Episode summary: Can you reinvent a food culture? Dan Saladino meets a man who did, Denmark’s Claus Meyer, the co-founder of Noma, one of the world’s most influential restaurants. From there he went to Bolivia and set up a restaurant to rescue lost foods of the Andes and Amazon, and onto New York wh...

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Episode summary: In this episode of Automators Rosemary and David interview the mysterious internet legend Dr. Drang. They look at Python, Perl, and AppleScript, Shortcuts, Drafts, Keyboard Maestro, and how you can combine all of these in various different workflows!

Episode summary: This week, my talk with Karima Moyer, author of The Eternal Table, a culinary history of Rome from its founding to the present. We talk about how she ended up moving to Italy 30 years ago, how she ended up writing books about Italian culinary history after studying theatrical design...

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Episode summary: This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion. When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn’t know who it was from, or why they would have sent it. And then it happened again. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from...

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Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss theories about the origins of teeth in vertebrates, and what we can learn from sharks in particular and their ancestors. Great white sharks can produce up to 100,000 teeth in their lifetimes. For humans, it is closer to a mere 50 and most of those hav...

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Episode summary: Ben loves podcasts, but he has a problem. When he tries to listen to one podcast in particular, his car stereo completely breaks. This week, Super Tech Support takes on one of its strangest cases — Roman Mars versus a 2016 Mazda sedan.listen TO 99 % Invisible! Roman Mars’ 99% Invisi...

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Episode summary: CEO Society – Laurie Taylor talks to Peter Bloom, Head of the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University and author of a new book which asks why corporate leaders such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have become cultural icons of the 21st century. Also, how did...

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Episode summary: “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Chenjerai Kumanyika puts that question to host John Biewen, as they revisit an unfinished conversation from a previous episode. Part 7 of our series, Seeing White.

Episode summary: World-renowned fermentation revivalist Sandor Ellix Katz embarks upon a philosophical and biological journey into the origins of multicellular life, and how the multi-species activity of fermenting foods has played a central role in the evolution of microbes, our bodies— and even ou...

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Episode summary: The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom’s 3 Ghost Rags. Then Krzysztof Komeda’s Ballet Edude II A touch of El...

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