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Evan Kail is a wise-cracking antique dealer and TikToker. Last September, his world turned upside down when one of his TikToks ignited an international media frenzy.

The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, for nearly 50 years, no one has known who illustrated it. Well, not NO ONE. Not anymore... Endless Thread cracks the case!

"I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat?" This was a real question posed in Salon.com's Table Talk forum in 1999. What ensued from there played out like, well, a play. The Endless Thread team performs this early viral internet sensation, known as "Dogs in Elk."

Creating fake face-swapping porn is easier than ever. And U.S. federal law is failing to stop it.

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.

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.

AUBURN — Charlie Carroll, of Skaneateles, is pretty advanced for a budding artist. His art teacher, Chelsea Hamilton, has recommended a piece of his for inclusion in “Both Ends of

The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft.  Whatever form these letters take, they go unsent because they might be better left unsent, or because we wouldn’t know how to send them. In this favorite episode from the archives, we discuss a place online where these letters find an audience.

From the supermarket to the housing market, products are getting smaller but prices are not. Why is this happening? And can it be stopped before the toilet paper roll disappears right before our very… reaching hands? In this encore episode, we're talking all things shrinkflation.

Next up in our bots series, we explore a growing field of AI: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text.