Episode summary: This week, the most humiliating, unfortunate and regrettable things on the internet that simply will not come down. Also: the father who scours the internet for lost memories.

Episode summary: All over Oakland right now people are wearing Warriors shirts and flying their Warriors flags from their cars, and as much as we like our hometown team here at 99pi, we’ve been following these NBA finals for another design-related reason. When you watch the games in Toronto the whol...

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Episode summary: Julie Brown of the Miami Herald conceived, reported, and wrote one of the most explosive criminal justice stories in recent memory. She revealed the shutting down of an FBI investigation that may have been on the verge of discovering the full extent of a child-sex-trafficking operat...

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Episode summary: The current crisis for the Conservatives is often described as the worst since the party split over the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. So we talk to historian Boyd Hilton about what really happened back then and what it meant for British politics. Why were the Corn Laws so divisiv...

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Episode summary: A live interview on xray.fm in Portland where I talked about the IndieWeb

Episode summary: Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about what happens after darkness falls. From Mark Thomas’s childhood nocturnal journeys to a late-night story told in the glow of a turf fire. The Little Nuneen Featuring Gerald O’Brien Produced by Regan Hutchins Escap...

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Episode summary: Zoe and Sarah were young, free explorers on a spontaneous summer road trip. As darkness began to fall, the map on Zoe’s phone directed them to a short cut that would speed up their drive and get them to a safe place to spend the night. But that’s…

Episode summary: The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We hear both Baracolle and Ice World from Saloli’s album, The Deep End. We hear Ensemble Recherche do Morton Feldman’s Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann’s Theme. As...

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Episode summary: The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.

Episode summary: In the 1800s, every town had its own “local time,” which was not only confusing, but sometimes dangerous. So railroads implemented the standardized time we have today.