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Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
Episode 447
After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to…
4 years, 8 months ago
Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
Episode 446
Correction: Our staff producer pronounced the the Japanese word "ōbōn" incorrectly in this episode. It is pronounced OH-bohn not oh-BAHN.
Let us be th…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Clinch
Episode 445
After Producer Katie Mingle's mom wrote a romance novel, Katie set out to understand the romance genre and its classic covers. There was a lot to unp…
4 years, 9 months ago
Pipe Dreams
Episode 444
Most people probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about their toilets, but they are both a modern marvel while also being somewhat of a failure…
4 years, 9 months ago
Matters of Time
Episode 443
For the most part, we take time for granted; maybe we don’t have enough of it, but we at least know how it works --- well, most of the time. A lot of…
4 years, 9 months ago
Tanz Tanz Revolution
Episode 442
Today, Berlin is one of the premier destinations for techno music fans. People come from all over the world to party all night to the rhythmic beat o…
4 years, 10 months ago
Abandoned Ships
Episode 441
If you look around you right now, about 90% of what you’re looking at came to you onboard a cargo ship—your television, your sofa, most of the stuff …
4 years, 10 months ago
Curb Cuts (Repeat)
Episode 308
If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it's easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the si…
4 years, 10 months ago
La Brega in Levittown
Episode 440
On the show this week, we’re bringing you an episode of a new podcast called, La Brega. And to tell us all about the series is Alana Casanova-Burgess…
4 years, 10 months ago
Welcome to Jurassic Art Redux
Episode 439
Kurt and Roman talk about icebergs and how we visualize them all wrong.
Plus, we visit a classic 99pi story by Emmett FitzGerald about visualizing di…
4 years, 10 months ago