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Selects: How Magnets Work
36 mins; August 12, 2023
Xenobiotics
45 mins; August 10, 2023
Short Stuff: History of English
12 mins; August 09, 2023
Dear Diary...
47 mins; August 08, 2023
Selects: Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever
30 mins; August 05, 2023
The Last Meal Ritual
49 mins; August 03, 2023
Short Stuff: NATO Alphabet
13 mins; August 02, 2023
BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?
50 mins; August 01, 2023
Selects: What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?
40 mins; July 29, 2023
MAD Magazine: A Tribute
60 hours 12 mins; July 27, 2023
Short Stuff: Blue Highway Signs
14 mins; July 26, 2023
Learning a Foreign Language
47 mins; July 25, 2023
Selects: Nirvana: Not The Band
32 mins; July 22, 2023
Magic Eye Illusions
47 mins; July 20, 2023
Short Stuff: Pie-In-The-Face Gag
12 mins; July 19, 2023
Insomnia: Why you can't sleep
50 mins; July 18, 2023
Selects: How Police Lineups Work
52 mins; July 15, 2023
How PCP Works
49 mins; July 13, 2023
Short Stuff: Père-Lachaise Cemetery
12 mins; July 12, 2023
Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice
55 mins; July 11, 2023
Selects: How Bats Work
45 mins; July 08, 2023
James Beard: Food Legend
55 mins; July 06, 2023
Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign
13 mins; July 05, 2023
How Trucking Works
61 hours 57 mins; July 04, 2023
Selects: What Makes Lead So Poisonous?
49 mins; July 01, 2023
Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!
51 mins; June 29, 2023
Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius
9 mins; June 28, 2023
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians
47 mins; June 27, 2023
Selects: How Ocean Currents Work
39 mins; June 24, 2023
How Afrofuturism Works
53 mins; June 22, 2023
Short Stuff: Chia Pet
12 mins; June 21, 2023
Large Language Models and You
54 mins; June 20, 2023
Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps
69 hours 4 mins; June 17, 2023
How Alumin(i)um Works
51 mins; June 15, 2023
Short Stuff: Suicide Forest
11 mins; June 14, 2023
The Stinky History of Human Hygiene
57 mins; June 13, 2023
Selects: How Audience Testing Works
40 mins; June 10, 2023
Is Reality Real?
43 mins; June 08, 2023
Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage
11 mins; June 07, 2023
Why Manners?
47 mins; June 06, 2023
Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
38 mins; June 03, 2023
What's the deal with intermittent fasting?
44 mins; June 01, 2023
Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg
14 mins; May 31, 2023
The Saga of Milli Vanilli
53 mins; May 30, 2023
Selects: How Color Works
41 mins; May 27, 2023
The Semi-Recent History of Exercise
55 mins; May 25, 2023
Short Stuff: Pollen Count
12 mins; May 24, 2023
What is the Bechdel Test?
42 mins; May 23, 2023
Selects: How Dog Shows Work
41 mins; May 20, 2023
How Juries Work
57 mins; May 18, 2023
Short Stuff: Mood Rings
11 mins; May 17, 2023
The Inflammation Theory of Disease
58 mins; May 16, 2023
Selects: How Slinky Works
51 mins; May 13, 2023
How TV Weathercasters Work
49 mins; May 11, 2023
Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA
12 mins; May 10, 2023
The Colosseum
54 mins; May 09, 2023
Selects: Does the body replace itself?
38 mins; May 06, 2023
Introducing Smell-O-Vision!
38 mins; May 04, 2023
Short Stuff: Dunbar's Number
14 mins; May 03, 2023
Nerf!
38 mins; May 02, 2023
Selects: How Manhunts Work
34 mins; April 29, 2023
Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway
47 mins; April 27, 2023
Short Stuff: Botox Brain
13 mins; April 26, 2023
Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?
53 mins; April 25, 2023
Selects: Was There A Real Robin Hood?
49 mins; April 22, 2023
METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes
43 mins; April 20, 2023
Short Stuff: Routines
15 mins; April 18, 2023
Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?
53 mins; April 18, 2023
Selects: How Coffins Work
41 mins; April 15, 2023
John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?
45 mins; April 13, 2023
Short Stuff: Red Snow
11 mins; April 12, 2023
How Skydiving Works
51 mins; April 11, 2023
Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories
53 mins; April 08, 2023
Playing Cards? You Got That Right!
46 mins; April 06, 2023
Short Stuff: Beethoven’s DNA
9 mins; April 05, 2023
What Caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
47 mins; April 04, 2023
Selects: How Jet Lag Works
35 mins; April 01, 2023
What's the deal with dowsing?
44 mins; March 30, 2023
Short Stuff: Theme Park Cremations
11 mins; March 29, 2023
The First Road Trip
49 mins; March 28, 2023
Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?
67 hours 47 mins; March 25, 2023
An Interesting, Vastly Incomplete Look at Baseball Cards
54 mins; March 23, 2023
Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation
12 mins; March 22, 2023
The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins
47 mins; March 21, 2023
Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?
19 mins; March 18, 2023
Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds
58 mins; March 16, 2023
Short Stuff: John Cage's 639 Year Concert
13 mins; March 15, 2023
That's Amaro!
53 mins; March 14, 2023
Selects: The Time Nazis Invaded Florida
55 mins; March 11, 2023
Woodstock: The Festival for Stardust, Golden Hippies
56 mins; March 09, 2023
Short Stuff: Paprika
8 mins; March 08, 2023
Noncompete Agreements, Come On
50 mins; March 07, 2023
Selects: Live From San Francisco: How Malls Work
66 hours 5 mins; March 04, 2023
Crosswords episode, perhaps?
54 mins; March 02, 2023
Short Stuff: La Pascualita
11 mins; March 01, 2023
The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
54 mins; February 28, 2023
Selects: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
