This week: a worm digger in rural Maine, a remarkably effective citizen spy, and more. (more)

One of the most remarkable marathon finishes in recent history was recorded in 2009 in Boston. There, Kenyan runner, Salina Kosgei had her sights set on the finish line, having traveled half way around the world to get there. (more)

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art. (more)

By now you've probably heard plenty of stories about "the transformation of a beleaguered Detroit" but we bet you've never heard one like Work in Progress. (more)

An awkward office interaction at a temp gig gets even more awkward. (more)

Learning the A, B, C’s of housekeeping. (more)

Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years. (more)

This hour: foxes, rabbits, snakes, whales, birds, lambs, and dogs. (more)

"Without bread we are all orphans," says the sign that greets customers as they walk into Steve's Bread Shop in Portland, Maine. Meet Steve, who bakes bread in the most traditional way possible: by hand. (more)

Cell phones and laptops rely on a particular mineral called colombite tantalum – coltan for short - and the growing demand for the material in the west has had ramifications in some pretty distant corners of the world. (more)

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not. (more)

More than 20 years ago, musicologist Ned Sublette attended the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City, and brought along his tape recorder. (more)

A master clock maker explains why he's devoted his life to the clocks we hang on our walls. (more)

This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by. (more)

An investigation into why an ice cream truck was driving down my street at 9:30 PM. (more)

Everyone knows the riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? And the answer: Practice, practice, practice. But what if you practice, practice, practice, and still don't get there? (more)

This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time. (more)

Barch Levi Blum was born in late 2009 at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. He lived for ten minutes. (more)

A guided meditation spoof for all those searching for enlightenment, but who don't know where to find it. (more)

At one time “Diamond” Jimmy Roy owned half the businesses in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just outside Pittsburgh. (more)