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Swedish Death Cleaning 101

T Kira Madden on 'Whidbey'

Chocolate for breakfast with Roxana Jullapat

The 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' TV show is very good, and Rufi Thorpe agrees

Reproductive freedom with Kate Schatz

What's the difference between cupcakes and muffins?

GRETAGRAM book club: 'Kin,' discussed!

MSCL TV Club: Duh squared (Episode 19)

MSCL TV Club: Best weekend ever (Episodes 17 and 18)

MSCL TV Club: Angel Science (Episodes 15 and 16)

GRETAGRAM book club: Tayari Jones on 'Kin'

MSCL TV Club: Nothing dies harder than potential (Episodes 13 and 14)

MSCL TV Club: IS IT A HANG OR A DATE? (Episodes 11 and 12)

MSCL TV Club: Oregano! (Episodes 9 and 10)

GRETAGRAM book club: Nina McConigley on 'How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder'

MSCL TV Club: Looking for crumbs (Episodes 7 and 8)

MSCL TV Club: Adjectives! WOO! (Episodes 5 and 6)

MSCL TV Club: A girl named Pop Tart (Episodes 3 and 4)

MSCL TV Club: High school is a battlefield!!!! (Episodess 1 and 2)

TV Club: Let’s watch My So-Called Life!

The 87% Club

New year, new TBR: What to read in 2026!!!

No burden, all delight: Good news from 2025

Bake Until Done

Introducing Happy To Be Here!

Goodbye for now!

Nerdette Book Club: More with Amor Towles, LIVE!

All the books to read this summer!!!

A kitchen therapy session with Tamar Adler

Nerdette Book Club LIVE with Amor Towles!

A joyfully defiant summer playlist

Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Beautyland’

CORGIS ARE DELIGHTFUL

Tortured poets and airlines for dogs

Is mayo a burden or a delight? WE FIND OUT.

Killer gams FTW

Nerdette Book Club: Marie-Helene Bertino on ‘Beautyland’

Bonus: The Culture Study Podcast

Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Martyr!’

Burden or Delight: Sourdough edition

The aggressively delightful Noel Fielding

Xochitl Gonzalez on art, belonging and nostalgia

Nerdette Book Club: Kaveh Akbar on ‘Martyr!’

We have some questions for Rebecca Makkai

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Come and Get It,’ discussed!

Here’s to mucking about!

Kelly Link’s uncanny novel is “a love letter to romance”

The Tortured Nerdettes Department

Nerdette Book Club: Kiley Reid on 'Come and Get It'

Snacky and tired? Us too.

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind,’ discussed!

12 books to read in 2024

Silent Book Club: An introvert’s dream

New year, new Stanley tumbler

Special Episode - Missing Pages

Nerdette Book Club: Molly McGhee on ‘Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind’

The best TV shows of 2023

The best podcasts of 2023

The best books of 2023

The best cookbooks of 2023

Special Episode - Text Me Back

Yes, you are an activist

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Land of Milk and Honey,’ discussed!

A sinister summer at ‘Saltburn’

Give thanks, eat veggies

A space show that’s not about space

Nerdette Book Club: C Pam Zhang on ‘Land of Milk and Honey’

Your Friday ritual

Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Vaster Wilds,’ discussed!

Disco skeletons and rhinestone pumpkins

V.E. Schwab says fantasy is more than swords and dragons

TGI Friday the 13th

Aparna Nancherla’s navel is your navel

Nerdette Book Club: Lauren Groff on ‘The Vaster Wilds’

A bounty of fall books

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Happiness Falls,’ discussed!

National Book Award finalist: “I just wanted to go where the fun was”

We should all be talking about periods

How to navigate COVID this fall

Nerdette Book Club: Angie Kim on ‘Happiness Falls’

Reality TV reckoning

Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Country of the Blind,’ discussed!

Songs of the summer

Cozying up with Ann Patchett

Burden or delight: Spider-swallowing edition

Justice for night owls

Nerdette Book Club: Andrew Leland on ‘The Country of the Blind’

Go romance yourself!

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Loot,’ discussed!

What to watch and eat this summer

Simon Pegg, king of the nerds

BONUS: When Magic Happens

Please stop throwing cheese on stage

Nerdette Book Club: Tania James on ‘Loot’

"Humanity’s most batsh*t endeavors"

Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,’ discussed!

The value of pop culture criticism with Aisha Harris

Burden or delight?

A decade of delight

Nerdette Book Club: Shannon Chakraborty on ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’

The naked truth about hot dogs

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Take What You Need,’ discussed!

Everything’s garbage. Sam Irby makes it better.

K-beauty is all the rage

Trans visibility with Tre’vell Anderson

Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz on 'Trust'

Your summer books preview

Nerdette Book Club: Idra Novey on ‘Take What You Need’

Are you there spring?! It’s me, Greta.

‘Better the Blood,’ discussed!

Adult BFFs

Spoiler alert: It’s Friday

The nerds behind some of the things you love most

Nerdette Book Club: Michael Bennett on ‘Better the Blood’

How to be a lazy cook (in the best possible way!)

Nerdette Book Club: ‘I Have Some Questions for You,’ discussed!

I want those three years back!

It’s gonna be ok!!!!!!

How old do you feel?

Nerdette Book Club: Rebecca Makkai on ‘I Have Some Questions for You’

Brown butter FTW

Nerdette Book Club: ‘How Far the Light Reaches,’ discussed!

Are we having fun yet?

Go to your room!

A rom-com with a heavy dose of *dram*

Nerdette Book Club: Sabrina Imbler on ‘How Far the Light Reaches’

Special: NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ discussed!

Taking down anti-fat bias with Aubrey Gordon

Undercover: The art of adaptation

Undercover: How audiobooks bring a story to life

Nerdette Book Club: Kevin Wilson on ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic’

Undercover: The thorny business of book blurbs

Special: Making Rihanna

Nerdette Book Club: 'Trust,' discussed!

The best TV shows of 2022

The best books of 2022

The best podcasts of 2022

Nerdette Book Club: Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’

The story behind the behind

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm’

Taking joy seriously with Ross Gay

‘She Said’ reignites conversations around #MeToo

The holidays, Covid and you

Life is stressful, but baking doesn’t have to be

What would you do with a billion bucks?

Nerdette Book Club: Laura Warrell on ‘Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm’

We made it to the Halloweekend!

Nerdette Book Club: 'Our Missing Hearts'

A very bookish episode

The cookbooks you need this fall

Five frightening books to read this fall

Nerdette Book Club: Celeste Ng on ‘Our Missing Hearts’

One less thing to worry about

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’

Hell, or hell yeah?!

God save the new boy Queen

Does ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ need a special master?

Nerdette Book Club: Gabrielle Zevin on ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’

The moon and Thee Megan

Finding joy with Courtney Barnett

Summer is NOT over!!!

If you’re going to get COVID, make it count

Goodbye to a GOAT

We’re still talking about Beyoncé

'Nope,' Austen adaptations, and the end of the Choco Taco

Bennifer, 'Crawdads' and getting caught in the rain

James Webb FTW

A peek behind the librarian desk

Let it out

How are you REALLY?

What to read this summer

What is your daily EGOT?

They weren’t heroes but they saved lives

Tom Perotta on ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’

What if phones but too much

Nerdette Book Club: ‘This Thing Between Us’

Masks are still a good idea

Aim for just okay

What to eat right now

Music dance experience!

Nerdette Book Club: Gus Moreno on ‘This Thing Between Us’

What's happening?

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Pachinko’

Grow Along With Us

Vibe shift, anyone?

April is the cruelest month. Make a smoothie.

Nerdette Book Club: 'Notes on an Execution'

Is it a podcast or is it cake?

Whole grain flour is in bloom

Hearts and crafts: Nerdette live!

Free the f-word

The beauty of “Big Emotions”

Nerdette Book Club: Danya Kukafka on ‘Notes on an Execution’

Pandemic plot points: a dilemma

Nerdette Book Club: ‘S*** Cassandra Saw’

Should the Winter Olympics exist?

What not to wear: Olympics edition

Money is a 5 letter word

Nerdette Book Club: Gwen E. Kirby on ‘S*** Cassandra Saw’

January continues

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’

Let them eat crow

What to expect when you’re expecting Omicron

New year, new apocalypse!

Nerdette Book Club: Xochitl Gonzalez on ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’

The best podcasts of 2021

Nerdette Book Club: ‘You Better Be Lightning’

The best TV shows of 2021

Best books of 2021

Sweet, sweet syrup shortage

Nerdette Book Club: ‘You Better Be Lightning’

Omicronoasis

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Bombshell’

PIE FOR BREAKFAST

A pre-holiday check-up

What is this year’s sexiest supply chain?

What is time?

Nerdette Book Club: Sarah MacLean on ‘Bombshell’

Shove it, Satan

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Light From Uncommon Stars’

Fandom, feminists and fortune telling

The women who painted themselves against all odds

When life gives you kidneys, make 'bad art friends'

Nerdette Book Club: Ryka Aoki on ‘Light From Uncommon Stars’

What It Means To Be The First

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Crying in H Mart’

When Reality Meets TV

The Doctor Is In — Again!

When The Pressure’s Just Too Much

Book Club: Bonus Interview with Leigh Bardugo

Queens Of Pop And Vampire Slayers

Nerdette Book Club: ‘Klara and the Sun’

Is Anything Even Good Anymore?

#RushTok 101

Is the New Nicolas Cage Movie … Actually Good?

All Hail the Slacker Picnic

Book Club: The Best Books Of 2021 So Far

Adam Driver *Is* Hot And, Yes, Also A Centaur

Nerdette Book Club: 'Version Zero'

Olympics, Aliens, And Joy Revolution

Olympics, Aliens, And Joy Revolution

The Billionaire Space Race Is Yawn! I Mean On!

Somehow It’s July! Are You Delighted Yet?

Nerdette Book Club: David Yoon On 'Version Zero'

Heat Waves, Fun Games, And Weird Plays

SCOTUS: It's Okay To Say 'F*** School'

Nerdette Book Club: 'Great Circle'

Summer Reads And The Soundtrack For Them

Don't Get FOMO, Get JOMO

Nerdette Book Club: Maggie Shipstead On ‘Great Circle’

Sex, Swears, And Tennis Phenoms

Can I Really Take Off My Mask Now We Asked An Epidemiologist

Nerdette Book Club: 'White Ivy'

I Want To Believe… In An End To The Generation Wars

This Week We're Going "Off The Rails!" (Wearing Slippers In Public And Leaning Into Dry Shampoo)

Nerdette Book Club: Susie Yang On ‘White Ivy’

Bye Bye Herd Immunity, We Hardly Knew Ye

Flashing Face After The Vax? It’s More Likely Than You Think

Nerdette Book Club: 'The Office Of Historical Corrections'

The Chauvin Verdict, 'Mother Grains,' And The Incoming Cicada Rager

Police Violence, Podcast Recommendations, And The Pandemic Wall

Nerdette Book Club: Danielle Evans On 'The Office Of Historical Corrections'

Is Re-watching 'Grey's Anatomy' A Cry For Help? A Shondaland Investigation

The Boat Is Unstuck! Time For A Satanic Panic, I Guess

Nerdette Book Club: 'Piranesi'

The USPS Is Not A Girl Boss And Neither Are You

Working Moms, Spring Books, And Hot Cast Iron Tips

Nerdette Recaps: 'Promising Young Woman'

Vaccine FOMO? Don't Worry! All Your Social Skills Have Atrophied Anyway

Maybe We SHOULD Cancel The Culture

April Is Around The Corner, And We’re Standing By That

Nerdette Book Club: Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave The World Behind’

Your Weekend Starts Here: ‘Buffy,’ ‘Tarzan,’ And Cat Problems Solved

Your Weekend Starts Here: Britney Spears, Mercury Retrograde And Your COVID Questions Answered

Book Club: Rumaan Alam On His Netflix-Bound Apocalypse Novel ‘Leave The World Behind’

Your Weekend Starts Here: Awards Season, Everything Bagel Ice Cream And Remembering SOPHIE

Your Weekend Starts Here: Baby Busts, 'Black Buck' And The Collapse Of Capitalism?

Book Club: ‘The Space Between Worlds’

A Nerdette Inauguration Special

The 13th Month Of 2020

Book Club: Micaiah Johnson On Her Debut Sci Fi Novel, ‘The Space Between Worlds’

2021 Is A Mess. Here's How To Stay Positive

This Year Gave Us Some Good Stuff, Too

Book Club: Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’

This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain This Weekend Eating The Year's Best Holiday Cookie.

The Gift Of Dessa

Book Club: Tana French Talks About Her New Mystery Novel, ‘The Searcher’

Saved By The Bell, Seasonal Songs And Sprinkles

Happy Zoomsgiving From Nerdette To You

Book Club: ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue’

Tweets, Sweets ... And A Convo About Animal Penises

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy On Curiosity, Creativity and Crosswords

Book Club: V.E. Schwab On ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue’

Don't Distress, De-Stress

Book Club: ‘Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation’

Thank You For Voting

Your Weekend Starts Here: Cache Your Cookies, Categorize Your Fun, Put Down Your Phone

Burnout Is For Millennials (And Millennials At Heart)

Surprise! You’re A Genius

Movies, TikTok And Fat Bears! (Oh My!)

Cold-Weather Pandemic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert

Gillian Flynn Talks About the Comics, Conspiracies and Pandemics in her new TV Series, 'Utopia'

Book Club: ‘The Shadow King’

Comedy Meets Social Commentary in Hulu's 'Woke'

How The Bechdel Test Changed This Woman's Career

Introvert's Guide To The Good Life: How To Bake Away Your Feelings This Fall

Book Club: A Look At ‘The Shadow King’ With Author Maaza Mengiste

Is It Too Early To Talk About Fall Books?

What Made Feminism In The ‘90s So Fly?

Book Club: 'Members Only'

A Good Old-Fashioned Field Trip: Nerdette Visits Argonne National Lab

Good Movie Alert: Filmmaker Kris Rey Mixes Nostalgia and Reality in ‘I Used To Go Here’

The Women Who Fought For The Right To Vote

Book Club: Let’s Talk ‘Members Only’ With Author Sameer Pandya

Nerdette Recaps ‘Clueless’ With Peter Sagal

Introvert's Guide To The Good Life: You're Here And It's August

Why American Politics Needs More Ladiezzz

Book Club: 'Last Tang Standing'

A Road Trip To Fossil Town

Big Friendships Take Work, But They Have Big Rewards

Are Summer Movies Still A Thing This Year?

Book Club: A Spoiler-Free Conversation About ‘Last Tang Standing’ With Author Lauren Ho

‘One To Watch’ Corrects A Reality TV Blind Spot

Isolation Insights From Sheyna Gifford, Who Spent A Year In A Mars Simulation

A Tribute To The Nerdiest Of Instruments

From Spacewalker To Deep Sea Diver

Therapeutic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert

Book Club: ‘The Vanishing Half’

Why You Should Build Literally Anything

It's Tidy Time

Got Plants?

Brit Bennett On Transgressing Racial Identity In ‘The Vanishing Half’

What Can I Do?

Books To Read Right Now

Take A Minute

Book Club: ‘The City We Became’

Video Games For Noobs

What To Do With All That Anxiety

Exercise: Come On! Let’s Do It!

Book Club: A Not-Too-Spoilery Convo With Sci-Fi Author N.K. Jemisin

TV You Gotta Watch

Should You Cut Your Own Hair?

What Was On Your Pre-Pandemic Wish List?

The Online Dating Scene

Book Club: ‘You Never Forget Your First’

Music You Can Use-ic

Book Club: Author Alexis Coe On George Washington

Podcasts To Help Cool Your Jets

Book Club: Emily St. John Mandel On ‘The Glass Hotel’

Introvert’s Guide To The Good Life: Movie Edition!

Book Club: ‘The Glass Hotel’

Ode to Pets!

All The Books You’ll Ever Need

Get Your Stress Bake On

What's A Weekend

How To Adapt

Gratitude’s The Attitude

Call Your People!

8 Minutes Of Joy

Book Club: ‘Uncanny Valley’

Book Club: ‘Such A Fun Age’

Nerdette Book Club 2020

Best Books Of The Year!

George R.R. Martin Still Hangs Out In Westeros

A Smorgasbord Of Delight

Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 3

Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 2

Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part I

An Intro To Book Club: ‘The Testaments’

Introvert’s Guide To The Good Life

A Love Letter To Cabbage

Claire Lombardo On ‘The Most Fun We Ever Had’

Rad Girls Who Changed The World

Stream These TV Shows This Summer

Summer Reads!

How To Write Your First Novel In Your 40s

Tripping Hard For Science

The Ladies Of 'Booksmart': Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein

Bill Nye, Critical Thinking Guy

Lizzo On Nerdette

The Case For De-Extinction

Kids + Science = AWESOME

Lindy West Flips TV’s Fat Tropes

Wash Your F-ing Hands

Podcats In Space

Winter Watches!

Move Over Holden Caulfield

Dessa Changes Her Mind

Get That Money.

A Pile Of Last-Minute Homework

ICYMI: CRISPR

Mandë Holford: Killer Snail Hunter

Redefining Representation With ‘Well-Read Black Girl’

Barbara Kingsolver Calls Her New Novel ‘My Love Letter To Millennials’

Salt, Fat, Acid, Ask For What You Want

Jodie Whittaker And The New 'Doctor Who'

The Author Of Greta’s Favorite Book! (Of 2018): Madeline Miller On 'Circe'

The Gender Pay Gap

Fall Televisions!

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth Talks Mothering, Senatoring, And Couponing

Happiness 101

Is The Real-Life Upside Down At Argonne National Lab?

Summer Reads!

Power Up: Musician Neko Case

Breaking The Tech Industry’s Glass Ceiling … In 1962

Getting Harassed For Exposing Sexual Harassment

NPR’s Audie Cornish On Being A New Mom

Nerdette’s Finest: Negin Farsad

Nerdette’s Finest: Neil deGrasse Tyson Assigns Homework

Nerdette's Finest: Tom Hanks

Nerdette's Finest: Roxane Gay

Power Up: Grace Bonney

Unwinding With The Kondabolu Brothers

How To Kill Time In Space

Power Up: Amy Schumer And Aidy Bryant

Power Up: A New Project From Nerdette

Tomi Adeyemi Calls Her New Book ‘Black Panther With Magic’

I Have A Rare Genetic Disease. CRISPR Might Fix It.

Anna Deavere Smith Takes You To Prison

How To Be Aggressively Delightful

How A Creative Boss Gets It Done

Feminism, Fear, And Physics At The Winter Olympics

Sex, Drugs, And Singing Ovaries

Why Does John Hodgman Like Malört So Much?

Pulitzer-Winner Jennifer Egan Almost Abandoned ‘Manhattan Beach’

Author Margaret Atwood Says ‘The Harvey Weinstein Moment’ Will Last

Daveed Diggs Does All The Things

Eve Ewing On Prince, Afrofuturism And Sweaters

SCOTUS Edition: Muppets V. Supreme Court Justices

‘Call Your Girlfriend’ Hangs With ‘Nerdette’ Podcast

Jane The Virgin’s Yael Grobglas Meets Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli

Star Trek With Brooke Gladstone

Nerdette: 'Doctor Who' Star Alex Kingston

The Viola And The Octopus: Nadia Sirota’s Two Loves

Nerdette: Separating Fantasy From Reality

How The U.S. Poet Laureate Finds Poetry In Justin Bieber

An Everest Climber’s Never-Ending Quest For Adventure

Rainn Wilson: All About That Bassoon

Jessica Pimentel: Actress By Day, Death Metal Frontwoman By Night

Forget Cats: Jenny Slate Is A Plant Lady

Author Samantha Irby Wants To Put Normal On TV

The Nerdette Summer Homework Special

Jill Tarter On A Life Spent Searching For Extraterrestrials

From ‘Homeland’ To ‘Freaks And Geeks,’ She Can Direct Anything

Nerdette: W. Kamau Bell

Avoiding Armageddon With Dr. Carrie Nugent

Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Sean Gunn Loves Math, Cats, and Rap

Jane the Virgin’s Jaime Camil Loves His Cast, Broadway, And Ancient Aliens

Breaking Yoga Stereotypes With Jessamyn Stanley

Nerdette: Rebecca Skloot On Henrietta Lacks

Nerdette: Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants You To Put Down Your iPhone

Roxane Gay On Writing, Trashy TV And Channing Tatum

Nerdette: Let’s Talk About Sex (And Religion) With Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus

Animating Disney’s Moana with Amy Smeed

How To Build The Best Bad Robots With Simone Giertz

The Past, Present And Future Of Sci Fi With N.K. Jemisin

Popular vs. Cool With Derek Thompson

Life On Mars With Dr. Sheyna Gifford

Nerdette: Brain Pickings Creator Maria Popova

Nerdette: Lizzo On Rapping And Girl Groups

Tom Hanks And Typewriters: A Love Story

Margot Lee Shetterly, Andy Cohen And The Best Podcasts Of 2016

Stephanie Beatriz, Reality Bytes And Cookies With Dorie

‘2 Dope Queens’ Host Phoebe Robinson On Why You Can't Touch Her Hair

Gilmore Girls Revival Recap

Rad Ladies Of History With Author Kate Schatz

Design Sponge’s Grace Bonney On What She Learned From 100 Boss Ladies

Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun On The 2016 Election

Issa Rae On Adulting, Oversharing And Her HBO Show

How 'High Maintenance’ Creators Turned Their Web Series Into An HBO Hit

Fall TV With Linda Holmes And Jim DeRogatis

Luvvie Ajayi Is Judging You

Dr. Eugenia Cheng On Why Math Is Magic

G. Willow Wilson on Ms. Marvel and Millennials

Victoria Schwab On Monsters, Mayhem And Magic

Messing With Nature: Exploring The Future Of Food, Fertility And More

Hari Kondabolu On Turning Politics Into Comedy

Jessi Klein On Grown-Up Tomboys, Motherhood, And Backpacks

Lindy West And Andi Zeisler On Fierce Feminism

Tig Notaro And Gillian Flynn 'Just' People

Judy Blume And Kwame Alexander On The Books That Shape Childhood

W. Kamau Bell On His New Show, The Hulk, And Denzel

GoT 6.6: Blood Of My Blood

Felicia Day On Being Weird, Hard Work And Women In Hollywood

Dan Savage On Nerdy Kink, Musical Theater, and Cultural Catholicism

Politics On TV: West Wing's Joshua Malina And Madam Secretary Creator Barbara Hall

Stephen King, Anna Quindlen And Garden Gnomes

601 The Red Woman: Nerdette Recaps Game Of Thrones With Peter Sagal

Baratunde Thurston On Comedy, Race, And Uncomfortable Conversations

Rebecca Traister On All The Single Ladies

Author Amy Tan And A Rube Goldberg Competition

Kim Barker On Being Tina Fey In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Nick Hornby on screenplays, nostalgia and the beauty of sport

Sandra Cisneros on Writing, Running Away and RuPaul

Jenny Lawson on Living a Furiously Happy Life Full of Raccoons

Sarah Vowell on Hamilton, grumpy cartographers and America's favorite Frenchman

Sneak Peek at Our New Season

Caitlin Moran on strident feminism, giddy optimism, and riotous laughter

Science on the beach with Clare Fieseler

Alexandra Petri on being awkward, joining cults, and making puns

Rock critic Jessica Hopper is Kool-Aid Man

#11 BONUS Game of Thrones Recap w/ Peter Sagal (S5E10)

Sex from Scratch, the history of birth control, and homework from Dan Savage

#10: Game of Thrones Recaps w/Peter Sagal (S5E10)

Erik Larson on journalling, fatalism, and time travel

#09: Game of Thrones Recaps w/Peter Sagal (S5E9)

Inside the weird world of Welcome to Night Vale

#08: Game of Thrones Recap w/Peter Sagal (S5E8)

Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Andy Weir! Space, pop culture and physics!

Nuclear Engineer J'Tia Taylor on mixing hard science and pop culture

#06: Game of Thrones Recap w/ Peter Sagal (S5E6)

Mike Pesca on sports, musicals, and being nonplussed

#05: Game of Thrones Recap w/Peter Sagal (S5E5)

Kate Mulgrew, from Star Trek captain to kitchen overlord

#03: Game of Thrones recap w/ Peter Sagal (S5E3)

#02: Game of Thrones recaps w/ Peter Sagal (S5E2)

#01: Game of Thrones recaps w/ Peter Sagal (S5E1)

Prologue: Game of Thrones recaps w/ Peter Sagal

Adafruit's Becky Stern, Breakfast Club remake and a big announcement

Author Reif Larsen, homework from The Best Show and Nazila Fathi

Live at Adler Planetarium: Pi Day!

The race to build a super battery, Broad City's musical mind and Girl Scouts' origin story

Comedian Maz Jobrani and when Helen Keller met her 'Miracle Worker'

Boozy botany and the story of Marian Anderson

Director Richard Linklater and Ferguson Librarian Scott Bonner

Melody Kramer's open-source life, singing civil rights and a geek's guide to dating

Scott McCloud on comics, Elizabeth Blackwell's backstory and librarian nerd confessions

Miranda July on writing books, living clumsily, and meditation

Astronaut and NOAA head Kathy Sullivan, Indira Gandhi's legacy and beating the winter blahs

Getting to know Invisibilia, Susan B. Anthony, and Vinyl Me Please

Roxane Gay on being a 'Bad Feminist'

Dinner Party Download Edition

Peter Sagal: A nerd we're thankful for

Margaret Atwood on feminism, science fiction and the future of books

Ask a Mortician's Caitlin Doughty nerds out about death

Author Simon Rich on 'Spoiled Brats' and being a history nerd

Lady spies of the Civil War, Harry Potter and a Halloween challenge

Hank Green, Cameron Esposito and the history of lady pockets

Ada Lovelace Day, Hopscotch, Lucius and Serial's Sarah Koenig

Comedian Judah Friedlander and puzzlemaster Will Shortz

Author Lydia Netzer and a powerful nerd confession

Comedian Rob Delaney, banned books and Josh Gondelman

Tavi Gevinson, Tracy Letts and a comic genius

Nerdette in Space: Intergalactic interviews

Memory Palace's Nate DiMeo on history, Parks and Recreation and pop music

Elizabeth Gilbert, polite botany, and Sex In Your Garden

The History of Wonder Woman, author Lev Grossman and a tearful nerd confession

Author Edan Lepucki and TLDR podcast's PJ and Alex

Author Tom Perrotta on The Leftovers and Lord of the Rings

Richard Linklater on Boyhood and the Facebook generation

Jessi Klein on her nerd origin story, Inside Amy Schumer and horses

Ain't I a Woman: Freedom fighters of American history

Mad houses, Mississippi Goddam and Modernist art

Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner and the story of Sally Ride

Author Mary Roach wants you to spit in your food

Peter Sagal on Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and being a nerd before it was cool

Nerdette LIVE with Brain Scoop's Emily Graslie

Your stepmom's guide to Game of Thrones, 538's Walt Hickey on women in film and more

Astronaut Chris Hadfield on space, mustaches and Star Trek

Ed Begley Jr. and homework from lunatic farmer Joel Salatin

Tricia learns to play Dungeons & Dragons and how women stack up in STEM fields around the world

Girls in the band, Emily Pilloton's teen toolbox, Mr. Superlative's bath tips and True Detective

Mapping the brain, competitive puzzlers and an ode to Parks and Recreation

Oscar preview with A.V. Club's film editor, how we got to HER and an animation-inspired cocktail

The romance of horror movies, author Deborah Blum and a boozy hot chocolate recipe

Tavi Gevinson nerds out about Rookie, music, art and gives stellar homework

Supernatural fangirls, Ladies Against Humanity and Harry Potter World

Nina Simone, Lena Horne and more black female performers who sang their civil rights

Tracy Letts gives homework, rainforest nerd Meg Lowman and an August Osage County cocktail

Cocktail recipes to keep you warm, the best of the worst PR pitches and 2014 TV picks

Nerdette Holiday Special on WBEZ

Scrabble nerd Stefan Fatsis and a homework challenge for aspiring word freaks

Gillian Anderson, Shakespeare with lightsabers and mad kitchen science

Doris Kearns Goodwin, discovering new dinosaurs and a Bully Pulpit cocktail

Word nerd Anne Curzan and Doctor Who homework for the overachievers

The definitive Seth Reiss, Thor exceeds expectations, and Scrabble tournaments as nerd havens

Homebrewing fun with Emma Christensen, a talk with Strange Brews Podcast, and ... midterms?

Masters of Sex, Ann Patchett, Halloween nerds and a zombie debate

Sharon Creech talks writing for kids, robot yetis on Doctor Who, and some hip homework

Ada Lovelace Day, girls who code and Malcolm Gladwell gives homework

Robin Sloan nerds out and Sharon Creech gives great homework

Hugging Neil Gaiman, flight vs baby animals and BBC's best sci fi

30 Rock writer Colleen McGuinness nerds out about TV, working with Tina Fey and Bananagrams

Fall TV: Mindy Project, Homeland and comedy pilots

Jane Addams and the 'L' word, Tina Fey on SNL and favorite female musicians

Jim DeRogatis nerds out, cats in space and David Tennant in Broadchurch

Marisha Pessl, Ghostbusters and flea market finds

Breaking Bad, Denise Kiernan and Marvel's nerdy beer

Doctor Who news, Breaking Bad hopes, a Dexter rant and NPR's Audie Cornish

Audie Cornish, Orange is the New Black and future tech with MT Anderson

New slang, Planet Money's Zoe Chace and Nerdette's origin story

Wild berry cocktails, urban foraging and three must read books

Comics, sex and crush-worthy bookshelves with Sarah Mirk of Bitch Magazine

Chris Kluwe nerds out, Brian Babylon on Star Trek and Game of Thrones 101

Author Meg Wolitzer, campfire cocktails and circus camp

When stories should kill characters: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and more

Nerdy summer camp stories and a Game of Thrones list

Summer TV, lady podcasters, and an intern rant

Nerdette can't hardly wait for Arrested Development