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100 episodes · About 75 hours
Last indexed 4 November 2026

  1. 100Is 100 Better Than 101?40:37
  2. 997 Accidentally Creepy Sounds29:14
  3. 98Earth’s Tilt Makes Time Slippery49:52
  4. 97What Happened When We Stopped Squatting?34:14
  5. 96Mathematicians Are The Canary Down The AI Coal Mine1:04:16
  6. 95The Right Way To Open A Shaken Soda Can35:17
  7. 94Something Weird Is Going On With Placebos46:17
  8. 93What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea?38:50
  9. 92Hacking The Kendama With Physics36:37
  10. 91Why Do We Turn On Innocent People?47:13
  11. 90The Importance Of "Soft Fascination"55:01
  12. 89Hannah's Favorite Fountain Pens1:01:04
  13. 88Earth Is A Cradle But Not A Grave46:05
  14. 87How People Saved Money On Text Messages In 190052:07
  15. 86NASA Really Did The Twin Experiment34:51
  16. 85What Is Collagen All About?37:51
  17. 84The Smallest Thing You Can Feel52:06
  18. 83The Scale Of The Universe45:31
  19. 82This Episode Will Make You Angry45:57
  20. 81Can A Word Make A Smell Exist?42:41
  21. 80The Worst Way To Get To Space1:02:44
  22. 79Hannah Ranks Michael's Bizarre Watches48:40
  23. 78Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not)43:25
  24. 77Hannah Drinks Something She Probably Shouldn't43:32
  25. 76Our Worst Idea Yet (Putting Sunglasses On The Sun)56:45
  26. 75Why Is It A Colour Wheel And Not A Line?43:16
  27. 74Why Lithium Batteries SUCK51:12
  28. 73What Happens Inside Earth's Forbidden Zones?41:48
  29. 72It Wasn't A Hoax After All56:29
  30. 71Hack Dog Vision To Keep Your Bones Safe41:49
  31. 70The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll46:17
  32. 69A Man-Eating Tiger Found In London36:35
  33. 68All The People You Don't Know53:00
  34. 67An Honest Dad Ranking (Out Of All 2 Billion)38:24
  35. 66Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why.47:55
  36. 65The Most Dangerous Rock in Hannah's Collection52:56
  37. 64The Audio Illusion That Proves We Don’t Experience Reality54:20
  38. 63Will A 25-Year-Old Space Pen Still Write?45:30
  39. 62How Evolution Is Shaping Cancer Research56:44
  40. 61A Paleontology Of The Future52:17
  41. 60Nikola Tesla Fell In Love With A Pigeon31:45
  42. 59What Are The Odds You'll Become A Fossil?36:08
  43. 58The Smell of Christmas is Tree Screams33:50
  44. 57Michael Discovered A New Way To Make Twins44:00
  45. 56Polymetallic Nodules Are Weird28:40
  46. 55Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?43:27
  47. 54Do Our Bodies Really Belong To Us?47:25
  48. 53Science Is (Literally) Cool43:16
  49. 52Are Barf Bags Going Extinct?46:48
  50. 51The Reality of Being Santa32:55
  51. 50Hannah Predicted a Pandemic1:00:01
  52. 49Michael Wrote Some Math Poetry41:09
  53. 48How Many Words Do You ACTUALLY Know?48:59
  54. 47Why Feet Are Weirder Than You Think42:10
  55. 46Lightning You Can Hold28:35
  56. 45Two Infinities... And Beyond (Infinity Part 2)44:32
  57. 44"A Grim Enemy For Reasons We Do Not Yet Comprehend"40:47
  58. 43Michael's Favourite Science Books49:07
  59. 42Could Sound Make You Levitate?32:29
  60. 41This Toothpick Contains Everything Ever Said (Infinity Part 3)48:21
  61. 40Why We Cry Out In Pain52:05
  62. 39Why Every Math Nerd Has A ’Number’33:23
  63. 38The Device That Maps The Heavens23:29
  64. 37What's The Most "Vegetable" Vegetable?48:30
  65. 36How To Use a Black Hole To See Your Past48:58
  66. 35Unadulterated Dice Nerding35:16
  67. 34Why We Need Zip Lines On The Moon53:54
  68. 33Why You Should Stop Using Face ID40:26
  69. 32Alan Turing’s Final Theory Was About Leopards56:59
  70. 31The Elegant Laminar Flow of Moroccan Tea36:28
  71. 30How Big Is A Piece Of Chocolate?59:29
  72. 29How To Fall To Earth (Without Burning Up)40:11
  73. 28DARKNESS vs LIGHT51:21
  74. 27How Words Shape Your Body46:04
  75. 26Can We 'Solve' Sports?58:49
  76. 25Why Michael Abandoned Ink For Mechanical Pencils43:04
  77. 24The Evolution Of The Butthole46:19
  78. 23Cognitive Ghosts1:07:38
  79. 22This One's A Tear Jerker44:07
  80. 21The Magic Math Trick That Fools Everyone36:09
  81. 20There Are Four Ways To Lie46:53
  82. 19You Don't Exist For One Third Of Your Life57:59
  83. 18Are You REALLY Made Of Stars?33:29
  84. 17Is Music Getting Worse?41:31
  85. 16When 0 = 100036:39
  86. 15You (Don't) Know Where You Are59:47
  87. 14What We Said To Aliens34:57
  88. 13Can You Die Of Boredom?44:24
  89. 12Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting37:53
  90. 11Would You Kill One Person To Save Five?39:13
  91. 10The Letter That Changed Mathematics31:51
  92. 09How To Drink Lava34:18
  93. 08What Day Is It, Really?45:13
  94. 07Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth?41:01
  95. 06Searching For Meaning In Randomness43:11
  96. 05Paradoxes Of Infinity (Infinity Part 1)57:19
  97. 04We're All Being Pulled Together38:07
  98. 03The Reasoning Test Psychologists Still Can't Explain58:31
  99. 02How To Prove You're A Time Traveller45:27
  100. 01(Finite) Numbers So Large They'd Destroy You53:04