The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front.

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Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires,

but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.

On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio,

where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle

for the public airwaves is playing out right now.

Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi there, Prokavton. Welcome back to practical stoicism, the podcast that tries to make the ancient

teachings of the Stoics a bit more approachable and practical, so you might have a less difficult

time adopting it in your own life. Today, we're going through Meditation 8 from book 5,

which reads as follows. We commonly say, Asclepius ordered a man-horse exercise, cold baths, or no shoes,

and similarly, we might say, universal nature ordered him sickness, disablement, loss, or some other

affliction. In the former phrase, ordered, virtually means laid this down for him as appropriate to health.

In the latter, what benefits every man has been laid down for him as appropriate to the natural order.

So too we say things benefit us as workmen talk of squared blocks fitting in walls or pyramids,

bonding with one another in a definite structure.

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