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What’s the best way to offset the planetary damage of your air travel?

from The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast

This week, Denis McManus, professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton reflects on authenticity and the allure of being true to ourselves and suggests that while…

from Life Examined

How to deal with trust issues? Am I terrible for thinking my partner isn’t hot anymore? How do I tell someone I hooked up with that I just want to be friends?

from How’s Your Sex Life?

Beyoncé topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with a single from “Cowboy Carter,” but the album has drawn backlash over who’s qualified to make country music.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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Judy Baca’s collaborative effort to create “The Great Wall of LA” is the subject of a new LA Times short documentary. The mural is being extended to another half mile.

‘You can't really paint a half a mile by yourself’: Judy Baca on her iconic mural in NoHo

Judy Baca’s collaborative effort to create “The Great Wall of LA” is the subject of a new LA Times short documentary. The mural is being extended to another half mile.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

A new AI company called Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs. What does that mean for artists?

Suno AI can produce pro songs. What’s it mean for musicians?

A new AI company called Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs. What does that mean for artists?

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Kenneth Miller, writer and author of Mapping the Darkness; The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep, looks at the history and mysteries surrounding sleep and why it…

Mapping the darkness; the science behind sleep

Kenneth Miller, writer and author of Mapping the Darkness; The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep, looks at the history and mysteries surrounding sleep and why it…

from Life Examined

Emmy-winning SNL writer Paula Pell leans all the way into her first love (acting) in season three of her acclaimed sitcom “Girls5eva.”

Paula Pell triumphs at mixing ‘hard comedy’ and real emotion

Emmy-winning SNL writer Paula Pell leans all the way into her first love (acting) in season three of her acclaimed sitcom “Girls5eva.”

from The Treatment

Music video director- turned-filmmaker, Grant Singer, highlights the masterful sense of ambiguity and intrigue present in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Vertigo.”

Grant Singer reflects on Hitchcock’s ‘hypnotic’ ‘Vertigo’

Music video director- turned-filmmaker, Grant Singer, highlights the masterful sense of ambiguity and intrigue present in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Vertigo.”

from The Treatment

Legendary producer, director, and TV showrunner Ed Zwick reflects on all of it in his memoir “Hits, Flops, and Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”

Hollywood storytime with super producer Ed Zwick

Legendary producer, director, and TV showrunner Ed Zwick reflects on all of it in his memoir “Hits, Flops, and Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”

from The Treatment

Disney CEO Bob Iger is planning on retiring at the end of 2026. Who at the company is primed to take the throne?

Succession, Disney style: Meet the execs poised to replace Bob Iger

Disney CEO Bob Iger is planning on retiring at the end of 2026. Who at the company is primed to take the throne?

from The Business

Yeun discusses the joys (and occasional hives) that came with filming the awards-sweeping Netflix limited series, earning him two Emmys.

Encore: Steven Yeun finds rage and bitterness in ‘Beef’

Yeun discusses the joys (and occasional hives) that came with filming the awards-sweeping Netflix limited series, earning him two Emmys.

from The Business

Christy Spackman tracks how municipal water systems have spent billions eliminating taste from our tap water.

Why does tap water taste like nothing?

Christy Spackman tracks how municipal water systems have spent billions eliminating taste from our tap water.

from Good Food

Arielle Johnson chases deliciousness by taking science and making it fashion.

Noma's in-house flavor scientist explains how taste works

Arielle Johnson chases deliciousness by taking science and making it fashion.

from Good Food

Arielle Johnson chases deliciousness by taking science and making it fashion.

BONUS: Arielle Johnson talks Flavorama (Extended Interview)

Arielle Johnson chases deliciousness by taking science and making it fashion.

from Good Food

Baker Rose Wilde shows us how to bring edible flowers onto our plates.

Market Report: Edible flowers explode off farmers' tables

Baker Rose Wilde shows us how to bring edible flowers onto our plates.

from Good Food

Flexitarian Pamelia Chia canvases Asian chefs for show-stopping vegetarian recipes.

Pamelia Chia builds vegetarian dishes with Asian flavors, accents, and techniques

Flexitarian Pamelia Chia canvases Asian chefs for show-stopping vegetarian recipes.

from Good Food

The latest film releases are Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Shirley, The American Society of Magical Negroes, and Carol Doda Topless at the Condor.

Weekend film reviews: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,’ ‘Shirley’

The latest film releases are Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Shirley, The American Society of Magical Negroes, and Carol Doda Topless at the Condor.

from Weekend Film Reviews