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01:13:07

Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother

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2024/05/25

Podcast: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger BrotherPub date: 2024-01-23In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up in this battle both as collaborators and targets between the years of 1956 - 1960. We also meet a propagandist responsible for the CIA’s cinematic

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01:13:07

Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother

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2024/05/25

Podcast: Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger BrotherPub date: 2024-01-23In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up in this battle both as collaborators and targets between the years of 1956 - 1960. We also meet a propagandist responsible for the CIA’s cinematic

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00:52:18

418. Urban Myths: Challenging the Green City Idea...

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2024/05/25

Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 418. Urban Myths: Challenging the Green City Idea feat. Des FitzgeraldPub date: 2024-05-08Are there reasons to doubt the conventional wisdom of greenery as the cure-all for urban ills. What are the roots of the Garden City movement, and how has the reality of it been different than the theory?Des Fitzgerald is a professor of medical humanities and social sciences at University College Cork Ireland, and also the

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00:52:18

418. Urban Myths: Challenging the Green City Idea...

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2024/05/25

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00:41:32

Part 1: City Gone Crazy

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2024/05/25

Podcast: Let the Kids Dance! (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Part 1: City Gone CrazyPub date: 2024-04-04The genesis of Seattle’s Teen Dance Ordinance begins at a nightclub called the Monastery. In the early 1980s, this all-ages disco was renowned on the West Coast for cutting-edge music and all-night parties. Some experienced the Monastery as a radically inclusive refuge where queer youth find community. Others described it as a den of illicit drugs and predatory behavior. Both are

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00:41:32

Part 1: City Gone Crazy

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2024/05/25

Podcast: Let the Kids Dance! (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Part 1: City Gone CrazyPub date: 2024-04-04The genesis of Seattle’s Teen Dance Ordinance begins at a nightclub called the Monastery. In the early 1980s, this all-ages disco was renowned on the West Coast for cutting-edge music and all-night parties. Some experienced the Monastery as a radically inclusive refuge where queer youth find community. Others described it as a den of illicit drugs and predatory behavior. Both are

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00:41:23

African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

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2024/05/17

Podcast: Imaginary Worlds (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future ClimatePub date: 2024-04-10When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the diaspora. Africanfuturism mixes the traditional with the futuristic in a way that resembles modern life in Africa, and many of these stories grapple with climate change

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00:41:23

African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

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2024/05/17

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00:44:44

Percival Everett

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Private Passions (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Percival EverettPub date: 2024-05-12The American writer Percival Everett is enjoying a moment in the spotlight: his novel The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022; an earlier book, Erasure, was adapted into the recent Oscar-winning film American Fiction; and his latest novel, James, is already a best-seller in the United States. It’s a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the

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00:44:44

Percival Everett

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Private Passions (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Percival EverettPub date: 2024-05-12The American writer Percival Everett is enjoying a moment in the spotlight: his novel The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022; an earlier book, Erasure, was adapted into the recent Oscar-winning film American Fiction; and his latest novel, James, is already a best-seller in the United States. It’s a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the

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00:57:32

The Sea Change

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Reflector (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The Sea ChangePub date: 2024-04-30Why aren’t Americans embracing the most promising medications for treating over-drinking?Become a subscriber today: reflector.show/subscribeAlcohol consumption increased more during the COVID-19 pandemic than it had at any time in the past 50 years. Even though bars were closed for weeks on end and fewer people were out on the road doing their daily commuting, Americans were drinking so much that from

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00:57:32

The Sea Change

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Reflector (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Sea ChangePub date: 2024-04-30Why aren’t Americans embracing the most promising medications for treating over-drinking?Become a subscriber today: reflector.show/subscribeAlcohol consumption increased more during the COVID-19 pandemic than it had at any time in the past 50 years. Even though bars were closed for weeks on end and fewer people were out on the road doing their daily commuting, Americans were drinking so much that from

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00:34:54

The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of...

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2024/05/16

Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of History. What Happened?Pub date: 2024-04-30There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for much of human history, 15 hours of work a week was the standard, followed by leisure time with family and fellow tribe members, telling stories, painting, dancing, and everything else. Work was a means to an end, and nothing

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00:34:54

The 15-Hour Work Week Was Standard For Nearly All of...

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2024/05/16

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00:27:12

E1: The Mystery Broom

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Broomgate: A Curling Scandal (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: E1: The Mystery BroomPub date: 2024-05-06It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique

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00:27:12

E1: The Mystery Broom

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Broomgate: A Curling Scandal (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: E1: The Mystery BroomPub date: 2024-05-06It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique

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01:11:25

579- Towers of Silence

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2024/05/16

Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: 579- Towers of SilencePub date: 2024-04-23Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely -- a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived in a relatively undeveloped state in the middle of this gargantuan city. Importantly, it’s also home to an

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579- Towers of Silence

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2024/05/16

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00:25:40

Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision

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2024/05/16

Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Israel, Gaza, and EurovisionPub date: 2024-05-07The pop music competition is facing boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding and historian Tess Megginson explain why the apolitical event keeps getting political.This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean

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Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision

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2024/05/16

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