Hotline!
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
Sextus Congenius Verus
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 Juli 38min
The Asteroid Hunter
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 Juli 34min
The Golden Record
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 Juni 43min
Wimbledon in a Cornfield
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 Maj 33min
SOS
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 Maj 57min
The French Fries
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
