Pat Walters

The womb mate we’ve all had, but barely know.

In this episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs.

It used to be when you ordered something on the internet, you waited a week for it to show up.

We try to contain the stream of photos coming at us in the last week and ask a question about an image that few of us get to see: a soldier fatally wounded on the battlefield. 

A terrible Christmas special befitting a terrible year.  

Would you volunteer to get infected with COVID-19 to save someone’s life? Thousands of people already have.

Who are the soccer moms of the 2020 election? We set out to find them.

A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.

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.

From the brightest star to the most elemental particle, scientists are considering strange solutions for COVID-19.

Thinking about our future, we look back on the aftermath of a century-old pandemic.

A conversation with Lulu Miller about chaos, science, and her new book, Why Fish Don’t Exist.

Everyone on the planet has been told to stay six feet away from each other. Why six? And is six even the right number?

Could a century-old treatment become our best weapon in the fight against Covid-19?

Ever wonder what happens to your poop after you flush? So did we, but we weren't quite prepared for where it would take us. 

Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).

When you run the math, who comes out on top, the living or the dead?

In 1822 a stork that got speared like a kabob helped baffled scientists answer a thousand-year-old question. Of course, that led to another question, then another, then another ...

Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation?