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The Trust Engineers
Episode 192
When we talk online, things can go south fast. But they don’t have to. Today, we meet a group of social engineers who are convinced that tiny changes…
11 years, 1 month ago
American Football
Episode 191
Today, we tackle football. It’s the most popular sport in the US, shining a sometimes harsh light on so much of what we have been, what we are, and w…
11 years, 2 months ago
Radiolab Presents: Invisibilia
Episode 190
Producers' Note: A correction has been made to this audio to reflect the wishes of the subject of this story, Paige Abendroth. NPR's Invisibilia's or…
11 years, 2 months ago
Worth
Episode 189
This episode, we make three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental d…
11 years, 3 months ago
Buttons Not Buttons
Episode 188
Buttons are usually small and unimportant. But not always. Sometimes they are a portal to power, freedom, and destruction. Today we thread together t…
11 years, 3 months ago
Outside Westgate
Episode 187
In the wake of public tragedy there is a space between the official narrative and the stories of the people who experienced it. Today, we crawl insid…
11 years, 4 months ago
Patient Zero - Updated
Episode 186
The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center—someone who sets things in motion and holds the key to how the story unfolds—Patient Zero.…
11 years, 4 months ago
Haunted
Episode 185
Dennis Conrow was stuck. After a brief stint at college, he’d passed most of his 20’s back home with his parents, sleeping in his childhood room. And…
11 years, 5 months ago
John Luther Adams
Episode 184
What's the soundtrack for the end of the world? We go looking for an answer.
When Jad started to compose music for our live show Apocalyptical, he im…
11 years, 6 months ago
Juicervose
Episode 183
Ron and Cornelia Suskind had two healthy young sons, promising careers, and a brand new home when their youngest son Owen started to disappear.
3 mo…
11 years, 6 months ago