The Guardian
British national daily newspaper
Episodes
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#5662: Right of Reply: What the Rulebook Actually SaysThe IDF's 10-page rebuttal to NAZA bundles a valid procedural complaint with an invalid one. Here's what journalism codes actually require. -
#5659: The Ethics of Anonymous Testimony in DocumentaryA new IDF response to a Venice-winning film raises a sharp question: what do documentarians owe when sources stay truly anonymous? -
#5615: Philadelphia, Here I Come: Friel's Split Man on StageOne actor can't hold Gar O'Donnell — so Brian Friel used two. Inside the 1964 play that split a man in half on stage. -
#5576: Lying Flat as a Tactic: The Quiet Opt-OutTang ping, quiet quitting, and the N-po generation — what happens when people stop donating effort they were never paid for? -
#5785: The Worst Mascots Ever MadeFrom a clown selling sugar cereal to a blue blob Atlanta couldn't name, we count down the mascots that should never have left the sketch. -
#5751: Designing Rooms for ADHD BrainsUK standard PAS 6463 and EEG studies reveal how ADHD brains respond to light, noise, and layout — and what that means for home design. -
#5700: Did the Internet's Pioneers Know What They Were Building?Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. How early internet subculture formed, where it lived, and whether it survived. -
#5687: The Speech Scientist Behind TeletubbiesAndrew Davenport studied speech sciences and performance art — then built Teletubbies on developmental theory, not gibberish. -
#5680: The Teletubbies Were Engineered, Not AccidentalEvery strange thing about Teletubbies was a deliberate design choice — built around how two-year-olds actually perceive the world. -
#5660: The Siesta Law Nobody ObeysIsrael has a legally mandated afternoon rest that almost nobody takes. Where the siesta came from, why Spain abandoned it, and who's napping now. -
#5657: When Bad Effects Break the IllusionBirdemic's clip-art eagles, Plan 9's plastic saucers, and The Room's $6M greenscreen — when budgets break the illusion. -
#5582: Who Invented the Internet? Actually, Seven PeopleThe first message ever sent was "LO" — then the system crashed. The real story of the internet is a stack of seven layers, not one genius. -
#5575: Why 1930s Riveters Carried Bigger Pouches Than You DoA catcher's mitt made of metal, a red-hot rivet you can't look at, and the 90-year-old tool list that never changed. -
#5402: Amazon Go and the Humans Behind the AIAmazon promised a store with no checkout. The Information reported 700 of every 1,000 sales needed human review in 2022. -
#5242: Two Neighbors, Two Invasion PlansCanada drew up a plan to invade the U.S. in 1921. The friendly-neighbor story is only 80 years old. -
#5175: Vanilla Sky: The Movie That Makes Sense on the Third WatchA 41% critic score, a D- CinemaScore, and $203M at the box office. How Vanilla Sky became a movie people can't stop rewatching.