Word of Mouth Segments

It’s a fiction writer’s job to create authentic worlds and suspend disbelief. One of the more time-consuming techniques in their toolbox? Inventing new…

The annual San Diego Comicon attracts crowds in excess of 100,000 people. But there are plenty of colorful cosplay outfits, industry peeps, classes, and…

A decade ago, few people were talking about sustainability, especially in the South Bronx. It was there that Majora Carter founded programs for…

Last weekend, the box-office bowed to the marvel blockbuster dream-team The Avengers, which pits a group of righteous superheroes against their greatest…

Produced by Jonathan LynchIn the 1980s classic comedy revenge of the nerds, there was a clear cut boundary between the titular nerds and the preppy,…

Recently, popular books like Max Brook’s World War Z, and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One took serious literary stabs at the realm of the living dead. Actual…

Nano-technology is enabling breakthroughs in a number of scientific fields at an unimaginably small scale. Consider that the basic unit of measurement for…

We begin with homophobia in American hospitals. A recent, New York Times op-ed by Dr. Pauline Chencaught our eye. In an era of rapidly expanding…

How laser technology is being applied to a new line of cochlear implants. Now, can someone please just get us some freaking shark with some freaking laser…

Raw Story Executive Editor Megan Carpentier joins us to discuss the ever retrievable well of internet content and provides some helpful hints for would-be…