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Podcast Profile: Unexplainable

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155 episodes
2021 to 2024
Median: 28 minutes
Collection: Science

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"Unexplainable" is a podcast dedicated to exploring scientific mysteries and unanswered questions, diving into the realms of the unknown to push the boundaries of human understanding. Hosted by Noam Hassenfeld and supported by a skilled team of reporters, the show delves into an extensive array of topics that challenge conventional knowledge and invite curiosity.

Listeners will find episodes that investigate profound questions about our planet, such as the origins and nature of Earth's water, the history and significance of trees, and the fascinating hidden landscapes beneath the ocean floor. The podcast also examines complex phenomena like rogue waves, solar storms, and enigmatic sculptures on the ocean bed, offering insights into the mysterious elements that shape our world.

Recurring themes include the intersection of nature and science, with episodes addressing whether Earth itself might be considered alive, how forests and ecosystems function, and the surprising reproductive strategies of various species. Climate change and its impact on our environment are highlighted through discussions on coral reefs, forest health, and the broader implications for our planet.

Human experiences and biological questions are another frequent focus, with episodes exploring the science behind emotions like crying and dreaming, the potential to halt aging, and the neurological basis of conditions like the yips. The podcast also delves into human health, investigating the surprisingly beneficial aspects of substances like ice cream, the contentious safety profiles of common sweeteners, and advancements in diagnosing diseases using non-traditional methods.

Technological advancements and their implications are also a vital part of the discourse, featuring episodes on artificial intelligence and its unpredictable evolution, the concept of universal virus-killers, and the potential of AI to decipher animal communication. Episodes may also reflect on historical scientific misconceptions and the evolving nature of scientific understanding, using examples such as the debunked 'alpha wolf' myth.

Overall, "Unexplainable" is a treasure trove for those fascinated by the ever-evolving, often perplexing, landscape of science, nature, and the human experience, continuously challenging listeners to reconsider what they think they know.

Episodes:

We still don’t really know how inflation works 2024-Jun-26 30 minutes

Can you put a price on nature? 2024-Jun-19 23 minutes

The deepest spot in the ocean 2024-Jun-12 28 minutes

What’s the tallest mountain in the world? 2024-Jun-05 28 minutes

Did trees kill the world? 2024-May-22 26 minutes

Can we stop aging? 2024-May-15 37 minutes

Who's the daddy? There isn't one. 2024-May-08 20 minutes

Itch hunt 2024-May-01 18 minutes

How did Earth get its water? 2024-Apr-24 25 minutes

Is Earth alive? 2024-Apr-17 28 minutes

The alpha myth 2024-Apr-10 40 minutes

The eclipse chasers 2024-Apr-03 19 minutes

The Yips 2024-Mar-27 27 minutes

The bleeding edge, part two 2024-Mar-20 24 minutes

The bleeding edge 2024-Mar-13 18 minutes

Aliens from Earth? 2024-Mar-06 26 minutes

How scientists are searching for aliens 2024-Feb-28 16 minutes

A universal virus-killer? 2024-Feb-21 24 minutes

Why do we cry? 2024-Feb-14 24 minutes

Should you quit Diet Coke? 2024-Feb-07 25 minutes

The case for cursing 2024-Jan-31 27 minutes

The math problem that could break the internet 2024-Jan-24 38 minutes

Garbage patch kids 2024-Jan-17 20 minutes

A stethoscope for the rainforest 2024-Jan-10 26 minutes

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 2024-Jan-03 30 minutes

Something weird near the beginning of time 2023-Dec-20 21 minutes

The tallest mountains on Earth are ... underground? 2023-Dec-13 19 minutes

Weaponizing uncertainty 2023-Dec-06 25 minutes

Can we live in space? 2023-Nov-29 32 minutes

The ice cream effect 2023-Nov-15 29 minutes

The data vigilantes 2023-Nov-08 31 minutes

Trouble on Pickles Reef 2023-Nov-01 26 minutes

Redefining death 2023-Oct-25 33 minutes

The Orcanizing 2023-Oct-18 22 minutes

Unexplainable or Not with Wyatt Cenac 2023-Oct-04 34 minutes

Rogue waves 2023-Sep-27 28 minutes

Does garlic break magnets? 2023-Sep-20 30 minutes

How to decode a thought 2023-Sep-13 31 minutes

It’s getting harder to see 2023-Aug-30 20 minutes

Jumping the gun 2023-Aug-23 33 minutes

Can we talk to animals? 2023-Aug-16 34 minutes

Unexplainable or Not: Beach day! 2023-Aug-09 29 minutes

Who let the wolves in? 2023-Aug-02 24 minutes

Why do we have a moon? 2023-Jul-26 27 minutes

The Black Box: In AI we trust? 2023-Jul-19 30 minutes

The Black Box: Even AI’s creators don’t understand it 2023-Jul-12 34 minutes

Do animals grieve? 2023-Jun-28 26 minutes

Why do we dream? 2023-Jun-21 23 minutes

Cracking the Indus code 2023-Jun-14 24 minutes

Awestruck 2023-Jun-07 24 minutes

Expecting: Weed and pregnancy 2023-May-24 30 minutes

Expecting: Baby brain 2023-May-17 27 minutes

Expecting: Pregnancy souvenirs 2023-May-10 36 minutes

The tornado problem 2023-May-03 24 minutes

How to resurrect a mammoth 2023-Apr-26 32 minutes

Live show, dead dinosaurs 2023-Apr-19 37 minutes

Talking trees 2023-Apr-12 23 minutes

Your questions, unexplained 2023-Apr-05 28 minutes

What's so funny? 2023-Mar-22 20 minutes

Origins: The meaning of “life” 2023-Mar-15 26 minutes

Origins: The first living thing 2023-Mar-08 29 minutes

Origins: How did Earth get its water? 2023-Mar-01 27 minutes

What is love? 2023-Feb-15 34 minutes

Why we hiccup 2023-Feb-08 29 minutes

We booped an asteroid 2023-Feb-01 22 minutes

Your creepy, crawly roommates 2023-Jan-25 27 minutes

Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2023-Jan-18 32 minutes

Plants with eyes? 2023-Jan-11 28 minutes

Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates 2023-Jan-04 30 minutes

Your gut's feelings 2022-Dec-21 28 minutes

Nuclear fusion breaks through 2022-Dec-14 30 minutes

Basic instinct 2022-Dec-07 28 minutes

Why we cry 2022-Nov-30 24 minutes

Can we live in space? 2022-Nov-16 31 minutes

Holding on to power 2022-Nov-09 31 minutes

Redefining death 2022-Nov-02 34 minutes

Talking to ghosts 2022-Oct-26 31 minutes

Why is everyone getting food allergies? 2022-Oct-19 26 minutes

Introducing The Gray Area 2022-Oct-15 54 minutes

Let’s play Unexplainable or Not 2022-Oct-05 30 minutes

The math problem that could break the internet 2022-Sep-28 38 minutes

Jumping the gun 2022-Sep-21 33 minutes

An Alzheimer's uproar 2022-Sep-14 37 minutes

Salamander search party 2022-Aug-31 28 minutes

What did dinosaurs sound like? 2022-Aug-24 39 minutes

Can ovaries make new eggs? 2022-Aug-17 29 minutes

Will the eel (slim, shady) please have sex? 2022-Aug-10 47 minutes

Yawn baby yawn 2022-Jul-27 38 minutes

What’s the James Webb telescope searching for? 2022-Jul-20 49 minutes

Vitamin X 2022-Jul-13 35 minutes

Lost Worlds: What killed Venus? 2022-Jun-29 29 minutes

Lost Worlds: Life on Mars? 2022-Jun-22 31 minutes

Lost Worlds: Why do we have a moon? 2022-Jun-15 27 minutes

Lost Worlds: Aliens from Earth? 2022-Jun-08 27 minutes

Dropping like flies 2022-May-25 27 minutes

Is telepathy real? 2022-May-18 26 minutes

Why do we dream? 2022-May-11 24 minutes

Should I take a DNA ancestry test? 2022-May-04 29 minutes

My octopus friend? 2022-Apr-27 24 minutes

Glow in the dark ocean 2022-Apr-20 30 minutes

When reality broke 2022-Apr-13 26 minutes

Making Sense: The sixth sense 2022-Apr-06 27 minutes

Making Sense: Sight unseen 2022-Mar-30 25 minutes

Making Sense: The Umami Mama 2022-Mar-23 38 minutes

Making Sense: No one nose 2022-Mar-16 30 minutes

Making Sense: The healing power of touch 2022-Mar-09 29 minutes

Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing 2022-Mar-02 41 minutes

The methane hunters 2022-Feb-16 23 minutes

What is love? 2022-Feb-09 33 minutes

A sonic tour of the solar system 2022-Feb-02 22 minutes

Finding asteroids before they find us 2022-Jan-26 31 minutes

Skeleton Lake 2022-Jan-19 29 minutes

Are humans running out of sperm? 2022-Jan-12 28 minutes

The quest to build a star 2022-Jan-05 29 minutes

BONUS: The 2021 song 2021-Dec-31 5 minutes

The building blocks of the universe 2021-Dec-22 54 minutes

99% of ocean plastic is missing 2021-Dec-15 30 minutes

How medicine mansplained women’s health 2021-Dec-08 26 minutes

How Venus went to hell 2021-Dec-01 28 minutes

Mind readers 2021-Nov-17 33 minutes

A brainless yellow goo that does math 2021-Nov-10 26 minutes

Why whales get beached 2021-Nov-03 22 minutes

Talking to ghosts 2021-Oct-27 32 minutes

Honey, we shrunk the birds 2021-Oct-20 28 minutes

Nobel Prize 2.0 2021-Oct-06 26 minutes

The James Webb Time Machine 2021-Sep-29 29 minutes

The James Webb Space Telescope 2021-Sep-22 27 minutes

What causes Alzheimer’s? 2021-Sep-15 31 minutes

Havana syndrome 2021-Sep-01 29 minutes

Getting to the bottom of butts 2021-Aug-25 26 minutes

The mysteries of endometriosis 2021-Aug-18 31 minutes

A 150-year-old human 2021-Aug-11 30 minutes

How low can you go? 2021-Aug-04 27 minutes

The tornado problem 2021-Jul-28 25 minutes

Moon poop 2021-Jul-21 25 minutes

Hot pink flying squirrels 2021-Jul-14 30 minutes

Henrietta Leavitt and the end of the universe 2021-Jun-30 32 minutes

How do animals know where to go? 2021-Jun-23 28 minutes

Invasion of the jumping worms 2021-Jun-16 25 minutes

The many heights of Mount Everest 2021-Jun-09 29 minutes

Unexplainable Flying Objects 2021-Jun-02 33 minutes

The hunt for a new Pluto 2021-May-26 32 minutes

Cloudy with a chance of chaos 2021-May-19 29 minutes

A new force of nature? 2021-May-12 25 minutes

Placebos work. Why? 2021-May-05 26 minutes

A virus that could heal people 2021-Apr-28 24 minutes

The Twilight Zone of the ocean 2021-Apr-21 27 minutes

The viral ghosts of long Covid 2021-Apr-14 26 minutes

Is a ton of psychology just ... wrong? 2021-Apr-07 30 minutes

It’s ball lightning! 2021-Mar-31 27 minutes

Skeleton Lake 2021-Mar-24 27 minutes

Journey Toward the Center of the Earth 2021-Mar-17 29 minutes

No one nose 2021-Mar-10 30 minutes

Most of the universe is missing 2021-Mar-10 34 minutes

Introducing Unexplainable 2021-Feb-19 2 minutes