In this week's podcast newsletter we look at how marijuana might preserve California ag industry, positive uses for sewage, music and the brain and the how innovation is a required part of U.S. energy security.

In this week's podcast we look at some springtime favorites like farmers market, organic grapes, and paper maps, as well as magazine mortality and how objectifying women affects their thinking.

In this week's podcast, we look at the World Cup through the prism of spectator health, domestic violence, stadium safety, and how an international astronomy conference in South Africa offers another avenue to economic advancement for the developing world.

In this week’s podcast newsletter, Emily Badger examines the implications of a government shutdown. In addition, we open with a discussion of how technology and artistic effort coexist uneasily.