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Treasure in the Woods
Since the pandemic, foraging has exploded in popularity. Younger generations are embracing (or romanticizing) the great outdoors with trends like #co…
2 years, 9 months ago
Encore: Randonauts
r/randonauts is a fast-growing community of Redditors who use random, quantum-generated coordinates to go on real-life adventures. But what happens w…
2 years, 9 months ago
OK, Lamp!
This week on Endless Thread, host Ben Brock Johnson and producer Grace Tatter look at a meme inspired by supermodel Bella Hadid's call to compliment …
2 years, 10 months ago
Encore: Angel's Glow
In the aftermath of the Civil War's Battle of Shiloh in 1862, something strange happened. Some soldiers' wounds started to glow. Stranger still, tho…
2 years, 10 months ago
Come to the Orchestra
Can you have an orgasm from listening to music? Can you legally own more than six dildos in Texas? Endless Thread digs into several sexy questions th…
2 years, 10 months ago
#BlackFaeDay
Once upon a time, in a magical land of Oklahoma, fairy Jasmine LaFleur wanted to create a hashtag to unite Black fairies all across the land. And she…
2 years, 10 months ago
Oranges and Bucket Lists
This week, we have two stories about etymology. What can words teach us about culture, trade, memory, and the world around us? First up, which “orang…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Birds and the Bugs
Do you ever listen to birds singing catchy little melodies and wonder - wait a second, do they know music theory? Can they sing in thirds and fifths?…
2 years, 11 months ago
Endless Thread presents Outside/In: How to build a solar-powered website
What if the internet was only available most of the time? This week, Endless Thread presents an episode of Outside/In — a podcast from New Hampshire …
2 years, 11 months ago
Help Us Remember Sunil Tripathi
In the days after the 2013 Boston bombing, an online hunt for the perpetrators falsely accused Brown University student Sunil Tripathi. Police later …
2 years, 11 months ago