Snake Island

Toward the end of his life, the great inventor Thomas Edison became obsessed with one final project: finding a source of rubber that could grow in the United States. It would transform his Florida home into a bonafide botanical laboratory.This episode was produced in partnership ...  Show more

A stranger on an overnight bus ride causes a woman to contemplate her future. This essay originally appeared in Off Assignment. Plus, Off Assignment is offering a writing course this spring, called Writing the Mundane. Early bird pricing is on until February 9! Sign up here: http ...  Show more

There’s a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep human relationship to the underground—and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view, but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: We’re afraid of the dark.) In an e ...  Show more

There's a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep, human relationship to the underground, and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view — but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: we’re afraid of the dark.) Nati ...  Show more

Sur leur île de glace, les Islandais affrontent le froid, les geysers... et les risques de consanguinité !

Afin de se prémunir d'un tel écueil, cette nation insulaire a donc décidé d'employer les grands moyens... en élaborant une base de données sur la population locale  ...

Clare crosses the famous ‘Bridge over the Atlantic’ for a ramble on the island of Seil. Her guide is the writer, educator, and director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Norrie Bissell. Geopoetics is described as “creatively expressing the earth” and is critical of the weste ...  Show more