The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
How did Poltergeist get that PG rating? Podcast legend Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, takes us on a wild ride through a century or so of Hollywood…
Soft Focus With Jena Friedman: Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills
This is a segment from Soft Focus with Jena Friedman that never aired
Who questions the questions?
We use questions to ask people for information (who’s there?), but we can also use them to make a polite request (could you pass me that?), to confirm social understanding…
The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup
Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements — laws that dictate…
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster | Hakai Magazine
Despite the desire for local and sustainable seafood, oyster farmers and communities from New York to Rhode Island are clashing over public access and ocean views. {listen}
“Glorifying Obesity” And Other Myths About Fat People – Maintenance Phase
This week, we’re talking about Aubrey’s new book, “‘You Just Need To Lose Weight’ and 19 Other Myths About Fat People.” And we’re yelling about Piers Morgan as a little…
A Brief Catalog of Humans, as Observed by the Cryptids of Encante
The Myopic Cryptozoologist - Everyone’s least favorite human, this persistent creature is a narrow-minded cousin of perhaps our favorite type of human—the cryptozoologist—and differs from that specimen in several key…
TRYST – Fractured
We learned secrecy young—two girls taught to swallow our hunger—so we meet up at nightfall once the last lights have gone out.
The Wolf and the Wedding by Svetlana Ilyinykh and Rachelle Desimone
In Ksusha's village of Chudovo, everyone knew the wolf. He appeared at the edge of the forest whenever there was a wedding feast.