Nerdette
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Sep 9, 2020
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This podcast is informative, entertaining, inspiring, and makes me feel like I can take on any adversity because these ladies have my (our collective) backs. Keep up the good work!
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Nerdette is a weekly interview show that helps you unwind with fun conversations, inspiring ideas, and delightful recommendations. And join us every month for the Nerdette Book Club!
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Goodbye for now!
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May 28, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: More with Amor Towles, LIVE!
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May 24, 2024 |
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All the books to read this summer!!!
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May 17, 2024 |
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A kitchen therapy session with Tamar Adler
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May 10, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club LIVE with Amor Towles!
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May 07, 2024 |
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A joyfully defiant summer playlist
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May 03, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Beautyland’
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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CORGIS ARE DELIGHTFUL
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Tortured poets and airlines for dogs
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Is mayo a burden or a delight? WE FIND OUT.
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Killer gams FTW
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Marie-Helene Bertino on ‘Beautyland’
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Bonus: The Culture Study Podcast
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Martyr!’
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Burden or Delight: Sourdough edition
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The aggressively delightful Noel Fielding
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Xochitl Gonzalez on art, belonging and nostalgia
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Kaveh Akbar on ‘Martyr!’
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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We have some questions for Rebecca Makkai
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Come and Get It,’ discussed!
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Here’s to mucking about!
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Kelly Link’s uncanny novel is “a love letter to romance”
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Tortured Nerdettes Department
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Kiley Reid on 'Come and Get It'
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Snacky and tired? Us too.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind,’ discussed!
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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12 books to read in 2024
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Silent Book Club: An introvert’s dream
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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New year, new Stanley tumbler
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Special Episode - Missing Pages
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Molly McGhee on ‘Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind’
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The best TV shows of 2023
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The best podcasts of 2023
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The best books of 2023
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The best cookbooks of 2023
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Special Episode - Text Me Back
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Yes, you are an activist
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Land of Milk and Honey,’ discussed!
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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A sinister summer at ‘Saltburn’
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Give thanks, eat veggies
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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A space show that’s not about space
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: C Pam Zhang on ‘Land of Milk and Honey’
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Your Friday ritual
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Vaster Wilds,’ discussed!
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Disco skeletons and rhinestone pumpkins
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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V.E. Schwab says fantasy is more than swords and dragons
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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TGI Friday the 13th
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Aparna Nancherla’s navel is your navel
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Lauren Groff on ‘The Vaster Wilds’
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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A bounty of fall books
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Happiness Falls,’ discussed!
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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National Book Award finalist: “I just wanted to go where the fun was”
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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We should all be talking about periods
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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How to navigate COVID this fall
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Angie Kim on ‘Happiness Falls’
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Reality TV reckoning
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Country of the Blind,’ discussed!
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Songs of the summer
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Cozying up with Ann Patchett
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Burden or delight: Spider-swallowing edition
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Justice for night owls
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Andrew Leland on ‘The Country of the Blind’
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Go romance yourself!
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Loot,’ discussed!
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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What to watch and eat this summer
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Simon Pegg, king of the nerds
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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BONUS: When Magic Happens
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Please stop throwing cheese on stage
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Tania James on ‘Loot’
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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"Humanity’s most batsh*t endeavors"
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,’ discussed!
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The value of pop culture criticism with Aisha Harris
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Burden or delight?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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A decade of delight
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Shannon Chakraborty on ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The naked truth about hot dogs
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Take What You Need,’ discussed!
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May 30, 2023 |
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Everything’s garbage. Sam Irby makes it better.
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May 26, 2023 |
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K-beauty is all the rage
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May 19, 2023 |
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Trans visibility with Tre’vell Anderson
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May 12, 2023 |
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Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz on 'Trust'
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May 10, 2023 |
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Your summer books preview
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May 05, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Idra Novey on ‘Take What You Need’
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May 02, 2023 |
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Are you there spring?! It’s me, Greta.
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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‘Better the Blood,’ discussed!
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Adult BFFs
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Spoiler alert: It’s Friday
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The nerds behind some of the things you love most
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Michael Bennett on ‘Better the Blood’
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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How to be a lazy cook (in the best possible way!)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘I Have Some Questions for You,’ discussed!
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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I want those three years back!
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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It’s gonna be ok!!!!!!
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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How old do you feel?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Rebecca Makkai on ‘I Have Some Questions for You’
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Brown butter FTW
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘How Far the Light Reaches,’ discussed!
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Are we having fun yet?
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Go to your room!
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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A rom-com with a heavy dose of *dram*
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Sabrina Imbler on ‘How Far the Light Reaches’
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Special: NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic,’ discussed!
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Taking down anti-fat bias with Aubrey Gordon
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Undercover: The art of adaptation
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Undercover: How audiobooks bring a story to life
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Kevin Wilson on ‘Now Is Not the Time to Panic’
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Undercover: The thorny business of book blurbs
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Special: Making Rihanna
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Trust,' discussed!
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The best TV shows of 2022
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The best books of 2022
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The best podcasts of 2022
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The story behind the behind
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm’
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Taking joy seriously with Ross Gay
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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‘She Said’ reignites conversations around #MeToo
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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The holidays, Covid and you
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Life is stressful, but baking doesn’t have to be
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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What would you do with a billion bucks?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Laura Warrell on ‘Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm’
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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We made it to the Halloweekend!
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Our Missing Hearts'
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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A very bookish episode
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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The cookbooks you need this fall
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Five frightening books to read this fall
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Celeste Ng on ‘Our Missing Hearts’
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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One less thing to worry about
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Hell, or hell yeah?!
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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God save the new boy Queen
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Does ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ need a special master?
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Gabrielle Zevin on ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The moon and Thee Megan
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Finding joy with Courtney Barnett
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Summer is NOT over!!!
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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If you’re going to get COVID, make it count
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Goodbye to a GOAT
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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We’re still talking about Beyoncé
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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'Nope,' Austen adaptations, and the end of the Choco Taco
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Bennifer, 'Crawdads' and getting caught in the rain
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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James Webb FTW
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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A peek behind the librarian desk
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Let it out
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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How are you REALLY?
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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What to read this summer
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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What is your daily EGOT?
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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They weren’t heroes but they saved lives
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Tom Perotta on ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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What if phones but too much
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘This Thing Between Us’
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May 31, 2022 |
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Masks are still a good idea
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May 27, 2022 |
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Aim for just okay
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May 20, 2022 |
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What to eat right now
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May 13, 2022 |
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Music dance experience!
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May 06, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Gus Moreno on ‘This Thing Between Us’
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May 03, 2022 |
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What's happening?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Pachinko’
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Grow Along With Us
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Vibe shift, anyone?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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April is the cruelest month. Make a smoothie.
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Notes on an Execution'
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Is it a podcast or is it cake?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Whole grain flour is in bloom
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Hearts and crafts: Nerdette live!
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Free the f-word
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The beauty of “Big Emotions”
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Danya Kukafka on ‘Notes on an Execution’
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Pandemic plot points: a dilemma
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘S*** Cassandra Saw’
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Should the Winter Olympics exist?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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What not to wear: Olympics edition
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Money is a 5 letter word
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Gwen E. Kirby on ‘S*** Cassandra Saw’
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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January continues
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Let them eat crow
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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What to expect when you’re expecting Omicron
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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New year, new apocalypse!
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Xochitl Gonzalez on ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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The best podcasts of 2021
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘You Better Be Lightning’
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The best TV shows of 2021
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Best books of 2021
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Sweet, sweet syrup shortage
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘You Better Be Lightning’
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Omicronoasis
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Bombshell’
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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PIE FOR BREAKFAST
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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A pre-holiday check-up
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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What is this year’s sexiest supply chain?
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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What is time?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Sarah MacLean on ‘Bombshell’
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Shove it, Satan
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Light From Uncommon Stars’
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Fandom, feminists and fortune telling
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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The women who painted themselves against all odds
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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When life gives you kidneys, make 'bad art friends'
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Ryka Aoki on ‘Light From Uncommon Stars’
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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What It Means To Be The First
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Crying in H Mart’
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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When Reality Meets TV
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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The Doctor Is In — Again!
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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When The Pressure’s Just Too Much
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Book Club: Bonus Interview with Leigh Bardugo
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Queens Of Pop And Vampire Slayers
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Klara and the Sun’
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Is Anything Even Good Anymore?
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#RushTok 101
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Is the New Nicolas Cage Movie … Actually Good?
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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All Hail the Slacker Picnic
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Book Club: The Best Books Of 2021 So Far
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Adam Driver *Is* Hot And, Yes, Also A Centaur
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Version Zero'
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Olympics, Aliens, And Joy Revolution
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Olympics, Aliens, And Joy Revolution
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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The Billionaire Space Race Is Yawn! I Mean On!
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Somehow It’s July! Are You Delighted Yet?
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: David Yoon On 'Version Zero'
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Heat Waves, Fun Games, And Weird Plays
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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SCOTUS: It's Okay To Say 'F*** School'
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Great Circle'
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Summer Reads And The Soundtrack For Them
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Don't Get FOMO, Get JOMO
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Maggie Shipstead On ‘Great Circle’
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Sex, Swears, And Tennis Phenoms
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Can I Really Take Off My Mask Now We Asked An Epidemiologist
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May 28, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'White Ivy'
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May 25, 2021 |
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I Want To Believe… In An End To The Generation Wars
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May 21, 2021 |
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This Week We're Going "Off The Rails!" (Wearing Slippers In Public And Leaning Into Dry Shampoo)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Susie Yang On ‘White Ivy’
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May 11, 2021 |
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Bye Bye Herd Immunity, We Hardly Knew Ye
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May 07, 2021 |
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Flashing Face After The Vax? It’s More Likely Than You Think
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'The Office Of Historical Corrections'
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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The Chauvin Verdict, 'Mother Grains,' And The Incoming Cicada Rager
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Police Violence, Podcast Recommendations, And The Pandemic Wall
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Danielle Evans On 'The Office Of Historical Corrections'
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Is Re-watching 'Grey's Anatomy' A Cry For Help? A Shondaland Investigation
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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The Boat Is Unstuck! Time For A Satanic Panic, I Guess
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: 'Piranesi'
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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The USPS Is Not A Girl Boss And Neither Are You
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Working Moms, Spring Books, And Hot Cast Iron Tips
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Nerdette Recaps: 'Promising Young Woman'
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Vaccine FOMO? Don't Worry! All Your Social Skills Have Atrophied Anyway
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Maybe We SHOULD Cancel The Culture
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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April Is Around The Corner, And We’re Standing By That
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Nerdette Book Club: Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave The World Behind’
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Your Weekend Starts Here: ‘Buffy,’ ‘Tarzan,’ And Cat Problems Solved
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Your Weekend Starts Here: Britney Spears, Mercury Retrograde And Your COVID Questions Answered
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Book Club: Rumaan Alam On His Netflix-Bound Apocalypse Novel ‘Leave The World Behind’
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Your Weekend Starts Here: Awards Season, Everything Bagel Ice Cream And Remembering SOPHIE
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Your Weekend Starts Here: Baby Busts, 'Black Buck' And The Collapse Of Capitalism?
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Book Club: ‘The Space Between Worlds’
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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A Nerdette Inauguration Special
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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The 13th Month Of 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Book Club: Micaiah Johnson On Her Debut Sci Fi Novel, ‘The Space Between Worlds’
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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2021 Is A Mess. Here's How To Stay Positive
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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This Year Gave Us Some Good Stuff, Too
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Book Club: Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain This Weekend Eating The Year's Best Holiday Cookie.
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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The Gift Of Dessa
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Book Club: Tana French Talks About Her New Mystery Novel, ‘The Searcher’
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Saved By The Bell, Seasonal Songs And Sprinkles
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Happy Zoomsgiving From Nerdette To You
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Book Club: ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue’
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Tweets, Sweets ... And A Convo About Animal Penises
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy On Curiosity, Creativity and Crosswords
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Book Club: V.E. Schwab On ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue’
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Don't Distress, De-Stress
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Book Club: ‘Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation’
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Thank You For Voting
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Your Weekend Starts Here: Cache Your Cookies, Categorize Your Fun, Put Down Your Phone
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Burnout Is For Millennials (And Millennials At Heart)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Surprise! You’re A Genius
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Movies, TikTok And Fat Bears! (Oh My!)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Cold-Weather Pandemic Advice From An Infectious Disease Expert
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Gillian Flynn Talks About the Comics, Conspiracies and Pandemics in her new TV Series, 'Utopia'
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Book Club: ‘The Shadow King’
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Comedy Meets Social Commentary in Hulu's 'Woke'
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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How The Bechdel Test Changed This Woman's Career
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Introvert's Guide To The Good Life: How To Bake Away Your Feelings This Fall
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Book Club: A Look At ‘The Shadow King’ With Author Maaza Mengiste
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Is It Too Early To Talk About Fall Books?
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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What Made Feminism In The ‘90s So Fly?
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Book Club: 'Members Only'
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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A Good Old-Fashioned Field Trip: Nerdette Visits Argonne National Lab
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Good Movie Alert: Filmmaker Kris Rey Mixes Nostalgia and Reality in ‘I Used To Go Here’
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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The Women Who Fought For The Right To Vote
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Book Club: Let’s Talk ‘Members Only’ With Author Sameer Pandya
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Nerdette Recaps ‘Clueless’ With Peter Sagal
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Introvert's Guide To The Good Life: You're Here And It's August
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Why American Politics Needs More Ladiezzz
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Book Club: 'Last Tang Standing'
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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A Road Trip To Fossil Town
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Big Friendships Take Work, But They Have Big Rewards
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Are Summer Movies Still A Thing This Year?
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Take A Minute
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Book Club: ‘The City We Became’
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May 19, 2020 |
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Book Club: A Not-Too-Spoilery Convo With Sci-Fi Author N.K. Jemisin
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Move Over Holden Caulfield
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Get That Money.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Andy Weir! Space, pop culture and physics!
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May 29, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Prologue: Game of Thrones recaps w/ Peter Sagal
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Adafruit's Becky Stern, Breakfast Club remake and a big announcement
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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Live at Adler Planetarium: Pi Day!
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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The race to build a super battery, Broad City's musical mind and Girl Scouts' origin story
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Comedian Maz Jobrani and when Helen Keller met her 'Miracle Worker'
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Boozy botany and the story of Marian Anderson
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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Director Richard Linklater and Ferguson Librarian Scott Bonner
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 10, 2015 |
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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Miranda July on writing books, living clumsily, and meditation
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Astronaut and NOAA head Kathy Sullivan, Indira Gandhi's legacy and beating the winter blahs
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Getting to know Invisibilia, Susan B. Anthony, and Vinyl Me Please
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Roxane Gay on being a 'Bad Feminist'
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Dec 10, 2014 |
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Dinner Party Download Edition
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Peter Sagal: A nerd we're thankful for
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Nov 25, 2014 |
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Margaret Atwood on feminism, science fiction and the future of books
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Nov 19, 2014 |
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Ask a Mortician's Caitlin Doughty nerds out about death
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Author Simon Rich on 'Spoiled Brats' and being a history nerd
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Nov 05, 2014 |
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Lady spies of the Civil War, Harry Potter and a Halloween challenge
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Oct 29, 2014 |
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Hank Green, Cameron Esposito and the history of lady pockets
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Oct 22, 2014 |
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Ada Lovelace Day, Hopscotch, Lucius and Serial's Sarah Koenig
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Oct 14, 2014 |
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Comedian Judah Friedlander and puzzlemaster Will Shortz
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Oct 07, 2014 |
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Author Lydia Netzer and a powerful nerd confession
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Oct 01, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 |
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Tavi Gevinson, Tracy Letts and a comic genius
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Sep 21, 2014 |
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Nerdette in Space: Intergalactic interviews
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Elizabeth Gilbert, polite botany, and Sex In Your Garden
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Aug 19, 2014 |
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The History of Wonder Woman, author Lev Grossman and a tearful nerd confession
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Aug 15, 2014 |
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Aug 05, 2014 |
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Jul 30, 2014 |
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Richard Linklater on Boyhood and the Facebook generation
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Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jessi Klein on her nerd origin story, Inside Amy Schumer and horses
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Jul 16, 2014 |
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Ain't I a Woman: Freedom fighters of American history
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Mad houses, Mississippi Goddam and Modernist art
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Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner and the story of Sally Ride
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Jun 23, 2014 |
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Peter Sagal on Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and being a nerd before it was cool
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield on space, mustaches and Star Trek
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