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Train Set: Track Three
Episode 538
Happy National Train Day, everyone – for those of you who missed it: that was May 13th this year. A year ago, we started down this path with Train Se…
2 years, 9 months ago
Paved Paradise
Episode 537
LA might be the most extreme parking city on the planet. Parking regulations have made it nearly impossible to build new affordable housing, or to re…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nuts and Bolts
Episode 536
In her new book Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examine…
2 years, 9 months ago
Craptions
Episode 535
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are th…
2 years, 10 months ago
For Amusement Only (Free Replay)
Episode 534
There's a new movie out called Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game. It’s a fun and extremely meta biopic telling the story of Roger Sharpe, who, with…
2 years, 10 months ago
Dear John and Roman
Episode 533
Last year, Roman Mars teamed up with Hank Green to guest host Dear Hank & John -- this year he's back on the Greens' show once again, but this time w…
2 years, 10 months ago
For a Dollar and a Dream
Episode 532
From scratchers to the Powerball, the lottery is the most popular form of gambling in the United States, even though the odds of winning a big jackpo…
2 years, 10 months ago
De Fiets Is Niets
Episode 531
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Panopticon Effect
Episode 530
The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. In the original design, all the cells are built around a central guard tower, d…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Wilderness Tool
Episode 529
Vintage crosscuts that were made between 1880 and 1930 are often the tool of choice for trail workers who maintain the country’s roughly 112 million …
2 years, 11 months ago