The Rest Is Science
Join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) as they dig into the weird scientific questions that often go unexplored. Welcome to The Rest Is Science, a show that sits in the fascinating space between what we think we know, and what we actually know. Why do we assume we understand things like time, randomness, or even gravity? Once you start questioning these familiar ideas, reality becomes astonishingly strange and completely fragile.Whether you're a life...
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The Science of Hallucinations and Perception
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Introducing: The Book Club - Never Let Me Go
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Why We Cry Out In Pain
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What's The Most "Vegetable" Vegetable?
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How Words Shape Your Body
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The Neuroscience and Purpose of Sleep
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Aerospace Engineering: How To Fall To Earth (Without Burning Up)
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You (Don't) Know Where You Are
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How Big Is A Piece Of Chocolate?
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There Are Four Ways To Lie
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The Evolution Of The Butthole
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(Finite) Numbers So Large They'd Destroy You
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Michael Wrote Some Math Poetry
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Can We 'Solve' Sports?
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This Glass Was Made By Lightning
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Can You Die Of Boredom?
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Would You Kill One To Save Five? Your Brain Already Decided
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Searching For Meaning In Randomness
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Why Erdős Was The Original Kevin Bacon
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Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting
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Could Sound Make You Levitate?
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Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth?
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Probability, Statistics, and the Math of Dice
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The History of Calendars and Keeping Time
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The Smell Of Christmas Is Tree Screams
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The Reality of Being Santa
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The Device That Maps The Heavens
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Are You REALLY Made Of Stars?
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The Magic Math Trick That Fools Everyone
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Is Music Getting Worse?
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The Letter That Changed Mathematics
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The Biology and Psychology of Crying
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The Arecibo Message and Interstellar Communication
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The Physics of Gravity
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How To Drink Lava
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Welcome To The Rest Is Science
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