ICYMI - Fanfiction Isn’t Dead, But AO3 Might Be
One of the internet’s top fanfiction platforms, Archive Of Our Own, is down and could stay that way for weeks. Devoted readers have been rushing to save their favorite fics in the event that AO3 might...
11 Marras 37min
Death, Sex & Money - Ms. Pat Spent Years Hiding She Was Poor. Then She Got on Stage
A welfare caseworker first told Ms. Pat she had a knack for turning painful stories into comedy. She was 20, fresh out of prison for selling drugs, and already in charge of six kids–some hers, some th...
10 Marras 49min
ICYMI - Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Twitch Streamer?
On one of the biggest political nights of the year, audiences weren’t turning into traditional networks for their news. Instead, they were on YouTube and Twitch, where streamers like Hasan Piker domin...
7 Marras 34min
ICYMI - So Is The Internet About To Explode Or What?
A major vulnerability is threatening the entire internet as we know it. Should we let it? As talk of an internet apocalypse looms, some users can’t help but feel it’s high time to turn the whole thing...
4 Marras 33min
Decoder Ring - Presenting: The Sporkful | Does The World Need A Better Tomato?
In New Jersey, the tomato is king. Almost a century ago, a scientist at Rutgers University developed a variety that became the tomato that lined grocery store shelves for decades. Now, Rutgers scienti...
4 Marras 37min
Death, Sex & Money - Kidnapping Survivor Elizabeth Smart is Doing True Crime Differently
In 2002, when Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bed by a stranger, the media covered it day and night. When Elizabeth returned home nine months later, she slowly began to learn to tell her own story,...
3 Marras 52min
ICYMI - The Boomers Turned “Screenagers”
Conversations about screen addition are almost always about kids. Entire governments have mobilized in pursuit of offsetting the negative effects of being too plugged in, but there’s one demographic w...
31 Loka 32min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Going to Graceland Edition
Four decades ago, Paul Simon broke out of a middle-age slump with a collaborative project few saw coming. Join Chris Molanphy as he explores the musical brilliance, polarizing legacy—and of course, th...
30 Loka 50min
