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The Rest Is Science

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The Rest Is Science

35 episodes · 20 with AI analysis

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Nov 18, 2025

The Rest Is Science - Coming 25th November

Consciousness and the universeRandomness and chaos theoryWater properties and physics
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Nov 25, 2025

How To Drink Lava

Water mineral composition and geological terroirIce as mineral classification and water as molten rockEarth's freshwater distribution and accessibility
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Nov 25, 2025

We're All Being Pulled Together

Newton's Laws of Motion and GravitationEinstein's General Relativity and Spacetime CurvatureDark Matter and Galactic Rotation Curves
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Nov 27, 2025

What We Said To Aliens

Arecibo Message and extraterrestrial communicationFermi Paradox and the Great Filter hypothesisSETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
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Dec 2, 2025

This One's a Tear Jerker

Emotional Crying EvolutionHuman Vulnerability SignalingInfant Cry Communication Patterns
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Dec 4, 2025

The Letter That Changed Mathematics

Srinivasa Ramanujan biography and mathematical contributionsNumber theory and partition functionsG.H. Hardy and mathematical mentorship
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Dec 9, 2025

Is Music Getting Worse?

Music quality measurement and methodologyPsychological biases in nostalgia and memory (reminiscence bump, rosy retrospection)Democratization of music production and distribution
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Dec 11, 2025

The Magic Math Trick That Fools Everyone

Binary number systems and base-2 mathematicsError-correcting codes and data redundancyQR code security and vulnerability
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Dec 16, 2025

Are You REALLY Made Of Stars?

Cosmic Ray Physics and Detection MethodsStellar Nucleosynthesis and Element FormationCosmic Ray Spallation and Boron/Beryllium Creation
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Dec 18, 2025

The Device That Maps The Heavens

Elliptical orbits and planetary motionHistory of astronomy and Kepler's lawsMathematical history and Galois theory
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Dec 23, 2025

The Reality of Being Santa

St. Nicholas historical origins and evolutionPopulation bottlenecks and human genetic diversityToba supervolcano eruption and human survival
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Dec 25, 2025

The Smell Of Christmas Is Tree Screams

Christmas tree chemistry and pinene volatile organic compoundsPlant chemical defense mechanisms against insects and fungiForest fire ecology and conifer adaptation strategies
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Dec 30, 2025

What Day Is It, Really?

Gregorian Calendar Reform and HistoryPhantom Time Hypothesis and Historical Conspiracy TheoriesDendrochronology and Tree Ring Dating
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Jan 1, 2026

Unadulterated Dice Nerding

Dice Design and Fair ProbabilityCrowd Dynamics and Fluid PhysicsGranular Flow and Crowd Crushes
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Jan 6, 2026

Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth?

Earth's Magnetic Field Generation and Geodynamo TheoryMagnetoception in Animals (Birds, Whales, Pigeons)Cryptochrome Proteins and Quantum Biology
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Jan 8, 2026

Could Sound Make You Levitate?

Acoustic Levitation TechnologySound Wave Physics and Interference PatternsUltrasonic Medical Applications
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Jan 13, 2026

Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting

Human olfactory sensitivity and detection thresholdsOlfactory fatigue and sensory adaptation mechanismsBinocular vision vs. spatial smell mapping in animals
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Jan 15, 2026

Why Erdős Was The Original Kevin Bacon

Paul Erdős and collaborative mathematicsErdős numbers and network theoryGraph theory and network analysis
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Jan 20, 2026

Searching For Meaning In Randomness

Randomness vs. Entropy and DisorderInformation Theory and Data CompressionRandomized Controlled Trials in Medicine
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Jan 22, 2026

Would You Kill One Person To Save Five?

Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage SystemsDrake Landing Solar Community (Canada)Four-Dimensional Geometry and Visualization
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