Egalitarian Nerds Maps
"Egalitarian Nerds Maps" is an anagram of the phrase "Presidential Anagrams." Our first president — "He's a Towering Gong," anagrammatically speaking.
Arts
Best Piece Of Trivia You Learned This Week: Psychopath Edition
True or false — psychopaths are insusceptible to contagious yawning. Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton get down to the scary truth.
Fields Of This
They Might Be Giants join Jonathan Coulton in ruining the Sting song 'Fields of Gold' by singing about other elements on the periodic table.
Melted
In this final round, contestants must guess the correct movie titles upon hearing their opposite wording. For example: 'Melted' would be the opposite of the movie Frozen.
This Land Is What Land?
Geographically challenged? No problem. In this game contestants are given fake origins for the names of real geographic locations that end in the letters L-A-N-D.
Goodfellas
All the answers are real people who, although they were never in the Mob, could be considered "good fellas" because they have the word "Good" in their name.
Juan Felipe Herrera Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Already California's poet laureate, the prolific Chicano writer bears an enduring fascination for his native state — and a passion for teaching that's likely to shape his time in the new role.
'Charlie's Country': A Worn Landscape That's Both Sad And Majestic
NPR's Bob Mondello reviews a dramatic film about an aboriginal hunter who yearns for a life in Australia, like the one his parents had.
Book Review: 'The Black Snow,' Paul Lynch
NPR's Alan Cheuse reviews Paul Lynch's second novel, The Black Snow.
New U.S. Poet Laureate Hopes To Invite All Communities To Express Themselves
NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Juan Felipe Herrera, the new U.S. poet laureate. He discusses his upbringing in California as the son of migrant workers.