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2024-11-12

  V is for Vitamin (encore)

They're added to breakfast cereal, bread, and even Pop-Tarts, giving the sweetest, most processed treats a halo of health. Most people pop an extra dose for good measure, perhaps washing it down with fortified milk. But what are vitamins—and how did th...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-11-04

  Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project

The Klamath River on the California-Oregon border was once the third largest salmon river in the continental U.S. There were so many fish, indigenous histories claim that you could cross the river walking across their backs—which made the peoples who l...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-10-29

  Potatoes in Space! (encore)

Today, a half century after Neil Armstrong took one small step onto the surface of the Moon, there are still just ten humans living in space—the crew of the International Space Station. But, after decades of talk, both government agencies and entrepren...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-10-15

  Absinthe: The World's Most Dangerous Drink?

To painters and poets in late-1800s France, absinthe was "the green muse" or the "green fairy," an almost magical potion that promised vivid dreams, wild ideas, and artistic inspiration with every sip. By the 1910s, this once incredibly popular herbal ...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-10-01

  From Trash to Treasure: Why's It So Hard to Save Restaurant Leftovers From the Dumpster?

Every day, at the end of service, restaurants throw away tons of entirely edible food: heaps of pastries and whole loaves of bread, vegetables chopped but not cooked, noodle dough, fish off-cuts, and more. An estimated 20 billion meals's worth of still...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-09-17

  Smashing Pumpkin Myths: What's Big, Orange, and Having an Identity Crisis?

It’s already begun: that time of the year now known across the land as Decorative Gourd Season. Squash are everywhere—carved into jack o’lanterns on front porches, adorning our sideboards and porches with strange shapes and autumn colors, and of course...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-09-10

  Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE)

The produce section of most American supermarkets in the 1950s was minimal to a fault, with only a few dozen fruits and vegetables to choose from: perhaps one kind of apple, one kind of lettuce, a yellow onion, a pile of bananas. Today, grocery stores ...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-09-03

  Deli is Short For Delicious—But Are Your Pastrami and Bologna Sandwiches Giving You Cancer?

School’s back in session, and kids are boarding the bus with lunchboxes in tow. Many of them contain sandwiches stuffed with turkey and ham slices, bologna, even salami—but where did these staples of the lunch break, not to mention the charcuterie plat...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-08-20

  What's the Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save the World?

About ten years ago, insects were constantly being hyped as the future of food. Headlines proclaimed that, within the decade, everyone would be eating bugs as part of their daily diet—and saving the planet in the process. But while the buzz on edible i...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author
2024-08-06

  The Billion Dollar War Behind U.S. Rum (Planet Money)

When you buy a bottle of rum in the United States, by law nearly all the federal taxes on that rum must be sent to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It's an unusual system that Congress designed decades ago to help fund these two U.S. territorie...
  Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley author