Stephen Dubner (co-author of the Freakonomics book series) and research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of Grit) really like to ask people questions, and came to believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they made a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week. No Stupid Questions is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.
Apple Podcasts’ Best Show of the Year 2021 Editor's Note: Maya Shankar blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behavior to help us understand who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. Maya is no stranger to change. “My whole childhood revolved around the violin, but that changed in a moment when I injured my hand playing a single note,” says Shankar, who was studying under Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School at the time. “I was forced to try and figure ...
Grit explores what it takes to create, build, and scale world-class organizations. It features weekly episodes highlighting the leaders who are pushing their companies to make a difference. This series is hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, go to market operating partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm investing in history-making founders.
The Knowledge Project Podcast is a rare opportunity to listen to the best in the world on every topic. Join us as host Shane Parrish uncovers the timeless lessons and insights you can use to get lasting results. Learn more at fs.blog/podcast
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused th ...
A review of great books of all time
Can we learn to make smarter choices? Listen in as host Katy Milkman--behavioral scientist, Wharton professor, and author of How to Change--shares stories of high-stakes decisions and what research reveals they can teach us. Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab, explores the lessons of behavioral economics to help you improve your judgment and change for good. Season 1 of Choiceology was hosted by Dan Heath, bestselling author of Made to Stick and Switch. Podcasts are for inf ...
Finding Mastery takes you inside the minds of the world’s best athletes, business leaders, scientists, doctors, and artists pushing the perception of what’s possible. This podcast pulls back the curtain on their self-discovery process and the mental skills that allow these people to be great — things like confidence, calm, grit, focus, trust, optimism, setting a vision for your life and more. Finding Mastery is hosted by Dr. Michael Gervais, a high performance psychologist who’s clientele co ...
Sit down with author and podcaster Steven Johnson to hear from leading thinkers and creators from around the world. The TED Interview is a space for guests to further delve into their groundbreaking work, give us a peek into how they discover and explore fascinating ideas, and, in some cases, even defend their thinking. This season, we’re looking at the future of intelligence. Ponder how we can train ourselves to see into the future with Jane McGonigal, find the humanities in science with Ch ...
Featuring stories of new scientific research on human flourishing that translate these basic discoveries into practical tools. Bringing a mix of curiosity, compassion, and creativity that will appeal to all ages, journalist Richard Sergay and acclaimed writer/producer Tavia Gilbert shine a spotlight on the human impact at the heart of a cutting-edge social and scientific research project. This project was made possible through the generous support of a grant from Templeton World Charity Foun ...
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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen


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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
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The CEO of the largest single investor in the world, Norges Bank Investment Management, interviews leaders of some of the largest companies in the world. You will get to know the leader, their strategy, leadership principles, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This podcast highlights developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership. This podcast is most frequently hosted by Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart. Be sure to check out the Getting Smart Newsletter and Twitter Feed to stay on the cut ...
If you lead and manage people and have a big desire to motivate yourself better, empower your employees to be their best and innovate and create a working culture that allows everyone to thrive...this podcast is for you!
Providing short One Minute Book Reviews aiming to give you a brief description of the book to decide whether you should or should not read it.
Do It On Purpose features our favorite talks, interviews and conversations from the Together Live Tour – a national event that brings an array of thought leaders, local artists, athletes and celebrity guests to cities across the country. You’ll hear from some of the most badass ladies around on authentic storytelling, finding your purpose, overcoming fear, choosing love, effectuating change and taking social action. Listeners will have the opportunity for self-reflective work focused on wher ...
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Daily Matters: The changing face of the legal industry


With the emergence of COVID 19, the legal industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. In Daily Matters, Clio CEO and Co-founder Jack Newton will explore the new normal for law firms, how legal professionals can find success in a remote-first world, and how lawyers can best serve clients through this unprecedented situation.
BONUS EPISODE: The importance of Grit has been discussed by several guests on this podcast. We therefore invited the world leading expert on the topic, Angela Duckworth, to discuss Grit with Nicolai Tangen. Are we able to develop Grit individually or within an organisation? Check out this bonus episode! The production team on this episode were PLAN…
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Book 101 Review


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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
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Angela Lee Duckworth was born 1970 to Chinese Immigrants
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No Stupid Questions


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How Does Facing Death Change Your Life? (Replay from Ep. 49)
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Are you more likely to experience post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth? How does belief in the afterlife affect how you view death? And why did Angela hike a deadly gorge with her ex-boyfriend?By Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Abstract Essay Volume 253 Alignment by Daniel Lucas
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Meditations is a series of personal writings from 161 to 180 AD recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy
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Getting Smart Podcast


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Experiencing Success In What’s Next: The Six Pillars of New Pathways
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This episode of the Getting Smart podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. Find out more here. This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a re-airing of our recent New Pathways Town Hall that breaks down each of the six pillars of pathways. These pillars will help learners find meaning in their personal, professional, and communal lives. O…
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The TED Interview


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How to predict the future with Jane McGonigal
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Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal ran a social simulation game in 2008 that had players dealing with the effects of a respiratory pandemic set to happen in the next decade. She wasn’t literally predicting the 2020 pandemic—but she got eerily close. Her game, set in 2019, featured scenarios we're now familiar with (like masking and …
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Getting Smart Podcast


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Bill Ritter on What Everyone Should Know About America’s Energy Revolution
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This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our Green Schools campaign, an initiative to highlight important thinkers and activists in the movement to make schools more sustainable, more green, and more mindful of our relationship with the planet. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by his friend and fo…
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Abstract Essay Volume 65 Spark by Daniel Lucas
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Finding Mastery


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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: It’s Time to Change the Way We Teach (and Learn)
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This week’s conversation is with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a Professor of Education, Psychology, Human Development and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. Mary Helen studies the psychological and neurobiological development of emotion and self-awareness of adolescents in educational settings. Since earning her doctorate from Har…
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Stories of Impact


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Creating a Culture of Flourishing with Cristine Legare
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What is culture? How is culture transmitted? And what is unique about human culture, compared to our closest animal species relatives? Today’s conversation with Dr. Cristine Legare, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin whose research focuses on the foundations of cultural intelligence, answers all these questions. Read the…
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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish


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#141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
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Indian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Kunal Shah calls on his decades of entrepreneurial experience to discuss what he’s learned about what motivates people, and how observing trends have made him a runaway success in business. Shah also discusses the cultural differences between India and the West, the lessons he learned growing up in the fam…
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EconTalk


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A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles
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How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.…
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Grit


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CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
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Clari CEO Andy Byrne says he never wants to look back and see that he put more into his work than his family. But that doesn’t mean he can’t learn a thing or two from running a 600-person multi-billion dollar business: Inspired by business books, he and his wife Julie set goals, methods and OKRs for their family, and even asked their kids to grade …
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Book 101 Review


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The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a good life
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson is a 2016 nonfiction self-help book
Edith Eger was just 16 years old when the Nazis forced her and her Jewish family onto a cattle car to the Auschwitz concentation camp. Today, Edith is 94 years old, and a psychologist who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. She shares how learning to control her own mind helped her to survive the Holocaust. You can follow the show at @Dr…
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No Stupid Questions


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105. Should You Give Kids an Allowance or Make Them Get Jobs?
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How do kids learn about money? What’s the big problem with education? And who made "Raiders of the Lost Ark?"By Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Panoramic View Volume 2 Graceful by Daniel Lucas
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What Happened to you? Conversation on Trauma,Resilience and Healing
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What Happened to you? Conversation on Trauma,Resilience and Healing by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
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Steven Johnson wants to know how enlightenment happens
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It’s official, the TED Interview has a new host! In Chris’s last episode as head of the show, he interviews his successor, bestselling science and technology author Steven Johnson. Two self-described intellectual soulmates, Chris and Steven take a deep dive in discussing where ideas come from, how optimism benefits creative ideation, the complex an…
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Getting Smart Podcast


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Isaiah R. Walker on Recruiting and Retaining Black, Indigenous, Educators of Color
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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Deion Jordan is joined by Isaiah Walker, principal at KIPP Philadelphia Prep Academy, where he manages and mentors multiple Principals in Residence. Isaiah started his teaching career at Saint Charles Borromeo School in Harlem, teaching middle school science. He then transitioned to Newark to teach midd…
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Finding Mastery


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Dr. Andrew Weil on Psychedelics: Getting Help or Getting High?
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This week’s conversation is with Dr. Andrew Weil, a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 15 books, the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the …
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Book 101 Review


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Spring Flowers Volume 90 Timid by Daniel Lucas
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In this episode Nicolai Tangen talks to Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay. They discuss her humble upbringing in Casablanca, importance of empathy in leadership, and Ilham even shares her favourite chemical! The production team on this episode were PLAN B’s Tor-Erik Humlen and Olav Haraldsen Roen. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke and Bård Ov…
In the first of a new series of themed episodes of the podcast, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from five different past episodes all revolving around one theme: sex and relationships. Combining some of the most illuminating insights from the leading minds in the fields of psychology and sex therapy, this episode breaks down how we…
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EconTalk


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Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates
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How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.…
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Grit


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Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
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In the early days of Okta, co-founder Frederic Kerrest was courting a 3,000-person company in Louisiana, which was considering Okta and one other vendor. When he learned who he was up against, he said, “We love competing with them ‘cause we beat them every time.” That arrogant boast lost him the deal, and taught him a humbling lesson: Your confiden…
Scott Menke never thought he had a particularly compelling personality, but he did feel he stood out in at least one way: he had a natural ability to learn and remember interesting facts. He put that knowledge to the ultimate test as a contestant on the TV trivia game show Jeopardy! Scott was surprised when viewers responded not just to his perform…
Why are humans so eager for magic-bullet solutions? Can you explain how a pen works? And how does Angela feel about being forever branded “the grit lady”?By Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Abstract Essay Volume 90 Spark by Daniel Lucas
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Getting Smart Podcast


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Regeneron Science Talent Search on Science Projects That Matter
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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by three incredible students who recently competed in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, an event co-hosted with Society for Science. Check out our podcast episode with Maya Ajmera to hear more about Society for Science. The students are Christine Ye, a student at Eastlake High…
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Influence :The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
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Robert Cialdini was born April 27 1945 is an American psychologist and academic
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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman
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The way that our brain perceives the world is profoundly informed by our senses–so what would happen if we could heighten them—or even create a whole NEW sense? In one of his last episodes as host of the show, Chris Anderson kicks off our series on the future of intelligence by interviewing neuroscientist and author David Eagleman. They’ll decode t…
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Nadine Levitt, founder of WURRLYedu and PD Reimagined. She is also the creator of the My Mama Says book series and writer of numerous blogs and education resources. Nadine has a varied combination of experiences - from lawyer, to opera singer to education advocate and we ar…
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Ms.Watson Talks about How to empower women in our modern world and Housing Market in Canada
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Ms.Watson recommend to read Shark Tales by Barbara Corcoran
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Finding Mastery


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Marshall Goldsmith: The Lost Art of Asking for Help
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This week’s conversation is with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, a world-renowned executive coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Throughout Marshall's career, he has worked with CEOs from over 200 companies, has been named one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World, and in 2018 was induct…
In this episode Nicolai Tangen talks to Jochen Zeitz, CEO of Harley-Davidson. They discuss electrification, CEO pay, employee stock ownership and Jochen even shares his favourite place to ride a motorcycle! The production team on this episode were PLAN-B's Tor-Erik Humlen and Olav Haraldsen Roen. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke and B…
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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish


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#139 Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
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Can you accurately identify what aspects of life make you happy? Would you even know if you found true happiness? Leading psychology professor and happiness expert Laurie Santos dives deep on all the factors that contribute to our happiness, why we spend so much energy pursuing it, some evidence-based methods to boost your happiness, why it’s cruci…
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Mindset: The new Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
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Carol Dweck was born October 17, 1946 in New York.She was the faculty of Columbia University,Harvard University and the University of Illinois
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Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva
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Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost--search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers rather than searchers. Ramaswamy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Google works and why he starte…
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Grit


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Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer
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In April, a young girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Yakima, Wash., and later told police she was picked up by a stranger in a car. The case might have gone cold there, if Yakima hadn’t just installed Flock Safety cameras: The cameras were able to pinpoint a car matching the girl’s description, and picked up the alleged abductor outside a…
Psychology professor Ethan Kross is an expert on the science of introspection, and the role our inner voice plays in shaping our sense of well-being. While our inner voice has a lot of benefits, it can sometimes turn negative and lead to what Ethan calls “mental chatter.” In this episode, we discuss science-based strategies for how to rein in our m…
Why do Americans tip so much? What happened when Angie eliminated grading in a college course? And why did almost every pay toilet in the U.S.A. vanish between 1970 and 1980?By Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Panoramic View 27 Vancouver Skyscrapers by Daniel Lucas
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