Ninety-one-year-old Ed Shepard has been running his service station in Welch, West Virginia since 1950. But the once-booming coal town of Welch, nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is now almost a ghost town. (Welch is in McDowell County,

The Day the Sun Rose in the West

May 17th, 2020 5m 44s

We know one thing for sure: the sun always rises in the East. Right? But what if one day you woke up and the sun was rising in the West? My mom tells the story of the day she woke up to an upside-down world. For more stories on wonder, go here:

A Virus Podcast Goes Viral

May 17th, 2020 27m 50s

In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a relatively obscure virology podcast called “This Week in Virology” suddenly gained thousands of new listeners. Listeners from all walks of life — from mailmen to English teachers — were writing in

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