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An episode all about hotlines - and the people who answer the calls. You can read more about the Foy Information Desk in "The Alabama Landline that Keeps Ringing," by Emily McCrary. To learn more ab...

5 Aug 36min

When Daniella Santoro and her husband started clearing their backyard in New Orleans, they found a strange stone under a satsuma tree. The stone had letters carved into it – like a gravestone. “We tho...

15 Jul 38min

In the early ’90s, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that we should be monitoring aster...

1 Jul 34min

In 1977, Ann Druyan was asked to help create a message from Earth that would leave our solar system and last for more than a billion years. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and re...

17 Jun 43min

Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted, but growing up, he didn’t know anything about his biological parents. When he was seven years old, a social worker came for a visit and Bob heard her whisper so...

3 Jun 49min

Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis w...

20 Mai 33min

Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.” Bill Donahue’s article is Lost & Found in Bac...

6 Mai 57min

One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found another bag. And then another. Th...

15 Apr 37min