496: When Patents Attack...Part Two! 05.31.2013
About two years ago, we did a program about a mysterious business in Texas that buys up patents and then threatens other companies with lawsuits for violating those patents. A lot of stuff has ...
495: Hot In My Backyard 05.17.2013
After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane ...
494: Hit the Road 05.03.2013
It's spring, so we're opening windows and going places. This week we have stories of people who, for reasons that they can't always explain, feel compelled to get out and go somewhere. Including ...
493: Picture Show 04.19.2013
This week, Israeli soldiers take snapshots of Palestinian boys, one house at a time, in the middle of the night. This and other stories where getting the picture gives you the upper hand.
492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde 04.12.2013
Dr. Benjamin Gilmer (left) gets a job at a rural clinic. He finds out he’s replaced someone — also named Dr. Gilmer (picture) — who went to prison after killing his own father. But the ...
491: Tribes 03.29.2013
A Native American tribe is doing exactly the opposite of what you'd think they'd do: they're kicking people out of the tribe, huge numbers of them, including people whose ancestors without ...
490: Trends With Benefits 03.22.2013
The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on ...
489: No Coincidence, No Story! 03.01.2013
We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance ...
488: Harper High School, Part Two 02.22.2013
We pick up where we left off last week in our second hour from Harper High School in Chicago. We find out if a shooting in the neighborhood will derail the school's Homecoming game and dance. We ...
487: Harper High School, Part One 02.15.2013
We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this ...
486: Valentine's Day 2013 02.08.2013
Love makes us do crazy things. But usually not this crazy. This week for Valentine's Day we have stories of people going to extremes to find and pursue their one true love.
485: Surrogates 01.25.2013
This week we look at people who see themselves in others and try to live out their lives through stand-ins — including the story of what one father saw in the convicted murderer he decided ...
484: Doppelgängers 01.11.2013
Calamari is on one side of the plate, sliced hog rectums are on the other. Which is which? We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari, wondered if it could be true, ...
483: Self-Improvement Kick 01.04.2013
A perfectly normal guy gets rid of everything he owns, changes his name, says goodbye to his friends — and begins walking. In the name of peace. And Honduran government officials try to heal their ...
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