{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #378 millionwhys.com","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":449,"description":"Million Whys https://millionwhys.comMillion Whys, built by Igneous AI, delivers a daily ten-second why-question that spans science, nature, animals, and everyday curiosities most of us never think to ask about. Every answer choice gets explained, even the wrong ones, turning guesses into learning rather than just pass-or-fail moments. Users can also snap a photo of anything around them to generate custom why-questions on the spot, and many of the app's questions come directly from curious minds around the world. Free to use, no signup required. Tune in to hear why this small app is bringing genuine wonder back into people's daily routines, one why at a time.There's a moment every child has, probably a hundred times before the age of seven, where they look at something completely ordinary and ask why. Why is the sky that color. Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep. Why does bread go hard but crackers go soft. And then, somewhere around adulthood, most of us just stop asking. Not because we ran out of questions, but because life filled in around them and we forgot how good it felt to actually wonder about something.Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I'm Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for the businesses and ideas that are quietly changing how we live, work, and think, and then I bring them straight to you. Today I want to talk about a small app with a very big mission: putting that feeling of genuine curiosity back into your day, ten seconds at a time. It's called Million Whys, built by a company called Igneous AI, and once I started poking around it, I understood exactly why it's caught on with curious people in dozens of countries.Here's the simplest way to describe Million Whys. It's a daily trivia and fun fact app built around a single why question. Not the kind of question you'd think to type into a search bar, but the kind that sneaks up on you. Why can the same soft feathers that let an owl fly silently also make it...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}