Articles Posted by Thistooshallpass9
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This episode focuses on individuals and organizations that are helping victims of Russia's war on Ukraine in remarkable ways.
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The Aral Sea was victim to the worst manmade ecological disaster in history. Now part of it is coming back to life, and the restoration has implications for the whole world.
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In this episode, we look at the magic that can happen at the intersection of music and language — magic so powerful that it may have played a role in bringing down the Soviet Union. As Edgar Yipsel Harburg said, "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
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One of Putin's main goals in this year’s invasion of Ukraine was to quickly conquer the port city of Mariupol so that he could then devote more troops and resources to subduing Kyiv and the rest of the nation. But the defenders of Mariupol put up lionhearted resistance for months on end that defied all expectations and changed the course of the war. This episode looks at their remarkable and inspiring stand against evil.
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This episode is about China's Loess Plateau, which was anciently a lush area. But as more people made it their home, the demand for resources grew. Over the course of thousands of years, aggressive farming and overgrazing stripped away the vegetation almost entirely. This lead to severe soil erosion and eventually turned the Loess plateau into basically a denuded desert. In the mid 1990s, Chinese and foreign scientists and civil engineers surveyed this area to see if anything could be done to restore the land. The project that followed has implications that go far beyond China.
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Life is full of defaults. Many of them are so entrenched they are hard to even recognize as optional. "Few, indeed, ever stop to ask themselves in retrospect how they came to accept the beliefs that have found lodgment in their minds," the late Mr. Herbert Armstrong observed this in his book Mystery of the Ages. This episode takes a look at some of the defaults of life, and why we are prone to leave them unquestioned.
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“We know more about the surface of the Moon and about Mars than we do about the deep sea floor,” oceanography Paul Snelgrove said. This new episode aims to shine a bit of light into the deeps.
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An old English proverb states: "A good example is the best sermon." Today's short episode examines two brief and inspiring accounts illustrating this point.
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Does the recurrent laryngeal nerve in the giraffe's neck prove evolution true? This episode examines the evidence.
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For the last 8 years, I've been stealing an hour here and 30 minutes there—in between work time and family obligations—to write and record this album. It blends poetry & melody to tell a complex but true and important story—a story I believe will enrich the lives of those who hear it (if they take the time to understand)... If any Freepers have a chance to check it out, I would be most grateful.
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Winston Churchill has been called the greatest political watchman in history, and the man whose foresight saved the Western world during World War II. But would he have developed such phenomenal foresight and accomplished such an astounding feat if he hadn't been loved, taught and nurtured as a child? Churchill's parents almost totally neglected him. But the void they left was filled, as best it could be, by another figure——a person that each of us today owes a considerable debt of gratitude to. This episode tells her inspiring story.
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In this episode, we examine the way God had a hand in the development and launching of the Hubble Space Telescope (launched 30 years ago this month), and we discuss how astounding its successor the James Webb Space Telescope will be (launching March 2021). These incredible telescopes mean the cosmos's breathtaking message is now displayed with unprecedented clarity. Do you see what it is showing us? Right now, while the world is in these surreal and unsettling times, with much unknown and with more time for many of us to reflect on some of the big questions, maybe right now...
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In this episode, we interview the writer and director Matthew Rosen to learn to riveting, but little known story of Philippine president Manuel Quezon attempting to save 10,000 Jews from Hitler's slaughter.
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“I am a friend of Plato, and a friend of Aristotle, but truth is my greater friend.” These are words from a personal notebook of Sir Isaac Newton, written when he was around 20 years old. With these words, he was proclaiming a revolutionary decision to search beyond the boundaries of classical teachings to understand the biggest questions about the world and universe. Proverbs 25 in the Bible says it is the honor of kings to search out the things that God has concealed. In Newton’s search to understand various baffling aspects of the Creation, he proved to be regal....
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This is an incredible story of a hard working American, the likes of which we could use more of. (It begins at 6:50).
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“The life force is beginning to stir again," said the narrator of a 1946 documentary film called "A Defeated People." The film’s main purpose was to explain to the British and American peoples what was being done in the reconstruction of Germany after World War II—and what still needed to be done by both the Allied powers and the Germans themselves. "[W]e can't wash our hands of the Germans, because we can't afford to let that new life flow in any direction it wants." This episode considers some lessons from the rebuilding and reeducation of Germany and Japan that remain...
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September 14th will mark the 205th anniversary of the writing of America’s National Anthem. It is observed as "Star Spangled Banner Day.” This episode shines the spotlight—and perhaps some of the rocket’s red glare—on the Star Spangled Banner, to highlight just how extraordinary this anthem is in both history and substance. The show features an interview with Marc Ferris, author of the book "Star Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem.” And it suggests that the Banner is a small but not insignificant part of the way God blessed America.
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50 years ago this summer, the U.S. landed men on the moon. We’ve all seen the grainy video footage of Neil Armstrong. We’ve heard the recording of his famous words about the “small step" and the "giant leap." And in our imaginations, this unbelievable achievement has essentially been distilled down to that. But this accomplishment was the result of a massive team of people laboring for a decade on an effort unlike anything that came before it. And it was driven largely by a desire to keep the world from being enslaved to a most dangerous ideology. In this episode,...
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This episode shines the spotlight on some individuals, companies and other organizations who have looked beyond the "bottom line."
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Finland has just been named the happiest country in the world for the 2nd year in a row. The U.S., meanwhile, has fallen in the rankings from 18th to 19th. People in America and around the world are asking: What is Finland doing right? Why are the Finns happy? Can the Finnish model be exported to other countries? For this episode, we traveled to Finland to observe and speak with its people and to try to get some insight into those questions.
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