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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
Pub date: 2025-05-27

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What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, climate change, civil war, desperate migrants stuck in a hostile environment. The Sahara stretches across 3.2 million square miles, hosting several million inhabitants and a corresponding variety of languages, cultures, and livelihoods. But beyond ready-made images of exoticism and squalor, we know surprisingly little about its history and the people who call it home.   
That’s not for a lack of trying. The Romans tried to cross the Sahara, going back as least as far as Cornelius Balbus (19 BC): Starting from Sabratha in Libya, Balbus led a force of 10,000 legionaries to conquer the Garamantes in the Fezzan region (modern Libya). He then sent a smaller group south across the Ahaggar Mountains, likely reaching the Niger River near modern Timbuktu in Mali, traveling over 1,000 miles inland. Ibn Battuta, the medieval explorer, experienced the wealth of West Africa’s vast gold mines long before the Portuguese made their way down the African coast.

Today’s guest is Judith Scheele, author of “Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara.” We see how the desert is not the empty wasteland of the romantic imagination but the vast and highly differentiated space in which Saharan peoples and, increasingly, new arrivals from other parts of Africa live, work, and move. It takes us from the ancient Roman Empire through the colonial era, whose future holds implications for us all.

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Podcast: Here & There: A Canadian Geographic Travel Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How a king, a president, a railway empire and a hot dog helped save the free world
Pub date: 2025-06-17

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This episode is from Black Cabin Studio archives, which originally aired on North Americana Podcast.

Sometimes, truth outpaces even the wildest fiction, especially when it comes to family history.

This week on Here & There, host and producer Liz Beatty tugs on a long-lost thread from her own family’s past — one that unravels into a surprising tale involving a British monarch, a U.S. president, a Canadian railway empire, and yes… a hot dog. Together, they played a small but pivotal role in a defining moment of North American, and global, history.

Tune in for a story where lineage meets legend.

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Podcast: The Case Of (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Guilty: The Jury returns its verdict
Pub date: 2025-07-07

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After more than 10 weeks, the jury in Erin Patterson's murder trial has found her guilty of three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Rachael Brown was in the room as the verdict was handed down. She tells Stephen Stockwell how this dramatic moment unfolded, and shares a statement provided to Mushroom Case Daily from Erin Patterson's close friend and supporter.

If you've got questions about the verdict that you'd like Rachael and Stocky to answer in future episodes, send them through to [email protected]

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It's the case that's captured the attention of the world.

Three people died and a fourth survived an induced coma after eating beef wellington at a family lunch, hosted by Erin Patterson.

Police allege the beef wellington contained poisonous mushrooms, but Erin Patterson says she's innocent.

Now, the accused triple murderer is fighting the charges in a regional Victorian courthouse. Investigative reporter Rachael Brown and producer Stephen Stockwell are on the ground, bringing you all the key moments from the trial as they unravel in court.

From court recaps to behind-the-scenes murder trial explainers, the Mushroom Case Daily podcast is your eyes and ears inside the courtroom.

To catch up on all the evidence from the case, go back and listen to all our Friday Wrap episodes:

• A tragic accident or ultimate betrayal? Our Friday Wrap
• What happened to the leftovers? Our Friday Wrap
• Death caps, DNA and drama: Our Friday Wrap
• Everything you need to know about Erin's messages: Our Friday Wrap
• Key moments in the case so far: Our Friday Wrap
• Explaining Erin's evidence: Our Friday Wrap
• The biggest moments of Erin's evidence: Our Friday Wrap
• Kill them all, or reconnect? Our Friday Wrap
• Judging Erin's lies: Our Friday Wrap

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Podcast: Pop Apocalypse (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Madness, Mysticism, and Philosophy – A Talk with Wouter Kusters
Pub date: 2025-07-02

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For episode 14 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome the linguist and philosopher Wouter Kusters. Kusters is the author of Pure Madness (2004) and A Philosophy of Madness (2014), both of which won the Dutch Socrates Award for best philosophy book of the year. We discuss (5:26) how the experience of psychotic thinking challenges and illuminates our notions of language, philosophy, and mysticism. Along the way, we touch on the similarities between mystical and mad experiences, apophatic and psychotic uses of language, the phenomenology of time, and the impact of Kusters’ books on mental health specialists.

Wouter Kusters, PhD, is a linguist and philosopher based in the Netherlands. Two of his books received the Dutch Socrates Award for the best and most inspiring philosophy book of the year: Pure Madness (2004) and A Philosophy of Madness (2014). The English version of this latter work was released in 2020 by MIT Press. In 2022, an Arabic version was released, and a Chinese translation is expected this year. Kusters writes on a range of themes in various outlets that explore perennial questions of meaning, madness, mysticism, and language.

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Wouter Kusters' homepage
A Philosophy of Madness

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Podcast: Talking Rubbish - The Recycling Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 45. Recycling labels explained, with Alice Harlock from OPRL
Pub date: 2025-06-05

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This week on the podcast, James and Robbie sit down with Alice Harlock from OPRL, the organisation behind those “recycle” or “do not recycle” labels on packaging. We increasingly rely on these labels to guide our recycling habits, but how do they stay accurate in a world of constantly changing local rules and slow packaging timelines? Alice shares the challenges and surprising complexities behind recycling communication, and why getting it right matters more than ever.

Join hosts James Piper and Robbie Staniforth as they delve into the world of recycling, hopefully having fun along the way. One thing is for sure, they will talk absolute rubbish from start to finish.

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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Mysteries of Easter Island
Pub date: 2025-06-19

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In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, over 2,000 miles from the nearest continent, lies one of the world’s most iconic archaeological treasure troves - Rapa Nui, known to the outside world as Easter Island. Famed for the towering stone faces of the moai, the island has undergone extraordinary transformations since it was first settled.

Joining us to explain the island's fascinating history is James Grant-Peterkin, a cultural historian and someone who has lived and worked on the island for over 20 years.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Tim Arstall.

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Podcast: Black Box: The Chatbots (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one
Pub date: 2025-06-05

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Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series

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Podcast: Incoming (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: "Varmint Rifle": 2
Pub date: 2024-11-26

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(Koshkonong, Wisconsin, 1963)

On a farm in Wisconsin in 1963, a teenage girl (Campbell Krausen) is forced to make life-and-death decisions when her cruel father (Tracy Letts) locks her friend out of their tornado cellar.

Starring Tracy Letts, Campbell Krausen, Rusty Schwimmer, Jeremias Darville, and Johnny Meccia.

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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Civility, trash talking and more sociable cities
Pub date: 2025-03-20

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It certainly feels like a very shouty world. But have we really reached a new low point in civility? And, if so, where to from here?

We examine what civility really entails and how it can help foster cooperation but also lead to the submission of minorities.

And did you know that even the design of our urban spaces can shape and limit acts of civility? So, how can we make our cities more sociable?

Guests

Dr Eduardo Sadoval — Social Roboticist, UNSW

Dr Saara Liinamaa — Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph. Also, co-investigator, Sociable Cities Project

Rafi Kohan — US-based freelance writer and author

Dr Keith Bybee — Professor of Law and Political Science, Syracuse University

Further information

Rafi Kohan - Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn’t Total Garbage

Keith Bybee - How Civility Works

Sociable Cities Project

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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Adapt or Design
Pub date: 2025-06-03

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A debilitating injury forces 99PI's Kurt Kohlstedt to confront new everyday challenges and seek out accessible design solutions for one-handed living.

The full set of Adapt or Design articles can be found at 99pi.org/adapt.

Adapt or Design

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