I Review The Body Electric
It's the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman, the poet best known for his landmark work Leaves of Grass... and the guy who anonymously wrote glowing reviews of his own writing in the newspapers.
The Only Headless Chicken With His Own Festival
We’re on the eve of this year’s biggest event in Fruita, Colorado - the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival, where people all gather to celebrate the miracle chicken who had his head chopped off, and carried on as if nothing had changed.
Found A Bat In His Ipad
You expect this kind of thing in Gotham City, but not here.
After-After-After-shocks
Today’s show is about a series of aftershocks measured in 2017 and 2018 - from an earthquake that happened in August of 1959.
Maya Angelou Dead At Age 86, Cancels Houston Appearance On Friday
Maya Angelou died five years ago today. It probably should have gone without saying that her Houston appearance wasn’t still on.
What Is The Euphemism For “I Dropped A Frog”?
Scientific papers can be wild. When they refer to “unplanned rapid disassembly," that’s an academic way of saying “accidentally exploded.”
The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
Officially, the community that started Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York. But Waterloo is definitely not the only place with a Memorial Day origin story.
You may find yourself at the store
The four year old is making up new lyrics to Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime.”
The Bobblehead of JB
The Bobblefather of Soul. The Hardest Working Bobblehead in Show Business. Soul Bobblehead Number One. The bobblehead that brought you such tunes as “Bobbling in America,” “Bobble’s Got A Brand New Bag” and “Funky Bobblehead Pts. 1 & 2”...
The Jumpsuit Century
There’s nothing more fashionable than the jumpsuit, right? Right? Anyway, it was a century ago that the Italian artist Thayaht proposed a one-piece garment with buttons down the front as the next big thing in fashion.