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Episode List:
From acid house to deadmau5
Why we should care about Epicurus
Susan Bernofsky on the art of translation
Going back to the Golden Age of cocktails
An introduction to Muriel Rukeyser
The first biography of Geoffrey Chaucer in a generation explores the places that inspired the English poet
The poltergeist that cemented a ghost hunter’s theory about the psyche
How language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project
Meet the smartest bird you’ve never heard of
How American communities contend with rising sea levels
