Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Stuffed Animals Gone Wild | 2024-07-03 | ||
| Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks | 2024-06-19 | ||
| Captain Planet to the Rescue | 2024-06-05 | ||
| Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits? | 2024-05-22 | ||
| How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat | 2024-05-08 | ||
| From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine | 2024-05-01 | ||
| Making Real Music for a Fake Band | 2024-04-24 | ||
| Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines? | 2024-04-10 | ||
| Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore) | 2024-03-27 | ||
| Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet | 2024-03-13 | ||
| The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK" | 2024-02-28 | ||
| Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same? | 2024-02-14 | ||
| 2024 Teaser | 2024-02-07 | ||
| The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery | 2023-11-15 | ||
| The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other | 2023-11-08 | ||
| Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs | 2023-11-01 | ||
| When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place | 2023-10-25 | ||
| The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance | 2023-10-18 | ||
| Fall 2023 Teaser | 2023-10-11 | ||
| Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts. | 2023-08-09 |