I think there are a number of ways that we move into action that's characteri... | June 22, 2023 | -- | 42:24s | ||||||||||||
"“And I am not thankful for how hard it was. I don't believe we have to suffer ... | June 29, 2023 | -- | 1:01:47s | ||||||||||||
"“So circling can be very personal, meaning you have your own awareness. It's n... | July 6, 2023 | -- | 56:36s | ||||||||||||
""So trauma can get stuck in our tissues.You know, our emotions can actually be... | July 13, 2023 | -- | 47:45s | ||||||||||||
"“A loving being isn't domineering and a loving being is not going to judge you... | July 27, 2023 | -- | 58:01s | ||||||||||||
"“Sometimes it feels like empathy, sympathy, sorrow, grief are scarce resources... | August 24, 2023 | -- | 1:07:35s | ||||||||||||
"Known as the “hit recording capital of the world,” Muscle Shoals, Alabama has ... | October 24, 2022 | -- | 29:03s | ||||||||||||
"Guthrie, once the capital of Oklahoma, is a town that could easily be the back... | October 31, 2022 | -- | 31:46s | ||||||||||||
"Brian Brigantti was a lifelong city guy, raised in Chicago and living in New Y... | November 7, 2022 | -- | 36:50s | ||||||||||||
"In this episode, Anne travels to a small town close to her heart – Walla Walla... | November 14, 2022 | -- | 35:10s | ||||||||||||
"Many city dwellers find themselves daydreaming about moving to a small town. M... | November 21, 2022 | -- | 28:13s | ||||||||||||
"In this week’s episode, we get into the nitty gritty of small town dating. Wha... | November 28, 2022 | -- | 34:32s | ||||||||||||
"Maybe you’ve seen the Instagram account Cheap Old Houses (@cheapoldhouses) in ... | December 5, 2022 | -- | 36:37s | ||||||||||||
"Located in the Arctic Circle, Utqiagvik, Alaska is the Northernmost town in Am... | December 12, 2022 | -- | 25:08s | ||||||||||||
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