Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years

Tune in to this classic episode to learn all about the legendary NYC Rockettes, who actually got their start in Missouri. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop

Graffiti – the good kind, done with lots of style and skill – developed when some kids in NYC took up cans of spray paint and started to figure out how to outdo one another. They laid down styles that are so fine they’re still being used by artists today. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Short Stuff: Victorian Flower Language

What do you do when you want to tell someone you’re smitten with them but you live in a society so repressive decorum prevents you from even speaking such things? Why, you can say it with flowers! And that’s just what people in the Victorian Era did. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

AM Radio: Solid Gold

The era of AM radio isn't over, but it's well past its heyday. Dive in today for a trip down memory lane.  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Selects: How Personality Tests Work

For millennia, we have tried to put human personalities into neat types, an effort psychology took up early in its history in an effort to legitimize itself. But is the idea of types – which all personality inventories are based on - flawed to begin with? Find out in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.