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What's Up Doc?
Episode 479
Mel Blanc was known as “the man of 1,000 voices,” but, to hear his son tell it, the actual number was closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy D…
3 years, 4 months ago
Butt Stuff
Episode 478
Why do we have a butt? Well, it’s not just for the convenience of a portable seat cushion. This week, we have a conversation with our Contributing Ed…
3 years, 4 months ago
Guts
Episode 477
This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? And what can the rumblings deep in our bellies tell us abo…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Weather Report
Episode 476
Meteorologists are as common as the clouds these days. Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon and night they tell us what to wear and where to pl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Black Box
Episode 475
In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes — spaces where we know what’s going in, we know what’s com…
3 years, 5 months ago
No-Touch Abortion
Episode 474
When the Dobbs decision went down, ER doctor Avir Mitra started to prepare for the worst — botched, at-home abortions that would land pregnant people…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Theater of David Byrne's Mind
Episode 473
It all started when the rockstar David Byrne did a Freaky-Friday-like body-swap with a Barbie Doll. That’s what inspired him — along with his collabo…
3 years, 5 months ago
Playing God
Episode 472
When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the nam…
3 years, 6 months ago
Terrestrials: The Mastermind
Episode 471
Lulu Miller, intrepid host and fearless mother of two, went off on her own and put together a little something for kids. All kids: hers, yours, and t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Quicksaaaand!
Episode 470
For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear — it held a vise grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about ven…
3 years, 6 months ago