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Unexplainable

Mysteries we can’t stop thinking about

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The wildest stories that never made it into our episodes. Until now. Guests: Amy Boddy, anthropological scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Jayme Locke, transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Jonathan Jiang, research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts For more, go to vox.com/unexplainable And please email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by becoming a Vox Member today: vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.4

I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I host Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.

0:51.5

For the past few years, I've seen a lot of hand-wringing about Governor Ron DeSantis'

0:57.0

agenda to end what he calls woke indoctrination. But we wanted to know, what does that mean?

1:04.0

And how does this agenda actually affect the people living and working there? Especially those who have benefited from the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that DeSantis's policies would uproot.

1:17.6

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1:33.1

It's unexplainable. I'm Noah. Iassenfeld here with Thomas Liu, who's a new producer joining us from NPR, from Bloomberg, from HBO. Welcome, Thomas. Howdy, howdy. So Thomas,

1:40.8

you've been working on a lot of science shows before. What's it like now that you're with us just focusing on the unanswered parts, just living for the questions?

1:49.6

I think that's one of the most intriguing and exciting parts for me, is that I feel like a lot of my science work has been, what is the answer, what is the explanation?

1:59.3

But for this, it's like, what are the things people are asking?

2:03.1

What are the things people are curious about?

2:05.0

And I'm here for it.

2:08.4

So we wanted to welcome you in by giving you a tour, so to speak, of some of our favorite episodes,

2:16.0

kind of take you behind the scenes

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