Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDINOSAURS pt. 1
The dinosaur craze of the 1990s, inspired largely by the Jurassic Park movies, led to a legion of children dreaming of becoming paleontologists. In t…
1 day, 4 hours ago
The Spooky Side of Pokémon with Guide to the Unknown
The extended media universe of Pokémon has been an obsession for young people since the late 1990s, and for this goofball episode my friends from the…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Corporate Takeover of Caring with Dr. Mara Einstein
Have you ever been suspicious of a corporation showcasing their commitment to the environment, to marginalized groups of people, or to those sufferin…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
BUGS!!!!!! with Akilah Hughes
We have had many media panics about swarms and hordes, about infestations and plagues of dangerous insects and arachnids that promise to rain destruc…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics (rerun)
[We are taking a break this week so please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes!] How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future abou…
1 month ago
JINGLES pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
If you thought the first part of our series was catchy, wait til we enter the modern era where all the jingles that played throughout our lifetimes w…
1 month, 1 week ago
Introducing Mind Games
We’re excited to share a preview of a new podcast we think you’d enjoy: Mind Games.
What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or.... s…
1 month, 1 week ago
JINGLES pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
We all contain within us the many cheesy tunes of catchy capitalism that marked our childhoods, those hyper-memorable earworms that, depending on you…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A Cult by Any Other Name with Joseph Laycock
Joseph Laycock is the author ofThe Penguin Book of Cults, and for this episode we discuss how our culture thinks of and reacts to what we oftentimes …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Art of (Psychological) War with Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is the author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, which traces the way disinformation, propaganda, an…
1 month, 3 weeks ago