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Meet Us by the Fountain
Episode 495
No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the mall, not even author Alexandra Lange. In her new book, Meet Me by the …
4 years, 1 month ago
Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
Episode 494
Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. At least, that's what we were taught in school. But when historians go searching…there’s no proof to be fou…
4 years, 1 month ago
Divining Provenance
Episode 493
Priceless cultural artifacts have been plundered and sold for hundreds of years. You can find these relics in museums and in private collections. In …
4 years, 1 month ago
Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
Episode 492
In the late 1700s, a young man named Friedrich Froebel was on track to become an architect when a friend convinced him to pursue a path toward educat…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Missing Middle
Episode 491
Downtown Toronto has a dense core of tall, glassy buildings along the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Outside of that, lots short single family homes spr…
4 years, 2 months ago
Train Set
Episode 490
The greatest mode of transportation is the funicular, which is a special kind of train pulled by a cable that runs up steep slopes. But trains are gr…
4 years, 2 months ago
Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David
Bonus episode: Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David talking about The Quick and The Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995)
Roman note: I LOVE this show! M…
4 years, 2 months ago
Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
Episode 489
Data is the lifeblood of public health, and has been since the beginning of the field. But essential data gathering for the COVID pandemic was hinder…
4 years, 2 months ago
It’s a Small Aisle After All
Episode 488
If you’ve ever been to a supermarket in the US, you’ve probably seen an ethnic food aisle. Maybe it was called the "international aisle," or "world f…
4 years, 2 months ago
Atlas Obscura
Episode 487
Standing on Beechey island, a peninsula off Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, are four lonely graves: three members of an ill-fated expedition to …
4 years, 2 months ago