Jacob Shymanski
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3,186 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Jacob Shymanski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know if you agree with this, but I find that this book, Project Hail Mary, is
it has an episodic feel to it it has a formula to it where you're where rylan grace the main character is presented with a problem he calculates and then attempts the solution yeah and it that is science ultimately you present a problem you come up with hypotheses to fix that problem or to discover what the problem is in the first place
And then you attempt to fix it based on your tests that you've done using experiments and that sort of thing.
And it takes place over quite a bit of time.
I'm not usually someone who appreciates the formulas like these.
It works in this one because science is a formula in and of itself.
And as someone who's kind of idealistic, I'm like, yes, put this out there.
Get people understanding the value of science for what it is, because science is not political.
It's a method of discovering truth.
And this book is an evangelist for that without being preachy.
Back in high school, there was a moment where I wasn't in the class at the time, but somebody mixed two chemicals together or something in some laboratory.
and it created uh some gas that was extremely nauseous to everyone around it and they evacuated the whole school and uh nobody came back until like two days later so let us remember that so all that to say is that science can lead to great outcomes even though the experiment itself was a failure and you're so right it's totally slapstick there's a lot of humor it's it's kind of corny uh
It's campy a little bit too, right?
Even the whole structure of it being episodic is kind of campy.
It doesn't take itself too seriously.
But that all leads to what I was saying in the intro.
That it's capital S storytelling.
It's tension and release and just endlessly satisfying to see how is he going to solve this.
And then you get introduced to a really interesting concept.
And then it works or doesn't.
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