Podcast Episodes

The Art of the Heist with Noah Charney

We chat with one of the leading experts on art theft – professor and author Noah Charney, who unpacks the cultural fascination with this type of crime. Charney also tells us the story of one of the m…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Great Plains Dinosaur Museum

We visit a museum in Montana that’s a dream for dinosaur nerds, and home to bones that are the real deal, locally sourced and sustainably foraged.

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Venturing Into the Twilight Zone with Susan Casey

Journalist Susan Casey takes us to the deep deep ocean, where she explores the relationship between humans and this mysterious underworld.

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame

A basketball fan goes to the hall of fame – and no, it’s not the big one in Massachusetts that you may be thinking about. Hear the story behind a Midwest state’s special link to the sport.

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Science that Doesn’t Stop (Classic)

Host Dylan Thuras riffs on a subject that has long fascinated him: The world’s longest-running science experiments.

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The Wishing Tree

There’s a special tree in Portland that’s full of a city’s hopes, dreams, and wishes.

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The Golem

We peek into the life and work of the oft-understood artist Niki de Saint Phalle, who was behind a strange and wildly popular playground sculpture in Jerusalem.

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Robot Saints

We meet the robot saints – sculptures made of wood and wire, of cams and pulleys during medieval times – that might just help us understand this new AI age we all find ourselves living in.

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Nasothek Noses

We get up close and nosey about a peculiar exhibit in Copenhagen that reveals a lot about what artists and society considered beautiful throughout the years 

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The Plotz Plot (Classic)

Josh Foer, the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, takes us to a remote patch of land in the Arizona desert, where he built (and later rebuilt) a museum in honor of the company’s former CEO, David Plotz.

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago