# Emily Siner

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Connections and Distractions

5 Stories about Life and Love, Human Connection and Extracurricular Romance, and One Super-Sad Surveillance Job Sometimes connections can feel tenuous. It takes effort to keep the signal strong. The relationship can get lost in the white noise of day-to-day. Distractions sometimes lead to new conne…

The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU

In this one-hour special from WPLN and the Tennessee Lookout: What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that's served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could be possible if that debt were finally paid? Credits:This story was co-reported and co-produced by C…

The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU

For decades, government funding was withheld from historically Black public colleges and universities, such as Tennessee State University.  States across the South have grappled with the question: What could be possible if those debts were repaid? In Episode 13, we’ll hear from our colleagues at th…

How we standardized music

The Gray Area is taking a short break this week — but we’ve got something special for you. We’re dropping an episode from one of our favorite podcasts, Unexplainable. In it, host Emily Siner explores deceptively simple questions: What is a musical note? And how did something as fundamental as the …

Music Citizens Episode 6: The Syncmaster

Behind every Instagram ad, commercial, or TV trailer you see, there is a fierce battle over what song will get to play in the background. Music sync is one of the last places where independent artists can still make money, but it’s an increasingly crowded field. Meet: the Syncmaster, Katie Jelen, w…

Music Citizens Episode 6: The Syncmaster

Behind every Instagram ad, commercial, or TV trailer you see, there is a fierce battle over what song will get to play in the background. Music sync is one of the last places where independent artists can still make money, but it’s an increasingly crowded field. Meet: the Syncmaster, Katie Jelen, w…

How to maintain your friendships after kids

It can be tough to navigate adult friendships when kids come into the picture. Parents assume their child-free buds don't want to hang out with them, and vice versa. To overcome this divide, reporter Emily Siner speaks with three experts about what makes friendships work across parenting stages. So…

Your Relationship with Gravity

They weigh you before anyone asks why you came. In this first episode, Amy Green sits down with dietitian Jenn Fleischer to trace where that came from — the voice in your head narrating what you should look like, the number you've learned to step backwards to avoid, and the slow work of learning to…

Perimenopause, and Why the Test Says Nothing

She is 46. She has not slept through the night since February. She forgot the word "invoice" in a meeting, twice. There is a note on her phone she has been adding to since the winter, and it has no title. She takes it to her doctor. They run her labs. Four days later, one line comes through the por…

Can cap and trade work in the US?

Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking a page from economics textbooks, the state instituted a statewide "cap and trade" system for carbon emissions. The state establishes a cap on the total amount of carbon pollution it is willing to al…