Molly Webster appears in the following:
Untrue Tales
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Maybe, just maybe, your deepest beliefs could be as solid as...air.
No-Touch Abortion
Friday, October 14, 2022
From surgery to pills, we look at how abortions have changed since the 1970s, and how they might still change.
Hello, My Name Is
Friday, April 29, 2022
This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
The Unsilencing
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Three scientists dive back in time, deep into our bodies, and down into our genome to tackle one question: Why do women tend to get autoimmune disease more than men?
Gonads: Dutee
Thursday, August 05, 2021
Olympian Dutee Chand has drawn the spotlight not just for being one of the fastest Indian female runners ever: in 2014, she was banned after failing a “gender test.”
Breath
Friday, June 11, 2021
Stories of first ones, last ones, and a whole bunch in between.
Staph and Gamma
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Two stories of surprisingly simple scientific discoveries—one that seems straight out of sci-fi, and the other, directly from the past.
Kleptotherms
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
We break the thermometer watch the mercury spill out as we discover temperature is far stranger than it seems. Five stories that run the gamut from snakes to stars.
Carbon
Thursday, March 25, 2021
A trip back to the Cold War, into the atmosphere, and inside our cells, where a very special type of carbon is helping to answer the question: how old are we?
Elements
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Scientists took about 300 years to lay out the Periodic Table into neat rows and columns. In one hour, we’re going to mess it all up.
Stuck in a Student Loan Relief Loophole
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The federal student loan relief included in the COVID aid legislation leaves millions of Americans out — including WNYC's own Molly Webster.
Dispatch 14: Covid Crystal Ball
Friday, March 12, 2021
On today’s episode, doctors witness the worldwide pandemic playing out in a single human body.
The Ceremony
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Today, paranoia sets in: we head to The Ceremony, the top-secret, three-day launch of a new currency, wizards and math included. Halfway through, something strange happens.
Dispatch 13: Challenge Trials
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Would you volunteer to get infected with COVID-19 to save someone’s life? Thousands of people already have.
Insomnia Line
Friday, September 25, 2020
It’s the dead of night, you’re wide awake. And you’re not alone. So we put a phone number on twitter, and spent all night talking to the sleepless among us.
Bringing Gamma Back, Again
Friday, September 11, 2020
What can flashing lights and an eerie reverberating sound do for the brain of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s? We update one of our favorite episodes.
Fungus Amungus
Friday, September 04, 2020
There’s a new bug popping up around the world. Or it might just be an old bug that finally met its moment.
Invisible Allies
Thursday, July 30, 2020
From the brightest star to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for COVID-19.
Dispatches from 1918
Friday, July 17, 2020
Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.
Slippery Mystery
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
From a sound rising from a marsh in South Carolina to the estuaries of New York to the darkest part of the ocean, we go in search of the limits of human knowledge.
