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…
Michael Stevens — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Michael Stevens 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 Michael said
“Could I be the coolest? Doesn't matter, I don't care. And that's the coolest thing you've said.”
— Michael Stevens, on the nature of coolness.
“Very few people are on the team of truth. They're on the team of these values, this perspective. And it's how we not only show who we are, but it's how we figure out who we are.”
— Michael Stevens
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…
The Threshold of Human Sensation Michael Stevens has been trying to answer a single question for six years: what is the smallest thing a human can feel? Not emotionally feel, but physically detect…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Stevens collects barf bags. He has a couple dozen, which he calls unimpressive compared to the true enthusiasts—one collector runs the Air Sickness Bags museum with 3,659 bags, a hobby he…
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