Endless Thread

Get out your graphing calculators, because today's episode of Endless Thread is about a math problem.

For the last five years, Mo has been fighting for a persistent dream of his –– a video game internet cafe for his neighborhood in southern Yemen. This week on Endless Thread Ben and Amory tell the story of how Mo's dream has stayed alive thanks to his persistence, and the help of internet strangers across the world.

In 2022, freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got a new neighbor: an owl. What wasn't clear was whether the owl was trying to befriend them, or catch them.

Grab your telescopes because this week on Endless Thread Ben and NPR Short Wave host Emily Kwong take us down two science-related internet wormholes.