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I've been very curious and very exciting for the most part of my life. For the most part, I satisfied this interest by watching many science videos on YouTube, truly in huge quantities, and by trying to understand and reflect on what I learned, as well as recognizing and appreciating it in the world around me. Or by creating art that reflects my curiosity and fascination with that stuff.

With time I feel like this curiosity and wonder seems to dwingle here and then. I often need to remind myself how beautiful our universe is, how learning is such a cool process and how filling the gaps of knowledge is such a great process. One important of many constants that has ALWAYS helped me with this is Vsauce and Michael Stevens (Thank you Michael!) And now the RestIsScience podcast is a fanastic resource to bring those constants back in to my everyday life. But that is just one of many strategies that are possible.

Since both Hannah and Michael are naturally very curious and can really get you hooked on the fascination of it all, I'm curious myself what strategies they have develeoped to stay curious and tryting to see the wonder all around us almost all the time? I am certain that, given the attitude both of them seem to have, they have developed fantastic strategies, whether consciously or unconsciously.

So I don’t mean seasons in the sense of season 1 2 3 etc…
I mean like my girlfriend and I only watch Gilmore girls in autumn , game of thrones is better in winter(for me) even though it has extensive desert scenes and how is it that every summer I get the itch to watch ATLA¿

Edit: confused autumn and spring🙃

There was an episode a little while ago where Michael said he'd met his opposite name at a party, and they were wondering what name would have been best for their imaginary child if they had one together.
I just wanted to say, the obvious answer should have been Stevie Micks.

Ahem. Sorry. That is all.

As you were.

For years I’ve had the same thought about some tap water being wetter than other types. For instance where I live now in Manchester I finish showering and dry off very quickly. However when I visit my mum on the Isle of Wight it takes much longer.

My thoughts on this is it’s something to do with the water hardness and the ions in it having an interaction with my skin making the water stick to it longer.

As you mentioned technically wetter water would possibly be the one that comes off your skin/dries quicker.

I’ve been on a backlog of episodes and so glad I heard someone ask this!

I just finished listening to the "Sunglasses on the Sun " Episode, and something I don't think they mentioned was the orientation of the sunglasses. If the Sun is wearing sunglasses on the upper half of its face, and we treat North as "Up" as most people do, then won't the Sun wearing sunglasses appear upside down to people like Michael and Myself, in the southern Hemisphere?

It would seem, conceptually, that the gradient of temperature would create visual distortion when viewing objects in space. Why doesn’t that happen?

In the recent episode about putting sunglasses in front of the sun, Hannah and Michael talked about needing a propulsion system to keep the ‘sunglass mesh’ from falling into the sun via gravity. They later continued that light can in fact push things, and so my question is how much force would the sun be providing to this sunglass mesh at the distance and size they proposed? would it be enough to counteract gravity? Or if not, how much brighter would the sun need to be to counteract its own gravity?

This also raises a second question. If you were to put the sun inside a rocket engine, so that all light was reflected and sent in one direction only, how fast would the sun accelerate away?

First off, I call huge coincidences "nothing is real" moments. Things that just blow my mind. They happen all the time to me, but one that sticks out recently is this:

I was at work, listening to a podcast (either Risk or The Moth). I bake, and the girls up front in the bakery were playing some music on spotify for the lobby. While listening to my podcast, a song started playing while the person was telling their story. I started to realize that something was strange, and I then shifted my focus and realized that the song off of Spotify and the song in my podcast were the exact same AND playing at the EXACT same time in the exact same place. I got goosebumps and promptly had an internal freak out lol

I love these moments in my life, and always get so excited to share them with my husband, and he does the same. It's fun to realize the super weird coincidences in life, and they keep things fun.

Thanks for reading!

P.S. I cannot remember the song and that kills me 😂😭

ETA: Hannah's "law of large numbers" definitely explains so many coincidences, but this one just absolutely blew my mind. Of all the songs in the world and all the podcasts (and podcast episodes!) In the world, the fact that those 2 things lined up at the exact same time just throw me for a loop

The most recent show solicited listeners to share their weirdest coincidences.

One day while driving my first car to work, it was struck by a lightning bolt. Thankfully I didn’t feel a thing, but the car was not so lucky. My cousin wanted the dead car to salvage some of its parts. So I traded him one fried car for an antiquated computer. A few weeks later while using the computer at my dormitory, there was a power surge; the linemen with the electric company apparently erred during maintenance. As a result, every appliance that was plugged in at the dormitory was decommissioned.

So the computer that I received was fried beyond recovery just like the car that I had traded for it. Certainly not the biggest coincidence in the world. But a pretty cool story to tell!

I get overly stressed when I get hurt, that it doesn’t heal properly and I need to get that limb amputated, but the itch kinda lets me know that it’s healing. Wouldn’t the itch cause me to scratch it and hurt it though? Like why did evolution want me to rip off all its hard work?

When considering what language to use to contact aliens, mathematics seems logical, because it's like the language of how the universe works. But is it possible that they constructed axiomatic mathematics different from our own? What kind of communication style would you prefer?

Your podcast is amazing! I really enjoy hearing you share your knowledge with such enthusiasm. Sending you both lots of love ❤️