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Our Material World with Ed Conway

9/19/2024 • 23 min

Dylan talks with journalist and author Ed Conway about three materials that our entire civilization depends on: salt, copper, and sand. They visit the biggest man-made hole on Earth, a salt mine large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower inside it, and a single mine in North Carolina that is essential to nearly all the world’s computer chips. If you want to learn mo… Play episode

Pining for the Places We Can No Longer Eat
Smith Court
The Hidden History of Eyeliner with Zahra Hankir
Roger Williams Root (Classic)
A Pasta Tour of Italy with Dan Pashman
The Day the Tractors Stood Still
Wood Island Lighthouse
The Wave Organ
Wild Life Week: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear (Classic)
Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?
Wild Life Week: Celery Makes A Nature Documentary
Wild Life Week: The Female Alphas of Yellowstone
Wild Life Week: Exploring Our Alien Planet with Cara Giaimo
Ottoman Bird Palaces (Classic)
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Auctioning off Roadside America
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: Sa Cabaneta & Provincetown
The Wimbledon Queue
Seven Keys Lodge (Classic)
Are Cemeteries…Dying?
District Six
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Swimmer in the Borneo Rainforest
Oh, the Places We Can’t Go
Tell Us Your Story: Places To Remember
The Lost Boys of Robber’s Cave (Classic)
What’s Happening to the Benin Bronzes?
The Wizard of Wamego
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: The Selinsgrove Speedway and Muriwai
A (Store) for the Birds
Travels with Steve and Datsun (Classic)
On the Hunt for Government Treasure with Mitch Yockelson
The Museum That Began in One Woman’s House
Atlas Obscura Goes Off Assignment: To the Father on the Bicycle
The Red Book
Road Trip Week: Meramec Caverns (Classic)
Road Trip Week: Exploring the Borscht Belt with Marisa Scheinfeld
Road Trip Week: Listener Stories
Road Trip Week: Alone with a Camera in the Desert
Road Trip Week: Where to Go
The Theater of Electricity (Classic)
Our Lives Through Hollywood’s Eyes
The Arrow Stork
A 15,000 Year Old Tree and a Housing Development
Meet the Man Who Sets America’s Living Rooms on Fire
Discovery Hut (Classic)
Hunting for Meteorites with Steve Arnold
This 80s Icon Has A Shrine In A Berlin Hostel
My Life in Three Places: Dylan Thuras
Mother Jones and the Battle of Blair Mountain

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