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Thanks to the amazing properties of magnets, clever engineers have figured out how to make entire trains levitate above their tracks, letting them move frictionlessly and allowing them to reach incredible speeds. Learn about how maglev trains work and what's taking so long for us to get aboard in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/8e462d04bfb04cfb98c1b3b3cbd81786/

https://www.listennotes.com/e/a085b83a918a4a4bb88a4a3bdaf65ed2/

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On this day in 1902, poet Langston Hughes was born.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/c160d8996a864c9b8d37fd914fbbe9c7/

https://www.listennotes.com/e/1274510ace1243ec801fda2806939425/

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Ranch is the most popular salad dressing in the United States, but what is that flavor supposed to be? Learn the history and modern make-up of ranch flavor in this classic episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/6dfc2b03eed44c0ba9b84ee6668c2c90/

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On this day in 1902, poet Langston Hughes was born.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/c160d8996a864c9b8d37fd914fbbe9c7/

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Ranch is the most popular salad dressing in the United States, but what is that flavor supposed to be? Learn the history and modern make-up of ranch flavor in this classic episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/6dfc2b03eed44c0ba9b84ee6668c2c90/

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Thanks to the amazing properties of magnets, clever engineers have figured out how to make entire trains levitate above their tracks, letting them move frictionlessly and allowing them to reach incredible speeds. Learn about how maglev trains work and what's taking so long for us to get aboard in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/8e462d04bfb04cfb98c1b3b3cbd81786/

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What’s it like to have dinner with someone you’ll later have to kill? What is it like to curate a public image for your life? Why is everyone manipulating and gaslighting Katniss? Is their manipulation justifiable? This week we discuss chapters 9 and 10 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and all the mindboggling complexity we didn’t notice when we were in middle school.

Audio producer: Dylan Forehand.

Follow us on Twitter @letsunpackpod and rate and review us on iTunes!

Sources:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/brother-against-brother.htm

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/subliminal/201205/how-we-communicate-through-body-language

Everyone should read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ddcf/5d4ca2183564d34bc63836ee14bdeca4fb0d.pdf

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

“Mass Mania”

https://www.listennotes.com/e/f7376d6d4e9944938d542c4352303055/

https://www.listennotes.com/e/11293b31da2a44dd8d4603f1ef39c167/

Let's Unpack That

What’s it like to have dinner with someone you’ll later have to kill? What is it like to curate a public image for your life? Why is everyone manipulating and gaslighting Katniss? Is their manipulation justifiable? This week we discuss chapters 9 and 10 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and all the mindboggling complexity we didn’t notice when we were in middle school.

Audio producer: Dylan Forehand.

Follow us on Twitter @letsunpackpod and rate and review us on iTunes!

Sources:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/brother-against-brother.htm

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/subliminal/201205/how-we-communicate-through-body-language

Everyone should read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ddcf/5d4ca2183564d34bc63836ee14bdeca4fb0d.pdf

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

“Mass Mania”

https://www.listennotes.com/e/f7376d6d4e9944938d542c4352303055/

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If science were a candle in the dark, we’d need only spread its light to combat climate change denial and vaccine conspiracy theories. But what if the problem is more complex than that? What if a quirk of human cognition enables us to remain willingly in the dark, even as we hold the very candle? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the concept of motivated numeracy. (originally published 11/15/2018) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/1cd47bd8893840069c4c398f510ef737/

https://www.listennotes.com/e/71859309ccc2473b8d872ab6555e88f8/

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If science were a candle in the dark, we’d need only spread its light to combat climate change denial and vaccine conspiracy theories. But what if the problem is more complex than that? What if a quirk of human cognition enables us to remain willingly in the dark, even as we hold the very candle? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the concept of motivated numeracy. (originally published 11/15/2018) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

https://www.listennotes.com/e/1cd47bd8893840069c4c398f510ef737/