The Multiverse Employee Handbook – A Science Comedy Podcast about Space, Physics, and Corporate Absurdity.

Welcome to humanity’s return to the Moon, where NASA’s Artemis III mission plans to land astronauts at the South Pole by 2028 whilst China independently pursues its own crewed landing by 2030, and the question has evolved from “can we go?” to “can we actually stay?” In this examination of permanent lunar habitation, we discover how living on the Moon requires solving simultaneous challenges of dust mitigation, radiation shielding, partial gravity physiology, and resource extraction whilst maintaining human psychology in an environment that remains profoundly indifferent to organic survival.

Welcome to cosmic dawn, where the James Webb Space Telescope discovered compact objects that appeared to violate every comfortable assumption about early black hole formation, and astronomers spent several years proposing increasingly exotic explanations before realising they’d been fooled by electron scattering through dense ionised gas cocoons. In this examination of spectroscopic detective work, we discover how seemingly impossible billion-solar-mass black holes turned out to be perfectly reasonable hundred-thousand-solar-mass black holes wearing very convincing disguises.