Vox To Launch New Science Podcast In March Called Unexplainable

 Co-created by Noam Hassenfeld, Byrd Pinkerton, and Brian Resnick, the show launches on March 10, with new episodes available every Wednesday

Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network have announced Unexplainable, a new podcast about the greatest mysteries in science. 

 

 

Unexplainable, which expands on Vox’s acclaimed “explainer” franchise, is co-created by former Today, Explained senior producer Noam Hassenfeld, Future Perfect and The Impact reporter and producer Byrd Pinkerton, as well as Vox senior science reporter Brian Resnick. Each week, host Noam Hassenfeld, will introduce a new question that remains unanswered—why it matters, what’s being done to answer it, and how it might change our understanding of the world.

Before Unexplainable, Noam was a reporter/producer for Vox’s daily show Today, Explained, where he was also responsible for the show’s periodic parody songs. In summer 2020, Noam co-created Today’s Explained’s first spinoff mini-series.

 

 Byrd Pinkerton, who reports and produces for Unexplainable, has produced multiple seasons of Vox's Future Perfect and The Impact, traveling with hosts from Melbourne to Taipei to Kalamazoo in search of narrative policy stories. Before Vox, she worked on daily news at NPR. 

  

Brian Resnick is senior science reporter at Vox, covering social and behavioral sciences, space, medicine, the environment, and anything that makes you think “whoa that’s cool.” Before Vox, he was a staff correspondent at National Journal where he wrote two cover stories for the weekly print magazine, and reported on breaking news and politics. 

 

 The Vox Media Podcast Network has over 200 active shows, including Today, Explained, Land of the Giants, Vox Quick Hits, Recode Daily, and many more.

Unexplainable debuts on Wednesday, March 10 with two new episodes, “The Nose,” about everything we still don’t know about how smell works, and “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” about a failed journey to the center of the earth and what it taught us about our planet. “Dark matter, unexplained,” the series pilot, debuted last fall.

Listen to the show trailer here, and subscribe to Unexplainable on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Frank Racioppi