The end of headphones - 0:35
Horror movies — final girl trope - 3:21
Narrative psychology — how storytelling shapes our understanding of events - 21:44

Final girls

0:24 - Wilderness Week
4:22 - Epi-Pen/drug costs
18:11 - Frank Ocean and album releases
32:02 - Halt and Catch Fire

Let’s talk finance: drug prices and the money behind online streaming services

Ed Yong

Ryan Lochte

0:18 - Ryan Lochte
3:54 - Arrival film
8:57  -Nate Park + Birth of a Nation
23:09 - Interview with Ed Yong

Ryan Lochte, diversity in film, and the microbes among us featuring interview with science writer Ed Yong

0:41 - Liz sees Suicide Squad
6:35 - Scientist hit list
10:14 - Flossing revisited
12:52 - Smithsonian misconduct
31:08 - Stranger Things

Stranger Things, a scientist hit list, and more strange things

0:33 - Ghostbusters
8:15 - Flossing
13:07 - Nature documentaries 
23:21 - Suicide Squad

Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, and nature documentaries

03:43 - biodiversity
07:32 - Pokémon GO
24:50 - Ohlala

Gotta catch ‘em all!

Liz and Emily discuss a disheartening week in national news, The Purge and violence in entertainment, and Beyonce’s very awesome headphones.

A Violent Purge

The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter by The Verge

The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter

Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever by The Verge

Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever

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

Damaged cases: Former astronauts, Studio Ghibli, and Lemmy

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.

05:23 - Prince
07:50 - Elon Musk
23:19 - X-Men Apocalypse

Mars needs Musk

14:02- Game of Thrones discussion
24:58 - algorithms
35:11 - Neighbors 2

Game Of Thrones, algorithms, and Neighbors 2

Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states by The Verge

Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states

Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments by The Verge

Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments

Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross by The Verge

Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel by The Verge

Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel

Time passes and the internet evolves — as everything does, really. ocial norms, minimal genomes, and the changing nature of celebrity

Genomes, Game of Thrones and Gawker

Liz and Emily discuss SXSW, genetic testing, and getting the chills from songs.

The neuroscience of why music feels good with Valorie Salimpoor

Jonathan Gold

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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, and Midnight Special. Liz and Emily revisit the topic of spoilers — are there some cases where a lack of expectation is to be encouraged?
Also: Sunday is the start of Daylight Saving Time in the US, a stupid practice Liz feels ought to be discouraged. Not only does it interrupt her morning schedule — the sun's only just started rising when she gets up and she'd like that to continue — it also leads to sleep deprivation. And everyone is worse when they don't get enough sleep!
Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova, the most highly-paid female athlete in the world, was taking performance-enhancing drugs and still couldn't beat Venus Williams. What's even weirder is the history of those drugs: they were originally meant for Soviet super-soldiers. Anyway the moral of this story is that Venus Williams is an incredible athlete, and we all ought to admire her. (In fact, both Williams sisters are remarkable athletes — Sharapova lost to Serena Williams the same day Sharapova tested positive for PEDs.)

Jonathan Gold on getting to know a city through its food

Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha by The Verge

Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha

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