The Curated Commute is a series where I pick interesting podcasts or other audio treats to accompany you on your commute. Hopefully they’ll entertain you and maybe even help you learn a little something while you’re en route… *** Get a glimpse into what it’s like to spend about 100 days a year in North Korea as…
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The Curated Commute — A Young Doctor Called to Calcutta
The Curated Commute is a series where I pick interesting podcast episodes or other audio treats to accompany you on your commute. Hopefully they’ll entertain you and maybe even help you learn a little something while you’re en route… *** Today’s podcast features a young doctor who receives a surprising phone call on what seemed to…
The Curated Commute — Oh, They’re So Cute! Americans in China
The Curated Commute is a series where I pick interesting podcasts or other audio treats to accompany you on your commute. Hopefully they’ll entertain you and maybe even help you learn a little something while you’re en route… *** Today’s featured podcast comes from This American Life. In three parts, Ira Glass and crew follow the…
My San Francisco Commute in Pictures
Sitting for hours in traffic is miserable. It seems to turn otherwise normal people into something wild and animalistic, forever jockeying for position amidst a never ending stream of cars, but never actually seeming to get anywhere. Every morning before work, and every evening after work? No thank you. One of the huge draws for…
The Curated Commute — The Birth of a “San Francisco Treat”
Learn a little about the birth of an iconic American product in 1940s San Francisco… If you suspected from the title that the San Francisco treat was rice-a-roni, well then you’d be right. Today’s featured podcast is a little shorter than normal, but still a lot of fun. It’s from NPR Morning Edition’s series called…
The Curated Commute – Breaking News from Easter Island
The Curated Commute is a series where I pick interesting podcasts or other audio treats to accompany you on your commute. Hopefully they’ll entertain you and maybe even help you learn a little something while you’re en route… *** You might be surprised to hear that new things are being discovered (and theorized) about the moai…
The Curated Commute — South Africa After Mandela
The Curated Commute is a series where I pick interesting podcasts or other audio treats to accompany you on your commute. Hopefully they’ll entertain you and maybe even help you learn a little something while you’re en route… *** Today’s featured podcast is a conversation with Douglas Foster, author of the new book After Mandela: The Struggle…
