• Selects: How Mindfulness Works
    Jan 11 2025

    What has become a buzz word for corporate retreats and a way to get a discount on your health insurance is, at its core, a powerful, centuries-old Buddhist method of moving through life and dealing with the suffering that inevitably comes along with it. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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    53 mins
  • The Mysterious Story of Larry Bader
    Jan 9 2025

    Larry Bader disappeared in 1957 and reappeared a few days later with a new identity. Was it a brain injury or a scam? To this day, nobody knows.

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    44 mins
  • Short Stuff: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
    Jan 8 2025

    Join us today to learn the story of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, Canada's largest and most intense manhunt.

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    16 mins
  • GONG: The Chuck Barris Story
    Jan 7 2025

    Chuck Barris was a TV visionary, developing shows in the 70s that were decades ahead of their time. But was he also a covert assassin for the CIA?

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    44 mins
  • Selects: The Quinoa Revolution!
    Jan 4 2025

    Quinoa is a trendy food, right alongside kale and anything else farm to table. But it's really an ancient grain. Although it's not exactly a grain at all. Technically it's a pseudo-cereal. But it is tasty and nutritious, a true superfood. Learn all about the food with the funny name in this classic episode.

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    44 mins
  • How Saturn Works
    Jan 2 2025

    Saturn is the fanciest planet thanks to its prominent rings, cocked jauntily to the side. But this showy gem of the solar system has a lot of substance in addition to a great sense of style. Learn what makes Saturn so interesting in this episode.

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    50 mins
  • Short Stuff: Watch Night
    Jan 1 2025

    Watch Night has been observed on New Year’s Eve by African-American Methodists in the US since 1862, to mark the passage of the Emancipation Act. But this religious holiday goes back even farther in history, with even more layers of meaning.

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    9 mins
  • The Filthy Magic of Studio 54
    Dec 31 2024

    Studio 54 was a nightclub, but really much more than that. It became a symbol of the times as much as anything else in the 1970s. Strap on your platform heels and get down.

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    53 mins