We admit the player was clunky. We have a new one, as you can see in our interview with Ricard Saykally, http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/ingenious-richard-saykally, And are going through the process of converting earlier interviews.
Make sure you add some extra-padding at the bottom of the playlist, as the last item is barely visible if the height of height of the whole player is greater than the height of the page visible height.
You know this thing called reading? It's about ten times faster than video for sharing verbal content.