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…
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
“It's not a wish. It's not like, 'oh, that would be nice.' It's more like a deprivation. It's more like your brain is missing something and it needs to know.”
— Michael Stevens
Episode appearances
10 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…
Why Lithium Batteries SUCK Hannah Fry opens with a provocative comparison: a slab of butter contains roughly 30 megajoules per kilogram of energy, human body fat about 40. A lithium-ion battery?…
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…
The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll Five times as often, people will electrocute themselves with a pen if you don't tell them which pens are safe. In a 2016 experiment, 54 students…
“I am someone's familiar stranger,” Michael Stevens says near the end of this episode—and that sentence captures the whole quiet revelation. You are part of someone else’s mental landscape,…
An Honest Dad Ranking (Out Of All 2 Billion) Michael Stevens is drinking from a mug that reads "Number 1,093,750,012 Dad." Not number one. Not even top half. The number comes from a six-year-old's…
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…
How To Use a Black Hole To See Your Past Michael Stevens opens with a disarmingly simple idea: light that leaves your body today will keep traveling through space forever, forming an expanding…
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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