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Unexplainable

Unexplainable or Not: Bikes, planes, ice skates

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our game show is back! This week, Avery Trufelman, host of the Articles of Interest podcast, tries to guess which of these three mysteries of movement have been solved and which are still unexplainable. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's time for another episode of unexplainable or not, the game show where we

0:05.4

finally get some answers.

0:09.0

This week our guest is Avery Truffleman. She's the host of the excellent

0:13.0

Articles of Interest podcast. You might also know her from her time at 99%

0:17.4

invisible or nice try. Welcome Avery. Thanks for having me. I'm terrified.

0:23.0

You nervous about these side difficulties? Yeah, yeah. I'm this is like

0:28.0

so not my wheelhouse, but you know, thanks for taking me in. I'm gonna I'm gonna

0:32.4

try to make you proud. I'm gonna do my best. Oh wait, no, we're adversaries. I'm gonna

0:36.2

beat you. You're not that is the attitude we want. Yeah, I'm not here to make friends.

0:40.7

Yeah, I'm here to guest mysteries. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so so here we go.

0:45.2

Unexplatable or not is a game show where you have to guess what we know and what

0:49.4

we don't. You're gonna hear three stories about scientific mysteries and the

0:53.4

scientists searching for answers. But one of the mysteries has recently been

0:58.4

solved. After you hear all three mysteries, you'll get a chance to guess which one

1:02.4

you think scientists have actually figured out. If you get it right, we're gonna

1:07.6

tell all our listeners exactly why Articles of Interest is the best show

1:11.5

around. If you get it wrong, you're gonna have to tell everyone you know why

1:16.4

unexplainable is the greatest podcast you've ever heard. I totally do that

1:21.4

anyway, but I'm gonna be like, yeah, yeah, you drive a hard bargain. Yeah, yeah,

1:25.2

just do it with a little more verb. You're all right. Hasn't fell. So this week

1:30.5

we're doing three mysteries all about movement. First up, we got a mystery about

1:36.9

planes from our supervising producer Meredith Hadnott. Hey, Avery. Hi. How are

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