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As Hurricanes Get Stronger, Can a $34 Billion Plan Save Texas? (32:37)
Coming July 27: There's More to That from Smithsonian magazine and PRX (01:35)
How We See Oppenheimer. Plus: Smithsonian’s Inside Look at the Top-Secret Los Alamos Site (19:17)
He's (Not) Just Ken: The True History of Barbie’s Beau (27:10)
What Happens When the Colorado River Dries Up? (25:25)
Beyond the Titanic: The Real Science of Deep Sea Exploration (36:10)
Meet the WWII Battalion of Black Women That Inspired an Army Base’s New Name (38:42)
Those Orcas Aren't Doing What You Think (30:27)
A Brief History of Book Banning in America (27:51)
How the Osage Changed Martin Scorsese’s Mind About "Killers of the Flower Moon" (36:46)
Healing the Wounds of the Vietnam War (35:37)
How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life (32:36)
Why Wildfires Are Burning Hotter and Longer (34:39)
When Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Is a Civil War Hero (28:53)
The Books We Loved (34:47)
How We See Oppenheimer (redux) (20:33)
How to Separate Fact From Myth in the Extraordinary Story of Sojourner Truth (38:35)
Before Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Ran the World, There Was Joan Baez (33:03)
Why We Love Eclipses (29:28)
How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again (36:30)
America’s Best New Restaurant Celebrates the Flavors of West Africa (27:54)
‘The Crime of the Century,’ a Century Later (36:09)
Roads Scholars (26:41)
How Americans Got Hooked on Counting Calories More Than A Century Ago (37:45)
The Man Behind "Manhunt" (33:48)
Survey: Help Us Design Our Future Season (00:35)
How to Sweat Like an Olympian (30:23)
ENCORE: Those Orcas (Still) Aren't Doing What You Think (29:29)
The Wild Story of What Happened to Pablo Escobar’s Hungry, Hungry Hippos (30:34)