Soren Wheeler

Cut and run

Producer Soren Wheeler introduces us to Dan Engber, writer and columnist for Slate, who ran across a strange fact: kids are no longer afraid of quicksand.

Few things have such power over us as blood.

World Series of Poker Champion Annie Duke has made millions playing poker.

In movies and daydreams, winning changes everything. But in real life, it's not always so easy to pin down which ending is the happiest, or who deserves the glory.

What is it about being a fan that causes such intense reactions?

Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are trying to connect, and blur the line.

When Lulu Miller first heard the call of coyotes as a teenager at her family’s cabin in Cape Cod, she loved the sound—it was a thrilling taste of a world that hadn’t been tamed.

In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie.

Soren Wheeler takes us to Butte Montana--where an open pit copper mine’s demise leads to a toxic lake filled with corrosive runoff.

Though the Lucy experiment would largely be called a failure, could there be a way to re-do it... but better?

Producer Soren Wheeler brings us a story about a friendship between Steve Strogatz and his high school math teacher, Don Joffray.

Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer to the question, "Will humans ever stop fighting wars?" To get the answer, we look to our distant past.

5. 4 Seconds Down: Soren Wheeler tells the story of Ken Baldwin, a man who is looking for death but finds a new view on life. 6. Am I Dead?: Neurological psychologist Paul Broks introduces us to a patient who thinks she's dead. 7. If I Only Had A Brain: ...

Randomness may govern the world around us, but does it guide us?

The business of life is the business of taking the disorder of the world, little bits of matter scattered here and there, and giving them shape, regularity, order. Or so we all thought.