The Weekend Intelligence

Episodes

• The Weekend Intelligence: Radio Kudirat 2026-09-05
  In the 1990s, as Nigeria was under a brutal military dictatorship, Radio Kudirat emerged as a glimmer of hope. The clandestine project united…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Laugh, think, move 2026-08-29
  FOR 35 years the Ig Nobel prizes—given for “research that makes people laugh, then think”—have been awarded at a madcap ceremony in Cambridge,…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Grave friends 2026-08-22
  Around 30% of Japan’s population is now over 65 and record numbers of people are dying. The weight of those deaths is falling on fewer shoulders, as…
• The Weekend Intelligence: TikTok humanitarianism 2026-08-15
  As aid systems come under growing strain, a new form of giving is emerging online. Catherine Brahic follows two people in Gaza who have come to rely…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Attention, please! 2026-08-08
  What do medieval monks, Brazilian leftists and New York academics have in common? They all want to know where our attention has gone. How can we…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The war on animal research 2026-08-01
  PETA and other left-leaning groups have tried for decades to end research on animals. They mostly failed. Then a Republican strategist found a far…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Sleepless in Havana 2026-07-25
  All across the island of Cuba time has slowed down. With little access to fuel there is nowhere to go. With little access to power there is nothing…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Better than a real boyfriend? 2026-07-18
  Imagine a boyfriend who is completely attuned to your needs. He cooks you dinner, nightly. He prepares a hot water bottle when you are on your…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The new homeschoolers 2026-07-11
  Homeschooling is surging far beyond its roots in conservative Christian America. Across the US and around the world, more families are opting out of…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Fear and doping in Las Vegas 2026-07-04
  It’s a simple idea on the surface; host a rival to the olympics in which people can take performance enhancing drugs. But as The Economist’s Natasha…
• The Weekend Intelligence: How to Retire at 30 2026-06-06
  Do you worry about a future where your job is replaced by AI? Are you a high earner but never seem to have any money? Would you like to work less…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The spy who lived downstairs 2026-05-30
  After years of conflict reporting and manic episodes, journalist Ayman Oghanna was aiming for a quiet life—one that looks boring from the outside.…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Meet the “Jailscraper” 2026-05-23
  Jails on New York City’s Riker’s Island have been in crisis for decades. Violent and unsafe, its remote location makes it hard for inmates to get to…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The Curious Case of the Missing Milk Supply 2026-05-16
  When health correspondent Slavea Chankova struggled to breastfeed her daughter, she went looking for the latest research on human lactation. What…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Don’t Panic! (But be prepared) 2026-05-09
  In February The Weekend Intelligence reported from Lithuania where civilian society is gearing up to defend itself from attacks across the border;…
• The Weekend Intelligence: 17 siblings and counting 2026-05-02
  Sperm and egg donation is increasingly common: nearly one in five births following IVF treatment in Britain involves a donor.  But what happens…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Georgia's swansong 2026-04-25
  The last two years have been turbulent ones in Georgia. After mass protests against the government began in November 2024, hundreds were detained…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Meet the passport bros 2026-04-18
  The passport bros share a simple message: dating in the West is broken — so go somewhere your money stretches further and your chances improve.…
• The Weekend Intelligence: In search of Lithium Valley 2026-04-11
  Reporter David Weinberg takes us to the desert of Southern California, where geologists have discovered half a trillion dollars worth of lithium…
• The Weekend Intelligence: A life less Earthly 2026-04-04
  Talking to space architects and scientists, real astronauts, and secret wannabes, Jessica Camille Aguirre set out to discover the blueprint for a…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The red-state psychedelic 2026-03-28
  Ibogaine, a potent psychedelic, is coming to red-state America. Tamara Gilkes Borr meets one of the movement’s most determined advocates, an…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Screwed by AI? 2026-03-21
  At one of the stands displaying AI-powered sex dolls at the Adult Video Network expo, there is a robot holding a handwritten sign saying, “You can…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Kidulting 2026-03-14
  The toy industry has a problem: there aren’t enough children. Its solution? Adults. Rosie Blau reports on the rise of the " kidult ". Is there…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The last whales at Marineland 2026-03-07
  Last autumn, a shuttered amusement park in Niagara Falls, Canada, tried to export its 30 remaining belugas to China. When the Canadian government…
• The Weekend Intelligence: How to prepare for an invasion 2026-02-28
  Just one generation after they gained independence, people in the Baltic States are watching the threat from the Kremlin creep closer and closer. In…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Inside Nepal’s Gen Z Revolution 2026-02-21
  Nepal’s youth took to the streets last September when the government banned social media. It became a protest about corruption. Police killed 19…