Night Club STUDIO 69 is located in the Royal Casino Hotel & SPA Resort a short distance from the Freedom Monument – in the heart of Riga – on Terbatas str.73 Now you have a chance to listen to a weekly podcast from Studio 69. For more info visit http://www.studio69.lv, http://www.edgarstorm.com
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A girl is walking home from school when she gets caught in a major storm she gets of the storm just to find out something is happening to her and if she doesn’t act fast she might die from it Cover art photo provided by Edgar Castrejon on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@edgarraw
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Biggest dance party in Latvia, now even closer to you. Every day our DJ's are live on Europa+ 99.5. But you do not have to be near the radio to hear them. Just subscribe and we will do the rest to keep you up to date with the best dance music available. For more info please visit http://www.larocca.lv or email us - info@larocca.lv
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DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did we get here? It wasn’t by accident. Well, sometimes it was. It was also the result of hard work, teamwork, and competition. And incredibly surprising moments. Hosted by bestselling author Steven Johnson (“How We Got To Now”), American Innovations uses immersive scenes to tell the stories of the scientists, engineers, and ordinary people behind the great ...
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Classic Poetry Aloud gives voice to poetry through podcast recordings of the great poems of the past. Our library of poems is intended as a resource for anyone interested in reading and listening to poetry. For us, it's all about the listening, and how hearing a poem can make it more accessible, as well as heightening its emotional impact. See more at: www.classicpoetryaloud.com
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Legacy tells the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant…
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The Mystery of Stuxnet | Cracking the Code | 1
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In the summer of 2010, a mysterious computer virus called Stuxnet lands on the desk of Symantec cybersecurity analyst Liam O’Murchu. Stuxnet is unlike anything O’Murchu has ever seen: a highly sophisticated piece of malware that serves no obvious purpose. O’Murchu and his colleagues are determined to figure out how it works and who’s behind it -- b…
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Even as recently as the early 1950s, we didn’t understand that there were different types of memory, or how the brain processed and stored memories. Then, in 1953, a radical surgery by a reckless doctor gave us tremendous insights into how human memory works. Those scientific gains came at a terrible cost, however. The surgery left the patient, Hen…
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Predator Drone | From Albatross to Amber | 1
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What if you could design a spy plane that could be flown remotely and hover in the sky for hours, providing reconnaissance for troops on the ground? In the early 1980s, the visionary inventor Abe Karem begins building drones out of his L.A. garage. Soon, the Pentagon and the CIA take notice. Though he faces many challenges, Karem is on the forefron…
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Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | 1
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Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly single tech entrepreneur named Jonathan Abrams wondered: What if you could use the internet to expand your network of real-life friends? His simple idea became Friendster, the first social media site, which would…
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In the late 1970s, oil and natural gas fields across the U.S. were drying up, making the country increasingly dependent on foreign oil. Then, a Texas energy magnate named George Mitchell decided to try extracting natural gas from shale, a layer of rock almost two miles beneath the surface, using a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.…
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Not everyone chooses burial or cremation after death. Some believe in cryonics, freezing their bodies in the hopes of being reanimated sometime in the future. Bob Nelson, a TV repairman with no scientific background, made history when he froze the first human being. But as Nelson would discover, freezing someone is easy; keeping them frozen is a lo…
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No extreme weather phenomenon fascinates us more than tornadoes. For most of human history, very little was known about how these graceful yet violent columns of swirling air formed or behaved. Then, in the 1950s, a teenager from North Dakota began chasing them, and a scientist from Japan began studying them. Together, they started a movement. You …
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Hackers: the criminals who prey on our digital lives. Today they steal credit cards and personal information, or even commit acts of cyber-terrorism. But in the early days, hackers were largely seen as harmless pranksters. And it wasn’t computers they were initially interested in, but phones -- which they hacked with a mysterious device called the …
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Breaking The Sound Barrier | A Bullet With Wings | 1
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In the 1940s, as planes got faster, it seemed like they were hitting a wall -- literally. Many pilots tried to travel faster than the speed of sound, often with fatal results. Could American test pilot Chuck Yeager succeed where they had failed? Or would his daredevil attitude get him grounded before he gets a chance? You can binge all episodes of …
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Humans are shockingly bad at telling whether or not someone is lying. That’s why, a century ago, psychologists and criminologists developed machines to detect lies for us, by measuring blood pressure, pulse, and breathing rate. Their lie detectors promised to revolutionize the criminal justice system. But is it really possible for science to separa…
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Even after the Apollo program put astronauts on the moon, Mars remained out of reach. Then, in 1990, an ambitious engineer hatched an ingenious plan to send the first humans to the red planet. But will anyone at NASA buy into his idea? You can binge all episodes of American Innovations exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wonde…
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Year In Review | When Will I Get the Vaccine? | 1
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2020 has been a year of struggle, uncertainty and loss. It has also forced us to adapt and innovate in nearly every aspect of our lives. But no innovation this year has been more important and more astounding than the Covid-19 vaccine. On this year-end episode, Steven talks to Bruce Gellin, president of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Inst…
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In the 19th Century, the telegraph is the cutting edge of communication. No one can imagine anything better—except Alexander Graham Bell. You can binge all episodes of American Innovations exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac…
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All Andy Hildebrand wanted to do was make a computer program to help singers sound better. He never expected it to kick off a battle for the soul of modern music. You can binge all episodes of American Innovations exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv…
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The Fight Against AIDS | The Epidemic Begins | 1
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In the early 1980s, a mysterious new disease spread like wildfire through the gay communities of major U.S. cities. Before it even had a name, AIDS had already killed over half its victims. Public response was hampered by ignorance, fear, and homophobia. This is the story of the doctors, scientists and activists who risked everything to lead the fi…
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Muggy. Sticky. Miserable. For eons, that’s just what summer was. In fact, when air conditioning first became available, few people took advantage of it. Wasn’t summer supposed to be uncomfortable? This is the story of how people finally warmed up to the idea of keeping cool. You can binge all episodes of American Innovations exclusively and ad-free…
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Call of Duty, Fortnite, Animal Crossing.... The video game industry generates billions of dollars each year. But not so long ago, video games were mostly played by the programmers who made them. On our new season, we’re telling the story of how video games broke out of university computer labs and found their way straight to the heart of popular cu…
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What technology won WWII? Most people would say the atomic bomb, but the real answer is radar. As a small island country, vulnerable to aerial attacks, England took the lead in developing radar in the 1930s. But the early radar systems were too massive to fit into planes, where they would be of most use in the fight against the Germans. At the hear…
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The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris dazzles attendees with the Eiffel Tower. So, when plans begin for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, the mandate is clear: beat the Tower. America’s architects and engineers compete to win the job – but every proposal they submit is more outlandish and dangerous than the last. And the most dangerous of all? Well, that …
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Enemy of All Mankind | A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt | 1
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On September 11th, 1695, two ships confronted each other in the middle of the Indian Ocean: one an enormous treasure ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India, and the other a much smaller British pirate ship led by Henry Every. What happened next changed the world. Every and his crew took off with $100 million in loot and sparked the world’s first g…
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It’s the mid-1800s and in Maine, John Bacon Curtis is back from clearing the spruce forests with a crazy idea. He’s going to sell ready-to-chew gum. But his bold plan is only the start of what will become a decades-long search for the ideal chew. It’s a search that will see the nascent gum business butt heads with newspaper tycoons, strike an allia…
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In 1846, an Italian chemist discovered the volatile compound nitroglycerine, the first major breakthrough in creating man-made explosions since the invention of gunpowder a thousand years earlier. But almost everyone who experiments with the compound thinks it’s too dangerous for any commercial application–everyone except for one brooding, obsessed…
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Fighting Coronavirus: Bruce Gellin On How COVID-19 Could Change Vaccine Development | 1
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As the first in a series on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Johnson speaks with Dr. Bruce Gellin, president of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington D.C.. Dr. Gellin is also a former director of the National Vaccine Program at the Department of Health and Human Services, and led the creation of HHS’s first pandemic…
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A century ago, organ transplants were the stuff of science fiction. But a handful of experimental surgeons believed that transplants were not just possible – they had the potential to save thousands of lives. Then, in 1954, a man agreed to donate his kidney to his twin brother – and one surgeon finally got his chance to prove the doubters wrong. Yo…
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Anxiety. It’s something everyone experiences at some point in their lives, but for centuries doctors had no effective way to treat it. They could send patients on rest cures, order them to do nothing at all, or prescribe barbiturates that depressed the central nervous system, easily leading to overdose and death. Finally, in the mid-1950s, chemists…
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Electronic Television: The Picture Radio | 1
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The invention of the electronic television was uniquely complicated for its time. So complicated, in fact, that the prevailing narrative is that it couldn’t have been invented by a single person -- let alone Philo Farnsworth. After all, some of the most brilliant minds in the world spent the first quarter of the 20th century working on television s…
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Kodak Roll Film: As Convenient as a Pencil | 1
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Today, if we want to take a photo, we unlock our phone, aim, and click. It can be done on a whim, without a second thought. We document everything from new haircuts to latte art, cute cats to baby’s first smile. But prior to the 1900s, photography was the exclusive domain of professionals and dedicated hobbyists -- people willing to learn complex s…
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Today, if you or someone you know experiences a medical emergency, you dial 9-1-1 and a squad of trained medical professionals arrives at your door. But just 55 years ago, that was not the case. Emergency calls were generally dispatched to funeral homes simply because their vehicles were suited to transporting bodies. You’d be lucky if the person t…
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On August 6, 1890, a prisoner named William Kemmler became the first man executed in the electric chair. It was designed to be a more humane form of execution, but the gruesome scene in the death chamber that day revealed the device to be anything but. Still, the chair stuck around. And Kemmler’s execution proved to be a pivotal moment in the histo…
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Skylab: NASA’s Best-Kept Secret| Apollo’s Leftovers | 1
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Fifty years ago, America’s space program achieved its greatest triumph, when Apollo Eleven put the first men on the moon. The Apollo program was a remarkable success story. But as NASA was sending men to the moon, they were engaged in another, less celebrated project — one even more important than the moon landings to humanity’s potential future in…
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The Seahawks pull out a win in Pittsburgh, but Lestro and Marku still have some questions for Da Guru. What's with the O line, weren't they supposed to be better? Is Chris Carson's fumbling a concern? And how good can Russel Wilson to DK Metcalf get? Plus, Will Dissly had himself a breakout day. Then, it's on to big wins from UW and WSU, the Storm …
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9/11/19 - Seahawks Week 1! Storm playoff preview! UW embarrassed! Sounders and Mariners recaps!
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9/11/19 - Week one is in the books and the SEAHAWKS got the win, but looked a little shaky in the process. What's up with the secondary? Should we concerned about the offensive line? Da Guru joins us to talk football and preview next weekend's game in Pittsburgh, where the Steelers are looking to bounce back from a drubbing of their own. Plus, the …
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Corn Flakes | The Brothers of Battle Creek | 1
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For the first 150 years of American history, American citizens were plagued by gastrointestinal issues. Diarrhea, gastritis and dysentery were pretty much a way of life. Indigestion was such an immense problem, the poet Walt Whitman called it “the Great American Evil.” All these stomach issues were thanks, in part, to breakfast—which looked very di…
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In the 1960s, choking was a national epidemic. In the United States alone, close to 4,000 people were dying from choking every year. Lobster, ham, and hamburger were common culprits. But steak was by far the greatest offender. Coroners called for a solution to these “Cafe Coronaries,”� and the medical community responded with weird and dangerous ga…
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Ep. 15: Mariners moves at the trade deadline! Bobby Wagner gets PAID!
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Ep. 15: The MLB trade deadline is officially passed and as expected, the MARINERS made some moves! Mike Leake moves on, Santana stays and the bullpen gets even more questionable! Plus, Guru calls in to talk about BOBBY WAGNER's big contract, LJ COLLIER's injury and a look at the SEAHAWKS QB depth as camp opens in Renton. Plus, STORM, SOUNDERS, REIG…
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Innovation Fails: DeLorean | Driven to Succeed | 1
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Normally on American Innovations, we look at the history of the science and technology that transformed the world we live in. These stories teach us about the vision, grit, competition, and teamwork required to conquer new frontiers and forge new pathways to the future. But equally valuable, perhaps, are the stories of those visionary innovators wh…
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EP. 14: EDGAR finally inducted to HOF! LEAKE near-perfect! SEAHAWKS camp and WR preview! STORM surging!
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Ep. 14: EDGAR MARTINEZ finally makes it to Cooperstown! MIKE LEAKE's near-perfect game may make him tradable as the MLB TRADE DEADLINE approaches! GURU previews the SEAHAWKS wide receiver corps as they try to fill a Doug Baldwin-sized hole and checks in on BOBBY WAGNER'S contract discussions and the effect of the JARRAN REED suspension! Plus, MADDE…
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Ep. 12: Bright Spots and 'the opener' debate as Mariner's hit All-Star Break; Storm trending down; Seahawks RB preview
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Ep. 12: The MARINERS have reached the All-Star Break! How are we feeling about the team? MALLEX SMITH, JP CRAWFORD, MARCO GONZALES and YUSEI KIKUCHI lead our bright spots at the mid point! And what's with the use of the Opener? Plus, the STORM hit a rough patch at home, the SOUNDERS get their international players back just in time, WORLD CUP champ…
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EP. 11: THE SEAWOLVES ARE MLR CHAMPS AGAIN! STORM SURGE! MARINERS AT THE MIDPOINT!
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Ep. 11: The SEATTLE SEAWOLVES #DefendTheShield with an epic last-second victory to repeat as MLR CHAMPIONS! Even without the GOAT or the MVP, the STORM have surged to the top of the WNBA Western Conference! Who is stepping up and making the difference? The MARINERS have reached the midpoint of the season and seem to have stabilized just in time for…
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The Birth Control Pill | But Can It Be Done? | 1
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When Margaret Sanger opened her birth control clinic in 1916, she knew she was breaking the law. Distributing contraceptives, or even literature about birth control, was a jailable offense. But she didn’t care. As a nurse, Sanger had sworn to devote herself to the welfare of those in her community. And in the early 1900s, that meant doing something…
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Ep. 10: UW falls at World Series, SEAWOLVES prep for playoffs and the MARINERS suck
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Ep. 10: Lestro and Marku talk UW's remarkable run through the WOMENS COLLEGE WORLD SERIES and how the bats let them down last weekend, the SEAWOLVES win in their final playoff tune-up to get an all-important home game, the STORM's opening week ups and downs, the absolutely abysmal baseball of the beyond-struggling MARINERS - who also traded away JA…
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Ep. 9: UW Softball to the World Series! Storm open with a win! Bobby Wagner's future!
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Ep. 9: #MightyAreTheWomen as UW HUSKIES SOFTBALL rides the arm of Gabbie Plain back to the Women's College World Series for the third straight year! The STORM get their rings and open with a win of the Mercury! The MARINERS suck! Is Bobby Wagner playing his last season with the SEAHAWKS? SOUNDERS! SEAWOLVES! Tacoma update! College Check-in! is the …
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Welcome to the Daily Wash, today is Wednesday, May 29th and this is the 2-minute show that the brings you all the scores and news from across the state yesterday.
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Good morning and welcome to the Daily Wash, today is Monday, May 27th and this is the 2-minute show that the brings you all the news and action from across the state this weekend.
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Good morning and welcome to the Daily Wash, today is Friday, May 24th and this is the 2-minute show that the brings you all the news and action from across the state yesterday.
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