Be Smart
We give you deep answers to simple questions about science and the rest of the universe. And also dad jokes.
Be Smart is hosted by Joe Hanson, PhD. He's a molecular biologist and an award-winning science communicator and journalist
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There’s a 4 Billion Year-Old Secret Hiding in This Rock (feat. @Howtown )
Why Your Grandma Is an Evolutionary Mystery (feat. @MamaDoctorJones)
The Weird Science That Lets Insects Fly in the Rain
What Synesthesia Feels Like
Why Useless Knowledge Can Be So Useful
The 300-Year Quest to Make Real Diamonds in a Lab
Camouflage Isn't What It Appears To Be
Why Don't Humans Hibernate?
Why Do We Vote? It's Not For the Reasons You Think…
Some People Won't Be Able to Listen to This Video
The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System
Why You See Faces in Things
Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning…
The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers
The Surprising Power of Sex in Evolution
Can You Predict When You're Going to Die?
Could AI Let Us Talk to Whales?
How Do We Measure How Big the Universe Is?
Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Big Deal
Space is Full of Junk. Here’s How to Clean It Up…
Why NASA Punched an Asteroid
Why Sending Messages to Extraterrestrials Could Be Risky (Dark Forest Hypothesis)
I Don’t Know How to Feel About 2023
How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever
Can a Billion Oysters Save New York City?
The Incredible Engineering That Helps You Survive Car Crashes
The Strange Psychology of Superfans (with @smartereveryday)
How Did X Become the Unknown (and so much else)?
What Is the Most Average Thing?
This Is Where New Ideas REALLY Come From