What happens when a star collapses to a point of near infinite gravity? And just how hard could that be to actually... find? And why do we love tattoos so much, and how long have human beings across the world been loving them too? Check out Tom's first long form video that's finally out! Images we Talk About: The Crab Nebula First Image of a Black Hole Photo of OUR Black Hole, Sagiratius A Ancient Siberian Tattoo Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:47) Black Holes 101 (00:57:51) Tattoos (01:43:5...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 48 min
How fast can a regular human accelerate from 0-60? How can you learn to love roller-coasters? And is there a terrifying experience Ella's done that even Tom Scott hasn't?? After having us on his show for so long, it's finally time for Tom Scott to join us on our show! Videos we Talk About: Tom Scott's Amazing Roller Coaster Video Tom Scott's Failed Video Video Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:15) Human Acceleration (00:50:03) Roller-coasters and Failed Videos (01:18:05) Outro Support us with ...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 22 min
It's Pride and Poll-jedice! For pride month we have some pride merch including an amazing design by Caroline, with proceeds going to Pride in Stem! Also, toss in your vote to defend the honor of your favorite topic for the next Best Of Everything episode! All of this is at LetsLearnEverything.com
May 30, 2024•4 min
What can we learn by mimicking animals in nature, and more importantly, what can we learn about the nuance behind the buzzword of biomimicry? And just how many wild facts are hidden in a simple chess set? Images we Talk About: One of the Oldest Shatranj Sets Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:26) Biomimicry (00:50:25) Chess Chess Evolution (01:33:41) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: So nice to have a topic taken, biomemetics, the spider grabber ...
May 23, 2024•1 hr 38 min
How much real science is there to the Mandela Effect, and how much should we be worried about our faulty memories? And what's the science and history behind our long love for house plants? Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:31) False Memories (00:57:30) House Plants (01:37:47) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Yes Ella my favorite host of Let’s Learn Everything, Fiona Broome - Paranormal Researcher, Ella is shocked to learn the Mandela Effect was a conspiracy first, ...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 42 min
What happens when the largest living animal becomes the largest dead animal? Just how complex could a dead whale be? And what are the differences, flaws, and nuances of the jury system, and can we be studying it better? Images we Talk About: The Zombie Worm Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:59) Whale Fall Ecology (00:52:52) Jury Duty (01:32:41) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: A bucket of mice, when whales die the people who love them will miss...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 38 min
What are all these rocks hurtling through space? Do we need to worry about them, and what can we learn from them? And what are guitar tabs, why don't people take them seriously, and why does Tom love them so dang much? Videos we Talk About: Osiris Boop Gif Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:54) Near Earth Objects (00:56:58) Guitar Tabs (01:47:55) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| B|-----------...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 54 min
With Tom as their DM, Ella, Caroline, and Ellen Weatherford team up for a dicey heist in the big apple. Only one catch: they're rats! Can Rex, Tango, and Muriel ratatouille their way to nab the cheddar, or will they crumble like feta? Believe it or not this is only the first quarter of the full 2 hour episode that you can only get by becoming a member at MaximumFun.org/join
Mar 28, 2024•35 min
Can Tom finally take on his science communication white whale: Quantum Physics?? And what is gossip, what did it mean in the past, and could it actually be... good?? Find out on a very special MaxFunDrive episode! See all the MaxFunDrive events, pins, and links here! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:29) Quantum Physics (01:00:14) MaxFunDrive! (01:09:08) Gossip (01:44:14) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: One minute of self indulgence, another b...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 52 min
IT'S THE MAXFUNDRIVE!!! And we're kicking it off with a network-wide trivia competition with other MaxFun hosts! You can see all our upcoming events during the drive and become a member at www.LetsLearnEverything.com This special network wide event is a celebration of the MaxFunDrive! If you’d like to support podcasts you love for just $5 a month and get bonus gifts in the process, go to maximumfun.org/join. J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong from “Go Fact Yourself” are joined by: Teresa McElr...
Mar 18, 2024•21 min
What would a man-made ecosystem look like on mars? Just how complicated could it possibly be? And are the human and societal issues just as complicated? Science communicators and authors Zach and Dr. Kelly Weinersmith ask and answer all of these questions and more! Check out: A City on Mars! The Weinersmith's article on Frontier Mythology and Space The Weinersmith's paper in the journal Space Policy on Space Communes BeaWolf Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:3...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Losing your head isn't good, but what actually happens, and what can it tell us about animals, ethics, and bad science? And what is a constructed language, when does it fail, and when can it be use to make great... art? As they say, Ni Lernu Ĉion! Content Warning that today's science topic can be a bit grim, so if you want, you can skip ahead to 54:54 Things we Talk About: Mike The Chicken Sea Slug Moving The Narmer Palette Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:36) Don't Lose Your Head! (00:54:55)...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 40 min
How have human beings evolved, and how could we evolve in the future? And what are some famous first messages, and what can we learn from looking at them? Images we Talk About: Telegram First Record Image Second Record Image Other Record Images Tom's Ingenuity Comic Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:15) Are We Still Evolving? (00:52:00) Famous First Messages (01:38:17) Outro We also learn about: DANGER BOO BOO, Ella has her own discord?? ...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 43 min
How did eels evolve electricity? And when is "women's work" neither women's nor work? Images we Talk About: Socks More Socks Thimble Bag Crochet Art Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:26) Evolving Electricity (00:51:13) "Women's Work" (01:38:46) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Happy moisturizer to all who celebrate, Ella’s just here for moral support, when did they put batteries in eels, someone's just statically charging these eels, what did w...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 44 min
While we take our January break we're rebroadcasting our appearance on Creature Feature! Katie pulled out some of the wildest facts for us, so enjoy, thanks for your patience, and see y'all in 2 weeks!
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min
It's our annual Q&A episode where we look back on 2023 and answer your questions to learn about our process, our favorite things, and each other! Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Ella gets on the album, Dodie is very frog people music, pigeons fruit flies and sloths, our favorite topics of each others, black holes and microscopes and extinct animals, there’s one whole picture of Ella and Caroline, I need more than 5 seconds of this lady, Nessie Kra...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 47 min
It's the HaLearnDays! The time of year when we share gifts of fun facts from us and friends of the show! Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: I wish Katie and Alex were real, pooping every 20 minutes, a human creates 320 pounds of poop a year, when I think about dangerous, “when I think of dangerous bird boop”, cube pooped saves on the poly count, poopin and pleasin, Watching the Sky and Thinking a Thought, smuggling instruments to space, sonic boooooms, t...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 41 min
What are the superheavy elements, and how did we make them? And what is public domain day, and why is next year's going to be so interesting? Things we Talk About: The Mickey Mouse Curve Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:17) Superheavy Elements (00:37:41) Public Domain Day (01:19:19) Outro We also learn about: It’s like we’re in school again, ordering the periodic table before discovering the electron, Mendelev didn't even like electrons,...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Submit your questions for our end of year Q&A episode at letslearneverything.com/question or in our discord!
Nov 30, 2023•52 sec
Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt from Drilled asks us: what is carbon capture and is it good or bad or... complicated? What is the Atlas Network and why are they comically evil dark avengers of the climate world? And how do you go from recording a podcast in your car to creating an award winning podcast network? 🎤 See Tom perform comedy in Brooklyn for Earth Alliance! 🎤 Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:14) Carbon Capture (00:39:...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Are we really all destined to turn into crabs? Why are there so many animal algorithms, and are they all legit? And just how many times have we been wrong about the lemming? Things we talk about: All the Crabs Caroline mentions The Big List of Animal Algorithms Boid Video Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:03) Carcinization (00:42:00) The Animal Algorithm Mystery (01:25:46) The Many Lemming Lies (01:45:35) Outro We also learn about: Endles...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Why do we get goosebumps when we hear nails on a chalkboard? Obviously aliens didn't make the pyramids, but how were they made and what does that teach us about humanity? And what's the story behind nessie and why the queer community loves cryptids? Things we talk about: Egyptian painting of using water to pull a statue Video of modern people pulling a block The famous Nessie photograph Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:59) Goosebumps (00...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 56 min
For our 2nd anniversary and our 50th episode (which it definitely is, don't check) we cooperatively tackled a topic folks have been asking us to do for ages: The Ig Nobel Prize! Check out our new merch! Hats! Posters! Mugs! Images and Videos we talk about: The Levitating Frog Video The Best of Miss Sweetie Poo Ocean Mixing Anchovy Diagram The Grabbing Tentacle Robot Video Necrobotic Spider Diagram Necrobotic Spider Video The Juke 8 Daisuke Practicing his Speech Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:...
Oct 12, 2023•2 hr 6 min
We all use Wikipedia, but how did it come to be? What's the first number to not have a Wikipedia page, and what does that say about math and humans? And what on Earth is Perpetual Stew? Follow Annie and Depths of Wikipedia on Instagam / Twitter / Tiktok! Images we talk about: Sloane's Gap nostalgia.wikipedia.com Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:07:33) The History of Wikipedia (00:50:16) The First Boring Number (01:12:09) Wikimania and Perpe...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 35 min
What lies below the depths of the sea... and why should we stop being so afraid of it? Okay we know crystals can't heal you, but could they actually do... something? And why are time capsules more complicated than you'd think, and why should we love them anyway? Images/Videos we talk about: New Yorker Comic about the Deep Sea The Phantom Jellyfish (warning for Thalassophobia) The Venus Flow Basket Sponge Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:...
Sep 14, 2023•2 hr
Why are lawns so bad, and what could we grow instead? How much can we learn from an esoteric word like Psammophile? And why is the Guinness Book of World Records wonderful and terrible at the same time? Images/Videos we talk about: Snakes in Sand The Jerboa/Kangaroo Rat/Kangaroo Mouse Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:44) Lawn Loathing (00:45:55) Spelling Psammophile (01:19:26) Guinness World Records (01:50:38) Outro We also learn about: ...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 55 min
What previous scientific theories would turn into the ones we know today, and what can they teach us? Why is Tuberculosis still a thing in the modern age? And who were the Radium girls, and what did they give us? Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Oh Fuck Tom and Ella and Caroline, theory vs pseudoscience, scientific glow up, the LLE game show theme, any time Tom isn’t talking he’s doing a little dance, preformationism, tiny growing dinosaur gametes, mia...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 55 min
Special guests Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin from Secretly Incredibly Fascinating and Creature Feature answer: Have birds ever been to space? Why does Katie love birds so much? And how did Alex bring about the bison emoji to everyone's phones? Things we Talk About: The Quails in Space video we watched over and over The Club Winged Manakin's "Call" Katie's Snoopy Comics Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:07:13) Space Birds (00:38:46) Birds &am...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr
How long have we been searching for Gravitational Waves? What is the loneliest animal, and what does it mean to be lonely? And what really makes graffiti... graffiti? Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:26) Gravitational Waves (00:41:01) The Loneliest Animal (01:14:17) Graffiti (01:45:21) Outro We also learn about: Invisible ripples in spacetime that move at the speed of light and squeeze and stretch spacetime, Aristotle would have lost his...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 50 min
How complicated is trying to scientifically study gender? Why does it feel like water get discovered on Mars every other month? And what's so great about these pigeons I see everywhere? Images we talk about: The Brain Gender Chart The Jacobin Pigeon The Pouter Pigeon Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:38) Gender Complexity (00:42:27) Mars Water Deja Vu (01:18:16) Pigeons (01:38:21) Outro We also learn about: Caroline snipes Tom’s joke, let...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 42 min
