What is yodeling, anyway? Some consider it singing, some say it's an ululation, and still others consider it merely a means to herd animals. Whatever yodeling is, one's thing clear: Yodeling has been around for thousands of years and shows no signs of disappearing.

Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton were using strategies to deliberately divide America's political system decades before the pivotal 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush divided us into gangs of 'red' or 'blue.'

Red Sox or Yankees? The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are in the middle of a playoff series that’s dividing Connecticut residents. But as the legendary rivalry reaches another dramatic crescendo, one segment of area baseball fans is once again on the outside looking in. If you go to a sports store in the state and try to buy a shirt featuring your favorite baseball team, you might not find anything in blue and orange – only red or pinstripes. New York Mets fans know that feeling. Eric

When CVS agreed to acquire Aetna, they halted a plan to move the Hartford-based company’s headquarters to New York City. Connecticut has been breathing a sigh of relief that one of the capital’s largest employers isn’t ditching the state. But is having a major insurance company join with one of the country’s largest “Pharmacy Benefit Managers” a good thing for those of us using the health care system? We talk with Connecticut Public Radio’s business reporter Harriet Jones about the acquisition’s

Today, we've booked no guests. It's Colin and your calls. Saturday's confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was the anticlimatic coda to a nomination that has both riveted and more deeply divided our country. Depending on your view, the Kavanaugh confirmation either endangers the legitimacy of the court or is a welcome culmination to a decades-long effort to capture a solid conservative majority on the high court.

They can weigh over a hundred tons, live their entire lives underwater, and some even hunt using sound through a method known as echolocation. Yet, whales are also complex social creatures who share much in common with humans. This hour we talk with paleontologist Nick Pyenson about why he has dedicated his life to studying whales, or as he puts it, “Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures.” Pyenson’s new book, Spying on Whales , takes readers on a scientific quest to understand the evolutionary journey

The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford hosted a gubernatorial forum Sunday that featured Republican Bob Stefanowski, Democrat Ned Lamont, and Independent Oz Griebel.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford hosted a gubernatorial forum Sunday that featured Republican Bob Stefanowski, Democrat Ned Lamont, and third party candidate Oz Griebel.

Do you worry about how you’re everyday actions contribute to climate change? You may think about the carbon gas-burning cars are putting into the atmosphere, or coal-powered electricity in your houses. But what about the food you eat?

So we did a Nose last week . It was good. It was about the second season of Slow Burn and the third season of Serial , and it was kind of also about how both of those shows tie into our present moment in interesting ways and that that's kind of interesting and suchlike. We thought it went well. You probably would've thought so too. Except you didn't hear it, so how would you know? That present moment that I was just talking about got in the way: We were preempted by some Senate Judiciary