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00:45:42

Can you really ‘prep’ for the breakdown of society?

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2024/08/20

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Can you really ‘prep’ for the breakdown of society?Pub date: 2024-08-09For anywhere from $100 to $3,000 or more, you can get ready for doomsday with a prepper kit. Michael Mills, lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the phenomenon of preparing for disaster, if this is unique to America or to a political party affiliation, and if stockpiling food and supplies actually does anything to

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00:24:34

Abdus Salam: celebrating a unifying force in global...

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2024/08/14

Podcast: Physics World Weekly Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Abdus Salam: celebrating a unifying force in global physicsPub date: 2024-08-08This podcast explores the extraordinary life of the Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam, who is celebrated for his ground-breaking theoretical work and for his championing of physics and physicists in developing countries.In 1964, he founded the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy – which

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00:35:24

The Beatlology Interviews: David Sheff

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2024/08/14

Podcast: Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Beatlology Interviews: David SheffPub date: 2024-07-27David Sheff conducted the last major interview with John Lennon. Just as Double Fantasy was being released, Sheff interviewed John & Yoko for Playboy magazine. It was the famous interview where Lennon went through the Beatles catalogue song-by-song - just before he died. The backstory of that interview is fascinating. Hosted on Acast. See

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00:51:35

The Interesting Science of Eating & The Amazing World...

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2024/08/09

Podcast: Something You Should Know (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Interesting Science of Eating & The Amazing World of RatsPub date: 2024-07-29Why is it that mosquitoes seem to go after and bite some people more than others? This episode begins with an explanation of what does and doesn’t make you attractive to this summertime pest. https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleId=42234&publicid=395#When it comes to health and managing your weight,

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01:41:35

#357 - A History of Nomads: A Dialogue of Anthony Sattin

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2024/08/09

Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #357 - A History of Nomads: A Dialogue of Anthony SattinPub date: 2024-07-22In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Anthony Sattin about the history of Nomads on our planet. They discuss humans as naturally nomadic, Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük and early settlements, Uruk and the epic of Gilgamesh, and domestication of horses. They talk about the Persian empire, Scythian empire, and nomadic identity. They discuss

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00:38:41

Bans, boycotts and billions: The politics of the...

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2024/08/09

Podcast: The Bunker (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Bans, boycotts and billions: The politics of the OlympicsPub date: 2024-07-31The Olympics are in full-swing – but news of medals and victory are often overshadowed by controversies linked to contestants and politics. We’ve seen this already this year – but has the Olympics always been so political? Emma Kennedy sits down with David Goldblatt, author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to

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01:08:33

Brian Lehrer Weekend: 100 Years of James Baldwin;...

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2024/08/06

Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Brian Lehrer Weekend: 100 Years of James Baldwin; Election Integrity and National Security; New York City EtiquettePub date: 2024-08-03Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.A hundred years of James Baldwin (First) | Election integrity as a matter of national security (Starts at 27:50) | New York City etiquette rules (Starts at 57:35)If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on

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00:34:15

316: The long journey to make malaria vaccines, and...

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2024/08/03

Podcast: The Readout Loud (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 316: The long journey to make malaria vaccines, and Sarepta's ties with patient advocatesPub date: 2024-08-01Andrew Joseph, STAT's Europe correspondent, joins us to talk about his special report on the 40-year quest to develop the world's first malaria vaccines. We also cover the latest news in the biotech industry, including Sarepta Therapeutics' move to censor a patient video, data from a new Duchenne gene therapy, and a

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00:15:52

Saving the Last Truly Wild Horse

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2024/08/01

Podcast: Science Quickly (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Saving the Last Truly Wild HorsePub date: 2024-07-10Przewalski’s horses are truly wild horses, even the ones held in captivity. They traditionally roamed the Central Asian steppes, so you can imagine everyone’s surprise when two separate accounts on TikTok claimed to have found a Przewalski’s horse here in the U.S. But as guest and Scientific American associate news editor Allison Parshall will tell you, the real story is the

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00:38:20

Lawfare Daily: Ryan Calo on Protecting Privacy Amid...

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2024/08/01

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Ryan Calo on Protecting Privacy Amid Advances in AIPub date: 2024-07-30Ryan Calo, Professor of Law at the University of Washington, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss how advances in AI are undermining already insufficient privacy protections. The two dive into Calo'srecent testimonybefore the Senate Committee on Commerce,

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00:31:25

The World Turned Upside Down: Home Video

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2024/07/31

Podcast: The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The World Turned Upside Down: Home VideoPub date: 2024-07-21This week on The Tinsel Factory, the invention of home video.Movie Reviews: Twisters Support This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinselfactorypod Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-tinsel-factory/all Venmo: @tinselfactorypod Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/tinselpod Letterboxd:

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00:43:48

Is Ozempic Different?

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2024/07/31

Podcast: Distillations | Science History Institute (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Is Ozempic Different?Pub date: 2024-07-02Ozempic and others in this family of drugs are nothing short of miraculous. Meant to treat Type 2 Diabetes, the drug exploded in popularity after researchers found that patients were reporting losing 15-21% of their body weight in clinical trials. There were some side effects, but none so severe that it raised concerns. Doctors began prescribing it to people

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00:07:38

The Voice of Death - A Roumanian Folktale

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2024/07/27

Podcast: The Folktale Project (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The Voice of Death - A Roumanian FolktalePub date: 2024-07-17Our last new story for a bit is a short (but very good) tale about death. Starting next week The Folktale Project will be replaying classic stories while we get ready for something completely new. Title: Roumanian Fairy Tales Author: Various Compiler: Mite Kremnitz Editor: J. M. Percival Host: Dan Scholz Support The Folktale Project by becoming a supporter on

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01:00:05

The Art of Rest, with Claudia Hammond and Helen Czerski

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2024/07/21

Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Art of Rest, with Claudia Hammond and Helen CzerskiPub date: 2020-12-22The pandemic of 2020 has turned our lives upside down. Home working and homeschooling have become the norm for millions of us. And while you might think that the absence of long commutes, live entertainment and late-night socialising means we are more rested, many of us are more frazzled than ever, finding it difficult to separate work from

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00:18:48

Mendez: How I became an audiobook narrator

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2024/07/21

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Mendez: How I became an audiobook narratorPub date: 2024-07-10The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting tables lead to their new niche. In this episode, Mendez reads their recent piece about the art of audiobook narrationand how they became thevoice of Pelé.Find the original piece and further reading on the episode page:

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00:27:14

Bathing Badasses

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2024/07/21

Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Bathing BadassesPub date: 2024-07-12Synchronized, scientific, ornamental, fancy, pretty: so many adjectives have been attached over the years to performative swimming, especially when done by women. Now known at the highest level as “artistic swimming,” it was for decades one of the few athletic activities women could pursue, albeit in uncomfortable, baggy, and not exactly aerodynamic attire. Despite—or perhaps because of—its

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00:30:01

Sleeper Train

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2024/07/17

Podcast: Slow Radio (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Sleeper TrainPub date: 2024-02-25In 2017, audio producer Phil Smith travelled to Ukraine to attend his friend's wedding. There, somewhere between the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Odessa, he fell in love with the soundworld of the sleeper train: its steady hypnotic rhythms, the melody of hurtling through time and space, the calls of distant tannoy speakers drifting across platforms in the dead of night, the chorus of snores

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00:41:35

66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg...

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2024/07/17

Podcast: Thin End of the Wedge (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: 66. Rune Rattenborg, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt: Geomapping CuneiformPub date: 2024-05-10Rune, Seraina, and Gustav discuss their recently completed project on geomapping cuneiform. Where were inscriptions found and where are they now? How many tablets are there? What counts as a tablet anyway? They reveal the challenges of integrating datasets, and explore the potential opened up by knowing where inscriptions really

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00:58:12

Philippa Foot

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2024/07/15

Podcast: In Our Time (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Philippa FootPub date: 2024-06-13Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot (1920 - 2010). Her central question was, “Why be moral?” Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas, Foot spent her life working through her instinct that there was something lacking in the prevailing philosophy of the 1950s and 1960s which held that values could only be subjective. Could

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00:18:45

Sudden Russian Death Syndrome

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2024/07/15

Podcast: Whale Hunting (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Sudden Russian Death SyndromePub date: 2024-07-10It’s a precarious time for the Russian elite. Caught up in the invasion of Ukraine and an immovable dictator, the noblesse russe have to tip-toe through economic and political conflict to survive. In the last two years, however, an increasing number have lost their footing. This week on Whale Hunting, host Bradley Hope welcomes Xenia Rakovshik, a Russian-American journalist who's

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