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1. Stuff You Missed in History Class - The White House and Its Legacy Part 1 & 2. Today’s White House has 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms. But that hasn’t always been the case. It also was not always called the White House, of course, and it has a LOT of history. August 24-26, 2020. 1 hr 15 mins. Access here.
2. Hidden Brain NPR - Why We Love Surprises: The Psychology Of Plot Twists Why do we fall for surprise endings? It turns out that our capacity to be easily fooled in books and movies is made possible by a handful of predictable mental shortcuts. In this 2018 conversation, we talk with Vera Tobin, one of the world's first cognitive scientists to study plot twists. She says storytellers have been exploiting narrative twists and turns for millennia — and that studying these sleights of hand can give us a better understanding of the contours of the mind. December 23, 2019. 29 minutes. Access here.
3. Serial - Season 1, Episode 1: The Alibi. It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found. October 3, 2014. 54 minutes. Access here.
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