Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Two Americans embark on a quest: fly across an ocean to try to get into the most exclusive nightclub in the world – Berghain. A German techno palace where the line outside can last 8 hours, and the bo...
21 Jun 202455min
What does it feel like to believe in God?
This week, we try to understand an experience that 74% of Americans routinely report having. The first of many conversations (perhaps?). This one, an interview with Zvika Krieger. Support the show: se...
14 Jun 20241h 7min
How much glue should you put in your pizza?
An internet breaking news story. As we told you last week, Google has begun offering AI-generated answers to search questions. But some answers, it turns out, are strange. Users were told, for instanc...
31 Mai 202445min
How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)
Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated s...
22 Mai 20241h 4min
Should this creepy search engine exist?
After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s...
10 Mai 20241h
What do trigger warnings actually do?
A listener’s brother dies by suicide, and afterwards, she finds herself angered by trigger warnings about suicide. She wants to know — are these actually helping other people? Or is it just something ...
3 Mai 202459min
Where's my flying car?
Since not long after the car was invented, we have wanted to stick wings on them and fly them through the sky. This week, we interview writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus about the surprisingly long history of ...
19 Apr 202455min
Do political yard signs actually do anything?
It’s an election year and so Search Engine’s campaign desk is answering the questions you really want answers to: all the political yard signs in your neighbors’ yards … do they do anything besides ma...
12 Apr 202437min
