Specials

The boxer crab has an extraordinary method for self-defense: it wards off predators using toxic sea anemones clenched in its tiny claws.

So many towns across America created for and by Black Americans have vanished but a few keep going. How did Hobson City, Alabama—a small, rural town—survive 125 years and become a notable stop in the Chitlin’ Circuit?

Today's episode covers two very different stories involving personal loss and what comes after.

Sathnam Sanghera's new book, Empireland, focuses on how British imperialism shaped the trajectory of that country's history. But as he emphasizes in his opening chapter, the U.S. – much like the rest of the world – is not exempt from being a part of that story.

In Italy hundreds of thousands of people are living directly on top of an active volcano.

At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch.

In May of 2022, in one of the most densely Black neighborhoods in Buffalo, New York, a white man wearing body armor and camouflage stormed into the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Street, armed with an assault weapon, and opened fire.

When born, baby caterpillars are smaller than a grain of rice.

Why aren’t Native people– and their stories – ever the crux of your favorite films?

Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004.