89: Manzanar Baseball Project and The Midnight Cave Experiment

This week we deep dive into activist Dan Kwong's efforts to restore a baseball field at a former California internment camp and about researchers who lived in subterranean caves for months at a time without access to clocks, calendars, or the sun. A listener email explains some sweet, sweet history.

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Episode Tabs:

The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/moving-story-of-bringing-baseball-back-to-manzanar-where-thousands-of-japanese-americans-were-incarcerated-during-world-war-II-180986312/

Caveman: And Interview with Michel Siffre

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer_siffre.php

Listener Tabs:

Malm Whale

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/malm-whale

White Rabbit (Candy)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_%28candy%29

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