The hosts
Each show is hosted by its own generated character. In the first seconds of every episode they do what no person can. Every claim they make is checked at its source, by AI and by the editors, before the episode is made, and our editorial team approves what they say.
01 · Space
Tycho Takes Off
He takes you to what has never been filmed, from inside an atom to the edge of a black hole, and lands there. Every episode ends back home, on a field on the Danish island of Møn.
On screenEvery picture carries one of three words: observed, modeled or imagined.
tychotakesoff.com →
02 · Engineering
Otto Takes It Apart
He opens machines while they run. You see what carries the load, where the heat goes and why things fail.
On screenEvery claim with its source; every scene that makes a claim shows how sure it is.
ottotakesitapart.com →
03 · History
Kleio Was There
She goes to the past as it was, from the evidence that survived: a street, a workshop, one ordinary day.
On screenEvery reconstruction is labeled as one. People of the past appear only when they have been dead for more than 70 years and their appearance is documented.
kleiowasthere.com →
04 · Life
Zoe Looks Closer
She shows living things at every scale, from a whale to a molecule: a cell at work, a nerve firing, a seed starting to grow.
On screenWhere the evidence comes from a handful of studies, the episode says so, with the number.
zoelookscloser.com →
05 · Earth
Mateo Reads the Rocks
He walks the Earth's own record: four and a half billion years in rock, ice and sediment, one layer at a time.
On screenEach part of a reconstruction is labeled fossil or inferred.
mateoreadstherocks.com →
06 · The mind
Harper Finds Out
She goes into the places, times and minds where our ideas about perception were born, lives each idea first-hand, and ends every episode with a verdict.
On screenFive verdicts, set from the evidence by the research desk, never by the character: proven, plausible, open question, speculative or busted.
harperfindsout.com →Every episode carries YouTube's AI label. In the first seconds of every episode the character does what no person can.
Inside the shows only the characters speak. The studio stands in the description as A Leon & Vera Production · leonandvera.com.
How sure we are is set from the evidence by the research desk, never by the character. A reported error goes to the fact-checker, never to the character.
No advice on your health, your money, your legal questions or your vote. They explain what is known and how well it is known.