TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: The Rest Is Science

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85 episodes
2025 to 2026
Median: 47 minutes
Collection: Science

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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast explores science in the gap between everyday intuition and what research suggests is actually happening, using odd prompts and familiar objects to open up bigger questions. Across the episodes, the hosts move fluidly between mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, and technology, often starting from a concrete curiosity—an unusual material, a puzzling sensation, a borderline case in definition—and then unpacking the deeper mechanisms underneath.

A major throughline is human perception and cognition: how the brain constructs experiences like pain, sound, curiosity, spatial location, memory glitches, and reasoning, and how those same mental systems can be exploited by modern environments and media. Another recurring theme is how science reframes “common sense” categories, from food labels and taxonomy to friendship, language, and social networks, highlighting where measurement, bias, and definitions shape what we think is true.

The show also spends time on Earth and space sciences, including geology, fossils and deep time, environmental dilemmas, and the practical physics of space travel and living in microgravity. Ethical and societal implications appear frequently, such as questions of bodily ownership, privacy and biometrics, cloning and reproduction, and the dual-use consequences of scientific breakthroughs in war and industry. Listener questions and short “Field Notes”-style detours add additional bite-sized explorations across disciplines.