750 Mini Italian Lesson; Geography of Genius; Timbuktu Haircut

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Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We learn some surprisingly useful Italian phrases from one of Italy's most popular newspaper columnists, then consider why certain places have fostered more than their share of world-changing innovations, and hear about Timbuktu's history as an important center for scholarship. Plus, we find out about the thrill of dropping in on a choir practice in small-town Wales.

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0:00.0	To grasp what Italy is all about, ask one of its best-read columnists.
0:05.0	Italy is a fantastic mixed salad.
0:08.0	Bepe Severini explains what it takes to live like an Italian.
0:12.0	We really smile in spite of everything. That's not always easy.
0:16.8	What is it about certain places that made them a breeding ground for innovation?
0:21.3	Eric Weiner compares Renaissance Florence with today's Silicon Valley
0:25.2	as he explores a geography of genius. A dirty little secret about Florentine genius
0:30.8	is that it involved money and we don't normally think of money
0:33.4	and geniuses having that much in common but they do. Rick Antinson visited a
0:38.0	legendary center of scholarship before jihadists and the encroaching desert overwhelmed the history of Timbuktu.
0:46.0	It was mysterious, it was thought of to be having streets paved with gold.
0:51.0	He tells us what he found in the hour ahead.
0:53.0	Let's journey together.
0:55.0	It's travel with Rick Steeves.
0:57.0	Was it something in the air?
1:02.0	Eric Weiner traveled to cities that were famous for their great thinkers and innovators.
1:07.0	He wanted to see what it was about their surroundings or their social setting
1:11.0	that may have stimulated the likes of Socrates,
1:14.4	Michelangelo, Leonardo, Beethoven, Freud,
1:18.0	people like these come up with their most innovative ideas
1:21.3	and see how it might work for us today.
1:23.7	Eric explains in just a bit.
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