Let's Learn Everything!

100: Everything

You asked, and we finally answered, today we are Finally, actually learning everything! Something that is definitely possible and easy to do. Caroline covers infinity, which can include basically anything, Ella covers what everything is made of, and Tom does the rest! Simple, right?Images we Talk About:Cantor's Diagonal ArgumentThe Bullet ClusterTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:28) Infinity(00:49:09) What's Everything Made Of?(01:29:52) Everything Else(02:08:54) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Infinity is the amount I love you guys - oh I made such a noise of disgust, my infinity could beat your infinity, quoting The Fault in Our Stars, ancient Greeks had a horror for the infinite, Euclid refused to use infinity, we have no physical proof that any item can be infinite, turning water into wine and counting to infinity, next time someone says I love you infinity plus one call them a number annihilator, pre-scowling, we ask Caroline a million questions about sets, sets offer a new language for math, “actually Ella they use the word transfinite”, Caroline rage baits Ella, Ella loves Cantor’s diagonal argument but people at the time HATED it, Cantor was a “corrupter of youth”, the universe is everything, god dammit is there more than matter, pigeons and pizza and Ella’s giant gengar plush are made of quarks and leptons, ordinary matter is just 5% of the universe, 26.8% is dark matter and the rest is dark energy, dark energy and matter are not interchangeable - dark just means we can’t observe them, your MOM is massive, 1933 dark matter is theorized to make the math work, dark matter is not a theory it is an observation of missing mass, the differing mass of the bullet cluster, halos of dark matter around galaxies, red shift in every direction, don’t @ me about the accelerated expansion of the universe, dark energy is the mysterious force that keeps the universe expanding, heat death or re-contraction, dark matter and dark energy are warring siblings trying to pull everything together and apart and we’re stuck in the middle, list of all wikipedia pages, OH NO IT’S INTERESTING, monk stuff, the exclamation mark came during the humanist era of the renaissance, oh no we printed the ironic bible! inverted exclamation marks, exclamation mark haters, old comics had exclamation marks for periods! Making Beowulf Scream, Lo! per my last email, our show didn’t start with an exclamation mark - it snuck its way into being beloved, no one is sure how the exclamation mark ended up in programming languages, DO anthropomorphize the exclamation mark, please don’t be disappointed we didn’t stop the podcast, We Didn't Stop the Podcast.We Didn't Stop the Podcast LyricsSources:Infinity sources coming soon!---Etymonline: Etymology of EverythingWikipedia: EverythingNASA: What is the Universe?EBSCO: LeptonsHarvard: What is the Univer Made Of?ESA: What is the Unvierse Made Of?Astrobites: ΛCDMNASA: Building BlocksESA: Dark Matter and Dark EnergyAngela Collier: Dark Matter is Not a TheoryNASA: Dark MatterForbes: Who Really Discovered Dark MatterHarvad: Dark Energy and Dark MatterNASA: Bullet ClusterESA: Gravitaional LensingESA: RedshiftESA: Comsic Microwave Background---Wikipedia List of All PagesFlorence Hazrat's "An Admirable Point: a Brief History of the Exclamation Point"Florence Hazrat InterviewThe Irony MarkStan Lee on Comic Book Exclamation MarksMarvel End of Exclamation Mark AnnouncementMaking Beowulf ScreamHistory of FactorialFiguring out the Origin of ! in Computer Science

99.5: Iszi Lawrence, Getting to Ancient Egyptian Heaven, and Storytelling

The author, historian, and person of many fascinations Iszi Lawrence teaches us how to get into ancient Egyptian heaven! Plus we learn about a bit of everything else from dinosaurs to medieval almond milk!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:06:14) Getting Into Ancient Egyptian Heaven(00:45:31) Questions for Iszi(01:08:59) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Images we talk about:AnurognathusThe Tring TilesWe also learn about: Todays question is how to take on two attackers, “I really recommend violence if you have neurodiversity”, Ma’at, getting into the Egyptian afterlife is an escape room, why Egypt was geographically perfect, I’m going to put a mastaba on my mastaba, there were ancient Egyptian archaeologists of ancient Egypt, you don’t think with your brain that’s weird, Allan’s mummified body in the King’s College London library, the mummification industry, dodgy ibis mummy dealers, pyramids were a giant sign that said “ROB ME IM RICH”, King tut also packed too much underwear, Anubis guides you through a video game level of challenges, the hall of two truths and a lie, weighing your heart in court, Ammit has the head of crccodile body of a tiger legs of a hippo my perfect woman, your heart has to way no more and no less than a feather, the scarab is a pay to win heart silencer, pubs were public houses when you brewed too much beer and it was women’s work! almond milk was around during the medieval times, we are story brained and we pay attention to the weird things not the boring ones, he showed me his whip scorpion, nanotyrannus, why do you like dinosaurs - why do you like eating? Anurognathus, toddlers comes from drunken walking, sad means not sober, the suffragette jiu jitsu dojo, the tring tiles was teen jesus.

Recast: Escape This Podcast - Oceananigans

While we take some time to rest and plan out the new year, enjoy our episode of Escape This Podcast as the three of us use cleverness and chaos to solve this escape room!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:01:05) The Escape Room(01:20:19) Puzzle Talk BackSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Images we talk about:The Spa ControlsThe Spa SignRing TossThe Spa Sign with SunThe Full Room Write Up

New Year Q&A 2026

It's the new year! Which means it's time to learn about the most interesting thing... ourselves?? We answer YOUR questions with OUR answers, so learn a bit more about us, science, and the show!Links we Talk About:Our Top Songs PlaylistMagnetic Fields Tiny DeskAnni DiRusso Tiny DeskDoechii Tiny DeskDr.Cal Whale Cancer TikTokTimestamps:(00:07:06) Welcome to the Q&A(00:31:45) Science(00:52:28) Fun(01:04:26) Making the Podcast(01:27:06) Personal(01:45:55) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: I was in the recording I know how long it took, tick correction corner, Caroline you gotta wrangle us, the ugly stepsister, City the Animation, Superman, playlist linked above, The Mars House, Levinia, Peak, Megabonk, Animal Crossing, Despelote, duck wraps, I’m an anytime burrito fan, falling out of and back in love with sciences, the Vera Rubin Observatory, lysosome mitochondria and ribosome, organelle astrology, AI and carbon pedantry, Ella’s PhD journey, solar system chocolate bar, our horror movie archetypes, experimenting on our cohosts, pride and prejudice romance, centaur anatomy, researcher blogs rock, scheduling and actually starting, what we hate and love about the show, we don’t have to be friends, podcasting is good for the brain actually, dream guests, Caroline runs, the rhythm game search, burnout planning and accepting mistakes and communal burnout watch, collecting magnets and yarn and weird pokemon figures, Dalek on a trampoline, why Tom wears a hat, bingo cards over resolutions, Ella’s getting marri- WELL TOM’S GOING TO MAGIC CON VEGAS BABY.

99: The HaLearnDays! 2025

The HaLearnDays are here!! And with it come learning, laughs, and fun facts from us and friends of the show, as well as a few surprise new friends!Images we Talk About:Bat CarryingBristol Stool ChartLego Head DiagramThe Praise the Lord ShowTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:08:10) Bats(00:19:45) Livingston's Body(00:25:18) Pi & PIE(00:34:45) Lego Head Passage(00:44:02) Bird Brains(00:56:04) Tomatoes(01:10:35) Alpha-gal(01:16:27) Rice to Riches(01:26:37) Mission Impossible & Backmasking(01:42:29) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: As Hank always says: wah wah wah wah wah, it says that I should complain in the script but I like it, Egg nog is just raw eggs right? redacted is such a beautiful name, rock paper scissors video content, drunk bats slur their echolocation, bats carrying bats, weekend at burniesing Livingston, I’d carry any of you for nine months, Pi and PIE from father and son, do you think J and Gretchen got their gifts at the same store? philology, proto-indo-european, the FART of the lego head, Ella’s heart grows 3 times its size for bacronyms, lego heads pass in about 2 days, chickadees growing and shrinking their brain connections, testing bird barcoding in the chickadome, I wish I could delete part of my brain to watch eternal sunshine again, davinci would have made that flying machine earlier if he had red sauce, tomatl is nahuatl not even proto-indo-european, we can all agree tomatoes smell evil, 150 years before tomatos and pasta combined, alphagal syndrome from ticks, once bitten twice allergic, Tom Scott gifts a can of rice pudding for us to open, allegedly LLE is a money laundering scheme, Mission Impossible morse code, the hidden code in LLE’s theme, Edison was the first to notice backmasking, the Eligibles Car Trouble, here’s to my sweet satan, winners don’t do drugs, raise a cup to our sweet satan.Sources:Bats Flying Drunk PaperNYTimes Tomato HistorySmithsonian Mag Tomato HistoryThe Incredible paper: Sixteenth-century tomatoes in Europe: who saw them, what they looked like, and where they came fromRecords of Tomato ReactionsAtlas Obscura Backmasking HistoryMore sources will be added soon!