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The life of Urbain Martien - artist, soldier, survivor of World War I - lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving him the impetus to imagine his way into the locked chambers of Urbain's memory. He vividly recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father's work; dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history, and much more.

In 1979 Stefan Hertmans became obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent. The previous owners were mentioned only in passing during the acquisition, and it wasn’t until the new millennium, long after he had sold the house, that he came across a memoir by the owner’s son Adriaan Verhulst, a distinguished history professor and a former teacher of Hertmans’, which revealed that his father was a former SS officer.

Klaus Kinski war ein wahrer Meister des Sprechtheaters, der sein Publikum gleichermaßen schockierte und faszinierte. Kinski erlangte vor allem für Rezitationen bekannter Philosophen und Dichter hohe Aufmerksamkeit. Kinskis Vortag wollte erfühlt, verstanden und gleichzeitig genossen sein, in seiner üppig überschäumenden Sinnlichkeit, die aufs Ganze ging, den Menschen mit Haut und Haaren visierte, den Zuhörer zu packen versuchte - um jeden Preis.

Follow native New Yorker actor, singer and quality food lover DAVID MCKAY as he and various special guests discuss the curious miracles hidden inside the seemingly mundane happenings of everyday life in New York City and beyond!

Informal talks from DJ McKay about spiritual practice: how to live the teachings of the Buddha right here, right now, in this world we inhabit.

The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired.

It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has settled deep in her lungs. The approaching end has her thinking about the members of her family she’s lost, especially one of her favorite granddaughters, Heli, who has been sent away to the Netherlands because of an affair with her white teacher.

In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects-architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown.

Breaking down science, technology, engineering and math in a way that the rest of us can comprehend and utilize in our daily lives. Imagine a Lex Fridman for the everyman, translating the complex thoughts of the worlds greatest thinkers like Lee Cronin, Razib Khan and the CTO of Signal, preeminent encrypted messaging app. This podcast is inspired by Andrew Huberman, Lex Fridman, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, David Friedberg, Jocko Willink, Tim Ferris, Balaji Srinivasan.