A tiny hagfish blob expands by 10,000 times to stop sharks in their tracks. Scale that to humans and one sneeze could slime an entire subway car. New York commuters, take notes. Listen now at whattheif.com

Forget pepper spray — what if you could spit a tiny blob that explodes into an 800-foot slime net? The hagfish figured this out millions of years ago and we're just catching up. Listen now at whattheif.com

Mountains grew out of molten rock lakes in minutes on the moon. We've got the photos. We need you to trace them. Listen now at whattheif.com

Middle school Kirby would feel way more popular in a world where everyone's mapping lunar craters. Same honestly. Listen now at whattheif.com

Professional citizen scientists with mouse sponsorships and their own sports drinks coming to a science bar near you. Listen now at whattheif.com

Reality dating shows but you advance to the next round by mapping the most impact melt flows. Romance meets lunar geology. Listen now at whattheif.com

Forget the Kardashians - the future water cooler conversation is about who found the best boulder on the moon last night. Listen now at whattheif.com

Four billion years ago you could watch glowing lava waterfalls cascade down freshly formed lunar craters from your backyard. Now you can map them from your couch. Listen now at whattheif.com

Science bars are coming to replace sports bars. Instead of watching the game, you'll be cheering on competitive boulder counters on Twitch. Listen now at whattheif.com

Re. "flying reindeer ...1,500-pound mammals migrating through your town like Canada geese. Suddenly those goose droppings don't seem so bad." Another awesome thought experiment from @whattheif.bsky.social - fun science podcast from @philipashane.bsky.social, Prof. Matt Stanley, & Dr. Gaby Paniccia

What if NASA's budget got cut in half while China built moon bases? Guess who wins that space race. Listen now at whattheif.com

Real talk: Seneca Lake makes mysterious booms. Our world: Chicago evacuates to the mountains because the Great Lakes won't stop fizzing. Listen now at

Scientists at Los Alamos literally held uranium chunks apart with a screwdriver in an experiment called "tickling the dragon's tail" until one day the screwdriver slipped. Listen now at

The actual nuclear reactor is only the size of a truck but needs massive cooling infrastructure because apparently even space gets too hot when you're splitting atoms. Listen now at whattheif.com

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 because two-week-long lunar nights make solar panels pretty useless for powering moon bases. Listen now at whattheif.com

Apple helps ALS sufferer to use an iPad in a demonstration of thought control (via @ambermac newsletter): appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Cities would install water pipeline infrastructure so everyone can live knee-deep in their living rooms to stay cool. Listen now at

No more sweating means everyone walks around panting like dogs with their tongues out during important meetings. Listen now at whattheif.com

Want to see taxi cabs on alien planets? Just position yourself a billion miles from the Sun and use gravity as your magnifying glass! Listen now at

The Vera Rubin Observatory spotted 2,000 asteroids on its first night - imagine what a telescope the size of Earth's orbit could find! Listen now at whattheif.com

Shake hands with Usain Bolt, get the fast-running genes. Shake hands with Keith Richards, become immortal. Listen now at

Fungi can trade superpowers through Starship elements, but humans just get awkward handshakes. Listen now at whattheif.com

Scientists named genetic elements after Star Trek because they kept seeing Vulcan hand signs in their data. Listen now at whattheif.com

Billions of neutrinos are zipping through your body right now and you can't feel any of them. Listen now at

Wolfgang Pauli was so bad at experiments that people waited for him to leave the city before running them. Listen now at

The Total Perspective Vortex shows you're just a piece of fairy cake in an infinite universe and that's the point. Listen now at

Space is really huge, but Douglas Adams already told us that and we still haven't learned our lesson. Listen now at

Jellyfish swarms are clogging warship engines while thermal layers hide nuclear subs forever. Nature's ultimate defense system. Listen now at

Climate change is creating underwater stealth zones where submarines just vanish completely into thermal chaos. Listen now at

#BattleoftheBigBang is finally here! Take advantage of a 30% discount by using this discount code (UCPNEW) when ordering from: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The universe might be stuck in cosmic Groundhog Day where every Big Bang leads right back to another Big Bang in an endless loop. Listen now at whattheif.com

This weekend I will be teaching a session within the Sundance Institute's weekend intensive, "NAVIGATING AI IN FILMMAKING" on June 13-15. Registration for the online weekend program is closing very soon, learn more at collab.sundance.org/catalog/Navi...

Infinite copies of you are scattered across millions of light years right now, just waiting their turn to have this exact conversation. Listen now at whattheif.com

The robot revolution begins with a badminton racket to the head after being stuck on easy mode too long. Listen now at

Your Roomba is named Alan Rickman? Ours is Chad GPT because of false AI advertising. Listen now at

Tell Congress: Save NASA Science www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySoc...

Interesting discussion about Nokia Bell Labs: “Innovation is the Mother of Invention with Sean Kennedy: The AmberMac Show” youtu.be/BD_WVWg85VI?... via @YouTube

Interesting discussion about Nokia Bell Labs: “Innovation is the Mother of Invention with Sean Kennedy: The AmberMac Show” youtu.be/BD_WVWg85VI?... via @YouTube

Interesting discussion about Nokia Bell Labs: “Innovation is the Mother of Invention with Sean Kennedy: The AmberMac Show” youtu.be/BD_WVWg85VI?... via @YouTube

Make America...Hallucinate Again? The AmberMac Show Ep016 youtu.be/sz93xRvI6Yo?... via @YouTube

Robots learn badminton coordination skills, immediately become better at baseball, mining, and existential crises. Listen now at

When sentient buildings start wandering the Great Plains playing badminton, you'll know who to blame. Listen now at

Life emerged from the oceans but what if we never figured out how to breathe on land? Time for some evolutionary do-overs! Listen now at whattheif.com

Boston Dynamics robots can now beat you at badminton. Next stop: folding fitted sheets (still impossible). Listen now at

Dr. Vanessa Pirotta from Australia helps us figure out how to redesign civilization when breathing requires a good dunking! Listen now at whattheif.com

Teaching robots to play badminton seemed harmless until they realized grenades are basically angry shuttlecocks. Listen now at

Robot dogs are learning badminton and suddenly your apartment building wants to join the game too. Listen now at

Swimming to the surface for air? That's so whale. Real humans dive down to get their oxygen fix in this topsy-turvy world! Listen now at whattheif.com

Forget scuba gear - in this world you need air gear to survive on land! Water is where you go to actually breathe. Listen now at whattheif.com