I enjoy the content of this podcast and many others, but I find the constant noises and music in the background distracting. Can we just hear their voices without the odd sounds?

I love your education on things that matter to the quality of life and honer as members of a race that seems in a major challenge of compassion, as well as scientific advancement. We need to good quality information to make understanding include the heights of good for all mot just the greedy selfishness of a few. Thank you

This story could be more helpful if you were a little more imaginative- for instance, you could mention that insurance companies could be more demanding of property owners in affluent threatened areas in order to avoid having to raise rates in less affluent, less threatened areas. As often happens, those less affluent people are not recognized in media products.

No, thanks. After this, couldn’t trust another word they say.

This podcast makes my daily commute so much better! Diverse topics and interesting presentations. I absolutely love it!”

Well-produced but not overly fancy. Lighthearted, which is important in difficult times. Almost always a good listen

Keeps me happy, entertained and engaged from start to finish.

High production quality, wide breadth of topics, and interesting interviews. Only comment is I wish the episodes were a bit longer, but that is hard with a weekly show!

This is one of the best shows I’ve listened to since becoming a mail carrier. I love how easy it is to learn and how fun it is every day. I feel like I’m part of the show because the hosts are with me while I walk every day. They can’t hear me, but I talk with them while they’re talking. Even things I wouldn’t normally find interesting, I actually do find interesting while listening to them! Keep up the great work!

The semi smug hipster edge of vocal fry presentation of this woman is beyond obnoxious. The latest episode on the Earth warming was full of her injecting some kind of personal attitude and every time she spoke mocked the seriousness of the topic. A very self involved person who needs to find a life coach on humility.

I found this podcast while working on assignment for my English literature class and honestly I am so glad I did! This episode was filled with so many facts that had me saying “no way” through the whole thing! I appreciated the mix between creativity and facts including, clips of interviews and movie references. This episode truly kept me engaged the whole time! I will continue to listen!

Such an exceptional show, from its concept to its execution. The topics are always intriguing and the production is beautiful. There are a lot of science shows out there but this one makes me feel that i am visiting the frontlines of learning and exploration. Thank you for this show, your team is wonderful!

Great show, I usually find the topics they pick to be very intriguing and they do well explaining dense topics to a wide audience in an interesting and enjoyable way!

Love listening!

I absolutely love this podcast. It’s one that I fell into a couple years ago after searching for new content like Radiolab. I loved that podcast, but it has not had fallen into a lot of reruns & not as compelling stories since the original hosts had left. Which was hard bc I loved their curious way of storytelling of science and facts. And when I found Unexplainable, it had that same draw. The same curiosity and while the format was different, the presentation of the material was just as intriguing. The stories are interesting, their format is engaging and the content very fun! I think it’s god for the world to learn more about the world around us and I love that they can make topics that can be mundane to be truly compelling. I also wrote into the show email recently as I’ve heard their call to action to at the end of episodes to ask a question that I always I wondered about, and can I tell you- They not only responded, but did so with SO MUCH INFORMATION! They gave me my answer and shared resources & it was beyond what I expected! I honestly thought they would just throw it in a q&a episode, but they took the time for a thoughtful and thorough response. Honestly I didn’t think I could love them more but it just made it amplify my love for the podcast! So much so that this is my first podcast review :) Keep the episodes coming!

The Vox Unexplainable series blends personal stories from experts with solid data (including its scope & limitations), creating a mix of investigative journalism, science, and humanity that is engaging and easy to digest.

Another great podcast from Vox Media, but this is my favorite one. Every episode topic is deeply interesting and super informative. It’s information that’s insightful for policy wonks yet approachable and easy for everyone to understand.

NPR format. Interviews interrupted with comments from the narrator. Good interviews do not need interjections. Well edited.

…talking about racism and messaging about white guilt. End of episode, still zero science about the benefits or disadvantages of “good posture”. Simplistic, ideologically charged and without substance.

You’ve got to wonder if dinosaurs had parroting ability and could mimic each other like mocking birds or others do today. We would love to hear more created dinosaurs sounds like those from this episode. 🦖🐓🦜

…because it is so dang good, and my brain DEMANDS more, but there’s so much content and so much to think about in each episode that I miss out when I binge and blast through a bunch of episodes at once. I really love this show! It’s so interesting and really well researched, and I like the audio editing and mixing with light sound effects and lots of variety without being chaotic or confusing. I was a middle school/high school science teacher and my students also really enjoyed listening to episodes from this show. I would recommend this show to anyone.

Thanks to you all for this professional and informative pod. Six stars. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Boy this episode was light on content

My daughter loves the podcast She listens to it on her phone all the time. 10/10 would recommend

I’m listening to the inflation episode. They talk as if inflation is as simple as looking at one tiny thing in a very complicated system. And they act like each instance of inflation has the same cause. Oh dear. The Adam guy really makes no sense. Claudia’s version is a simplified version of the answer to the question, “What happened this time?” But you can’t expect it to all be about one thing, and the same each time.

Time wasting sound bites diminish the experience. I came here for content and it was more glib and insufficient. Ok, I should have known by the length.

worse than re runs, this show regularly chops up old episodes, adds a few minutes of new narration and a new title and posts it as a new episode. listening to this show gave me a weird deja vu feeling until i figured out what was going on. bad faith but good topics sometimes.

An episode of this podcast was forced upon me by Science Vs and it was so information-less, such a bad interview, I stopped listening part way through (only making it that far in the hopes it would build on the potential intrigue it began with). I guess that’s what you get when something is “unexplainable”. Not my jam.

Love the female scientists. But, it’s really hard to listen to the exaggerated valley girl speech pattern.

GaiaLady? Umm, excuse me?!? Your review fails to account for context and that synonyms often reflect a shared meaning that differ by degree. “I’m happy when my parents come to town; however, I’m not ecstatic they’re staying at my house.” The ability to be one (happy) but not the other (ecstatic) clearly demonstrates a known difference between the two words, despite being synonyms. Umm, excuse me?!? Perhaps next time you’ll post with a tad more humility.

Regarding the episode about aging: yes, great content, but no, not great voice

The topic variety keeps me coming back and the level of detail and research to explain the unexplainable topics is truly wonderful. I always learn and am always fully engaged in the episodes. I love how they present the information and learning new and interesting information every time I listen. Thank you so much for this show! I suggest it to everyone, especially people who claim they don’t like podcasts because how could you not like this one?!?!?

I love listening to this with my 11 year old. It gets her to ask questions and enjoy science in a fun and intriguing way. Guests are also wonderful mix of people from many fields so really rewarding for the curious mind.

The topics are well thought out and always presented in an engaging yet factual way. Great job!!!

I usually listen to science podcasts and so this one was recommended to me. Sounded interesting from the descriptions and titles of episodes but turned out to be just another bro podcast. You’re going to debunk “alpha male” and then in the same episode say you “don’t mind Joe Reagan”? The lack of journalistic integrity is disappointing, but the irony hilarious.

Factual material presented in a very entertaining manner. Not the usual opinion drivel that to which most podcasts resort

I love this podcast.

Seriously just an amazing podcast

I listen to a lot, and I mean, A LOT of podcasts. I have 5 favorites for different reasons and Unexplainable is in the top 5. I never fail to learn something new.

I love how this podcast can illuminate and entertain with a focus on both the extraordinary (search for alien life) and the ordinary (period blood).

My former Publisher and Editorial Director at Mother Earth News, Bryan Welch, used to encourage us to think about the goal of print magazines (as opposed to newspapers and other print media) as “surprise and delight.” Before, and as, mags all around us were falling fast, this goal made so much sense. I think social media has probably taken on that role now. Anyway, this podcast is the bee’s knees of surprising and delighting with content you didn’t know you wanted. Others in this vein include Stuff You Should Know and Freskonomics. (Not an exhaustive list!) Now that I know how to review podcasts, I’ll be more diligent. Apple: I might be your #1 Podcast app user. I had to ask Duck Duck Go HOW to rate and review a pod. I’m sorry I didn’t try harder. A small redesign tweak might help. (Plz just don’t make it a pop-up!!!!)

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to find this podcast but I’m so glad I did. Every episode brings up such interesting and engaging subject matter that leaves me wanting more every single time. The recent episodes on menstrual fluid and endometriosis were fantastic. I look forward to every new episode that comes out.

I absolutely love this podcast, it provides excellent educational topics, they speak and pronounce words phenomenally, and this podcast is very well set up. My child also loves this podcast and in my opinion, it is very family friendly,.

Great show and the best voices in the podcast world!

This podcast is unique and clever. It is incredibly enjoyable to listen to its presentation of a broadly conceived and well-curated set of science topics

I love this podcast! It consistently expands my brain and encourages me to think about the world (and galaxy and beyond) in new ways.

I enjoy this show for the most part. I have to admit that the hosts give a forced nerdy vibe which feels unnecessary. I consider myself a person who loves science (I’m in medicine and research) but it’s a bit much at times. I also agree with other reviewers that brought up the use of the word “like”. It’s used a lot and it’s a bit cringey to hear an adult interview an expert using that word that much. It should be relatively scripted and they should be prepared. And we’re not 12. As a genuine point of feedback: It would be helpful if repeat episodes were plainly labeled as REPEAT: Episode name. It’s annoying to start something just to realize you’ve already listened to it.

In this episode you featured a man who had to teach himself to cry. He said he couldn’t remember the last time he cried, let alone wept. Excuse me? These two words are synonyms. Wept is an older word that doesn’t get used much any more, but it means the same as cry. Pay no attention to web articles that try to distinguish the two; any dictionary worth its salt will tell you they are the same.

I just discovered this podcast and am thrilled! The content was incredibly interesting ( UV light to kill viruses), well presented and the perfect length.

Congratulations to Noam and Byrd on their Writers Guild Award nominations today! Both of those episodes were fantastic!