The Black Tapes Podcast Is Becoming a TV Show at NBC
From Limetown to Homecoming, it looks like fictional podcasts are having their moment. Next up: NBC has announced that…
The Dark Origin Story of Internet Spiritual Guru Teal Swan
Last week, Gizmodo launched The Gateway, an investigative podcast about Teal Swan an internet spiritual guru who…
The Futurama Podcast Was Way Too Much Podcast, Not Nearly Enough Futurama
The Futurama gang reunited for a scripted radio drama taking us back to New New York for the first time in over four…
Futurama Is Getting an Encore With a New Radio Drama
The last episode of Futurama ended with Fry lovingly asking his wife Leela if she’d like to “go around again,” and now…
This May Be the Best Art Ever Made To Hang in Your Bathroom
Wait, you don’t know about the three seashells? It’s a reference to the 1993 film Demolition Man. Observe.
DARPA Just Launched a Podcast
DARPA, the agency that helped invent things like email in the early 1970s and the internet itself in the late 1960s,…
Welcome To Night Vale's Cecil Baldwin Shares That He is HIV-Positive
The Voice of Night Vale is opening up about being diagnosed with HIV, and shutting down stigmas about living with the…
A Walking Dead Producer Will Adapt the Horror Podcast Lore for TV
Powerhouse producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, Aliens, The Terminator) just debuted her latest TV project, Hunter…
Shameless self-promotion alert! If you haven’t been listening to the fascinating, mystery-centric Lineup Podcast,…
Meanwhile in the Future: Everybody Is Reviewed in a Reputation Database
Recently, an app called Peeple got a whole lot of attention for trying to be the Yelp for Humans. But it’s just one in…
Meanwhile in the Future: One Agency Controls All Border Crossings
Every time you go from one country to the next, you cross a border. And that usually means dealing with some kind of…
Meanwhile in the Future: To Stop Climate Change, We Must Genetically Engineer Humans
A lot of researchers are thinking about how to genetically engineer crops and food animals to help them withstand…
Meanwhile in the Future: What Happens When All Airplanes Are Grounded
Need to get from New York to Paris? Or San Diego? Chances are, you’re hopping on a plane. But commercial flights aren’t…
Meanwhile in the Future: Extreme Body Modification
We all want to be our best selves. But what if you could add almost anything to your body and mind? A camera here, an…
Meanwhile in the Future: Death By Supernova
We often think of stars as twinkling, harmless little points of light that fill our night sky with majesty. But stars…
Meanwhile in the Future: Here's Why We Banned the Internet
If you’re reading this, you have access to the Internet. But what would happen if the Internet suddenly went away? And…
Meanwhile in the Future: Never Sleep Again, Using This Drug
If there was a drug that meant you never had to sleep again, would you take it? Would those who didn’t need to sleep…
Meanwhile in the Future: When Antibiotics Stop Working
This week’s episode of Meanwhile in the Future gets very scary, very quickly. And we’re not going all that far into the…
Meanwhile in the Future: What If We Banned All Weapons?
This week’s future is a social experiment. What if Earth had a robotic overlord who decided to ban all weapons? All…
Meanwhile in the Future: A Second Moon for Earth
This week on Meanwhile in the Future, we ask what would happen if Earth had a second moon. How exactly that happens I…