Is Your Favorite World Oddity Wondrous Enough for Atlas Obscura?

The Gist

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🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The world is not flat, Google hasn't yet mapped everything, and there are yet places in the world that don't take your AmEx card. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders is the immense catalog of the world's curiosities, from the rainbow river of South America to the medical device museum in Minnesota. On The Gist, editors Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton of Atlas Obscura explain their taxonomy of awe-inspiring sights. In the Spiel, the return of the Trump Anxiety Hotline. Today's sponsors: The Girl on the Train, in theaters Oct. 7. Upstanders, a new podcast from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Listen and subscribe to Upstanders on iTunes starting Sept. 7. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Friday, September 23, 2016 from Slate, it's the gist I'mike Pasca.
0:09.4	America has been accused of a lot of things.
0:12.0	Colonialism, racism, opportunism, largest exporter of monster truck culture to the world.
0:17.5	But I've come across a new accusation today.
0:20.6	A Saudi professor quoted to Wall Street Journal referred to the American Shiite Axis.
0:27.6	Is it an American Shiite Axis?
0:29.9	Well, yeah, I mean America funds a lot of different groups.
0:34.1	And in some places like they do fund, America does fund Iraq's Shia popular mobilization units,
0:41.4	the Pumas, I call them the Pumas.
0:43.6	They fight the Islamic State.
0:45.4	It's not on problematic these Pumas.
0:47.7	But anyway, the broader complaint I find hilarious, this American Shiite Axis.
0:54.2	And more than hilarious, it's ridiculous.
0:56.3	It's hilarious ridiculous and quite tragic.
1:00.9	There are, throughout the world, religious differences, Muslims and Christians are in conflict,
1:05.9	Muslims in Hindus, in India, Muslims in Jews in Israel.
1:09.5	Every religion is clashing with some other religion.
1:11.5	I don't mean to pick on the religion of Islam.
1:14.2	Takes Sri Lanka where Hindus and Buddhists have been killing each other for quite a while,
1:18.2	though there's peace now.
1:19.4	But my point is that these are clashes between religions.
1:24.2	And everyone in the world knows about these.
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