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NPR's original documentary podcast unearths the stories behind the headlines. Police shootings. Towns ravaged by opioids. The roots of our modern immigration crisis. We explore what's been sealed off, undisclosed, or never brought to light. We return with a deeply-reported portrait of why these stories, and the people behind them, matter. Support in-depth storytelling that matters by subscribing to Embedded+ and unlock early access to new episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at pl ...
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Keen to find your next favourite book? Or have you ever wondered what it's really like to work in an indie publishing house? Then welcome to the Ringwood Publishing Podcast! We're part of a non-profit press based in Glasgow, and every Saturday we meet with authors, staff and more to discuss all things books and publishing.
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Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don't just understand the economy – understand the world. Wanna go deeper? Subscribe to Planet Money+ and get sponsor-free episodes of Planet Money, The Indicator, and Planet Money Summer School. Plus access to bonus content. It's a new way to support the show you love. Learn more at plus.npr.org/planetmoney
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REEL CRIMES: A True Crime and Movie Podcast
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REEL CRIMES: A True Crime and Movie Podcast
Brion Salazar
Where True Crime meets movie talk. Each episode your host Brion Salazar takes an in-depth look at one movie based on true crimes, real events, legends, myths, or stories so good, they have to be true. He's joined by a revolving panel of guests, friends, and experts to discuss the film and analyze the facts they are based on. REEL CRIMES is where Hollywood meets Homicide and the truth is absolutely stranger than fiction.
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I'm a professional voice actor and writer who creates stories that are either based off true events or completely made up in my head. I have a gaming channel on YouTube called Storm Cloud. You'll see my face in the profile pic. We are cranking this thing back up for season 2 of Fiction or Nah?! I know I've been gone for a while, but the next Plog I do, I will discuss why I've been gone. It's nothing bad, but I hope you'll understand why I had to take a break from the poddy. PSN: StormCloud-- ...
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A podcast rooted in the strange and macabre. Urban legends, Conspiracy Theories, True Crime Stories, and so much more. Sit back and relax as your host of all things strange and unexplained gives detailed accounts of some of the strangest cases past and present. Some are based on facts and some based on fiction. Either way, they'll keep you up at night.
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The Dark Truth Podcast is a podcast show based on science fiction, storytelling, folklore, true crime, and historical mysteries. It was founded on February 11, 2021 by singer-songwriter, YouTuber, and author Elizabeth Hepburn Conner. "It's something meant for escapism," says Elizabeth. "A podcast for the creepy kids and the curious minds." The Dark Truth Podcast airs on Fridays @6pm US Eastern Time.
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Welcome to Science Fiction fanatic. This podcast is your gateway, portal, Stargate, transporter, and space elevator to all the best Science Fiction Podcast content, ever created. Every Monday, I’ll feature a podcast episode from an independent podcast creator then, later in the week you will get a top 5. Science Fiction Fanatic will cover TV, Movies, Books, Cosplay, Conventions, Audio Dramas, Interviews, and more. The show is called Science Fiction Fanatic for a reason. Best of all, if you l ...
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Page Station is a podcast dedicated to science fiction stories and the true things I’ve discovered through them. Authors always made it look like a lot of fun, inventing all kinds of people and places all from a seed of some aspect of cold, hard reality. But I couldn’t help but wonder what it took for their stories based on science and technology to still have plenty of heart. You’ll find here amid my love of the genre my reflections and wonderings on the questions these stories raise about ...
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Leave the mortal world behind and join me as we explore horror in literature, film, popular culture, myths & legends and more.
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R. James
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R. James
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An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page. A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin, a secretive man who is obsessed with immortality. A picture that tells stories that change according to who is viewing it. These and other delicious, goose bump evoking tales are part of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague R James. A master of his craft, MR James was an academic and adminis ...
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He is a wealthy gifted and handsome young pianist who worships beauty. She is a woman blessed with a divine voice, but a less than beautiful appearance. He proposes, but she cannot believe that his love will last. A tragic accident results in his losing his eyesight. She hears about the accident and takes up employment as his nurse without revealing her identity. This forgotten, 1910 best-seller still holds the power to charm and delight the modern-day reader. One of the most poignant love s ...
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The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
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The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
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Two poets in a London park at sunset, debating on the attributes of poetry and whether it's really a metaphor for anarchy. A group that meets in secret, planning to overthrow the world order. Disguises and deceptions, ideals and ideology. A medley of themes and genres makes this a great read for anyone who's a fan of Chesterton and his iconic Father Brown. The Man Who Was Thursday includes Chesterton's favorite theme of Christianity with touches of delightful humor to enliven the twists and ...
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Rush Goth Sorority! Hosts Emma Richards and Eleanor Grundberg, in their new show E-GIRLS, discuss hot topics and big brain shit. Cover Art by Sarah Goldstein Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gothsorority/support
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Planet Money
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So you want to sell marijuana across state lines
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In the state of Oregon, there is a glut of grass. A wealth of weed. A crisis of chronic. And, jokes aside, it's a real problem for people who work in the cannabis industry like Matt Ochoa. Ochoa runs the Jefferson Packing House in Medford, Oregon, which provides marijuana growers with services like drying, trimming and packing their product. He has…
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Here at Planet Money, Thanksgiving is not just a time to feast on turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casseroles and pie(s). It's also a time to feast on economics. Today, we host a very Planet Money Thanksgiving feast, and solve a few economic questions along the way. First: a turkey mystery. Around the holidays, demand for turkey at gro…
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Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly so, others more subtly. It got to the point where we just had to call up the authors to find out more: What brought them into this world? What did they learn? How were they thinking about economics when they wro…
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The Ringwood Publishing Podcast
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Sci-Fi and Short Stories with Mark Gallacher
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This week we're joined by award-winning short story writer and novelist, Mark Gallacher! We'll be discussing his novel Saved From the Fire, as well as his literary inspirations and top tips for story writing. Liking the sound of Saved From the Fire? Grab yourself a copy here Enjoying the Podcast? Follow our socials! Instagram: ringwoodpublishingpod…
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All The Only Ones: No More (Gender) Drama
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In the final episode of the series, we meet Christine, an 18 year old from New Mexico, shortly after starting hormone replacement therapy, as she navigates her freshman year of college. We also meet Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld, who was a physician at the John Hopkins Gender Clinic, working with many young people as they transitioned in the 1970s. We spen…
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China's economic growth for the past few decades has been extraordinary. And much of that growth was fueled by real estate – it was like this miraculous economic engine for the country. But recently, that engine seems to have stopped working. And that has raised all kinds of questions not just for China but also for the global economy. Today on the…
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On this week's episode of The Ringwood Publishing Podcast, we're joined by the lovely Laura Hunter! We'll be discussing her role as social media manager here at Ringwood, as well as her role as Communications Officer for the Society of Young Publishers and her work with Successful Women at Glasgow. Enjoying the Podcast? Follow our socials! Instagra…
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Planet Money
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The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT
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When best-selling thriller writer Douglas Preston began playing around with OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, he was, at first, impressed. But then he realized how much in-depth knowledge GPT had of the books he had written. When prompted, it supplied detailed plot summaries and descriptions of even minor characters. He was convinced it could only pul…
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In part 2, we meet Parker, a senior in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Parker is a top field hockey athlete, but as a trans person, he is faced with making a difficult decision: either pursuing his dreams as a D1 trans field hockey player in college next year, or pursuing his dreams of starting hormone replacement therapy, which could get him banned…
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The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries, high up in their ivory towers. On the other, there's the messy world we're all living in, where those economics are actually playing out. Sometimes, researchers will write about something that they themselves hav…
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The Ringwood Publishing Podcast
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On Writing Historical Fiction with Rob McInroy
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Are you a fan of historical fiction? You're in luck: this week on the Ringwood Publishing Podcast, we're joined by Rob McInroy, author of the award-winning Bob Kelty series of crime novels set in the period before WW2! Join us as we chat about why historical fiction resonates, Rob's top tips for writing, and get a sneak peek at the series' next ins…
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Planet Money
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FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon
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When Lina Khan was in law school back in 2017, she wrote a law review article called 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox,' that went kinda viral in policy circles. In it, she argued that antitrust enforcement in the U.S. was behind the times. For decades, regulators had focused narrowly on consumer welfare, and they'd bring companies to court only when the…
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All The Only Ones: The missing piece of the puzzle
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In our first episode, we meet Zen, a Mexican-American, New Orleans native, coming into their transness, exploring its spectrum, as we learn about an historic trans person, Bernard, from Alabama in the early 1900s, fighting to be seen. They're both navigating their identities in a world that is constantly trying to define them.…
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Earlier this fall, the Federal Trade Commission filed a high-stakes lawsuit against Amazon. In that suit, the FTC claims Amazon is a monopoly, and it accuses the company of using anti-competitive tactics to hold onto its market power. It's a big case, with implications for consumers and businesses and digital marketplaces, and for antitrust law its…
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All The Only Ones is a new 3-part series from NPR's Embedded. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson unearths the little known and often neglected history of trans youth in America. We follow the lives of young transgender people today and travel back in time to the turn of the 20th century to meet some of the earliest trans youth documented in American histor…
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Got an appetite for tales of the most mystifying murder cases in Scotland? Then we think you'll love the novels of Allan Nicol - and he's with us today to tell you everything you want to know. Join us while we talk to Allan about his new takes on the case of Maxwell and Sheila Garvie and how his experiences as a lawyer influence his writing. Plus, …
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You might expect to find economic concepts in the pages of an economics textbook. But you know where you can really see a lot of economic concepts in action? Buffets. Here at Planet Money we believe there's a lot of economics going on at the all-you-eat buffet, tucked in between the mountains of brisket and troughs of mashed potatoes. From classic …
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called "dad" wasn't her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had had a teenage romance with a guy named Angel Garcia. Annette has searched for Angel for more than 30 years. That search is coming to the end. "The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island" is a new se…
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Right now, a lot of school districts across the country are making a pretty giant change to the way public education usually works. Facing teacher shortages and struggling to fill vacant spots, they are finding a new recruitment tool: the four-day school week. Those districts are saying to teachers, "You can have three-day weekends all the time, an…
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Recorded prior to the new Drake album and bad vibes. Enjoy tho!By True Stories Based On Fiction
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The Ringwood Publishing Podcast
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Bookshop Behind-The-Scenes: Working at Typewronger with Past Intern Namitha Iyer
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Ever thought about how cool it would be to work at an indie bookshop? As a bookseller at Typewronger Books in Edinburgh, previous Ringwood intern Namitha Iyer knows all about it, and she's here to give us a glimpse of what it's really like. What's the most surprising thing about working in a bookshop, what's the personal touch that makes Typewronge…
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Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, support for unions among Americans was the highest it's been in decades. This dissonance is due, in part, to the difficulties of one important phase in the life cycle of a union: setting up a union in the first place. One place where that has been particularly clear is at th…
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A few years ago, a young man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals started noticing him sitting on the same park bench day after day. He said little and asked for nothing. When Stephen's body was found dead in 2017, the police were unable to identify him, and he was buried on Hart Island. Then, one day, a…
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When someone says "the economy is doing well"—what does that even mean? Like, for workers, for employers, for the country as a whole? According to what calculation? How do you put a number on it? The world of economics is filled with all sorts of "measuring sticks." GDP. Inflation. Unemployment. Consumer sentiment. Over time, all kinds of governmen…
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The Ringwood Publishing Podcast
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The Ringwood Short Story Competition and Seminar
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On this week's episode of the Ringwood Publishing Podcast, we've got some exciting news: our annual short story competition is open for entries! Hear from last year's winner-turned-judge Maureen Cullen about her fantastic short stories and what makes a winning story. And it's not just the competition we have in store! If you've ever wanted to try y…
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Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance
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Note: There is swearing in this episode. In 2017, The University of Minnesota asked comedian Maria Bamford to give their commencement speech. But the University may not have known what it was in for. In her speech, Bamford told the crowd of graduates how much the university offered to pay her (nothing), her counteroffer ($20,000), and the amount th…
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Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic)
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Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn't change. From 1886 until the late 1950s, a bottle of coke cost just a nickel. On today's show, we find out why. The answer includes a half a million vending machines, a 7.5 cent coin, and a company president who just wanted to get a couple of lawy…
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Celtic Myths and Mystery: Author Fiona Gillan Kerr On "The Bone on the Beach"
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This week on the Ringwood Publishing Podcast, is there a chill in the air? Perhaps a spectral presence? No, not really: the only thing giving us shivers is how excited we are for our newest title, The Bone on the Beach! Join us as we chat to Ringwood author Fiona Gillan Kerr about her debut novel, a mysterious and beautiful tale rooted in a tragic …
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In 2007, Uruguay had a massive problem with no obvious fix. The economy of this country of 3.5 million people was growing, but there wasn't enough energy to power all that growth. Ramón Méndez Galain was, at the time, a particle physicist, but he wanted to apply his scientific mind to this issue. He started researching different energy sources and …
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When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants' union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make. The union — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA — knew that if they chose to strike, Alaska Airlines could use a plan. While Alaska Airlines technically couldn't fire someone on strike, they could permanentl…
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Passing the Torch: Podcast Hosting with Rosie Watts
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Welcome back to the Ringwood Publishing Podcast! Season 2 is here, and new hosts Matilda Eker and Jess Court are ready to deliver you more insights from the world of publishing. This week, we're delighted to welcome back host of Season 1, Rosie Watts, to share all about her experiences behind the scenes, talk about where she is now, and reveal who …
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True Stories Based On Fiction
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#227 Or...Best Catalogs In No Order
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Who has the best catalog in hip hop? D Mack and Evan, the 3rd Host give their picks.By True Stories Based On Fiction
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A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions
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Ba-dee-yah! Say do you remember? Ba-dee-yah! Questions in September! That's right - it's time for Listener Questions! Every so often, we like to hear from listeners about what's on their minds, and we try to get to the bottom of their economic mysteries. On today's show, we have questions like: Why is September historically the worst month for the …
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There seems to be headlines about floods, wildfires, or hurricanes every week. Scientists say this might be the new normal — that climate change is making natural disasters more and more common. Tatyana Deryugina is a leading expert on the economics of natural disasters — how we respond to them, how they affect the economy, and how they change our …
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A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina
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The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world's economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan... and Argentina. If you want to understand what happens when inflation really goes off the rails, go to Argentina. Annual inflation there, over the past year, was 124 percent. Ar…
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When a group of amateur investors rallied around the stock for GameStop back in 2021, the story blew up the internet. News outlets around the world, including us here at Planet Money, rushed in to explain why the stock for this retail video game company was suddenly skyrocketing, at times by as much as 1700% in value, and what that meant for the re…
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How to launder $600 million on the internet
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Erin Plante is a private detective who specializes in chasing down stolen cryptocurrency. In March of 2022, she got the biggest assignment of her career: Hackers had broken into an online game called Axie Infinity and made off with over $600 million worth of digital money. It was the largest crypto heist in history. And now it was Erin's job to fin…
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China's weakening economy in two Indicators
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In China, data on the economy is sometimes difficult to come by. The Chinese government has put a pause on releasing some of its official economic data. But many of the stories emerging from the country paint a clear picture: the second largest economy in the world is struggling. Today, our friends at The Indicator share some of their recent report…
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D Mack and Evan, the 3rd Host review the disaster that was The Flash.By True Stories Based On Fiction
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Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?
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When economists and policymakers talk about getting inflation under control, there's an assumption they often make: bringing inflation down will probably result in some degree of layoffs and job loss. But that is not the way things have played out since inflation spiked last year. Instead, so far, inflation has come down, and unemployment has staye…
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The prince of prints and his prints of Prince
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In 1981, photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of the musician Prince. It's a pretty standard headshot — it's in black-and-white, and Prince is staring down the camera lens. This was early in his career, when he was still building the pop icon reputation he would have today. And in 1984, shortly after Prince had released Purple Rain, he was c…
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Back in the 1990s, Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. Some university scientists in the U.S. had apparently filed a patent for using turmeric to help heal wounds. Mashelkar was shocked, because he knew that using turmeric that way was a well known remedy in traditional India…
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Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank
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Congratulations to the Planet Money Summer School Class of 2023! Today, you become masters of business administration... spelled with lower-case letters for legal purposes. Your diploma is waiting for you just across the stage. But first, there's one final skill to impart: the pitch. We wouldn't be doing our job as a half-baked parody of a business…
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Hold the Sitar: The Making of the Love Commandos Theme Song
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In this bonus episode of Love Commandos, Gregory Warner interviews musician John Ellis, who composed Rough Translation's original theme music in 2017, and songwriters Amira Gill and VASU, who jointly created the new theme song for Love Commandos. They discuss their musical processes, and how they incorporate stories into their music. Follow the mus…
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The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines
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Across Hollywood right now, writers and actors are picketing in front of studio lots. They're walking back and forth, holding up signs demanding concessions on things like pay, how many writers work on projects, and the use of AI in TV and movies. But, on some of these lots, there are these strange alternate entrances where there are no picketers. …
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Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble
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How do you get the best deal? How do you know you're getting the best deal? Whether you're talking down the price of a car or talking up your salary, you don't have to be a jerk to get what you want. Negotiations can be win-win – if you know what to ask for and how to grow the pie. We have three stories in today's episode about how to negotiate tac…
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Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it
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Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice. Every single worker in the European Union is guaranteed four weeks of paid vacation. No matter how long they've been at a company. No matter how low paying the job is. Vacation is a right. In fact, all but one of the richest countries in the…
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In Episode 5 of Love Commandos, couples seeking to shut down the Love Commandos' shelter band together in a risky plan. Want to hear bonus episodes of Love Commandos? Sign up for Embedded+ at plus.npr.org/embedded.
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Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses
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"It's difficult to control everything," says our guest professor for this week, Santiago Gallino. "What is not difficult is to plan for everything." Today we venture into the sphere of business that masters the planning, and backup planning: operations management. It's more than just predicting a bottleneck and imagining a solution, because there's…
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