Episode summary: The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what’s coming. It’s pretentious, sure, but that’s the intention....

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That empty Episode summary, as provided by the Radiolab, more or less sums up the episode, for me. I don't know why, but I just don't get on with Radiolab, no matter how often I try. So I may stop trying even when the topic interests me.

Episode summary: Waiting is something that we all do every day, but our experience of waiting, varies radically depending on the context. And it turns out that design can completely change whether a five minute wait feels reasonable or completely unbearable. Transparency is key. Wait Wait…Tell Me!

Episode summary: At the end of the 1950s, James Caan, son of a German-Jewish butcher, had been kicked out of ROTC and was too poor to finish college on his own. He started a job for his godfather unpacking meat along the docks of the Hudson River. Less than a decade later, he was starring alongside...

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Episode summary: Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze take us beyond Brexit to look at the global situation and the bigger threats we face. Italy, Germany, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Russia, Trump vs. the Fed, the US vs. China, Hong Kong, the dollar, the euro, climate change, oil: an amazingly wide-ran...

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Episode summary: Get the bonus materials for this episode: http://joyoflanguages.com/casino-italian-meaning/ Practise your Italian in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5.minute.italian Today’s Italian words ll governo ci costa un sacco di soldi. E fa sempre casini. = The govern...

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Episode summary: A spider infestation turns into a musical performance, the pianist Glenn Gould unpicks the magic of Petula Clark’s Downtown and Patrick Haggerty talks about Lavender Country, which has come to be known as the first gay country music album. Josie Long presents short documentaries and...

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Episode summary: Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?

Episode summary: A chemical technician risks her life to expose corporate misdeeds at a nuclear facility in Oklahoma. Prelude: Energy mogul Robert S. Kerr becomes the “uncrowned king of the Senate”. Support the show by becoming a Valuedlistener™ at Patreon.com/Swindled. Buy something at SwindledPodc...

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Episode summary: In this episode, Rosemary and David get to talk to J.F. Brissette about everything automating Screenflow with Keyboard Maestro to using the Terminal as a launcher, as well as regular expressions and looking into combining Dropbox and Chronosync.