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Ep. 70 Coffee: How Coffee Changed the World, for Better and for Worse
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Coffee may seem like an innocent breakfast beverage to accompany your bacon and eggs, a mid afternoon office pick me up. But did you know, coffee is so much more than that? Did you know that coffee helped spark human enlightenment, the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, capitalism, helped build the world as we know it? Let’s fix that.
Sources:
- Gastropod "Grounds for Revolution: The Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World"
- National Coffee Association "The History of Coffee"
- Encyclopedia Britannica "History of Coffee"
- Eater "How America's Coffee Got Bad - and Then Got Great"
- Coffee or Die "A Brief History of Coffee in the United States"
- US Justice Department "Khat Fast Facts"
- New York Times "Who are Sufi Muslims and Why Do Some Extremists Hate Them?"
- Mirage News "NASA Experiment with Spiders & Mind-Altering Drugs"
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