Introducing Unexplainable

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Scientists don’t know what 95% of the universe is made of. They don’t know how a bike stays up. They don’t even really know how the nose works. Join us every Wednesday on Unexplainable for deep dives into the unknown, because what we don’t know is awesome. New episodes March 10th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, you're at the Grand Canyon.
0:04.4	It looks enormous.
0:05.4	You're at the rim.
0:07.2	It looks like this like oil painting.
0:09.3	Like it's so huge.
0:10.8	It feels like you can see everything.
0:13.2	But then as you start to descend into it and get towards the bottom, it only starts to
0:19.6	look bigger.
0:20.8	You start to see smaller paths spreading out in new directions.
0:24.5	All the details that you saw at the top are actually huge, like, craggy rock faces that
0:30.1	descend hundreds and hundreds of feet.
0:32.8	You realize how much more there is, and you just feel so small.
0:38.7	I know I'm Hasenfeld, and this is unexplainable.
0:41.5	It's a new science show from Vox about everything we don't know.
0:44.9	It's not about the Grand Canyon, but it is about that feeling.
0:49.4	When you think you understand something and you realize there's just so much more.
0:54.0	When you understand so little of it, scientists feel like this too.
0:58.2	I thought I knew what I was doing.
0:59.6	What is this stuff?
1:00.6	I genuinely want to know.
1:02.0	I was terribly stupid.
1:03.6	I was very confident.
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