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A lot of kids have imaginary friends. It seems to be a rite of childhood for many. Although it might at times seem to be

NPR welcomes the election of Milena Alberti-Perez and Margaret Low to the NPR Board of Directors.

"I've devoted my entire professional life to journalism in the public interest," says Low. "I hope I can make a difference for NPR and Member stations at this critical juncture — so that we can all thrive for decades to come."

In the days after the 2013 Boston bombing, an online hunt for the perpetrators falsely accused Brown University student Sunil Tripathi. Police discovered his body a week later. Ten years later, Endless Thread revisits Tripathi's life.

When someone close to you dies, it can be a struggle to feel normal again – and to have people TREAT you normally again. When T.J.’s long-time partner died suddenly in 2017, she found a sense of normalcy and healing from strangers in the r/Widowers community on Reddit.

From a Twitter user predicting a catastrophic earthquake just days before a 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey, to mysterious lights in the sky that can help geologists better forecast earthquakes, Ben Brock Johnson and producer Quincy Walters discuss the ways the disaster is being chronicled on social media.

WBUR Podcasts executive editor and Endless Thread podcast co-host Ben Brock Johnson sits down with Julian Shapiro-Barnum, host of the hit web series “Recess Therapy," which features the incredible wisdom, keen observations and often hilarious insights of children.

We all have a friend who claimed they were in a long distance relationship with someone really awesome...but darn it, you could never their SO because they lived in Canada. In this episode, we meet one Redditor who really and truly did have a girlfriend who lived in Canada, whom he fell for when the internet was new.

A new creepy crawly is wriggling into The Pine Tree State, and fast. In this episode, co-hosts Ben Johnson and Nora Saks tunnel down a wormhole into the complicated world of invasive species, and the stories we tell about them. Eventually, they wind up at a garden in Bangor where the worm wars are playing out in real time. 

A leaked change to its licensing rules angered fans as the game's company tries to find new ways to make money off of the intellectual property.