What does a ceiling fan have to do with the meaning of death? A late-night Wikipedia rabbit hole and a Yale philosophy course collide, leaving Tayvin with two expressions worth knowing: how to ask what’s on someone’s mind, and how to slowly make sense of an idea too big to grasp all at once.
$7,000 lands on a credit card on an ordinary Thursday morning, completely out of the blue. A look at the windfalls that arrive without warning, and whether we’re ever really ready for them.
What do you do with a grudge you’ve been sharpening for years? From having an axe to grind to burying the hatchet, a look at holding on, and finally letting go.
Everyone wants a faster way to learn a language. On indie web novels, patient writers, and the hard truth that there’s no royal road, no shortcut worth cutting corners for.
Four days sick, a 3 a.m. wake-up unable to breathe, and a flash flood outside the window. When it rains, it pours, and Tayvin has the week to prove it.
The early bird gets the worm, but what does the night owl get? A look at the language of early risers, late-night workers, and the small hours in between.
Children are wonderful. And tiny germ factories. Flat on his back with a nasty cold, Tayvin lines up the everyday expressions English uses for getting sick and clawing your way back to health.
Achilles, a tortoise, and the strange mathematics of infinity set the stage for the carrot and the stick, and how a single cartoon quietly changed what the phrase means.
Ripped pants, bad timing, and a recurring pattern that always seems to find you. Tayvin looks at ‘story of my life,’ and why a phrase for bad luck might be worth rewriting.
Guest host Emma takes the mic to chase one small, slippery word. You can lose your keys, lose a game, lose track of time, or lose yourself entirely. What connects them all?