Toronto’s Musical Robot
Artist and architect Danny Shaddick and the rapper Shad have known each other since high school, and they both wound up in Toronto making art together. Now, they’ve made an unusual musical robot that ...
11 Marras 202514min
Manuscript Writing Cafe (Classic)
We go to Tokyo, to a particular place that is both nemesis and best friend to all those procrastinators out there. (Yes, we’re looking at you :) LEARN MORE: The Manuscript Writing Cafe is open Saturda...
10 Marras 202511min
The Beat Museum (Classic)
This San Francisco museum, curated by a super-fan of the Beats, is a shrine to an incredibly influential cultural movement and a destination for folks keeping it alive today. Hosted by Simplecast, an ...
7 Marras 202514min
The Living Libraries of West Africa
Journalist Eliot Stein explores the tradition of the djeli – African storytellers who memorize and pass down oral histories – tracing it all the way back to the Mali Empire. Along the way, he tracked ...
6 Marras 202523min
More Things We Collect
A while ago, we asked you to send us stories about your collections – and we got so many great responses, that we decided to make another episode about it. Plus, we want to hear stories about the ...
5 Marras 202512min
Baseball’s Muddy Little Secret
On the heels of the World Series, Kelly and Amanda discuss an unusual tradition in baseball: the fact that, before each game, every single ball is rubbed with mud sourced from a secret location in the...
4 Marras 202516min
Freud Museum London (Classic)
Sigmund Freud’s famous psychoanalytic couch is preserved in his final office in London, England.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/freud-museum-london Hosted by Simplecast, an...
3 Marras 202512min
Luomus Spiders (Classic)
The Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki has been home to an infestation of Chilean recluse spiders for more than 50 years. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for i...
31 Loka 202513min
