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What The If?

Science

What The If?

Philip Shane

BIRDS Aren't REAL!

June 27, 2026 7:15pm 46 min

What the if birds aren't actually birds? Play it straight for a second: somewhere between 1959 and 1971, the government quietly swaps every bird for a surveillance drone, and the cover-up runs deeper than a single federa...

ANTIMATTER On Demand!

June 16, 2026 8:59pm 38 min

ANTIMATTER On Demand! by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia

WHO The If - GABY!

June 08, 2026 10:16pm 43 min

Behind every voice you've come to love on this show is a life full of stories you've never heard. With our eighth anniversary just around the corner, we're doing something we've never done: each of us takes a turn in the...

TOO SOCIAL Media!

June 02, 2026 7:31pm 39 min

Listener Kevin Towers asks: what the if the internet made everyone use their real, traceable name? No usernames. No masks. No hiding behind a clever handle at 2am. In this universe, every comment you fire off comes perma...

The Other Theory of EVOLUTION!

May 19, 2026 9:43pm 54 min

What the if Lamarck was right? Stanford historian Jessica Riskin, author of "The Power of Life," is our guide into a universe where living things aren't passive passengers waiting for evolution to happen to them, but the...

Moon Babies Meet EARTH - Part 2!

May 16, 2026 3:53pm 43 min

What the if you were born on the Moon and Earth was the alien planet? Picking up from last month's cliffhanger, our travelers from the lunar surface finally touch down — and nothing about this place is what they expected...

The Last DROP Of Gasoline!

May 08, 2026 9:52pm 42 min

Listener Helina asks: what the if we just pumped the last drop of gasoline? The answer goes well beyond empty parking lots and quiet highways. Along the way there's some chemistry, some geology, a detour through ancient ...

Build A Brand New ALPHABET - with Linguist DANNY BATE!

April 29, 2026 9:52pm 42 min

What the if you had to invent the alphabet from scratch? The Pharaoh hands you a stone tablet, a chisel, and an impossible assignment: condense every sound a human mouth can make into a handful of squiggles. Where do you...

Moon Babies Meet EARTH!

April 16, 2026 9:28pm 28 min

Picture this: you're a moon baby, born and raised underground on Luna, and you've just landed on Earth for the very first time. Meet the loonies, a civilization of moon-born humans who cook up rocket fuel from lunar ice ...

Microbe Grudge Match!

April 02, 2026 11:02pm 44 min

What the if microbes held a grudge? We're thrilled to welcome Ethan Rappaport, theoretical ecologist at the University of Maryland, to take us inside the tiny turf wars happening in your gut. We imagine bacteria sharing ...

Space JUNK!

March 23, 2026 8:55am 54 min

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the MIR SPACE STATION's spectacular farewell reentry, we're featuring an encore of our August 11, 2023 episode about what happens when SPACE JUNK takes over the sky! --- Hey there, fel...

Telepathy!

March 16, 2026 10:24pm 41 min

What the if you could read minds — but only when someone's nearby? Congratulations, your subway commute just became a psychic nightmare. Babies would blast unfiltered emotional chaos straight into your skull, your dog wo...

Reality Is Making Stuff UP!

March 12, 2026 8:46pm 41 min

Right now, billions of particles are popping in and out of existence in your pocket. That's not a metaphor — that's quantum mechanics. Inspired by a YouTube video from Anton Petrov about virtual particles turning into re...

Ants Adopt A CATERPILLAR!

March 08, 2026 10:33pm 40 min

What the if you got zapped by a shrink ray while walking past the physics department and your only hope of survival was convincing a colony of ants to take you in? Lycaenid butterfly caterpillars have been pulling this c...

The Buddy System Run AMOK!

February 26, 2026 9:08pm 42 min

What the if humans moved in schools — not classrooms, but like fish? Inspired by Carl Zimmer's New York Times article on how misinformation spreads among schooling fish, this episode explores a world where you can't go a...

Black Holes

February 20, 2026 11:36am 1:00

MIT physicist David Kaiser is one of those rare scientists who can make mind-bending physics feel like a great conversation over coffee — funny, generous, and genuinely thrilled by what we still don't know. And what he's...

The Day Gravity QUIT!

February 12, 2026 8:43pm 40 min

A conspiracy theory went viral claiming that on August 12th, 2026, Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds. The internet did what the internet does, and millions of people started talking about it. So we decided to tak...

GROUND HOG Day PHYSICS!

February 05, 2026 10:50am 30 min

What the if a groundhog could actually predict the weather? Turns out Punxsutawney Phil would need way more than a shadow — we're talking a full groundhog space program, weather satellites, underground supercomputers, an...

HAGFISH - Champion Of The SLIMER BOWL!

January 30, 2026 9:38am 51 min

We first shared this one on Super Bowl Sunday 2019 — what better weekend to bring back nature's ultimate underdog? Enjoy this encore presentation! ---- The HAGFISH, little known, little respected... greatly feared... by ...

CITIZEN Science -- with Kirby Runyon!

January 15, 2026 9:22pm 47 min

Planetary geologist Kirby Runyon from the Planetary Science Institute needs volunteers to map ancient impact melt flows on the moon from their home computers. What the if this went mainstream? Imagine science bars replac...

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