When it comes to what stresses police officers out, it's not the car chases, or the threat of getting shot at, or even killed. Ask Cherie...

If you think you work long hours, meet Kumi Matsumoto. “It’s very normal for us to stay until midnight,” said Matsumoto, who works for...

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Founding a startup today has become the stuff of TV and movies around the world. There's even a startup podcast about, you guessed it,...

At a dinner meeting in Tokyo recently, where a lot of business happens over meals, two Japanese professors, Ryo Sahashi, an associate...

One evening in 2013 the radio producer Sally Herships was on her way home from work when she received a short email from her husband...

There's really no other way to describe them: The toilets of Japan are fabulous. "Let's say you don't want to lift up the lid yourself...

Co-host Jonathan Goldstein speaks with writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret about the narrative strengths and weaknesses of the Passover...

For a movie about a salacious, secretive, and to some, potentially shameful subject such as S&M, it sure feels like "Fifty Shades of...

The Internet can tell us how long it takes to walk the length of the Great Wall of China (10 months), how many girlfriends George Clooney...

Atlantic City Casinos are shutting down, some even filing for bankruptcy, but that’s not stopping a push for a new casino in Jersey City....

The day Cassandra Smith was promoted to captain in the Camden Police Department, she went outside to check out the unmarked car that...

Five years after the Madoff debacle, most of the individual investors who lost their life savings do not want to talk about it. However,...

There are picky eaters and then there are the Gastronauts of the world. "What's the oddest thing, by American standards, you've ever...

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Sally Herships: I’m about to play a joke on someone. Benjamin Clymer. Here’s what you need to know -- he’s editor of an upscale watch...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that Cornell University, with its partner the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has...

Ted Berger is trying to build a microchip that can remember things for us. He teaches biomedical engineering at the University of...

The amount of effort Sally Herships put into her first investigative journalism piece….. well, it’s enough to drive you to smoke! “The...

Last month on Marketplace, I published a report from my year-long investigation about how Army, Air Force and Coast Guard bases in more...