The connective tissue between streaming music and podcasting continues to strengthen. Witness the announcement that the official soundtrack to the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning Audible Original podcast, Maejor Frequency, from Audio Up and Audible is out now to streaming services. Featuring 10 new songs by highly regarded record producer, singer…

Like a riptide that usually cannot be seen from the surface of the water but is powerful nonetheless, original music for podcasts is a phenomenon with strong currents powering the trend. …

We all are familiar with the superhero comic book that becomes a movie franchise. That transition is a well-travelled road, with familiar potholes (bad sequels) along the way. There are endless brand extensions into toys, lunch boxes, backpacks, pajamas, and even vitamin gummies. But it’s rare for a newspaper column…

Another week, and I’ve been fortunate enough to accrue more knowledge from the podcasts I listened to while doing everything from pulling weeds that threaten my lawn, hunting down spotted lanternflys, and cleaning the garage and finding mouse carcasses behind the recycling container. This week, I’ll focus on episodes on…

When the host of your podcast is a medical doctor and economist, you can count on fresh insights and wide-angle view of socioeconomic and public health events, especially those that are troubling and tragic. In the latest episodes of Freakonomics M.D., …

Defending and explaining science is like siting in a dunk tank with people standing in line to send you splashing in the water. We have people taking horse dewormer because an anchor on a news network told them to do so. …

There is a new podcast launching next week: Cuidad Mágica from Sonoro and Tenderfoot TV. Ciudad Mágica is a Spanish-language fiction and crime series that follows the disappearance of a young singer in Miami (the titular Magic City) and what happens when a local news reporter tries to find her…

We do not have debates anymore in this nation. Instead, we yell over each other, so damn sure that our viewpoint is the correct one, and that any deviation is evidence of an abhorrent lifestyle. Even if we had debates, the blood supply of debating is “fact,” and we have…

Sorry, I know you weren’t expecting a pop quiz. Here goes. What is the fastest growing team sport in the U.S. in terms of game attendance? No, baseball has lost attendance and young fans in recent years. The NFL has made modest attendance gains. The answer is Major League Soccer…