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Why you should listen to Leonard Cohen music when you eat toffee

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Jun 20, 2017
Restaurants and food companies can change the way you think their food tastes, and it has nothing to do with the recipe.
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You can stop saying 'iconic' now

by Bridget Bodnar
Jun 15, 2017
Humorist and language fussbudget Jenny Allen wants to squash these overused words and phrases.
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Looking back at the birth of the iPhone, 10 years later

by Molly Wood
Jun 15, 2017
Brian Merchant has the backstory on the iPhone's creation in his new book, "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone"
Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone at the Macworld Conference in January 2007 in San Francisco.
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Heard on Make Me Smart

by Jennie Josephson
May 18, 2017
That book, that link, that recommendation you heard while walking the dog or riding the bike.
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Publisher Cassava Republic is changing the way we read about Nigeria

by Kai Ryssdal
May 8, 2017
Co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf wants you to see 'the complex, gorgeous realities of the continent' in African books.
“I wanted a brand that was very confident, that still incorporate the colors of Africa on one level, but also branding that suggests a certain cosmopolitanism,” said Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, co-founder of Cassava Republic.
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How the Panic of 1837 predicted the Great Recession

by David Brancaccio
Apr 26, 2017
Going into the Panic of 1837 the market was booming and credit was flowing from banks. Sound familiar?
“We haven't sorted out whether we want to be a country based primarily for the individual or for the society as a whole, and that really does stem back at least to the 19th century and probably even earlier than that,” said Philip Gura, author of the book, “Man’s Better Angels.”
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Video: Who gets credit for adding jobs to the US economy?

by Jennie Josephson
Mar 10, 2017
Kai and Molly discuss the jobs report, whether the CIA can really hack your phone and our growing list of books to read.
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Blog: The Make Me Smart Book Group

by Jennie Josephson
Mar 10, 2017
What we're reading right now: Poets and path dependence.
A man reads a book in the sunshine on steps covered in artificial grass on July 10, 2013 in London, England.
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Textbook publishers in a bind as students go digital

by Adriene Hill
Feb 27, 2017
Pearson, the global education publisher, announced a nearly $3.3 billion loss for 2016. It’s struggling, as many traditional publishers are, with big shifts in the way college kids buy (or don’t buy) textbooks. According to the National Association of College Stores, spending on course materials has fallen 14 percent in the last 10 years. Students […]
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How rock 'n' roll doctor Larry Brilliant helped eradicate smallpox

by David Brancaccio
Dec 21, 2016
Larry Brilliant joined us to talk about his new memoir, "Sometimes Brilliant."
Larry Brilliant speaks onstage at an event in New York City.
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