the memory palace

Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019

Dec. 26, 2019

11:22

Episode 154: Dotting I's

Dec. 13, 2019

12:15

A Conversation About the Memory Palace with Robert Krulwich

Dec. 9, 2019

39:42

Episode 153: Dinner at Jefferson's

Dec. 6, 2019

07:31

Episode 152: Let it Snow

Nov. 15, 2019

07:15

Episode 151: The Story of Maria Barberi

Nov. 1, 2019

13:26

Episode 150: Late One Night

Oct. 21, 2019

17:44

Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean

Oct. 4, 2019

13:35

Episode 148: Safe Passage

Sept. 19, 2019

15:59

Episode 147: Shipwreck Kelly

Sept. 5, 2019

16:31

A Welcome! And Dreamland!

Aug. 28, 2019

10:49

Episode 146: Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019

Aug. 8, 2019

09:48

Episode 145: Stories about the St. Louis

July 20, 2019

13:29

Episode 144: Nature Naturally

June 22, 2019

08:43

A White Horse

June 12, 2019

11:12

Episode 143: The Only One

June 8, 2019

10:18

Episode 142: Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock

May 20, 2019

09:57

Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington

May 3, 2019

08:09

Rebroadcast: Origin Stories

April 20, 2019

17:04

Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell

April 9, 2019

16:24

Episode 139: 1,347 Birds

March 23, 2019

10:37

Episode 138: Sixty Starlings

March 9, 2019

09:44

A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event

Feb. 20, 2019

18:08

Episode 137: Swans

Feb. 7, 2019

09:26

Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes)

Jan. 17, 2019

09:26

Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018

Dec. 18, 2018

20:56

Episode 135: Revolutions

Dec. 5, 2018

11:58

2018 Fundraiser Bonus Episode!

Nov. 27, 2018

11:56

Election Eve Rebroadcast (In Line)

Nov. 5, 2018

09:40

Episode 134 (The Dress in the Closet)

Oct. 27, 2018

14:33

Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism

Oct. 13, 2018

14:16

Episode 132 (Ida Lewis)

Sept. 26, 2018

17:50

Episode 131 (Lost Locusts)

Sept. 11, 2018

11:51

Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)

Aug. 22, 2018

16:11

Summer Re-run: Episode 68 (White Heat, White Light)

Aug. 8, 2018

09:37

Episode 129: Uplift

July 26, 2018

14:43

Episode 128 (Patience)

July 4, 2018

09:31

A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

June 12, 2018

11:14

No Summer (Episode 127)

June 4, 2018

13:14

Episode 126 (The 8th Story)

May 17, 2018

12:17

Episode 125: Snakes!

April 25, 2018

15:15

Episode 124 (Junk Room)

April 6, 2018

15:31

A quick update and a bonus episode

March 27, 2018

09:35

Episode 123: Outliers

March 12, 2018

09:21

Big Block of Cheese - Bonus episode

Feb. 23, 2018

10:47

Episode 122 (Hercules)

Feb. 12, 2018

13:11

Episode 121 (The Nickel Candy Bar)

Jan. 28, 2018

13:42

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat)

Jan. 13, 2018

14:01

Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor

Dec. 26, 2017

14:20

Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)

Dec. 16, 2017

09:54

Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)

Nov. 20, 2017

13:23

Episode 117 (Elizabeth)

Nov. 7, 2017

12:48

Episode 116 (Hoover)

Oct. 23, 2017

11:04

Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)

Oct. 4, 2017

11:59

Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop

Sept. 15, 2017

10:29

Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)

Sept. 5, 2017

11:51

Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode

Aug. 21, 2017

32:39

"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode

Aug. 9, 2017

14:06

A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)

Aug. 7, 2017

15:30

Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)

July 19, 2017

12:32

Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)

July 3, 2017

17:07

A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.

June 12, 2017

11:20

Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)

June 10, 2017

23:45

If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)

June 9, 2017

12:37

Episode 110 (Lost Camels)

May 27, 2017

12:48

Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)

May 11, 2017

12:35

Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined

April 26, 2017

15:45

Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple

April 18, 2017

19:45

Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)

April 1, 2017

14:48

Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)

March 17, 2017

11:28

Episode 105: Amok

Feb. 27, 2017

09:05

Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait)

Feb. 15, 2017

12:47

Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island)

Feb. 4, 2017

17:38

Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle)

Jan. 20, 2017

09:32

Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels

Dec. 30, 2016

18:21

Episode 101 (Promise)

Dec. 19, 2016

15:28

Episode 100 (Peregrinar)

Dec. 1, 2016

11:43

Episode 99, Met Residency #3 (Full Circle)

Nov. 21, 2016

15:48

An odd, pre-election bonus episode: a full reading of Song of Myself

Nov. 7, 2016

01:38:26

Episode 98 (Under Our Feet)

Oct. 28, 2016

13:54

Episode 97 (In Line)

Oct. 14, 2016

09:58

The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle

Oct. 6, 2016

08:57

The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acqusition

Oct. 6, 2016

14:38

Episode 96 (Canali)

Sept. 30, 2016

13:23

Episode 95 (Haunting)

Sept. 17, 2016

13:21

Episode 94 (Numbers)

Aug. 27, 2016

12:06

From the Vault: Dreamland

Aug. 8, 2016

09:16

Episode 93 (Local Channels)

July 30, 2016

16:21

Episode 92 (Oil, Water)

July 14, 2016

11:45

Episode 91 (Natural Habitat)

July 2, 2016

27:04

Episode 90 (A White Horse)

June 16, 2016

11:59

Episode 89 (Family Snapshot)

June 4, 2016

12:34

Episode 88 (Open Road)

May 19, 2016

09:37

From the Vault: A Special Mother's Day Re-Run

May 7, 2016

09:24

Episode 87 (Victory)

April 23, 2016

19:24

Episode 86 (Finishing Hold)

April 8, 2016

17:29

Episode 85 (AKA Leo)

March 25, 2016

14:11

Episode 84 (Homesteading)

March 9, 2016

07:28

Episode 83 (Overland)

Feb. 25, 2016

14:33

Episode 82 (The Wheel)

Feb. 11, 2016

19:37

Episode 81 (Below, from Above)

Jan. 27, 2016

17:02

Episode (M): Gallery 742

Dec. 17, 2015

11:36

Episode 80 (Shore Leave)

Nov. 19, 2015

12:35

Episode 79 (Artist in Landscape)

Nov. 12, 2015

19:17

Episode 78 (no. 116,842)

Nov. 5, 2015

13:40

Episode 77 (Butterflies)

Oct. 27, 2015

20:10

Episode 76 (Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted)

Oct. 19, 2015

11:50

Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)

Aug. 28, 2015

20:49

Episode 74 (Craning)

Aug. 20, 2015

10:37

Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that the Memphis City Counci has Voted to Move it and the Exhumed Remains of General Forrest and his Wife, Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, from

Aug. 13, 2015

13:33

Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)

Aug. 3, 2015

11:10

Episode 71 (Zulu Charlie Romeo)

July 27, 2015

12:22

Episode 70 (Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable)

July 20, 2015

11:25

Episode 69 (Charlie: God of Rain)

July 13, 2015

16:51

Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)

July 6, 2015

09:23

Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)

June 29, 2015

11:15

Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)

June 21, 2015

19:21

HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition

May 27, 2015

07:16

Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot

May 7, 2015

02:30

Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition

April 16, 2015

06:03

The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition

April 9, 2015

08:11

Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)

March 16, 2015

13:23

Episode 64 (The 7th Story)

Jan. 15, 2015

12:57

Episode 63 (Other Bodies)

Oct. 16, 2014

14:56

Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)

July 17, 2014

05:59

Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)

June 8, 2014

08:18

Episode 60 (400,000 Stars)

March 23, 2014

10:32

Episode 59 (Harriet Quimby)

Jan. 31, 2014

06:14

Episode 58 (Shadowboxing)

Dec. 17, 2013

10:56

Episode 57 (I'm Still Alive)

Oct. 31, 2013

09:17

Episode 56 (The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls)

Sept. 20, 2013

06:25

Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)

July 30, 2013

07:19

Episode 54 (Origin Stories)

June 29, 2013

13:01

Episode 53 (Guinea Pigs)

May 8, 2013

06:56

Episode 52 (Six Stories)

April 1, 2013

13:21

Episode 51 (Giants in Those Days)

March 7, 2013

12:48

Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)

Jan. 29, 2013

03:57

Episode 49 (Dreamland)

Dec. 14, 2012

06:55

Episode 48 (Picture a Box)

Nov. 20, 2012

14:47

Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.

Oct. 15, 2012

10:14

Episode 46 (After Party)

Sept. 14, 2012

14:46

Episode 45 (Heard, Once)

July 26, 2012

10:39

Episode 44 (Distance)

March 25, 2012

05:35

Episode 43 (Far Below Lake Michigan)

Dec. 6, 2011

03:47

Episode 42 (What They Saw)

Nov. 8, 2011

08:00

Episode 41 (Mary, Mary, and Mercy)

Oct. 28, 2011

07:12

Episode 40 (Crazy Bet)

Sept. 29, 2011

10:22

Episode 39 (Road Trip)

Aug. 23, 2011

07:17

Episode 38 (A Stretch)

July 6, 2011

09:36

Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)

Jan. 27, 2011

09:23

Episode 36 (Six Scenes in the Life of William J. Sidis, Wonderful Boy)

Jan. 7, 2011

16:52

Episode 35 (A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product)

Oct. 27, 2010

04:21

Episode 34 (Soldier Frum)

Sept. 20, 2010

10:13

Episode 33 (Lost Lobsters)

Aug. 25, 2010

08:06

Episode 32 (Gigantic)

July 3, 2010

09:39

Episode 31 (Looking Up)

June 15, 2010

07:01

Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)

May 11, 2010

11:21

Episode 29 (OMG!!! JKP!!!)

April 14, 2010

04:39

Episode 28 (Babysitting)

April 1, 2010

07:37

Episode 27 (The Sisters Fox)

March 13, 2010

12:15

Episode 26 (Citius, Altius, Fortius, Horrendius)

Feb. 25, 2010

09:25

Episode 25 (I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot)

Feb. 1, 2010

09:35

Episode 24 (The Moon in the Sun)

Jan. 15, 2010

07:53

Episode 23 (400 Words for 79th Street)

Dec. 11, 2009

08:23

Episode 22 (You Know You’re Sick)

Nov. 20, 2009

07:56

Episode 21 (A Gas Gas Gas)

Oct. 28, 2009

08:15

Episode 20 (This Ungainly Fowl)

Oct. 16, 2009

07:05

Episode 19 (Dam!)

Sept. 28, 2009

06:12

Episode 18 (Dig Set Spike)

Aug. 28, 2009

07:32

Episode 17 (Plummeting Approval)

Aug. 7, 2009

07:34

Episode 16 (Secret Kitty)

July 24, 2009

06:25

Episode 15 (Presidente Walker)

July 16, 2009

08:10

Episode 14 (The Messrs. Craft)

July 6, 2009

08:28

Episode 13 (High Above Lake Michigan)

June 16, 2009

06:55

Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)

June 1, 2009

05:47

Episode 11 (The Brothers Booth)

May 22, 2009

07:46

Episode 10 (International Brotherhood of Mothers)

May 10, 2009

06:47

Episode 9 (Ben Franklin Death Ray)

April 11, 2009

04:51

Episode 8 (The World Within the World)

March 26, 2009

07:51

Episode 7 (Li’l Nipper)

March 9, 2009

04:41

Episode 6 (The Saddest President)

Feb. 17, 2009

05:40

Episode 5 (Oh My!)

Jan. 30, 2009

03:57

Episode 4 (Itty Bitty Bombs)

Jan. 22, 2009

05:24

Episode 3 (High Societies)

Jan. 13, 2009

05:44

Episode 2 (Lost Pigeons)

Dec. 20, 2008

05:23

Episode 1 (Horrible Deaths)

Nov. 12, 2008

08:08