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Listen to Smarty Pants, a Arts podcast by Stephanie Bastek. Stream 341 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Safe From Sin
“Medieval psychology” might sound nearly a millennium out of date, irrelevant to modern science, with its reassurances of cognitive data and...
Hue and Cry
Defining words is hard, no matter what they are, but the difficulty only doubles when the word in question is a purely visual referent like...
Shotgun Ornithology
Songbirds are disappearing at an alarming rate, with some species teetering on the verge of extinction, barely clinging to their endangered...
Eulogy for a Yenta
In a cramped rent-controlled apartment on the lousy end of the Upper East Side, a dying woman in a diaper writes the story of her life. She...
The Carnifex of Čachtice
Elizabeth Bathory is alleged to have been the most prolific serial killer of all time, responsible for butchering as many as 650 virgins and...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Prehistory
Since 2011, the at-home DNA testing company 23andMe has invited its users to “celebrate your ancient DNA” with its Neanderthal report, which...
The Midwife of Black Nationalism
Audley Moore mentored Malcolm X, popularized reparations for African Americans in a 1963 essay, and advanced the cause of Black women in bot...
Ground Truths
In ancient Greece, the view from on high was known as catascopos , or “the looker-down.” It's a privileged perspective, and in the modern wo...
The Dangerous Dead
Stories of the undead tormenting the living supposedly entered the English-speaking world in 1732, with a report from the Hapsburg military...
For the Love of Foraging
Foraging has been part of the human story forever, and its post-pandemic resurgence is a return to ways of living with the natural world tha...
From Sofia to Chicago
Boxy Moskvitch and Lada cars, pastel-green concrete tiles, derelict playgrounds, intermittent hot water: these were the markers of Izidora A...
Why the Bronx Burned
From 1968 through the early 1980s, thousands of fires raged through the Bronx. The precise number is unknown and it’s uncertain who was resp...
What Lies Beneath the Levee Camp Holler
“Several years ago, the musician Mike Mattison fixated on the story of how Charlie Idaho killed the Mercy Man,” Eric McHenry writes in our S...
The Art of *Doing* Politics
For the past few decades, American democracy has crystallized around the central importance of voting: making an informed decision about a c...
The Linguistics of Brain Rot
Language is always changing, but these days it seems to be moving at warp speed. Whether it's the shift from 😂 to 💀 or the rise of “brain...
Michael Douglas Explains It All
American men are having a hard time right now. They're behind in school, staying single, earning less, drinking more, and dying younger. The...
Once in a Lifetime
On June 5, 1975, on the seedy stage of CBGB on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a band named Talking Heads took the stage for the first tim...
Family Values
In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that the third Sunday in June would henceforth be celebrated as Father's Day. It was a symboli...
Lingua Obscura
For centuries, polyglots and the linguistically curious have pointed out the similarities between certain languages of the Eurasian continen...
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