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What Up Holmes?

Date
Friday, October 24, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. But our say-almost-anything approach to free speech is actually relatively recent, and you can trace it back to one guy: a

Content Warning

Date
Friday, October 17, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Over the past five years TikTok has radically changed the online world. But trust us when we say, it’s not how you’d expect.

Today we continue our yearslong exploration of what you can and can’t post online. We look at how Facebook’s approach to free

Creation Story

Date
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Ella al-Shamahi is one part Charles Darwin, one part Indiana Jones. She braves war zones and pirate-infested waters to collect fossils from prehistoric caves, fossils that help us understand the origin of our species. Her recent hit BBC / PBS series

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Date
Friday, October 03, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is a legal battle that has entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native

Voice

Date
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

Over the course of millions of years, human voices have evolved to hold startling power. These clouds of vibrating air carry crucial information about who we are–and we rely on them to push ourselves up and out into the physical world.

This week, we

The Spark of Life

Date
Friday, September 19, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

In the 1920s, a Russian biologist studying onion roots made a surprising discovery: underground, down in the darkness, it seemed like the cells inside the onion roots were making their own … light. 

The “onion root experiment” went on to become

Los Frikis

Date
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

How a group of 80’s Cuban misfits found rock-and-roll and created a revolution within a revolution, going into exile without ever leaving home.  Reporter Luis Trelles brings us the story of punk rock’s arrival in Cuba and a small band of outsiders

Screaming Into the Void

Date
Friday, September 05, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

In August we performed a live taping of the show from a theater perched on the edge of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson River, overshadowed by the wide open night sky. Three stories about voids. One about a fish that screams into the night – and the