You’re Wrong About | Podcast Review
There’s a specific feeling You’re Wrong About is built to produce, and it happens almost every episode: the slow, slightly uncomfortable realization that a story you’d absorbed as settled fact — usually through decades of pop culture osmosis rather than anything you actually researched yourself — was considerably messier, and often considerably less fair to […]
Hardcore History | Podcast Review
Most history podcasts are built around episodes. Hardcore History is built around expeditions, and the distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. A single installment can run four, five, sometimes six hours, released on a schedule best described as “whenever it’s actually ready,” and covering a subject with a depth and narrative sweep […]
Walking Through Water and Light: Tokyo’s teamLab Planets | Place Spotlight
Most museums ask you to keep your shoes on and your hands to yourself. teamLab Planets, tucked into Tokyo’s Toyosu district, asks the opposite of you almost immediately: roll up your trousers, take off your shoes and socks, and prepare to wade, barefoot, through ankle-deep water lit from below by shifting fields of digital koi. […]
Nine Hundred Years of Appetite: London’s Borough Market | Place Spotlight
Most food markets are built for transactions. You go in, you know roughly what you want, you leave. Borough Market, tucked beneath the railway arches on the south bank of the Thames, has never quite worked that way, and that’s precisely its appeal. It’s a place designed, whether by accident or centuries of accumulated habit, […]
A House That Doesn’t Behave: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return | Place Spotlight
There is a moment, not long after you walk through the front door of an unassuming Victorian house on the edge of Santa Fe, when the house stops being a house. A refrigerator opens onto a glowing tunnel instead of a shelf of leftovers. A fireplace turns out to be a passage into a neon […]
Why Europe Keeps Breaking Its Own Heat Records
Why Europe Keeps Breaking Its Own Heat Records By the time August 2026 arrived, Western Europe had already lived through what climate monitors were calling its hottest June and July on record, with a heatwave in May that shattered springtime temperature records before summer had even officially begun. If it felt to residents like the […]
Why Do We Say “Bless You” After a Sneeze?
It’s one of the most automatic social reflexes in existence. Somebody sneezes, and before most people have even consciously registered it, a “bless you” is already out of their mouth — offered to strangers on trains, coworkers in meetings, and people we’ve never spoken to and never will again. It’s polite, reflexive, and almost entirely […]
99% Invisible | Podcast Review
99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a particular font shaped a country’s road signs, or why a stretch of highway […]
Radiolab | Podcast Review
99% Invisible starts from a simple premise — most of the designed world around us goes completely unnoticed — and builds an entire show out of making the invisible visible. A single episode might explain why manhole covers are round, how a particular font shaped a country’s road signs, or why a stretch of highway […]
What Was the Most Modern Ancient Civilisation?
What Was the Most Modern Ancient Civilisation? If you’ve ever stood in a museum, looked at a 4,000-year-old object that could plausibly have come from an IKEA catalogue, and felt a small short-circuit in your sense of historical time, here’s a small consolation: you weren’t being naïve, and the object wasn’t a fluke. You were […]