Podcast Idea: Finding RP11
Description: Today you can get your genes sequenced (at least a bunch of them) for under $100. What you might not know is that the modern genetic free-for-...
Podcast Idea: Advice For And From The Future
Description: Okay, I’m cheating here because this isn’t just a podcast idea, it’s a real podcast that I really just launched today and I’m hoping you...
Podcast Idea: Flipped
Description: What a time!? Bratz, the (sort of creepy) dolls company, was one of the early companies to post in support of BLM. Then came Gushers, Ben &...
Podcast Idea: Double Exposure
Description: Remember when Antz and A Bug’s Life came out in the same year? Or when Dante’s Peak and Inferno both pictured a big scary volcano’s impacts in...
Podcast Idea: Name on Name
Description: The very legit-looking website HowManyofMe.com estimates that there are currently 47,923 John Smith’s in the United States. What would happen if...
Podcast Idea: The Window
Description: Sometimes, there’s only a very narrow sliver of time before an opportunity ends. Avocados are only ripe for so long, athletes can only operate...
Podcast Idea: Future Now Past
Description: The movie Annihilation Earth opens with a team of scientists exploring a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The year? 2020. In the season finale of the...
Podcast Idea: Yes That's Me
There’s a global pandemic happening right now. You know that. This newsletter isn’t going to be about that. You know where to go for find information about...
Podcast Idea: Just Following Up
Description: Every Tuesday and Friday afternoons I have about an hour blocked off in my calendar called “Just checking in!!!!” in which I follow up on all...
Podcast Idea: Food Wars
Description: Every real city has an iconic food (or maybe more than one, if you’re a real mega-center like New York or Delhi). Regions have foods they’re...
Podcast Idea: Not Dead Yet
Description: There is no official definition for a ghost town. It’s some combination of economic failure, exodus and forgetting. Ghost towns draw tourists...
Podcast Idea: Why?
Description: Every parent or babysitter has stumbled into the “why” trap before. You know the one, where the kid (or sometimes adult) just keeps asking “why”...
Podcast Idea: Fact Holes
Description: Did you know Washington had wooden teeth? Or that a neural network trained to detect tanks instead learned to detect time of day? Or that...
Podcast Idea: The Hunt
Description: What drives people to give up their lives and hunt for treasure? Why are puzzles so alluring? On The Hunt we meet people who have committed...
Podcast Idea: Mmm...Peach!
Description: Right now there are approximately 2,384 podcasts about impeachment. At this rate, every podcast will soon be about impeachment. How can you keep...
Podcast Idea: The Madd Queen
Description: On May 3, 1980, a 13-year-old girl, named Cari Lightner, was hit by a drunk driver. The collision sent her body flying 125 feet, and the man at...
Podcast Idea: 36 Questions
Description: On January 9th, 2015, the New York Times published a piece by Mandy Len Catron called “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This.” The piece offered...
Podcast Idea: Pun Court
Description: Do you think punning is genetic? Are some people born with it, and others not? I didn’t get the pun gene, if it exists, but I did get whatever...
Podcast Idea: Hobby Drama
Description: When I was a kid, any time we encountered someone with a weird interest my mom would throw up her arms and dramatically yell “there’s a hobby...
Podcast Idea: Smellovision
Description: Close your eyes. Block out the sounds around you. Take a deep breath. What do you smell? Nothing? Try harder. There are scents all around you,...