What The If?
Hosted by Matt and Philip and Gaby Paniccia · Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia
4.6from 76 ratings
- 445
- Episodes
- 120
- Transcribed
- 76
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About What The If?
Learn how to think like EINSTEIN! Every week we learn science running imaginative thought experiments. Our brilliant guests are some of the world’s greatest science fiction writers, scientists & science communicators. Leap into a journey to answer the most fascinating question in the universe: What The IF?
- Publisher
- Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Sept 2017
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
120 of 445 episodes have a transcript.
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VAMPIRES Are Real!
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because that would be pretty amazing. Or the thing that feels more plausible to me is they're regularly turning on the kind of things that you only see during like embryogenesis. Things that essentially create something new or like get rid of all of the markers of oldness or senescence. Maybe they have a really robust system for generating or preserving stem cells. But I'm imagining it's like one of these things where periodically they're just, you know, turning on stuff that's kind of clearing house, you know, spring cleaning, making sure everything sort of gets reset back to baseline. And then as a result, they don't really age and they live forever. […]
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- Matt Stanley
- Moiya McTier
- Jessica Riskin
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 59 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 17 ratings
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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Matt and Philip and Gaby Paniccia host the show. Published by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia.
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