Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Detroit Industry Murals at the DIA inspires DIA Workers United
VIA Isabella Segalovich
‘Morning Edition’ Returns: A Bubbly Girl Named Diot Coke
George Redmonds, a researcher with the British National Archives studying 14th-century names, finds a girl's moniker that pops with recognition: Diot Coke. Redmonds believes Coke was a corruption of "Cook,"…
Why Is It Called A Spelling “Bee”?
where lots of people gather socially to do a lot of work.
Spirit Duplicators: Copies Never Smelled So Good
Widely used throughout the 20th Century by schools, churches, fan clubs, and other small organizations, Spirit Duplicators or "Ditto" machines allowed small runs of documents to be copied cheaply and…
Treme (TV series)
Treme (/trəˈmeɪ/ trə-MAY) is an American drama television series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that aired on HBO. The series premiered on April 11, 2010, and concluded on…
Photographs of cats who lived 100 years ago
When I was visiting historical churches out east I remember taking 1-2 pictures of the architecture, but also lots and lots of photos of the stray cats.
Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Secret Soundtracks of Movies & TV
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, world-class musicians gathered in smoky studios to record tracks that you couldn’t buy in a store… but ended up everywhere. In this episode, Dallas and…
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall: Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship
Mary deYoung had always been interested in deviants and deviance. As a social-psychologist, she studied “behavior that broke the rules,” and whether the worst parts of a person’s behavior were…