Deep Dive: From a Gifted Manuscript to Peanuts: Stories of Quiet Origins, Birthdays, and Rainbows - November 26, 2025
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In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the surprising power of small beginnings and simple rules in culture and nature.
- 📜 We unpack an 1864 moment when the first manuscript of a beloved children’s book was gifted, and how that intimate act can seed cultural legacies, nurture childhood rituals, and shape publishing origin myths.
- 🎂 We celebrate the birthdays of Charles Schulz, Tina Turner, and DJ Khaled, with a focused look at Schulz’s Peanuts — his economy of expression, emotional honesty, decades-long discipline, and how those strips became rituals and resilience tools across generations.
- 💡 Our fact of the day explains why rainbows are morning or late-afternoon phenomena: the sun must be 40 degrees or less above the horizon, making the arcs a predictable — and poetic — result of geometry and timing.
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