Podcast Episodes

Our Favorite Objects: The Thousand-Year Rose (Classic)

We visit the world’s oldest rose, which is so tough that it survived being bombed in World War II.

All week, we’re featuring the stories behind a few…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Our Favorite Objects: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone (Classic)

We explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies.

All week, we’re featurin…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Our Favorite Objects: Galileo's Middle Finger (Classic)

Dylan goes on a journey to examine the preserved middle finger of astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei.

All week, we’re featuring the s…

7 months ago

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Classic)

Created by a volcanic eruption in 2015, this island in the South Pacific no longer exists… but we chat with a person who got to see it before it disa…

7 months ago

Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

We talk with anthropologist Manvir Singh, whose research on shamanism took him from the small island of Siberut to study current practitioners, to ex…

7 months ago

Dylan’s Mailbag: Traveling With Kids, Girls’ Trips, and Pedal Pubs

Dylan has just returned from a month-long trip with his family, and he and the gang answer listener questions about traveling with kids and more. 

Hav…

7 months ago

This Is Your Commute

Listeners share stories about how they commute to work and back home as they also reflect on how special their neighborhood is too. 

Plus: We wanna he…

7 months ago

Time Travel with a Parking Lot Dinosaur

Earlier this year a geologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science got a very unusual phone call. A construction crew ripping up the museum’s p…

7 months, 1 week ago

Gunnar Schonbeck Exhibit (Classic)

For years, students at Bennington College snuck into a locked room for a glimpse of strange and magical instruments created by professor Gunnar Schon…

7 months, 1 week ago

The World’s Largest Collection of Two-Headed Calves

Henry S. Rosenthal is the owner of what is likely the world’s largest collection of two-headed taxidermied calves. The collection is in San Francisco…

7 months, 1 week ago