Nerdette
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 Bookclub!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 634
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2024
Mandë Holford: Killer Snail Hunter
In a curious twist, venomous, killer sea snails are helping scientists make some incredible biomedical advances. Dr. Mandë Holford is the head of the Holford Lab in New York City, but her line of res…
00:21:19 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Redefining Representation With ‘Well-Read Black Girl’
A little while after Glory Edim created an Instagram account under the name Well-Read Black Girl, she said she started getting a lot of messages from young women thanking her for creating a space tha…
00:19:54 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Barbara Kingsolver Calls Her New Novel ‘My Love Letter To Millennials’
Barbara Kingsolver says her new novel, ‘Unsheltered,’ is “my love letter to millennials.” “Today’s problems can’t be fixed by yesterday’s people,” she tells Greta. “They’re going to be fixed by tomo…
00:24:09 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Salt, Fat, Acid, Ask For What You Want
Samin Nosrat is the chef behind ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat,’ a book and a new Netflix series of the same name. She’s also a proponent of articulating your dreams. "I do think taking a little bit of time, a …
00:21:12 |
Fri 02 Nov 2018
Jodie Whittaker And The New 'Doctor Who'
Hey! Today we're talking with Jodie Whittaker! She is the first woman to play the lead role in the long-running, time-travel-based BBC television series Doctor Who. You'll hear her tell Greta the sto…
00:21:18 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
The Author Of Greta’s Favorite Book! (Of 2018): Madeline Miller On 'Circe'
If you were bored by Homeric epics and Greek mythology in high school and college, Nerdette highly encourages you to reconsider. “There is a reason these stories have lasted for 3,000 years,” said Ma…
00:23:02 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
The Gender Pay Gap
Aileen Rizo was working as a math consultant at the Fresno County Office of Education when she discovered a recently-hired male colleague was being paid significantly more than her for the same work.…
00:47:38 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Fall Televisions!
From Murphy Brown to Kidding to Doctor Who and more, New York Times TV critic Margaret Lyons reveals the shows she’s excited about.
00:21:41 |
Fri 14 Sep 2018
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth Talks Mothering, Senatoring, And Couponing
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is one of only 52 women to ever serve in the Senate. There are currently 23 female senators, which is an all-time high. “There are not enough women,” Duckworth …
00:20:00 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
Happiness 101
... Well, technically it's Pysc 157. This week Nerdette host Greta Johnsen speaks with the professor responsible for the most popular class in Yale University's 316-year history. Laurie Santos creat…
00:18:08 |
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Is The Real-Life Upside Down At Argonne National Lab?
Here at Nerdette, we've wanted to visit Argonne National Laboratory for MANY YEARS. Why? Because it's a massive research facility, it's just outside of Chicago, and it shares many similarities with H…
00:30:25 |
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Summer Reads!
Hey! Nerdette is about to go on a little summer break, but before we do we wanted to share this lovely conversation Greta had with WBEZ’s Jenn White and the owner of Volumes Bookscafe in Chicago, Reb…
00:17:18 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Power Up: Musician Neko Case
Super-talented singer-songwriter Neko Case is not immune to self-doubt. In the years before becoming “an adult,” she tells us she had a complicated relationship with ambition. “I wanted to be in a b…
00:22:37 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Breaking The Tech Industry’s Glass Ceiling … In 1962
“I’d been patronized as a child,” Dame Stephanie Shirley — a.k.a. Steve — tells us this week. “I wasn’t going to be patronized as an adult.” The kind of company that Stephanie Shirley wanted to work …
00:19:32 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Getting Harassed For Exposing Sexual Harassment
Speaking out about traumatic incidents can sometimes be more traumatic than the incidents themselves. That was the case for one reporter after she documented rampant sexual harassment at a recent mus…
00:20:12 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
NPR’s Audie Cornish On Being A New Mom
Audie Cornish says she had something like an epiphany after posting a photo of herself and her new baby on Twitter in April. "I realized, oh my god, I’m part of the problem," Cornish tells Greta Joh…
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Fri 01 Jun 2018
Nerdette’s Finest: Negin Farsad
If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. It’s a philosophy she calls “Being aggressively del…
00:07:46 |
Fri 25 May 2018
Nerdette’s Finest: Neil deGrasse Tyson Assigns Homework
On Nerdette, our guests assign us homework. It’s usually something to read, watch, or do — like a great book, a compelling TV show, or a life-changing daily routine. We’ve been lucky enough to have …
00:07:28 |
Thu 24 May 2018
Nerdette's Finest: Tom Hanks
On a scale of 1 to famous, Tom Hanks is off the charts. So how did we land this amazing interview? Easy! We put a 1939 Underwood Champion typewriter into a recording studio and lured him in Elmer Fu…
00:11:22 |
Tue 22 May 2018
Nerdette's Finest: Roxane Gay
Nerdette has been around for FIVE YEARS! And we're celebrating our birthday by showcasing some of our favorite parts of our favorite episodes. Did you know that writer Roxane Gay has a fascination w…
00:09:03 |
Mon 21 May 2018
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