Criminal Episode 70: The Procedure
The history of this country is such a dystopia. Thankfully there always seems to be people who leverage their own privilege to create networks and systems to help people targeted…
Germany – Reluctant Giant
The makers of this doc seem to be confused as to why German people want to give peace a chance. {listen}
The Wastebook
After a senator calls her research a waste of taxpayer dollars, biologist Sheila Patek heads to Capitol Hill to prove what her science is worth. In December 2015, the fight…
Born This Gay
At the turn of the 20th century, a German doctor sets out to prove that homosexuality is rooted in biology—but his research has consequences he never intended. In pre-Nazi Germany,…
Dialect versus language — what’s the big deal?
There are many rubrics that people cite as indicators of a dialect versus a language. Take mutual intelligibility. If two varieties of speech are mutually intelligible, surely they must be…
Kurt Vonnegut and the Rainmakers
In the mid 1940s, no one would publish Kurt Vonnegut’s stories. But when he gets hired as a press writer at General Electric, the company’s fantastical science inspires some of…
Six Degrees
Finding the right six people to make a difference. What does it mean to be connected to every person on earth? {listen}
From beyond the grave
trying to hold onto someone after they are dead
The Inventor and The Thief / Snap Judgment, “Legacy”
This story is a pretty good example of how capitalism kills innovation and how the mob and capitalism work in very similar ways.
Allusionist 58: Eclipse
It's August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She's in a bar, standing onstage,…