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The Accidental Room
Episode 332
A group of artists find a secret room in a massive shopping center in Providence, RI and discover a new way to experience the mall.
Plus, we look at …
7 years, 2 months ago
Oñate's Foot
Episode 331
Juan de Oñate is one of the world’s lesser-known conquistadors, but his name can be found all over New Mexico. There are Oñate streets, Oñate schools…
7 years, 3 months ago
Raccoon Resistance
Episode 330
After Toronto unveiled its "raccoon-resistant" compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved, but many more celebrated the in…
7 years, 3 months ago
The Green Book redux
Episode 201
The new film “Green Book” is rolling out across the country. I have not seen the film, so I can’t speak to its merits or shortcomings, but while peop…
7 years, 3 months ago
Orphan Drugs
Episode 329
We chronicle the epic struggle to get drugs that treat very rare diseases on the market, and the unintended consequence of that fight, which affected…
7 years, 3 months ago
Devolutionary Design
Episode 328
It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people downloaded everything. Visuals were a key part of o…
7 years, 4 months ago
A Year in the Dark
Episode 327
Early on the morning of September 20th, 2017, a category four hurricane named Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico. It was a beast of a hurricane -- t…
7 years, 4 months ago
Welcome to Jurassic Art
Episode 326
At least for the time being, art is the primary way we experience dinosaurs. We can study bones and fossils, but barring the invention of time travel…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Worst Way to Start a City
Episode 325
Sam Anderson, author of Boom Town, guides us through the chaotic founding of Oklahoma City, which happened all in one day in 1889, in an event called…
7 years, 4 months ago
Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6
There is this myth that it’s frivolous or unproductive to care about how you look. Clothing and fashion get trivialized a lot. But think about who, c…
7 years, 4 months ago