Exploring the Depths of Wikipedia with Annie Rauwerda
While it feels like the very concept of an accepted collective reality has crumbled around us, Wikipedia has gradually revealed itself to be our accepted arbiter of truth. How did this social project,...
17 Dec 20251h 27min
Plastic Pollution is Killing Us with Judith Enck
Plastic is everywhere. Over the past century, we’ve stuffed our landfills, lined the bottom of the ocean floor, and even managed to get microscopic particles floating through our blood and bodies. Top...
10 Dec 20251h 4min
Philosophers Explain How a Single Person Can Make a Difference with Alex Madva and Michael Brownstein
The rumors are true: our world is a dumpster fire, and it feels like it’s growing hotter and stinkier by the day. If it feels hopeless, like it’s useless for one person to even try, perhaps it’s a cha...
3 Dec 20251h 39min
We All Feel Like the World's Ending Because It Is (Kind Of) with Lizzie Wade
Do you have the not-so-creeping feeling that the world is ending? You might be right. The world’s ended before, and the world will end again—just not in the way we see in TV and movies. Lizzie Wade’s ...
26 Nov 20251h 16min
America’s Secret Technofacist Overlord, with Max Chafkin
You’ve almost certainly heard Peter Thiel’s name. You very likely even have an opinion about him. But how much do you actually know about him? One of the most powerful people in America is also one of...
19 Nov 20251h 18min
Let’s Replace Our Elderly Politicians, with Amanda Litman
Our politicians are too f*#&ing old. We’ve covered the state of our dismal, sleepy, cranky gerontocracy before—but how do we actually get power into the hands of people who are not Boomers? Waiting fo...
12 Nov 20251h 11min
Why Porn Bans Will Destroy the Internet with Siri Dahl and Noelle Perdue
Half the states in the US have passed age verification laws that put pornography under threat. Not only does this compromise a vital industry, it puts all of free speech in danger as well. Today, Adam...
5 Nov 20251h 48min
Everyone Can Screw Us Now Thanks to Trump, with Julie Morgan
Everyone in their right mind already knows the gift: Trump ran on helping working people, then immediately threw working Americans to the wolves in favor of helping the ultra-wealthy. But it’s not jus...
29 Okt 20251h 9min
