When it comes to restaurants, most folks think about celebrity chefs, newly-opened spots or the latest food trends . But what do we know about the people that work within them ? On today's show, we're looking inside the service industry, and specifically, the practice of tipping. And we'll try to answer the question: what type of culture does tipping create? And then, we'll dish with a few long-time service industry workers for a roundtable convo on what life's really like serving the public,

Today on Word of Mouth, we're digging in to the fraught relationship between the gear industry and gender with Outside/In . When do women actually need something different and when are companies just looking to make more money by selling women a product that is essentially the same thing... but smaller and pink? And what do you do if the available products - pink or not - don't fit your body at all? Then, we dive into the world of twins and triplets with our producer – and resident triplet –

Although surrounded by states with minimum wages of over $10 an hour, New Hampshire holds to the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour, the lowest in New England. If you're making close to the minimum wage in New Hampshire, can you make rent?

New Hampshire prides itself on having a volunteer, citizen legislature. But the legislators writing laws for the rest of the state are older, whiter, and disproportionately male compared to the state's population. Factions inside the Democratic and Republican parties are trying to change that, here and across the country. This week on Word of Mouth, we get inside that effort.

When cops go online, sometimes they make jokes.

In the Summer of 1946 , the Nashua Dodgers did something no other professional baseball team had done in the U.S. in the twentieth century: they played ball with a racially integrated team. In the latest installment of our New Hampshire First series we're looking into the story of Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe . And then a conversation with sportswriter Howard Bryant about the long and troubled history of the Boston Red Sox and players of color.

Two barrels. Four bodies. And the decades-long mystery that led to a serial killer. In this episode of Word of Mouth, we take a listen to Bear Brook: A new podcast from NHPR about a New Hampshire cold case that's changing how murders will be investigated forever.

Once, a utopian experiment burned bright and brief in the Great North Woods.

Today, we're looking skyward to explore the life of geologist Ursula Marvin, who used her exceptional ability to identify minerals to study asteroids. Planetary geology wasn't a field that welcomed women but Marvin never let that stop her. In the 1970s, she became the first woman to travel to Antarctica to hunt for meteorites. Also, another story from our continuing series on vanity plates.

Growing up is hard enough. Now imagine that very few people look like you - in your community, schools, and even your home. This can often be the world of transracial adoptees. These are kids adopted by families of a different race or ethnicity. On today's show we're exploring the complex conversations around these adoptions and hearing from adoptees of color.