There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it. But it’s a ghost that appears to just a small handful of people. Jean Hannah Edelstein tells the story to Ira.

Chase Friedman was in an accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Ira Glass talks to him about the unusual goal he set for his recovery.

Host Ira Glass talks to writer Mitchell S.

Susan Burton talks to women about why it’s so hard to talk about eating disorders.

People given the difficult task of deciding who lives and who dies.