In an episode of The Rest is Science filmed in person, Michael Stevens brought a surprise prop: a carved wooden stool from the Lake Turkana region of Kenya, called an ekihalong. The stool, shaped…
Hannah Fry — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Hannah Fry has appeared on 10 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Rest Is Science. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Hannah said
“I love thinking about history through our geology. That's going to live on on a shelf in my house now.”
— Hannah Fry, on holding the mammoth vertebrae.
“I think the whole thing's nonsense. Yeah, I I find it really annoying because they get so into it and they're like, 'oh, when are we...' it emotionally matters to them that we become a type three civilization. And I'm like, 'yeah, why?'”
— Hannah Fry, on the Kardashev Scale.
Episode appearances
10 In 2013, a powerful storm hit the coast of Norfolk, England, and scoured away layers of sand from a beach at Happisburgh. What it exposed was a layer of ancient estuary silt—and preserved in that…
Why Do We Turn on Innocent People? In 1996, during the Atlanta Olympics, a security guard named Richard Jewell found an unattended backpack in Centennial Olympic Park. He helped officers clear the…
The Fluid Dynamics of Fountain Pens Hannah Fry brought her fountain pen collection to the studio, and Michael Stevens—who admitted he'd used a fountain pen maybe once in his life—immediately…
Hannah Ranks Michael's Bizarre Watches Michael Stevens brings five watches from his collection to show Hannah Fry, and the conversation quickly becomes a ranking exercise that reveals something…
For a man who just spent days obsessively arranging 152 Crayola crayons by color theory, Michael Stevens has a surprisingly unsettling question: why do artists use a color wheel when the physics…
In a glass jar, Hannah Fry holds a small piece of barbed wire from the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. It came from a gift shop—one that also sells wallets shaped like hand…
Hack Dog Vision To Keep Your Bones Safe The shirt Michael Stevens is wearing looks like a plain orange-red garment with white letters that read "NO BONES IN HERE." But there's a second message…
Your brain does not faithfully report damage. It constructs a verdict about what is happening to your body, and sometimes that verdict is wrong. That is the central argument of this episode, and…
A 25-Year-Old Space Pen Still Writes — Here's Why Michael Stevens brought a sealed Fisher space pen to the studio — a souvenir from his teenage years at space camp in Hutchinson, Kansas — that he…
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