If you’re having trouble shaking the feeling that all of your media feeds are one giant grief orgy, try changing the pace of what you take in. Not even the content, necessarily — just the rate. Podcasts are an easy way to do that: 30 to 60 minutes later, you’re done, informed, and ready to fight your next battle.

A lot of ladies are paving the way to hot geekdom for the rest of us so today we’re serving up a hot first course of sexy nerds with Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow, Felicia Day, Ana Marie Cox & Miranda July. These are some sexy geek ladies we love to love (and look at!). We also love that they make it cool to be a nerd!