Why Loud Chewing Makes You Angry When Hannah Fry asked Michael Stevens to eat chips on mic at the start of this episode, the crunch was fine—until Stevens closed his lips. "It felt really…
Hannah Fry — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Hannah Fry has appeared on 8 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 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
8 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…
The Science of Putting Sunglasses on The Sun The sun is 1.39 million kilometers wide, sits 149.6 million kilometers from Earth, and has no ears, no nose, and no solid surface. These are the first…
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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