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Verge ESP
by The Verge
The entertainment industry provides us with culture, but so does science — and not just the kind of culture you can grow in a lab dish. Entertainment editor Emily Yoshida and science editor Liz Lopatto guide you through the week's cultural events, both in the arts and sciences. The series finale aired on September 9th, 2016. For more on what’s happening now (and next) in science and culture, listen and subscribe to The Vergecast.
Episodes
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Final girls
The end of headphones - 0:35 Horror movies — final girl trope - 3:21 Narrative psychology — how storytelling shapes our understanding of events - 21:44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Let’s talk finance: drug prices and the money behind online streaming services
0:24 - Wilderness Week 4:22 - Epi-Pen/drug costs 18:11 - Frank Ocean and album releases 32:02 - Halt and Catch Fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ryan Lochte, diversity in film, and the microbes among us featuring interview with science writer Ed Yong
0:18 - Ryan Lochte 3:54 - Arrival film 8:57 -Nate Park + Birth of a Nation 23:09 - Interview with Ed Yong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Stranger Things, a scientist hit list, and more strange things
0:41 - Liz sees Suicide Squad 6:35 - Scientist hit list 10:14 - Flossing revisited 12:52 - Smithsonian misconduct 31:08 - Stranger Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, and nature documentaries
0:33 - Ghostbusters 8:15 - Flossing 13:07 - Nature documentaries 23:21 - Suicide Squad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Gotta catch ‘em all!
03:43 - biodiversity 07:32 - Pokémon GO 24:50 - Ohlala Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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A Violent Purge
Liz and Emily discuss a disheartening week in national news, The Purge and violence in entertainment, and Beyonce’s very awesome headphones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter
The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever
Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Damaged cases: Former astronauts, Studio Ghibli, and Lemmy
Taylor Swift: 00:50 Space news: 05:06 Astronaut health care: 09:48 Audible: 17:26 Yoshiaki Nishimura: 19:38 Lemmy: 32:24 Recommendations: 38:41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mars needs Musk
05:23 - Prince 07:50 - Elon Musk 23:19 - X-Men Apocalypse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Game Of Thrones, algorithms, and Neighbors 2
14:02- Game of Thrones discussion 24:58 - algorithms 35:11 - Neighbors 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states
Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments
Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross
Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel
Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Genomes, Game of Thrones and Gawker
Time passes and the internet evolves — as everything does, really. ocial norms, minimal genomes, and the changing nature of celebrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The neuroscience of why music feels good with Valorie Salimpoor
Liz and Emily discuss SXSW, genetic testing, and getting the chills from songs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jonathan Gold on getting to know a city through its food
Share on Facebook Tweet Share Pin This week on Verge ESP: Emily chats with food critic Jonathan Gold about the forthcoming documentary City of Gold, a movie about his approach to LA's food. In fact, we discuss a glut of movies this week, including the genre-benders The Witch, 10 Cloverfield Lane,...
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Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha
Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Buy the ticket, take the ride featuring interview with Juan Thompson
It's sort of a shame Kanye didn't name his album Waves after all — the same week that The Life of Pablo dropped, the LIGO group said they found gravitational waves. (Waves would also be thematically appropriate for Tidal, which is the only place where TLOP is legally available.) Today, Liz and...
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Badly behaved record execs, badly behaved scientists
We rarely go into this thing with a theme in mind, but an unfortunate (and all too common) one just fell in our laps this week: men doing bad things — and getting away with it. First we talk about the repeated reports of sexual harassment coming out of the science community, and why universities...
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The 90s are coming!
Liz and Emily are back on their proper coasts — finally — and from this perspective, it becomes clear the 90s are back. Like, in a very serious way. Is it just part and parcel for the 20-year rehash cycle? Can it be attributed to the fact that all the #content is made by people who were young in...
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Oscars, Sundance, and the Zika virus
Oscars, Sundance, and the Zika virus by The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I love sitting on the sidelines of a scientist fight
Liz has a cold, and Emily is in a cabin somewhere in the mountains of Utah, but the Verge ESP podcast must go on! This week, we're chatting about the return of The X Files to Fox — a show near to Liz's heart and dear to Emily's. Liz has seen the first episode of the miniseries reboot (you can…
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Sound & Vision & Personal Fitness Trackers
Hello and welcome to the first Verge ESP episode of 2016! First of all, some good news: we're gonna be weekly this year. Second of all, some bad news: both Lemmy (of Motörhead fame) and David Bowie died. (Can someone please check on the rest of the iconic UK musicians?) We'll talk a little about...
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Drake memes, Space memes, and guest author Ann Leckie
Memes were everywhere this week, from Drake to a "drunk" comet spewing booze across our solar system. Emily and Liz tackle the plusses and minuses of space giving up clickbait. Emily talks about HBO's Project Greenlight and the vastly different standards men and women (especially women of color)...
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Martian madness, Song Machines, and The Knick
Emily and Liz follow up on their experiences watching The Martian, talk about Elon Musk's bizarre cult of personality (and his dastardly plans for Mars), try to make sense of some questionable, high-tech psychosis pills currently being tested, and try not to faint while talking about how graphic...
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Water on Mars, Matt Damon on Mars, and why Liz is so mad
Liz and Emily go to Mars on the ESP spaceship as they talk about NASA’s findings this week and the upcoming movie The Martian. And speaking of sustaining life, the British Medical Journal published an investigation on food that is seriously in error– Liz explains why, and checks the BMJ’s work....
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Ghostbusting Gals, #Brands, NASA, and a History of Autism
Liz and Emily chat about the up-coming Ghostbusters movie, brand activation and personality, NASA logos, and Pluto and its moon Nix. Then, journalist and author Steve Silberman joins the show and talks about autism’s tale of two scientists, which is featured in Silberman’s most recent book...
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Oliver Sacks, Lana Del Rey, and Altered States
This week, Liz and Emily talk about the VMAs, Mr. Robot, Lana Del Rey, and Oliver Sacks. What do all these things have in common? Drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Health, HEALTH, and space whiskey
This week on VergeESP: Emily wants to know why California has so many weird colors, Liz loved the new HEALTH album, and Suntory is sending whiskey to space, and both ladies would like to drink it when it comes back to Earth (yo, Suntory! hit us up!) Plus: what’s going on with GMOs and why is the...
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The psychology of spoilers
This week, on Verge ESP: SPOILER ALERT! Liz will spoil the Pluto flyby (it totally worked!); Emily has feelings about Pixels and the videogamification of movies. Plus, social psychologist — and spoiler expert — Nicholas Christenfeld drops by to tell Emily what he’s found in his research on...
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Neuroscientist Jeffrey Zacks
This week on Verge ESP: Find out about Magic Mike, space telescopes, and why your brain can understand film edits. How long does it take to plan a space telescope? Why is Magic Mike more girl-friendly than Pitch Perfect 2? How is it possible that Liz and Emily both went to the same bars as kids?...
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Filmmaker Jennifer Phang
This week on Verge ESP: Emily tells you everything you need to know about "Tom's Diner," as well as the real meaning of Taylor Swift v Apple. Liz, meanwhile, has two things on her mind: rockets and sex, exactly in that order. Plus Emily interviews Jennifer Phang, the filmmaker behind…
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Author Kim Stanley Robinson
This week on Verge ESP: Liz and Emily talk about scientific fraud, Game of Thrones's fixation with abusing young women, what to expect from Apple Music (and why the service strengthens the position of record labels) and why you shouldn't trust studies that link creativity with mental illness.…
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Halt and Catch Fire creators Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers
Oil, bionic limbs, and hackers — today we discuss Mad Max, the Santa Barbara oil spill, brain-controlled robot arms, and interview Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers of Halt and Catch Fire. Find out how to drink beer using a brain-controlled robot, why Mad Max's explosions and chase scenes rule so...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The entertainment industry provides us with culture, but so does science — and not just the kind of culture you can grow in a lab dish. Entertainment editor Emily Yoshida and science editor Liz Lopatto guide you through the week's cultural events, both in the arts and sciences. The series finale aired on September 9th, 2016. For more on what’s happening now (and next) in science and culture, listen and subscribe to The Vergecast.
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