Unexplainable

Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, Meradith Hoddinott

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unexplainable@vox.com

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Booking Overview

This is a science and history explainer show focused on mysteries, unanswered questions, and the limits of human knowledge, typically featuring external interviews with authors, academics, and expert science communicators. Credible pitches include researchers, professors, subject-matter authors, paleontologists, historians, and other experts with distinctive findings or accessible books; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 302

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

unexplainable@vox.com

podcasting@voxmedia.com

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Host

Noam Hassenfeld - Member of the Unexplainable editorial team covering scientific mysteries and unanswered questions.

Julia Longoria - Member of the Unexplainable editorial team covering scientific mysteries and unanswered questions.

Byrd Pinkerton - Member of the Unexplainable editorial team covering scientific mysteries and unanswered questions.

Meradith Hoddinott - Member of the Unexplainable editorial team covering scientific mysteries and unanswered questions.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Subject-matter experts with academic or professional expertise in science, history, archaeology, paleontology, or related fields; published authors and experienced science communicators are strong fits.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Academic research or professorships, Recognized science writing, Professional consulting or specialist expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Rowan Jacobsen - Sunlight, Health, And Evidence-based Approaches To Sun Exposure.

Eric Cline - The Late Bronze Age Collapse, The Trojan War Era, And Interconnected Ancient Societies.

Riley Black - How Paleontologists Reconstruct Dinosaur Lives From Fragmentary Evidence.

Recent Topics

Science, History, Archaeology, Paleontology, Astronomy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Unexplainable
:

Why Hank Green takes pseudoscience seriously

August 10, 2026

Dismissing pseudoscience is too easy. Understanding why it spreads so quickly is harder. It can teach us why real science works and how to spot the difference between the two. To watch this episode on video, find us on Netflix! Guest: Hank Green, creator of SciShow and Crash Course, co-host of Vlogbrothers For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠unex...

A trip to the twilight reefs

August 05, 2026

Down beneath the waves, where the light starts to fade, there's an ecosystem scientists don't fully understand. About a decade ago, some researchers left structures in this mysterious world and let them grow encrusted with life. Now they're pulling them back up again and unwrapping them like scientific presents.Guests: Luiz Rocha, ichthyology curator at the California Academy of Sciences, along with Johanna Loacker, Lynn Bonomo, Chris Meyer, Sarah Tweedt, Tito Monteiro da Cruz Lotufo, Emily R...

The hidden world that birds see

August 03, 2026

Birds navigate using Earth’s magnetic field, but scientists still don’t know how they actually sense it. Called the holy grail of sensory biology, magnetoreception offers a window into the thousands of unique sensory worlds animals experience. To watch this episode on video, find us on Netflix! Guest: Ed Yong, author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go...

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