Hearken Story Roundup
Every week, our partner newsrooms use the Hearken framework to publish great stories that were initiated by audience questions. Check back for updates every other Monday for a glimpse at what matters to audiences around the country and the world!
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Sometimes you’ll find a few highlighted stories at the top, put together by Hearken’s team of engagement consultants.
March 3–16, 2018
Janine Anderson: The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Opinion team put together a prompt looking for people’s questions about gun laws in Minnesota, after the Parkland school shooting. They received 1,700 questions and, through a voting round, selected this one to answer in an editorial: How effective was the last assault weapons ban?
And for a fun look at what it’s like at another place doing the same kind of public-powered work you’re doing, check out WESA’s Katie Blackley on The Confluence. Find her around 43 minutes in. She talks about their Hearken series, Good Question, and what it’s like to work on it.
Summer Fields: VPR’s people-powered podcast Brave Little State dug into a question from listener Walter. He asked whether the Northeast Kingdom, a region in Vermont where he grew up, is really as different from the rest of the “liberal, progressive” state as its reputation suggests.
“My question stems from the fact that I’m gay” he said, “and growing up in the Northeast Kingdom wasn’t easy for me. And high school was not an enjoyable experience.”
Not only does VPR try their hardest to answer his question, but host/producer Angela also does a great job of showcasing Walter’s personal stakes. She included his backstory, why he was curious, his hopes for the answer, and his reaction to what they found in the process. We always advocate for that strategy: showing, not telling, how much you value your audience’s input by including your question askers’ voices in your final story.
Julia Haslanger: Good work by reporter Matt Levin, who took the time to dig into the data around a question the CALmatters audience asked and voted for: “Are foreign investors driving up real estate in your California neighborhood?”
Bonus props! Kudos to Nashville Public Radio for celebrating *two full years of question-answering* by saying thanks to their audience and giving updates on some of their most popular stories. It was a smart way to give their archives some new life, remind their audience they can send you questions, and restate why the newsroom is doing this whole thing in the first place.
Stephanie Snyder: As gun law debates have resurfaced in the U.S., similar conversations and questions have also become top-of-mind for those abroad. Swiss Info put out a call for questions related to access to guns and gun control issues in Switzerland, and published an informative roundup of the most frequently-asked questions, including, “Why are there so few mass shootings in Switzerland but so many guns in private hands?”
Story roundup:
RTV Drenthe Zoek het uit!: How did the lime kilns work?
Omroep West Rake Vragen: Why does Leiden do so little against “verkamering”?
WUWM Bubbler Talk: Think You’ve Been Duckpin Bowling in Milwaukee? Think Again.
WUFT Untold Florida: Plans for development near northwest Gainesville Walmart on hold to balance environmental interests
WUFT Untold Florida: School Boards: A part-time job with full-time duties?
KQED Bay Curious: How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land
Metroland York Region Connect: Why were pedestrians ignored during build of Richmond Hill terminal?
Metroland York Region Connect: When are we going to get more parking spots at Bradford GO Station?
Metroland York Region Connect: Why were GO trains and bus service cut to Stouffville?
Metroland York Region Connect: Can we make York University/subway bus more frequent?
Metroland York Region Connect: Why are the traffic lights not co-ordinated to keep traffic flowing?
Metroland York Region Connect: When will Hwy. 404 have complete on and off ramps at Mulock?
Metroland York Region Connect: Will Hwy. 404 get 3rd lane between Newmarket, Aurora?
Metroland York Region Connect: Would the region consider right turn lanes at Harry Walker and Davis Drive?
Metroland York Region Connect: Will YRT commuters get a discount for TTC?
Metroland York Region Connect: What do we do when GO parking lots are full?
Metroland York Region Connect: Are there plans to boost options for getting to, from GO stations?
Metroland York Region Connect: When will Richmond Hill, Newmarket have all-day, 2-way GO ?
ABC Curious Sydney: Why do some Sydney councils encourage urban beekeeping but avoid handling complaints?
Chicago Tribune Red Eye: How to celebrate a queer St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago
Reckon by AL.com Ask Alabama: Where does the word “Dixie” come from?
Michigan Radio MI Curious: Would lowering weight limits for trucks improve our roads?
WAMU What’s With Washington: Mesmerizing, Or A Hot Mess? Why Maryland’s State Flag Looks So…Distinct
WFAE FAQ City: FAQ City: The Blue Line Extension: You’ve Got Questions, He’s Got Answers
WOSU Curious Cbus: Columbus Removes Iconic ‘Kangaroo Crossing’ Sign, To Much Public Outcry
ABC Curious Darwin: The architectural mystery behind Darwin’s incomplete Acropolis
Michigan Radio MI Curious: Why is rock salt the go-to solution for Michigan’s icy roads?
WFDD Carolina Curious: Carolina Curious: Greensboro’s Walkability And the Pedestrian’s Plight
Lancaster Online We the People: For decades, Lancaster County has wasted farmland. When will it stop?
WBEZ Curious City: What Historical Treasures Are Housed In Chicago Public Libraries?
Chicago Tribune Red Eye: All your questions about St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, answered
KUT ATXplained: Why Is The Map On The Floor Of The Austin Airport Full Of Misspellings?
NHPR Only in NH: What’s The Story Behind That Mysterious Gravestone In New Boston?
Star Tribune Ask Editorial: Assessing the 1994 ban on assault style weapons
VPR Brave Little State: Is The Northeast Kingdom Really So ‘Different’?
WPLN Curious Nashville: The Story Behind A Pink Elephant On Charlotte Pike
WUWM Bubbler Talk: Why Doesn’t Milwaukee Have A College Football Team?
KQED Bay Curious: Why Are People Convinced This California Ghost Town Is Cursed?
ABC Curious Melbourne: Meet Melbourne’s urban farmers growing food at home
ABC Curious Kimberley: The killing time’: How placenames reveal violence, murder and injustice in the Kimberley
Chicago Tribune What’s the Story: Why do egg rolls in Chicago taste like peanut butter? And more egg roll questions answered
Omroep West Rake Vragen: How an 8-year-old boy’s match leads to years of supermarket struggle
The Columbian Clark Asks: State law prohibits breaking up school districts
ABC Curious Brisbane: Why was Queensland’s ban on women drinking in public bars lifted?
CALmatters: Data dig: Are foreign investors driving up real estate in your California neighborhood?
NPR Goats and Soda: Your Turn: Nominate A Woman Who’s Making Strides For Other Women
Michigan Radio MI Curious: The director of MDOT answers your questions about Michigan’s roads
Swiss Info: How do the Swiss deal with firearms? Your questions, answered
KALW Hey Area: Hey Area: A history of San Francisco’s contested sanctuary city status
Dallas Morning News Curious Texas: Where does our poop and pee go in Dallas? Curious Texas investigates
Chicago Tribune Ask Rick: You ‘Ask Rick,’ we answer: Your first questions are about Ferris’ big wheel and Dillinger’s dog
KCPT curiousKC: Can You Improve An Area Without Gentrifying It?
RTV Drenthe Zoek het uit!: Can the Hondsrug collapse due to gas extraction?
Lancaster Online We the People: Maps, tunnels and Buzzards: 4 takeaways about Lancaster County history from a discussion with the experts
February 17 — March 2, 2018
Janine Anderson: The Dallas Morning News took on a question submitted by Lily, age 7, who wondered why Texas was so big. Their story tied in with the state’s 182nd birthday, and gave Lily a comprehensive answer to her question about the state’s size, and why Texans are so obsessed with it. Columnist Jacquielynn Floyd’s piece is informative and fun to read, and, filled with delightful — and sometimes, um, “colorful” — language that suits this subject well and likely broadened Lily’s vocabulary.
Summer Fields: “Why aren’t there more positive portrayals of black men in the news?” That’s the question 18-year-old Terrance Robinson, 14-year-old Victor Barnett Jr., 17-year-old Darius Simmons and 16-year-old Ashanti Travers posed to Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM) through their curious series Bubbler Talk. What followed was a frank conversation between the teens, a Black man who works as a news director at the local ABC affiliate, and folks at WUWM. They turned the mic back on themselves to be accountable and transparent with their community. They all talk about the factors at play and what steps they’re trying to take.
Stephanie Snyder: ABC News in Sydney was prompted to look into a question that many of us have likely wondered at some point (or at least I have!) — “Why is that flag flying at half mast?” Gillian Wood, a local government worker and former librarian, asked Curious Sydney to find out why it was so difficult for the public to learn what or who their government is recognizing on any particular day. Not only was the story well-reported, but Curious Sydney’s Sue Daniel did a great job incorporating Wood throughout the process. 🙌🏼
Julia Haslanger: In the latest story as part of CuriosiD, WDET talked with a woman who asked how much of Michigan’s electricity is still generated by coal — and the reason she wanted to know was because she was considering buying an electric car. So the question CuriosiD tackled was: Could Electric Cars Increase Pollution? It added an element of novelty and freshness (and relatability for some people) to a story that otherwise might have focused on the question of coal vs. not-coal, without a compelling “why should I care?” More proof that talking to your question-asker can help you scope and focus a story.
Story roundup:
KCPT curiousKC: Can You Improve An Area Without Gentrifying It?
NHPR Only in NH: Where in N.H. Can I Go to Learn More About Robert Frost?
WUWM Bubbler Talk: Young Black Men Ask Milwaukee Media: Why Do You Cover Us The Way You Do?
KUT ATXplained: Who’s That Texan-Sounding Dude Telling Me To Cross The Street All Over Austin?
RTV Drenthe Zoek het uit!: Where was the Riegmeer in Hollandscheveld?
KQED Bay Curious: America’s Emperor, San Francisco’s Treasure: Who Was Emperor Norton?
ABC Darwin Curious Darwin: Why isn’t the Northern Territory a state?
WAMU What’s With Washington: Why Washington Freaks Out About Snow — Even When It Hardly Gets Any
WESA Good Question: Why Does Pittsburgh Have 90 Neighborhoods?
WBEZ Curious City: Bed Rest And Sputum Tests: Inside Chicago’s Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
WFAE FAQ City: Why Is Downtown Charlotte Called ‘Uptown’?
Texas Tribune Texplainer: Here’s why so many Texas races go uncontested by major parties
Omroep West Rake Vragen: How did the Gouwe River originally run?
Ask ABC10: Future of student’s reinstatement who threatened school in question
WUWM Beats Me: What Does Montessori Education Look Like in Wisconsin?
WDET’s CuriosiD: Could Electric Cars Increase Pollution?
KQED Bay Curious: There’s No Polo at the Polo Fields. But There is at Dolores Park.
ABC Canberra Curious Canberra: Why are the dilapidated Alexander and Albemarle buildings in Woden still standing?
Austin American-Statesman Austin Answered: What was Dirty Sixth before it was Dirty Sixth?
WUWM Bubbler Talk: The Many Lives of Milwaukee’s Castle on Kilbourn
KUT ATXplained: Raiders Of The Lost Archive: Is This Building Off Shoal Creek A Top-Secret Warehouse?
Chicago Tribune What’s the Story: Chinatown: The essential guide
Austin American-Statesman Austin Answered: Who has the 737 area code, and can you still get 512?
Texas Tribune Texplainer: Gun rights groups are powerful in Texas — but not because of money
KUT TXDecides: What Does An Election Judge Do — And Who Gives Them That Gig?
KQED Bay Curious: The Sculpture Wonderland That Once Delighted I-80 Drivers
Chicago Tribune What’s the Story: Chicken feet? Why?’ And your other questions about Chinese food answered
ABC Adelaide Curious Adelaide: South Australia’s X-Files: Curious Adelaide cracks open our most mysterious UFO cases
ABC Curious Sydney: How can we find out why flags are at half-mast when it’s not Anzac Day or Remembrance Day?
WUFT Untold Florida: Keystone Heights’ Lakes Might Get State Funding For Water Replenishment, But Not Everyone’s Happy
KALW Hey Area: The truth behind San Francisco’s homeless bussing program
Dallas Morning News Curious Texas: Where are the best places to drink tequila and mezcal in the Dallas area?
Dallas Morning News: Should I get more than one flu shot? Is the vaccine effective? Your flu questions answered
Boise State Public Radio Wanna Know Idaho: How Did The Bonneville Flood Help Shape The Snake River Canyon?
WUFT Untold Florida: Tower Road to Undergo Resurfacing This Spring
WBEZ Curious City: Get A Piece Of This: 9 Chicago Pizza Mysteries Solved
KUER Hive Mind: Hive Mind: How Much Affordable Housing is Enough?
KCPT curiousKC: Searching For Her Dad’s Technical High School
Current Currently Curious: You told her to follow opportunities but big cities still draw this young pubmedia professional
Metroland York Region Connect: Why can’t you use Presto on TTC buses in York Region?
KQED Bay Curious: San Jose Rubber Puckies? How the Sharks Became the Sharks
Austin American-Statesman Austin Answered: How did Austin come up with half streets?
February 6–16, 2018
Stephanie Snyder: KUT knocked it out of the park with a community-building exercise around books for newcomers. One question led to them crowdsourcing 200 book titles, and the creation of a book club Facebook group. The story.
Janine Anderson: Reckon by AL.com’s Ask Alabama has two homes. One is on the AL.com website, where they put out in-depth answers to what are often very complicated questions. Then, the Reckon by AL.com Facebook page has a playlist of Ask Alabama videos with a very different tone. Check them out.
Summer Fields: WOSU Public Media put Hearken to use with a special series, Chasing the Dream, about issues like jobs, wages, poverty and class. A story published this month that grew out of an audience question, Why Bexley is an affluent island in Columbus, has already become one of the most popular in the series that’s been active since October.
Julia Haslanger: Boise State Public Radio’s Frankie Barnhill did a fantastic job involving the question-asker in the latest Wanna Know Idaho story about statutes of Abraham Lincoln. The audio of this piece showcases how active Ashlie was in getting to the bottom of her question.
Now for the stories:
Texas Tribune Texplainer: Local taxes in Texas have been rising to help pay for education. Who is to blame? by Alex Samuels
NHPR Only in NH: Why Are There SO Many “Houses of Pizza” In New Hampshire? by Jimmy Gutierrez
WUWM Bubbler Talk: The Story Behind Koss Headphones’ ‘Uniformly Witty’ Billboards by Audrey Nowakowski
Metroland York Region Connect: How is York Region addressing $1.5B roads shortfall? by Lisa Queen
WOSU Curious Cbus: Curious Cbus: What’s The History Of Old Beechwold? by Deepti Hossain
KQED Bay Curious: Car Break-Ins Are Up in San Francisco. What’s Being Done? by Sarah Craig
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Adelaide Curious Adelaide: Curious Adelaide: Descending into the darkness of Adelaide’s stormwater network (Part Two) by Malcolm Sutton
Dallas Morning News Curious Texas: Curious Texas: How did that Texas city get such a weird name and how do you pronounce it? by Charles Scudder
Heilbronner Stimme Noch Fragen: What a free public transport would mean for the region by Christine Faget
KUT ATXplained: Is It Really Legal To Walk Down The Street With A Beer In Austin Neighborhoods? by Ashley Lopez
Lancaster Online We the People: Who were the first settlers to Lancaster County? by Lindsey Blest
RTV Drenthe Zoek het uit!: Why are shoes hanging in the tree at the skate track in Assen? by Greetje Schouten
ABC Curious Kimberley: Curious Kimberley: Why some regional towns don’t have street mail delivery by Emily Jane Smith
WFPL Curious Louisville: Curious Louisville: What Happened To The Belvedere’s ‘Pan’ Statue? by Ashlie Stevens
Reckon by AL.com Ask Alabama Facebook video: Ask Alabama: Why doesn’t Birmingham have a major pro sports team? by Jonathan Sobolewski
KUT TXDecides: Will The 2018 Elections Be A Dream Come True For Texas Democrats? by Ben Philpott
WFAE FAQ City: Why Don’t Some Major Roads In Charlotte Have Streetlights? by Nick de la Canal
ABC Darwin Curious Darwin: Why do Darwin drivers get away with parking on the grass, when in other states they would be fined? by Shahni Wellington and Neda Vanovac
Boise State Public Radio Wanna Know Idaho: What’s Up With The Abe Lincoln Statues In Downtown Boise? by Frankie Barnhill
WYSO Curious: Comparing The Economic Impact Of Food Trucks And Restaurants: WYSO Curious Goes Out To Eat by Jason Reynolds (Community Voices)
Heilbronner Stimme Noch Fragen: Frost and dirt: When the car wash says ‘No’ by Torsten Buchele
KUER Hive Mind: Are Tiny Houses A Feasible Option To Increase Affordable Housing? by Whitney Evans
WUWM Beats Me: What’s the Wind Turbine South of Downtown Milwaukee Powering? by Susan Bence
KQED Bay Curious: How San Diego Helped Name the Golden State Warriors by Ryan Levi
WBEZ Curious City: How Often Do People Defend Themselves With A Gun? by Monica Eng
KCPT curiousKC: The Faces Of Eviction
Michigan Radio MI Curious: New bill would add 10-cent deposit to water and juice bottles in Michigan by Doug Tribou
NHPR Only in NH: Why is New Hampshire SO Against Having an Income Tax? by Justine Paradis
WUWM Bubbler Talk: Whatever Happened to Milwaukee’s Alternative Newspaper, The Bugle? by Marti Mikkelson
KQED Bay Curious: San Francisco Was Once Aglow With Neon by Serginho Roosblad
ABC Curious Melbourne: What has caused the recent and visible increase in homelessness in Melbourne? by Simon Leo Brown
Lancaster Online We the People: Watch: PennDOT representative answers questions about Lancaster County roads by Lindsey Blest
WESA Good Question: How a Lawrenceville Tunnel Was Rumored To Move Ammunition During The Civil War by Katie Blackley
ABC Curious Sydney: Under the Sydney Opera House is another unique structure — a ‘doughnut-shaped’ double helix car park by Laura Brierley Newton
Dallas Morning News Curious Texas: Is it illegal to pick Texas bluebonnets? by Charles Scudder
KUT ATXplained: Dan Is Moving To Austin. Here Are 27 Books You Suggested For Him And Other Newcomers.
WOSU Curious Cbus/Chasing the Dream: How Bexley Became an Island by Adora Namigadde
ABC Brisbane Curious Brisbane: Fate of Brisbane’s Dragon Coaster in Myer Centre as mythical as the beasts themselves by Patrick Williams
KUT TXDecides: What’s On The Ballot In March? In Addition To Candidates, An Opinion Poll by Ben Philpott
ABC Canberra Curious Canberra: Who’s behind the Canberra Lost Pet Database Facebook page?by Sonya Gee
KCPT curiousKC: The Rise And Fall Of A Boomtown by Mike Sherry
KUT TXDecides: Here’s Everything You Need To Know If You Haven’t Registered To Vote Yet by Andrew Weber
January 23-February 5, 2018
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: A Mystery Tree Grows In Milwaukee by Maayan Silver
KUT’s TXDecides: Here’s Everything You Need To Know If You Haven’t Registered To Vote Yet by Andrew Weber
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who’s behind the Canberra Lost Pet Database Facebook page? by Sonya Gee
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Figure it out! — War in Coevorden or generate electricity in the Drentse Hoofdvaart? by Greetje Schouten
WBEZ’s Curious City: What’s It Like To Live In Chicago’s Loop? by Jake Smith
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: What does Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler do? We found out. by Christopher Harress
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Wear: What’s up with those MoPac terraces? Trees, soon by Ben Wear
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: Paper cups, pizza boxes, plastic bags: What’s recyclable and what’s not in Michigan?
VPR’s Brave Little State: Who Oversees Vermont’s County Sheriffs? by Emily Corwin and Angela Evancie
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Curious Adelaide: Uncovering the truth about Adelaide’s ‘secret’ tunnel network (Part One) by Malcolm Sutton
BBC Persia: What is the best way to slow down the iPhone? Rounds off the filtering telegram?
Bruzz’s Big City: YOUR QUESTION. What is in the tower (with clock) of Brussels North? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: Money does not matter: what drives local politicians by Janis Dietz
KQED’s Bay Curious: Eucalyptus: How California’s Most Hated Tree Took Root by Daniel Potter
KUT’s TXDecides: What Do You Mean I’m Not Registered To Vote? by Ben Philpott
KUT’s ATXplained: How Do Capitol View Corridors Preserve Sights Of Austin’s Most Famous Building? by Syeda Hasan
Lancaster Online’s We the People: Restaurants, even repeat violators, are rarely closed for failing state inspections; Why? [We the People report] by Tom Knapp
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Figure it out! — When are push notifications posted by RTV Drenthe? by Greetje Schouten
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Figure it out! — Where does the expression ‘Erica, nice water!’ come from?
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Campaign finance for dummies: A guide to Texas election reporting rules by Alex Samuels
Dallas Morning News’ Curious Texas: What’s with all the Barton names in Texas? by Charles Scudder
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Here’s why it’s hard for Texans to get alcohol shipped directly to them by Alex Samuels
KUT’s TXDecides: What’s The Deal With Texas’ System Of Electing Judges? by Ben Philpott
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Addicted To Salt: How Much Is Too Much On Washington’s Roads And Sidewalks? by Jacob Fenston
WFAE’s FAQ City: FAQ City: Where Are All The Breakfast Tacos In Charlotte? by Nick de la Canal
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Red Lights, Roadkill, And Wreckers: A Carolina Curious Transportation Roundup by Sean Bueter
ABC’s Curious Darwin: Why is the westernmost point of Darwin called East Point? by Neda Vanovac
Dallas Morning News’ Curious Texas: Curious Texas: Why isn’t the Dallas police chief in uniform yet? by Naheed Rajwani
KALW’s Hey Area: Hey Area: Why is the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge so long? by Lisa Cantrell
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: This obscure rule explains why you can’t return liquor in Michigan by Emma Winowiecki
WESA’s Good Question: How Pittsburgh Transit Evolved From Horse-Drawn Streetcars To The Modern T by Katie Blackley
ABC’s Curious Kimberley: Why are there no kangaroos in the Kimberley? by Emily Jane Smith
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: Why Doesn’t N.H. Have a Weather Office? by Hannah McCarthy and Justine Paradis
WBEZ’s Curious City: What Makes Chicago A Destination For Improv? by Laura Pavin and Jimmy Carrane
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: What Are Frost Heaves? Are They Unique to N.H.? by Justine Paradis
NJ Spotlight’s Have a question?: We’ve got answers to your questions for your legislators by Lee Keough
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Dining With Dolphins: Remembering Milwaukee’s ‘Most Unusual’ Restaurant by Susan Bence
KQED’s Bay Curious: The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build by Rachael Myrow
KUT’s ATXplained: How Do Emergency Alert Systems Work In Austin? y Audrey McGlinchy
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: What Can I Do to Help People Struggling with Opioid Addiction? by Jimmy Gutierrez
ABC’s Curious Sydney: The cockroaches of Sydney: Where do they like to live? by Sue Daniel
Bruzz’s Big City: YOUR QUESTION. Who was Donald Fallon after whom the Fallon Stadium was named? by Luana Difficile and Laurent Vermeersch
Dallas Morning News’ Curious Texas: Curious Texas: What’s hiding in the State Fair of Texas archives? by Charles Scudder
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Good news for drivers about ‘Goodwill Lake’
WUFT’s Untold Florida: Untold Florida: Why Isn’t SW 8th Avenue Near Tioga Open Yet? by Ethan Magoc
ABC’s Curious Brisbane: Find out what happened to Queen Elizabeth II’s fountain in the Brisbane River by Lexy Hamilton-Smith
BBC Persia: What is satellite internet and how practical?
KUT’s TXDecides: Here’s A Look At Local Primary Races For State Senate by Ben Philpott
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: Why is the Westland greenhouse light burning at night? by Anouk Ammerlaan
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Figure it out! — Plastic waste or mobile coverage? by Greetje Schouten
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Carolina Curious: Squaring The Gas Tax With Electric Vehicles by David Ford
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: Will Luther Strange get a Senate pension? by Christopher Harress
Bruzz’s Big City: YOUR QUESTION: Are there shelters from WWII under the Vossenplein? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
WUFT’s Untold Florida: Untold Florida: How Much Arsenic Is In City of Gainesville Tap Water? by Christina Morales
BBC’s UGC: Plastic recycling: Your questions answered
BBC’s UGC: England’s curiosities: Your questions answered
January 9-January 22
WFAE’s FAQ City: What Do Charlotte Night Workers Do On A Night Off? by Nick de la Canal
KPCC: Candidates for California’s next governor battle to separate themselves in forum by KPCC Staff and Austin Cross
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Do We Say ‘Loo-uh-vull’? by Laura Ellis and Lisa Gillespie
NPR Goats and Soda’s Curious Goat: We Asked, You Answered: What Shaped Trump’s View Of Poor Countries? by Malaka Gharib
KCPT’s curiousKC: What Are The Open Belief Centers In KC? by Humera Lodhi
WUWM’s Beats Me: How Do Milwaukee Parents Choose A School For Their Children? by Rachel Morello
WBEZ’s Curious City: What Happens To The Lincoln Park Zoo Animals In The Winter? by Katherine Nagasawa
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Bath Tiles of Milwaukee’s History by Bonnie North
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Was I-35 Designed As A Double-Decker Through Central Austin? by Jimmy Maas
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: What’s the story behind Austin’s ‘Ramp of Mystery’? by Omar L. Gallaga
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why a Tire Shop Built ‘The City’s Biggest Fortune Cookie by Jessica Placzek
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: The biggest wind gusts in Drenthe, how can that be? by Greetje Schouten
ABC’s Curious Darwin: Did Aboriginal and Asian people trade before European settlement in Darwin? by Lucy Marks
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: On this topic we research: Paid honorary office by Janis Dietz
KUT’s TXDecides: Local Congressional Races Bring Out An Abundance Of Candidates by Ben Philpott
Lancaster Online’s We the People: How Lancaster County’s abandoned ‘goat path’ could become a recreational trail by Lindsey Blest
WESA’s Good Question: The Scenic P.J. McArdle Roadway, Named For A Politician Who Wanted Another Route To Pgh by Katie Blackley
BBC Persia: Is Wifi Cancer Waves?
ABC’s Curious Hobart: What is the history of the old district known as Wapping? by Ros Lehman
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Why aren’t Austin’s traffic signals better timed? by Ben Wear
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Why is there so little nighttime public transportion between Groningen and Drenthe? by Greetje Schouten
WESA’s Good Question: What Happened To Skybus? The Futuristic Transit System That Pittsburgh Didn’t Choose by Katie Blackley
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: Drug bonds, abortion, and Luther Strange’s Senate pension by Chris Harress
KQED’s Bay Curious: S.F.’s Kindergarten Lottery: Do Parents’ Tricks Work? by Lisa Pickoff-White
KUT’s ATXplained: Who Started Decorating The Trees On Highway 360, And Who Cleans Up? by Mose Buchele
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Change to I-205 interchange straightforward solution by Dameon Pesanti
BBC’s UGC: Diesel car industry dilemmas explained by Theo Leggett
December 19-January 8
FlatlandKC’s curiousKC: A Sweet Memory Prompts Strawberry Hill Question by Rachel Thomas
FlatlandKC’s curiousKC: A Trip Back to a Childhood Spent in Westport Orphanage by Flatland
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Did Chicago Crush Milwaukee’s NHL Dreams? by Mitch Teich
KUOW’s Local Wonder: At Seahawks HQ, even doing laundry feels competitive by Casey Martin
Dallas Morning News’s Curious Texas: Can I use public transit to tour Dallas-Fort Worth hot spots? by Brendan Mayer
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why Did Opryland USA Go Away? by Jason Moon Wilkins
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: The case of the lost Austin chicken fried steak joint by Michael Barnes
NHPR’s Only in NH: What’s Going On With The Farm-To-Table Movement In N.H.? by Ben Henry
KCPT’s CuriousKC: A Trip Back To A Childhood Spent In Westport Orphanage by Tess Vrbin
WBEZ’s Curious City: What’s With That Demolition Dust? by Jeremy Borden, Tucker Kelly, and Manny Ramos
WESA’s Good Question: Why Does WESA Say ‘Broadcasting From Pittsburgh’s Historic South Side’? by Katie Blackley
VPR Brave Little State: The Complicated History Of Hydro-Québec by Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: How does Texas’ budget use taxes from oil and natural gas production? by Alex Samuels
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: What Happens To Zoo Animals When They Die? by Ashlie Stevens
KUT ATXplained: What’s The Deal With The Doors To Nowhere In The New Austin Central Library? by Audrey MgGlinchy
Bruzz’s Big City: Your Question: What is happening nowadays in the American Theater? by Luana Difficile
WBEZ’s Curious City: 15 Things You Can Actually Rent From The Field Museum by Monica Eng
KQED’s Bay Curious: How Joseph Eichler Introduced Stylish Housing for the Masses by Rachel Myrow
1A: More People, More Problems?
WBEZ’s Curious City: Picture This: Did The Art Institute of Chicago Ever Rent Out Paintings? Monica Eng
1A: Rated PG: Profoundly Gifted
Boise State Public Radio’s Wanna Know Idaho: How Did Idaho’s Capital Move From Lewiston To Boise? by James Dawson
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: What’s it mean when a site has potential archaeological significance? by Andy Matarrese
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: The mystery of the murals in the medical tower by Michael Barnes
NHPR’s Only in NH: Why Do All New Hampshire Bars Have To Sell Food? by Taylor Quimby
Lancaster Online’s We the People: Why has a head stared from an attic window in Peach Bottom for more than 100 years? by Tom Knapp
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Why Does This One I-75 Overpass Not Have a Sidewalk? by William Clewis
KCRW’s Curious Coast: 4 freeways that did not get built in LA (and why) by Colin Cab Washington
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Salt that Keeps Milwaukee’s Streets Safe to Drive in the Wintertime by Ann-Elise Henzl
KQED’s Bay Curious: How Much Marijuana Is Too Much to Drive? by Eli Wirtschafter
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Why are Southern California sunsets so beautiful in the winter? by Ted Mills
KALW’s Hey Area: What happens to cars that are donated to charities? by Jenee Darden
ABC’s Curious Central West: Curious Central West in 2017: Investigating the confronting to the quirky by Melanie Pearce
KQED’s Bay Curious: Everything You Want to Know About Legal Weed in California by Jessica Placzek, Ryan Levi and Eli Wirtschafter
RTV Drenthe’s Zoek het uit!: Does Christmas lighting cost a lot of extra energy? by Greetje Schouten
KRCC’s Peak Curiosity: Templeton Gap Road: Who Was Templeton? What’s With The Gap? by Jake Brownell
ABC’s Curious Sydney: How Sydney’s ‘first’ harbour tunnel has been forgotten in the century since it was built by Sue Daniel
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How An Urban Legend About Piranhas In Nashville Came To Be by Chris St. Clair
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: How is the zebraklok of The Hague Central?
ABC’s Curious Brisbane: Why are Brisbane CBD streets running north-east named after women and the opposite after men by Kristian Silva
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 83: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
December 7-December 18
KPCC’s So Cal. So Curious.: Share your questions about the SoCal fires by Ashley Alvarado and Emily Guerin
KPCC: What local development experts want parents to know by Priska Neely
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: How Effective Are HEPA Filters to Protect Our Lungs from Thomas Fire Smoke Particles? by Giana Magnoli
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: What Happened To All Those Leaves I Raked Up And Left At The Curb? by Hannah McCarthy
KCPT’s CuriousKC: Whatever Happened To Cake Box…And Those Other Restaurants? You Asked And We Dug In by Jonathan Bender
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why is Canberra the home of Summernats car festival? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Are Taxpayers Footing The Bill For Patriotic Tributes At College Games? by Monica Eng
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s the Deal with the Easter Island Head in New Berlin? by Teran Powell
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: What Happened To Flytown And Union Station? by Gabe Rosenberg
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Why Does Ohio Have So Many Townships Named Paint? by Deepti Hossain
NJ Spotlight: Have a Question? Answering your questions about the Murphy transition by Lee Keough
WESA’s Good Question: 52 things you may have learned from WESA in 2017 by WESA staff
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Riding In Cars With Strangers: Northern Virginia’s Slugline Culture by Martin Di Caro
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Are Those Weird, Pink Ponds in San Francisco Bay? by Lauren Sommer
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: The Real Cost Of Parking Illegally by David Ford
BBC Persia: Why is Iran prone to earthquakes?
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: No northbound I-5 ramps from Highway 500? by Dameon Pesanti
KCPT’s CuriousKC: Whatever Happened To…Those Other Burger Places? by Jonathan Bender
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: Why do so many international Olympic figure skaters train in Michigan?
RTV Drenthe: How much waste is there in the VAM mountain? by Greetje Schouten
WUWM’s Beats Me: As Wisconsin’s Largest Landfill Nears Retirement, What Happens When It’s Full? by Susan Bence and Michelle Maternowski
ABC’s Curious Darwin: What was the Darwin rebellion? by Georgia Hitch
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Long ago, Patsy Ann left her mark on historic Juneau, but where? by Julia Caulfield
KCPT’s CuriousKC: Wide Racial Gap Exists Between Teachers And Students In Jackson County Schools
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: What becomes of Heilbronn residual waste by Janis Dietz
NHPR’s Only in NH: ‘Only in NH’ Best Of: Chicken Farmer v. DOT, Seat Belts v. Freedom, & ‘Wood Smoke’ by Taylor Quimby
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Why does a state as big as Texas have a part-time Legislature? by Alex Samuels
ABC’s Curious Central West: Place name origins unravelled from Curly Dick Road to Dark Corner by Melanie Pearce
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Australia’s murder capital: Why can’t Adelaide bury the myth? by Ruby Jones and Jessica Harmsen
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Why Does A City As Dense As D.C. Have So Much Wildlife? by Jacob Fenston
ABC’s Curious Sydney: Dark, dusty and suitably spooky’: What happened to Kings Cross Wax Works? by Sue Daniel
ABC’s Curious Central West: How can we change attitudes towards cyclists? by Melanie Pearce and Emma Rennie
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Even with nowhere to go, Juneau car thieves are a growing problem by Tripp J. Crouse
CUNY Social J: The H-1B Discriminates: What International Students Need to Know by Ghita Benslimane
KQED’s Bay Curious: Is the Castro Getting Less Gay? by Ryan Levi
CCJ Mercer’s Just Curious: Who is Tom Hill Sr.? by Jayla Moody
ABC’s Curious North Coast NSW: Why is a Bangalow street named after an Irish pirate queen? by Donna Harper
ABC’s Curious North Coast NSW: Why was Lismore built on a floodplain? by Catherine Marciniak
Lancaster Online’s We The People: How ‘bout them road apples: Why are horse owners not responsible for cleaning up Lancaster County roads? by Lindsey Blest
November 20-December 6
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Does This Giant Metal Flower In Patterson Park Open And Close At Different Times Of Day? by Matt Largey
UNC-TV: How can I get more minority students in AP classes?
ABC Brisbane’s Curious Brisbane: Why is the Brisbane River brown and not blue? by Karina Carvalho
NPR’s Morning Edition: Your Thanksgiving Meal Prep Questions, Answered by Heidi Glenn
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Wear: And the finalists for roughest roads in Austin are… by Ben Wear
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Was Canberra’s Telopea Park once a drop off point for spies? by Jake Evans
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who first coined the term ‘The Bush Capital’? by Clare Sibthorpe
WBEZ’s Curious City: It’s (Finally?) Jane Byrne’s Turn by Lauren Choolijan
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Searching for a Fuller Picture of Wisconsin’s Abolitionist History by Aisha Turner
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 78: Congressional Committees
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: How much money does Texas spend per child through CHIP? by Alex Samuels
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: The evolving names of Austin’s big central lakes by Michael Barnes
KQED’s Bay Curious: Can You Go To Jail For Picking California’s State Flower? by Jessica Placzek
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Why is LA traffic so bad? And is it getting worse? by Jenny Hamel
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: How Did The Rivalry Between The Redskins And Cowboys First Begin? by Mikaela Lefrak
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Where was the old Soap Creek Saloon? by Michael Barnes
Bruzz’s Big City: Why was a walled plot reserved for Jews in the cemetery of Oudergem? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Central West: These industrial ruins near Blayney were once a hive of activity, but what are they? by Melanie Pearce
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 77: U.S. Postal Service
ABC’s Curious Darwin: Where do Darwin’s box jellyfish actually go from June to September? by Jesse Thompson
ABC’s Curious North Coast NSW: How far upriver do bull sharks swim? by Hannah Ross
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: How Cluss and his mineral water disappeared from Heilbronn by Tobias Wieland
Lancaster Online’s We The People: Is there an underground tunnel from the Lancaster County Courthouse to the Lancaster prison by Tom Knapp
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Why do Texans have to vote on so many constitutional amendments? by Alex Samuels
Bruzz’s Big City: Does the café still exist under Cinema Métropole? by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Why was Adelaide’s tram network ripped up in the 1950s? by Candice Prosser
BBC Persia: Of Macs; Macs are better or Windows and a few other things
ABC’s Curious Central West: What’s with reverse angle parking in so many country towns? by Melanie Pearce
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: How Did We End Up Here? by Rick Howlett
Omroep West Rake Vragen: Hague Ask: Why hot Pine tree Hedge ‘Hofstad’?
2ser’s Seeking Sydney: Does Sydney have a native meal? by Monica Samayoa
ABC’s Curious Hobart: What happened to Hobart’s trams? by Emilie Gramenz and Elise Fantin
ABC’s Curious North Coast NSW: Why was the Big Scrub, nearly 75,000 hectares of rainforest in northern NSW, cleared? by Kim Honan
November 14-November 20
KQED’s Bay Curious: The True History of Irish Coffee and Its San Francisco Origins by Kelly O’Mara
WFAE’s FAQ City: How To ‘Compel’ People To Interact With Those Different From Them? by Nick De La Canal
Boise State Public Radio’s Wanna Know Idaho: What’s The Deal With The Public Art On Traffic Boxes Around Boise? by Samantha Wright
WBEZ’s Curious City: Little Fingers And Screechy Sounds: Why Do So Many Kids Learn To Play The Recorder? by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Do most Canberrans really work in the public service? by Elise Pianegonda
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What Happened To Milwaukee’s Beloved Old Smoky? by Susan Bence
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: How Do You Pronounce ‘Nachand’? by Ashlie Stevens
NHPR #OnlyinNH: You Asked, We Answered: What Does Northwood, N.H. Have To Do With Thanksgiving? by Jimmy Gutierrez and Virginia Prescott
WESAs Good Question: Pittsburgh’s Steps Are A Unique Asset, With An Uncertain Future by Margaret J. Krauss and Sarah Kovash
CALmatters: Your frequently asked California housing crisis questions — answered by Matt Levin
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Why does SA have the nation’s highest electricity prices? by Nick Harmsen
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Is one driveway enough for Salmon Creek apartment complex? by Troy Brynelson
Bruzz’s Big City: Who was Bonaventure from Bonaventurestraat in Jette? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Central West: How did the amazing boulders of Rock Forest near Bathurst come to be? by Melanie Pearce
ABC’s Curious North Coast: Why is Maclean the most Scottish town in Australia?
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 74: Unions
November 6-November 13
Lancaster Online’s We the People: Are Lancaster County’s volunteer fire companies raising enough funds to protect their communities? by Lindsey Blest
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Wisconsin-lllinois ‘Rivalry’ Seems A Bit…One-Sided
KALW’s Hey Area Shorts: What happened to the giant Mr. Peanut sign in San Francisco? by Marina Poole
NPR Training: You asked: How do you tell a story in 3 acts? by Robert Smith
NHPR’s Only in NH: Why Doesn’t Everyone Wear Seat Belts in N.H.? by Ben Henry
WBEZ’s Curious City: Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It? by Jesse Dukes
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Where are Austin’s Cold War missile sites? by Michael Barnes
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Do TV stations turn up the volume when broadcasting ads? by Jordan Hayne
2ser’s Seeking Sydney: How did they build Fort Denison on such a little island in the middle of Sydney Harbour? by Monica Samayoa
WESA’s Good Question: Those Strange Structures Along Route 51? They’re Mementos To A Bygone Trade by Katie Blackley
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: How much does it cost to run for office in Texas? by Alex Samuels
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: How Are Local Fire Trucks Numbered? WYSO Curious Investigates by Liam Niemeyer
York’s CONNECT: Who is responsible for cleaning up property north of Bayview and Wellington? by Teresa Latchford
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: What’s The Story Of The Murals In The Governor’s Office? by Chas Sisk
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Who Has The Worst Drivers? Maryland, D.C. Or Virginia? The Answer May Lie With You by Martin Austermuhle
KQED’s Bay Curious: Bay Curious Lightning Round: Inspiration for AT-ATs, the ‘Tenderloin’ and Popeye’s Voice by Jessica Placzek
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Are There Rainbows on the Tunnel Between S.F. and Marin? (Plus Bonus Anniversary Questions) by Jessica Placzek, Olivia Allen-Price and Ryan Levi
Bruzz’s Big City: YOUR QUESTION. Why was a metro policy in Brussels so late? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
Boise State Public Radio’s Wanna Know Idaho: What Are The Pros And Cons Of Bringing The F-35 To Boise? by Frankie Barnhill
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: The Case Of The Quincy Street Floodwall by Erica Peterson
KUT ATXplained: Why Did Texans Need To Vote On Seven Constitutional Amendments? by Ben Philpott
NHPR’s #OnlyinNH: You Asked, We Answered: What’s Up With That ‘Chicken Farmer I Still Love You’ Rock? by Paige Sutherland
BBC Persia: What do professional boxers earn?
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: Who’s responsible for which roads in Michigan?
October 24-November 6
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why Chicago’s Chinatown Is Practically Invisible On Apartment Rental Sites by Monica Eng
KALW’s Hey Area Shorts: Why are there no sound walls along some Oakland highways? by Corinne Smith
KALW’s Hey Area Shorts: How was the San Francisco Bay formed? by Ariel Plotnick
KALW’s Hey Area Shorts: Who is Karl the Fog? by Racquel Gonzales
KALW’s Hey Area Shorts:What happens to the plastic bags we recycle? by Gabriel Greschler
Chicago Tribune’s What’s the Story: What happened to the big Jewish delis in Chicago? by Louisa Chu
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Why did tree-named streets switch to numbered names? by Michael Barnes
VPR’s Brave Little State: What Would It Look Like If Vermont Seceded? by Angela Evancie, Henry Epp, and Amy Kolb Noyes
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Slinger Students Showcase Notable Places in ‘Bubbler Talk’-Style Stories by Mitch Teich and Joy Powers
WUWMs Bubbler Talk: What’s That Smell When You Drive Over Milwaukee’s Hoan Bridge? by Audrey Nowakowski
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Is the United Nations going to take over the Alamo? No, it isn’t. by Alex Samuels
KUOW’s Local Wonder You can recycle bottle caps! And Styrofoam! And … Bill Radke and Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
KQED’s Bay Curious: El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’ by Rachael Myrow
ABC’s Curious Central West If these gates could talk: The story behind a piece of Australia’s earliest farming history by Melanie Pearce
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Why do South Australians have a different accent to the rest of Australia? by Isabel Dayman
KPCC’s SoCal So Curious: State gas tax hike goes into effect but partly offset by lower gas prices by Meghan McCarty Carino
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: Will Neckarwestheim become a repository? by Reto Bosch and Janis Dietz
BBC Persia: On menses; Early ejaculation, loss of libido, and several other points
ABC’s Curious Sydney: Archaeological dig reveals mystery death in picturesque Sydney Harbour park by Sue Daniel
ABC’s Curious North Coast: Ballina’s Big Prawn survives the chop to celebrate local industry by Miranda Saunders
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: How Did Hillcrest Avenue Become Halloween Headquarters? by Laura Ellis
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How Age And Diversity Will Change Middle Tennessee Demographics by Tony Gonzalez
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: How Cluss and his mineral water disappeared from Heilbronn by Tobias Wieland
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Death of a Mausoleum in Vancouver by Sue Vorenberg
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What are the most interesting things found in Canberra’s lakes? by Clare Sibthorpe
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Where was the old St. David’s Hospital? by Michael Barnes
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Why Are So Many Small Businesses Closed On Sunday And Monday? by Eddie Garcia
KUT’s ATXplained: When Will The City Do Something With The Old Home Depot Off St. Johns? by Syeda Hasan
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What Ever Happened To Milwaukee’s Love Rock? by Marti Mikkelson
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Did the Railroad Commission chairwoman fire its executive director? by Alex Samuels
KCRW’s Curious Coast: In time for Halloween, here are some of LA’s scariest stories and spookiest places by Colin Cab Washington
Bruzz’s Big City: YOUR QUESTION: Why do we call the hills in the park of Laeken de Kattenberg? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
BBC Persia: Are Men Sexualized at Work?
ABC’s Curious Central West: Royal Hotel: Why is it Australia’s most common pub name? by Melanie Pearce and Luke Wong
ABC’s Curious Adelaide Dazzeland: Did ‘mallrats’ kill Adelaide’s whimsical city centre theme park? by Tom Fedorowytsch
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: Why Is the Door of the SWFL Restaurant Industry a Revolving One? by Rachel Iacovone and Julie Glenn
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Manchester Square clears out to make way for LAX’s new People Mover by Jenny Hamel
KCRW’s Curious Coast: The ghost town by the beach by Jenny Hamel
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: How Can SWFL ‘Tree Cities’ Recover After Irma? by Rachel Iacovone and Julie Glenn
WDET’s CuriosiD: Rumor of a British Bomber Crash In a Detroit Neighborhood Haunts a Listener by Sandra Svoboda
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 68: Populism
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: What’s the history of the Quonset huts on Atlin Drive? by Andrew Kitchenman
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Why did Anthem Insurance leave Santa Barbara? by Ted Mills
ABC’s Curious North Coast: Does the Clarence River flow backwards? by Catherine Marciniak
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: How Much Population Growth Can SWFL Expect? by Rachel Iacovone and Julie Glenn
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Are homemade parking signs legal? Enforceable? by Amanda O’Donnell
October 10-October 23
KQED’s Bay Curious: Wildfires: You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers by Olivia Allen Price
ABC’s Curious Hobart: Is there a network of tunnels under Hobart? by Elise Fantin
WBEZ’s Curious City: Cycling In Cemeteries? Why Some Chicago Graveyards Are Changing Their Rules About Bicycles by Laura Pavin
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why aren’t there more bars and cafes along Lake Burley Griffin? by Tom Lowrey
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: How Come No One Knows Wood Smoke Is Bad For You? by Sam Evans-Brown and Virginia Prescott
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Dazzeland: Did ‘mallrats’ kill Adelaide’s whimsical city centre theme park? by Tom Fedorowytsch
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: What Are Clifton’s ‘Chicken Steps?’ by Ashlie Stevens
KUT’s ATXplained: Is It Legal To Post Homemade ‘No Parking’ Signs In Front Of Your House? by Claire McInerny
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Uncovering what remains of St. Louis’ slave trading past by Char Daston
Bruzz’s Big City: Why are there so many embassies in Sint Pieters-Woluwe?by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
BBC Persia: Is IQ really important?
ABC’s Curious Central West: Pelican preferences: Why do they only flock to some inland areas and not others? by Luke Wong and Melanie Pearce
Lancaster Online’s We the People: What does Lancaster County do when a parent fails to pay child support? by Jeff Hawkes
WESA’s Good Question:Pittsburgh’s First Black Councilman Paved The Way For Diversity In City Hall by Katie Blackley
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Mutual Housing Experiment Still Going Strong 80 Years Later by Renee Wild
York’s Connect: Why is Bloomington Sideroad sinking?
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who’s going to live in all of Canberra’s new apartments? by James Fettes
WUWM’s Beats Me: How Milwaukee County’s Parks Came To Be by Susan Bence and Michelle Maternowski
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicagoans Are Calling For More Yard Waste Pickups, So Why’s The City Picking Up Less? by Monica Eng
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Why is the Travis/Williamson county line so crooked? by Michael Barnes
ABC’s Curious Central West: Bathurst’s historic street lamps: Confusing tourist traffic since 1933 by Melanie Pearce
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: What were Stephen F. Austin’s views on slavery? by Anusha Lalani
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Who picks up debris from the road? by Anusha Lalani
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 65: The Secretary of Education
NHPR’s Only in NH: Where’s The Best Place To See A Moose In N.H.? by Taylor Quimby
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Why Does Milwaukee Have So Many Duplexes? by LaToya Dennis
Bruzz’s Big City: Why does Brussels have no beguinage anymore? by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
ABC’s Curious Sydney: Were public bomb shelters ever constructed in Sydney during World War II? by Louise Hall
Chicago Tribune’s What’s the Story: What are your burning questions about Chicago dining? You asked, we answered by Joseph Hernandez
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How An Engineering Failure Led To A Riverfront Park by Tony Gonzalez
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Racial disparity led to ban of death penalty in territorial Alaska by Tripp J Crouse
Austin American Stateman’s Austin Answered: Why isn’t panhandling illegal? It’s about free speech by Anusha Lalani
Omroep West Rake Vragen: Are tomatoes vegetables or fruits?
2SER’s Seeking Sydney: What was the indigenous name of the Cooks River by Miles Herbert
ABC’s Curious North Coast: Why is the Richmond River so polluted? by Miranda Saunders
NPR Goats & Soda’s Curious Goat: We Asked, You Answered: Which Global Problem Keeps You Up At Night? by Malaka Gharib
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Is Texas removing Confederate markers from the state Capitol? by Alex Samuels
September 26-October 9
KCPT’s curiousKC: Whatever Happened To Smaks? by Jonathan Bender
ABC's Curious Canberra: Why are there several areas of Canberra that don't have footpaths? by Sonya Gee
ABC’s Curious Central West: Where did the name of Orange’s Elephant Park come from? by Melanie Pearce
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Road crews fill potholes with help of a long, dry summer by Jake Thomas
WBEZ’s Curious City: Do Chicago’s Arab And African-American Muslims Share Mosques? If Not, Why Not? by Sarah Geis
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Why do Central Texas hospitals advertise on TV? by Anusha Lalani
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Where does money spent at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport go? by Anusha Lalani
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Actual Factual WilCo: How do Georgetown gas prices stack up to Austin metro area? by Kristen Hubby
VPR’s Brave Little State: What’s The History Of The Underground Railroad In Vermont? by Angela Evancie
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Actual Factual WilCo: Why do EMS and a fire truck arrive when you call 911? by Dahlia Dandashi
KALW’s Hey Area: Is the San Francisco Zoo ready for a tsunami? by Jenee Darden
KQED’s Bay Curious: How San Francisco’s Drag Royalty Does Good, While Looking Fierce by Chloe Veltman
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: What’s The Story Behind Those $5 Baseball Hats At Nationals Park? by Mikaela Lefrak
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Meet The Leader Of Tennessee’s Biggest Mosque by Chas Sisk
Bruzz’s Big City: Is it true that the Brusiliators are moving in storm weather? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Adelaide: Loved and loathed? How the pie floater became a South Australian gastronomic icon by Nathan Stitt and Jessica Harmsen
WBEZ’s Curious City: Forest Foresight: Who Created The Cook County Forest Preserves? by Jake Smith
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: What are the oldest buildings in downtown Austin? by Michael Barnes
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Will previous home damage affect filing claims post-Harvey? by Alex Samuels
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Echoes of Milwaukee’s Gordon Park Bathhouse Remain by Michelle Maternowski and Bonnie North
Bruzz’s Big City: How do you see where the streams flowed in Brussels, for the construction of streets? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KQED's Bay Curious: Their Country Hated Them, But They Fought for It Anyway by Jessica Placzek
WESA’s Good Question: Redd Up Your Pittsburghese: A Deep Dive Into How Yinz Talk by Katie Blackley
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How The Polar Bear Lives On As Edgehill's Symbol by Tony Gonzalez
ABC's Curious Central West: Where did the name of Orange's Elephant Park come from? by Melanie Pearce
BBC Persia: On iPhones, iPhone in Iran and a few other things
ABC's Curious North Coast NSW: How far up the Wilsons River did the old ships go? by Miranda Saunders
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Hey, when is the Pacific Northwest getting our earthquake warning system? by Bill Radke and Amina Al-Sadi
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: Cupid shooting hits The Hague, but sender or mysterious hearts remains secret
ABC’s Curious Darwin: Why is there no malaria in Australia’s northern capital? by Xavier La Canna
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How many embassies are there in Canberra and are there rules about how they’re designed? by Andrew Bell
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Why don’t gas stations get credit card chip readers to thwart skimmers? by Gary Dinges
WESA’s Good Question: The Story Behind That Giant Egyptian-Themed Mausoleum In Allegheny Cemetery by Joaquin Gonzalez
September 12–September 25
WOSU Curious Cbus: Who Rings The Victory Bell At Ohio Stadium? by Erin Gottsacker
WFPL Curious Louisville: Was The High-Five Really Invented In Louisville? by Ashlie Stevens
WBEZ Curious City: Who Came Up With The Iconic Chicago White Sox Look? by Jesse Dukes
Minneapolis Institute of Art: The Buddha FAQ: Answers to your top 10 questions about Buddhist art by Diane Richards
WFDD Carolina Curious: Cutting Down Barriers To Mental Health Care by Sean Bueter
ABC Curious Canberra: How many embassies are there in Canberra and are there rules about how they’re designed? by Andrew Bell
Kenosha News Curious Kenosha: Deer on old Chrysler site Jill Tatge-Rozell
NHPR Only in NH: Does N.H. Have a Signature Food? by Virginia Prescott and Taylor Quimby
Noozhawk Noozhawk Asks: Will Santa Barbara Unified Change its Policies for In-District Transfers? by Giana Magnoli
WPXI Your Voice: Are Pa. high school students taught financial literacy?
WPXI Your Voice: Why do Pa. gas prices go up when a storm hits a faraway state?
WPXI Your Voice: Why do only certain counties require vehicle emissions testing?
WUWM Bubbler Talk: There’s A Bat In My Home! Now What? by Joy Powers
KUT ATXplained: Why Aren’t West Lake Hills, Sunset Valley And Rollingwood Part Of Austin? by Audrey McGlinchy
2ser Seeking Sydney: Does Sydney have an underground BDSM culture? by Monica Samayoa
KQED Bay Curious: Quake Prep: BART’s Tunnel Plan and the Muni Bus That Could Save You by Tena Rubio and Eli Wirtschafter
Bruzz Big City: Why is there no bike lane in Troonstraat? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
BBC Persia: What to do with depression?
ABC Curious North Coast NSW: How did Byron Bay become so popular? by Samantha Turnbull
ABC Curious Central West: Wide open road: Why are country streets the width they are? by Melanie Pearce
Current Currently Curious: With new app, a startup wants to make donating to public radio easy by Mike Janssen
KUOW Local Wonder: Stop signs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, Seattle by Carolyn Adolph
NHPR Civics 101: Government Shutdown
Texas Tribune Texplainer: How is FEMA distributing money to areas hit by Harvey? by Alex Samuels
WPLN Curious Nashville: Why One Of Metro’s Strangest Buildings Sits Emptyby Tony Gonzalez
Inside Energy IE Questions: Is Fracking Dangerous? by Lisa Gardiner (UCAR Center for Science Education)
NHPR Only in NH: Why Does Portsmouth Shut Down at 9 p.m.? by Jimmy Gutierrez
NPR #CuriousGoat: Small Gift, Big Impact: How A Little Cash Changed Our Readers’ Lives by Nurith Aizenman
WBEZ Curious City: The Cha-Cha Slide And More: What Dances Were Invented In Chicago? by Monica Eng and Katherine Nagasawa
WUWM Bubbler Talk: How Milwaukee Got the Nickname ‘Cream City’ by Ann-Elise Henzl
WYSO Curious: Is The Miami Valley A Tornado Hotspot? WYSO Curious Dives In by Liam Niemeyer
Bruzz Big City: What are the riders doing in ceremonial military clothing at the Royal Palace right? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
KQED Bay Curious: History of the Berkeley Pier: A Ferry Tale by Jessica Placzek
Metroland York Region Connect: How can we compare emergency room wait times? by Kim Zarzour
Metroland York Region Connect: Why is Hwy. 7 just 2 lanes in Vaughan between Kipling and Wigwoss? by Tim Kelly
WFPL Curious Louisville: How Did Poplar Level Road Get Its Name? by Laura Ellis
ABC Curious North Coast: Repentance Creek: Who repented and how did this North Coast NSW creek get its name? by Catherine Marciniak
Lancaster Online We The People: Are bicycle riders required to obey traffic laws? by Chad Umble
WDET CuriousiD: Why Is Detroit Sometimes Called “The Paris of the Midwest?” by Eli Newman
KCRW Curious Coast: Why are LA’s parking tickets so expensive? by Jenny Hamel
Michigan Radio MICurious: Why is Howell considered the KKK capital of Michigan? by Stateside Staff
WPLN Curious Nashville: Facebook Live on recycling by Emily Siner
WPLN Curious Nashville: We’ve Answered (Most Of) Your Questions About Recycling by Emily Siner
August 29-September 11
WBEZ’s Curious City: Some Park Drinking Fountains Were Unsafe This Summer by Monica Eng
KQED: Your Questions About the Weekend Protests, Answered by Staff
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Your gas pump queries as Harvey gouging complaints near 3,000 by Bridget Grumet
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: What assistance is available to those affected by Harvey?
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Can Texas lawmakers tap the Rainy Day Fund to help with Harvey relief?
ABC Adelaide: Getting to the bottom of the pint: the bitter problem of Adelaide’s beer glasses
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Ice Cream Cocktails, Milwaukee-Style
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Canberra flies a lot of flags — where are they kept and who looks after them? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Baring It All: Why Boys Swam Naked In Chicago High Schools by Monica Eng
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: The flamey history of Hudson House by Tom Vogt
VPR’s Brave Little State: How Has The Geology Of Vermont Affected Its Character? by Angela Evancie and Henry Epp
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: Can You Get Away with Murder in N.H.’s Unincorporated Towns? by Hannah McCarthy
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: Why Are So Many N.H. Towns Split Up Into Villages? by Molly Donahue
KPCC’s #SoCalSoCurious: Which cities in LA County have the fewest native-born Californians? by Lori Galarreta and A Martinez
KALW’s Hey Area: Was there ever an exotic zoo in Glen Canyon? by Jesse Rhodes
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: Why are so many of Michigan’s vineyards located on the coast? by Stateside Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: Where does the name Heizel come from? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Combining Two Towns: WYSO Curious Investigates How Fairborn Got Its Name by Johnathan Platt
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Are Seattle drivers really so terrible? by Amy Rolph
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How did the town centre of Woden come to be named after a Norse god? by Dharshini Sundran and Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Seeing Red: What’s Up With That Stoplight On North Lake Shore Drive? by Monica Eng
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago’s forgotten Civil War prison camp by Meribah Knight
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Why are the Channel Islands getting so popular? by Ted Mills
NHPR’s Only in NH: Why Is N.H.’s Branding Still Focused on the Old Man of the Mountain? by Taylor Quimby
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: So How Much Rain Does Nashville Get In A Year? by Blake Farmer
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why Do Gas Prices Fluctuate So Much? WYSO Curious Investigates by Liam Niemeyer
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why you don’t see fireflies in the Northwest by Matt Martin and Bill Radke
Boise State Public Radio: Guns Galore: 20 Firearms Found At Boise Airport So Far This Year by Matt Guilhem
Bruzz’s Big City: Why was the airport built so close to the city? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
2ser’s Seeking Sydney: Where can I go to learn Aboriginal language, why is there no promotion or culture surrounding this? by Monica Samayoa
KQED’s Bay Curious: Parking After the Street Sweeper Passes: Legal or Not? by Penny Nelson
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Don’t They Add a Lane to Busy Glen Annie/Storke Road Highway 101 Exit in Goleta? by Shomik Mukherjee
BBC Persia: How much money goes to the world’s military institutions?
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Does The Governor’s Pardon Power Undermine The Judicial System? by Keri Brown
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 52: State of Emergency
WAMU’s Trump Effect: No, Washingtonians — There Aren’t More Helicopters Flying Since Trump Became President by Patrick Fort
August 15-August 28
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: A State Fair With Local Flair?Laura Ellis
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: The @kystatefair Twitter Takeover! by Laura Ellis
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: Does Anyone Exercise At The State Fair? by Laura Ellis
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: What Happens When There’s Severe Weather At The Fair? by Laura Ellis
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: Why Don’t The Flying Wallendas Use A Safety Net? by Laura Ellis
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: Who Watched The Eclipse At The Kentucky State Fair? by Laura Ellis
WPXI’s Your Voice: Quick answers to questions you asked
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Who Is Behind The Colorful “Camo House” Near Campus? by Adora Namigadde
WBEZ’s Curious City: Push Carts, Popsicles, And Patience: How To Be A Paletero In Chicago by Catalina Maria Johnson
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Has Canberra’s weather changed according to Bureau of Meteorology records? by Aarti Betigeri
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Does a plastic bag ban cause a spike in bin liner sales? by Sonya Gee
NHPR’s Only in NH: Are Roundabouts Becoming More Common in N.H.? by Hannah McCarthy
NHPR’s Only in NH: Where Is Exit 21 on 93 North? by Hannah McCarthy
WPXI’s Your Voice: What has changed since implementation of PA Core standards?
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Capturing state sales taxes on online purchases? In Missouri, it’s mostly on you by Maria Altman
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: What’s Planned for 2 Seep Tents Underwater near Platform Holly? by Brooke Holland
Bruzz’s Big City: May I get into neglected city gardens? by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
BBC UGC: GCSE results dilemma? Our experts answer your questions
KQED’s Bay Curious: The History of Nudity in San Francisco Uncovered by Jessica Placzek
KUT’s ATXplained: Where Did First Street Go, And Why Isn’t South First Parallel To Other Numbered Streets? by Nadia Hamdan
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Fairly Curious: Does Anyone Exercise At The State Fair? by Laura Ellis
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What do San Juan islanders do with their trash? by Caroline Chamberlain
ABC’s Curious Darwin: Why hasn’t Darwin embraced solar power to help locals reduce their power bills? by Neda Vanovac
WDET’s CuriosiD: What is the History of Detroit’s Times Square? by Anna Sysling
KPCC’s #SoCalSoCurious: Is a single caregiver better for early childhood development than day care? by Priska Neely
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Does Carpinteria really have the ‘world’s safest beach?’ by Ted Mills
BBC Persia: Follow the tips you need to know about cancer and prevent it
KCPT’s curiousKC: Of Monumental Importance: You Asked, It Became Part Of A National Controversy, And We Made A Map
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Closed right turn a gift to the Yeti? No, city says Ben Wear
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What Incentives Are Available To Families Who Want To Install Solar Panels? by Anthony Vella and Alexis Pastore
Next Avenue: Caregiving With Siblings: Your Questions Answered by Emily Gurnon
KCPT’s curiousKC: You Asked About Light Pollution And We Looked To The Stars by Ryan Hennessy
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Which recent election cycles have been the closest — and what does that mean in 2018? by Alex Samuels
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: How Much Money is Collected from Street Sweeping Parking Citations in Santa Barbara? by Shomik Mukherjee
Bruzz’s Big City: How do you count the number of people at events?
BBC UGC: A-level agony? We answer your questions
KQED’s Bay Curious: Rusty Navy: The Bay Area’s ‘Mothball Fleet’ Enters a New Era by Craig Miller
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Who is Maufrais, and why is the name written on Austin sidewalks? by Amanda O’Donnell
Lancaster Online’s We The People: Here’s why Amish buggies don’t need to be licensed in Pennsylvania, but that may changeby Tom Knapp
Spend Matters’s Ask Spend Matters: Do Other Services Procurement Areas Get as Much Negative Press from Suppliers as Marketing Procurement? by Taras Berezowsky
BBC Persia: Convicts on circumcision, sexual harassment and rape of men
August 1-August 14
KCPT’s curiousKC: Where, Exactly, Is Midtown? by Ryan Hennessy
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s The Proper Way To Eat A Cream Puff? by Mitch Teich and Michelle Maternowski
Boise State Public Radio: What Do You Want To Know About The Solar Eclipse In Idaho? Your Questions Answered. by Samantha Wright
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Where did the Birdman of Alcatraz commit his first murder? by Matt Miller
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why do vehicles only have a license plate in Quebec? by Benoit Valois Nadeau
WBEZ’s Curious City: What happened to Chicago’s Japanese neighborhood? by Katherine Nagasawa
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Is capital bashing a global phenomenon? by Siobhan Heanue
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Where Is Windy Gap on Highway 154? by Giana Magnoli
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: WYSO Curious Looks at Racial Gap in Local Policing by Jason Reynolds
NHPR’s Only in NH: You Asked, We Answered: Are There Secret Archaeological Sites In N.H.? by Molly Donahue
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Where did the Birdman of Alcatraz commit his first murder? by Matt Miller
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Does Louisville Have The Highest Blind Population In The U.S.? by Laura Ellis
WMUK’s Why’s That: Why Aren’t Portage and Kalamazoo One City? by Sehvilla Mann
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What was Washington state like during the last ice age? by Amy Rolph
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Gets Shipped Through the Port of Oakland? by Jessica Placzek
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: What’s the tallest waterfall in Michigan? by Stateside Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: Can you sail on the part of the Zenne that runs under the city? by Luana Difficile
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Do Austin bicyclists get their fair share of tickets? by Ben Wear
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Why Was Clinton Township Never Fully Annexed Into The City? by Dan Timmerman
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Whose job is median maintenance? by Dameon Pesanti
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Lompoc Voters Approved Prop. 64, So Why Not Examine Tax Revenue from Marijuana? by Brooke Holland
WDET’s CuriosID: How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States? by Shelby Jouppi
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores In Austin? by Jimmy Maas
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Here’s why you can’t swim in Lady Bird Lake. Wait — you can’t swim in Lady Bird Lake? by Amanda O’Donnell
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores In Austin? by Jimmy Maas
WESA’s Good Question: Over The River And Through The Hills: Everything You Never Knew About Pittsburgh’s Iconic Tunnelsby Katie Blackley
KCPT’s Take Note: Which Schools Are Integrated? by AnnMarie Welser
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago Bathhouses: More Than A Century Of Sanitation, Sex and Sweat by Miles Bryan
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Does the DMV Use Different Rules for Drivers 70 and Older? by Brooke Holland
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: Where do the Congress Avenue Bridge bats go at night? by Marty Toohey
VPR’s Brave Little State: Low Pay, Weird Schedule: Who Exactly Can Pull Off The Legislator Lifestyle? by Angela Evancie and Peter Hirschfield
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Why can’t we create a statewide property tax to fund public education? by Alex Samuels
NHPR’s Only in NH: What is the Percy Summer Club? by Hannah McCarthy
Boise State Public Radio: Why Doesn’t The Treasure Valley Have A North/South Freeway? by Matt Guilhem
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: WYSO Curious Digs Up The Story Behind A Woodland Cemetery Statue by Renee Wild
KQED’s Bay Curious: Mountain Lions: Real Threat to Bay Area Hikers? by Vinnee Tong
Bruzz’s Big City: What are the oldest moving images of Brussels? by Luana Difficile
Spend Matters’s Ask Spend Matters: Building Supply Market Intelligence: Which Data Sources are the Best? by Taras Berezowsky
KCRW’s Curious Coast: What’s the history of the Nike missile base on Mulholland? by Jenny Hamel
Spend Matters’s Ask Spend Matters: Centralized, Decentralized or Hybrid Sourcing Structure: How Do We Decide? by Sydney Lazarus
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why does the Sydney-Canberra train stop in Kingston and not the CBD? by Sonya Gee
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why aren’t more buildings heated using geothermal energy? by Jordan Hayne
July 18-July 31
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Are bikini baristas a Pacific Northwest phenomenon? by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Spend Matters’s Ask Spend Matters: What’s the Cost of Having a Long Supply Tail, and How Do You Determine the ‘Right’ Supply Base? by Sydney Lazarus
NJ Spotlight: NJ Spotlight Fields Your Questions About the Garden State’s Water by Tom Johnson
Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Answered: We’ve got quick answers to 11 of your questions by Bridget Grumet
Lancaster Online’s We the People: Should Lancaster declare itself a sanctuary city? by Lindsey Blest
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Is Hippie Hollow Clothing-Optional? by Matt Largey
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why does the Sydney-Canberra train stop in Kingston and not the CBD? by Sonya Gee
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why aren’t more buildings heated using geothermal energy? by Jordan Hayne
WBEZ’s Curious City: Is Notoriously Segregated Chicago Becoming More Integrated? by Adeshina Emmanuel, Carolina Cruz, Reuben Unrau
NHPR’s #OnlyinNH: You Asked, We Answered: Why Does N.H. Still Require Annual Car Inspections?by Casey McDermott
Bruzz’s Big City: How can you visit the corridors below the city? by Luana Difficile
Current’s Currently Curious: Where do public broadcasting stations abound? by Mike Janssen
KPCC’s #SoCalSoCurious: What happens when a cemetery is full? by Austin Cross
KQED’s Bay Curious: The Mesmerizing Machine That Makes Your Golden Gate Bridge Drive Less Terrifying by Kelly O’Mara
WBEZ’s Curious City: Many Chicago Park District Fountains Are So Contaminated With Lead That They Can’t Be Turned Off by Monica Eng
KTOO’s Energy Desk: Ask a Climatologist: For summer in Alaska, 70 is the magic number by Annie Feidt
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Curious Louis searches for deer in Forest Park and discovers that bucks sometimes stop here by Mary Delach Leonard
WBEZ’s Curious City: Many Chicago Park District Fountains Are So Contaminated With Lead That They Can’t Be Turned Off by Monica Eng
WDET’s CuriosiD: That Waterway in Detroit, Is it a Strait or a River? by Sandra Svoboda
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Is There Discolored Water, Leaking Fire Hydrant in Goleta? by Giana Magnoli
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Did the Northbound Highway 101 Project Straighten the Gaviota Curve? by Brooke Holland
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Where does marijuana tax money go? Police by Will Campbell
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Is Kentucky A Commonwealth? by Ryland Barton
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Why isn’t Gastineau Channel navigable all the way through? by Jacob Resneck
NHPR’s Only in NH: What Happened to the People in That N.H. Ghost Town? by Hannah McCarthy
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: How Much Money Would be Available for Highway 101 Widening if Measure A Were Amended? by Brooke Holland
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Will Texans ever get a remedy for the state’s alleged illegal redistricting? Alex Samuels and Jim Malewitz
Bruzz’s Big City: Are there buildings of Haussmann on the Anspach Avenue? by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: Alabama unemployment low, part-time jobs up, but why? by Christopher Harress
KQED’s Bay Curious: The Island Ghost Town in the Middle of San Francisco Bay by Jessica Placzek
WESA’s Good Question: From Highways To Runways: In Search Of The Noisiest Spot In Pittsburghby Alexander Popichak
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: Why does not every bus stop have a bus box?
Boise State Public Radio: Who’s Making Sure Idaho’s Public Swimming Areas Are Clean? by Matt Guilhem
WESA’s Good Question: Pittsburgh’s First Female Council Member Was No Stranger To Breaking Barriers by Katie Blackley
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: What will the special session cost taxpayers? by Alex Samuels
WGCU’s Gulf Coast Curious: Curious Gulf Coast: Are There Refugees In Southwest Florida? by Quincy J Walters
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: Why do we pay for a visit to Noordeinde Palace?
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: On a bike path, should we run in the opposite direction of the bikes or in the same direction?
July 4-July 17
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Is the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Why Is It in San Jose? by Rachel Myrow
NHPR’s #OnlyInNH: You Asked, We Answered: Is N.H.’s Craft Beer Hype Actually Brewing Big Business? by Taylor Quimby
Tiny Spark’s Ask Tiny Spark: Questions on Privilege Awareness? We Have Answers!
NJ Spotlight: NJ Spotlight Fields Your Questions About the Garden State’s Water by Tom Johnson
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Do you have the right ID to vote under Missouri’s new law? Find out with this quiz by Erica Hunzinger
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Mount Airy And An Old Testament Mystery by Sean Bueter
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: What’s Up with the New Concessionaire at Los Padres National Forest Campgrounds? by Janene Scully
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Where are defibrillators located in Canberra? by Kristina Shaw and Sonya Gee
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Did corpses really get washed from Queanbeyan Riverside Cemetery into Lake Burley Griffin in the 1974 flood? by Jake Evans
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Comparing How Long You Wait in Emergency Rooms by Alexis Pastore
Omroep West’s Rake Vragen: What mysterious underwater life lives there in the Hofvijver?
WDET’s CuriosiD: What’s Happened at the State Fairgrounds? by Amy Miller
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Does Santa Barbara hate food trucks? by Ted Mills
KCRW’s Curious Coast: What famous foods were invented in Santa Barbara? by Ted Mills
Bruzz’s Big City: What are the concrete plans for the new district of Anderlecht to the channel? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash by Blake Farmer
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: The Tragic Story Behind High Street’s Hidden Tunnel by Dan Timmerman
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: How did Pere Cheney become a ghost town? by Stateside Staff
KUT’s TXDecides: Who Is Pushing For Texas’ Proposed $1,000 Teacher Pay Raise? by KUT Staff
KPCC’s So Cal. So Curious.: Who are the cash buyers in SoCal real estate? by Leo Duran
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Isn’t Earl Warren Showgrounds Sheltering Animals for Whittier Fire? by Giana Magnoli
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Where Can I Get SBCC Graduation Photos? by Brooke Holland
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What’s the Latest on Sleepy Creek Lands’ Water Permit? by Arnae Holcomb
VPR’s Brave Little State: Your Vermont History Fix, From Gold Mines To Witch Windows by Angela Evancie, Amy Kolb Noyes, Kathleen Masterson and Liam Elder-Connors
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Hey, Texplainer: Does the Texas lottery fully fund public education? by Alex Samuels
Bruzz’s Big City: Why does the Brussels parliament 89 members? by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Rip the ivy out of your yard right now. Seriously by Amy Rolph
WLRN’s Palm Readers: Do You Really Know South Florida Roads? You Sure? by Wilson Sayre
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Why can’t all Texans vote by mail? by Alex Samuels
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: How Do Cities Get Their Fourth Of July Fireworks? WYSO Curious Investigates by Liam Niemeyer
June 28 — July 3
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Seattle hasn’t elected a woman mayor in 91 years. Here’s why by Jason Pagano & Bill Radke & Ann Kane
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: What’s The Story Behind Topiary Park? by Erin Gottsacker
WESA’s Good Question: Pittsburgh’s First Hotel: A Destination For Presidents, Famous Writers And Escaped Slaves by Joaquin Gonzalez
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: Readers get bird’s-eye view of mystery Battle Ground building by Adam Littman
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is the known earthquake history of the ACT? by Sophie Kesteven
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are flights in and out of Canberra so expensive? by Sonya Gee
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Will Lochloosa Lake Water Levels Ever Return? by Christina Morales
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why the ‘O’ in San Francisco’s airport code, SFO? by Jessica Placzek
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Doesn’t Caltrans Build a Center Divider on Highway 154? by Janene Scully
KUT’s ATXplained: What The Heck Are Those Blue Panels Along The Lamar Underpass? by Matt Largey
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why are potbellied pigs banned from Seattle schools? by Matt Martin
Bruzz’s Big City: How does vacancy exist in the Brussels Capital Region by Saar Van Acker and Luana Difficile
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: Religion keeps ABC liquor stores in business by Christopher Harress
June 20–27
Chicago Tribune’s What’s the Story: Answering a reader’s questions about mild sauce, the condiment you’ll find only in Chicago by Bill Daley
Texas Tribunes’ Texplainer: Hey, Texplainer: Do I still have to get my car inspected every year? by Giula Afiune
WDET’s CuriosiD: Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal by Shelby Jouppi
Newsworks: Why is Pennsylvania called a commonwealth? by Annette John-Hall
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: What Are the Procedures to Immigrate Legally to the United States? by Sam Goldman
WBEZ’s Curious City: Welcome Back, Otters: Could The River Otter Call Chicago’s Loop Home? by Marc Filippino
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: How Much Money Could Santa Barbara County Make if Offshore Drilling Was Expanded? by Sam Goldman
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Hey, Texplainer: Why don’t local police departments pay for rape kit testing? by Alex Samuels
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why is Lake Cachuma Not Getting More State Water, Given the Record Snowpack? by Brooke Holland
Bruzz’s Big City: Is there a secret treasure trove of maturing Beggars under the KVS? by Saar Van Acker and Luana Difficile
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Here Comes The Sun — And It Stays FOREVER by Laura Ellis
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: What if Alabama taxed its timber at a higher rate? by Christopher Harress
NHPR’s Civics 101: Party Whips
KRCC’s Peak Curiosity: How Did Mt. Esther Get Its Name? by Meredith Turk
WDET’s CuriosiD: Was there busing in Detroit in the early 1960’s? by Sascha Raiyn
Newsworks: Path to tougher gun controls may lead through states, not D.C. by Matt Laslo
June 12-June 19
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Curious Juneau looks into the eye of Mount Juneau by Carter Barrett
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Meaning Of Boystown: A Conversation About Chicago’s LGBTQ Neighborhood by Jason Nargis
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Do All After-School Sports Organizations Have Equal Access to Local Public Fields? by Brooke Holland
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why doesn’t Canberra have billboard advertising? by James Fettes
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What’s With Alachua County’s Stormwater Assessment Fee? by Arnae Holcomb
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Why Doesn’t Santa Barbara Find Someone Who Can Fix Flooded Castillo Street Underpass? by Sam Goldman
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Where Does Fracking Water Go? by Lisa Gardiner (UCAR Center for Science Education)
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Would Really Happen if a Tsunami Hit the Bay Area? by Johanna Varner and Olivia Allen-Price
Bruzz’s Big City: Are fruits and vegetables cheaper on South Market? by Saar Van Acker and Luana Difficile
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Fix It: 22nd Avenue pavement problems by Brian Passino
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: How are Michigan’s minimum liquor prices determined? by Stateside Staff
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Who were Burke and Gilman, and how’d they get their names on our trail? by Amy Rolph
NPR’S #CuriousGoat: What’s The Difference Between Famine And Hunger? A Food FAQ by Vicky Hallett
AL.com’s Ask Alabama: Why do we still have a grocery tax? by John Hammontree
June 6-June 11
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What Makes Milwaukee’s Frozen Custard Scene Special? by Mitch Teich and Michelle Maternowski
The Columbian’s Clark Asks: The Plains explained by Tom Vogt
and AL.com’s Ask Alabama: How Alabama got cheated out of Florida’s panhandle by Ben Raines
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Where do the Ventura Harbor mermaids come from? by Ted Mills
WBEZ’s Curious City: What’s With That Odd Closet? What Chicago’s Architectural Clues Reveal About How We Live by Jen Masengarb
VPR’s Brave Little State: What’s It Like To Be A Migrant Worker In Vermont? by Angela Evancie and Kathleen Masterson
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just called a special session. What should you expect? by Alex Samuels
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: What do pre-existing conditions and disability activism mean under Trump? by Imani Barbarin
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: The story of the downtown Juneau tramway that was never built by Matt Miller
WMUK’s Why’s That: Physicists Come From All Around for “Beam Time” at WMU by Sehvilla Mann
Bruzz’s Big City: What is the story behind the street Square du Bois? by Isa Lemaitre, Saar Van Acker and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Is Kambah the biggest suburb in Australia? by Sonya Gee
KQED’s Bay Curious: What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park? by Jessica Placzek
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Where to find a map of underground rivers? by Dominique Cambron-Goulet
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Can You Do With Used Clothing Not Suitable for Donation? by Claire Thompson
Boise State Public Radio: What Will It Take For Train Travel To Return To Southern Idaho? by Frankie Barnhill
WESA’s Good Question: What Ever Happened To Allegheny River Lock And Dam Number One? by Katie Blackley
May 30-June 5
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Dinosaurs Roamed the Bay Area? by Daniel Potter
WESA’s Good Question: What Ever Happened To Allegheny River Lock And Dam Number One? by Katie Blackley
WBEZ’s Curious City: History of Violence: Chicago During The Capone Era and Today by Maggie Sivit
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are there so many abandoned cars beside Canberra’s roads? by Ewan Gilbert
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How often does it snow in the suburbs of Canberra? by Tom Storey
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What Does It Cost To Maintain The Rodman Dam? by Alana Wilson
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago Park Drinking Fountains Have Been Running For Weeks To Flush Pipes by Monica Eng
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Mount Juneau ‘billboard’ was used for bouncing microwave signals by Matt Miller
KUT’s ATXPlained: What’s Up With Those Handmade ‘We Buy Houses’ Signs Around Austin? by Syeda Hasan
Bruzz’s Big City: Where does the name Ketje come from? by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Missouri’s term limits blamed for short-circuiting legislative relationships by Jason Rosenbaum
Next Avenue: We Answer Your Questions About Learning Music After 50 by Shayla Stern
Texas Tribune’s Texplainer: Hey, Texplainer: How do I know if my bill died? by Alex Samuels
NPR’s Curious Goat: We Asked, You Answered: Does U.S. Foreign Aid Raise Living Standards? by Malaka Gharib
WDET’s CuriosiD: Who Was John R? by Laura Herberg
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: The missing meteorite of Lauffen by Agnes Hilger and Janis Dietz
May 23-May 29
WESA’s Good Question: The Stony Eyes Watching Over Downtown by Katie Blackley
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why demolish the Champlain Bridge? by Adréanne Chevalier
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: The nicknames of the region: Part 1 Heilbronn by Janis Dietz
Journal Métro’s Curiocité: Why demolish the Champlain Bridge? by Andréanne Chevalier
Heilbronner Stimme’s Noch Fragen?: Town stone collection opens after a long rebuilding by Torsten Büchele
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: When Will Goleta Repave Cathedral Oaks Road? by Brooke Holland
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: What’s the Story Behind Santa Barbara County’s Water Resources? by Giana Magnoli
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Look into Neighborhood Impacts of Santa Barbara’s Efforts to Alter Zoning Standard by Giana Magnoli
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: How Did Noozhawk Get Its Name? by William M. Macfadyen
Noozhawk’s Noozhawk Asks: Can Goleta Sweep the Gravel from the Cathedral Oaks Bike Lanes? by Brooke Holland
Bruzz’s Big City: What is the story behind the samosas in night shopping? by Isa Lemaitre, Saar Van Acker and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: You Live in S.F. and Your Home Was Built in 1906: True or False? by Penny Nelson
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What is the role of philanthropy in Seattle? by Marcie Sillman
WLRN’s Palm Readers: The Sunshine Economy: Flooding and Finance by Tom Hudson
KALW’s Hey Area: Why are Bay Area heatwaves often in the fall? by Jürgen Klemm
May 16-May 22
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Bubbler Talk Lightning Round: Milwaukee Streets by Mitch Teich and Michelle Maternowski
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why is it so hard to find a bulk-billing GP in Canberra? by Tom Lowrey
Journal Métro’s CuriosCite: Why do not all subway stations have elevators? by Romain Schué
WESA’s Good Question: Why Are Sea Gulls Suddenly Flocking To The Highland Park Bridge? by Katie Blackley
WBEZ’s Curious City: Rubber Stamp Aldermen: Why Does Chicago City Council Always Vote For What The Mayor Wants? by Lauren Choolijan
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What happens to the fruit and vegetables when the fresh food markets close on Sunday? by Sonya Gee
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Why Do Schools Still Collect Students’ Social Security Numbers? by Ethan Magoc
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: How is it possible any mining could take place in the Porcupine Mountains? by Stateside Staff
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Who was Santa Barbara’s only pirate? by Ted Mills
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Norsunjalkarahi, seepranpää and desert fox — Customs seized a collection featured at Helsinki Zoo by Ellinoora Sandell
KQED’s Bay Curious: Are Plastic Bag Bans Actually Helping the Environment? by Kelly O’Mara
Bruzz’s Big City: Where does the name Matonge come from? by Bettina Hubo & Luana Difficile
NPR’s Curious Goat: Ethics Of Aid: Should Donated Health Dollars Go To ‘Children First’? by Malaka Gharib
KALW’s Hey Area: Why do so many Bay Area highways end in the number 80? by Jürgen Klemm
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: Curious Gulf Coast Asks: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer? by Rachel Iacovone
May 9- May 15
WBEZ’s Curious City: City Of Big Potholes: Is Asphalt The Best Choice For Chicago’s Streets? by John Fecile
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: 100 years after China Joe’s death, Juneau historian remembers immigrant pioneers protected by Tripp J. Crouse
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: What Was The Continent Like In Its Heyday? by Sam Hendren
WDET’s CuriosiD: Are There Salt Mines Under Detroit? by Pat Batcheller
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: How Field Trips Level the Playing Field by Mankaprr Conteh
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: When did correctional officers last receive a raise?
WMUK’s Why’s That: Is That an Old Schoolhouse on Stadium Drive? by Sehvilla Mann
KUT’s ATXplained: Were There Convicts On Convict Hill? by Audrey McGlinchy
KUOW’s Local Wonder: The spooky, underwater forests of Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish by Amy Rolph
KPCC’s Take Two: Here’s what happens to undocumented immigrants when they’re detained by Take Two
KPCC’s SoCal So Curious: Ask A Trucker: Professional drivers answer your questions about driving safely by Meghan McCarty Carino
KQED’s Bay Curious: Can’t Get That Camping Spot? It Could Be Bots by Jessica Placzek
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: What’s the use of blue lights at the top of streetlights on Notre-Dame Street East? by Romain Schué
KALW’s Hey Area: Is the Bay Area losing money to corporate tax incentives? by Jeremy Dalmas
KALW’s Hey Area: The Bay’s colorful salt ponds are fading, and that’s a good thing by Angela Johnston
WESA’s Good Question: Choose A Color And Buckle Up: Allegheny County’s Belt System Is Low Tech, But Navigable by Katie Blackley
Week of May 8
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Are Derby Hats A Thing? by Ashlie Stevens and Roxane Scott
WESA’s Good Question: Choose A Color And Buckle Up: Allegheny County’s Belt System Is Low Tech, But Navigable by Katie Blackley
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: The Perfect Kentucky Derby Playlist! by Laura Ellis
KUNC’s Divided Colorado: A Sister And Brother Disagree On Climate Change by Ashley Jefcoat
KPPC’s SoCal. So Curious: Could the LA Riots happen again?
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Story Behind the ‘Flame’ on Wisconsin Avenue by Micaela Martin
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Where Was Paradise In Alachua County? by Brooke Azzaro and Ethan Magoc
KQED’s Bay Curious: It’s-It! The San Francisco Treat That Sparked a Cult Following by Alyssa Kapnik Samuel
WGCU’s Gulf Coast Curious: What Motivated Early Settlers of South Florida? by Matthew F Smith and Julie Glenn
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: How builders can use universal design to make homes everyone can use by Willis Ryder Arnold
KUT TXDecides: How Powerful Is The Texas Governor Compared To Other State Governors? by KUT Staff
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: Don’t Be the Lone Shark: Surviving as a Feminist Parent by Lisa Factora-Borchers
BBC’s UGC: General election: What you need to know by Alex Hunt and Brian Wheeler
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Was The Olentangy River Moved For Route 315, And Where? by Sam Hendren
WBEZ’s Curious City: Making Chicago’s Boystown by Steven Jackson and Jason Nargis
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Are Canberra drivers the worst in the country? by Jesse Dorsett
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Mixed results for local pop-up shops, restaurants by Josh Mandell
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
VPR’s Brave Little State: What Can Be Done About Vermont’s Aging Sewer Systems? by Angela Evancie and Taylor Dobbs
Week of May 1
WDET’s CuriosiD: Who Were the Natives in Detroit? by Laura Herberg
A four-part investigation of what’s under Santa Barbara’s State Street by KCRW’s Curious Coast:
What’s under State Street? Curious Coast finds out by Ted Mills
Under State Street Part 2: Was there an underground jazz club? by Ted Mills
Under State Street Part 3: The recording studios at 1129 State by Ted Mills
Under State Street Part 4: At last! A speakeasy! by Ted Mills
WESA’s Good Question: Pittsburgh Boasts A Trio Of Tributaries, But Are There Really Three Separate Rivers? by Katie Blackley
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Seriously, What’s The Deal With Pee Pee Township? by Adora Namigadde
KALW’s Hey Area: Why is San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain dry? by Jürgen Klemm
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How did they put the eagle on top of the Australian-American memorial? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Tray Table Or Trash? Here’s What Happens To Airline Food When An O’Hare Flight Is Cancelled by Monica Eng
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s In A Name? Milwaukee School Monikers Signify Classroom Culture by Rachel Morello
WFDD’s Curious Carolina: Why Is Greensboro Called The Gate City? by Sean Bueter
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Franklin Street named after early prospector who later settled in Interior by Tripp J. Crouse
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: What’s going on with the fountains in Brussels? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What was the cost to people caught in the travel ban? by Ruby de Luna
KQED’s Bay Curious: Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall? by Tena Rubio
KALW’s Hey Area: Who is the ancient king looking down on Civic Center? by Jürgen Klemm
Week of April 24
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: What does the mayor of St. Louis actually do? by Jenny Simeone-Casas
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Nazi’s Neighborhood by Jesse Dukes
WESA’s Good Question: No, You Can’t Kayak Under The Golden Triangle: An Exploration Of Pittsburgh’s Fourth River by Katie Blackley and Chris Stalnaker
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: Will there ever be another Joyland? by Oliver Morrison
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: The comprehensive timeline for Wichita’s Joyland by Oliver Morrison
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are there so many spiders on the Kings Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue bridges in Canberra? by Tom Storey
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Where Are Milwaukee’s Pigeons? by Bonnie North
KUOW’s Local Wonder: How far do Seattleites have to go for some GD sun?! by Emily Fox
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: What’s the origin of the Sleeping Bear Dunes story? by Stateside Staff
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Why aren’t there strip clubs in Juneau? by Caroline Halter
Bruzz’s Big City: Why drive more Z-plates around despite tougher legislation? by Isa Lemaitre and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Makes San Francisco Sourdough Unique? by Julia Scott
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Do Giants Fans Hate the Wave? Oakland Started It. by Julia Scott
WBEZ’s Curious City: How A Rat Balloon From Suburban Chicago Became A Union Mascot by Max Green
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Where are metro trains stored after closing? by Marie-Eve Shaffer
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Super Grid! Spanning Continents In A Single Bound! by Jordan Wirfs-Brock and Dan Boyce
KUT’s TXDecides: How Can Average Citizens Get Involved In Texas’ Redistricting Process? by KUT Staff
WAMU’s Trump Effect: Has Dating in D.C. Changed in the Trump Era? Dating Apps Data and Singles Say Yes by Mikaela Lefrak
Week of April 17
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown by Meribah Knight
NHPR’s Only in NH: Inspecting What’s Behind Annual Auto Inspections in the Granite State by Casey McDermott
KALW’s Hey Area: Why is Redwood City’s slogan ‘Climate Best by Government Test’? by Jürgen Klemm
KALW’s Hey Area: Has the population of urban crows mushrooomed? by Jürgen Klemm
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How has Canberra’s bird population changed? by Craig Allen
WESA’s Good Question: How Much Of Pittsburgh Property Is Untaxed? (And How Does The City Get Its Money?) by Katie Blackley
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: DOT artillery defends Thane Road from avalanche threats by Jacob Resneck
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Milwaukee’s FDR-Era Water Treatment Plant: ‘A Monument To Civic Majesty’ by Ann-Elise Henzl
BBC Birmingham: West Midlands mayor: Your questions answered
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Do We Have Sister Cities? by Laura Ellis
WMUK’s Why’s That: What Does Road Salt Do to Fishes? by Sehvilla Mann
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Where do you find sunshine close to Seattle? by Jeannie Yandel & Emily Fox & Matt Martin
Bruzz’s Big City: Where does the name Tour & Taxis come from? by Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Do Giants Fans Hate the Wave? Oakland Started It. by Olivia Allen-Price and Adam Grossberg
NHPR’s Civics 101: Episode 23: Emoluments
Week of April 10
VPR’s Brave Little State: A Tribute To Vermont’s Old, Falling-Down Barns by Angela Evancie and Liam Elder-Connors
WAMU’s Trump Effect: What Is On WAMU 88.5 Listeners’ Minds Since Election Day? by Chris Chester
WDET’s CuriosiD: What’s That Smell? by Shelby Jouppi
1A: Syria: Your Questions Answered
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What difference did the plastic bag ban make to Canberra’s waste? by Jordan Hayne
WBEZ’s Curious City: Safer, Faster, Smarter? The Road Ahead For Illinois’ High-Tech Highway by Julian Hayda
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: North-south bike trail will take greater buy-in and political will by Sean Tubbs
BBC Birmingham’s West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: A Milwaukee Obsession: Sunday Hot Ham & Rolls by LaToya Dennis
Current’s Currently Curious: Beyond politics, public media audiences and Trump supporters have some things in common by Dru Sefton
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Did The Sky Look So Bright Last Night? by Laura Ellis
KRCC’s Peak Curiosity: How Will Climate Change Transform Colorado Springs Over The Next 100 Years? by Jake Brownell
Bruzz’s Big City: What’s the secret Royal Box at the Central Station? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: These Colorful Dots Will Save Your Life by Jessica Placzek
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: How Did Refugee Road Get Its Name? by Adora Namigadde
WLRN’s Palm Readers: Why Are Housing Prices So High? Is There A Limit To Rent Hikes? Questions About The Sunshine Economy by Tom Hudson
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Rent control is illegal in Seattle. Here’s why by Amy Rolph
KUOW’s Local Wonder: The lights on Seattle’s tallest building flash at us. Why? by Bond Huberman
KALW’s Hey Area: Did dirigibles dock on top of Oakland’s Tribune Tower? by Ted Muldoon
KALW’s Hey Area: Was Lake Merritt’s Necklace of Lights installed because of ghosts? by Geraldine Ah-Sue
Week of April 3
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Story Behind The Giant Ladybugs On The Milwaukee Building by Rachel Owens
KUT’s TXDecides: Five Ways You Can Influence Texas Lawmakers by Ben Philpot
WBEZ’s Curious City: First Responder: Why Do Fire Trucks Often Arrive Before Ambulances For Medical Emergencies? by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What were the coolest things in Griffin’s plan for Canberra that were never implemented? by Elise Scott
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: How did the Brussels-Midi station and the station area there used to be like? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KTOO’s Ask the Energy Desk: What about wave and tidal energy in Alaska? by Elizabeth Jenkins
WHYY Newsworks: Street sensors and cameras in Pennsylvania: Urban asset or privacy concern? by Eleanor Klibanoff, WPSU
KQED’s Bay Curious: It’s a Mushroom Bonanza This Year! What’s the Deal? by Lesley McClurg and Olivia Allen-Price
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Pot brings $168M to Washington state. How do we spend it? by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: When Will The Keys Begin Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To Fight Zika? by Baylor Cherry
KALW’s Hey Area: Why do new San Francisco street signs have upper and lowercase letters? by Jürgen Klemm
NHPR: Gov. Sununu Talks Tightening Voting Laws, Funding Full-Day Kindergarten, & Courting 100 Businesses by The Exchange
BBC UGC: London attack: How can we be protected from terrorism? by Nick Beake
Week of March 27
WBEZ’s Curious City: The TV Meteorologist’s Dilemma: When To Talk About Climate Change? by Jake Smith
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: One Question, Lots of Answers: How Are Milwaukee Neighborhoods Named? by Joy Powers
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Why Can’t We Use The Railroad? by David Ford
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: The oldest person in St. Louis, take two! by Durrie Bouscaren
Bruzz’s Big City: Is there really a subway station underneath the Sainctlette channel? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Did Jackie Chan really go to school in Canberra? by Elise Pianegonda
WESA’s Good Question: Pittsburgh’s Long History With Coal Mining Isn’t So Buried In The Past by Sarah Schneider
KUT’s TX Decides: Why Doesn’t The Texas Legislature Meet Every Year? by KUT Staff
KUT’s TX Decides: What Would It Take To Summon A Convention Of States? by Andrew Schneider, KUHF News
KCRW’s Curious Coast: What happened to the Buckminster Fuller archives in Santa Barbara? by Ted Mills
Week of March 20
Chicago Tribune’s What’s the Story: Exploring the peppermint stick and pickle snack from the South Side by Nick Kindelsperger
KALW’s Hey Area: Where are the Mission’s buried waterways? by Jürgen Klemm
KALW’s Hey Area: What are those giant bird nests in McLaren Park? by Jürgen Klemm
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why does this ex-govie house appear throughout Canberra? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Are there fallout shelters left in Chicago? by Chris Bentley
WBEZ’s Curious City: What The ‘L’ Happened To CTA Tokens? by Laura Pavin
BBC Birmingham: Hill Street Blues by Jen Meierhans
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What Once Stood On The Vacant Acres In Milwaukee’s Harbor? by Michelle Maternowski and Susan Bence
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why do some locals say ‘Wershington’ instead of ‘Washington?’ by Bill Radke and Ann Kane
Bruzz’s Big City: Will the Japanese Tower and the Chinese Pavilion ever open again? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Will Seattle Sounders’ foreign players have their visas revoked? by Amy Rolph
1A: Ask A Muslim
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: Can you reject ‘666’ MN license plates?
Heilbronner Stimme: The tunnel system of Heilbronn by Janis Dietz and Agnes Hilger
NPR Training: You asked: How can I get better at standups? by Alison Macadam
KTOO’s Ask the Energy Desk: What happens when our hydropower sources are frozen? by Elizabeth Jenkins
KQED’s Bay Curious: San Jose Semaphore Cracked! It’s A Message From the Moon by Rachael Myrow
Week of March 13
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: What happened to Dr. Rafaai Hamo, the Syrian refugee featured in Humans of New York? by Jodi Westrick and Stateside Staff
WESA’s Good Question: How Mt. Oliver Borough Eluded City Of Pittsburgh Annexation by Katie Blackley
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Metro Parks Officially Clarifies Name To Frederick Douglass Park by Blake Farmer
WMUK’s Why’s That: How West Street Became Westnedge Avenue by Sehvilla Mann
WBEZ’s Curious City: How A Rat Balloon From Suburban Chicago Became A Union Mascot by Max Green
WBEZ’s Curious City: Searching for Chicago’s Most Family-Packed Neighborhoods by Chris Hagan, Eve Ewing and John Fecile
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Does Seattle have more cranes than Dubai? by Carolyn Adolph
KQED’s Bay Curious: How Does Rain Create More Potholes? by Penny Nelson
Bruzz’s Big City: How many farmers are there in Brussels? Where and how do they grow? by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Where will the residents of the public housing on Northbourne Ave be relocated? by Jonathon Gui
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: JACC sports new paint thanks to Anchorage graffiti artist by Tripp J Crouse
WBUR’s On Point: Prescribing New Solutions To Homelessness
1A: The Lobby Life
Week of March 6
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: How Did Metro Milwaukee Become So Segregated? by Michelle Maternowski and Joy Powers
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: Measuring Black/White Segregation in Metro Milwaukee by Michelle Maternowski
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: How Segregation Impacts Milwaukee’s Latino Community by Joy Powers
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: Meeting Milwaukee’s ‘Great Migrants’ and Their Southern Roots by Joy Powers
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: Metropolitan Milwaukee Housing Segregation Leads to Winners and Losers by LaToya Dennis
WUWM’s Segregation Matters: Segregation Lines Starkly Divide Metropolitan Milwaukee by Marti Mikkelson
WBEZ’s Curious City: Deconstructing The Chicago-Style Hot Dog by Monica Eng
VPR’s Brave Little State: Why Is Vermont So Overwhelmingly White? by Angela Evancie & Rebecca Sananes
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: How has the consolidation of Juneau and Douglas affected the two communities? by Jacob Resneck
KRCC’s Peak Curiosity: A Look Back at the Jewish History of Southern Colorado by Meredith Turk
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Do Some Hate the Nickname ‘Frisco’? by Vinee Tong
KALW’s Hey Area: Hey Area: Is Lake Merritt really a lake? by Jürgen Klemm
Bruzz’s Big City: Where was the former Ministry of Colonies located exactly? by Jean-Marie Binst, and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is the purpose of these small green boxes? by Sonya Gee
1A: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Your Questions Answered
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Can ‘The Vine That Ate The South’ Be Contained? by Bethany Chafin
KUT’s TXDecides: Does Texas Know How Much a Bill Will Cost the State Before It Passes? by KUT Staff
KUT’s TXDecides: Is the State’s Budget Lower Because of Falling Oil Prices?by KUT Staff
Week of February 27
WBEZ’s Curious City: Out In The Cold: Where Do Chicago’s Homeless Go In The Winter? by Odette Yousef
KTOO’s Ask the Energy Desk: Are plastic bag bans better for the environment? by Elizabeth Jenkins
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why would anyone bury a sculpture in Commonwealth Park? by Nick Haggarty and Siobhan Heanue
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: What is it like when someone gets arrested? by Jeffrey Zampanti
KQED’s Bay Curious: This Lumberjack Frat Once Had the Coolest Clubhouse in S.F. by Jessica Placzek
Bruzz’s Big City: Is it possible to build the re-Horta Folk? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: What happens to the Box Tops that schools collect? by Heidi Wigdahl
WBEZ’s Curious City: Destination Illinois: The State’s Key Role In The Dakota Access Pipeline by Monica Eng
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Violent Protests Over Dakota Access? Here’s Our Take by Amy Sisk
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Metro Council To Weigh In On Renaming Fred Douglas Park by Blake Farmer
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Where the sidewalk ends by Joseph Leahy
Week of February 20
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chickens and Goats and Pigs, Oh My! Chicago’s Backyard Livestock Laws by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Are Canberra’s Anzac Park East and West buildings really abandoned? by Tegan Osborne
KUT’s TXDecides: How Can Texans Find Out When a Bill Is Up for Consideration? by KUT Staff
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What Happened to Milwaukee’s Signature Yeast Smell? by Maayan Silver
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: Why are gas prices always carried out to tenths of a cent? by Heidi Wigdahl
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why is Marin County So White? by Ericka Cruz Guevarra
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: Housing and Senior Care Options for Graying Floridians by Matthew F Smith
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: Should you unsubscribe from junk email? by Heidi Wigdahl
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Where Does The City Invest Your Money? by Jacob Ryan and Roxanne Scott
Journal Métro’s CurioCite: Why are our pavements not smooth? by Romain Schué
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Five Questions You Always Wanted To Ask About Columbus by Emily Thompson
Week of February 13
KTOO’s Curious Juneau: Where does a gorilla run for mayor? Juneau, of course. by Tripp J Crouse and Matt Miller
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: Study Offers Sobering Advice for Collier Affordable Housing by Matthew F Smith
WGCU’s Curious Gulf Coast: Half a Million New Florida Motorists Drive Surge in Traffic Deaths, Hit-and-Runs by Matthew F Smith
KUT’s TXDecides: What Are the Powers of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Legislature in Texas? by KUT Staff
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Nashville’s Fred Douglas Park May Become ‘Frederick Douglass’ As Naming Mystery Lingers by Blake Farmer
WBEZ’s Curious City: Red Line To Your Heart: What Makes Chicago’s Dating Scene Distinct? by Sarah Geis
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why does Canberra have a beach at Jervis Bay? by James Fettes
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: What happened with Silver Lake finances? by Jill Tatge-Rozell
WMUK’s Why’s That: What Makes Snow Wet or Dry? by Sehvilla Mann
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Good Well Hunting: Bay View Watering Hole Last Of Its Kind by Audrey Nowakowski
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Cape Disappointment to Deception Pass: What’s up with the depressing names? by Amy Rolph
Bruzz’s Big City: My network always goes out when I pass the Castle of Laeken bowl. Coincidence or not? by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
KQED Bay Curious: How Many Are Being Displaced by Gentrification in Oakland? by Olivia Allen-Price
WDET’s Detroit Today: L. Brooks Patterson Answers Community Questions After State of the County Speech by Stephen Henderson
WBEZ’s Curious City: Come Hell Or High Water: Can Great Lakes Shipping Make A Resurgence? by Jake Smith
WBUR’s On Point: Can American Cities Go Their Own Way? by Tom Ashbrook
KUT TXDecides: How can Texas votes make their voice heard by Staff
Week of February 6
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s Going On With The Grand Avenue Mall’s Transformation? by Marti Mikkelson
KUT’s TXDecides: How Can Texas Voters Influence Their Lawmakers and Make Their Voices Heard? by Staff
WBEZ’s Curious City: ‘Gratest’ Fear: The Psychology Behind Chicago’s Sidewalk Grates by Laura Pavin
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How did the first seagulls arrive in Canberra? by Adrienne Francis
BBC Birmingham West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: Why tram conductors must often get to change bills? (in Dutch) by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Dificile
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: What is the legal way to transport an open bottle in an SUV? by Lindsey Seavert
KARE 11 Ask KARE: How did Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis get its name? by Lindsey Seavert
Week of January 30
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Has Seattle always been so progressive? by Caroline Chamberlain
WBEZ’s Curious City: Korean Chicken Wings: Spicy, Crispy, Saucy And Totally Chicago by Monica Eng
1A Special: Answering Your Questions On Trump’s Immigration Freeze
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: There In Form, And Now In Function: Milwaukee’s (Formerly) Timeless Clock by Rachel Morello
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How A Mosaic Dragon Became A Neighborhood Mascot Near Vanderbilt by Mack Linebaugh
BBC Birmingham: Four videos of things you wanted to know by Staff
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Why did we need a referendum for athletic facilities? by Bill Guida
Next Avenue: How Much Sex Are Older Adults Having? by Emily Gurnon
KQED’s Bay Curious: Is Air Quality in the Bay Area Getting Worse? by Matt Beagle
Bruzz’s Big City: Why is there so much lime in Brussels tap water? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: Is Air Quality in the Bay Area Getting Worse? by Matt Beagle
KARE 11’s Ask KARE: What was the very first State Park in Minnesota and where is it? by Lindsey Seavert
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: What gives Natural Bridge Road its name? The answer is tied to Missouri’s caves by Kelly Moffitt
KTOO’s Energy Desk: Coming into the Country by Lori Townsend
Week of January 23
WBEZ’s Curious City: Signs Of The Times: How Chicago Bars Got So Many Old Style Signs by John Fecile
KRCC’s Peak Curiosity: Why is the ’N’ in the Colorado Springs Welcome Sign Upside Down? by Jake Brownell
WNPR’s Connecticurious: Why Doesn’t My Town Have A Mayor? Answering Your Questions On Town Government by Jeff Tyson & Lucy Nalpathanchil
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Why malls struggle, especially those in north St. Louis County? by Maria Altman
BBC’s Birmingham’s West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Is there a train at the bottom of Silver Lake? by Jill Tatge-Rozell
Bruzz’s Big City: Where the men go who are waiting in the Diksmuidelaan? by Jean-Marie Binst, and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: Foghorns: Who Presses The Play Button? by Laura Klivans
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Why Don’t People Use Their Turn Signals? by Neal Charnoff
WDET’s Detroit Today: Did Gov. Snyder Hit the Mark In His 7th State of the State Address?
KALW & East Bay Express: Dear Donald Trump: “You may think you have all the power. You are wrong.”
Week of January 16
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Aren’t There Any Strip Clubs in the East Bay by Adizah Eghan
1A: The Obama Care Repeal Efforts: Your Questions Answered by Staff
WBEZ’s Curious City: “Who’s Your Chinaman?”: The Origins Of An Offensive Piece Of Chicago Political Slang by Monica Eng
KUT’s ATXplained: When a Loop Is Not a Loop: The History, Mystery and Misery of MoPac by Jimmy Maas
BBC Birmingham: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
WMUK’s Why’s That: “Why’s That?” Explores the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital’s Farming Days by Sehvilla Mann
Bruzz’s Big City: How many homeless people are there in Brussels? by Laurent Vermeersch
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why do three Seattle blocks have their own ZIP codes? by Amy Rolph
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Did Our Streetcars Go Away? And Can We Bring Them Back? by Erica Peterson
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why does the STM authorize Jehovah’s Witnesses on the Metro? (in French) by Jeff Yates
Week of January 9
KQED’s Bay Curious: Sutro Tower: The Origins of an ‘Eyesore’ by Jessica Placzek
VPR’s Brave Little State: What’s The Deal With Coydogs? by Angela Evancie
WBEZ’s Curious City: Icebreakers Of The Chicago River: How Bubblers, Boats And Brawn Keep The City Safe Each Winter by John Fecile
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Story Behind Milwaukee’s Iconic Address Tiles by Joy Powers
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Why do buildings stay empty so long? by Rex Davenport
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why Did Jimi Hendrix Play Jefferson Street? by Chas Sisk
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Pickleball, swimming during thunderstorms, and more by Sean Tubbs
Week of January 2
KQED’s Bay Curious: Does San Jose Deserve the Nickname ‘Man Jose’? by Jessica Placzek
WHYY: So, what’s the deal with Pennsylvania’s liquor laws? by Jim Saksa
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Why do buildings stay empty so long? by Rex Davenport
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: If you give your 747 bus ticket to a foreigner at the airport, can he reuse it? by Roxane Léouzon
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Pickleball, swimming during thunderstorms, and more by Sean Tubbs
WBEZ’s Curious City: Curious City Live: This Show Was A Disaster! by Staff
WABE’s We Hear You: We Heard You: How Do You Reach Across The Political Divide? by Mary Claire Kelly
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why Was the First Municipal Nuclear Power Plant Built in Piqua? WYSO Curious Cuts to the Core by Char Daston
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Curious Louis finds out what it’s like to live in one of St. Louis’ flounder houses by Stephanie Lecci
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: Bitch’s Best Books of 2016 by Bitch HQ
Week of December 26
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Local resource networks pave way for minority entrepreneurs by Aaron Richardson
WBEZ’s Curious City: O’Hare’s Ghost: Whatever Happened to Terminal 4? by Yolanda Perdomo
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: How can Kenosha area newcomers best fit in? by Terry Flores
BBC’s Birmingham & Black Country: West Midlands: Four things you wanted to know by Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: What are the dirtiest streets of Brussels? by Laurent Vermeersch
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: What’s The Ratio Of U of L To UK Fans In Louisville? by Rick Howlett
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores? by Eddie Garcia
BBC’s Birmingham & Black Country: What are the best ways of helping homeless people? by Staff
Week of December 19
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates by Chas Sisk
WBEZ’s Curious City & The Chicago Architecture Foundation: The Willis Tower In 150 Years by Jesse Dukes and Jen Masengarb
BBC’s UGC: Strikes show contempt says Downing Street by Staff
BBC’s Birmingham & Black Country: West Midlands: Three things you wanted to know by Staff
Bruzz’s Big City: What is the probability of detection for fare evasion on the STIB network? (in Dutch) by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Diplomats and students started it — now Helsinki is already talking about it in 135 languages (in Finnish) by Lena Nelskyla
Week of December 12
WBEZ’s Curious City: Christmas Tree Lots: Who are the Folks Who Keep the Season Bright? by Monica Eng
Current’s Currently Curious: Three letters for a young public radio job-seeker by April Simpson
Current’s Currently Curious: More advice for a soon-to-be college grad beginning her career in public radio by April Simpson
Current’s Currently Curious: Focus on opportunity before location when starting out in public radio by April Simpson
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why is Adam Goodes’ Australian of the Year plaque covered in perspex? by Sonya Gee and Nevanka McKeon
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: North Point: A Milwaukee Water Tower That Never Held Water by Mitch Teich
Bruzz’s Big City: Wild parakeets survive the winter in Brussels? by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
KQED’s Bay Curious: Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to Homelessness? by Jessica Placzek
WBEZ’s Curious City: ‘Gratest’ Fear: The Psychology Behind Chicago’s Sidewalk Grates by Laura Pavin
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why won’t this pink stuff stop growing in my bathroom? by Amy Rolph
KALW’s Hey Area: Meet the team who monitors the water quality in the Bay by Angela Johnston
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Bowfin Ruin history remains a mystery by Diane Giles
Week of December 5
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: 20 for 20 Pop Culture Moments: When did your feminism spark? by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Your Most Pressing Dakota Access Pipeline Questions, Answered by Jordan Wirfs-Brock and Leigh Paterson
WMMT’s Central Appalachia Wonders (CAW): Rural Road Erosion in Coalfields Appalachia #1 by Kelli Haywood
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s the History of Pompeii Square in Milwaukee? by Marti Mikkelson
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: How Mound Street Got Its Name by Emily Thompson
WBEZ’s Curious City: When Church Meets State: Picking Apart Prayer in Aurora’s City Council by Marc Filippino
VPR’s Brave Little State: Almost 100,000 Vermonters Voted For Donald Trump. Why? by Melody Bodette, Taylor Dobbs, Alex Keefe, Rebecca Sananes, and Howard Weiss-Tisman
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: What’s up with ‘The Trestle?’ by Kelly Moffitt
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Why are Dred and Harriet Scott buried in different cemeteries? Curious Louis finds out by Mary Delach Leonard
Bruzz’s Big City: Why is the statue of Jeanneke Pis not next to Manneken Pis? by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Is Canberra the roundabout capital of Australia? by Tom Stewart-Moore
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: What’s With All The New Hotels Downtown? by Roxanne Scott
KQED’s Bay Curious: There’s a Secret Message to Decode in San Jose by Rachael Myrow
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why Does Dayton Have Trolley Buses? WYSO Curious Hops Onboard by Char Daston
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Where does the dirt go from Seattle’s big construction projects? by Joshua McNichols
WBEZ’s Curious City: Revisiting The Changing Views Of The Coveted Demographic: Suburban Women Voters (Weekend Edition Sunday)
Week of November 28
KQED’s Bay Curious: Where Did the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Come From? by Jessica Placzek
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: What’s the longest-run pizza place in Kenosha? by Heather Larson Poyner
WBEZ’s Curious City: City Beautiful? Why Some Chicago Neighborhoods Have Viaduct Art and Others Don’t by Jake Smith
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What’s the story behind the strange gate in Collector? by Georgia Hitch
WBEZ’s Curious City: Home For The Holidays: How Many Chicagoans Are Actually From Chicago? by Max Green
Bruzz’s Big City: Where can you eat the most delicious waffles in Brussels? by Luana Difficile and Laurent Vermeersch
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: What Happened To Columbus’s Streetcars? by Gabe Rosenberg
KCRW: How can I help the homeless? by Caitlin Shamberg
Week of November 21
WBEZ’s Curious City: Tips for Hunting Chicago’s Long-lost Recipes by Monica Eng
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Numerous county parks still waiting for funds by Josh Mandell
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: The mystery of the vanishing numbered streets by Rachel Lippmann
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How many births and deaths are there in Canberra on an average day? by Tegan Osborne
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Camels, Minarets and Domes: What’s the Story Behind the Tripoli Shrine on Wisconsin Avenue? by Maayan Silver
Bruzz’ Big City: Why are there no more trams that connect Brussels with other cities? by Luana Difficile and Laurent Vermeersch
Current’s Currently Curious: When GOP last held control, funding for public broadcasting remained steady by Dru Sefton
Journal Métro’s CurioCitè: What will we do with the debris following the demolition of the Bonaventure? by Roxane Léouzon
Week of November 14
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Marble Hall: A Contender for Milwaukee’s Oldest Building by Rachel Owens
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: Why the stoplights downtown are so bad and when they could get better by Oliver Morrison
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why does Canberra have so few pubs? by Sonya Gee
WMUK’s Why’s That: Brick Mystery Solved! Plus, How a Book Changed Kalamazoo’s Main Drag by Sehvilla Mann
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Helsinki’s scarred face — are you leading you past the traces of the war without realizing it? (in Finnish)
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Are BART Trains So Loud? by Sam Hartnett
WFTS’s Good Question: Parents say dance studio owner closed abruptly, owing them money by Adam Walser
Bruzz’s Big City: How many vehicles driving with sirens in Brussels? And is that right? (in Dutch) by Luana Difficile and Jean-Marie Binst
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Paynes Prairie Goes On Without Management by Brooke Steinberg
Week of November 7
KUOW’s Local Wonder: You know that tab you tear off your ballot? Here’s why it exists by Amy Rolph
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: You’ll be asked for a photo ID, but you do NOT need one to vote in Michigan by Mark Brush and Kate Wells
NPR’s Goats + Soda: You Asked, We Answer: Can Microloans Lift Women Out Of Poverty? by Nurith Aizenman
NPR Goats + Soda: How You can Stop antibiotic resistance (and still eat bacon) by Michaeleen Doucleff
WFPL’s Curious Louisville: Why Do We Give Directions With Landmarks That No Longer Exist? by Laura Ellis
WFTS’s Good Question: Winn-Dixie closes four pharmacies in Tampa Bay area by Nicole Grigg
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why The Illinois Lottery’s Been No Jackpot For Schools by Miles Bryan
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are the streets in Canberra so dark? by Andrew Bell
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Why no north-side Starbucks location? by Rex Davenport
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: South Side of Milwaukee, Your Bar Dice Rules Aren’t Wrong — Just Different by LaToya Dennis
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why We’re ‘Music City,’ According To Ken Burns by Mack Linebaugh
VPR’s Brave Little State: What Is The Status Of The Abenaki Native Americans In Vermont Today? by Angela Evancie
Bruzz’s Big City: Why is the Law Courts for so long in the pipeline? (in Dutch) by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
Week of October 31 🎃
You might remember Community Manager Julia Haslanger roundup of 4 ways Hearken newsrooms have gotten their audiences involved in election coverage. She mentioned that five Texas newsrooms, including our partner KUT in Austin, were teaming up to collect questions about the election from Texans all over the state and promised to dig into the “most intriguing questions and story ideas” from their listeners. Here are the results of that collaboration, TXDecides, which came out this week!
Why Is Voter Turnout So Low in Texas? by Travis Bubenik
Can We Vote For Third Party Candidates In Texas? by Ryan Poppe
How Did Texas End Up With Such Screwy Political Districts? by Christopher Connelly
How Secure Is Electronic Voting In Texas? by Andrew Schneider (KUHF News)
Why Is Texas So Red, And How Did It Get That Way? by Ben Philpott
Here are the rest of this week’s Hearken-powered stories!
ABC’s Curious Canberra: When the zombie apocalypse occurs what places in Canberra will be the safest? by Siobhan Heanue
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: ‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves by Mack Linebaugh
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: Exploring the city’s haunted places by Daniel Gaitan
WBEZ’s Curious City: Second City: The Origins of Chicago’s One-way Rivalry with New York by Jesse Dukes
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Is There a Star of David on the Original Miller Brewhouse? Well, Not Exactly. by Joy Powers
Current’s Currently Curious: A soon-to-be college grad wonders where to start in public radio by April Simpson
Bruzz’s Big City: Where can I sail through Brussels with a boat? by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
WNPR’s The Beaker: “At what age do skunk kits acquire ability to deploy their spray? We are enjoying watching a skunk family — from a distance.” by Patrick Skahill
In case you missed it, get in the Halloween spirit today with Assistant Community Manager Summer Fields’s roundup of 6 spooky audience-driven stories from our partner newsrooms. 👻
Week of October 24
VPR’s Brave Little State: Your Vermont Ghost Stories: A Halloween Special From Brave Little State by Angela Evancie and Alex Keefe
Bruzz’s Big City: Where can I pee legally and for free in Brussels? (in Dutch) by Sara De Sloover and Luana Dificille
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Is there a moat around the National Library of Australia? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: Fighting For Scraps: What It Would Take For Chicago To Get Citywide Composting by Monica Eng
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Discarded Cigarette Butts: More Than An Annoying Eyesore in Milwaukee by Susan Bence
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: What’s the plan for dead ash trees? by Jeffrey Zampanti
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why are there so many rats in Seattle? by Ashley Ahearn
Current’s Currently Curious: Collapse of Oregon call center leaves public media in the lurch by Mike Janssen
Week of October 16
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Are There So Many Crickets Around Austin This Time of Year? by Mose Buchele
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How does ABC News Canberra decide what stories to cover? by Kanika Kirpalani and Sonya Gee
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Mino-akking, Mahn-a-waukke: What’s the Origin of the Word ‘Milwaukee’? by Bonnie Petrie
WMUK’s Why’s That: Pavement Was a Passionate Topic in Early Kalamazoo by Sehvilla Mann
Bruzz’s Big City: I live in the Marcel Grunerstraat in Molenbeek. Who was he? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
BBC Russia: Britain as it is — the answers to your questions by Jüri Vendik and Jana Litvinova
Week of October 7
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Is Fred Douglas Park Named For A Famed Abolitionist? by Blake Farmer
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: Do Kansas lawmakers personally benefit from tax cuts? by Bryan Lowry
Kenosha News’s Curious Kenosha: How did Petrifying Springs Get Its Name? by Diane Giles
WBEZ’s Curious City: Daley vs. Little Italy: Did the Mayor Drop UIC on the Neighborhood Out of Spite? by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why don’t we ever hear anything about Canberra’s sister cities? by Alkira Reinfrank
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s CVille Curious: Could old shopping centers accommodate new affordable housing? by Sean Tubbs
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: A Stream Runs Under It: Wisconsin’s State Fair Park Covers Part of Honey Creek by Bonnie North
VPR’s Brave Little State: Breaking Down Your Vermont Utility Bills, Charge By Charge by Alex Keefe
Bruzz’s Big City: Why are student rooms in Brussels more expensive than elsewhere? by Bettina Hubo and Luana Difficile
KALW’s Hey Area: The case of San Francisco’s missing O Street by Steven Short
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: It’s not so easy to recycle if you live or work in downtown Detroit by Menachem Kaiser
Week of October 3
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Does It Take So Long to Get Anything Built in Austin? by Syeda Hasan
WBEZ’s Curious City: From Rails to Trails: The Economic Impact of Chicago’s Repurposed Railways by Sean Kennedy
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are there bears tied to trees along the Kings Highway? by Tom Lowrey
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: There In Form, But Not In Function: Milwaukee’s Timeless Clock by Rachel Morello
Bruzz’s Big City: Why are there so few ATMs in Brussels? (in Dutch) by Danny Vileyn and Luana Difficile
YLE’s Sun Juttu: My home on the sea and the golf courses in the vicinity of the Uusimaa — less than 30,000 Euros (in Finnish) by Tero Koskinen
NHPR: You Asked, She Answered: Hassan Fields Your Questions on Refugees, Money in Politics by Casey McDermott
Current’s Currently Curious: Even after retiring, MPR founder Bill Kling seeks to improve public radio by Tyler Falk
Week of September 26
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Public School Funding And Lottery Dollars: Where Does the Money Go? by Keri Brown
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why do most Canberra number plates start with Y? by Sonya Gee
WBEZ’s Curious City: From Rust to Repurposed: A Second Life for Chicago’s Abandoned Bikes by Marc Filippino
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Forest Disputes in Helsinki: Green party disillusioned (in Finnish) by Mikko Rita
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: In Wisconsin, a Bloody Mary isn’t Complete Unless it has a Beer Chaser by Ann Elise-Henzl
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Curious Louis’ Question Generator by Brent Jones, Aaron Doerr and Kimberly Springer
KALW’s Hey Area: Who’s worked at KALW the longest? by Steven Short
KALW’s Hey Area: Will BART damage my hearing? by Eli Wirtschafter
Bruzz’s Big City: What is the oldest building or structure in Brussels? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
NHPR: You Asked. They Answered. Candidates For Governor Sound Off on Your Questions. by Casey McDermott
VPR’s Brave Little State: Tell Us Your Favorite Vermont Ghost Story, For A Brave Little State Halloween Special by Angela Evancie
KUT’s ATXplained: How Did Austin Become the Live Music Capital of the World? by Mose Buchele
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why is Seattle so racially segregated? by Jamala Henderson
Journal Metro: Where are the underground rivers of Montreal? by Mathias Marchal
Bitch Media: It’s Complicated: Disability, and Representation in Margarita, with a Straw by s.e. smith
Week of September 19
WUWM’s Bubble Talk: Walker’s Point: A Gathering Space For Milwaukee’s LGBT Community 75 Years and Counting by Audrey Nowakowski
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: What are the brushes on each side of the escalator? by Laurence Houde-Roy
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Making of Polish Chicago by Jesse Dukes
ABC’s Curious Canberra: True or false? Canberra buses are the most subsidised in the country by Jesse Dorsett
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: Is arena noise hazardous to your hearing? by Oliver Morrison
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: How loud is Intrust Bank Arena compared to the rest of Wichita? by Oliver Morrison
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: What happened to the whimsical Red Grooms Carousel — and why it could spin again by Chas Sisk
WMUK’s Why’s That?: A watershed moment for Davis Creek? by Sehvilla Mann
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Do some neighborhoods have more burglaries than others? (in Finnish) by Ilona Kovisto
Bruzz’s Big City: Why does the European Quarter have the postcode 1040 rather than the code for the rest of Brussels? by Michael Bellon and Luana Difficile
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why does San Jose have so many urban islands? By Ericka Cruz Guevarra
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: USDA increases beetle trapping to save ash trees by Gabriela DeAlmeida
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Where is the illusive Ohio Valley? by Sam Hendren
Week of September 12
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Painters Who Give Chicago’s Grocery Signs The Human Touch by Liz Stanton
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who owns my DNA when I send it off for analysis? by Sonya Gee
Bitch Media: No unsupervised women allowed by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Stone Faces Stand Guard Over Milwaukee’s Bay View High School by Marge Pitrof
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Yes, There Was A Real Granny White And Her Story Reads Like Legend by Blake Farmer
Bruzz’s Big City: How did Brussels get its height? Naturally or via construction? (in Dutch)
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Curious Louis finds out what it’s like to live in one of St. Louis’ flounder houses by Stephanie Lecci
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Floridians Will Vote On Solar Panel Amendment by Danielle Veenstra
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: Water Is Life: Native Groups Push Back Against Environmental Racism by Vivian Underhill
Week of September 5
Bitch Media’s Reader Question: A Binary Is a Wonderful Thing to Break: New Study Rejects the Idea of “Male” and “Female” Brains by Rebecca Koon
WBEZ’s Curious City: How Chicago Beaches Get and Keep That Nice Fine Sand by Laura Pavin
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are Canberra’s fire engines yellow instead of red like other states? by Georgia Hitch
Wichita Eagle’s Curious Wichita: Elevator man ain’t messing around by Oliver Morrison
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Heavy traffic scares cyclists on the pavement in Vaasa (in Finnish) by Filip Sten
VPR’s Brave Little State: Does Vermont Really Have An Embezzlement Problem? by Alex Keefe and Angela Evancie
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago Parks Drinking Fountains That Tested Positive For LeadSo Far by Monica Eng
Bruzz’s Big City: How many foxes are there in Brussels? by Jules Lemmens and Luana Difficile
YLE’s Sun Juttu: The origins of names in the City of Helsinki (in Finnish) by Esa Koivuranta
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Is A Petroleum Engineering Degree A Good Idea? by Catherine Roberts
Week of August 29
KUT’s ATXplained: Why Are Grocery Stores So Hot for Hatch Chile Peppers? by Kate McGee
KUT’s ATXplained: Your Hottest Takes on That Hatch Chile Story by Andrew Weber
Wichita Eagle: Is vehicle tax fraud a problem? The cost of making cheaters pay up by Oliver Morrison
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Is A Petroleum Engineering Degree A Good Idea? by Catharine Roberts
WBEZ’s Curious City: Displaced: When The Eisenhower Expressway Moved In, Who Was Forced Out? by Katherine Nagasawa
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who looks after the traffic lights in Canberra? by James Fettes
Bitch Media: Off Brand: The Limits of Celebrity Feminism by Andi Zeisler
WBEZ’s Curious City: Most Kids On the Block: Searching for Chicago’s Family-Packed Neighborhoods by Chris Hagan
Bruzz’s Big City: What’s keeping the RER project from starting? (in Dutch) by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Best blackberry pie you will ever eat ever by Ann Dornfield
KUOW’s Local Wonder: The strange, twisted story behind Seattle’s blackberries by Ann Dornfield
Week of August 22
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train by Blake Farmer
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Is the Alvar Aalto-designed “crap outhouse” protected? (in Finnish) by Mikko Rita
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why The 1992 Loop Flood Is The Most Chicago Story Ever by Jesse Dukes
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How culturally diverse is Canberra? by Siobhan Heanue
Current’s Currently Curious: A reader asks: What’s Public Radio International’s future within WGBH? by Tyler Falk
Bruzz’s Big City: Is a daily glass of Geuze good for your health? (in Dutch) by Steven van Garsse and Luana Difficile
VPR’s Brave Little State: Vermont’s Mysterious Rest Area Sculptures, Hiding In Plain Sight by Angela Evancie
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Aren’t There Any Strip Clubs in the East Bay? by Adizah Eghan
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: How Did Ohio State Get The ZIP Code 43210? by Thomas Bradley
Week of August 15
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Changing The Way We Wait At Winston-Salem’s Bus Stops by David Ford
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why Is Gambling Banned On The CTA? by Logan Jaffe
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why is Canberra’s CBD called Civic and not City? by Sonya Gee
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why does the Miami Valley Hospital send out CareFlights? WYSO Curious Climbs into the Cockpit by Char Daston
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Coordination in early stages for Hydraulic Road intersection planning by Sean Tubbs
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: We Try Rolling Up Warner Park’s ‘Gravity Hill’ by Chas Sisk and Mack Linebaugh
Bruzz’s Big City: Is the Basilica of Koekelberg really as huge as it looks? by Luana Difficile and Len Buggenhout
WMUK’s Why’s That: Kalamazoo House Has 8 Sides for a Reason by Sehvilla Mann
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Ohio State Fair Used Expired Butter For Butter Sculpture, Forgoes Biodiesel Recycling by Thomas Bradley
KCPT’s Curious KC: Why Does It Smell Like Patchouli At 31st & Main? by Lindsey Foat
Week of August 8
WBEZ’s Curious City: Veggies in City Planters: Tasty Kale Bait or Jailbait? by Monica Eng
WBEZ’s Curious City: Zeppelin Poseurs: Why Chicago’s Airship Dreams Never Took Off by Jason Nargis and Logan Jaffe
WFTS’s Good Question: New group hoping to help improve St. Pete’s Williams Park by Kera Mashek
Bruzz’s Big City: Why is South Station Gare du Midi in French? by Danny Vileyn, Joachim Nijs, and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Are Canberra’s iconic bus shelters found anywhere else in the world? by Sonya Gee
VPR’s Brave Little State: Cow’ Or ‘Ke-ow’? The Past, Present And Future Of The Vermont Accent by Alex Keefe and Angela Evancie
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Are BART Trains So Loud? by Sam Harnett
Week of August 1
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What’s the right way to go around Green Lake? by Isolde Raftery
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How An Unusual Flag Helps Tell City’s Civil War History by Chas Sisk
WBEZ’s Curious City: A Tale of Resale: How Big Chains’ Rejected Produce Ends Up in Local Grocery Stores by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why are pine trees dying in Kowen Forest? by Craig Allen
WFTS’s Good Question: Vacant office complex in Valrico could see new life by Carson Chambers
KUT’s ATXplained: Boy, Did Y’all Have Opinions About That Keep Austin Weird Story. by Andrew Weber
Bruzz’s Big City: Where does our drinking water come from? (in Dutch) by Luana Difficile
WFYI’s Curious Indy: What could be seen as Indy’s most iconic ad campaign? by Ashley Shuler
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Espoo residents happy to live in the moment (in Finnish) by Markus Heikkilä
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: Why mental health services in Michigan vary from county to county by Lev Facher
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: Why do mental health resources vary so widely across Michigan? by Stateside Staff
Week of July 25
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why Chicago Lightning Bugs Light Up One Neighborhood But Not the Next by Sean Kennedy
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: The Ballets Russes Performed in Dayton? A Front-Row Seat with WYSO Curious by Char Daston
WFTS’s Good Question: How public pools protect against parasites by Ashley Yore
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: What’s Up With That Golden-Domed Bank On Charlotte Pike? by Mack Linebaugh
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why There’s No Curbside Glass Recycling — For Now by Tony Gonzalez
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why do Canberrans pronounce Manuka differently? by Sonya Gee
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: School officials: Little savings, many complications from consolidation by Aaron Richardson
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Is There a Waterfall in Menomonee Falls? by Mitch Teich
Bitch Media: It’s All In Your Head: The Dangers of Disbelieving Female Pain by Caroline Reilly
KALW’s Hey Area: Why is the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge so long? by Lisa Cantrell
Bruzz’s Big City: How big was the Sonian Forest originally? (in Dutch) by Luana Difficile
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What Are Those Mysterious Holes On Newberry Road? by Lauren Johnson
Week of July 18
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why Are There Ships Buried Under San Francisco? by Jessica Placzek
YLE’s Sun Juttu: Circus Men tell of a lost time in Töölö — first wrestling, then admiring polar bears (in Finnish) by Ella Mikola
Bitch Media: Why It Matters That Male Film Critics Vastly Outnumber Female Film Critics by Emily McCarty
Bruzz’s Big City: Is it true that there is a secret tunnel runs under the Market? (In Dutch) by Jean-Marie Binst and Luana Difficile
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Why Is There A Craft Beer Boom In Columbus? by Thomas Bradley
WBEZ’s Curious City: Journey to the Heart of the City by Chris Hagan
YLE’s Sun Juttu: “Why are citizens not listened to?” and three other questions at the Malmi airport (in Finnish) by Markus Heikkilä
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What’s left of the NASA operations in the ACT? by Jesse Dorsett
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious?: Tiny housing in Charlottesville — is it possible? by Tim Dodson
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Why don’t we have wireless electricity? by Rebecca Jacobson and Jordan Wirfs-Brock
Chicago Tribune’s Ask Blue Sky: Are tech opportunities spreading outside downtown Chicago? by Ally Marotti
KCRW: Is it easier to clean up soil spills than ocean spills? by Keon Zemoudeh
KCRW: Insights into fracking in Santa Barbara County by Keon Zemoudeh
Mediaworks (beol.hu): Bike trails have become unusable after the heavy rains (in Hungarian) by Licska Balázs
Week of July 11
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why Are The Skyscrapers So Short? by Anna Butrico
WBEZ’s Curious City: Hidden in Plain Sight: Inside Downtown Chicago’s Windowless, Doorless Buildings by Jennifer Masengarb and Jesse Dukes
Bitch Media: Making a Better, Smarter “Strong Female Character” by Jennifer K. Stuller
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is special about the park on the corner of State Circle and Kings Avenue? by Sonya Gee
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: More Than A Bar: Riverwest Public House Builds Community by Marti Mikkelson
Bitch Media: Breaking out of the Brexit Binary by Felicia L. Montalvo
WMUK’s Why’s That: 1920s Scandal Has Namesake in Van Buren County by Sehvilla Mann
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Is There A Washington D.C. Accent? by Matthew S. Schwartz
Mediaworks (bama.hu): Several companies settle in the Southern Industrial Park by Attila Babos
Mediaworks (heol.hu): Will the Katona square market be sold or not? by Alexander Sike
Bruzz’s Big City: Why does the Metro sometimes make sudden stops? by Laurent Vermeersch and Luana Difficile
KALW’s Hey Area: How the width of BART tracks affects your commute by Angela Johnston
YLE’s Sun Juttu: From manor estate to suburb — how the train line transformed Kilo (in Finnish) by Jussi Salmela
Week of July 4
STL’s Curious Louis: How do the operators get up in the tall cranes? by Durrie Bouscaren
NJTV’s Ask Away: Should NJ Move to Merge Local school districts? by Erin Delmore
Mediaworks (beol.hu): Pécs movement was launched against “massive prostitution” by Attila Babos
Mediaworks (beol.hu): Getting closer to the M44 highway by Gábor Papp
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Can people own land in the ACT? by Gordon Taylor
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: How Were Germans Treated in Milwaukee During The World Wars? by Joy Powers
WBEZ’s Curious City: Getting to the Bottom of Lake Michigan’s Legendary ‘Shark Attack’ by Jesse Dukes
Bruzz’s Big City: Can I eat french fries in Brussels that are not fried in animal fat? by Luana Difficile and Liesbet Aerts
KQED’s Bay Curious: How Much Truth Is There to Those ‘Speed Enforced by Aircraft’ Signs? by Kelly O’Mara
Bitch Media: Black Homes Matter: San Francisco’s Gentrification and the Fight to Save Midtown Park Apartments by Zoe Samudzi
Mediaworks (beol.hu): Once it was a hotel, now it is a giant billboard by Licska Balázs
KQED’s Bay Curious: Homelessness: You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers by Jessica Placzek
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Flexibility in zoning desired by some, opposed by others by Sean Tubbs
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago Park District Shuts Down Two Fountains Due To Lead Concerns by Monica Eng
Week of June 27
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: How Did Socialist Mayors Impact Milwaukee? by Ann-Elise Henzl
Mediaworks (bama.hu): Pecs Akvapark will be built from the 20 billion forint cities program by Attila Babos
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why aren’t new suburbs named after Prime Ministers? by Sonya Gee
Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky: How are nonprofits using tech to advance their causes? by Ally Marotti
Bruzz’s Jouw Vraag (Big City): Was there ever a mayor for the whole city and the surrounding (sub) municipalities? (in Dutch) by Luana Difficile and Danny Vileyn
ABC’s Curious Campaign: How does the Australian Electoral Commission determine the boundaries of a division? by Nick Harmsen
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago Park District Testing Water For Lead by Monica Eng
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why aren’t new suburbs named after Prime Ministers? by Jeff Yates
Chronicle of Higher Education: Does Reading on Computer Screens Affect Student Learning? by Emma Pettit
Journal Metro’s CurioCitè: Why can we freely play most sports in Montreal’s parks but not tennis? by Mathias Marchal
Week of June 20, 2016
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Happens to Raccoons Trapped in San Francisco? by Jessica Placzek
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Can We Turn Power Plants’ Wasted Heat Into Power? by Catharine Roberts
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is ‘the thing’ lying lakeside by the Lindsay Pryor Arboretum? by Elise Fantin
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Why Do Sidewalks in Milwaukee Have Dates Stamped on Them? by Mitch Teich
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: How The ‘Black Bottom’ Neighborhood Got Its Name — And Lost It by Tony Gonzalez
Bruzz’s Jouw Vraag (Big City): Why are the plane trees in Brussels being pruned so drastically? by Bettina Hubo
Bitch Media: How Young Feminists of Color are Transforming the Labor Movement by Sheila Bapat
KALW’s Hey Area: Why do planes flying over the Peninsula sound so much louder these days? by Audrey Dilling
STL’s Curious Louis: Why are there so many cemeteries on St. Charles Rock Road? by Rachel Lippman
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: Is the Château Ramezay haunted? (in French) by Luana Difficile and Danny Vileyn
Week of June 13
WBEZ’s Curious City: Stories Behind CTA ‘L’ Lines’ Strange Curves, Dips and Twists by Sean Kennedy
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Why don’t Washingtonians take more fashion risks? on The Kojo Nnamdi Show
ABC’s Curious Campaign: When an independent senator dies in office, who fills the casual vacancy? by Nick Harmsen
STL’s Curious Louis: Why do Missourians have to pay personal property taxes? by Jason Rosenbaum
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Meet Tony Jones of Tuggeranong by Sonya Gee
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Cville Curious: Local startups need more common space, connections to thrive by Aaron Richardson
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s The Story With Milwaukee’s Police Call Boxes? by Rachel Morello
WMUK’s Why’s That: A Tiny Park With A Tragic Story by Rebecca Thiele
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: What is the maximum wind speed that can be experienced when entering a subway station? by Roxane Léouzon
Bitch Media: Art Collective Electric Machete Is a Movement for Latinx Artists by Sheila Bapat
Bruzz’s Big City: Who chooses the music in the subway? (in Dutch) by Michael Bellon
ABC’s Curious Campaign: How would the Parliament look under proportional voting? by Nick Harmsen
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Grades On Standardized Testing Mixed, Even As Frequency Increases by Keri Brown
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: How much do the owners of taxi companies in Montreal earn? (in French) by Jeff Yates
Week of June 6
STL’s Curious Louis: How did Dogtown get its name? by Mary Delach Leonard
WBEZ’s Curious City: BYOB Restaurants Can Now Charge Corkage Fees, But Will They? by Andrew Gill
ABC’s Curious Campaign: Why do we have compulsory voting? by Nick Harmsen
Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky: Is CPS making good on its computer science promise? by Amina Elahi
WBEZ’s Curious City: What Killed The Cook County Fair? by Laura Pavin
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Public Education And Ten Years Of Change by Keri Brown
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Why Is There a Street Named for Henry Clay in Whitefish Bay? by Audrey Nowakowski
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: What is the cost per passenger per km for different modes of common transport: buses, Bixi, subway, train, streetcar and cable car? (in French) by Marie-Eve Shaffer
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: Why can’t the STM provide an annual statement of its purchase of securities recognized by Revenu Québec? by Mathias Marchal
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Nashville’s Most Impressive Tunnels Are For Sewage, Not Secrets by Tony Gonzalez
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Why A Mysterious Indian Appears On The City Seal by Blake Farmer
Bruzz’s Big City: Can you spend the night in a public park? (in Dutch) by Luana Difficile and Michael Michiels
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is the history of Havelock House? by Georgia Hitch
ABC’s Curious Campaign: How does the ABC weigh coverage between political parties and issues? by Nick Harmsen
ABC’s Curious Campaign: Why do we have pencils and not pens at polling booths? by Nick Harmsen
ABC’s Curious Campaign: How are political campaigns funded? by Nick Harmsen
Week of May 31
KQED’s Bay Curious: Do people drive less on Spare the Air days? by Lisa Marie Potter
KUT’s ATXplained: We Followed a Soda Can on Its Infinite Voyage Through Austin’s Recycling Stream by Mose Buchele
Bitch Media: A Short Resource Guide to Food, Race, and Cultural Approriation by Eva Recinos
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Did You Know There’s An Ancient Coral Reef in Wauwatosa? by Susan Bence
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: Why is the airport called “Port Columbus”? by Olivia Miltner
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: How Much Should You Spend On Energy? Answering Your Questions by Catherine Roberts
Bitch Media: Smashing Through the Boundaries: Heavy Metal’s Racism and Sexism Problem — and How It Can Change by Beth Winegarner
Bruzz’s Big City: Can I buy a house or apartment with my living bonus if I wait until 2017 when they abolish registration fees? by Steven van Garsse and Luana Difficile
ABC’s Curious Campaign: Why have voters not had access to electronic voting? by Nick Harmsen
ABC’s Curious Campaign: What are the major parties’ plans for the NBN by Nick Harmsen
KUOW’s Local Wonder: What will happen when Mount Rainier erupts by Joshua McNichols
ABC’s Curious Campaign: Which senators will get a six-year term and which will only get three? by Nick Harmsen
WOSU’s Curious Cbus: What happens to my trash? by Sam Hendren
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: ABC Stores: Prohibition And The Price Of A Good Drink by Buck Hinman
Week of May 23
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: From Cheese Curds to Custard, Which Signature Food Originated in Milwaukee? by Maayan Silver
ABC’s Curious Campaign: What are the major parties’ plans for the NBN? by Nick Harmsen
ABC’s Curious Campaign: Election 2016: What are our leaders really thinking about climate change? by Nick Harmsen
Bitch Media: Smashing Through the Boundaries: Heavy Metal’s Racism and Sexism Problem — and How It Can Change by Beth Winegarner
WBEZ’s Curious City: Escape from Chicago: How Long Would It Take to Evacuate? by John Fecile
YLE’s Din Stad: 16 million passengers passed through Helsinki-Vantaa last year (in Swedish) by Tom Lowrey
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why don’t Canberra houses have front fences? by David Saxberg
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: This Fenton man wants to take a big bite of St. Louis’ many cultures — but how? by Nancy Fowler
Current’s Currently Curious: Who’s taking your donation when you call in a pledge? by Mike Janssen
KCRW’s Curious Coast: Why one researcher calls Refugio spill response ‘outdated’ by Kathryn Barnes
KCRW’s Curious Coast: The past and future of regulating oil by Kathryn Barnes
Week of May 16
WMUK’s Why’s That: How Kalamazoo Became “The Paper City” by Sehvilla Mann
KCRW’s Curious Coast: A year later, what we know about the Refugio oil spill by Kathryn Barnes
WBEZ’s Curious City: Mixed Signals: Do Chicago’s Crosswalk Buttons Actually Work? by Liz Stanton
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How did carp end up in Lake Burley Griffin? by Tom Lowrey
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: The Story Behind Milwaukee’s Round Buildings by LaToya Dennis
WAMU’s What’s With: With SafeTrack Repairs On The Horizon, Are Metro Fares On The Rise? by Martin Di Caro
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: Should the city of Montreal, Quebec conclude its free trade agreement with Montreal, Senegal? (in French) by Sébastien Tanguay
Week of May 9
WBEZ’s Curious City: Why Chicago BYOBs Like Nobody’s Business by Andrew Gill
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Is there a speed limit for bikes on footpaths? by Sonya Gee
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: Why is it so hot in summer and winter in the subway? (in French) by Laurence Houde-Roy
Bruzz’s Big City: What is the healthiest? Cycling in the city or not cycling in the city? (in Dutch) by Jelle Couder and Luana Difficile
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: Does Lake Michigan Water Make Sausage Taste Better? by Mitch Teich
Week of May 2, 2016
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: What Size Wind Generator Does An Average House Need? by Catharine Roberts
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago’s Killer View: The Skyline’s Toll On Migratory Birds by Sean Kennedy
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Negative gearing: How many federal politicians do it? by Tom Lowrey
Journal Metro’s CurioCité: What percentage of immigrant students are not repaying loans and grants? (in French) by Dominique Cambro-Goulet
WUWM’s Bubbler Talk: What’s the Deal with South Milwaukee’s Addresses and Street Names? by Marge Pitrof
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: How Is Panhandling Regulated in Alachua County? by Allison Valdez
Week of April 25, 2016
WUOT’s Local Wonder: Is there really a giant octopus under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge? by Cathy Duchamp
WBEZ’s Curious City: Chicago’s Tornado-Proof Delusion by Chloe Prasinos
Bitch Media: The Jungle Book’s Complicated Relationship with Imperialism by Soleil Ho
Bitch Media: Bitchtapes: Forgotten Women of Funk and Soul by Laina Dawes
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Where does our public art come from? by Alkira Reinfrank
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: How To Properly Use Those Gainesville Roundabouts by Amanda Ploener
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Why Is There Such A Large Ethiopian Population In The Washington Region? by Matthew S. Schwartz
Current’s Currently Curious: TV and radio stations, working together? It’s possible — and potentially powerful by Dru Sefton
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Why are taxes paid directly to Gregory F.X. Daly? by Nathan Rubbelke
Week of April 18
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why isn’t there more ferry service in the Bay Area? by Bryan Goebel
WBEZ’s Curious City: Jesse White: A Man of Many Portraits by Tony Arnold
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What happened to Lake George? by Elise Pianegonda
STL’s Curious Louis: Why is West Florissant the eastern-most of the other Florissants? by Rachel Lippmann
STL’s Curious Louis: Dee wants to know what’s taking Curious Louis so long to answer questions by Kimberly Springer
YLE’s Din Stad: The Helsinki Ferris wheel will rolll for at least three summers to come (In Swedish) by Helena von Alfthan
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Anthem Community Church Plans Expansion by Caylee Underwood and Dennis Johnson
Week of April 11, 2016
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: What Happened To Hung-Town? WYSO Curious Goes In Search Of Hungarian Dayton by Renee Wild (Community Voices)
WBEZ’s Curious City: Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway? by Dan Weissmann
Current’s Currently Curious: Joint licensees breaking down TV, radio barriers by Tyler Falk
YLE’s Din Stad (Your City): Here are the most expensive and the cheapest Airbnb homes in the capital region (in Swedish) by Mira Myllyniemi
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How were the ACT’s boundaries determined? by Craig Allen
WFU/WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Searching For Robin Hood (Road, That Is) by Sean Bueter
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Mosquito Population Expected To Be Worse This Season Due To Abnormal Weather by Krystalle Pinilla
Chronicle of Higher Education: 3 Ways Professors Can Balance Teaching Practical and Theoretical Skills by Corinne Ruff
Week of April 4
KUT’s ATXplained: Part I: Why Do Grackles Flock To Grocery Store Parking Lots at Dusk? by Mose Buchele
KUT’s ATXplained: Part II: That Time UT Austin Waged a War on Grackles by Mose Buchele
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What is the Aboriginal history of Canberra? by Tegan Osborne
Current’s Currently Curious: Why isn’t there more collaboration between TV and radio? (Part 2) by Mike Janssen (Find part 1 here.)
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: A Listener Hungers For Closure After Chili Sauce Vanishes by Eddie Garcia
WBEZ’s Curious City: Little Eddie’s Field Trip: The Union Stock Yards Through the Eyes of an Eighth Grader by Monica Eng
WUOT’s Truckbeat Shave, haircut … tooth pulled? The hidden history of dentistry by Jess Mador
YLE’s Din Stad (Your City): Follow Helskini down underground (in Swedish) by Tino Oksanen and Petter West
New Brunswick Today’s NB Questions: Alternate Side Parking Rules in Effect From April Through October by Megan Golish
Week of March 28
Bitch Media: Amid All the Hubub Over The Presidential Race, Abortion Restrictions Slip Into State Legislators by Veronica Arreola
KQED’s Bay Curious: What would it take to make Lake Merritt swimmable? by Jessica Placzek
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Can More Rail Freight Help Relieve I-75 Congestion? by Stephanie Byrne
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: We take a monumental look at the Civil War in St. Louis by Mary Delach Leonard
Week of March 21
KQED’s Bay Curious: Who Is the Dancer on the Highway 101 Overpass? by Lucas Waldron and Olivia Allen-Price
Bitch Media: Amid All the Hubub Over The Presidential Race, Abortion Restrictions Slip Into State Legislators by Veronica Arreola
KQED’s Bay Curious: What would it take to make Lake Merritt swimmable?Jessica Placzek
WBEZ’s Curious City: Not in Your Front Yard: Why ‘For Sale’ Signs are Banned in Oak Park by Steven Jackson
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Can you swim in Canberra’s lakes? by Sonya Gee
KUOW’s Local Wonder: The Story Behind Seattle’s Obsession With Craftsman Home by Marcie Sillman
YLE’s Din Stad: Where is the next Kallio ? We take the pulse of the Helsinki suburbs by Helena Von Alfthan
Bitch Media: Stuck In The Media Spotlight, LGBT Muslims Often Feel Exploited by Sarah Harvard
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Aldi Gets Approval to Begin Constructing Two Gainesville Stores; No Timeline For Construction Given by Kiara Beard
Week of March 14
KUT’s ATXplained: What’s the Story Behind the ‘Fair Sailing Tall Boy’ Memorial? by Matt Largey
WBEZ’s Curious City: Have We Hit Peak Mattress? Why Chicago Has So Many Mattress Stores by Derek John
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: What Are Those Blue Lights For Atop Traffic Signals? by Voleer Thomas
WFYI’s Curious Indy: Where Did Pogue’s Run Go? by Ryan Delaney
YLE’s Din Stad: The eternal fire is not eternal —an automatic ignition device by Catariina Salo
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Who is Canberra’s oldest person? by Alkira Reinfrank
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why does the subway slow more abruptly at the approach of Henri-Bourassa station? by Marie-Eve Shaffer
WMUK’s Why’s That?: Question About Village’s Name Leads to More Questions by Sehvilla Mann
KQED’s Bay Curious: How Does Oakland Turn Food Scraps to Soil? by Lucas Waldron
YLE’s Sun Juttu: It all started with Senate officials, already half of the residents of Espoo had changed from Helsinki (in Finnish) by Jussi Salmela
ABC’s Curious Canberra: How many women in Canberra own small businesses? by Sonya Gee
Week of March 7
WAMU’s What’s With: Are music audiences in DC more subdued? by Ally Schweitzer
ABC’S Curious Canberra: How many women in Canberra own small businesses? by Sonya Gee
YLE’s Din Stad: Has anyone bothered to stay at Suomenlinna in the winter? (in Swedish)
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How many streets in Montreal are named after a woman? (in French) by Andréanne Chevalier
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: How can a municipality have more registered voters than residents? by Nathan Rubbelke
WFDD’s Carolina Curious: Let’s Talk About North Carolina Craft Beer by Sean Bueter
Chronicle of Higher Education: Why Do Colleges Still Use Grades? by Corinne Ruff
Week of February 29
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: A Watched Pot: What Is The Most Energy Efficient Way To Boil Water? by Jordan Wirfs-Brock and Rebecca Jacobson
YLE’s Din Stad: From shiny Helsinki Vantaa to shabby — big differences between the stations on the ring track by Catariina Salo
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why is it so hard to make friends in Canberra? by Siobhan Heanue
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Nashville Tombstone Mystery: ‘She Turned From Bloodkin’ by Emily Siner
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How come the metro doesn’t connect to the airport? by Marie-Eve Shaffer
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: One-Third Of Alachua County Roads Labeled Unimproved by Alexa Lightle
Dublin Inquirer: Why have so many of Dublin’s Fountains Run Dry? by Conal Thomas
Dublin Inquirer: Could HSE’s vacant properties be used for housing? by Louisa McGrath
Week of February 22
Current’s Currently Curious: What happened to NPR Chicken? by Mike Janssen
YLE’s Din Stad: Så här turistade man i Helsingfors förr by Johanna Minkkinen
ABC’s Curious Canberra: What does Canberra export? by Alexandra Beech
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How does one change the name of Claude-Jutra Park by Laurence Houde-Roy
KUOW’s Local Wonder: When Did Northwesterners Stop Speaking Chinook Jargon? by Liz Jones
KUT’s ATXplained: The Art of the Stoplight Sync: Meet the Team Turning All of Austin’s Red Lights Green by Audrey McGlinchy
New Brunswick Today’s NB Today Listens: Robberies at Gunpoint and Assaults With Knives Happen on Weekly Basis in New Brunswick by Charlie Kratovil
Michigan Radio’s MICurious: What’s the story behind Detroit’s Masonic Temple? by Paula Freidrich
New Brunswick Today’s NB Today Listens: Robberies at Gunpoint and Assaults With Knives Happen on Weekly Basis in New Brunswick by Charlie Kratovil
Week of February 15
Bitch Media: Beyoncé’s Formation is a Celebration of Unapologetic Blackness by Vanessa Willoughby
YLE’s Din Stad: 30 percent of academic selection is non-literary by Petter West and Mira Myllyniemi
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why do kangaroos in Weston Park have collars and ear tags? by Sonya Gee
El Observador: How are the IMM public spaces ceded to the private managed? by Camila Bello
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Could the churches of Montreal accommodate the homeless during cold? by Laurence Houde-Roy
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: City’s last surviving Mississippian mound, Sugar Loaf, to be preserved this summer by Kelly Moffitt
WMUK’s Why’s That?: Airport Passage Evokes Space Travel by Sehvilla Mann
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Florida Orthotics And Prosthetics Students Look For Schooling by Allison Valdez
New Brunswick Today’s NB Today Listens: NB Housing Authority Stops Issuing “Improper Parking Fines” by Charlie Kratovil
NJTV’s Ask Away: Where is Captain William Kidd’s Treasure Buried in Bradley Beach? by Erin Delmore
Week of February 8
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Why are stripes on St. Louis roads so hard to see, particularly in the rain? by Joseph Leahy
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Why can’t TAMS provide decent access to the Air Disaster Memorial at Fairbairn? by Adrienne Francis
YLE’s Din Stad: Helsinki wants fewer to use studded tires by Helena Von Alfthan and Rose-Marie Sundstrom
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why do we call New Jersey the Garden State? by Erin Delmore
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Anti-suicide barriers on bridges: the solution? by Andréanne Chevalier
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: La Chua Trail Partially Closes, Undergoes Construction by Nestor Montoya and Ty M. Schildts
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Why The Florida Lotto Isn’t Enough For Public Education by Ansley Pentz
Week of February 1
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: In search of the perfect doughnut by Willis Ryder Arnold
WBEZ’s Curious City: Do real people ever ring bells? by Steven Jackson
YLE’s Din Stad: Meilahti villa area should be both protected and opened up by Johanna Minkkinen
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Are there secret tunnels in Canberra? by Sonya Gee
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Why are there so many sirens in DC? by Matthew S. Schwartz
WUFT’s Find Out Florida: Alachua County To Replace Celebration Pointe Trees by Sara Girard
KUT’s ATXplained: Austin’s Population Is Booming. Why Is Its African American Population Shrinking? by Mose Buchele
Chronicle of Higher Education: Does Technology Ever Reduce the Costs of Teaching? by Corinne Ruff
Week of January 25
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why Does Seattle Have Such A Large Local Chocolate Industry? by Ruby de Luna
ABC’s Curious Canberra: Canberra to Coachella: Local bands making noise on the international stage by Alkira Reinfrank
WBEZ’s Curious City: If you toured Chicago in 1910, what would you do? by Robert Loerzel and Logan Jaffe
YLE’s Din Stad: Tusentals bilpendlar från öst — för där går inget tåg by Catariina Salo and Petter West
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why Are The Springs Yellow? WYSO Curious Dips A Toe Into Glen Helen’s Famous Spring by Lewis Wallace
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why does the Montreal metro close so early, compared to other cities? by Andréanne Chevalier
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why Does it Take so Long to Receive Homestead Property Tax Rebates? by Erin Delmore
WPLN’s Curious Nashville: Who writes the very clever messages on the TDOT digital signs on the highway? by Tony Gonzalez
Week of January 18
WBEZ’s Curious City: That Time Chicago Sent a Trainload of Snow to Florida by Logan Jaffe
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why our signal is spotty in certain parts of Dayton, and on I-75 on the south side of town by Juliette Fromholt
YLE’s Din Stad: Name Committee in Helsinki says usually no by Christopher Grohn
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Could it be possible to have a subway system in Montreal with as many lines as the Paris metro system? by Marie Eve Schaffer
Chalkbeat’s Raise Your Hand: Do any schools’ populations mirror the city average? Just two by Stephanie Snyder
WAMU’s What’s With Washington: Why Can’t Washingtonians Resist Asking Each Other What They Do For A Living? by Martin Austermuhle
WMUK’s Why’s That?: Why’s Kalamazoo’s Water So Hard? by Sehvilla Mann
Week of January 11
KQED’s Bay Curious: What Happens to San Francisco’s Recycling Once It Leaves the Curb? by Lindsey Hoshaw
YLE’s Din Stad: Tired of waiting in traffic? He calls the intersection so you get the green light by Ted Urho
New Brunswick Today’s NB Today Listens: What is Being Done to Help the Homeless in New Brunswick? by Sarah Beth Kaye
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis & KCUR: Why are there so many Canada geese in Missouri? by Brianna O’Higgins
El Observador: What about the old structure of Gasometer Barrio Sur? by Cyntia Sena
NJTV’s Ask Away: Are Women Driving Economic Growth Around the Jersey Shore? by Erin Delmore
Week of December 27
Chalkbeat’s Raise Your Hand: Which schools reflect the city’s diversity? And how do they do it? by Stephanie Snyder
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why did Montreal get rid of its trams and trolley buses? by Marie-Eve Shaffer
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Fall of Chicago’s ‘Porkopolis’ and the Rise of Niche Meat by Monica Eng
Reveal: The answer to our readers’ biggest water question: What does it cost? by Lance Williams
Week of December 21
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Why is there so much prostitution on Aurora Avenue in North Seattle? by Posey Gruener
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Photos: One night on Seattle’s prostitution strip by KUOW Staff
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: Why isn’t roadkill picked up in a timely basis across Michigan? by Lindsey Scullen
YLE’s Din Stad: Finns still send millions of Christmas cards by Sandra Anttila and Petter We
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How to get rid of raccoons in Montreal? by Roxane Léouzon
Dublin Inquirer: A dirty stained-glass window reveals slice of history by Louisa McGrath
KQED’s Bay Curious: Why are there so many dead people in Colma and so few in SF? by Jon Brooks
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why does New Jersey have so many ghosts?
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: St. Louis has one of 27 velodrome cycling tracks in the U.S. — what’s happening there? by Kelly Moffitt
Week of December 14
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: What women have left their mark on Montreal? (in French) by Roxane Léouzon
YLE’s Din Stad: Swedish and Finnish young people are kept separate at youth centers (in Swedish) by Johanna Minkkinen
WBEZ’s Curious City: Ferry-tale: Could a Chicago-to-Michigan Ferry Return from Extinction? by Chloe Prasinos
WMUK’s Why’s That?: Kalamazoo Township’s Nod to Back Bay, Boston by Sehvilla Mann
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: Yes, Virginia, there’s still a way to watch holiday classics on the big screen by Nancy Fowler
Week of December 7
WBEZ’s Curious City: The Swinging Times of Chicago’s Revolving Doors by Jesse Dukes and Jennifer Masengarb
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Has the Cross of Mount Royal already changed color, and how much does it cost to replace the light bulbs? by Mathias Marchal
YLE’s Din Stad: Now you can enjoy your mouse in Helsinki (in Swedish) by Christopher Gröhn
NJTV’s Ask Away: How many NJ Transit buses are there on the road on any given day? by Erin Delmore
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why do they call it the Ironbound? by Erin Delmore
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why can’t we pump our own gas in NJ? by Erin Delmore
WBEZ’s Curious City: Half Day Road and the Origins of a Semantic Slip-up by Laura Pavin
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Is it true that there are little Eiffel Towers on the Jacques Cartier Bridge? by Jeff Yates
NJTV’s Ask Away: What’s the oldest township in New Jersey? by Erin Delmore
WFYI’s Curious Indy: Why Speedway, IN Remains Small Town In The Big City by Deron Molen
NJTV’s Ask Away: Why do some towns have Boro or Township, etc. in their name when others don’t? by Erin Delmore
Week of November 30
St. Louis Public Radio’s Curious Louis: What’s up with that backward Maplewood sign? by Nancy Fowler
YLE’s Din Stad: Do we need more school meals on Mondays? by Marianne Sundholm
El Observador: What are the origins of Montevideo’s neighborhood names by Cyntia Sena
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How much will it take to complete the Metro? by Marie Eve-Shaffer
KUOW’s Local Wonder: Where do Seattle-area crows go at night? by Ashley Ahearn
NJTV’s Ask Away: What’s behind Bergen County’s Blue Laws by Erin Delmore
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How much does it cost to redo the lawn of the Quartier des spectacles? by Mathias Marchal
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: What are the positive and negative effects of the revitalization of certain Montreal neighborhoods to the populations there? by Andréanne Chevalier
Week of November 23
WBEZ’s Curious City: When do CTA buses break even? by Christopher Johnson
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: How is it that Azur trains are heavier and more energy intensive than the MR-63 designed 50 years ago? by Marie-Eve Shaffer
NJTV’s Ask Away: Who decides which roads get repaired? by Erin Delmore
YLE’s Din Stad: Would you rather have a pizza for 4 euros or 22? (in Swedish) by Marianne Sundholm and Peter West
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: How many downtown buildings are empty? by Carrie Scheer
Week of November 16
WMUK’s Why’s That?: Does Arcadia Creek run under Waldo Stadium? by Sehvilla Mann
YLE’s Din Stad: Take a look underground at the new metro stations! by Mira Myllyniemi and Petter West
Chalkbeat’s Raise Your Hand: How a Brooklyn school shed its old reputation and convinced new parents to give it a shot by Stephanie Snyder
WBEZ’s Curious City: Mold-A-Rama-Rama! The Secrets Behind Chicago’s Plastic Souvenir Empire by John Fecile
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Why is the Victoria bridge structure only half-painted and the rest is rusty? (in French) by Mathias Marchal
Week of November 9
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Who is behind the voice of the Montreal metro? (in French) by Marie-Eve Shaffer
YLE’s Din Stad: Hey, Esbohipster, where are you? (in Swedish) by Johanna Minkkinen
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug? by Jordan Wirfs-Brock
Inside Energy’s IE Questions: Electricity Losses by State: Interactive by Jordan Wirfs-Brock
WBEZ’s Curious City: Blacksmiths: The ‘Plastic Surgeons’ on Chicago’s Payroll by Dan Weissman
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Which places have the most potential for swimming in Montreal? (in French) by Mathias Marchal
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: How a Mormon king shaped a sleepy island in Lake Michigan by Sarah Hulett
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Does the National DNCL list not also cover the solicitation campaign? (in French)
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Where do immigrants live in Montreal? (in French) by Naël Shiab
YLE’s Din Stad: Har hurrirapparna Likanen Etelä blivit politiska? (in Swedish) by Mira Myllyniemi
Week of November 2
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: How are Michigan’s comic and anime conventions faring? by Mark Brush
Reveal: Answers to your burning California drought questions by Byard Duncan
WBEZ’s Curious City: ‘Poland elsewhere’: Why So Many Poles Poles Came to Chicago by Jesse Dukes
El Observador: What are the finances behind PIT-CNT? by Lucia Nunez
NJTV’s Ask Away: Has Rev. Jon Christian Passed? by Erin Delmore
Week of October 26
Michigan Radio’s MI Curious: Who is John R and why does Detroit have a street named after him? by Carolyn Gearig
WYSO’s WYSO Curious: Why don’t Dayton Police always show up quickly? by Carrie Scheer
Week of October 19
KUOW’s Local Wonder: The Strange, Short Story Of Washington State’s Income Tax by Carolyn Adolph
WBEZ’s Curious City: Don’t Believe the Height! Why Chicago Suburb Names Flat Out Lie about their Elevation by Logan Jaffe
Journal Métro’s CurioCité: Understanding the discharge of waste water into the river by Laurence Houde Roy
Week of October 12
WMUK’s Why’s That?: What’s That Signal By the Tracks? by Sehvilla Mann
