In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. New episodes come out every two weeks.

Those weird codes actually makes sense, just not to you.

Turns out Windows errors can speak English. Who knew?

There’s a lot scientists don’t know about the thousands of proteins in the human body, and protein sequences don’t tell the full story. “I'm interested in how much biological information is spatially ...

Sports generate a lot of noise, especially when things go wrong. In India, cricket is a popular national pastime, similar to ball and hoop games in the US. The positive and negative noise around ...