Horror, fashion, and the end of the world ... the undercurrents of thought that link nihilists,...
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It's tough to make small talk with a stranger—especially when that stranger doesn't speak your...
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Shorts: Happy Birthday Bobby K
It’s Robert’s birthday! (Or it was, anyway, a couple days back.) So today we celebrate with some...
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Today, a lady with a bird in her backyard upends our whole sense of what we may have to give up...
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Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable...
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Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do...
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A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French Revolution to an underground bunker in...
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This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better...
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Today, the story of one little thing that has radically changed what we know about humanity’s...
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Shorts: For the Love of Numbers
It’s hard to think of anything more rational, more logical and impersonal than a number. But what...
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This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has...
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Shorts: Straight Outta Chevy Chase
From boom bap to EDM, we look at the line between hip-hop and not, and meet a defender of the...
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They buzz. They bite. And they have killed more people than cancer, war, or heart disease. Here’s...
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What do frozen horses and a scorching universe have in common? That's what we wanted to know.
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What's Left When You're Right?
From the stage to the cage, a series of showdowns that leave us wondering about the price of...
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Shorts: Neither Confirm Nor Deny
How a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a...
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You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things...
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This hour, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s...
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Shorts: The Times They Are a-Changin'
At the start of this new year we crack open some fossils, peer back into ancient seas, and look...
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Shorts: Sex, Ducks, and The Founding Feud
Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.
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