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The Lullaby
Our intrepid sound designer, Matt Reed — musician/composer extraordinaire —recently became a dad. He picked up a Glo Worm for his baby son, Sam. It's…
2 years, 11 months ago
'Stuff Your 15-Minute Cities!'
What do livable and walkable urban environments have to do with "the real life Hunger Games"? And why are people in Oxford, England and elsewhere com…
3 years ago
Asking Science About Giraffe
On a sunny day in March 2020, researchers in South Africa discovered the bodies of two giraffes. From what they could tell, the giraffes had died a f…
3 years ago
'Violation,' Part 1: Two sons, lost
Why did Jacob Wideman murder Eric Kane?
In 1986, the two 16-year-olds were rooming together on a summer camp trip to the Grand Canyon when Jacob fat…
3 years ago
Pawn Man
Evan Kail is a wise-cracking antique dealer and TikToker. Last September, his world turned upside down when one of his videos ignited an internationa…
3 years ago
Endless Thread introduces Violation, a new podcast about who pulls the levers of power in the justice system
We thought Endless Thread fans would want to hear this trailer for a new podcast from WBUR.
Violation tells the story of two families bound together …
3 years ago
Owl pursuits
Last fall, freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got a new neighbor: an owl. What wasn't clear was whether the owl was trying t…
3 years ago
Return of the Aunties
It's been eight months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and more people are relying on Reddit for help accessing abortion services tha…
3 years, 1 month ago
Aftershocks Online
The people of Turkey, Syria and Lebanon are still recovering from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people and injured thousa…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Journeys of Two Russian Anti-War YouTubers
This week, Endless Thread spends time talking with two young Russian YouTubers who've had to contend with Russia's crackdown on wartime dissent.
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3 years, 1 month ago