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The Rest Is Entertainment

Introducing: The Rest Is Science

The Rest Is Entertainment

Goalhanger

News, Arts, Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Books

4.34.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre the world truly is. Join Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (aka Vsauce) twice a week to explore big, small and surprising questions as they deep dive into theories, concepts, objects and thoughts and take us on a journey into the unexpected. If you love digging into details that usually get skipped over, this is the show that proves reality is stranger than fiction. Click here to subscribe to The Rest Is Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, The Rest is Entertainment listeners. I'm Michael Stevens.

0:05.0

And I'm Professor Hannah Fry. Well, okay, firstly, thank you to these amazing hosts for letting us take over your channel to tell you about our new show for Goalhanger. The rest is science.

0:15.0

Every week we take a fresh look at the familiar. We're going to be exploring the forces, the theories and the

0:21.3

phenomena that shape how we live in, think about, and see the world. We're going to pull apart

0:27.4

what we take for granted to reveal the unexpected patterns and hidden logic just beneath the

0:33.5

surface. Because that's what moves science forward, not the polishing of answers, but the sharpening

0:39.6

of questions.

0:41.0

It's curiosity that sparks those, hey, wait, how does that actually work kind of a moment

0:45.3

that changes the way we see the world?

0:47.2

So, okay, here is a little glimpse of what is to come from our podcast, and if it sparks

0:51.2

something unexplainable for you, then you can join us every Tuesday and Thursday for new episodes of the rest of science.

0:57.6

I will figure it out together.

1:01.0

You mentioned earlier that a cup of water is like a rock smoothie, right?

1:05.0

Because you've got rocks dissolved in it, magnesium and calcium.

1:09.5

I would go a step further, though, and say that a glass of water is actually

1:14.7

just a glass of lava. Right. Right. Because I've talked about this before, and I bring it up whenever I can.

1:22.7

Ice is a rock. Sure. Because, well, hold on.

1:29.2

Ice is a mineral.

1:30.8

Because a mineral is just an inorganic material

1:34.4

that is solid and has a definite crystal structure,

1:38.1

which ice does.

1:39.4

Water is important for life,

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