Every Cat Scan Has Nine Lives

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

When Adele wrote into our show last summer, she described herself as “the worst phlebotomist in the whole hospital.” Producer Diane Wu couldn’t resist calling her up to find out exactly what she meant by that.

When Neena Pathak found out she had a fibroid, it didn’t seem so bad.

Lisa Pollak tells the story of a high school football team in Mississippi getting ready to play its first game just a month after Hurricane Katrina upended everything.

A person is accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Lisa Pollak goes to the Enchanted Snowfall at La Encantada Mall, where the snow is "98 percent magic; 2 percent soap." (4 minutes)