What is a body farm?

Before Facebook and MySpace, before even Friendster, there was SixDegrees. Dive in today to learn about the first social media site, that was a few years too early.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

8 tracks were during vinyl, but preceded cassettes. Why? So people could listen to their music on the go. Check out this antiquated medium today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the most famous fictional character in the world, and for good reason. More than a hundred years on, Arthur Conan Doyle’s 60 Holmes stories are still in print and he is the most portrayed human literary character in history.See omnystudio.com/listener f ... Show More

In Yuba City, California, a farmer reported a trespassing incident on his property. What started as an illegal trash disposal complaint turned out to be a corpse buried between two trees. In the following days, 24 more bodies would be uncovered. Find out more about us on HorrorSt ... Show More

Orchardist Guy Gaeta has recently told a senate inquiry into supermarkets that there won't be any family farms left within 5 to 10 years, and that all that will be left are corporate farms. In this edition of The Conversation Hour the team discuss the outlook for family farms and ... Show More

AgriPilar is a young farmer from Spain who is involved in both her family's pistachio farm and her boyfriend's farm. She studied agricultural engineering (agronomy) and is passionate about farming and the countryside. AgriPilar has built a following on social media, where she sha ... Show More

Blippi and Meekah’s tomato plant is pretty droopy, how do farmers grow fruits and vegetables? They head to a real farm to find out! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

A skull a day! People ate people in the name of medicine across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Charles II kept powdered skull in a bag on his belt and mummified corpses were the greatest cure of all... but why? Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney visit the apothecary with g ... Show More

Could the key to a sustainable food system already be growing in the world’s farms? Plant scientist Giles E.D. Oldroyd explores how a special quirk of soybean plants allows them to naturally partner with networks of fungi and bacteria to access essential nutrients in the air and ... Show More

Two EPA agents investigate a report of human body parts discovered at the rural site of Tri-State Crematory. What they find sets off the biggest investigation in Georgia history. 

In 1952, a Wyandot County farmer taking his trash into the woods near his home came across a gruesome sight: Body parts blasted into the trees. Detectives quickly learned the victim was a small business owner from Maple Heights named Karl Kwinem, a.k.a. Karl Stone. They also had ... Show More

When corporate defense lawyer Rob Bilott first learned about Wilbur Tennant's dying livestock, the frustrated West Virginian farmer was at his wits' end. He'd sought help from numerous local authorities to no avail, but he was certain DuPont was poisoning his livestock, as well a ... Show More

In this reality we are thought to disregard and dislike our body as a problem to be fixed. What if instead our body could be the source of awareness and well being? What could you learn about yourself and your body if you were willing to listen to it? Join Max Zoulek and Shannon ... Show More