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Why Is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Completely Vacant?

Spotify · Mississippi

Why Is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Completely Vacant?

100% Center coverage: 2 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Baudelaire Ceus: John Waters is a trained architect. He loves buildings and thinking about them and how they serve society. And he got the bug early. John Waters: My dad got a book called Architecture in Michigan when I was five years old. And I became obsessed with this book. I blame it on my becoming an architect. Baudelaire: The book featured a highlight reel of arch…See the Story

The Father of Utilitarianism Turned His Own Body Into a Sculpture

Spotify · London

The Father of Utilitarianism Turned His Own Body Into a Sculpture

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Kevin Sexton: Every month, a strange scene plays out in the student centre at University College London. A crowd gathers as a member of the staff gets ready to open up a large glass case. Liz Blanks: It always gets a lot of excitement actually when we open the case because of its location, so centrally there’s inevitably always a lot of students around. Kevin: They open…Read Article

The 6-Day Race Walked So Ultramarathons Could Run

Spotify · New York

The 6-Day Race Walked So Ultramarathons Could Run

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: It was around midnight on March 10th, 1879, and a crowd was gathering outside Madison Square Garden, back when it was called Gilmore’s Garden. And they were all there for an event, a kind of race. And in the days leading up to it, newspapers and magazines had been stirring up the excitement. So when the day finally arrived, people were ready. The race was …See the Story

Maybe Don’t Visit Area 51

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: I love The X-Files. It is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. As of this recording, it debuted 31 years ago, which, God, makes me feel old. But here’s the thing about The X-Files. As a TV show, just like the writing, the plotting, it’s pretty hit or miss, to be honest. But as a concept, as a thing that entered my brain as an 11-year-old, it is near pe…Spotify · Rachel Read Article

The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound Changed Live Music Forever

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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: I work from home for the most part, and, you know, in my home office, as much as I have one, I kind of end up working all over my house. Anyway, you know, I have plants. I’ve got some souvenirs, stuff I’ve collected from trips. But in my friend Brian Anderson’s home office, he has what you could describe as a very, very large paperweight. It is a 65-pound …Spotify · United States See the Story

This Public Bathroom Was an Epicenter for Cold War Espionage

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. So, there is a kind of unspoken code of public conduct, of honor, when you are in a public restroom. I’m thinking of the restroom in an airport, busy, and you just try and pretend that you cannot hear the noises that are coming out of the stalls next to you. And thankfully, people pretend they don’t hear the noises coming out of your stall. This is just the polite ficti…Spotify · Alresford Read Article

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Solved a Murder Mystery Together?

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: New York is always rewriting itself. It feels like a new city most of the time, but occasionally there are little places where the old and the new jam up against each other. And I am outside of one of them right now. I am down on—where am I? I’m in Soho on Spring Street and Green Street. And there’s a shop here called COS. It’s like an H&M extension brand.…Spotify · New York Read Article

The Ancient Greek Guide to Succeeding at Dinner Parties

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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Andrew Coletti: Imagine that you have just been invited to a dinner party in third century Rome. Dylan Thuras: Yes. Andrew: This is going to be a very fancy kind of affair. It’s going to be some high-profile guests, and you want to make sure that you’re going to make a good impression. Dylan: Okay. Andrew: So, you’re going to need a few things. You can figure out your o…Spotify · Greece Read Article

A Suggestively-Shaped Forbidden Fruit

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The Coco de Mer is delicious and endangered.Seychelles · Seychelles Read Article

Sea Water Distilling Plant

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The shoreline of Sliema, Malta is characterized by its modern multi-story apartment buildings and hotels with balconies offering views of either the Mediterranean Sea or the harbor between Sliema and historic Valletta. Interspersed among the contemporary buildings are a few older buildings that predate Malta’s present-day tourism industry, and while Fort Tigné at the eastern tip of Sliema or Knisja Parrokkjali ta’ Ġesù Nazaret (the Church of Jes…Sliema · Sliema Read Article

Remembering the Heyday of Japan’s Silent FIlm Narrators

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Osaka’s bustling Dotonbori district casts a powerful spell over visitors to the Japanese city. Tourists are drawn to the neighborhood’s neon lights like moths to a flame. I’d call Dotonbori the Times Square of Osaka, but that would be rude to Osaka. After all, by the time Westerners broke ground on Times Square in 1898, Osaka had already been a cultural epicenter for over 1,000 years. It’d be more accurate to call Times Square the Dotonbori of N…Osaka · Osaka Read Article

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