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They unpack the chaotic history of vitamins, from scurvy trials and beriberi to why vitamins are so chemically different and sometimes misnamed. They trace how supplements became big business and why nutrition resists simple fixes. They also follow the makeover of fairies, from household brownies and folklore to Victorian miniatures and the Cottingley photographs.

A lively dive into why the sky appears blue, covering Rayleigh scattering, historical theories, sunsets, green flashes, and how other planets' skies differ. Then a playful look at speech disfluency, exploring fillers like um and uh, their types, functions in conversation, and cultural perceptions.

Tom & Ella are out sick! So enjoy this recast of when Tom was healthy and on SciShow Tangents! OR enjoy our 2 hours on the Project 4 Awesome livestream, basically a video podcast! OR check out all our other stuff at https://www.LetsLearnEverything.com/ Thanks for your patience y'all! - Tom, Ella, & Caroline

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 Cluster Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:28) Infinity (00:49:09) What's Everything Made Of? (01:29:52) Everything Else (02:08:54) Outro Support 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 Lyrics Sources:Wikipedia: Infinity SymbolWikipedia: InfinityPolytechnique: A (Very) Brief History of InfinityBritannica: InfinityStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Infinity1983 Paper: The Realization of Infinity: On the Philosophy of John M. AndersonScientific American: Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity2017 Paper: Actual and Potential InfinitySchechter: Potential versus Completed InfinityMedium: Infinity Isn’t Just a Number — It’s a Mind-Bending Universe of ParadoxesYoutube: minutephysicsYoutube: Jim FowlerBlog: The Math of Dr Who #4.2 ---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

Iszi Lawrence, author, historian and comedian who makes history fun for kids, explains Ancient Egyptian afterlife rituals. Short, lively segments explore Ma'at and the feather, mummification and tombs, Anubis as a video-game guide, the Hall of Two Truths, cheats like heart-scarabs, and why Egypt leaves so much evidence. Plus detours into dinosaurs, medieval almond milk, and storytelling craft.

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

Celebrate the new year with a lively Q&A where the hosts reveal their favorite media picks from last year and reminisce about scrumptious meals. They dive into quirky scientific discoveries, like organelle astrology and playful chocolate planet pairings. Tune in for amusing hypotheticals involving supervillains, horror movie archetypes, and even a tiny version of Tom. The discussion also touches on personal burnout experiences and future aspirations, making it a fun mix of knowledge and laughter!

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!

Discover the most extreme lifeforms on Earth, known as extremophiles, and their surprising resilience in hostile environments. Learn about DNA redundancy in radiation-resistant bacteria and how these organisms can thrive under extreme conditions. Transitioning from science to mysticism, explore the intriguing history of astrology, from its medieval prominence to its modern resurgence amid uncertainty. Personal anecdotes highlight the social role of horoscopes, demonstrating how they provide comfort and connection in today's world.

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