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🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Diamonds represent value, in all its multiple meanings: values, as in ethics, and value as in actual price. But what are these rocks actually worth? The ethics and costs of diamond rings have shifted with society, from their artificial scarcity perpetuated by DeBeers to their artificial creation in labs.
Articles of Interest is a limited-run podcast series about fashion, housed inside the design and architecture podcast 99% Invisible. Launched in 2018 by Avery Trufelman, the show encourages people to rethink the way we look at what we wear and what it says about us.
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0:00.0 | Did you know that scientists don't know how bikes work? |
0:06.6 | Scientists don't know where the moon came from. |
0:09.4 | Science hasn't even been able to define life, and some experts will tell you it's not |
0:14.6 | possible to define it. |
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0:40.7 | I had it in my mind that I wanted to propose to Sean during the trip. |
0:45.7 | You know, we've been together like three and a half years, and we're going to Vegas. |
0:51.5 | What more romantic place is there? |
0:54.3 | Next June, my friend Courtney decided to propose marriage in the world capital of spontaneous |
0:59.8 | marriage proposals. |
1:00.8 | And I was like, yeah, but I don't know how I'm going to do it. |
1:04.1 | I have, you know, I have the thing with me, but I don't know when or where. |
1:09.8 | Courtney waited and waited for the right moment until it was the last night of their trip |
1:14.1 | when they were hanging out in Caesar's Palace. |
1:16.1 | We're sitting at the bar and we got a couple drinks and we were kind of just killing time |
1:20.8 | before our flight. |
1:21.8 | I reached into my bag and I pull out this small leather box that I'd been holding onto all |
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