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And so. Hello, you're listening to a special episode of the Science of Everything podcast, and I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in the previous episode 100, Unsolved Problems in Science, I promised that I would release a special

episode, also as kind of a celebration of the 100th episode milestone, in which I talk a little bit

about the past and future of the Science of Everything podcast.

This is just a little bit of a bonus and a bit of little background information for those

who might be interested.

Feel free to skip if this isn't your thing.

There'll be a new episode coming out soon.

So a little bit about the history of the show, as you might be able to see looking back through the feed,

that I started the show back in 2010, which is a disturbingly long time ago now.

Actually, the original idea behind this podcast was that I was interested in science,

and I listened to a variety of other science podcasts, but I had become slightly frustrated by a couple of things that I noticed.

One was that a lot of science podcasts, at least then, I haven't followed so much lately, but I think it's probably still the same in that a lot of science podcasts focus on science news.

Science news is not of great interest to me because a lot of new

discoveries or papers that are released or press releases or whatever don't really describe

very fundamental things. They describe just kind of incremental results and often they don't

hold up over time. And I think science doesn't really advance by press releases. It advances

sort of slowly and incrementally across a wide front. And so I don't think it really suits a new

sort of format to really get a deep understanding of the discoveries and methods of science.

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