Word of Mouth

On today's show: James Longhurst is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse – in his book Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road , he reveals how the social and legal status of bicycles was debated even in the years before the automobile. "The Bike Knight" from producer Sophie Nikitas. You can listen to this story again at PRX.org . Steve Featherstone is a writer and photographer from upstate New York who made the journey to Green Bank, West Virginia

On today's show: Civics 101 - Departments of State & Defense "The Working Tapes: Phone Operator" from the Studs Terkel series on Work. Produced by Joe Richman and Sarah Kramer. Listen again at prx.org . We talked to Wisconsin Public Radio All Things Considered host Brady Carlson about "the front page of the internet", Reddit. Television viewers have likely seen dozens of autopsies, but they're not as realistic as they might seem. Rachel Wilkinson attended an autopsy at the University of

On today's show: Civics 101: Congressional Caucuses Producer Leila Day brings us the story of A Park Ranger and a Buffalo Soldier. Listen again at PRX.org . Confederate Monuments aren't just a relic of the South. David Graham wrote about the persistence of Confederate Monuments and commemorations throughout the country for The Atlantic. Read his article: " The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments " "Lottery Walk" was produced by Hillary Rea . Listen again at PRX.org . On Tumblr, outside

On today's show: Civics 101: Senate Rules Bias in algorithms. We looked at the controversy surrounding the popular FaceApp and listen back to a previous discussion with Rose Eveleth , host of the podcast Flash Forward about the inherent bias in facial recognition apps. "The Ents of Melbourne" from the podcast, HumaNature . Listen again at prx.org . 10-Minute Writer's Workshop - John Scalzi

On today's show: Civics 101: How a Case Gets to the Supreme Court New York Times Reporter Katherine Rosman looked into the dearth of books for children about the 45th President but it's certainly not the first time authors have struggled with how to write about the life of an adult that's appropriate for children. " Telling Trump's Story to Children: For Book Publishers, It's Tricky " The podcast Criminal hosted by Phoebe Judge looks into whether or not you can be arrested for flipping the bird.

On today's show: Civics 101: The Cabinet Kaveh Waddell covers technology, digital privacy, and cyber security for The Atlantic, where he dug into the trend of companies running private digital forensics labs in an article called, " CSI: Walmart ." Abigail Carroll talks about her book, Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal . Producer Dan Collison remembers an event where America's favorite past time, baseball, collided with America's number one vegetable crop: the spud. Listen to "

On today's show: Civics 101: Term Limits 700 Fathoms Under the Sea was produced by David Schulman. Listen again at PRX.org . Benjamin Ludwig is the author of Ginny Moon and he stopped by the studio to talk about his debut novel. On Monday May 1st, at 7:00p, Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH will be hosting a launch party for the book. A Series of Tubes, our semi-regular series on tech, tackles password managers.

On today's show: A conversation with Matthew Crawford about his book The World Beyond Your Head . The Memory Palace - Family Snapshot. Listen to this segment again at prx.org . Charlotte Perkins is a Senior at Kearsarge Regional High School and the New Hampshire State Champion of Poetry Out Loud . She's competing at the National Championships at the end of the month and Virginia spoke to Charlotte and her mother Beth about the experience. Overheard - A weird new video game , a mystery on a

NHPR and The Music Hall present Writers on a New England Stage with Anthony Doerr , recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See tells the stories of two teenagers swept up in the brutality of World War II. Much has been made of the fact that the book was a ten-year journey for Doerr, but during our conversation, it became clear that that novel was just one facet--and one result--of his free-range inquisitiveness and sense of

On today's show: The Monadnock International Film Festival kicks off today, April 20 and runs through Sunday, April 23. More info on screenings and tickets here . We talked to the creator and host of the podcast Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonalds? Brian Thompson . Producer Jimmy Gutierrez checked in with Slam Free or Die at Stark Brewing during the second round of semi-finals. You can see the team finals tonight at Stark, doors open at 7 and performances start at 8. Ornette Coleman: The

On today's show: Civics 101: The IRS Kids' Money Making Schemes. Listen to this story again at PRX.org . Norm Stamper , former police officer and chief, talks about his book To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police . The Bookshelf: Poet Alice Fogel

On today's show: Civics 101: Veto "Crazy Bet" from producer Nate DiMeo and The Memory Palace . Listen again at PRX.org. Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh was born in Damascus, but now lives in New York, where he wakes up to bad news each day. He’s going to be performing with the Kinan Azmeh CityBand at Phillips Academy Exeter tonight at 7:00pm and at the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts tomorrow, April 19 th at 6:30pm to celebrate the band's 10th season together. This is our

On today's show: Eric Liu is founder and CEO of Citizens University and author of the new book You're More Powerful Than You Think . He’ll be talking about the book at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester on Friday evening, April 21 at 6:00 pm. Journalist and author Rinker Buck talked with us about his book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey , part history, part travelogue , and part family memoir. Listen again. Meaghen Brown is an Associate Editor at Outside Magazine, where she wrote

On today's show: Dara Lind looked into how those tensions may affect the rate of homicides being solved. She wrote about it for Vox : “ Police Are Solving a Lot Fewer Murder Cases Than They Used To .” Anne Marie Zanfagna is a New Hampshire based artist who has begun painting portraits of those who have died because of drug overdoses in the state. Read more and see pictures of Anne Marie's paintings here: Portraits of Those Killed By Heroin Bring Healing and Awareness How to Choose a Partner is a

On today's show: Civics 101: Gerrymandering "George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today" from producers Ben Manilla and Devon Strolovitch. Listen again at PRX.org . Sushma Subramanian wrote about the legacy left behind in Guatemala, 70 years after American researchers infected locals with syphilis and gonorrhea in her article "Worse Than Tuskegee" . "AKA Leo" from Nate DiMeo and The Memory Palace . Listen again at PRX.org .