ICYMI - Side-Eyeing at H Mart
How should Asian people feel about white people in Asian grocery stores? That’s the question creator Madeline Qi didn’t even mean to ask when she posted her now-viral video, which resulted in call-out...
14 Nov 43min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Clearly Canadian Edition
For decades, America’s Hot 100 pop chart has been regularly invaded by Canadian artists like Paul Anka, the Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, and Drake. Yet in Canada, some of these ...
14 Nov 54min
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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 52min
