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Stories of people stuck in moments that they revisit over and over again.
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Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them?
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We take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the paper and fill a program with stories that come from the ads.
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The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.
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A group of inmates at a high-security prison stage a production of the last act of Hamlet.
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Ira Glass goes to a fake wedding at a home for Alzheimer's patients.
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Stories about people who turned to the experts and got horrible advice.
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We take the laws of physics and apply them to the realm of human relationships.
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DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals, it's proving wrongdoing by police and prosecutors.
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The story of an eighth grader who set himself on fire, and what led to that.
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Life aboard an aircraft carrier stationed in the Arabian Sea supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan.
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There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.
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How the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
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Personal recordings one person made for just one other person.