Imaginary Worlds: How to Go to Infinity and Beyond
Science Fiction Spaceships
Smithsonian Podcast: Get Off My Lawn
The history of the American lawn
Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
Nicholas Orme, author of new book Tudor Children, joined Emily Briffett to talk about the lives of young people in the era
We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock
New York Times coverage of Trans Rights
Listen: Climate fiction to imagine a better world
Immerse yourself in these short audio cli-fi stories, from our Imagine 2200 initiative, and find hope in unexpected places.
Re: Dracula
Re: Dracula takes the famous horror tale, breaks it up chronologically (every entry of this epistolary novel has a date), and sends the story directly to your podcatcher as it…
De Fiets is Niets
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more…
100 Years of Weird Tales
when the March 1923 issue of Weird Tales hit newsstands, many people didn’t know what to make of this new magazine. But 100 years later, Weird Tales has had a…
A Whale-Oiled Machine – 99% Invisible
In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be…
Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters
From the dangers of childbirth to female sexuality, myths and legends about female monsters like mermaids and sirens can tell us a lot about different societies’ attitudes towards women over…