There's a famous William Carlos Williams poem called "This is Just to Say." It's about, among other things, causing a loved one inconvenience and offering a non-apologizing apology. It's only three lines long, you've probably read it...the one about eating the plums in the icebox.

In the 1920s, at the height of the Spiritualism movement, a friendship blossomed between two men with opposing views on the topic: Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Houdini was a skeptic.

A lot of music discovery happens when we are kids.

Producer Sean Cole tells the story of a psychological experiment that proved ignorance is, in fact, bliss.

The discovery of new information casts a new light on a high school competition. Producer Sean Cole talks to some of the people involved, more than a decade later.

There are the birds who exist, and then there are the birds who may as well exist. Producer Sean Cole explains.

A game of telephone played on the podcast Normal Gossip reveals how gossip spreads, and why stories change from person to person.