Hodja on Everything

This episode explores the five great mass extinctions that repeatedly reshaped life on Earth, from the Great Dying to the asteroid that ended the age of the non-avian dinosaurs — and asks whether humanity may now be causing the sixth.

This episode explores the rise of dinosaurs, their surprising evolution into birds, and why the pigeon outside your window is technically a living dinosaur.

This episode explores how evolution works without a plan, from natural selection and common ancestry to living fossils — and why nature keeps reinventing the crab.

This episode explores how ordinary chemistry somehow became life, from the first building blocks and protocells to the imperfect copying that gave evolution something to work with.

This season finale looks back at our Pale Blue Dot, revealing how perspective from space may be the key to understanding—and protecting—the only home we have ever known.

This episode explores how the Moon shaped our planet, our history, and our imagination—before becoming humanity’s gateway to worlds beyond.

This episode explores the possible endings of the Solar System and the universe, discovering why even cosmic endings make today a rather extraordinary time to be alive.

This episode explores the Kardashev Scale, Dyson Swarms and galaxy-spanning civilisations while asking just how large an electricity bill the universe can really afford.

This episode explores the search for life beyond Earth, from habitable worlds and biosignatures to the unsettling question that still echoes across the universe: where is everybody?

This episode explores how planets are made, why no two worlds are alike, and how Earth got remarkably lucky.

This episode traces the extraordinary life of a star from birth to supernova while exploring how the universe recycles stars into future worlds—and eventually, into us.

This episode reveals why every glance into the night sky is a journey into the past, explores the extraordinary lives of galaxies, and discovers our own place in the Milky Way.

This episode explores how space and time became spacetime, why reality is stranger than common sense, and how Einstein accidentally became the patron saint of GPS navigation.

This episode explores the Big Bang, the beginning of the universe, and the possibility that curiosity—when left unsupervised—may be one of humanity’s most powerful forces.