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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

Music Hat

Date
Friday, August 29, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

With this episode, we’re putting on our music hat. For a program that relies so much on scoring and sound, it’s not often we talk about the musicians and the music they make that inspire us. Today, that changes. Today, we bring you two stories. Each

The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Date
Friday, August 22, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

As he finished his medical school exam, David Fajgenbaum felt off.  He walked down to the ER and checked himself in.  Soon he was in the ICU with multiple organ failure.  The only drug for his condition didn’t work. He had months to live, if that. 

Weighing Good Intentions

Date
Friday, August 15, 2025 - 10:00 AM
Description

In an episode first released in 2010, then-producer Lulu Miller drives to Michigan to track down the endangered Kirtland’s warbler. Efforts to protect the bird have lead to the killing of cowbirds (a species that commandeers warbler nests), and a