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00:40:07

560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” —...

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2023/10/05

Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: 560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?Pub date: 2023-10-05John Ray is an emergency C.E.O., a bankruptcy expert who takes over companies that have succumbed to failure or fraud. He’s currently cleaning up the mess left by alleged crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried. And he loves it. RESOURCES:"United States of America v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, a/k/a 'SBF,'" by the United States District Court

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00:19:30

Eleanor Rigby

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2023/10/04

Podcast: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Eleanor RigbyPub date: 2023-10-04Face cream, a Bristol liquor business, and a lifelong reverence for the elderly are just a few of the rather ordinary and disparate inspirations Paul McCartney brought together in the creation of a masterpiece: “Eleanor Rigby.” In this episode, McCartney and Paul Muldoon tease out the song's lyrical inspirations and discuss the influence a Bernard Herrmann score for a Hitchcock film

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00:19:30

Eleanor Rigby

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2023/10/04

Podcast: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Eleanor RigbyPub date: 2023-10-04Face cream, a Bristol liquor business, and a lifelong reverence for the elderly are just a few of the rather ordinary and disparate inspirations Paul McCartney brought together in the creation of a masterpiece: “Eleanor Rigby.” In this episode, McCartney and Paul Muldoon tease out the song's lyrical inspirations and discuss the influence a Bernard Herrmann score for a Hitchcock film

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00:13:29

4. This Train Has Been Delayed

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2023/10/03

Podcast: Uncharted with Hannah Fry (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 4. This Train Has Been DelayedPub date: 2023-09-25Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the military are at a loss: no-one can figure out what is causing the problem. Until Jason Bay and his team of data scientists assemble an old-fashioned timetabling graph, first developed in 19th century France, which exposes an

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00:13:29

4. This Train Has Been Delayed

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2023/10/03

Podcast: Uncharted with Hannah Fry (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 4. This Train Has Been DelayedPub date: 2023-09-25Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the military are at a loss: no-one can figure out what is causing the problem. Until Jason Bay and his team of data scientists assemble an old-fashioned timetabling graph, first developed in 19th century France, which exposes an

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00:34:23

554- Devil in the Details

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2023/10/02

Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: 554- Devil in the DetailsPub date: 2023-09-26This week we have two stories featuring the devil.An infamous "training video" teaching cops how to spot and stop "satanic crimes." And a stretch of highway with the misfortune of being officially named US Route 666.Devil in the DetailsThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Roman Mars, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen

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554- Devil in the Details

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2023/10/02

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00:26:42

Audiobooks are the Best

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2023/09/30

Podcast: The Book Review (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Audiobooks are the BestPub date: 2023-09-29You love books. You love podcasts. Ergo, we assume you love audiobooks the way we do — we hope you do, anyway, because this week we’ve devoted our entire episode to the form, as Gilbert Cruz is joined by a couple of editors from the Book Review, Lauren Christensen and Tina Jordan, to discuss everything from favorite narrators to regional accents to the ideal listening speed and the

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Audiobooks are the Best

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2023/09/30

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00:45:22

How to live like a Roman emperor

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2023/09/28

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How to live like a Roman emperorPub date: 2023-09-25What did Roman emperors actually do all day? Were they really as bloodthirsty as legend would suggest? And why was food so important? Speaking to Matt Elton, popular historian, author and broadcaster Mary Beard tackles some of the big questions about life as a Roman emperor, profiling some extraordinary figures along the way.(Ad) Mary Beard is the author of Emperor of

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00:45:22

How to live like a Roman emperor

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2023/09/28

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How to live like a Roman emperorPub date: 2023-09-25What did Roman emperors actually do all day? Were they really as bloodthirsty as legend would suggest? And why was food so important? Speaking to Matt Elton, popular historian, author and broadcaster Mary Beard tackles some of the big questions about life as a Roman emperor, profiling some extraordinary figures along the way.(Ad) Mary Beard is the author of Emperor of

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00:28:18

Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity...

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2023/09/27

Podcast: The Life Scientific (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity to adapt to climate changePub date: 2023-09-19With the world's biodiversity being lost at an alarming rate, Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has made it his life's mission to protect it. He is a bio-geographer revealing how changes to the Earth's landscape, such as the formation of mountain ranges and rainforests, leads to the

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00:28:18

Alex Antonelli on learning from nature's biodiversity...

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2023/09/27

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00:35:40

Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"...

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2023/09/26

Podcast: The Lonely Palette (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)Pub date: 2023-09-12Sure, you'd recognize that tilted face, that fluttery hair, that flapping drapery, that oversized shell anywhere. But pop quiz, hot shot: why? What's this painting's freaking deal? The Lonely Palette investigates. See the images: https://bit.ly/3LeIwxu Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” Joan Baez, “Diamonds and Rust” The Blue Dot

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00:35:40

Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"...

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2023/09/26

Podcast: The Lonely Palette (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)Pub date: 2023-09-12The neoplatonic ideal of beauty, the girl on the half-shell, the naked chick riding a clam. Her tilted head and fluttery hair are recognized by everyone and their grandma, but no one - experts included - can explain just why in the heck this painting is so iconic. Shell we take on the challenge? See the images: https://bit.ly/3LeIwxu Music

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00:12:06

Episode 208: In the Gallery

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2023/09/25

Podcast: the memory palace (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Episode 208: In the GalleryPub date: 2023-09-21The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music The Theory by Clem Leek Hiddensee by Caeys The Clock Tower by Hampshire and Foat Notes If you want to know more about Gardner, I’d suggest Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, by Mark Katz. On Brady, Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson. I’d also suggest

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Episode 208: In the Gallery

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2023/09/25

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00:39:50

Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

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2023/09/24

Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Guns Part 3: A Shooting LessonPub date: 2023-09-14Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin Industries, which is the property of its owner

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Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

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2023/09/24

Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Guns Part 3: A Shooting LessonPub date: 2023-09-14Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin Industries, which is the property of its owner

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00:41:20

Driverless Dilemma

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2023/09/22

Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Driverless DilemmaPub date: 2023-09-15Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are

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