Unbaffled with Jim Al-Khalili: Making the Weirdest Ideas in Science Feel Intuitive
I have already written about the two physicists who did the most to talk me into taking many-worlds and the wider multiverse seriously, so when a new YouTube channel showed up in my feed built entirely around the premise that science doesn’t have to be baffling, I was always going to click. Unbaffled, presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, launched on 25 June 2026, and in its first three weeks it has already covered quantum interpretation, brain lateralisation, and whether time travel is physically permitted. That is a wide spread for a channel barely a month old, and it is exactly the range I wanted a profile to capture. ...