Introducing: The Book Club - Never Let Me Go
What inspired Kazuo Ishiguro’s timeless story about mortality, growing up, and the human condition? How are its characters so relatable, and yet entirely unique? And, why does the dark secret at its h...
14 Mar 26min
Why We Cry Out In Pain
Have you stubbed your toe and shouted an unrepeatable word? Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle were two of the greatest minds in humanity. Did their egos and competition with one another hold them back or ...
12 Mar 55min
What's The Most "Vegetable" Vegetable?
Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable, so what exactly is sitting on your dinner plate? And if our culinary world is built on biological lies, which plant is actually the most ve...
10 Mar 51min
How Words Shape Your Body
Does your native language physically sculpt your face? And could a swarm of bees be trained to run computer code? Two of your questions answer in this Field Notes with Professor Hannah Fry and YouT...
5 Mar 49min
The Neuroscience and Purpose of Sleep
Humans have split the atom, we can stream movies from space and are working towards everlasting life. So why in the world are we still spending a third of our lives unconscious? In this episo...
3 Mar 1h
Aerospace Engineering: How To Fall To Earth (Without Burning Up)
Rockets are built to slice cleanly through the atmosphere on the way up. Coming home, it turns out, requires... not turning into a fireball before a bellyflop When Space Shuttles reenter Earth’s a...
26 Feb 43min
You (Don't) Know Where You Are
If someone asked you to point to yourself, where would you point? Your chest? Your head? Somewhere just behind your eyes? Where are you? In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry and VSauce’s Micha...
24 Feb 1h 2min
How Big Is A Piece Of Chocolate?
At what exact chemical ratio does our beloved chocolate devolve into a mere structure of fats and sugars? How far can you dilute chocolate before its fundamental identity vanishes? And what could a ...
19 Feb 1h 2min
