Episode summary: Alex Cox joins the Automators this week to talk home automation, Drafts, Shortcuts, and how to learn new automation.

Episode summary: Geocities was an online collection of metropolises, each with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests. The city metaphor helped make a whole new group of users understand the world wide web for the first time. At its peak, it was the third most popular destination on t...

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Episode summary: Plus, the enduring wisdom of Haitian proverbs.

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Langland’s poem, written around 1370, about a man called Will who fell asleep on the Malvern Hills and dreamed of Piers the Plowman. This was a time between the Black Death and The Peasants’ Revolt, when Christians wanted to save their souls b...

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Episode summary: Alex meets a scientist who has built a tool meant to do the impossible — measure the world’s overall happiness and sadness. Plus, Alex volunteers for a risky and strange experiment.

Episode summary: Bruce Springsteen is a national treasure. Since his debut album nearly 50 years ago, Springsteen has helped define the American working-class psyche through a collection of world-renowned hit songs. In this interview with Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin, Bruce talks about how listen...

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Episode summary: David talks to Roberto Foa about his recent report into young people’s attitude to democracy around the world. Why are millennials so much less satisfied with democratic politics than older generations? Can populist politics do anything to alter that? And what does the generation di...

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Episode summary: On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he was being charged with murder. He didn’t even know someone had died. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. If you haven’t al...

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Having listened to this first episode via Huffduffer, I decided to subscribe to the podcast only to discover (I fear) that my robot doesn’t seem to pick up the details from Overcast. If it had, I would have noted that this is possibly a podcast where good content will outweigh ba...

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Episode summary: A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin about the new energy map of the world. What impact has the shale revolution had on global politics? Is China winning or losing the energy wars? And will the energy transition happen fast enough for climate change? Danie...

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