Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat 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…
1 year, 7 months ago
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 t…
1 year, 7 months ago
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 G…
1 year, 7 months ago
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 unre…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 actu…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 …
1 year, 8 months ago
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 you…
1 year, 9 months ago
Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 2)
In part two of our story, we watch the state of New York try to pull off something we rarely see in America: a kind of reparations. A very ambitious …
1 year, 9 months ago
Why are there so many illegal weed stores in New York City? (Part 1)
In 2021, New York legalized cannabis for adults. It was supposed to be the start of a legal market, led by people arrested during prohibition. Instea…
1 year, 9 months ago
A big announcement from Search Engine plus, "What's in your cocaine?"
We've launched a new premium feed called Incognito Mode. It includes bonus episodes of Search Engine and some other very special features. We're incl…
1 year, 9 months ago