On the next Snap, "Better Half." We all have our better sides, but what if your better side of yourself...is someone else?

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When something is lost in the mail, it feels like it has disappeared into the ether, like it was sucked into a black hole, like it no longer exists. But, it turns out, a lot of the mail we think is lost is actually in a designated place.  The USPS Mail Recovery Center is the contemporary name for the Dead Letter Office.  It's where our lost mail ends up. And eventually, if our mail doesn't find its way back to its rightful owner, it's auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Samara Freemark is reporter at APM's American RadioWorks. She tweets @sfreemark.

183- Dead Letter Office

99% Invisible is honored to accept a 2015 Third Coast International Audio Festival award for Structural Integrity, a story of architectural engineering gone wrong, and then covertly made right.

When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a potentially fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse during a sever storm, and take out the entire Midtown Manhattan skyline with it. This flaw (and the plan to fix it) was so secret, that even the person who found the problem only discovered the full story decades later.

110- Structural Integrity (Rebroadcast)

It's an all-new Snap... "Dirty Work."  You know how bad it looks, and it's not gonna get any easier, but you roll up your sleeves and get down to it. 


Listen to the entire Snap Judgment episode "Dirty Work"

Breakups are hard. What if you found a way to never let your lover go? We adapted this radio play from Anders Howerton's story "Cross Over, Boy, Cross Over," which was a finalist here . You can find Anders on Twitter at @and_ers_ or right here in our hometown of Oakland, CA.

Producer: Eliza Smith
Sound Design: Pat Mesiti-Miller

Linked Lovers / Snap Judgment, "Better Half"

Some schoolyard stories are true…

For more information about Mike The Headless Chicken, including Fruita, Colorado’s annual Mike The Headless Chicken Festival, be sure to check out miketheheadlesschicken.org.

Producer: Joe Rosenberg
Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio

Headless Chicken / Snap Judgment, "Better Half"

When you get really close to someone, you get to know different sides of them naturally. It was no different when Jim Bunkelman fell in love with his wife, Rhonda. What was different was just how many different sides of Rhonda there were… 

If you’d like to learn more about what is referred to by some as healthy multiplicity, Jim suggests you consult Astraea’s Web, Healthymultiplicity.com and Multipicity 101 for more information. 

Producer: Julia DeWitt
Sound Design: Leon Morimoto

Multiplicity / Snap Judgment, "Better Half"

Glynn's wife accidentally meets up with him at a coffee shop along with her colleagues. 

She Could Do Better / Snap Judgment, "Better Half"

Listen to the Entire Snap Judgment Episode "Better Half"

Adam Foote confronts the problem of obtaining sea urchins in land-locked Pittsburgh...during a polar vortex.

Adam recently graduated with a Master's degree in Biology from Carnegie Mellon University, and he is very grateful to his sea urchin friends for getting him there. His first memory of science is when he took a long bath after a day in the woods and wondered why fingers prune up. When he is not explaining science to both willing and unwilling audiences, Adam enjoys cooking, which is chemistry for hungry people, and playing music, which is physics for the ears.

Adam Foote: The Sea Urchin Massacre

Anna Nicanarova pretends to be sick to get out of a test, but how far will she take the ruse?

Anna Nicanorova is Director of Annalect Labs -- space for experimentation and rapid prototyping within Annalect. Anna is Co–Founder of Books+Whiskey meetup and volunteer with ScriptEd (Science Skill Center High School). She holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania -- The Wharton School and BA from Hogeschool van Utrecht. Her life is very rigorously tracked and visualized through Annual Quantified Self reports. In her free time she can be found art-hunting in museums or climbing tall mountains (aspiring to finish 7 Summits by 2020).

Anna Nicanarova: Playing Sick

Physicist Kaća Bradonjić's view of time is shaped by her experience as a war refugee.

Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Kaća Bradonjić is a theoretical physicist living and working in Massachusetts. Her research on the nature of space, time, and gravitation straddles the boundaries of science, philosophy, history of physics, and visual art. She is particularly interested in the relations between mathematical structures used in physics and the aspects of the physical reality they are supposed to represent. Kaća lives and works in Massachusetts, where she is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Physics at Wellesley College and an artist member at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA.

Kaća Bradonjić: The Nature Of Space And Time

Listen in, as smooth-talking L. Abdul Kenyatta shows these youngsters how to speak to a lady. 

Produced by Jamie Dewolf 
Sound Design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

The Wrap / Snap Judgment, "Sugar & Spice"

Love is in the air, and this week Snap Judgment delivers stories of passion, heartbreak, and the most important connection of all. Listen in, as real people relate their own experience with the most mysterious force in the universe. 

Sugar & Spice - Snap 304

Storyteller and artist Christy Chan is an American-born Chinese woman.  She was confident in her identity until her family moved to a new town and she began getting letters from a mysterious, (possibly magical) stranger.

Producers: Stephanie Foo and Renzo Gorrio

Check out the list of songs used in this story and episode!
http://snapjudgment.org/song-list-snap-315-coming-america

Pen Pals / Snap Judgment, "Coming to America"

Snap storyteller Doug Cordell is just another writer from New York out to catch the L.A sunshine.  But after moving into his new place, he can’t tell what is his shadow and what’s his new roommate.

Doug Cordell is an Emmy-nominated writer and performer in the Bay Area. He continues to write and is currently working on a novel.

Producers: Mark Ristich and Jamie DeWolf

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Hollywood Double / Snap Judgment, "Suspicious Behavior"

Snap Judgment is a weekly storytelling radio show and podcast, hosted by Glynn Washington. Snap mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a BEAT!!  Snap first aired on NPR stations nationwide in July 2010. Snap Judgment is now aired on over 400 public radio stations.