Ever wondered how the world around you works? So have I, from the smallest molecular level to the grandest scale. Each episode we'll learn something new together!
Season 2 starts off with a bang! Or should I say a spark!
On our first episode back we're learning how a lighter works and the fascinating science behind how a rock can spark flames, power a watch, and make your toothbrush run.
Episode Research:
The Royal Institution TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@ri_science)
Project Using Piezoelectricity (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210670721008210)
Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk- Periodic Table (https://youtu.be/UpE5yuhwXXc?si=8Iz11CEMFOdHiY3k)
How Does a Lighter Work - Steve Mould (https://youtu.be/wcJXA8IqYl8?si=TZ0lyRjSo6M6c3ZK)
All About Quartz (http://www.quartzpage.de/gen_struct.html)
Quartz Watches (https://www.nixon.com/blogs/stories/how-quartz-watches-work)
Other Uses of Piezoelectricity (https://www.americanpiezo.com/blog/top-uses-of-piezoelectricity-in-everyday-applications/)
6 Sept 2026
Welcome to Season 2
We're back after a much need break feeling reinvigorated and ready to share more about what I'm learning in the world.
Join us this season to learn about all walks of life, the atoms that make up everything, and everything in between.
18 Jan 2026
Clothe Contraptions
For millennia humans choose to alter the shape of their bodies through external means. But what happens when those who produce life within themselves continue to use contraptions like corsets.
Join us for a history and a discussion on corsets and other pieces of clothing changing the form of the human body.
Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology- Effects of Long Term Corseting on the Female Skeleton (https://journals.mcmaster.ca/nexus/article/view/983)
Childhood Corsetry (https://blogs.cornell.edu/cornellcostume/2022/05/05/childhood-corsetry-the-development-of-unnatural-body-standards-from-a-young-age/)
Victorian Image of Pregnancy through Corsetry (https://www.mdhistory.org/victorian-image-of-pregnancy-through-corsetry/)
Historical and Theoretical Exploration of the Corset (https://intersectionsjournalmcgill.com/2025/02/01/historical-and-theoretical-exploration-of-the-corset-transcending-its-confines-through-modern-interpretation/)
12 Dec 2025
Colloquial Coquis
Episode 7 brings us back to the topic of sound but this time in the landscape Puerto Rico and their iconic self-named Coquis, the question is, can I bring this sound home with me in my own human adapted vocal chords?
Research links:
Climates effect on Vocal Chords (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4321236/)
Adaptations of Lion and Tiger Vocal Chords (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3206895/)
Anatomy of Human Chords to Marine Mammals (https://dosits.org/animals/sound-production/how-do-marine-mammals-produce-sounds/)
A Birds Vocal box, the Syrinx (https://www.science.org/content/article/bird-voice-box-one-kind-animal-kingdom)
The Age of Animal Sound (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossils-reveal-when-animals-started-making-noise/#:~:text=What%20we%20do%20know%20is,fossil%20record%20of%20their%20ears)
Structure of a Frogs Voice Box (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18529205/)
Humans Ability to Mimic (https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/23/8084)
2 Nov 2025
Your choice?
Are the choices you make predetermined by previous catalysts? Are we all just following if->then statements? Or are your choices up to you? Can you decide what happens next?
Join us (or don't, your choice) to ponder what free will means and how consciousness might effect free will.
Links-
Libet Experiment (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6640273/)
Startalk- 2 Astrophysicists Debate Free Will (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXvv6CbGg8A&t=325s)
Hasan Doesn't Know- with Suborno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvft21n_QhE)
1 Sept 2025
Immunity Feasts & Inked Mummies
How does tattoo ink not just leak out of your body like Wolverine pushing out bullets?!?!
Fantastic question, listen and find out how we've been able to display body art for thousands of years.
Research-
What happens under the skin? (https://www.drdoppelt.com/tattoos-whats-happening-under-your-skin/)
Oldest Tattoos (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tattoos-worldwide-history-144038580/)
Layers of Skin (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/10978-skin)
Evolution of Pigmentation (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8359960/)
Evolution of Pigmentation Part 2 (https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/human-skin-color-variation)
Lymphatic System (https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/21199-lymphatic-system)
1 Aug 2025
Fireflies, Octopi, & the Nightsky
What are the creatures that light up a room with their presence? No literally they can light up a room, some of them with just their rear end. Welcome to Ever Wonder where this episode we'll be talking about how bioluminescence works and who can do it like fireflies and octopi.
Research links:
History and our human fascination with bioluminescence (https://goldbio.com/articles/article/The-History-of-Luciferin-and-Luciferase-discovery-timeline?srsltid=AfmBOoqQ9q889_4umrSRcdGRe1Nsmup0rfBiHzwskxJZ--2xPyEudwT0)How the chemical process works (https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/materials/bioluminescence-fact-sheet.pdf)
What creatures are using bioluminescence and why (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/bioluminescence/)
Etymology of Luciferin/Luciferase (https://www.etymonline.com/word/luciferase)
30 Jun 2025
Existential Crisis on Deck
The host explores identity through a Greek philosophical paradox and discusses the structure of calendars, providing insights into self-assessment and time perception.
1 Jun 2025
Molecules & Mixtapes
This episode explores how sound frequencies, from concert bass to singing bowls, impact the human body and potentially influence biological processes like wound healing and gene modulation.
4 May 2025
Episode I - The Phantom Timepiece
Welcome to the first full episode of Ever Wonder! WoOoOo, we made it!
This episode starts us off with an unanswered question to get our curiosity rolling. And what better way to kick things off then poking holes in one of the best (in my opinion) sci-fi movie series. In honor of May the Fourth, have you ever wondered how one would tell time across planets in a galaxy? Or how would time zones be set up?
Music by:
Brunch for Two by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/QOj_QOWuyXI (https://youtu.be/QOj_QOWuyXI)
2 Sept 2020
Ever Wonder Sneak Peek
Ever Wonder was a podcast created because I wanted to learn more about the world around us. How does bioluminescence work? Or what is the origin of astrology?
Each episode will either be an unanswered question or a question that I've researched and found some answers to. I'll take you along on this journey with me while we let our curiosity get the better of us.
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