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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler

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associate producer, npr's planet money // signal: samkeslr dot 16 // proton: samkesler at proton dot me // 📸: rachel del sordo

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Julia Ritchey @juliaritchey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Three years ago we mourned the loss of Coyote vs. Acme, a fully finished movie unceremoniously shelved. But now it's back! In theaters tomorrow! Here's our episode with the team behind the film on what it took to get it out into the world, by @samkesler.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2026/08/27/n...
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Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break : The Indicator from Planet Money
Coyote vs. Acme will finally get its theatrical release on Friday after a years-long saga involving supposed tax write-downs, negotiations and multibillion-dollar studio deals. It's a drama almost str...
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Defector @defector.com · 30/04/2026
Subscribe to Defector: defector.com/products
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mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i really really love Industry. so do @samkesler.bsky.social and @wailinwong.bsky.social. so we made a @planetmoney.bsky.social PM+ episode about how great it is, how closely it hews to reality or not, and our big plans for season 5: www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
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Short sellers steal the show in HBO's 'Industry' (Planet Money+) : Planet Money
In the HBO drama "Industry," finance is the battlefield. In its latest season, we're introduced to a high-flying British fintech that wants to be a "bank killer." But a new hedge fund is out to prove ...
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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You know what I do for a living? I craft narratives that GET ME PAID. So please subscribe to Planet Money+ and listen to me, @marychilds.bsky.social, and @samkesler.bsky.social discuss the latest season of Industry! www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
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Short sellers steal the show in HBO's 'Industry' (Planet Money+) : Planet Money
In the HBO drama "Industry," finance is the battlefield. In its latest season, we're introduced to a high-flying British fintech that wants to be a "bank killer." But a new hedge fund is out to prove ...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@wailinwong.bsky.social @marychilds.bsky.social and I talking INDUSTRY S4 on the latest Planet Money TV Club! We get into the role of short sellers in the market and the real-life parallels to Wirecard. If you wanna listen, subscribe to Planet Money+! You won't regret it www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
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Short sellers steal the show in HBO's 'Industry' (Planet Money+) : Planet Money
In the HBO drama "Industry," finance is the battlefield. In its latest season, we're introduced to a high-flying British fintech that wants to be a "bank killer." But a new hedge fund is out to prove ...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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'Industry' paid out its investments handsomely : Pop Culture Happy Hour
HBO’s addictive drama Industry has never been afraid to wade in the muck, and the fourth season and finale was especially messy. The paths of frenemies Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) errat...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Tomorrow I’m joining @aishaharris.bsky.social and @wailinwong.bsky.social to talk Industry S4 on Pop Culture Happy Hour, tune in!
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a bunch of President Trump’s tariffs. What does that mean? Will anyone get refunds? And … what about this new 10 percent tariff the President announced? www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...
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The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? : Planet Money
Live event info and tickets here.The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. On today’s show: Why were those tariffs struck...
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mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Invention Invention: how the invention of the sewing machine helped get us more inventions www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n... @samkesler.bsky.social @erikaberas.bsky.social
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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money
Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...
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Stephen Kallao @kallao.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money
Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you've seen me in the past year I've probably talked your ear off about sewing machines. A while ago I learned that, besides being a major invention itself, it also kicked off a new era in antitrust that gave us the tech world we live in today. Listen: www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...
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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money
Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Please listen to this story from my @npr.org colleague Adrian Florido about a fruit seller named Jesus
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He sold me fresh fruit for years. I was there when immigration agents took him
NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Adrian was there when federal immigration agents swooped in and arrested him.
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're going on the road for a book tour in April! Author Alex Mayyasi will be joined by Planet Money hosts and special guests. Attendees can get swag, like a tour-exclusive tote bag (while supplies last/restrictions apply). Ticket and tour info: planetmoneybook.com
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I went on PCHH to talk THE BONE TEMPLE which I enjoyed even though the “We were all busy that weekend please bring Kraven to the theatre a second time” t-shirt I wore to my screening didn’t quite land ... h/t to @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @ohitsbigron.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
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In '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' the zombies aren’t the worst villains : Pop Culture Happy Hour
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up where 28 Years Later left off – in a world of zombie-like infecteds and vigilantes that turn out to be a murderous cult. Ralph Fiennes returns as Dr. Kelson, w...
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: archive.org/details/60mi...
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Money in Gaza is falling apart. Israel has been blocking the flow of physical cash into Gaza for almost two years. Now, two best friends – one in Gaza and one in Belgium – are finding ways to get money in – in order to get people food, milk, tents.
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mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
on this episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social, Sarah Gonzalez looks at the state of money in Gaza right now. how to get money into Gaza, how to get money out of a bank in Gaza, how cash works, and what there is to buy: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...
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In Gaza, money is falling apart : Planet Money
Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the war, that’s all that’s been circulating. It’s now falling apart ...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
On @planetmoney.bsky.social - the story of two best friends - one in Gaza, one outside - trying to get past a cash blockade. Sarah Gonzalez explains how money works in Gaza. There are cash brokers, cash fixers, and one young woman just trying to get milk for her sister. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...
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In Gaza, money is falling apart : Planet Money
Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the war, that’s all that’s been circulating. It's falling apart from...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I'm a new voice! airmedia.org/community/sp...
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Meet AIR's 2025 New Voices Public Radio Fellows!
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Spent a day at the Woodlands getting some photos taken so folks can know what I look like lately! Photos by Rachel Del Sordo who is everywhere but BlueSky!
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
everyone say happy birthday peggy!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A must read about what it's like to experience famine in Gaza, and the gauntlet of death and humiliation that is required to get food aid from Israel and the United States, who replaced a perfectly functional aid system with one that routinely kills Palestinians. www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...
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Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
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Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/05/2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”
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Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS
The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: 

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell 
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
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WBUR @wbur.org · 07/03/2025
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”
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Feds look into underwriting practices at WBUR and other public media outlets
As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — kn...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This week’s episode ⬇️
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NPR @npr.org · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm spending the next three months with the Life Kit podcast as part of NPR's producer rotation program. If you thought I was annoying when I worked at Code Switch or Planet Money, now I feel entitled to give unsolicited advice, too. My first production: www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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The key to happiness? Know thyself, says Gretchen Rubin : Life Kit
What is happiness? How do you define it? Maybe it's feeling good, having a sunny disposition or being fulfilled, even if you don't feel pleasant all the time. Gretchen Rubin, host of the Happier podca...
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stephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 14/02/2025
My new reporting focus for a bit is on the restructuring of the federal government. Wanna talk securely about DOGE + changes in federal workforce/spending/policy? Is there important context about how government does/doesn't work well that I should know more about? Let's chat:
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I was on Pop Culture Happy Hour with @ghweldon.bsky.social and @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social to discuss AMERICAN PRIMEVAL. And believe it or not, all the gushing about Dane DeHaan is ONLY A FRACTION of the original. Someday I will release the DeHaan cut. www.npr.org/2025/01/15/1...
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'American Primeval' is a nasty and gritty Western : Pop Culture Happy Hour
In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined to get herself and her son across the frontier. But along the way, they find themselves caught up in...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I went to shake the realtor’s hand but he said he was a germaphobe. A brutal power move, considering this was a negotiation tactic on my part. I had sneezed in that hand earlier, and planned to weaken his immune system then lowball him. Clearly I’m dealing with an Alpha here.
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A fun thing about listening to old This American Life’s is that they used to use NIN’s Ghosts IV as a music bed, the same sample Lil Nas X used for Old Town Road. (Along those same lines, the Serial theme song is an open source track anyone can use, so you too can sound like Serial!)
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I produced both of this week’s Planet Moneys. First, ZIP Codes! Lots of fun tape from the Mr. ZIP era. I booked the owner of the only ‘floating ZIP code’ and spoke with the team behind Smokey Bear (who has his own ZIP code) but it got cut. Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/01/08/1...
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ZIP Codes! : Planet Money
The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It started as a way to organize mail after WWII, but now it pops up all over our dai...
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My sibling said this sounds like a joke Elmo would make
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Why would people in Greenwich set aside a time specifically to be mean?
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I’ve been sitting on this caption for a year and the editor gave it back with no notes, he just said “let the kid cook” happy new year
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I keep telling people my dog is so smart that, to her, a puzzle bowl is just a bowl
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Having hot takes to share then remembering I have 3x the followers here than Twitter
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
i’ve been watching a couple of tiny desk concerts and i didn’t enjoy them at all. they should be answering emails instead. where are their computers
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
hey 👋 shot in the dark here, but could anyone out there just give me 50 million dollars or so? i should make a couple things clear. one is that i don't actually need it. the other is that i'm not interested in working for it. i just want it for free and for no specific reason. thanks!
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Do novelists know that a smile can be something other than wan
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thanksgiving walk with Ms. Margaret (The wasp nest was empty, no Peggys were harmed)
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Stephen Kallao @kallao.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Few people love music, *care* about music and the people who make it than @somevelvetblog.bsky.social He's one of my favorite human beings and I look forward to antagonizing him for at least two more years, including this KDesque headline. xpn.org/2024/11/22/b... 💙
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Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World: Bruce Warren’s next chapter
Public radio veteran and long time WXPN program director Bruce Warren has announced his phased retirement beginning in January.
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a land lottery dating back centuries. All of the communal land is randomly reassigned to farmers, who commit to farming it for the next decade. buff.ly/4eBwCJW
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NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It's a breakthrough called extreme ultraviolet lithography, and it’s how the most advanced microchips in the world are made. buff.ly/3O7C3Fm
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Sam Yellowhorse Kesler @samkesler.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
My latest for @planetmoney.bsky.social - who owns the rainbow? We spoke with the son of the man who calls himself 'The King of Color,' and a British artist who fought to free the spectrum. Plus, I visited the dye shop in Queens that gives Disney World its color. www.npr.org/2024/07/19/1...
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The company that owns colors : Planet Money
In 2022, artist Stuart Semple opened up his laptop to find that all his designs had turned black overnight. All the colors, across files on Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator, were gone. Wh...
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