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Physics is full of captivating stories, from ongoing endeavours to explain the cosmos to ingenious innovations that shape the world around us. In the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester talks to the people behind some of the most intriguing and inspiring scientific stories. Listen to the podcast to hear from a diverse mix of scientists, engineers, artists and other commentators. Find out more about the stories in this podcast by visiting the Physics World website. If you enjoy what ...
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What If World - Stories for Kids

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What if a dragon lived in my closet? What if there were a never-ending bowl of ice cream? Pirates, fairies, wizards, robots, and friends help Mr. Eric tell stories inspired by kids’ questions. What If World’s progressive stories will keep kids laughing while fostering curiosity, imagination, and resilience. Grownups, it's easy to share your kids' questions! Respond to our What If prompts on Instagram @whatifworldpodcast, leave a voicemail at 205-605-WHAT, or email whatifworldpodcast@gmail.com.
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I talk about stories I wrote on my freetime and they are very imaginative and interesting. We'll explore the feuds between the interdimensional beings: holographics and switchformers, people trapped in a parallel universe, scary encounters. By the way, did you know, these stories are linked? Find out for your self which ones!
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Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.
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Uplift! Inspiring Stories to Uplift the World

Sascha Gorokhoff and Gemma Serenity Gorokhoff

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Uplift: Inspiring Stories to Uplift the World is a show (podcast & videocast) that transcends cultures and borders to bring you the most heartwarming, uplifting, and inspiring stories from around the globe. This show was born in the mind of Sascha Gorokhoff https://saschagorokhoff.com who was born with a rare health condition that should have left him paralyzed from the waist down, mentally challenged, and dead before the age of 7 years old. He went on to become an inspirational speaker, lov ...
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Students from around the world share theirs thoughts about what community means to them and reflect on their experiences finding and building community in a new place. Together they built their own friendly, diverse community in the classroom, finding comfort amongst each other and becoming more confident in themselves as English speakers.
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Bryan and Taylor Sears (Sears Brothers) of SeaBros Fishing and Mass Bay Guides Charter Fishing bring to you a podcast featuring Northeast fishing tactics, detailed interviews and conversations with some of the best, and most entertaining, captains, mates, and anglers in their fishery and beyond. New conversations and episodes are recorded and posted during the fall and winter months; their charter fishing off-season.
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The podcast is specially made for the kids. The first-ever platform for the kid's all-time favorite stories selected from the best of Panchatantra and well-established storybook. All the stories are specially crafted and narrated looking at the kids' minds. please have fun listening and give feedback :) All the stories here are in Gujarati, Hindi, and English languages. https://www.facebook.com/storypodcaster https://www.instagram.com/storytales22/ https://twitter.com/Sonalshah1730
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Everyone is sick and tired of being bombarded with depressing and anxiety-provoking news. This podcast provides weekly episodes every Monday that brings you up to date with always uplifting, positive news stories. Hopefully this will help everybody remember that positive things are happening and there are people still making a difference in this world!
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The Better World Challenge's sole focus is to educate, empower, and inspire the next generation of leaders who want to make the world a better place. In the amount of time it takes you to commute to work, class, or cook a meal; you'll feel inspired about the change you can make in your community. The Better World Challenge Podcast: Conversations Creating Change. 🌎🎙🗣
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Soundscapes of Stories" is your guide to the captivating realm of ⁠audiobook⁠. Join us at ⁠https://theaudiobook.co.uk/⁠ as we explore the transformative world of storytelling through sound. From dissecting the unique immersive experience offered by audiobooks to understanding their impact on literature accessibility and publishing, this podcast delves into the versatile medium that has revolutionized the way we consume narratives.
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This podcast is brought to you by the nonprofit initiative ”Stories Behind the Stars”.The name Stories Behind the Stars derives its name from the World War II practice of the military giving the families of each of the fallen a banner with a gold star on it. We have the ambitious goal to collect the stories of everyone one of the 400,000+ US WWII fallen in one common database on Fold3.com, freely accessible to all. To make these stories even more accessible, Stories Behind the Stars is devel ...
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Welcome to The Two A.M. Club, where we have open and diverse conversations about parenting and partnerships across different cultures. Join us on an amazing journey as we explore the joys and challenges of raising children through the stories of parents from around the world. Our collection of stories represents a tapestry of cultures and personal experiences. We celebrate our differences and the love we share for our children. While everyone's parenting journey is unique, we find common gro ...
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PENTAMENT- Stories from the human world with BELLA VOLEN

PENTAMENT- Stories from the human world with BELLA VOLEN

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PENTAMENT, 10-30 minutes stories & ideas from the human world. This podcast is about everything which touches my mind and heart. My name is Bella Volen. I am a professional academic artist and art gallery owner based in Vienna, Austria. My curiosity for human behavior led me to additional education in profiling. My podcast has many angles, sometimes about science, history, philosophy, art and culture, initiation rituals, human behavior, and business. Most of all, I am a dedicated learner, al ...
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Golpo is the Bengali word for stories. It is a curious little word, both a verb and a noun at the same time. As a child Rituparna would insist on two stories and two songs every night. She would pretend to go off to sleep testing her parents to see if they'd finish the story they started to tell. When her grandmother told her stories she would kick her legs in the air fighting sleep before it wrapped her in. Golpo, the joy of oral storytelling returned to Rituparna's life as a mother. From a ...
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The Nazi death camp at Buchenwald and the nearby factory where mass-murder “ovens" were built and designed for Auschwitz are some of Germany’s darkest reminders of the Holocaust. The groups who run the public memorials at the sites are determined to use them to make sure their history remains in the past. But in recent years, as the far right has g…
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Thank you for tuning into the SeaBros Fishing Podcast! On this episode we had the pleasure of having a conversation with local captain Matt Perachio of Tighten Up Charters, Cape Cod. We have known Matt for several years, and fish a lot of the same grounds throughout Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bay. Matt's offshore fishing career began during his chi…
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Discover the Myth: Aging Does Not Equate to Decline The Hundred Year Plan explained In this enlightening episode, Jacob McGill breaks down the misconception that aging inherently leads to physical degradation. Through an enlightening discussion on homeostasis and the body’s remarkable ability to renew itself, Jacob reveals that we are far more resi…
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334. Magic Land Part 1: What if a mini ghost town was on top of a coffee shop? The villains Wardrobe and Cramma Olm have taken over the world, but they don’t know what to do next. Lessons include: Our choices affect the world daily; power doesn’t bring happiness. Subscribe to What If World wherever you listen: link.chtbl.com/whatifworld. Grownups, …
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In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian designer Aria Kasaei, who co-founded Studio Kargah with his classmate and friend Peyman Pourhossein. They discuss his journey into the field of graphic design and the cultural engagement from Studio Kargah's humble beginnings in a basement in Tehran to its present da…
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"A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult." None of the synopses really get the pitch right but what the hell, this'll do. Dir: Ari Aster Joined for this …
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In this episode of Physics World Stories, host Andrew Glester shepherds you through the fascinating world of crowd dynamics. While gazing at a flock of sheep or meandering through a busy street, you may not immediately think of the physics at play – but there is much more than you think. Give the episode a listen to discover the surprising science …
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In South Africa, the health care system is plagued with many problems. And one of them is about access. There are simply not enough health care providers, especially in rural areas. South Africa's president has postponed reforms in the sector. On the ground, this means many patients are desperate for better options. Reporter Elna Schütz spent some …
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In a landmark ruling this week, India's Supreme Court has ruled to ban "bulldozer justice." The court stated that authorities could not move to demolish homes or properties merely because a person has been accused of a crime. It also laid down strict guidelines for this form of action by authorities. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Indian journalis…
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After being lured into the Russian military with promises of "helper" jobs, young men from India find themselves training to fire weapons, and getting caught up in combat with no way out. Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi on the pipeline of mercenaries from India to war in Ukraine, as well as the conditions on the ground in India that make you…
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With just a few months left in office, the Biden administration is trying to do what it can now to help Ukraine in its war with Russia. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that that means sending as much aid as possible so that Ukraine can hold Russia's military forces at bay. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have more.…
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An American defense contractor, CACI, whose employees worked as interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad during the US occupation of Iraq, has been ordered to pay $42 million dollars in damages to three Iraqi plaintiffs over the torture and abuse they suffered while in detention. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Katherine Gallagher of the Cen…
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President-elect Donald Trump is nominating US Army veteran and Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. He would oversee US troops occupying 750 military bases across more than 80 countries. Evelyn Farkas, director of the McCain Institute and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense talks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about …
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about the serial physical and sexual abuse of a volunteer at Christian summer camps at the time he became aware of it. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the the global Anglican …
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A Dutch court has overturned a 2021 case that ordered the oil giant Shell to cut its greenhouse emissions down by 45% before 2030. The 2021 ruling against the fossil fuel industry giant was considered a big win for climate activists and set a precedent in litigating corporations on their emissions. In conversation with Host Carolyn Beeler, Jonathan…
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Dominique Morisseau is a Haitian American playwright, who was raised in Detroit, Michigan. She’s written extensively about her native city, but her newest, and perhaps most autobiographical, play shines its light on the island nation where her father was born. It’s called "Bad Kreyòl", and it looks at a pair of cousins — one from America, the other…
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From apple pie on Thanksgiving Day to Johnny Appleseed stories passed down for generations, the apple has been a symbol of American culture. But the first apples actually originated halfway around the world, below the towering, snow-capped mountains of Central Asia in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. And now, wild apples growing in that very region might…
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Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, was optimistic about the potential of the Paris climate agreement to effectively tackle climate change after it was agreed to in 2015. Now, Rockström says the agreements need a shakeup. He tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler the pact won’t work without reform that hol…
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The list of “no shows” at the two-week COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan is long: China, the US, Germany, Japan, Australia, France, Brazil and Mexico are all sitting this one out. Someone who did show up, though, is Tina Stege, the climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. In conversation with The World's Host Carolyn Beeler, she discusses how t…
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Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From East German scooters to '80s hair metal, artifacts of the past are increasingly popular with some who grew up in the GDR [German Democratic Republic] …
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Police in Italy say they have busted a major criminal art-forging network and seized 2,100 fraudulent works peddled by the ring. The artwork had been attributed to Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, British street artist Banksy and other big names in the modern art world. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Laurie Rush, co-author of “The Carabinieri Command f…
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The names being considered for key national security positions in President-elect Donald Trump's second administration are mostly familiar: Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Representative Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser, Representative Elise Stefanik as US Ambassador to the United Nations. But what do those choices indicate about…
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Judith Jamison, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died over the weekend. In 1967, the US State Department sent Jamison on a memorable tour of several African nations to perform and establish a cultural and diplomatic connection. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sylvia Waters, the artistic director emerita at Ailey II of the Alvin Ailey Americ…
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Swastikas on classroom desks. “Heil Hitler” in the hallways. In an open letter this spring, student council associations from the six former East German states warned of increased neo-Nazi incidents in their schools and radicalization and recruitment of their classmates online. Valerie Hamilton has the story.…
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Since Lebanon has been dealing with ramped-up airstrikes and an Israeli ground invasion, not only have hospitals and clinics have been bombed, but doctors say they have also seen a sharp increase in premature births and miscarriages among Lebanese women. The World's Durrie Bouscaren looks at what it's like to be pregnant in wartime.…
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A panel of experts sent by the UN Security Council arrived in Port Sudan on Sunday. They're looking into possible war crimes committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been locked in a war with the government for more than a year and a half. Cameron Hudson is a former CIA analyst and national security official for multiple US adm…
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Parts of India and Pakistan are blanketed in thick smog, with densely populated cities seeing record-breaking levels of pollution. Now, some are calling for the two rival nations to work together on new ways to fight the issue. The World’s Transportation Correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports on the unlikely possibility of “smog diplomacy.”…
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Following his election win last week, US President-Elect Donald Trump received congratulations from leaders across the globe. Reports have since come in that Trump spoke to his counterparts in Kyiv and Moscow as well. While President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine confirmed that he had an “excellent" call, Moscow denies any such communication. Host…
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