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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Invention of the Mirror, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Smoking pools of dark reflection. Propagator of uncanny doubles. Gateway to inverse kingdom. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe venture into the world of mirrors, discussing their predecessors, their invention and way humans relate to the world on the other side. (originally published 8/5/2021)

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.2

The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.

0:32.8

A very unusual situation.

0:34.6

You saw the stacks of cash in our office.

0:36.2

Chocolate comes from the cacountry and recently Variety's cacao

0:39.4

fought to have been lost centuries ago.

0:40.9

We're rediscovered in the Amazon.

0:42.4

There is no chocolate on Earth like this.

0:45.0

Now some chocolate makers are racing deep into the jungle.

0:48.2

To find the next game-changing chocolate and I'm coming along.

0:51.6

Okay, that was a very large crack it up.

0:56.3

Listen to obsessions, wild chocolate.

0:58.4

On The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

1:05.2

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

1:08.9

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

1:14.5

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

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