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How does a rationalist make a baby?
Sep 05, 2025A member of an unusual Bay Area community decides to try to have a baby in an unusual way – by putting out a very large prize for anyone who can help her find a mate. How the internet shaped one perso...
A Dubai Chocolate theory of the internet
Aug 22, 2025Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick traces the rise of this goopy green chocolate, and explains how Chinese social media is beginning to tug on US culture in unexpected ways. Support Search Engine! To l...
Are microplastics really a problem?
Aug 15, 2025Our listener Louisa is very annoyed by her sister’s preoccupation with keeping her children away from microplastics. Louisa wonders: are people with microplastics anxiety kind of overdoing it? Searc...
What does it feel like to believe in God? (classic)
Jul 25, 2025This week, we try to understand an experience that 74% of Americans routinely report having. The first of many conversations (perhaps?). This one, an interview with Zvika Krieger. Comment on the epis...
The Cuddly Killer (classic)
Jul 18, 2025A question that has launched a battle between bird-loving ecologists and ardent, cat-defending activists. What should we do about an invasive species beloved by many Americans -- cats? We hear from pe...
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 2 (classic)
Jul 11, 2025In part two of our story about ADHD medications, we approach the question from a different angle. We meet a doctor who spent two decades convinced that her brain does not work correctly, and who stru...
Why'd I take speed for twenty years? - Part 1 (classic)
Jul 04, 2025One of the millions of millennials given prescription stimulants to treat ADHD decides to quit. And afterwards wonders -- how did these drugs becomes so popular, so fast? This week, the story of amphe...
The Psychic Question
Jun 30, 2025A journalist finds out that many of his vaunted mentors are seeing a psychic. The same psychic. He decides to pay her a visit. Check out the 10% Happier podcast See more of Dan's work at DanHarris....
Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? (classic)
Jun 20, 2025Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski has heard a disgusting rumor — that the coffee on airplanes is unsafe to drink because the onboard water tanks are only cleaned once a year. We investigate and learn some d...
The Test
Jun 13, 2025A woman gets a disquieting piece of information about her pregnancy, and turns to technology to try to control her future. Second Life - Amanda Hess ( Bookshop ) Support the show! Comment on this e...