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Tranquillusionist: Person In Scene

Soothe your brain with a meaningless list of characters without names in movie credits

• 61 mins

Craters

PhD student Annie Lennox discovered a crater on Mercury and got the chance to name it

• 30 mins

Hypochondria

Hypochondria's meaning went from physical ailments to ones that are only in your mind

• 43 mins

Word Play 2

Makers of word games explain how they turn language into creative play

• 35 mins

Lemon Demon

AJ Jacobs makes word puzzles, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle.

• 45 mins

Good Grids

Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US

• 30 mins

100 Pages of Solvitude

Comedian John Finnemore spent six months solving a 100-page puzzle. Then he wrote his own.

• 28 mins

Beeing

I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee

• 55 mins

Word Sport

At the Scripps National Spelling Bee it's a lot of work to make words into this word sport

• 36 mins

Queer Arab Glossary

Designer and artist Marwan Kababour collects Arabic-language queer slang

• 32 mins

199 ideas I hadn't made into podcasts yet

199 ideas that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one)

• 28 mins

200th Episode Celebratory Quiz

A quiz about language where all the questions were set by beautiful brainy listeners

• 39 mins

Tranquillusionist: Ex-Constellations

Constellations that got demoted into ex-constellations

• 25 mins

Singlish

About Singlish, and the complicated language situation in Singapore

• 28 mins