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Today, Explained is Vox's daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will guide you through the most important stories of the day. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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The War Below
Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
The book discussed the global battle to power our lives using minerals like Lithium and Copper. The author mentioned investigating where critical minerals in household appliances powered by lithium-ion batteries come from, finding the supply chain tracking extremely difficult.
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I'm also the author of a book called The War Below, Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.
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Episode: The minerals that rule our world
The book discussed the global battle to power our lives using minerals like Lithium and Copper. The author mentioned investigating where critical minerals in household appliances powered by lithium-ion batteries come from, finding the supply chain tracking extremely difficult.
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I'm also the author of a book called The War Below, Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.
As part of my book, I actually went down this rabbit hole of trying to figure out where do all the critical minerals come from in these leaf blowers and other household appliances now that are powered by lithium ion batteries.
And I couldn't actually find an answer because tracking that supply chain was extremely difficult.
Your book is called The War Below, which nods to some of the tension.
His book is called The War Below, Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.
Glass Century
Ross Barkan mentioned that his novel, Glass Century, was rejected by many publishers, though he acknowledged that many books face rejection, he suggested hearing behind-the-scenes concerns about interest in straight male fiction during the 2010s and early 2020s.
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When you approach publishers with your novel Glass Century, did you hear that?
— Episode: All the sad young literary men
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Episode: All the sad young literary men
Ross Barkan mentioned that his novel, Glass Century, was rejected by many publishers, though he acknowledged that many books face rejection, he suggested hearing behind-the-scenes concerns about interest in straight male fiction during the 2010s and early 2020s.
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When you approach publishers with your novel Glass Century, did you hear that?
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
This novel was cited as a work by a young male author present at the beginning of the 2010s before a perceived shift in literary fiction.
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Into the beginning of the 2010s, Chad Harbach with The Art of Fielding.
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Episode: All the sad young literary men
This novel was cited as a work by a young male author present at the beginning of the 2010s before a perceived shift in literary fiction.
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Into the beginning of the 2010s, Chad Harbach with The Art of Fielding.
The Girls
This novel was mentioned as being part of a three-book deal with Random House for author Emma Klein.
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In the first of a three-book deal with Random House, author Emma Klein writes, The Girls.
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Episode: All the sad young literary men
This novel was mentioned as being part of a three-book deal with Random House for author Emma Klein.
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In the first of a three-book deal with Random House, author Emma Klein writes, The Girls.
Rejection
An Outrageously Funny Novel-In-Stories
This book of stories was highlighted as powerfully addressing highly online characters and containing an acclaimed story about an incel.
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I did actually see that in one book in the last year, Rejection by Tony Tulanthamudi.
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This book of stories was highlighted as powerfully addressing highly online characters and containing an acclaimed story about an incel.
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I did actually see that in one book in the last year, Rejection by Tony Tulanthamudi.
That book was incredibly powerful. And it got praise, right? It did get the cycle.
Wake in Fright
This book was mentioned in passing as an example of something awesome that came out of Australia, alongside other things like the beach and actor Joel Edgerton.
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There are lots of awesome things, says Koala, that have come out of Australia. On the beach, the book, not the movie. Joel Edgerton, Wake in Fright.
— Episode: Why are my allergies getting worse?
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Episode: Why are my allergies getting worse?
This book was mentioned in passing as an example of something awesome that came out of Australia, alongside other things like the beach and actor Joel Edgerton.
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There are lots of awesome things, says Koala, that have come out of Australia. On the beach, the book, not the movie. Joel Edgerton, Wake in Fright.
Lost Family
The book looks at how DNA technology has impacted families and explores the distinction between biological and non-biological family roots and identity.
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And Libby Copeland's book, Lost Family, looks at how DNA technology has impacted families.
— Episode: The drama and trauma of 23andMe
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Episode: The drama and trauma of 23andMe
The book looks at how DNA technology has impacted families and explores the distinction between biological and non-biological family roots and identity.
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And Libby Copeland's book, Lost Family, looks at how DNA technology has impacted families.
Honestly, this whole question around the distinction between biological and non-biological family and roots and identity, it's everything to me.
The Editors
The book is a suspense novel that was inspired by Wikipedia and written by the journalist covering the site. It was mentioned as a debut novel that could be found wherever books are sold.
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I'm also the author of The Editors, which is a suspense novel inspired by Wikipedia.
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Episode: What did Wikipedia do?
The book is a suspense novel that was inspired by Wikipedia and written by the journalist covering the site. It was mentioned as a debut novel that could be found wherever books are sold.
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I'm also the author of The Editors, which is a suspense novel inspired by Wikipedia.
Stephen Harrison writes about the website Wikipedia for other websites, but he also wrote about it in his debut novel, The Editors.
The Conservative Case for Trump
Ed Martin co-authored this book with Phyllis Schlafly very early in 2016, boosting Donald Trump.
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So he co-authored a book with Phyllis Schlafly called The Conservative Case for Trump. And this was really early. This is 2016.
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Ed Martin co-authored this book with Phyllis Schlafly very early in 2016, boosting Donald Trump.
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So he co-authored a book with Phyllis Schlafly called The Conservative Case for Trump. And this was really early. This is 2016.
Trade War
Containers Don't Lie, Navigating the Bluster
The author, who wrote this book, discussed what containers were indicating about incoming shortages in the U.S. supply chain. She emphasized that assembled-in-America products might cease production if their components originate from China.
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And I am the global supply chain reporter for CNBC. And I'm also the author of Trade War Containers Don't Lie.
— Episode: The two dolls economy
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Episode: The two dolls economy
The author, who wrote this book, discussed what containers were indicating about incoming shortages in the U.S. supply chain. She emphasized that assembled-in-America products might cease production if their components originate from China.
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And I am the global supply chain reporter for CNBC. And I'm also the author of Trade War Containers Don't Lie.
Assembled in America doesn't mean that all the components are made in America. And you will have assembled in America products no longer being able to be made because the components come from China.
We Can Do Hard Things
Answers to Life's 20 Questions
This upcoming book was announced as the focus of the 'A Touch More' book club launch, hosted by Megan Rapinoe featuring the authors.
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we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, answers to life...
— Episode: The Harvey Weinstein apologist
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Episode: The Harvey Weinstein apologist
This upcoming book was announced as the focus of the 'A Touch More' book club launch, hosted by Megan Rapinoe featuring the authors.
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we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, answers to life's 20 questions.
Blackout
How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
This book's title was mentioned when discussing Candace Owens' transition to right-wing commentary and her work for Prager University.
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I'm Candace Owens, author of Blackout, how black America can make its second escape from the Democrat plantation for Prager University.
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This book's title was mentioned when discussing Candace Owens' transition to right-wing commentary and her work for Prager University.
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I'm Candace Owens, author of Blackout, how black America can make its second escape from the Democrat plantation for Prager University.
Backlash
The Undeclared War Against Women
This book, written by feminist scholar Susan Faludi in the early 90s, was cited as the source where the phenomenon of rapid cultural backlash following perceived feminist progress was first identified.
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Susan Faludi is a feminist scholar who first identified this phenomenon. She talks about it in her book Backlash, which came out in the early 90s.
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This book, written by feminist scholar Susan Faludi in the early 90s, was cited as the source where the phenomenon of rapid cultural backlash following perceived feminist progress was first identified.
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Susan Faludi is a feminist scholar who first identified this phenomenon. She talks about it in her book Backlash, which came out in the early 90s.
We Can Do Hard Things
Answers to Life's 20 Questions
The book was introduced as the subject of a much-anticipated book club launch by Megan Rapinoe, featuring Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle.
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This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Thing...
— Episode: Why is personal style so hard?
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Episode: Why is personal style so hard?
The book was introduced as the subject of a much-anticipated book club launch by Megan Rapinoe, featuring Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle.
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This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, Answers to Life's 20 Questions.
Be Prepared
Doomsday Prepping in the United States
This book explored doomsday prepping, tracing its history and arguing that prepping is an American institution reflective of self-sufficient frontier ideals. The authors researched prepping kits and discussed the class markers associated with the behavior.
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I'm Robert Kirsch. I'm a professor at Arizona State University. And among all the other university duties that I have, I also research doomsday prepping and the end of the world.
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Episode: Prepping for doomsday
This book explored doomsday prepping, tracing its history and arguing that prepping is an American institution reflective of self-sufficient frontier ideals. The authors researched prepping kits and discussed the class markers associated with the behavior.
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I'm Robert Kirsch. I'm a professor at Arizona State University. And among all the other university duties that I have, I also research doomsday prepping and the end of the world.
And so, again, these class markers become super important in telling this story, trying to sort of pull this behavior out of the shadows and sort of trying to locate it at the beating heart of mainstream American culture.
My co-author Emily does have a bug-out bag because she lives in the Bay Area. I have 15 gallons of potable water ready because I live in the desert.
We argue that prepping is an American institution and that from the founding, Americans have seen themselves as a prepared citizenry where Americans are invited to see themselves as the self-sufficient frontiers people who are able to tame the elements and dominate the wilderness and sort of bring America into new spaces.
He's co-author with Emily Ray of Be Prepared, Doomsday Prepping in the United States.
Everything Must Go
The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
This book examined the evolution of secular narratives about the end of the world, tracing them from early 19th-century works like Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" and Mary Shelley's novel "The Last Man" up through modern anxieties like climate change and AI.
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Dorian Linsky wrote Everything Must Go, the stories we tell about the end of the world.
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This book examined the evolution of secular narratives about the end of the world, tracing them from early 19th-century works like Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" and Mary Shelley's novel "The Last Man" up through modern anxieties like climate change and AI.
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Dorian Linsky wrote Everything Must Go, the stories we tell about the end of the world.
So the first secular narratives about the end of the world, which as far as I could tell, were Lord Byron's poem Darkness and Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man.
And Mary Shelley, who was actually living in the same part of Switzerland as Byron when he was writing Darkness. And in fact, she was coming up with Frankenstein at the same time. When she writes The Last Man about a decade later, it's absolutely destroyed by the critics that they think that it is a loathsome idea from the start.
In fact, in 1913, before the First World War, he writes The World Set Free, in which he invents the phrase atomic bomb and just imagines how an atomic bomb might work.
Dorian Linsky, the book is Everything Must Go, the stories we tell about the end of the world.
The Last Man
This novel, written about a decade after Byron's poem "Darkness," depicted a pandemic wiping out everyone except one person, which critics at the time harshly condemned as a loathsome idea from a diseased mind.
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And Mary Shelley, who was actually living in the same part of Switzerland as Byron when he was writing Darkness. And in fact, she was coming up with Frankenstein at the same time. When she writes
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Episode: Prepping for doomsday
This novel, written about a decade after Byron's poem "Darkness," depicted a pandemic wiping out everyone except one person, which critics at the time harshly condemned as a loathsome idea from a diseased mind.
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And Mary Shelley, who was actually living in the same part of Switzerland as Byron when he was writing Darkness. And in fact, she was coming up with Frankenstein at the same time. When she writes The Last Man about a decade later, it's absolutely destroyed by the critics that they think that it is a loathsome idea from the start.
We Can Do Hard Things
Answers to Life's 20 Questions
The book club on the podcast was launching with this upcoming book by Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle.
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This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club. And we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Thing...
— Episode: No love (on the spectrum) for RFK Jr.
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Episode: No love (on the spectrum) for RFK Jr.
The book club on the podcast was launching with this upcoming book by Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle.
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This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club. And we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, answers to life's 20 questions.
Designing Babies
How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
This book was mentioned by the author, a professor at Columbia University, in relation to his work on bioethics. It discusses how technology is changing the way humans create children.
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I'm Robert Klitzman. I'm a professor of psychiatry and director of the online and in-person Masters of Bioethics programs at Columbia University. And the author of Designing Babies, H...
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This book was mentioned by the author, a professor at Columbia University, in relation to his work on bioethics. It discusses how technology is changing the way humans create children.
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I'm Robert Klitzman. I'm a professor of psychiatry and director of the online and in-person Masters of Bioethics programs at Columbia University. And the author of Designing Babies, How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children.
Revenge
Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors
This book provided an inside look at Donald Trump's 2024 campaign and contained shocking information regarding alleged Iranian plots to assassinate Trump.
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Further reading: Revenge by Alex Isenstadt.
— Episode: Art of the (Iran) deal
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Episode: Art of the (Iran) deal
This book provided an inside look at Donald Trump's 2024 campaign and contained shocking information regarding alleged Iranian plots to assassinate Trump.
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Further reading: Revenge by Alex Isenstadt.
I'm a senior political reporter at Axios, and I'm the author of Revenge, the Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power, which is an inside look at Trump's 2024 campaign.
OK, so now let's move into the present day. Your book, Revenge, contains some really shocking information about what was happening in 2024 while Donald Trump was running for office.
Alex's book is called Revenge.
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