The Complete Guide To Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

At Short Wave, it's an unspoken goal to ask and answer every question under the sun — after all, science underpins the entire universe. Today, we think we've finally met our curiosity match in mathematician Hannah Fry and geneticist Adam Rutherford. They're the duo behind the science mystery podcast The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry and co-authors of the new book Rutherford & Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged). In the book, they ask questions like: How old is the Earth? Does your dog love you? And, is there free will?

Obviously, the middle question is of particular interest.

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0:00.0	Are you both working today?
0:01.7	Are there reasons you're at the BBC other than talking to us?
0:05.2	Yeah, yeah, we've done our radio for today.
0:07.3	Our BBC program today.
0:08.5	Oh, you did an episode.
0:10.0	We did.
0:10.9	What's it about?
0:12.9	We both already forgotten.
0:14.4	It was two hours ago.
0:15.6	Don't ask us hard questions like that.
0:18.2	You're listening to Shortwave.
0:20.9	From NPR.
0:23.4	Here at Team Shortwave,
0:25.4	we love asking every single question under the sun.
0:29.6	You might say it's our unwritten, not-so-secret mission.
0:33.1	Because it's fun to think about things like,
0:36.5	how do rainbows work and what is time?
0:39.6	And is there free will?
0:42.3	The last week?
0:46.0	I think I finally met our curiosity match.
0:50.9	About 70% of our communication is done texting each other to say,
0:56.9	did you know this?
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