science

Verity!

Verity! is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Verity! rather than just read about it. In short: Verity! was a weekly podcast about the television show Doctor Who, as seen through the eyes of a rotating cast of six women, running from January 2013 to August 2026. Verity! had a female-centered format and was a feminist podcast.

Key takeaways

Verity! belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Verity! to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Verity! from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Verity! was a weekly podcast about the television show Doctor Who, as seen through the eyes of a rotating cast of six women, running from January 2013 to August 2026. Verity! had a female-centered format and was a feminist podcast. It was nominated for the "Best Fancast" at the Hugo Awards in 2014 and 2018. The Verity! contributors are all Doctor Who fans and live in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. The show was described as "intelligently fannish" and referenced as a recommended podcast.

History Verity! first aired January 2013. Deborah Stanish, the moderator of the podcast, met most of the other participants at conventions or other Doctor Who events or by working with them on non-fiction, Doctor Who-related books. Stanish wanted to hear the female and minority voices of Doctor Who fans and decided to start a podcast where several women could lend their view to the show and issues surrounding it. The format of having only women on the podcast made it stand out among the many other Doctor Who-related podcasts. The podcast's name was a homage to Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who.

Content Verity! shows consisted of a discussion of various topics touching on and about Doctor Who among the cast members. There was a "proper" episode every other week that is about an hour long and is based on a theme that the podcasters follow all year. The other episodes were shorter, about twenty to forty minutes and on any topic the women choose. Erika Ensign and Stanish participated in most episodes: Stanish was the moderator and Ensign did the technical work. The other four cast members rotated, except for large celebratory episodes where all six came together for the show. Each contributor to Verity! lived in a different part of the world, so they recorded in their own locations and connected via a Skype call. Verity! was not scripted, except for some contributors, like Ensign and Stanish, who used occasional notes in order to stay on topic. Overall, the show was not heavily edited and was meant to sound like a natural conversational flow. In a January 2023 episode, the podcasters announced a hiatus. The podcast returned in November 2023, with all of the original cast discussing the three Doctor Who specials featuring David Tennant, and the Doctor Who Christmas special in December, in a series of winter podcast episodes. On August 5, 2026, the podcast released its final episode, with all six contributors participating.

Cast members Erika Ensign (Edmonton, Alberta) – Former producer of the Apex Magazine Podcast, current co-producer of the Uncanny Magazine Podcast, and technical editor of Verity! Katrina (Kat) Griffiths (Edmonton, Alberta) – fan and writer. Liz (L.M.) Myles (Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland) – contributor to Chicks Dig Time Lords, co-editor of Chicks Unravel Time and co-editor of Companion Piece (2015). Tansy Rayner Roberts (Hobart, Tasmania) – author of the Creature Court series and Hugo Award winner. Deborah (Deb) Stanish (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – co-editor of Whedonistas (2011) and co-editor of Chicks Unravel Time who moderated the panel discussion on Verity! Lynne M. Thomas (Urbana, Illinois) – a co-editor of Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It (2010), Whedonistas (2011), and Chicks Dig Comics (2012), and a contributor to Chicks Unravel Time. She is also the former editor-in-chief of Apex Magazine, moderator of SF Squeecast, and former co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Verity!

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Verity! claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Verity! before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Verity! ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Verity!

In research: Verity! appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Verity! in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Verity! is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 podcast debuts, Audio podcasts, Doctor Who fandom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Verity! outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Verity! in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Verity! means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Verity! out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Verity! in simple terms?

Why does Verity! matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Verity!?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Verity!.