Mixtape: Dakou

If a species is horrible enough, do we have the right to kill it forever? Seventy years ago, a nightmare parasite feasted on the live flesh of warm-blooded creatures in North America: the screwworm. That is, until a young scientist named Edward F. Knipling discovered a crucial sc ...  Show more

In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of making ...  Show more

No programa da semana retomamos o tema China conquistando o mundo, dessa vez com um testemunho de ninguém menos que o ex-ministro Ozires Silva! Tamos mal de ouvinte? Um pouco de história da China e de umas coisinhas que o Brasil poderia fazer para enfrentar o tsunami chinês. Será ...  Show more

Meet Liberato Kani, a hip hop artist in Lima, Peru—or as he says, “the Andean Bronx”. At his concerts, a typical call and response you hear is "Quechua es resistencia": Quechua is resistance. Though Quechua is spoken by nearly ten million people, Peru's native language is at risk ...  Show more

Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the West, possessed memorable, if not necessarily true, elements: Song was converted while ...  Show more

故事FM｜第 773 期表面上，我好像是没根的，飘着的，没有安全感，也没有可依赖的东西。但这就是我想要的。北京到底是什么样，我也不知道，反正光『北京』这两个字就足够迷人，我就想来！——《流浪北京》中张夏平说的话这句话出自一位北漂自由画家张夏平，她是吴文光导演在 1990 年拍摄完成的纪录片《流浪北京》中的一位主人公。在很多评价之中，吴文光对于中国「新纪录片」的意义，甚至相当于崔健之于中国摇滚。《流浪北京》被认为是中国首部真正意义上的纪录片，它记录了五个怀抱艺术理想的外地青年在北京流浪的经历，其中包括作家、画家、戏剧导演和摄影师，吴文光也借此间接诠释了自己 ...  Show more