New episode! Can television make you kinder? Can video games make you smarter? Can porn improve your maths skills? Eh? We explore the wilder world of "positive effects" research on what it tells us about how messy news reporting is.

🚨 New episode! 🚨 We talk about knife crime, hip hop, and classic moral panics updated for a YouTube age. And Vanessa Carlton.

New episode! Subliminal advertising. Featuring "brainwashing", the meaning of dreams, bisexual roast chicken, and cocks hidden in ice cubes.

A reminder that the first episode of our new series is OUT NOW and examines the wild and wonderful world of debates about children, internet use, and the slippery concept of "screen time".

Had a couple of tech issues on our new episode, but it should be back up and ready to download. Spotify takes longer to pull through, so apologies if the sound on there is muffled but should refresh soon.

We're back! "Screen time" must die!

This is such useless reporting.