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Alan Yu

Philadelphia

Reporter @WHYYThePulse; comic book, cartoon, movie, and Lego aficionado

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  • 1 week ago | mprnews.org | Alan Yu

    After three years of dating, singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs finally convinced her girlfriend Kristin Russo, in 2012, to watch the TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”They got married a year later — and in 2016, they started the podcast “Buffering the Vampire Slayer” together, which grew to develop a community of more than 3,000 loyal fans around the world. But these listeners also came to support each other online and offline on everything from financial trouble to dealing with grief.

  • 1 week ago | whyy.org | Alan Yu

    This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find our full episode about the 20th anniversary of YouTube here. In 2006, during  the early days of YouTube, Mia Quagliarello’s job was to hire and lead a team called “coolhunters.” They looked for interesting videos about music, news, film, comedy, or beauty to feature on the YouTube homepage.

  • 1 week ago | whyy.org | Alan Yu

    This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find our full episode about the 20th anniversary of YouTube here. In 2006, during  the early days of YouTube, Mia Quagliarello’s job was to hire and lead a team called “coolhunters.” They looked for interesting videos about music, news, film, comedy, or beauty to feature on the YouTube homepage.

  • 1 week ago | kpbs.org | Alan Yu

    After three years of dating, singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs finally convinced her girlfriend Kristin Russo, in 2012, to watch the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They got married a year later — and in 2016, they started the podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayertogether, which grew to develop a community of more than 3,000 loyal fans around the world. But these listeners also came to support each other online and offline on everything from financial trouble to dealing with grief.

  • 2 weeks ago | whyy.org | Alan Yu

    This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find our full episode on work-life balance here. When people ask AJ Wolfe what she does for work, she usually just says she’s a travel writer or that she runs websites, because not many people consider being an expert on the Disney theme parks is a “real” job.

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RT @SiddhantAdlakha: A question I often get is why I don’t just apply for citizenship (first time I was asked was 2009, right after I moved…