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The NOISIEST Place In The GALAXY!!!!!!
Welcome to our new WTIF show, where we use SCIENCE to build up -- and break down -- fabulous SCI-FI and FANTASY worlds! This week, we struggle to hear each other when we visit the gigantic city plan…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
No COSMOS For You with Jo Marchant!
This week on What The If? We have a very special guest, Jo Marchant. Jo has written multiple books like Decoding the Heavens and the Shadow King. She has a new book out called "The Human Cosmos: A Se…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Junkyard GALAXY!
Space JUNK! Space is just a JUNKYARD for ancient remnants of alien civilizations! Need a spare part for your FTL drive? Head on out into space, and get yourself to the scrap yard Oumuamua may have ca…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
MIND MELD with a VIRUS!
Every week, we DIVE into the human body, navigating our submersible, the good ship IF! Join documentary filmmaker Philip Shane, NYU Historian of Science Matthew Stanley, and Rockefeller University vi…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Babylonian INTERNET!
The network of the ancients! Take a ride through history, to the days of the inventors of astrology, and get CONNECTED to the ancient Babylonian World Wide Web! Before the dot com bubble was even a t…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Life Aboard ACHILLES SHIELD
Prepare for battle, Trojans! It's time to gather your weapons and your SHIELD! Get ready as we head into Ancient Greece, to learn about the OTHER flat earth theory, the Earth is shaped...like ACHILLE…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
VAX Voyage DEBRIEF!
Every week, we DIVE into the human body, navigating our submersible, the good ship IF! Join documentary filmmaker Philip Shane, NYU Historian of Science Matthew Stanley, and Rockefeller University vi…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Edison VS Tesla - REMATCH
The FIGHT of the century, AGAIN?! This is the REMATCH of two of the most famous and ELECTRIC inventors. Hang on to your phone chargers, we're looking at your wireless charger folks! It's time to see…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Duck! WHITE BLOOD Cells Coming!
Ride In The Covid Vaccine -- part deus! Every week, we DIVE into the human body, navigating our submersible, the good ship IF! Join documentary filmmaker Philip Shane, NYU Historian of Science Matthe…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
YouTube For Your BRAIN!
Long time listener and Super IFFer Tom from Virginia asks: WTiF everyone's MEMORIES were recorded and available to all? Could you log in MEMORY SURF... in virtual reality? What would it be like? What…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago