Episode summary: Welcome to Season 7: Capitalism. The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at least half a century. This season tells the story of capitalism — how people with power built and shaped it over time. We’ll also explore what to do now that many people see ca...

Episode summary: 5x15 is delighted to announce an exclusive event with leading author Robin Wall Kimmerer, in the beautiful setting of Kew Gardens. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s internationally bestselling books, Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss, not only teach us about the biology of different organi...

Episode summary: Whose job is it to fact check the Supreme Court? As it turns out, no one. So why is it like that, and what even happens when you prove them wrong?

Episode summary: Tips to Elevate Your Reporting and Storytelling from Ira Glass

Episode summary: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. This week’s episode explores all the ways that Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale confounds our expectations about good and evil. What does Dr Jekyll really want? What are all the men in the...

Episode summary: Episodio 63: Non me la bevo con Michele Fino (Stagione 4)

Episode summary: CW/TW: Intimate partner violence, child exploitation Diana Freed has spent the past several years radically reframing the threat model in cybersecurity with groundbreaking research into how domestic abusers utilize everyday technology like smart phones and tracking apps. Diana sits...

Episode summary: Stephen Millard, one of our favorite automators, returns to the show with ideas (and scripts) to automate Alfred and announces the public Automators Obsidian Vault.

Episode summary: Is the status of linear algebra rising?

Episode summary: Squirrels were purposefully introduced into our cities in the 1800s, and when their population exploded, we lost track of how many there are.