TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: The Rest Is Science

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43 episodes
2025 to 2026
Median: 45 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast explores science and mathematics through curious, often counterintuitive questions about how the world works and how we know what we know. Guided by a mathematician and a science communicator, the conversations move between foundational ideas—such as infinity, randomness, logic, large numbers, and the limits of proof—and the ways those abstractions collide with human perception and daily life.

Across the episodes, the hosts connect big physical concepts (gravity, magnetism, cosmic rays, space reentry, acoustic levitation, black holes, water chemistry, and timekeeping) with the underlying models that describe them, including probability, geometry, and measurement. Historical threads appear frequently, showing how scientific ideas developed through disputes, paradoxes, famous figures, and changing technologies.

A recurring theme is the brain as an instrument that can mislead as well as reveal. The show examines cognition and behavior through topics like déjà vu, intrusive thoughts, boredom, pain and swearing, smell, crying, memory and music preferences, deception in animals and humans, and moral decision-making under authority. Several installments also take listener questions or use specific objects, puzzles, books, and cultural reference points (including fiction and holiday thought experiments) as entryways into deeper scientific principles.

The overall focus is on interrogating familiar assumptions—about categories, sensations, evidence, and certainty—and using research, examples, and thought experiments to highlight where intuition breaks and where scientific explanations get surprisingly strange.