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The Colin McEnroe Show's weekly pop culture roundtable, The Nose, tackles the week’s newest nonsense news. This hour, a look at Marvel’s Black Widow and Tim Robinson’s Netflix sketch comedy show, I Think You Should Leave.

This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show: when we think of unicorns, many of us picture idyllic white horses with a single horn, surrounded by rainbows. But that's not how unicorns have always been depicted. This hour, we discuss the history of unicorns, and their enduring popularity.

Plum Island sits less than 7 miles off the coast of Connecticut in Long Island Sound. It is completely owned by the federal government and controlled by the Department of Homeland Security. Since 1954, it has been the site of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Most of the Western world is organized by alphabetical order, which is so much more than the 26 letters that make up the alphabet. Alphabetical order is…

The Nose is all TV all the time this week.First: Is the era of the unifying television hit already over? And: Has Netflix already lost its cool?And then:…

John McPhee is a writer's writer. He's thought of as one of the progenitors of the New Journalism, of creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, along…

In 1884, a young Hartford woman named Ada Brown was murdered in her home. It made national news, but Ada’s story faded into obscurity. This hour, we learn…

Bo Burnham: Inside is a Netflix standup comedy concert play documentary thing written, shot, edited, directed, and performed by Bo Burnham. Burnham made…

COVID-19 has affected all of us. In one way or another we’ve all had to deal with isolation, loss and change. And by we, of course, I mean practically the…

The Thighmaster, the Chop-O-Matic, the George Foreman Grill, and the Clapper... products which are all part of American consumer culture and which were…