Hello everyone, my name is Jess and this is The Tangent Factory podcast. I am so excited to finally be able to announce this. This has been a project built out of passion and out of a dream, and I genuinely can't believe it's almost here.

If you're anything like me then you're the kind of person who has a thirst to find out why. Why is the sky blue? Why does the air in a plane cabin feel so dry? Why do dog breeds look so wildly different from each other and yet can still produce offspring together? Well that's what we do here at The Tangent Factory. At some point in the week something will have caught my attention and sent me off down a rabbit hole, and the episode that follows will be everything I learned along the way.

Sometimes that's science, sometimes it's food, sometimes it's animal behaviour or engineering or psychology or some ...