A new The Rest Is… podcast! Perhaps not the exciting news it used to be. Some of the more recent launches from Britain’s leading podcast production company, Goalhanger, have proved less successful than the The Rest Is History and … Politics, less fun than The Rest Is Entertainment or … Football. But The Rest Is Science, launched this week, feels like a winner. Hosted by the BBC presenter and mathematician Professor Hannah Fry (British) and the science and philosophy YouTuber Michael Stevens (American), it’s lighter in tone than many of its stablemates, though just as informative. The brisk 37-minute opening show about water was packed with the sort of kid-friendly fun facts that blow adult minds too. Did you know that ice, because it’s structured like a mineral, has the same classification as rock? Which means water is like lava? Drink up!
