About this season
A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.
Episodes (10)
1. Mind Blowing Math Facts
Aired 10 May 2020 • 22 min
Did you know there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe? Seems crazy, but it's true. Today The Why Files covers amazing math facts (and tricks) that will convince your friends you have super powers. Math is everywhere. It's the source code of the universe. Most of the time math makes perfect sense. But sometimes math just gets.... weird. These math facts that will blow your mind.
2. Top Terrifying Animals That Actually Exist
Aired 13 October 2020 • 12 min
Top 10 Terrifying Animals that actually exist. Have a high IQ and great sense of humor? You're home. Werewolves, zombies, Chupacabra and Bigfoot (bigfeet?) aren't real (or are they) but there actually is a very real and common lizard that squirts poisonous blood from its eye sockets. (We'll show you this!) Through the amazing and bizarre process of evolution - nature has created thousands of truly terrifying animals that actually exist. They exist right now. A couple of them might be living in your garage.
3. Top Scariest Places You Can Actually Visit
Aired 22 October 2020 • 25 min
The Top10 Scariest Places You Can Actually Visit. Do you love scary places, haunted houses, abandoned mines and ghost towns? Have you ever noticed that every list for "Scariest Places in the World" or "Creepiest Locations in the US" contain places that you can't really visit? We're going to fix that.
4. What Is ASMR?
Aired 27 October 2020 • 8 min
The science behind behind ASMR is still new but research is underway. Though ASMR is a relatively new phenomenon, the online ASMR community is vibrant and growing rapidly.
5. Raining Fish, Frogs, Spider and Meat.
Aired 29 October 2020 • 19 min
A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history. Is the phenomenon due to waterspouts? Predatory birds? Or something... else?
6. Why Doesn't the US Use Metric? Pirates.
Aired 17 November 2020 • 7 min
When the US was still brand new, the states were using their own systems of weights and measures. Thomas Jefferson requested an expert in the new Metric system travel from France, but pirates changed the course of US history forever. English
7. The Most Secret Places in the World
Aired 10 December 2020 • 19 min
You may not have ever heard of a few of these places. In fact, there are government facilities in the United States -- and around the world -- that are unknown to people even in the highest levels of government.
8. The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Day The Dinousaurs Died
Aired 13 December 2020 • 11 min
One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs.
9. Uncanny Valley: Why Robots Creep Us Out
Aired 20 December 2020 • 12 min
The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls, mannequins, video games and animations closely resemble humans but are not quite realistic enough.
10. Nanorobotics: Cure For... Everything?
Aired 29 December 2020 • 11 min
Nanotech innovation is world-changing and should be encouraged. But, we also have to acknowledge the risks.