Look How Cute the Wallaby Is!
Todays story on resurrected proteins developed by Australian scientists to fight superbugs pointed to the wallaby as the source for their idea. You see, when that teeny wallaby baby climbes into its...
View ArticleWhatever you do, DON'T call it a pie!
I learned a little trivia while watching the film Answer This in preparation for todays interview with writer and director Chris Farah. For one, I learned that the chemical symbol for Potassium is K. I...
View ArticleSenator Kelly Ayotte Should Doll Up Her Office
As one of the nations top experts on U.S. Senate office decor, no one is more pleased than me that New Hampshires Kelly Ayotte decided to bring Oscar the Moose to Washington. Yes, hanging a hunting...
View Article11 for '11: Raymond Tallis
Here on Word of Mouth, we love brain science. Brain-science in the courtroom. Brain-science and aesthetics. Brain-science and poverty. Image a brain and well hear your pitch with open ears. Today we...
View ArticleWord of Mouth for 11.19.2011 Part 4
Throughout the year, weve been featuring a series we call 11 for 11 conversations with innovative thinkers who challenge and provoke new ways of thinking about the issues of our time. Dr. Raymond...
View ArticleThe Life and Times of a Post College
The Life and Times of a Post College The First Week of Interning at NHPRs Word of Mouth By Ryan Edward Brown Like an honorable dung beetle struck by majestic lighting or stale cat fish served atop a...
View ArticleA Year of Big Ideas
Raj Patel, Sherry Turkle, Bruce Levine, Tyler Cowen and Eliza Griswold...oh, my! We smack a big red bow on our 11 for 11 series of conversations with big thinkers, analyze their predictive powers, and...
View ArticleWord of Mouth for 12.24.2011
Part 1: Why Music Writing Matters in 2011 In his introduction to an anthology of The Best Music Writing 2011, Alex Ross shares a selection of tweets reacting to bassist and singer Esperanza Spauldings...
View ArticleWeb only: Standing in the place where I work
Today, the Boston Globe reported on the growing trend of employees abandoning their chairs and standing up at their workstations. Its become a pretty popular topic since we first started talking about...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Case of the Mall: An Investigation
Last week, after we aired a segment on creative methods of discouraging teenage loitering, listener Jennifer Army sent us the following email: I just heard the piece about using high-pitched noise...
View ArticleTHUNDERDOME !
When I first heard mention of Thunderdome, I envisioned something akin to the dirt bike, leather grunge, chain saw welding antics of George Millers 1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. While this mind...
View ArticleOur Report On Zach's Departure Was Greatly Exaggerated
We have great news! Yesterday’s story about Zach Nugent leaving Word of Mouth to join Disney on Ice was a silly April Fools joke. Ok, maybe it wasn’t our best April Fool’s gag; Zach as a figure...
View ArticleWord Of Mouth Voted Best N.H. Radio Talk Show
We are so proud to have been voted Best New Hampshire Radio Talk Show by the readers of New Hampshire Magazine. Six years after launching Word of Mouth, we still feel like upstarts and appreciate our...
View ArticleWord Of Mouth's Official Condiment Questionnaire
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who submitted answers to our questionnaire. We'll leave it up in case some of you haven't had a chance to submit. Here's a link to the answers we've received so far:...
View ArticleWord Of Mouth's Between-Segment Music Is A Playlist On Spotify
Do you like the music you hear between segments on Word of Mouth? You can listen to it again on Spotify. Check out and add Word of Mouth's playlist, which we update each week with the latest music...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Our Fave Finds Of The Week 9.18.15
The Word of Mouth team shares some of their favorite finds from the past week that didn't quite make it to air... Album Cover of the Fall: It's not quite the same category as Song of the Fall, but we...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Best the Internet Has to Offer as of 9.25.15
The Word of Mouth team shares some of their favorite finds from the past week that didn't quite make it to air...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Welcome to October!
Ballet of Fall: See above (there's also more where that came from). You're welcome. "Became Unconscious From Squeezing": So, this story was later disproved but imagine if it was true? What is the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Firing on All Cylinders, 10.18.15
"An Actual Duck": I've always found store bought costumes to be a bit lacking in creativity, yes, I am a costume snob. I went to art school, it's a prerequisite. But I think I would applaud loudly if I...
View ArticleStaff Picks: What We're "Gobbling" Up This November
David Bowie Is Waiting: The above David Bowie gif was submitted for Staff Picks without comment by Maureen, our fearless leader, though not before she sent it around to ask about assignment updates....
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