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Be Smart.

Joe Hanson

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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373 épisodes

  1. Infinity isn’t a number. It's something much weirder. 15:55
  2. Does Someone Else Have Your Face? Doppelgängers Explained! 17:59
  3. What Would Happen if ONE MILLION Species Went Extinct? 8:12
  4. We Can Bring Back Extinct Species… But SHOULD WE? 7:51
  5. How Your Body Understands Left From Right 6:30
  6. The Magic (and Mystery) of Mirrors 15:56
  7. Where Did Earth's Water Come From? 7:22
  8. We've never seen an atom. But we know what they look like. 23:12
  9. Why Nature Loves Hexagons 8:00
  10. How To Bend Light Using Just Your Finger 12:14
  11. The SCIENCE of BREWING!!! 7:28
  12. Ask Joe Topics #4 10:09
  13. Why Does Time Only Go Forward? 4:39
  14. How Artist Claude Monet Was Sort Of Like a Honeybee 6:39
  15. How Science Specifies A Year 7:26
  16. Why Does Every Animal Look Like This? 14:53
  17. This Was the Most Critical Moment in the History of Life 9:24
  18. Amazing Facts About Whales! 10:04
  19. Why Geckos Are Sticky Without Being Sticky 11:39
  20. What's the Largest Living Thing On Earth? 14:10
  21. Are We Living Through the Sixth Extinction? 11:56
  22. Why Soap Is Our Secret Weapon Against Germs 17:39
  23. Is Height Genetic? 9:32
  24. Why Do Things Sound Creepy? 7:31
  25. The Strange Cosmic Origin of Earth’s Most Precious Metals 17:41
  26. The Surprising Species That Everything Else Depends On | IN OUR NATURE 32:40
  27. COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED! 17:28
  28. The Far Tomorrow of the Universe 7:17
  29. Spit: Everything You Never Sought To Know 7:12
  30. The Weird Reason Plants Aren't Black 14:10
  31. The Science of GOAT! 5:37
  32. Why Are There 7 Days In a Week? EXPLAINED 20:48
  33. How did X come to symbolize "The UNKNOWN"? 15:23
  34. Why the Heck Are We Ticklish? 14:26
  35. Is There Life on Earth? 13:49
  36. Why We Should Launch Rockets From the Moon 16:43
  37. The Curious Physics That Makes Hurricanes So Powerful 8:13
  38. Why Are You Polycellular? 7:51
  39. What If Animals Delivered Relationship Advice? 7:19
  40. Developing Curiosity 4:08
  41. Can We Solve the Air Conditioning Paradox? 17:15
  42. Where Does the Aroma of Rain Originate? 4:55
  43. Sand Dunes Shouldn’t Exist (Here’s Why They Do) 21:06
  44. How Do Glaciers Move? 9:32
  45. Why Does Hair Grow In The Way It Does? 7:24
  46. Sonic Hedgehog Gene - Why You Have Thumbs Rather Than Fins 9:25
  47. How to Sidestep a Deadly Asteroid Impact 10:37
  48. The Science of Marathon Performance 9:50
  49. This Is Where New Ideas ACTUALLY Arise 23:43
  50. When Is Now? 26:45