Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat we got wrong about GLP-1s
Episode 137
Search Engine is breaking its cowardly three-year silence on GLP-1s. We have been curious about them. We have been afraid of getting in trouble. We a…
14 hours ago
The Trial of the Driverless Car
Episode 136
In blue cities throughout the country, unions and politicians are fighting to ban driverless cars. We travel to Boston, where the fight has reached a…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Are you a good driver?
Episode 135
The story of how a secret project at Google led to driverless cars on American roads. And, an answer to the question: are the robots actually safer d…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Odd Lots x Search Engine
This week, we’re sharing an episode from Odd Lots. An interview with The Economist's Mike Bird about how Chinese real estate became the biggest bubbl…
1 month ago
Mysteries of Claude
Episode 134
Anthropic hired philosophers to teach its AI to be good. In their tests, the AI blackmailed a human to keep itself alive. Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus w…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why don’t we eat people? (classic)
A question from a four-year-old tips us into an investigation of one of our most fundamental taboos: cannibalism. With help from New Yorker food crit…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How Peptides Conquered the Internet
Episode 133
Two decades ago, bodybuilders on niche internet forums started injecting peptides. Now they're in the secret mini-fridges of some teenage boys. How d…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Are flushable wipes actually flushable?
Episode 132
A simple question leads us on a journey from the bowels of New York City through the courtrooms of South Carolina to the disgusting truth.
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2 months, 1 week ago
The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2)
Episode 131
The conclusion to our story about Venezuela. How a country goes from a prosperous democracy to a poverty-ravaged dictatorship.
The End (our 2022 epi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Venezuelan Curse (Part 1)
Episode 130
For the past year, there's been a steady drumbeat of headlines about Venezuela. Now the US has invaded, arrested its president, and installed itself …
2 months, 3 weeks ago