Wade Roush
@waderoush.com
Technology-focused journalist, author, podcaster, audio producer, consultant, and sci-fi writer & editor in Santa Fe, NM. More at http://waderoush.com http://soonishpodcast.org http://hubspokeaudio.org
The Evanston, IL public library puts out one of the book world's most respected year-end lists of great books for kids. I'm thrilled that this year STARSTUFF, the middle-grade Sci-Fi anthology edited & with stories by me and William Alexander, made the list! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/29/a...
Announcing Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids: 2025 Edition!!
You lucky ducks. You're getting an extra special sneak peek of Evanston Public Library's illustrious year end list of some of the best children's books of 2025. Enjoy!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Evanston, IL public library puts out one of the book world's most respected year-end lists of great books for kids. I'm thrilled that this year STARSTUFF, the middle-grade Sci-Fi anthology edited & with stories by me and William Alexander, made the list! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/10/29/a...
One recent podcast on the “top 10 sci-fi film franchises” ruled out Alien because it was horror, while another on the “top 10 horror film franchises” ruled out Alien because it’s sci-fi. 🤪 I guess that’s the reward Ridley Scott gets for genre-bending. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/p...
Sunday Special: The 10 Best Horror Movie Franchises
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October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One recent podcast on the “top 10 sci-fi film franchises” ruled out Alien because it was horror, while another on the “top 10 horror film franchises” ruled out Alien because it’s sci-fi. 🤪 I guess that’s the reward Ridley Scott gets for genre-bending. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/p...
New! It's the FINAL EPISODE of my podcast Soonish, featuring an interview with my old MIT friend and colleague David Mindell about his 2025 book The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-517-...
Soonish - Soonish 5.17 David Mindell on What it Takes to Power an Industrial Revolution
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October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New! It's the FINAL EPISODE of my podcast Soonish, featuring an interview with my old MIT friend and colleague David Mindell about his 2025 book The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-517-...
The latest Penny Farthings newsletter from the Hub & Spoke Audio Collective is out today! We've got news about comings (the Audio Flux Podcast has joined our ranks), goings (Vanessa Lowe's amazing show Nocturne is going fully indie) and much more. Subscribe at hubspokeaudio.substack.com
Penny Farthings | Hub & Spoke Audio Collective | Substack
This is the official newsletter of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. We're a nonprofit collective of independent podcasts, dedicated to helping one another shine. We believe that stories told through soun...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The latest Penny Farthings newsletter from the Hub & Spoke Audio Collective is out today! We've got news about comings (the Audio Flux Podcast has joined our ranks), goings (Vanessa Lowe's amazing show Nocturne is going fully indie) and much more. Subscribe at hubspokeaudio.substack.com
I'm beyond thrilled to help welcome the Audio Flux Podcast @audioflux.bsky.social into the world—as part of our small but mighty Hub & Spoke Audio Collective, no less! Welcome Julie, John, Amy, and all of the past & future Fluxworks contributors. www.audioflux.org/podcast
The Audio Flux Podcast — AUDIO FLUX
Hosted by Amy Pearl (New York Times Audio, WNYC, Ten Things That Scare Me,) The Audio Flux Podcast brings listeners the best of Audio Flux — innovative, short audio "fluxworks" from around the world, ...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm beyond thrilled to help welcome the Audio Flux Podcast @audioflux.bsky.social into the world—as part of our small but mighty Hub & Spoke Audio Collective, no less! Welcome Julie, John, Amy, and all of the past & future Fluxworks contributors. www.audioflux.org/podcast
What's public about public media, and why does that matter? Today I'm re-broadcasting a fantastic, inspiring, sobering conversation between Jay Allison
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
What We're Losing If We Lose Public Media | Soonish
Today we're bringing you an episode of our sister Hub & Spoke show Rumble Strip, from producer Erica Heilman. It's a conversation with Jay Allison about public media—what it's for, why it's important,...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What's public about public media, and why does that matter? Today I'm re-broadcasting a fantastic, inspiring, sobering conversation between Jay Allison
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
@jayall.bsky.social, founder of WCAI and @transom.bsky.social, and Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
Today would have been the 90th birthday of my journalism mentor Victor McElheny—one of the leading science journalists of his era and a huge champion of the craft at MIT's @ksjatmit.bsky.social He died July 14. I was glad to contribute to this collection of remembrances ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/07...
Remembering Victor McElheny
Past directors, alumni, and friends of the Knight Science Journalism Program reflect on the legacy of its founder and longest-serving director.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today would have been the 90th birthday of my journalism mentor Victor McElheny—one of the leading science journalists of his era and a huge champion of the craft at MIT's @ksjatmit.bsky.social He died July 14. I was glad to contribute to this collection of remembrances ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/07...
My latest podcast episode looks at the movement in places like OR, CO, TX and NM to use psychedelics in mental health treatment. That's also the subject of The Enchanted State, an event coming up 9/7 here in Santa Fe: liminafoundation.org www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-516-...
Soonish - Soonish 5.16 Toward a Psychedelic Future
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September 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My latest podcast episode looks at the movement in places like OR, CO, TX and NM to use psychedelics in mental health treatment. That's also the subject of The Enchanted State, an event coming up 9/7 here in Santa Fe: liminafoundation.org www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-516-...
Could psychedelics become an important (and legal) tool for mental health treatment? In this episode meet Adele Getty, co-organizer of The Enchanted State, a Sept. 7 event in Santa Fe celebrating the legacy and future of psychedelics in New Mexico. soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/tow...
Toward a Psychedelic Future | Soonish
My guest this week, Adele Getty, is an educator and author in the field of assisted psychedelic therapy. Together with her husband Michael Williams, she started a non-profit here in Santa Fe called th...
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August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Could psychedelics become an important (and legal) tool for mental health treatment? In this episode meet Adele Getty, co-organizer of The Enchanted State, a Sept. 7 event in Santa Fe celebrating the legacy and future of psychedelics in New Mexico. soonish.simplecast.com/episodes/tow...
What the actual F is wrong with this puppy on the cover of the new LL Bean catalog?
August 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
What the actual F is wrong with this puppy on the cover of the new LL Bean catalog?
June 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New Mexico friends: Choose from three local screenings of "A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot," about the OG feminist vegetarian restaurant in Connecticut. Director Annie Laurie Medonis will present the film 6/6 in Las Cruces, 6/11 in Santa Fe, 6/16 in Taos!
June 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New Mexico friends: Choose from three local screenings of "A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot," about the OG feminist vegetarian restaurant in Connecticut. Director Annie Laurie Medonis will present the film 6/6 in Las Cruces, 6/11 in Santa Fe, 6/16 in Taos!
I’ll miss Pocket, which Mozilla is shutting down. I don’t use it as much as I used to, but I still love it for the way it extracts and declutters Web articles. I don’t think browser bookmarks can take its place, as Mozilla argues. Anybody have another favorite read-it-later app?
May 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I’ll miss Pocket, which Mozilla is shutting down. I don’t use it as much as I used to, but I still love it for the way it extracts and declutters Web articles. I don’t think browser bookmarks can take its place, as Mozilla argues. Anybody have another favorite read-it-later app?
The future can be better. Read how in STARSTUFF, out today from @candlewickpress.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social, co-edited by @willalex.bsky.social and me, with 10 inspiring sci-fi short stories for readers age 8 and up—including one by Will and one by me!
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The future can be better. Read how in STARSTUFF, out today from @candlewickpress.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social, co-edited by @willalex.bsky.social and me, with 10 inspiring sci-fi short stories for readers age 8 and up—including one by Will and one by me!
Reposted by Wade Roush
Authors this round include @delilahsdawson.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @mytholder.bsky.social, @guygavrielkay.bsky.social, @stephenking.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, @leonneyfakh.bsky.social, @tochitruestory.bsky.social, @waderoush.com, and @djangowexler.bsky.social!
12 new SF/F books to check out in the second half of May
New stories about generation ships, knights on quests, and strange mysteries to add to your TBR
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May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Has anyone else noticed that the latest AI models can be pretty lazy?
I often get answers that amount to "I don't know, why don't you go look it up." It reminds me of the old saying LMGTFY.
Maybe they're just trying to save electricity, but sheesh, I asked for a reason.
I often get answers that amount to "I don't know, why don't you go look it up." It reminds me of the old saying LMGTFY.
Maybe they're just trying to save electricity, but sheesh, I asked for a reason.
April 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Has anyone else noticed that the latest AI models can be pretty lazy?
I often get answers that amount to "I don't know, why don't you go look it up." It reminds me of the old saying LMGTFY.
Maybe they're just trying to save electricity, but sheesh, I asked for a reason.
I often get answers that amount to "I don't know, why don't you go look it up." It reminds me of the old saying LMGTFY.
Maybe they're just trying to save electricity, but sheesh, I asked for a reason.
Today's guest on my podcast, Soonish, is author, science journalist, and eclipse chaser David Baron. The most important piece of advice Baron ever got: “Before you die, you owe it to yourself to see a total solar eclipse.” (And you can do that on April 8!)
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Soonish - Soonish 5.11 The Otherworldly Power of a Total Eclipse
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March 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Today's guest on my podcast, Soonish, is author, science journalist, and eclipse chaser David Baron. The most important piece of advice Baron ever got: “Before you die, you owe it to yourself to see a total solar eclipse.” (And you can do that on April 8!)
www.soonishpodcast.org/511-otherwor...
www.soonishpodcast.org/511-otherwor...
So proud of my friend & audio colleague Tamar Avishai. She reported and produced the just-released final episode of Monumental, a PRX podcast exploring the meaning of historical monuments. She takes a deep look at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in AL. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
Monumental | Bringing Monuments Home
Some monuments are larger than life. And they reinforce this idea that monuments are supposed to inspire awe and maybe even dwarf us. But what if a monument was human-scaled and made us aware of our b...
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March 4, 2024 at 6:10 PM
So proud of my friend & audio colleague Tamar Avishai. She reported and produced the just-released final episode of Monumental, a PRX podcast exploring the meaning of historical monuments. She takes a deep look at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in AL. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
I knew that The Truman Show was shot in Seaside, FL, the planned community that stood in for “Seahaven.” But I did not know until reading about it in The New Yorker today that Truman’s house is actually Matt Gaetz’s family home. And now the movie seems 10 times creepier.
February 22, 2024 at 5:02 AM
I knew that The Truman Show was shot in Seaside, FL, the planned community that stood in for “Seahaven.” But I did not know until reading about it in The New Yorker today that Truman’s house is actually Matt Gaetz’s family home. And now the movie seems 10 times creepier.
This week we published the 50th episode of my tech-and-culture podcast, Soonish. With special co-host Tamar Avishai of The Lonely Palette podcast, we look back at the first 49 episodes and ask how many of the show's predictions about the future were correct. www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-510-...
Soonish - Soonish 5.10 Looking Back at 50 Episodes of Soonish
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February 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This week we published the 50th episode of my tech-and-culture podcast, Soonish. With special co-host Tamar Avishai of The Lonely Palette podcast, we look back at the first 49 episodes and ask how many of the show's predictions about the future were correct. www.soonishpodcast.org/soonish-510-...
First Bluesky post. It’s a doozie.
I GUESSED TODAY’S WORDLE ON THE FIRST LINE
I GUESSED TODAY’S WORDLE ON THE FIRST LINE
February 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
First Bluesky post. It’s a doozie.
I GUESSED TODAY’S WORDLE ON THE FIRST LINE
I GUESSED TODAY’S WORDLE ON THE FIRST LINE