• Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor (Wed, May 18, 2022)
";
• Squirrels, Ahoy! (Tue, May 17, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked (Sat, May 14, 2022)
";
• Rhinoplasty, aka Nose Jobs (Thu, May 12, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood (Wed, May 11, 2022)
";
• What are land acknowledgments? (Tue, May 10, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Champagne Works (Sat, May 07, 2022)
";
• Marcus Garvey: Black Moses (Thu, May 05, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Shar Pei (Wed, May 04, 2022)
";
• The Mystery of Coal (Tue, May 03, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA (Sat, Apr 30, 2022)
";
• Understudies: Hardest Workers on Broadway? (Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Smelly Homes (Wed, Apr 27, 2022)
";
• “Postmodernism:” (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
";
• Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach (Sat, Apr 23, 2022)
";
• Just Say No to... Bottled Water (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Salute the Grilled Cheese (Wed, Apr 20, 2022)
";
• The Christine Collins Story (Tue, Apr 19, 2022)
";
• Selects: What happens to abandoned mines? (Sat, Apr 16, 2022)
";
• How Mensa Works (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Animal Politicians (Wed, Apr 13, 2022)
";
• The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Tue, Apr 12, 2022)
";
• Selects: A Partial History of Action Figures (Sat, Apr 09, 2022)
";
• The Delightful History of Pubs (Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: The Church Choir That Didn't Explode (Wed, Apr 06, 2022)
";
• Watermelons: Nature's Gift to the World (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
";
• Selects: How No-fly Zones Work (Sat, Apr 02, 2022)
";
• What’s NATO All About? (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Greenbrier Bunker (Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
";
• How Light Pollution Works (Tue, Mar 29, 2022)
";
• Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part II (Sat, Mar 26, 2022)
";
• Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part I (Sat, Mar 26, 2022)
";
• The Truth Behind Cage-Free and Free-Range (Fri, Mar 25, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing (Wed, Mar 23, 2022)
";
• Why was Titicut Follies banned? (Tue, Mar 22, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Hate Works (Sat, Mar 19, 2022)
";
• How Rewilding Works (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Nose Breathing (Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
";
• Operation Northwoods: The False Flag Op That Never Was (Tue, Mar 15, 2022)
";
• Selects: A Brief Overview of Punk Rock (Sat, Mar 12, 2022)
";
• Aleister Crowley: Blowhard Narcissist? (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Great Smog of London (Wed, Mar 09, 2022)
";
• Behold, National Parks! (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Tabloids Work (Sat, Mar 05, 2022)
";
• How Effective Altruism Works (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Friends of Dorothy (Wed, Mar 02, 2022)
";
• What's the deal with phantom pain? (Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
";
• Selects: Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy? (Sat, Feb 26, 2022)
";
• How Mindfulness Works (Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Commensalism (Wed, Feb 23, 2022)
";
• The Improbable Story of Martin Guerre (Tue, Feb 22, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Moss Works (Sat, Feb 19, 2022)
";
• The Ins and Outs of Albinism (Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Cassowary (Wed, Feb 16, 2022)
";
• Leeches: Oh Hell No! (Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
";
• Selects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping (Sat, Feb 12, 2022)
";
• Littering: Not Cool (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Schmidt Stinging Pain Index (Wed, Feb 09, 2022)
";
• The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping (Tue, Feb 08, 2022)
";
• Selects: What's the Deal With Staring? (Sat, Feb 05, 2022)
";
• How the Nobel Peace Prize Works (Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Firewalking (Wed, Feb 02, 2022)
";
• How Tacos Work (Tue, Feb 01, 2022)
";
• Selects: How Sloths Work (Sat, Jan 29, 2022)
";
• How Forgiveness Works (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Arctic Fox (Wed, Jan 26, 2022)
";
• Tug of War (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
";
• Selects: How SETI Works (Sat, Jan 22, 2022)
";
• How Classified Information Works (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Jaywalking (Wed, Jan 19, 2022)
";
• Rock Paper Scissors: Decider of Things (Tue, Jan 18, 2022)
";
• Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub (Sat, Jan 15, 2022)
";
• What were the black codes? (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: Fortune Cookies (Wed, Jan 12, 2022)
";
• The Circleville Poison Pen Letters Mystery (Tue, Jan 11, 2022)
";
• Selects: Carl Sagan: American Hero (Sat, Jan 08, 2022)
";
• Ants! Part 2! (Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
";
• Short Stuff: The Casket Racket (Wed, Jan 05, 2022)
";
• Ants! Part 1! (Tue, Jan 04, 2022)
";
• Selects: Horoscopes: Written in the Stars? (Sat, Jan 01, 2022)
";
• Cookies! Cookies! Cookies! (Thu, Dec 30, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Traffic Signals (Wed, Dec 29, 2021)
";
• Unsung Heroes of the Court (Tue, Dec 28, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Tipping Works (Sat, Dec 25, 2021)
";
• SYSK’s 2021 Glad Tidings Bonanza Holiday Special (Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Christmas Cards (Wed, Dec 22, 2021)
";
• How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work (Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
";
• Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular (Sat, Dec 18, 2021)
";
• Kidney Stones: No! Please, NO! (Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Charity Tips (Wed, Dec 15, 2021)
";
• Palm Trees: Technically, Giant Plants (Tue, Dec 14, 2021)
";
• Selects: How the Terracotta Army Works (Sat, Dec 11, 2021)
";
• What's the deal with blue people? (Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Funny Bone (Wed, Dec 08, 2021)
";
• Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal? (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
";
• Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria? (Sat, Dec 04, 2021)
";
• Your Gut Is Also A Brain (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: SINA (Wed, Dec 01, 2021)
";
• The Twisted History of Dentistry (Tue, Nov 30, 2021)
";
• Selects: Why Do Lefties Exist? (Sat, Nov 27, 2021)
";
• Python-a-palooza! (Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Mayday! (Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
";
• The Apache Wars (Tue, Nov 23, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Hoarding Works (Sat, Nov 20, 2021)
";
• Why Is DC Not A State? (Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: The Paper Dress Fad (Wed, Nov 17, 2021)
";
• Hot Dog!(s) (Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Feng Shui Works (Sat, Nov 13, 2021)
";
• The Flannan Isles Mystery (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Your Dirty Bed (Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
";
• What are blue laws? (Tue, Nov 09, 2021)
";
• Selects: The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads (Sat, Nov 06, 2021)
";
• The Rock Ampersand Roll Hall of Fame (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Friendly Floatees (Wed, Nov 03, 2021)
";
• How mRNA Vaccines Work (Tue, Nov 02, 2021)
";
• Selects: What is folklore? (Sat, Oct 30, 2021)
";
• 2021 Halloween Spooktacular! (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Most Haunted House in England (Wed, Oct 27, 2021)
";
• Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
";
• Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects? (Sat, Oct 23, 2021)
";
• Harry Houdini: More than Magic (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Bloody Mary (Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
";
• Heat Waves! (Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
";
• Selects: Why is Venice so wet? (Sat, Oct 16, 2021)
";
• Noise Pollution: Arrrgh! (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Jack O'Lanterns and Sleepy Hollow (Wed, Oct 13, 2021)
";
• Venus Flytraps: Plant or Monster? (Tue, Oct 12, 2021)
";
• Selects: How X-Rays Work (Sat, Oct 09, 2021)
";
• The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Dingoes! (Wed, Oct 06, 2021)
";
• Research Bias: Sort It Out, Science (Tue, Oct 05, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Empathy Works (Sat, Oct 02, 2021)
";
• All About Alligators (Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Exploring Irish Monk (Wed, Sep 29, 2021)
";
• How Numerology Works (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
";
• Selects: Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy (Sat, Sep 25, 2021)
";
• The Statue of Liberty (Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Lake Erie's Rights (Wed, Sep 22, 2021)
";
• How Mail Order Marriages Work (Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Free Speech Works (Sat, Sep 18, 2021)
";
• What's the deal with crash testing? (Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: The Javelina (Wed, Sep 15, 2021)
";
• How Embalming Works (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
";
• Selects: Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm (Sat, Sep 11, 2021)
";
• How the Magna Carta Worked (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Chameleons (Wed, Sep 08, 2021)
";
• The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil (Tue, Sep 07, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Temper Tantrums Work (Sat, Sep 04, 2021)
";
• Criminal Records: No Thanks! (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Handwashing vs Dishwashers (Wed, Sep 01, 2021)
";
• How Trepanation Worked (Tue, Aug 31, 2021)
";
• Selects: Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process (Sat, Aug 28, 2021)
";
• Les Paul & Leo Fender Part II (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Jackalope (Wed, Aug 25, 2021)
";
• Les Paul & Leo Fender Part I (Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Pet Psychics Work (Sat, Aug 21, 2021)
";
• Y2K: Much Ado About Something (Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species (Wed, Aug 18, 2021)
";
• How MRI Works (Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Animal Domestication Works (Sat, Aug 14, 2021)
";
• How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty (Wed, Aug 11, 2021)
";
• Child Labor: Not Funny (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Landslides Work (Sat, Aug 07, 2021)
";
• How Transcendentalism Works (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Calamity Jane (Wed, Aug 04, 2021)
";
• The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Experiment (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Police Interrogation Works (Sat, Jul 31, 2021)
";
• How Sarcasm Works (Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Space Hurricanes (Wed, Jul 28, 2021)
";
• Conservatorships: #freebritney (Tue, Jul 27, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Mars Works (Sat, Jul 24, 2021)
";
• The Origins of Some Everyday Superstitions (Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: RICO Act (Wed, Jul 21, 2021)
";
• Stranger Danger! (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Ketchup Works (Sat, Jul 17, 2021)
";
• How Reverse Osmosis Will Save the World (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered (Wed, Jul 14, 2021)
";
• The Radium Girls (Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Historic Districts Work (Sat, Jul 10, 2021)
";
• SYSK Live: Koko, the Gorilla Who Talked (Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Sulfanilamide Disaster (Wed, Jul 07, 2021)
";
• The Sad Story of William James Sidis (Tue, Jul 06, 2021)
";
• Selects: Are good samaritan laws effective? (Sat, Jul 03, 2021)
";
• The Grand Ole Opry Cast (Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Beast of Gevaudan (Wed, Jun 30, 2021)
";
• Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing (Tue, Jun 29, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Royalty Works (Sat, Jun 26, 2021)
";
• How Faraday Cages Work (Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Chastity Belts (Wed, Jun 23, 2021)
";
• The Mystery of Damascus Steel (Tue, Jun 22, 2021)
";
• Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis (Sat, Jun 19, 2021)
";
• How Venus Works (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Mojave Megaphone (Wed, Jun 16, 2021)
";
• Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World (Tue, Jun 15, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Sea Monsters Work (Sat, Jun 12, 2021)
";
• POGs: The 90s in a Bottle Cap (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Chinatowns (Wed, Jun 09, 2021)
";
• Slime Mold: 0% Mold, 100% Amazing (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
";
• Selects: Who was America's first murderer? (Sat, Jun 05, 2021)
";
• John Muir: Outdoor Enthusiast (Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Runner's High (Wed, Jun 02, 2021)
";
• What Causes Inflation? (Tue, Jun 01, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works (Sat, May 29, 2021)
";
• Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry (Thu, May 27, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Parachute Emergency! (Wed, May 26, 2021)
";
• How Cleft Lips and Palates Work (Tue, May 25, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Hot Wheels Work (Sat, May 22, 2021)
";
• Girl Scouts: More than cookie sellers (Thu, May 20, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Speed Reading (Wed, May 19, 2021)
";
• The Cleveland Torso Murders (Tue, May 18, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Limousines Work (Sat, May 15, 2021)
";
• How Monster Trucks Work (Thu, May 13, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Garter Snakes (Wed, May 12, 2021)
";
• The Ivy League (Tue, May 11, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Snake Handlers Work (Sat, May 08, 2021)
";
• How Uranium Mining Works (Thu, May 06, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Squarer Than Wombat Poop (Wed, May 05, 2021)
";
• The Appendix: No Respect (Tue, May 04, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Cave Dwellers Work (Sat, May 01, 2021)
";
• How Corporate Taxes Work (Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless (Wed, Apr 28, 2021)
";
• Truffles: Underground Treasures (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Profiling Works (Sat, Apr 24, 2021)
";
• How Stamp Collecting Works (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Madam C.J. Walker (Wed, Apr 21, 2021)
";
• Mechanical Bulls! (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Tupperware Works (Sat, Apr 17, 2021)
";
• Hair Loss: The Pits (Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Palindromes (Wed, Apr 14, 2021)
";
• How the Electrical Grid Works (Tue, Apr 13, 2021)
";
• Selects: The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children (Sat, Apr 10, 2021)
";
• Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness (Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Venus de Milo (Wed, Apr 07, 2021)
";
• Havana Syndrome: ¿Qué Diablos? (Tue, Apr 06, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Circus Families Work (Sat, Apr 03, 2021)
";
• How the Titanic Worked: Part Two (Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: What's the oldest book? (Wed, Mar 31, 2021)
";
• How the Titanic Worked: Part One (Tue, Mar 30, 2021)
";
• Selects: What was the Philadelphia Experiment? (Sat, Mar 27, 2021)
";
• Space Junk, Ahoy! (Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Cellphones on Airplanes (Wed, Mar 24, 2021)
";
• What is biophilic design? (Tue, Mar 23, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Lighthouses Work (Sat, Mar 20, 2021)
";
• The Texas City Disaster of 1947 (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Brazilian Jars (Wed, Mar 17, 2021)
";
• The Parrot Episode (Tue, Mar 16, 2021)
";
• Selects: Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Convertors Work (Sat, Mar 13, 2021)
";
• Karaoke: Tuesday Night Fever (Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Tooth Fairy: Not Real (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
";
• Dragons: As Real as Mermaids (Tue, Mar 09, 2021)
";
• Selects: Mermaids: Not a real thing (Sat, Mar 06, 2021)
";
• Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified? (Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Dog Suicide Bridge (Wed, Mar 03, 2021)
";
• Is the Free Radical Theory of Aging Wrong? (Tue, Mar 02, 2021)
";
• Selects: Bridges: Nature Abhors Them (Sat, Feb 27, 2021)
";
• How Bruce Lee Worked (Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: The Body in the Cylinder (Wed, Feb 24, 2021)
";
• What Will Farming 4.0 Look Like? (Tue, Feb 23, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Chili Peppers Work (Sat, Feb 20, 2021)
";
• How Blue Holes Work (Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Freedom House Ambulance Services (Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
";
• The Disappearance of Lars Mittank (Tue, Feb 16, 2021)
";
• Selects: Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia? (Sat, Feb 13, 2021)
";
• How Housing Discrimination Works (Thu, Feb 11, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: How California Got Its Name (Wed, Feb 10, 2021)
";
• Sacagawea: Impressive Teen (Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
";
• Selects: Earwax: Live With It (Sat, Feb 06, 2021)
";
• The NAACP (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Balloonfest (Wed, Feb 03, 2021)
";
• How Groundhog Day Works (Tue, Feb 02, 2021)
";
• Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out (Sat, Jan 30, 2021)
";
• How Hydropower Works (Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Vantablack (Wed, Jan 27, 2021)
";
• The KKK: Loathsome Cosplay Rednecks (Tue, Jan 26, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Blimps Work (Sat, Jan 23, 2021)
";
• Finding the Fenn Treasure (Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Necco (Wed, Jan 20, 2021)
";
• What does a tire company know about food? (Tue, Jan 19, 2021)
";
• Selects: What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys? (Sat, Jan 16, 2021)
";
• The Science of Cute (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Silverfish (Wed, Jan 13, 2021)
";
• Hell! Hell! Hell! (Tue, Jan 12, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Skateboarding Works (Sat, Jan 09, 2021)
";
• The Wright Brothers (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
";
• Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre? (Wed, Jan 06, 2021)
";
• Space Weather - What's That?! (Tue, Jan 05, 2021)
";
• Selects: How Auto-Tune Works (Sat, Jan 02, 2021)
";
• La Dame de Fer (Eiffel Tower) (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Ig-pay Atin-lay (Sorry) (Wed, Dec 30, 2020)
";
• Theremins: World's First Electronic Music (Tue, Dec 29, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth (Sat, Dec 26, 2020)
";
• The SYSK 2020 Holly Jolly Extravaganza! (Thu, Dec 24, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas (Wed, Dec 23, 2020)
";
• How Buffets Work (Tue, Dec 22, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 (Sat, Dec 19, 2020)
";
• Aspirin: The Wonder Drug (Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Modern Funerals (Wed, Dec 16, 2020)
";
• Joseph Merrick, aka "The Elephant Man" (Tue, Dec 15, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: What is a hangover, really? (Sat, Dec 12, 2020)
";
• The Taliesin Massacre (Thu, Dec 10, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Cramming (Wed, Dec 09, 2020)
";
• How Class Action Lawsuits Work (Tue, Dec 08, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe (Sat, Dec 05, 2020)
";
• John Lennon and the FBI (Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Pimento Cheese! (Wed, Dec 02, 2020)
";
• Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century (Tue, Dec 01, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Tea Works (Sat, Nov 28, 2020)
";
• Gobble Gobble: Turkeys! (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: How Eyes In a Painting Follow You (Wed, Nov 25, 2020)
";
• Patty Hearst: Brainwashed or Bandit? (Tue, Nov 24, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Whatever happened to acid rain? (Sat, Nov 21, 2020)
";
• The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Squirrel Nuts (Wed, Nov 18, 2020)
";
• How Pain Works (Tue, Nov 17, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Who Gets to Name Continents? (Sat, Nov 14, 2020)
";
• How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works (Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Plastic Pink Flamingos (Wed, Nov 11, 2020)
";
• The Bay of Pigs Disaster (Tue, Nov 10, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Geysers: Nature's Innuendo (Sun, Nov 08, 2020)
";
• All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why? (Wed, Nov 04, 2020)
";
• The Amazing Roberto Clemente (Tue, Nov 03, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Ghosts Work (Sat, Oct 31, 2020)
";
• SYSK’s Scare Your Pants Off (and Back On) Halloween Spooktacular (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Poe Toaster (Wed, Oct 28, 2020)
";
• A History of Nursing Homes (Tue, Oct 27, 2020)
";
• Chuck Bryant On The Why I’m Voting Podcast (Sun, Oct 25, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works (Sat, Oct 24, 2020)
";
• Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Haunted Real Estate (Wed, Oct 21, 2020)
";
• 10 Voter Suppression Methods (Tue, Oct 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Sushi Works (Sat, Oct 17, 2020)
";
• Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: What is Latinx anyway? (Wed, Oct 14, 2020)
";
• Wind Tunnels: More Important Than You Realize (Tue, Oct 13, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Bigfoot Works (Sat, Oct 10, 2020)
";
• Printing press? Big deal! (Thu, Oct 08, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Lying in State (Wed, Oct 07, 2020)
";
• What's the deal with swing states? (Tue, Oct 06, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Electoral College Works (Sat, Oct 03, 2020)
";
• Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out) (Thu, Oct 01, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: That's A Head Scratcher (Wed, Sep 30, 2020)
";
• Conjugal Visits: Not exactly what you think (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Rabies Works (Sat, Sep 26, 2020)
";
• At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode (Thu, Sep 24, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Petticoat Rulers (Wed, Sep 23, 2020)
";
• How Sweepstakes Work (Tue, Sep 22, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works (Sat, Sep 19, 2020)
";
• How Election Polling Works and Doesn't Work (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Black Cowboys (Wed, Sep 16, 2020)
";
• Origami: Folding Goodness (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work (Sat, Sep 12, 2020)
";
• Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands! (Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Streisand Effect (Wed, Sep 09, 2020)
";
• Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown (Tue, Sep 08, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Police Chases Work (Sat, Sep 05, 2020)
";
• The Disturbing Disappearance of Tara Calico (Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: More Phrase Origins (Wed, Sep 02, 2020)
";
• How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked (Tue, Sep 01, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Polyamory: When two just won't do (Sat, Aug 29, 2020)
";
• Blacksmiths? You got that right! (Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Carrots and Your Eyes (Wed, Aug 26, 2020)
";
• How Sneezing Works (Tue, Aug 25, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Panic Attacks Work (Sat, Aug 22, 2020)
";
• 1-800-PODCAST (Thu, Aug 20, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Great American Coin Shortage of 2020 (Wed, Aug 19, 2020)
";
• How Anti-Dieting Works (Tue, Aug 18, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How The Human Microbiome Project Works (Sat, Aug 15, 2020)
";
• Olympic Torches: Remember Those? (Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates! (Wed, Aug 12, 2020)
";
• Pirate Radio: Mavericks on the High Seas (Tue, Aug 11, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How The Moonwalk Works (Sat, Aug 08, 2020)
";
• How Miniature Golf Works (Thu, Aug 06, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Jigsaw Puzzles (Wed, Aug 05, 2020)
";
• Wasps: Not as cute as bees (Tue, Aug 04, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works (Sat, Aug 01, 2020)
";
• How Soap Works (Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Habsburg Jaw (Wed, Jul 29, 2020)
";
• How Hurricanes Work (Tue, Jul 28, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Lobbying Works (Sat, Jul 25, 2020)
";
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mobile Phones (Thu, Jul 23, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Death of Billy the Kid (Wed, Jul 22, 2020)
";
• How We Almost Got Rid of Polio (Tue, Jul 21, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works (Sat, Jul 18, 2020)
";
• Robber Barons! (Thu, Jul 16, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Centralia Coal Fire (Wed, Jul 15, 2020)
";
• Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad (Tue, Jul 14, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Landfills Work (Sat, Jul 11, 2020)
";
• Essential Oils: Nature's Cure? (Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The @ Symbol (Wed, Jul 08, 2020)
";
• What was the KGB? (Tue, Jul 07, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: All We Know About Guessing (Sat, Jul 04, 2020)
";
• Oh Yes, How Soil Works (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Science of Funny Words (Wed, Jul 01, 2020)
";
• Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits (Tue, Jun 30, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Juggling: What the Heck (Sat, Jun 27, 2020)
";
• Matcha: That Ain't Just Tea (Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble! (Wed, Jun 24, 2020)
";
• How Ultrasound Works (Tue, Jun 23, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Research tips from SYSK (Sat, Jun 20, 2020)
";
• The Manhattan Grid (Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Haint Blue (Wed, Jun 17, 2020)
";
• The War on Fat: The Seven Countries Study (Tue, Jun 16, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Flamethrowers Work (Sat, Jun 13, 2020)
";
• Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight? (Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Foie Gras (Wed, Jun 10, 2020)
";
• How Project Star Gate Worked (Tue, Jun 09, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How The Black Panther Party Worked (Sat, Jun 06, 2020)
";
• The Massacre at Tiananmen Square (Thu, Jun 04, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Disappearing Dirty Dancing Lake (Wed, Jun 03, 2020)
";
• Heroin: The Drug (Tue, Jun 02, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Jackhammers Work (Sat, May 30, 2020)
";
• How Narcolepsy Works (Thu, May 28, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Lawn Darts (Wed, May 27, 2020)
";
• Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom (Tue, May 26, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How The Enlightenment Works (Sat, May 23, 2020)
";
• Josh Clark's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020 (Fri, May 22, 2020)
";
• How Bras Work (Thu, May 21, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Mary Had A Little Lamb (Wed, May 20, 2020)
";
• How Spiritualism Works (Tue, May 19, 2020)
";
• Chuck Bryant's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020 (Mon, May 18, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Fire Works (Sat, May 16, 2020)
";
• How Peanut Butter Works (Thu, May 14, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Charley Horse (Wed, May 13, 2020)
";
• How Herd Immunity Works (Tue, May 12, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Caving Works (Sat, May 09, 2020)
";
• Zippers: Humans’ Greatest Invention? No, But Still Good (Thu, May 07, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Gibtown: Sideshow Central (Wed, May 06, 2020)
";
• I'm Spartacus! (Tue, May 05, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How do dogs perceive time? (Sat, May 02, 2020)
";
• Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery (Thu, Apr 30, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Mullets: 'Nuff Said (Wed, Apr 29, 2020)
";
• How Existential Risks Work (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the U.S. Postal Service Works (Sat, Apr 25, 2020)
";
• How the Voyager Golden Records Work (Thu, Apr 23, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The NY Times Crossword (Wed, Apr 22, 2020)
";
• The Soul Train Episode (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Labor Unions Work (Sat, Apr 18, 2020)
";
• How Wastewater Treatment Works (Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Turning Down the Radio When You're Lost (Wed, Apr 15, 2020)
";
• Bidets: Now More Than Ever (Tue, Apr 14, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works (Sat, Apr 11, 2020)
";
• Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician (Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: AAirpass (Wed, Apr 08, 2020)
";
• The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold (Tue, Apr 07, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Deep Web Works (Sat, Apr 04, 2020)
";
• Student Loans: UGH! (Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: 666 (Wed, Apr 01, 2020)
";
• How Dog Training Works (Tue, Mar 31, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World? (Sat, Mar 28, 2020)
";
• How COVID-19 Works (Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Dagen H (Wed, Mar 25, 2020)
";
• Could A Robot Tax Win the War on Poverty? (Tue, Mar 24, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck (Sat, Mar 21, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Jim Henson Worked (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: SYSK Live: How Bars Work (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Grass Works? Yes, How Grass Works (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Terraforming Will Work (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rogue Waves Work (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: Was there a real King Arthur? (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: The Amazing History of Soda (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Pinball Works (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• SYSK Distraction Playlist: Sugar: It Powers the Earth (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
";
• What was the Falkland Islands War all about anyway? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Pledge of Allegiance (Wed, Mar 18, 2020)
";
• Chopsticks > Forks (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works (Sat, Mar 14, 2020)
";
• How Ice Climbing Works (Thu, Mar 12, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Teresita Basa (Wed, Mar 11, 2020)
";
• How Coyotes Work (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Gold Works (Sat, Mar 07, 2020)
";
• Mardi Gras! One month late (Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Exclamation Points! (Wed, Mar 04, 2020)
";
• How Morphic Fields Work? (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what? (Sat, Feb 29, 2020)
";
• Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure (Thu, Feb 27, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Hawaiian Night Marchers (Wed, Feb 26, 2020)
";
• What's the deal with indigo? (Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Cult Deprogramming Works (Sat, Feb 22, 2020)
";
• Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Mexican Jumping Beans (Wed, Feb 19, 2020)
";
• The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances (Tue, Feb 18, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes (Sat, Feb 15, 2020)
";
• 911 Is Not a Joke (Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Body Under The Bed (Wed, Feb 12, 2020)
";
• Optogenetics: Controlling Your Genes with Light (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Bonsai Works (Sat, Feb 08, 2020)
";
• Why are Pentecostals growing so rapidly? (Thu, Feb 06, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Iowa Caucus (Wed, Feb 05, 2020)
";
• How AI Facial Recognition Works (Tue, Feb 04, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Maglev Trains Work (Sat, Feb 01, 2020)
";
• Who were the Buffalo Soldiers? (Thu, Jan 30, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The O.K. Corral (Wed, Jan 29, 2020)
";
• Amazing Animal Stories! (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Scientific Method Works (Sat, Jan 25, 2020)
";
• Barefoot Running: The Best Podcast Episode in History (Thu, Jan 23, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Byford Dolphin Incident (Wed, Jan 22, 2020)
";
• Why Postal Employees Go Postal (Tue, Jan 21, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Placebo Effect Works (Sat, Jan 18, 2020)
";
• The Tulsa 'Race Riots' (Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: The Mona Lisa (Wed, Jan 15, 2020)
";
• Transdermal Implants: Body Art or Nightmare Fuel? (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Jellyfish - Even Cooler Than Octopi? (Sat, Jan 11, 2020)
";
• The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part II (Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Corduroy (Wed, Jan 08, 2020)
";
• The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part I (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
";
• SYSK Selects: Will Computers Replace Doctors? (Sat, Jan 04, 2020)
";
• How Safecracking Works (Thu, Jan 02, 2020)
";
• Short Stuff: Why Does Time Speed Up As You Age? (Wed, Jan 01, 2020)
";
• Are broken arrows a problem? (Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works (Sat, Dec 28, 2019)
";
• SYSK Live: Andre the Giant (Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Santa Claus Association (Wed, Dec 25, 2019)
";
• The SYSK Holiday Spectacular (Tue, Dec 24, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 (Sat, Dec 21, 2019)
";
• Cave Diving: Totally Nuts (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Obituaries (Wed, Dec 18, 2019)
";
• MC Escher and His Trippy Art (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Currency Works (Sat, Dec 14, 2019)
";
• How Anorexia and Bulimia Work (Thu, Dec 12, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Whisky or Bourbon? (Wed, Dec 11, 2019)
";
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gin (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Amnesia Works (Sat, Dec 07, 2019)
";
• What's a gap year anyway? (Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Macadamia Nuts (Wed, Dec 04, 2019)
";
• Did Climate Cause the Collapse of the Maya? (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Fractals - Whoa (Sat, Nov 30, 2019)
";
• How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered (Wed, Nov 27, 2019)
";
• How Carbon-14 Dating Works (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Have all the good ideas already been discovered? (Sat, Nov 23, 2019)
";
• What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Backyard Burials (Wed, Nov 20, 2019)
";
• The Murder Mystery of Ötzi the Iceman (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Salt Works (Sat, Nov 16, 2019)
";
• NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Conch Republic (Wed, Nov 13, 2019)
";
• Augmented Reality: Coming Soon? (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Can you Treat Mental Illness with Psychedelics? (Sat, Nov 09, 2019)
";
• Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish (Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
";
• How Ironman Triathlons Work (Wed, Nov 06, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The History of Paternity Testing (Wed, Nov 06, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Halitosis - Worst Smell Ever? (Sat, Nov 02, 2019)
";
• SYSK’s Scare Your Socks Off Halloween Spooktacular 2019 (Thu, Oct 31, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Our Shortie Halloween Spooktacular (Wed, Oct 30, 2019)
";
• Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From? (Tue, Oct 29, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Haunted House Attractions Work (Sat, Oct 26, 2019)
";
• How Historic Districts Work (Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez (Wed, Oct 23, 2019)
";
• What's the deal with subpoenas? (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s (Sat, Oct 19, 2019)
";
• How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce (Wed, Oct 16, 2019)
";
• How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I (Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Black Boxes Work (Sat, Oct 12, 2019)
";
• The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Devil's Den (Wed, Oct 09, 2019)
";
• How Environmental Psychology Works (Tue, Oct 08, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Pez Works (Sat, Oct 05, 2019)
";
• What were the Freedom Schools? (Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Fish n' Chips (Wed, Oct 02, 2019)
";
• Guardian Angels: Behind the Red Beret (Tue, Oct 01, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: What Happened at Kent State? (Sat, Sep 28, 2019)
";
• What are paraphilias? (Thu, Sep 26, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Dare Stones (Wed, Sep 25, 2019)
";
• We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters (Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Could You Live Without a Refrigerator? (Sat, Sep 21, 2019)
";
• How the US Interstate System Works (Thu, Sep 19, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Scurvy (Wed, Sep 18, 2019)
";
• The Skinny on Lyme Disease (Tue, Sep 17, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Wills Work (Sat, Sep 14, 2019)
";
• Special Effects: A Short History (Thu, Sep 12, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Papasan Chairs (Wed, Sep 11, 2019)
";
• How Government Shutdowns Work (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Ouija Boards Work (Sat, Sep 07, 2019)
";
• What's the deal with MSG? (Thu, Sep 05, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Barbed Wire (Wed, Sep 04, 2019)
";
• Ed Gein: The Serial Killer's Serial Killer (Tue, Sep 03, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Icebergs Work (Sat, Aug 31, 2019)
";
• The Rubik's Cube Episode (Thu, Aug 29, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Dead Bodies and Airline Codes (Wed, Aug 28, 2019)
";
• A Brief Overview of Punk Rock (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Sleepwalking Works (Sat, Aug 24, 2019)
";
• How Ventriloquism Works (Thu, Aug 22, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Horseshoe Crab Blood (Wed, Aug 21, 2019)
";
• Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans (Tue, Aug 20, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Are We in a Cyberwar? (Sat, Aug 17, 2019)
";
• How Peyote Works (Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Petrichor (Wed, Aug 14, 2019)
";
• Solar Power: The Future or What? (Tue, Aug 13, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: What Is a Shotgun House? (Sat, Aug 10, 2019)
";
• Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2 (Thu, Aug 08, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Time Zones (Wed, Aug 07, 2019)
";
• Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1 (Tue, Aug 06, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked (Sat, Aug 03, 2019)
";
• What Were the BONE WARS? (Thu, Aug 01, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Man Who Didn’t Eat for a Year (Wed, Jul 31, 2019)
";
• Will Deepfakes Ruin the World? (Tue, Jul 30, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Human Cannonballs Work (Sat, Jul 27, 2019)
";
• How Eyewitness Testimony Works(?) (Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Aristides de Sousa Mendes (Wed, Jul 24, 2019)
";
• MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood (Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Crack Works (Sat, Jul 20, 2019)
";
• Sand Dunes: They Are What You Think They Are (Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Yellow Rain (Wed, Jul 17, 2019)
";
• How Going to the Moon Works (Tue, Jul 16, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Duels - A Guide to Throwing Down the Gauntlet (Sat, Jul 13, 2019)
";
• How Sloths Work (Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult (Wed, Jul 10, 2019)
";
• Cleopatra: Ms. Understood (Tue, Jul 09, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: What Makes us Yawn? (Sat, Jul 06, 2019)
";
• How the Fairness Doctrine Worked (Thu, Jul 04, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Mitsuye Endo (Wed, Jul 03, 2019)
";
• Is photographic memory a real thing? (Tue, Jul 02, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder? (Sat, Jun 29, 2019)
";
• What is the Civil Air Patrol? (Thu, Jun 27, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Prison Food (Wed, Jun 26, 2019)
";
• Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy (Tue, Jun 25, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Donner Party Worked (Sat, Jun 22, 2019)
";
• What happened to the Neanderthals? (Thu, Jun 20, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Emperor Norton (Wed, Jun 19, 2019)
";
• How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works (Tue, Jun 18, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: What's the Deal with Crop Circles? (Sat, Jun 15, 2019)
";
• How Area 51 Works (Thu, Jun 13, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Smoke Signals (Wed, Jun 12, 2019)
";
• What's the gig economy? (Tue, Jun 11, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Capgras Syndrome Works (Sat, Jun 08, 2019)
";
• What is perfect pitch? (Thu, Jun 06, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Robert Johnson and the Devil (Wed, Jun 05, 2019)
";
• How Barcodes Work (Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How TV Ratings Work (Sat, Jun 01, 2019)
";
• The Tylenol Murders, Part II (Thu, May 30, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Look-Alike Old Couples (Wed, May 29, 2019)
";
• The Tylenol Murders, Part I (Tue, May 28, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Acne Works (Sat, May 25, 2019)
";
• What was Tin Pan Alley? (Thu, May 23, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: James Polk, Disinterred (Wed, May 22, 2019)
";
• How Crystals Work (Tue, May 21, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Dying Works (Sat, May 18, 2019)
";
• 10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck (Thu, May 16, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Honorary Degrees (Wed, May 15, 2019)
";
• How Trampolines Work (Tue, May 14, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Lie Detectors Work (Sat, May 11, 2019)
";
• Do Dietary Supplements Work? (Thu, May 09, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Nicknames (Wed, May 08, 2019)
";
• Remembering Live Aid (Tue, May 07, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Does a Diving Bell Work? (Sat, May 04, 2019)
";
• What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead? (Thu, May 02, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Number 23 (Wed, May 01, 2019)
";
• Michael Dillon: Trans Pioneer (Tue, Apr 30, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Zero Works (Sat, Apr 27, 2019)
";
• What Were Human Zoos? (Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Fear of Public Speaking (Wed, Apr 24, 2019)
";
• Is birth order important? (Tue, Apr 23, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Marijuana Works (Sat, Apr 20, 2019)
";
• How the Hoover Dam Works, Part II (Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Emu Wars (Wed, Apr 17, 2019)
";
• How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I (Tue, Apr 16, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Yo-Yos Work (Sat, Apr 13, 2019)
";
• How the Electric Chair Works (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Lake Peigneur (Wed, Apr 10, 2019)
";
• How Free Range Parenting Works (Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Pollen Works (Sat, Apr 06, 2019)
";
• Were Nazis Drug-Fueled Crankheads? (Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Unspent Campaign Money (Wed, Apr 03, 2019)
";
• How Rape Kits Work (Tue, Apr 02, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Immigration Works (Sat, Mar 30, 2019)
";
• Etch A Sketch! (Thu, Mar 28, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: When Elvis Met Nixon (Wed, Mar 27, 2019)
";
• How Druids Worked (Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Sign Language Works (Sat, Mar 23, 2019)
";
• How Disgust Works (Thu, Mar 21, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: The Sandman (Wed, Mar 20, 2019)
";
• Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus (Tue, Mar 19, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Was Atlantis A Real Place? (Sat, Mar 16, 2019)
";
• The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name (Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Bedbugs (Wed, Mar 13, 2019)
";
• The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Wildfires Work (Sat, Mar 09, 2019)
";
• How Dyslexia Works (Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Wigs in English Court (Wed, Mar 06, 2019)
";
• What's the deal with ASMR? (Tue, Mar 05, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Panama Canal Works (Sat, Mar 02, 2019)
";
• Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes (Thu, Feb 28, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Black Loyalists (Wed, Feb 27, 2019)
";
• The Science of Break-Ups (Tue, Feb 26, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Lewis and Clark Worked (Sat, Feb 23, 2019)
";
• How Galaxies Work (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Turbulence (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
";
• Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot (Tue, Feb 19, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Interpol: World Police (Sat, Feb 16, 2019)
";
• Elephants: The Best Animals? (Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: War of Jenkins' Ear (Wed, Feb 13, 2019)
";
• Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster? (Tue, Feb 12, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Coral Reefs Work (Sat, Feb 09, 2019)
";
• The True Story of BlacKkKlansman (Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Ellen Richards (Wed, Feb 06, 2019)
";
• The Insidious Abuse of Stalking (Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think! (Sat, Feb 02, 2019)
";
• How Central Park Works (Thu, Jan 31, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Johnny Appleseed (Wed, Jan 30, 2019)
";
• How Ping Pong Works (Tue, Jan 29, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish (Sat, Jan 26, 2019)
";
• The Legend of Betsy Ross (Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Thread Count (Wed, Jan 23, 2019)
";
• SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health (Tue, Jan 22, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Lobotomies Work (Sat, Jan 19, 2019)
";
• The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Olestra (Wed, Jan 16, 2019)
";
• How Airbags Work (Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Schizophrenia Works (Sat, Jan 12, 2019)
";
• The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: How Often Do You Need To Change Your Oil? (Wed, Jan 09, 2019)
";
• How the Spanish Flu Worked (Tue, Jan 08, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works (Sat, Jan 05, 2019)
";
• What was the Tunguska event? (Thu, Jan 03, 2019)
";
• Short Stuff: Khipu (Wed, Jan 02, 2019)
";
• Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Fossils Work (Sat, Dec 29, 2018)
";
• Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Thu, Dec 27, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: The Brain-Bladder Connection (Wed, Dec 26, 2018)
";
• SYSK Live Christmas Spectacular! (Tue, Dec 25, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 (Sat, Dec 22, 2018)
";
• E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time? (Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Unique Snowflakes (Wed, Dec 19, 2018)
";
• Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't (Tue, Dec 18, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work (Sat, Dec 15, 2018)
";
• Are good samaritan laws effective? (Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Laughing Buddha (Wed, Dec 12, 2018)
";
• How Ayahuasca Works (Tue, Dec 11, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: That Dang-old Goat Fell Over (Sat, Dec 08, 2018)
";
• Was the PMRC censorship in disguise? (Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Dolphin Detectors (Wed, Dec 05, 2018)
";
• How Search and Rescue Dogs Work (Tue, Dec 04, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Can Your Grandfather's Diet Shorten Your Life? (Sat, Dec 01, 2018)
";
• Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry (Thu, Nov 29, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: iSmell (Wed, Nov 28, 2018)
";
• How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked (Tue, Nov 27, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Black Friday Works (Sat, Nov 24, 2018)
";
• Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic) (Thu, Nov 22, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Safety Pins (Wed, Nov 21, 2018)
";
• Finders Keepers: Real Law (Tue, Nov 20, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Kleptomania Works (Sat, Nov 17, 2018)
";
• Olive Oil: Mother Nature's Gift (Thu, Nov 15, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Lemonade (Wed, Nov 14, 2018)
";
• Pando: Earth’s Oldest, Hugest Organism Is Trees! (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Pizza Works (Sat, Nov 10, 2018)
";
• Is yogurt a miracle food? (Thu, Nov 08, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Vomitoria (Wed, Nov 07, 2018)
";
• What were war masks? (Tue, Nov 06, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Grief Works (Sat, Nov 03, 2018)
";
• How Easy Bake Ovens Work (Thu, Nov 01, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Labor Day (Wed, Oct 31, 2018)
";
• SYSK’s 2018 Super Spooktacular (Tue, Oct 30, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: What's with the Winchester Mystery House? (Sat, Oct 27, 2018)
";
• How the Amityville Horror Worked (Thu, Oct 25, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Exploding Manholes (Wed, Oct 24, 2018)
";
• How Epilepsy Works (Tue, Oct 23, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Aphrodisiacs Work (Sat, Oct 20, 2018)
";
• Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed? (Thu, Oct 18, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Korean Fan Death (Wed, Oct 17, 2018)
";
• Was There A Real Robin Hood? (Tue, Oct 16, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Homelessness Works (Sat, Oct 13, 2018)
";
• When inventions kill! (Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: William King (Wed, Oct 10, 2018)
";
• How Marathons Work (Tue, Oct 09, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Is lethal injection humane? (Sat, Oct 06, 2018)
";
• Algae: Food, Fuel, What? (Thu, Oct 04, 2018)
";
• Short Stuff: Grandfather Clocks (Wed, Oct 03, 2018)
";
• How the Concorde Worked (Tue, Oct 02, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Does the five-second rule work? (Sat, Sep 29, 2018)
";
• Seriously, What Is Dark Matter? (Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
";
• What is colorblindness? (Tue, Sep 25, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Was Malthus right about carrying capacity? (Sat, Sep 22, 2018)
";
• How Ranked Choice Voting Works (Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
";
• Roundabouts: The Problem Is You (Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Commercial Jingles Work (Sat, Sep 15, 2018)
";
• What are think tanks all about? (Thu, Sep 13, 2018)
";
• SYSK Live: How Game Shows Work (Tue, Sep 11, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Circumcision Works (Sat, Sep 08, 2018)
";
• The Lava Lamp: Goes Great With Acid (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
";
• How Police Lineups Work (Tue, Sep 04, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Patents Work (Sat, Sep 01, 2018)
";
• How Elimination Diets Work (Thu, Aug 30, 2018)
";
• Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore (Tue, Aug 28, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Voodoo? (Sat, Aug 25, 2018)
";
• Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs (Thu, Aug 23, 2018)
";
• Ballpoint pens? Heck yes, ballpoint pens! (Tue, Aug 21, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works (Sat, Aug 18, 2018)
";
• Who is The Man of the Hole? (Thu, Aug 16, 2018)
";
• How Board Breaking Works (Tue, Aug 14, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Traffic Works (Sat, Aug 11, 2018)
";
• How Attila the Hun Worked (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
";
• How Search and Rescue Works (Tue, Aug 07, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Miranda Rights Work (Sat, Aug 04, 2018)
";
• How the U.S. Military Draft Works (Thu, Aug 02, 2018)
";
• How the Pony Express Worked (Tue, Jul 31, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Cannonball Run Worked (Sat, Jul 28, 2018)
";
• The Dyatlov Pass Mystery (Thu, Jul 26, 2018)
";
• Recycling Update: How’s It Going? (Tue, Jul 24, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Foot Binding Worked (Sat, Jul 21, 2018)
";
• How Attorney-Client Privilege Works (Thu, Jul 19, 2018)
";
• Jobs of Bygone Eras (Tue, Jul 17, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Twinkies Work (Sat, Jul 14, 2018)
";
• Gerrymandering: How to Stifle Democracy (Thu, Jul 12, 2018)
";
• The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five (Tue, Jul 10, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War? (Sat, Jul 07, 2018)
";
• How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (Thu, Jul 05, 2018)
";
• How Diabetes Works (Tue, Jul 03, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Ponzi Schemes Work (Sat, Jun 30, 2018)
";
• Narwhals: Unicorns of the Sea (Thu, Jun 28, 2018)
";
• Can Anarchism Work? (Tue, Jun 26, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Condoms Work (Sat, Jun 23, 2018)
";
• Genghis Khan: Madman or Genius? (Thu, Jun 21, 2018)
";
• How The Pill Changed the World (Tue, Jun 19, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Bullfighting Works (Sat, Jun 16, 2018)
";
• Skyscrapers: 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky (Thu, Jun 14, 2018)
";
• How Tsunamis Work (Tue, Jun 12, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How The Hum Works (Sat, Jun 09, 2018)
";
• Frida Kahlo: Painter, Icon, Genius (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
";
• The Max Headroom Incident (Tue, Jun 05, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Was there a real King Arthur? (Sat, Jun 02, 2018)
";
• Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy? (Thu, May 31, 2018)
";
• How Drug Courts Work (Tue, May 29, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Pinball Works (Sat, May 26, 2018)
";
• How Occam's Razor Works (Thu, May 24, 2018)
";
• A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer (Tue, May 22, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Is brain size related to intelligence? (Sat, May 19, 2018)
";
• The Collar Bomb Heist (Fri, May 18, 2018)
";
• What's a quinceañera anyway? (Tue, May 15, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Cremation Works (Sat, May 12, 2018)
";
• How Drowning Works (Thu, May 10, 2018)
";
• PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard (Tue, May 08, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Are there undiscovered people? (Sat, May 05, 2018)
";
• North Korea: What's the Deal? (Thu, May 03, 2018)
";
• Nepotism: When Hiring the Best Just Won't Do (Tue, May 01, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Who killed JFK? (Sat, Apr 28, 2018)
";
• Does Pyromania Actually Exist? (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
";
• Emojis: A New Language? Nah. (Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Mirrors Work (Sat, Apr 21, 2018)
";
• Two Times In the 70s When People Buried Ferraris (Thu, Apr 19, 2018)
";
• The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least (Tue, Apr 17, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: What happens in the brain during an orgasm? (Sat, Apr 14, 2018)
";
• How Paramedics Work (Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
";
• Why Landmines Are The Deadliest Legacy Of War (Tue, Apr 10, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Sherpas: Warm, Friendly Living (Sat, Apr 07, 2018)
";
• Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub (Thu, Apr 05, 2018)
";
• When Words Take on New Meanings (Tue, Apr 03, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Guide Dogs Work (Sat, Mar 31, 2018)
";
• What are false positives? (Thu, Mar 29, 2018)
";
• How Meals on Wheels Works (Tue, Mar 27, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Subways: HUH! What are they good for? (Sat, Mar 24, 2018)
";
• How the Framingham Heart Study Works (Thu, Mar 22, 2018)
";
• How the New England Vampire Panics Worked (Tue, Mar 20, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Trickle-Down Economics Works (Sat, Mar 17, 2018)
";
• Is Vaping Really Bad For You? (Thu, Mar 15, 2018)
";
• The Huggable, Lovable Walrus (Tue, Mar 13, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Cockroaches Work (Sat, Mar 10, 2018)
";
• Why Do People Believe In Faith Healing? (Thu, Mar 08, 2018)
";
• The Strange Story of Sea Monkeys (Tue, Mar 06, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Is there treasure on Oak Island? (Sat, Mar 03, 2018)
";
• SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps (Thu, Mar 01, 2018)
";
• Knife Throwing: Super Cool (Tue, Feb 27, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the MPAA Works (Sat, Feb 24, 2018)
";
• Rosa Parks: Agent of Change (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
";
• Are Feral Children Real? (Tue, Feb 20, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Underground Railroad Worked (Sat, Feb 17, 2018)
";
• The Harriet Tubman Story (Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
";
• How Pompeii Worked (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Narco States Work (Sat, Feb 10, 2018)
";
• The Mystery of The Grand Canyon Newlyweds (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
";
• What is a Mold-A-Rama? (Tue, Feb 06, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Lion Taming Works (Sat, Feb 03, 2018)
";
• Marijuana Vs. Alcohol: Which Is Worse For You? (Thu, Feb 01, 2018)
";
• The Manson Family Murders Part II (Tue, Jan 30, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Prisons - Not as Fun as You'd Think (Sat, Jan 27, 2018)
";
• The Manson Family Murders Part I (Thu, Jan 25, 2018)
";
• How Hoarding Works (Tue, Jan 23, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: Lab-grown meat: Order up! (Sat, Jan 20, 2018)
";
• How Hang Gliding Works (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
";
• How Removing Public Monuments Work (Tue, Jan 16, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Wind Cries Typhoid Mary (Sat, Jan 13, 2018)
";
• What is an invasive species? (Thu, Jan 11, 2018)
";
• The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (Tue, Jan 09, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder? (Sat, Jan 06, 2018)
";
• How Impeachment Works (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
";
• How Orchids Work (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Willpower Works (Sat, Dec 30, 2017)
";
• How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part II (Thu, Dec 28, 2017)
";
• How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part I (Tue, Dec 26, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 (Sat, Dec 23, 2017)
";
• The 2017 SYSK Christmas Extravaganza! (Thu, Dec 21, 2017)
";
• Narcissism: But what about me? (Tue, Dec 19, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Population Works (Sat, Dec 16, 2017)
";
• How the Globe of Death Works (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
";
• The Deal With Doulas (Tue, Dec 12, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How much money is there in the world?​ (Sat, Dec 09, 2017)
";
• How Flight Attendants Work (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
";
• How Vomit Phobia Works (Tue, Dec 05, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Crime Scene Cleanup Works (Sat, Dec 02, 2017)
";
• Cake: So Great. So, So Great (Thu, Nov 30, 2017)
";
• How Toy Testing Works (Tue, Nov 28, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Organ Donation Works (Sat, Nov 25, 2017)
";
• What is nuclear forensics? (Thu, Nov 23, 2017)
";
• Bath Salts: Steer Clear (Tue, Nov 21, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Daylight Saving Time Works (Sat, Nov 18, 2017)
";
• Can movies be cursed? (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
";
• How the Flu Works (Tue, Nov 14, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Silly Putty Works (Sat, Nov 11, 2017)
";
• What's permaculture all about? (Thu, Nov 09, 2017)
";
• How Restaurant Health Inspections Work (Tue, Nov 07, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Exorcism Works (Sat, Nov 04, 2017)
";
• Movie Crush: Tig Notaro on Mask (Fri, Nov 03, 2017)
";
• Movie Crush: Janet Varney on Tron (Fri, Nov 03, 2017)
";
• How Global Warming Works (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
";
• SYSK's 2017 Super Spooktacular! (Tue, Oct 31, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How SPAM Works (Sat, Oct 28, 2017)
";
• Episode 1,000: The Simpsons Spectacular Part II (Thu, Oct 26, 2017)
";
• Episode 999: The Simpsons Spectacular Part I (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: The Cheesiest SYSK Episode Ever (Sat, Oct 21, 2017)
";
• How Internships Work (Thu, Oct 19, 2017)
";
• SYSK Live: The DB Cooper Heist (Tue, Oct 17, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Is there such a thing as a truth serum? (Sat, Oct 14, 2017)
";
• How Buildering Works (Thu, Oct 12, 2017)
";
• How the Rolling Jubilee Works (Tue, Oct 10, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire? (Sat, Oct 07, 2017)
";
• How Giraffes Work (Thu, Oct 05, 2017)
";
• How Police Body Cameras Work (Tue, Oct 03, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: What was the most peaceful time in history? (Sat, Sep 30, 2017)
";
• How Nude Beaches Work (Thu, Sep 28, 2017)
";
• How FOIA Works (Tue, Sep 26, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop? (Sat, Sep 23, 2017)
";
• A Nostalgic Look at Crayons (Thu, Sep 21, 2017)
";
• How Frogs Work (Tue, Sep 19, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Handwriting Analysis Works (Sat, Sep 16, 2017)
";
• How the Secret Service Works (Thu, Sep 14, 2017)
";
• How Psychopaths Work (Tue, Sep 12, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Hip-hop Works (Sat, Sep 09, 2017)
";
• Are crickets the future of food? (Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
";
• The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach (Tue, Sep 05, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Shrunken Heads Work (Sat, Sep 02, 2017)
";
• How Satanism Works (Thu, Aug 31, 2017)
";
• A Lip-Smacking Look at Barbecue (Tue, Aug 29, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Is Stockholm Syndrome real? (Sat, Aug 26, 2017)
";
• How Personality Tests Work (Thu, Aug 24, 2017)
";
• Is the Uncanny Valley Real? (Tue, Aug 22, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Exploitation Films Work (Sat, Aug 19, 2017)
";
• What's the deal with accents? (Thu, Aug 17, 2017)
";
• How Stuttering Works (Tue, Aug 15, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How McCarthyism Works (Sat, Aug 12, 2017)
";
• How Bioarchaeology Works (Thu, Aug 10, 2017)
";
• Do motivational speakers motivate people? (Tue, Aug 08, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Why do men have nipples? (Sat, Aug 05, 2017)
";
• Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders? (Thu, Aug 03, 2017)
";
• How Public Broadcasting Works (Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Disco Works (Sat, Jul 29, 2017)
";
• A Dry Look at Toilet Paper (Thu, Jul 27, 2017)
";
• What is Ghost Fishing? (Tue, Jul 25, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How the Sun Works (Sat, Jul 22, 2017)
";
• All We Know About Guessing (Thu, Jul 20, 2017)
";
• Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen (Tue, Jul 18, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Why can't we find Amelia Earhart? (Sat, Jul 15, 2017)
";
• How Fever Dreams Work (Thu, Jul 13, 2017)
";
• Why is There a Battle Over Net Neutrality? (Tue, Jul 11, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How HeLa Cells Work (Sat, Jul 08, 2017)
";
• Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre (Thu, Jul 06, 2017)
";
• What exactly is stoicism? (Tue, Jul 04, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Why isn't the U.S. on the metric system? (Sat, Jul 01, 2017)
";
• How Standardized Patients Work (Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
";
• Remembering Stonewall (Tue, Jun 27, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You? (Sat, Jun 24, 2017)
";
• How Ketchup Works (Thu, Jun 22, 2017)
";
• How Seed Banks Work (Tue, Jun 20, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Do you stay conscious after being decapitated? (Sat, Jun 17, 2017)
";
• What was Camp X? (Thu, Jun 15, 2017)
";
• How the Beagle Brigade Works (Tue, Jun 13, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Maps Work (Sat, Jun 10, 2017)
";
• Why Are Whale Strandings Still a Mystery? (Thu, Jun 08, 2017)
";
• How Coelacanths Work (Tue, Jun 06, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death? (Sat, Jun 03, 2017)
";
• The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads (Thu, Jun 01, 2017)
";
• Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting? (Tue, May 30, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Beer Works (Sat, May 27, 2017)
";
• How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement (Thu, May 25, 2017)
";
• Is a head transplant really a thing? (Tue, May 23, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Magic Mushrooms Work (Sat, May 20, 2017)
";
• How the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis Work (Thu, May 18, 2017)
";
• How Champagne Works (Tue, May 16, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Gesundheit! How Allergies Work (Sat, May 13, 2017)
";
• How Charismatic Megafauna Work (Thu, May 11, 2017)
";
• How Itching Works (Tue, May 09, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: What's the 10,000 Year Clock? (Sat, May 06, 2017)
";
• Some Nutso Fan Theories (Thu, May 04, 2017)
";
• How Poetry Works (Tue, May 02, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Revisionist History Works (Sat, Apr 29, 2017)
";
• How Multiple Sclerosis Works (Thu, Apr 27, 2017)
";
• How the National Security Council Works (Tue, Apr 25, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Breast Implants Work (Sat, Apr 22, 2017)
";
• How Swearing Works (Thu, Apr 20, 2017)
";
• How Corsets Work (Tue, Apr 18, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar (Sat, Apr 15, 2017)
";
• How Supervolcanoes Work (Thu, Apr 13, 2017)
";
• How Supreme Court Nominations Work (Tue, Apr 11, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: Can you die of a broken heart? (Sat, Apr 08, 2017)
";
• How Empathy Works (Thu, Apr 06, 2017)
";
• Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process (Tue, Apr 04, 2017)
";
• SYSK Selects: How Filibusters Work (Sat, Apr 01, 2017)
";
• The Shroud Of Turin: No Ordinary Bed Sheet (Thu, Mar 30, 2017)
";
• How Foreign Accent Syndrome Works (Tue, Mar 28, 2017)
";
• How the Hyperloop Will Work (Thu, Mar 23, 2017)
";
• Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual (Tue, Mar 21, 2017)
";
• Southerners Aren’t Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm (Thu, Mar 16, 2017)
";
• Pain Scales: Yeeeow! (Tue, Mar 14, 2017)
";
• History of the Trail of Tears, Part II (Thu, Mar 09, 2017)
";
• History of the Trail of Tears, Part I (Tue, Mar 07, 2017)
";
• How Optical Illusions Work (Thu, Mar 02, 2017)
";
• How Free Speech Works (Tue, Feb 28, 2017)
";
• How Famines Work (Thu, Feb 23, 2017)
";
• The ins and outs of the DEATH TAX (Tue, Feb 21, 2017)
";
• The Black Panther Party (Thu, Feb 16, 2017)
";
• Tardigrades: Nature's Cuddly, Indestructible Microanimal (Tue, Feb 14, 2017)
";
• Live from San Francisco: How Malls Work (Thu, Feb 09, 2017)
";
• The Quinoa Revolution! (Tue, Feb 07, 2017)
";
• What's the future of virtual sex? (Thu, Feb 02, 2017)
";
• Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch (Tue, Jan 31, 2017)
";
• How Pacifism Works (And Could It?) (Thu, Jan 26, 2017)
";
• How Dictators Work (Tue, Jan 24, 2017)
";
• How Soylent Works (Thu, Jan 19, 2017)
";
• Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Bad For You? (Tue, Jan 17, 2017)
";
• How Watersheds Work (Thu, Jan 12, 2017)
";
• What's the deal with Baby Boomers? (Tue, Jan 10, 2017)
";
• How Feeding Babies Works: The Bottle (Thu, Jan 05, 2017)
";
• How Feeding Babies Works: The Breast (Tue, Jan 03, 2017)
";
• Human Blockheads: A Real Thing (Thu, Dec 29, 2016)
";
• Can you live without a bank account? (Tue, Dec 27, 2016)
";
• The Stuff You Should Know 2016 Christmas Extravaganza in 3-D! (Thu, Dec 22, 2016)
";
• The Golden Age of Grave Robbing: Stuff You Should Know Live in London (Tue, Dec 20, 2016)
";
• How Porta-Potties Work (Thu, Dec 15, 2016)
";
• Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects? (Tue, Dec 13, 2016)
";
• Is computer addiction a thing? (Thu, Dec 08, 2016)
";
• Horoscopes: Written in the Stars? (Tue, Dec 06, 2016)
";
• How a Flea Circus Works (Thu, Dec 01, 2016)
";
• Frostbite: Yeeeow! (Tue, Nov 29, 2016)
";
• Should Advertising to Kids Be Banned? (Thu, Nov 24, 2016)
";
• The Kitty Genovese Story (Tue, Nov 22, 2016)
";
• What's the Deal with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? (Thu, Nov 17, 2016)
";
• How Fireplaces Work (Tue, Nov 15, 2016)
";
• How Monty Python Worked: SYSK Live from LA Podfest (Thu, Nov 10, 2016)
";
• Do sin taxes work? (Tue, Nov 08, 2016)
";
• A Partial History of Action Figures (Thu, Nov 03, 2016)
";
• Ham Radio and the Hams Who Use Them (Tue, Nov 01, 2016)
";
• SYSK The Podcast: Special Halloween Bonus Episode 2016, The Sequel – From Hell (Mon, Oct 31, 2016)
";
• The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders (Thu, Oct 27, 2016)
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• How Sleep Paralysis Works, or The Worst Thing That Can Happen While You're Sleeping (Tue, Oct 25, 2016)
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• Living Underground in Beijing (Thu, Oct 20, 2016)
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• What's the What with Fish Fraud? (Tue, Oct 18, 2016)
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• How the Census Works (Thu, Oct 13, 2016)
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• Hibernation: Not a Snooze (Tue, Oct 11, 2016)
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• Why Did Easter Island's Civilization Collapse? (Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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• The Amazing History of Soda (Mon, Oct 03, 2016)
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• How Polar Bears Work (Thu, Sep 29, 2016)
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• How Ice Ages Work (Tue, Sep 27, 2016)
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• All we know about Zika so far... (Thu, Sep 22, 2016)
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• How Cerebral Palsy Works (Tue, Sep 20, 2016)
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• What's the deal with Stradivarius violins? (Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
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• Alexander Hamilton: Most Influential American? (Tue, Sep 13, 2016)
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• Do Animals Have Natural Rights? (Thu, Sep 08, 2016)
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• How Animal Testing Works (Tue, Sep 06, 2016)
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• How the Negro Leagues Worked (Thu, Sep 01, 2016)
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• How Food Tasters Work (Tue, Aug 30, 2016)
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• This Custom of Customs (Thu, Aug 25, 2016)
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• Jellyfish: Even Cooler than Octopi? (Tue, Aug 23, 2016)
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• The Delightful History of Steam Technology (Thu, Aug 18, 2016)
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• How Woolly Mammoths Worked (Tue, Aug 16, 2016)
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• Evel Knievel Part II (Thu, Aug 11, 2016)
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• Evel Knievel Part I (Tue, Aug 09, 2016)
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• Mermaids: Not a real thing (Thu, Aug 04, 2016)
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• How Night Terrors Work (Mon, Aug 01, 2016)
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• What is exploding head syndrome? (Thu, Jul 28, 2016)
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• How Triage Works (Tue, Jul 26, 2016)
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• How the Moonwalk Works (Thu, Jul 21, 2016)
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• How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe (Tue, Jul 19, 2016)
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• The Gettysburg Address: Short and Sweet (Thu, Jul 14, 2016)
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• How Radiation Sickness Works (Tue, Jul 12, 2016)
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• What's with this "Internet of Things"? (Thu, Jul 07, 2016)
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• Research tips from SYSK (Tue, Jul 05, 2016)
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• How Lighthouses Work (Thu, Jun 30, 2016)
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• How Underground Mining Works (Tue, Jun 28, 2016)
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• What's the misery index? (Thu, Jun 23, 2016)
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• How Space Stations Work (Tue, Jun 21, 2016)
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• How Steadicams Work (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
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• Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia? (Tue, Jun 14, 2016)
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• What's the deal with controlled burns? (Thu, Jun 09, 2016)
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• How Motion Sickness Works (Tue, Jun 07, 2016)
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• How Gene Editing Works (Thu, Jun 02, 2016)
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• How SuperBalls Work (Tue, May 31, 2016)
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• How Crumple Zones Work (Wed, May 25, 2016)
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• Chiggers: The Phantom Menace (Mon, May 23, 2016)
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• The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children (Wed, May 18, 2016)
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• How Bonsai Works (Mon, May 16, 2016)
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• True stories of survival cannibalism! (Wed, May 11, 2016)
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• How Snake Handlers Work (Mon, May 09, 2016)
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• How LSD Works (Thu, May 05, 2016)
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• How Megalodon Worked (Tue, May 03, 2016)
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• What was Operation Plowshare? (Thu, Apr 28, 2016)
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• Myths and Truths About Tornadoes (Mon, Apr 25, 2016)
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• Does Kin Selection Explain Altruism? (Thu, Apr 21, 2016)
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• What Makes Lead So Poisonous? (Tue, Apr 19, 2016)
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• How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Thu, Apr 14, 2016)
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• How the Gender Pay Gap Works (Tue, Apr 12, 2016)
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• How Labor Strikes Work (Thu, Apr 07, 2016)
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• Our cats episode - right here, right meow (Tue, Apr 05, 2016)
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• Nostalgia is not the most toxic impulse (Thu, Mar 31, 2016)
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• What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys? (Tue, Mar 29, 2016)
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• How TED Talks Work: Featuring Roman Mars (Thu, Mar 24, 2016)
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• Who Gets to Name Continents? (Tue, Mar 22, 2016)
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• How Makeup Works (Thu, Mar 17, 2016)
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• Some Really Interesting Cases of Mass Hysteria (Tue, Mar 15, 2016)
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• How Dark Money Works (Thu, Mar 10, 2016)
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• How The Iditarod Works (Tue, Mar 08, 2016)
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• How Freak Shows Worked (Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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• How El Nino Works (Tue, Mar 01, 2016)
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• (Approximately) 10 Things That Vanished Mysteriously (Thu, Feb 25, 2016)
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• The Future of Renewable Energy, Featuring Bill Gates (Tue, Feb 23, 2016)
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• How Nitrous Oxide Works (Thu, Feb 18, 2016)
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• How Jackhammers Work (Tue, Feb 16, 2016)
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• What's the Deal With Poop? (Thu, Feb 11, 2016)
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• How Rabies Works (Tue, Feb 09, 2016)
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• How Land Diving Works (Thu, Feb 04, 2016)
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• Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis (Tue, Feb 02, 2016)
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• Does Whole-Body Cryotherapy Work? (Thu, Jan 28, 2016)
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• How Personalized Medicine Works (Tue, Jan 26, 2016)
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• Timber! How Timber Works (Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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• Sir Isaac Newton: Greatest Scientist of All Time? (Tue, Jan 19, 2016)
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• The Duality of Caffeine (Thu, Jan 14, 2016)
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• How Futurology Works (Tue, Jan 12, 2016)
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• Body Language! (Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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• The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s (Tue, Jan 05, 2016)
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• How Lizzie Borden Worked (Thu, Dec 31, 2015)
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• The Great Wall of China Episode (Tue, Dec 29, 2015)
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• The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Extravaganza (Thu, Dec 24, 2015)
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• How Gossip Works (Tue, Dec 22, 2015)
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• The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978 (Thu, Dec 17, 2015)
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• How the Antikythera Mechanism Works (Tue, Dec 15, 2015)
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• How Reverse Psychology Works (Thu, Dec 10, 2015)
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• Carl Sagan: American Hero (Tue, Dec 08, 2015)
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• How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II (Thu, Dec 03, 2015)
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• How HIV/AIDS Works, Part I (Tue, Dec 01, 2015)
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• Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works (Thu, Nov 26, 2015)
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• The Lowdown on Anonymous (Tue, Nov 24, 2015)
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• How Dementia Works (Thu, Nov 19, 2015)
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• How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA (Wed, Nov 18, 2015)
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• What's the Deal With Staring? (Tue, Nov 17, 2015)
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• How The Voynich Manuscript Works (Thu, Nov 12, 2015)
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• Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out (Tue, Nov 10, 2015)
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• How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work (Thu, Nov 05, 2015)
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• The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales (Tue, Nov 03, 2015)
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• Josh N Chuck's Hallowe'en Spooky Scarefest (Thu, Oct 29, 2015)
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• How Passports Work (Tue, Oct 27, 2015)
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• Vocal Fry and Other Speech Trends (Thu, Oct 22, 2015)
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• Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Converters Work (Tue, Oct 20, 2015)
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• How Wine Fraud Works (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
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• How Vestigial Organs Work (Tue, Oct 13, 2015)
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• What was the Philadelphia Experiment? (Thu, Oct 08, 2015)
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• How Lobbying Works (Tue, Oct 06, 2015)
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• How PEZ Works (Thu, Oct 01, 2015)
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• Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty (Tue, Sep 29, 2015)
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• Geothermal Energy: Earth's Gift to Mankind (Thu, Sep 24, 2015)
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• How Cult Deprogramming Worked (Tue, Sep 22, 2015)
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• The Great Nuclear Winter Debate of 1983 (Thu, Sep 17, 2015)
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• How Publicists Work (Tue, Sep 15, 2015)
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• How Chili Peppers Work (Thu, Sep 10, 2015)
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• How Police Dogs Work (Tue, Sep 08, 2015)
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• How Alcoholism Works (Thu, Sep 03, 2015)
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• How to Donate Your Body to Science (Tue, Sep 01, 2015)
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• Nirvana: Not The Band (Thu, Aug 27, 2015)
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• How Hot Air Balloons Work (Tue, Aug 25, 2015)
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• How Umami Works! (Thu, Aug 20, 2015)
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• Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise (Tue, Aug 18, 2015)
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• Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape (Thu, Aug 13, 2015)
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• How Auto-Tune Works (Tue, Aug 11, 2015)
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• How Droughts Work (Thu, Aug 06, 2015)
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• How Earth-Like Planets Work (Tue, Aug 04, 2015)
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• How Bats Work (Thu, Jul 30, 2015)
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• How Profiling Works (Tue, Jul 28, 2015)
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• Road Rage: GRRRR!!! (Thu, Jul 23, 2015)
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• How Citizen's Arrests Work (Tue, Jul 21, 2015)
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• The Time Nazis Invaded Florida (Thu, Jul 16, 2015)
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• How the Terracotta Army Works (Tue, Jul 14, 2015)
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• How Brickfilm Works (Thu, Jul 09, 2015)
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• How Egypt's Pyramids Work (Tue, Jul 07, 2015)
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• How Circus Families Work (Thu, Jul 02, 2015)
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• How Audience Testing Works (Tue, Jun 30, 2015)
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• Mosquitoes: The Worst (Thu, Jun 25, 2015)
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• How Landfills Work (Tue, Jun 23, 2015)
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• Are You My Mother?: How Animal Imprinting Works (Thu, Jun 18, 2015)
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• How BASE Jumping Works (Tue, Jun 16, 2015)
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• Bridges: Nature Abhors Them (Thu, Jun 11, 2015)
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• How the Wow! Signal Works (Tue, Jun 09, 2015)
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• How Ocean Currents Work (Thu, Jun 04, 2015)
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• How Street Gangs Work (Tue, Jun 02, 2015)
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• How Tupperware Works (Thu, May 28, 2015)
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• How Junk Food Works (Tue, May 26, 2015)
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• How Color Works (Thu, May 21, 2015)
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• How Internet Censorship Works (Tue, May 19, 2015)
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• How Pinewood Derbies Work (Thu, May 14, 2015)
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• Does the FDA Protect Americans? (Tue, May 12, 2015)
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• Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty (Thu, May 07, 2015)
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• How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works (Tue, May 05, 2015)
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• How Spiders Work (Thu, Apr 30, 2015)
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• How Water Slides Work (Tue, Apr 28, 2015)
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• Oh No, Snakes! (Thu, Apr 23, 2015)
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• How Clowns Work (Tue, Apr 21, 2015)
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• How Zero Population Growth Works (Thu, Apr 16, 2015)
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• How Slinky Works (Tue, Apr 14, 2015)
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• What's the deal with blood types? (Thu, Apr 09, 2015)
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• Polyamory: When two just won't do (Tue, Apr 07, 2015)
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• Thanks, Easter Bunny! Bock Bock! (Thu, Apr 02, 2015)
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• Does the body replace itself? (Tue, Mar 31, 2015)
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• How Desalination Works (Thu, Mar 26, 2015)
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• 10 Bizarre Medical Treatments (Tue, Mar 24, 2015)
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• Earwax: Live With It (Thu, Mar 19, 2015)
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• How Anesthesia Works (Tue, Mar 17, 2015)
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• How Tea Works (Thu, Mar 12, 2015)
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• How Fleas Work (Tue, Mar 10, 2015)
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• How Stonehenge Works (Thu, Mar 05, 2015)
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• How ESP Works(?) (Tue, Mar 03, 2015)
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• Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking (Thu, Feb 26, 2015)
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• Why Do Lefties Exist? (Tue, Feb 24, 2015)
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• How Perfume Works (Thu, Feb 19, 2015)
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• Is there treasure on Oak Island? (Tue, Feb 17, 2015)
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• What is folklore? (Thu, Feb 12, 2015)
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• How Feng Shui Works (Tue, Feb 10, 2015)
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• How Ice Cream Works (Thu, Feb 05, 2015)
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• Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever (Tue, Feb 03, 2015)
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• How Hot Wheels Work (Thu, Jan 29, 2015)
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• How Poison Ivy Works (Tue, Jan 27, 2015)
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• Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much. (Thu, Jan 22, 2015)
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• How the March on Washington Worked (Tue, Jan 20, 2015)
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• Juggling: What the Heck (Thu, Jan 15, 2015)
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• How the Scientific Method Works (Tue, Jan 13, 2015)
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• How Online Gambling Works (Thu, Jan 08, 2015)
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• How Jim Henson Worked (Tue, Jan 06, 2015)
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• SYSK Live: How Bars Work (Thu, Jan 01, 2015)
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• How Sea Monsters Work (Tue, Dec 30, 2014)
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• Josh and Chuck's 2014 Christmas Extravaganza! (Thu, Dec 25, 2014)
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• How the GED Test Works (Tue, Dec 23, 2014)
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• How Cinnamon Works (Thu, Dec 18, 2014)
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• Boomerangs: Magic Sticks of Physics (Tue, Dec 16, 2014)
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• Homeschooling: Not Just For Hippies and Religious People Anymore (Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
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• How The Hum Works (Tue, Dec 09, 2014)
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• How X-Rays Work (Thu, Dec 04, 2014)
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• How Leper Colonies Worked (Tue, Dec 02, 2014)
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• How Terraforming Will Work (Thu, Nov 27, 2014)
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• How Kickstarter Works (Tue, Nov 25, 2014)
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• What is Collective Hysteria? (Thu, Nov 20, 2014)
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• How the Enlightenment Works (Tue, Nov 18, 2014)
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• What's the deal with crop circles? (Thu, Nov 13, 2014)
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• How Patents Work (Tue, Nov 11, 2014)
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• How Limousines Work (Thu, Nov 06, 2014)
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• Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World? (Tue, Nov 04, 2014)
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• SYSK's Halloween Scare Fest (Fri, Oct 31, 2014)
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• How Haunted House Attractions Work (Thu, Oct 30, 2014)
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• Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep? (Tue, Oct 28, 2014)
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• How Animal Camouflage Works (Thu, Oct 23, 2014)
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• How Extinction Works (Tue, Oct 21, 2014)
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• How The Great Train Robbery Worked (Thu, Oct 16, 2014)
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• Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck (Tue, Oct 14, 2014)
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• How Skywriting Works (Thu, Oct 09, 2014)
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• How Karate Works (Tue, Oct 07, 2014)
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• How Panic Attacks Work (Thu, Oct 02, 2014)
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• How Rogue Waves Work (Tue, Sep 30, 2014)
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• How Animal Domestication Works (Thu, Sep 25, 2014)
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• How Police Interrogation Works (Tue, Sep 23, 2014)
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• How Currency Works (Thu, Sep 18, 2014)
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• How Socialism Works (Tue, Sep 16, 2014)
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• How Stem Cells Work (Tue, Sep 09, 2014)
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• How TV Ratings Work (Thu, Sep 04, 2014)
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• How Pinball Works (Tue, Sep 02, 2014)
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• How Blimps Work (Thu, Aug 28, 2014)
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• What's the deal with headstones? (Tue, Aug 26, 2014)
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• How the Berlin Wall Worked (Thu, Aug 21, 2014)
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• Going Up: Elevators (Tue, Aug 19, 2014)
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• How Ebola Works (Thu, Aug 14, 2014)
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• How the NSA Works (Tue, Aug 12, 2014)
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• What is a Numbers Station? (Thu, Aug 07, 2014)
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• How Play-Doh Works (Tue, Aug 05, 2014)
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• How Morgellons Disease Works (Thu, Jul 31, 2014)
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• Is there a dark side of the moon? (Tue, Jul 29, 2014)
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• The Skinny on Probiotics (Thu, Jul 24, 2014)
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• How Trickle-Down Economics Works (Tue, Jul 22, 2014)
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• How In Vitro Fertlization Works (Thu, Jul 17, 2014)
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• How Sushi Works (Tue, Jul 15, 2014)
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• How Grass Works? Yes, How Grass Works (Thu, Jul 10, 2014)
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• Is brain size related to intelligence? (Tue, Jul 08, 2014)
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• How Monopoly Works (Thu, Jul 03, 2014)
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• How The Louvre Works (Tue, Jul 01, 2014)
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• How the MPAA Works (Thu, Jun 26, 2014)
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• How the La Brea Tar Pits Work (Tue, Jun 24, 2014)
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• How Soccer Works (Thu, Jun 19, 2014)
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• Is your employer spying on you? (Tue, Jun 17, 2014)
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• Sugar: It Powers the Earth (Thu, Jun 12, 2014)
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• How the Placebo Effect Works (Tue, Jun 10, 2014)
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• How the Space Race Worked (Thu, Jun 05, 2014)
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• Why is Venice so wet? (Tue, Jun 03, 2014)
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• Archaeology in a Nutshell (Thu, May 29, 2014)
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• How Temper Tantrums Work (Tue, May 27, 2014)
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• How Avalanches Work (Thu, May 22, 2014)
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• 8 Reasons Why Your Body Is So Gross (Tue, May 20, 2014)
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• How the Paleo Diet Works (Thu, May 15, 2014)
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• How the Human Microbiome Project Works (Tue, May 13, 2014)
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• How Bipolar Disorder Works (Thu, May 08, 2014)
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• How Gypsies Work (Tue, May 06, 2014)
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• How Marijuana Works (Thu, May 01, 2014)
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• How the ACLU Works (Tue, Apr 29, 2014)
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• Halitosis: Worst Smell Ever? (Thu, Apr 24, 2014)
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• How Mars Works (Tue, Apr 22, 2014)
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• How Burlesque Works (Thu, Apr 17, 2014)
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• How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works (Tue, Apr 15, 2014)
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• How Natural Selection Works (Thu, Apr 10, 2014)
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• How Charles Darwin Worked (Tue, Apr 08, 2014)
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• How Income Taxes Work (Thu, Apr 03, 2014)
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• How 3D Printing Works (Tue, Apr 01, 2014)
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• How Landslides Work (Thu, Mar 27, 2014)
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• How Amnesia Works (Tue, Mar 25, 2014)
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• How Electricity Works (Thu, Mar 20, 2014)
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• Tattoos: Not Just For Dirtbags Anymore (Tue, Mar 18, 2014)
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• How Black Boxes Work (Thu, Mar 13, 2014)
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• How Skateboarding Works (Tue, Mar 11, 2014)
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• How Online Dating Works (Thu, Mar 06, 2014)
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• How the Spanish Inquisition Worked (Tue, Mar 04, 2014)
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• What happened at Kent State? (Thu, Feb 27, 2014)
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• Termites: They Bore But They Aren't Boring (Tue, Feb 25, 2014)
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• How Amputation Works (Thu, Feb 20, 2014)
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• How Salt Works (Tue, Feb 18, 2014)
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• How Cave Dwellers Work (Thu, Feb 13, 2014)
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• Do objects or experiences make us happier? (Tue, Feb 11, 2014)
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• How Sign Language Works (Thu, Feb 06, 2014)
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• Will computers replace doctors? (Tue, Feb 04, 2014)
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• What are crystal skulls? (Thu, Jan 30, 2014)
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• What's the deal with the debt ceiling? (Tue, Jan 28, 2014)
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• How the Deep Web Works (Thu, Jan 23, 2014)
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• Chuck and Josh Bust a Few Everyday Myths (Tue, Jan 21, 2014)
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• How Pet Psychics Work (Thu, Jan 16, 2014)
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• Was there a real King Arthur? (Tue, Jan 14, 2014)
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• Your limb is torn off - now what? (Tue, Jan 07, 2014)
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• Could you live without a refrigerator? (Thu, Jan 02, 2014)
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• Will solar sails take us to the stars? (Tue, Dec 31, 2013)
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• How Fire Breathing Works (Thu, Dec 26, 2013)
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• Josh and Chuck's Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013 (Tue, Dec 24, 2013)
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• Is lethal injection humane? (Thu, Dec 19, 2013)
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• How Manhunts Work (Tue, Dec 17, 2013)
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• How Underwater Tunnels Work (Thu, Dec 12, 2013)
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• How Maglev Trains Work (Thu, Dec 05, 2013)
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• How Castration Works (Tue, Dec 03, 2013)
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• How Black Friday Works (Thu, Nov 28, 2013)
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• Is there a scientific formula for funny? (Tue, Nov 26, 2013)
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• Who killed JFK? (Thu, Nov 21, 2013)
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• How Chocolate Works (Tue, Nov 19, 2013)
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• How Werewolves Work (Thu, Nov 14, 2013)
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• Some Interesting Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking (Tue, Nov 12, 2013)
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• How Lewis and Clark Worked (Thu, Nov 07, 2013)
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• How Chess Works (Tue, Nov 05, 2013)
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• What's with the Winchester Mystery House? (Thu, Oct 31, 2013)
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• The Empty House (Wed, Oct 30, 2013)
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• How Ouija Boards Work (Tue, Oct 29, 2013)
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• How Guide Dogs Work (Tue, Oct 22, 2013)
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• 10 Easy Ways to Save Money (Thu, Oct 17, 2013)
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• How the Maori Work (Tue, Oct 15, 2013)
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• Did Archimedes build a death ray? (Tue, Oct 08, 2013)
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• Can NASA predict natural disasters? (Thu, Oct 03, 2013)
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• What's the deal with diplomatic immunity? (Tue, Oct 01, 2013)
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• Does owning a gun change your behavior? (Thu, Sep 26, 2013)
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• How Crack Works (Tue, Sep 24, 2013)
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• How Dying Works (Thu, Sep 19, 2013)
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• How IEDs Work (Tue, Sep 17, 2013)
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• How much money is in the world? (Thu, Sep 05, 2013)
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• How the Rosetta Stone Works (Tue, Sep 03, 2013)
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• How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire? (Thu, Aug 29, 2013)
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• How Broken Bones Work (Tue, Aug 27, 2013)
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• History's Greatest Traitors (Thu, Aug 22, 2013)
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• How Ejection Seats Work (Tue, Aug 20, 2013)
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• How Cockroaches Work (Thu, Aug 15, 2013)
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• Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier? (Tue, Aug 13, 2013)
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• How does a diving bell work? (Thu, Aug 08, 2013)
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• The Shark Diaries (Wed, Aug 07, 2013)
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• How Horseshoes Work (Tue, Aug 06, 2013)
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• How Fingerprinting Works (Thu, Aug 01, 2013)
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• How LARP Works (Tue, Jul 30, 2013)
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• Why should you never scare a vulture? (Tue, Jul 23, 2013)
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• Who owns an abandoned house? (Thu, Jul 18, 2013)
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• How Building Implosions Work (Tue, Jul 16, 2013)
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• How Hip-hop Works (Thu, Jul 11, 2013)
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• 10 Medieval Torture Devices (Tue, Jul 09, 2013)
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• How Miranda Rights Work (Thu, Jul 04, 2013)
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• How Pollen Works (Tue, Jul 02, 2013)
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• How Burning Man Works (Thu, Jun 27, 2013)
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• How Ghosts Work (Thu, Jun 20, 2013)
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• How Bitcoin Works (Mon, Jun 17, 2013)
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• Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are (Tue, Jun 11, 2013)
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• How Drag Queens Work (Tue, Jun 11, 2013)
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• How do trees affect the weather? (Thu, Jun 06, 2013)
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• What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke? (Tue, Jun 04, 2013)
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• How Coffins Work (Tue, May 28, 2013)
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• How Police Chases Work (Tue, May 28, 2013)
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• How PTSD Works (Thu, May 23, 2013)
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• How Cicadas Work (Tue, May 21, 2013)
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• How Aerosol Cans Work (Thu, May 16, 2013)
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• How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works (Tue, May 14, 2013)
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• How Foot Binding Worked (Thu, May 09, 2013)
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• How Fair Trade Works (Tue, May 07, 2013)
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• How Dungeons and Dragons Works (Thu, May 02, 2013)
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• What makes us yawn? (Thu, Apr 25, 2013)
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• How Magnets Work (Tue, Apr 23, 2013)
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• Uses of the Insanity Defense (Thu, Apr 18, 2013)
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• How Marriage Works (Tue, Apr 16, 2013)
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• Do men and women have different brains? (Thu, Apr 11, 2013)
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• What's the deal with duckbill platypuses? (Tue, Apr 09, 2013)
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• How Grief Works (Thu, Apr 04, 2013)
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• How the Panama Canal Works (Tue, Apr 02, 2013)
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• How No-fly Zones Work (Thu, Mar 28, 2013)
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• How Apartheid Worked (Tue, Mar 19, 2013)
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• How the U.S. Postal Service Works (Thu, Mar 14, 2013)
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• How Police Sketches Work (Tue, Mar 12, 2013)
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• Can We Build an Elevator to Space? (Sat, Mar 09, 2013)
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• Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion? (Thu, Mar 07, 2013)
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• What Makes a One-hit Wonder? (Tue, Mar 05, 2013)
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• How the Papacy Works (Thu, Feb 28, 2013)
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• How CPR Works (Tue, Feb 26, 2013)
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• How Spies Work (Sat, Feb 23, 2013)
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• What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning? (Thu, Feb 21, 2013)
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• How Surfing Works (Tue, Feb 19, 2013)
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• Myths About the Brain (Thu, Feb 14, 2013)
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• How Jet Lag Works (Tue, Feb 12, 2013)
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• How Weather Modification Works (Sat, Feb 09, 2013)
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• How Willpower Works (Thu, Feb 07, 2013)
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• How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work (Tue, Feb 05, 2013)
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• How Gold Works (Thu, Jan 31, 2013)
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• How Stuntmen (and -women) Work (Tue, Jan 29, 2013)
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• How Bees Work (Sat, Jan 26, 2013)
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• How the Frick Fracking Works (Tue, Jan 22, 2013)
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• Does the five-second rule work? (Thu, Jan 17, 2013)
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• How Death Masks Work (Tue, Jan 15, 2013)
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• Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag? (Tue, Jan 08, 2013)
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• What was America's first terrorist threat? (Thu, Jan 03, 2013)
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• How Bigfoot Works (Tue, Jan 01, 2013)
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• How Dog Shows Work (Thu, Dec 27, 2012)
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• Josh and Chuck's Christmas Extravaganza 2012 (Fri, Dec 21, 2012)
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• How Barbie Doll Works (Thu, Dec 20, 2012)
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• Lab-grown meat: Order up! (Tue, Dec 18, 2012)
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• How Condoms Work (Thu, Dec 13, 2012)
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• Will we reach peak oil? (Thu, Dec 06, 2012)
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• How Vampires Work (Tue, Dec 04, 2012)
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• How Caving Works (Thu, Nov 29, 2012)
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• Why do leaves change colors in the fall? (Tue, Nov 27, 2012)
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• Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It (Thu, Nov 22, 2012)
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• Should we be designing our children? (Tue, Nov 20, 2012)
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• How Meth Works (Thu, Nov 15, 2012)
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• How close are we to holographic environments? (Tue, Nov 13, 2012)
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• What will happen when we reach the Singularity? (Thu, Nov 08, 2012)
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• Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines (Tue, Nov 06, 2012)
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• SYSK's Halloween Horror Fiction Winner! (Tue, Oct 30, 2012)
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• Exoskeletons: How's it coming? (Thu, Oct 25, 2012)
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• How Commercial Jingles Work (Tue, Oct 23, 2012)
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• How Lion Taming Works (Thu, Oct 18, 2012)
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• How Black Holes Work (Tue, Oct 16, 2012)
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• How Pizza Works! (Thu, Oct 11, 2012)
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• How Rainforests Work (Tue, Oct 09, 2012)
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• How Fire Works (Thu, Oct 04, 2012)
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• How Whiskey Runners Worked (Tue, Oct 02, 2012)
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• Subways: HUH! What are they good for? (Thu, Sep 27, 2012)
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• Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes (Tue, Sep 25, 2012)
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• Why does music provoke emotion? (Thu, Sep 20, 2012)
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• Are we all Martians? (Tue, Sep 18, 2012)
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• How Book Banning Works (Thu, Sep 13, 2012)
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• How Asexuality Works (Tue, Sep 11, 2012)
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• Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish (Thu, Sep 06, 2012)
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• Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout? (Tue, Sep 04, 2012)
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• How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work (Thu, Aug 30, 2012)
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• How the Electoral College Works (Tue, Aug 28, 2012)
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• What happens to abandoned mines? (Thu, Aug 23, 2012)
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• Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record (Tue, Aug 21, 2012)
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• Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War? (Thu, Aug 16, 2012)
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• The Shark Diaries (Tue, Aug 14, 2012)
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• How Shark Attacks Work (Thu, Aug 09, 2012)
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• How Ramadan Works (Tue, Aug 07, 2012)
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• Can we build an elevator to space? (Thu, Aug 02, 2012)
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• How the Musketeers Worked (Tue, Jul 31, 2012)
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• How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con) (Thu, Jul 26, 2012)
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• How White-collar Crime Works (Tue, Jul 24, 2012)
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• How Lightning Works (Thu, Jul 12, 2012)
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• Geysers: Nature's Innuendo (Tue, Jul 10, 2012)
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• How Tabloids Work (Thu, Jul 05, 2012)
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• Is the Dead Sea dead? (Tue, Jul 03, 2012)
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• What's the deal with Executive Orders? (Thu, Jun 28, 2012)
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• 10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers (Thu, Jun 21, 2012)
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• How Icebergs Work (Very Cool) (Tue, Jun 19, 2012)
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• Whatever happened to acid rain? (Thu, Jun 14, 2012)
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• Should we have a fat tax? (Tue, Jun 12, 2012)
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• Fractals: Whoa (Thu, Jun 07, 2012)
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• How Moss Works (Tue, Jun 05, 2012)
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• Can it rain frogs? (Thu, May 31, 2012)
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• Do video games produce real-life violence? (Tue, May 29, 2012)
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• Are we obsessed with goals? (Thu, May 24, 2012)
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• How Labor Unions Work (Tue, May 22, 2012)
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• What is the future of Earth? (Thu, May 17, 2012)
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• Interpol: World Police (Tue, May 15, 2012)
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• What is a shotgun house? (Thu, May 10, 2012)
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• Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg? (Tue, May 08, 2012)
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• How Bullfighting Works (Thu, May 03, 2012)
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• How did language evolve? (Tue, May 01, 2012)
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• How Medical Marijuana Works (Thu, Apr 26, 2012)
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• How Air Traffic Control Works (Tue, Apr 24, 2012)
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• Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think (Thu, Apr 19, 2012)
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• How Whaling Works (Tue, Apr 17, 2012)
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• Body Odor: You Stink (Wed, Apr 11, 2012)
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• Was Atlantis a real place? (Tue, Apr 10, 2012)
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• How Diamonds Work (Tue, Apr 03, 2012)
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• How Music Sampling Works (Thu, Mar 29, 2012)
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• 10 Big Cases of Revenge (Tue, Mar 27, 2012)
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• How Tipping Works (Thu, Mar 22, 2012)
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• How Comic Books: Live from SXSW (Tue, Mar 20, 2012)
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• How the Donner Party Worked (Thu, Mar 15, 2012)
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• Should chimps be used for medical testing? (Tue, Mar 13, 2012)
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• How Noah's Ark Worked (Thu, Mar 08, 2012)
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• Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet (Tue, Mar 06, 2012)
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• How SETI Works (Thu, Mar 01, 2012)
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• How Crying Works (Tue, Feb 28, 2012)
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• Fasting: deadly or what? (Thu, Feb 23, 2012)
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• How Autopsies Work (Thu, Feb 16, 2012)
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• How Zero Works (Tue, Feb 14, 2012)
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• How Coral Reefs Work (Thu, Feb 09, 2012)
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• Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks? (Tue, Feb 07, 2012)
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• How Floods Work (Thu, Jan 26, 2012)
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• How Human Trafficking Works (Tue, Jan 24, 2012)
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• How Mexican Wrestling Works (Thu, Jan 19, 2012)
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• Are contrails actually chemtrails? (Tue, Jan 17, 2012)
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• What's the deal with the Bermuda Triangle? (Thu, Jan 12, 2012)
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• Can you vacation in Antarctica? (Tue, Jan 10, 2012)
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• Was there a curse on King Tut's tomb? (Thu, Jan 05, 2012)
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• How Yo-Yos Work (Tue, Jan 03, 2012)
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• Coffee: The World's Drug of Choice (Thu, Dec 29, 2011)
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• What happens in the brain during an orgasm? (Tue, Dec 27, 2011)
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• Josh and Chuck's Christmas Extravaganza (Thu, Dec 22, 2011)
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• How Pepper Spray Works (Tue, Dec 20, 2011)
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• How Earthworms Work (Thu, Dec 15, 2011)
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• How the Digestive System Works (Thu, Dec 08, 2011)
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• How Daylight Saving Time Works (Tue, Dec 06, 2011)
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• What made the donkey and the elephant political? (Thu, Dec 01, 2011)
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• Cash Debit or Credit: Which is best? (Tue, Nov 29, 2011)
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• How Thoroughbred Horses Work (Thu, Nov 24, 2011)
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• Crossbows: They Look Cool (Tue, Nov 22, 2011)
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• How Air Force One Works (Thu, Nov 17, 2011)
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• How Alcatraz Works (Tue, Nov 15, 2011)
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• How Presidential Debates Work (Thu, Nov 10, 2011)
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• How Gene Patents Work (Tue, Nov 08, 2011)
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• What Saved the American Bison (Thu, Nov 03, 2011)
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• How the Autobahn Works (Tue, Nov 01, 2011)
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• Berenice (Thu, Oct 27, 2011)
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• How Anti-matter Spacecraft Will Work (Tue, Oct 25, 2011)
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• Do you lose the right to privacy when you die? (Thu, Oct 20, 2011)
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• The Nile IS Just a River in Egypt (Tue, Oct 18, 2011)
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• The Wind Cries Typhoid Mary (Thu, Oct 13, 2011)
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• A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes (Tue, Oct 11, 2011)
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• How the Peace Corps Works (Thu, Oct 06, 2011)
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• How Silly Putty Works (Tue, Oct 04, 2011)
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• How U.S. Marshals Work (Thu, Sep 29, 2011)
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• How Sword Swallowing Works (Tue, Sep 27, 2011)
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• How Family Crests Work (Thu, Sep 22, 2011)
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• How Acne Works (Tue, Sep 20, 2011)
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• How the Moon Works (Thu, Sep 15, 2011)
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• How Casinos Work (Tue, Sep 13, 2011)
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• How the World Trade Center Memorial Works (Thu, Sep 08, 2011)
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• 10 Scientists Who Were Their Own Guinea Pigs (Tue, Sep 06, 2011)
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• How Lie Detectors Work (Thu, Sep 01, 2011)
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• Cryonics: Hi, Frozen Body! (Tue, Aug 30, 2011)
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• How Schizophrenia Works (Tue, Aug 23, 2011)
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• How to Land on a Government Watch List (Thu, Aug 18, 2011)
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• How Murphy's Law Works, the Redux (Tue, Aug 16, 2011)
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• Laughter: What's so funny about that? (Thu, Aug 11, 2011)
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• What's the future of the internet? (Tue, Aug 09, 2011)
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• Ethnobotany: How to Get Drugs from Plants (Thu, Aug 04, 2011)
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• Can you sweat colors? (Tue, Aug 02, 2011)
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• How SPAM Works (Thu, Jul 28, 2011)
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• How Wildfires Work (Tue, Jul 26, 2011)
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• How Karma Works (Thu, Jul 21, 2011)
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• Does smiling make you happy? (Tue, Jul 19, 2011)
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• Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 2: Baseball and Apple Pie (Thu, Jul 14, 2011)
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• Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 1: Mom (Tue, Jul 12, 2011)
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• How Human Cannonballs Work (Thu, Jul 07, 2011)
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• How Hate Works (Tue, Jul 05, 2011)
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• Who was America's first murderer? (Thu, Jun 30, 2011)
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• How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Tue, Jun 28, 2011)
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• How Suicide Bombers Work (Tue, Jun 21, 2011)
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• How Curiosity Works (Thu, Jun 16, 2011)
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• How Military Snipers Work (Tue, Jun 14, 2011)
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• Was Malthus right about carrying capacity? (Thu, Jun 09, 2011)
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• How the Underground Railroad Worked (Tue, Jun 07, 2011)
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• How Fear Works (Thu, Jun 02, 2011)
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• How Nicotine Works (Tue, May 31, 2011)
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• How do I start my own country? (Thu, May 26, 2011)
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• What is terror management theory? (Tue, May 24, 2011)
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• What is parallel evolution? (Thu, May 19, 2011)
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• Can the sun kill you? (Tue, May 17, 2011)
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• How Con Artists Work (Thu, May 12, 2011)
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• What is mountaintop removal mining? (Tue, May 10, 2011)
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• A Podcast to Remember (How Memory Works) (Thu, May 05, 2011)
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• How Parkour Works (Tue, May 03, 2011)
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• How Rollercoasters Work, Minus the Fun (Thu, Apr 28, 2011)
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• How Wills Work (Thu, Apr 21, 2011)
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• Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me (Tue, Apr 19, 2011)
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• How Molecular Gastronomy Works (Tue, Apr 12, 2011)
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• Does oil speculation increase gas prices? (Thu, Apr 07, 2011)
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• Sherpas: Warm, Friendly Living (Tue, Apr 05, 2011)
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• SYSK Live from SXSW: How UFOs Work (Thu, Mar 31, 2011)
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• How Igloos Work (Tue, Mar 29, 2011)
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• That Dang-old Goat Fell Over (Thu, Mar 24, 2011)
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• How a Nuclear Meltdown Works (Tue, Mar 22, 2011)
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• Why's that dude in that dumpster? (Thu, Mar 17, 2011)
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• How Mummies Work (Tue, Mar 15, 2011)
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• Is it legal to sterilize addicts? (Thu, Mar 10, 2011)
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• Cults: Who is this "The Leader?" (Tue, Mar 08, 2011)
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• How Fossils Work (Thu, Mar 03, 2011)
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• Were U.S. citizens in Japanese internment camps? (Tue, Mar 01, 2011)
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• What is stagflation? (Thu, Feb 24, 2011)
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• How Tickling Works (Tue, Feb 22, 2011)
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• How Crime Scene Photography Works (Thu, Feb 17, 2011)
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• How Blood Pattern Analysis Works (Tue, Feb 15, 2011)
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• How the Black Death Worked (Thu, Feb 10, 2011)
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• How Bartering Works (Tue, Feb 08, 2011)
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• How Munchausen Syndrome Works (Tue, Feb 01, 2011)
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• How to Control a Riot (Thu, Jan 27, 2011)
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• What has the world's deadliest venom? (Tue, Jan 25, 2011)
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• Can oceans power the world? (Thu, Jan 20, 2011)
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• How the Mafia Works (Tue, Jan 18, 2011)
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• Does acupuncture work? (Thu, Jan 13, 2011)
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• Little, Fluffy Clouds (Tue, Jan 11, 2011)
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• How Antiques Work (Thu, Jan 06, 2011)
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• Should you not eat gluten? (Tue, Jan 04, 2011)
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• How Volcanoes Work (Thu, Dec 30, 2010)
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• How Immigration Works (Tue, Dec 28, 2010)
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• How Homelessness Works (Thu, Dec 23, 2010)
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• How Migraines Work (Thu, Dec 16, 2010)
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• How Agritourism Works (Tue, Dec 14, 2010)
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• How Hanukkah Works (Thu, Dec 09, 2010)
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• Green Renovation and Construction (Tue, Dec 07, 2010)
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• How the Rules of War Work (Thu, Dec 02, 2010)
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• How Circumcision Works (Tue, Nov 30, 2010)
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• How Dreadlocks Work (Thu, Nov 25, 2010)
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• A Rigid, Sterile Look at Kissing (Tue, Nov 23, 2010)
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• Can Lifestraw save the world? (Thu, Nov 18, 2010)
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• Have all the good ideas already been discovered? (Tue, Nov 16, 2010)
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• How Rehab Works (Thu, Nov 11, 2010)
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• Prohibition: Turns Out That America Loves to Drink (Tue, Nov 09, 2010)
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• Addiction: Why you can't kick SYSK (Thu, Nov 04, 2010)
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• Animal Migration: Where's that gnu gnoing? (Tue, Nov 02, 2010)
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• The Tomb (Thu, Oct 28, 2010)
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• Jealous much? (Tue, Oct 26, 2010)
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• Can you treat mental illness with psychedelics? (Thu, Oct 21, 2010)
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• How Gender Reassignment Works (Tue, Oct 19, 2010)
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• How House Swapping Works (Thu, Oct 14, 2010)
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• Is science phasing out sleep? (Tue, Oct 12, 2010)
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• How Knights Work (Thu, Oct 07, 2010)
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• Why would anyone want multiple spouses? (Tue, Oct 05, 2010)
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• Is tone deafness hereditary? (Thu, Sep 30, 2010)
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• How Roller Derby Works (Tue, Sep 28, 2010)
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• Hypnosis: You're Getting Sleepy (Thu, Sep 23, 2010)
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• Octopus, Octopi, Octopod, Octopuses (Tue, Sep 21, 2010)
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• What is biospeleology? (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
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• How Mirrors Work (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
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• How Customs Works (Thu, Sep 09, 2010)
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• How Crime-Scene Clean-up Works (Tue, Sep 07, 2010)
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• How are college football rankings determined? (Thu, Sep 02, 2010)
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• How Cremation Works (Tue, Aug 31, 2010)
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• How Freemasons Work (Thu, Aug 26, 2010)
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• How Sleepwalking Works (Tue, Aug 24, 2010)
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• How the MARS Turbine Works (Thu, Aug 19, 2010)
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• Breathalyzers: Really, Really Complicated (Tue, Aug 17, 2010)
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• Prisons: Not as Fun as You'd Think (Thu, Aug 12, 2010)
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• How Grow Houses Work (Tue, Aug 10, 2010)
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• What's so special about Route 66? (Thu, Aug 05, 2010)
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• How Quantum Suicide Works (Tue, Aug 03, 2010)
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• How Presidential Pardons Work (Thu, Jul 29, 2010)
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• Why Ticks Suck (Tue, Jul 27, 2010)
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• Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think! (Thu, Jul 22, 2010)
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• Taste and How it Works (Tue, Jul 20, 2010)
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• What's the deal with Bond, James Bond? (Thu, Jul 15, 2010)
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• How Reincarnation Works (Tue, Jul 13, 2010)
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• How do butterfly wings get their color? (Thu, Jul 08, 2010)
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• What's the deal with Voodoo? (Tue, Jul 06, 2010)
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• Did Thomas Jefferson rewrite the Bible? (Thu, Jul 01, 2010)
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• How Traffic Works (Tue, Jun 29, 2010)
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• Can quicksand kill you? (Thu, Jun 24, 2010)
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• How Ghost Prisons Work (Tue, Jun 22, 2010)
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• How Samurai Work (Thu, Jun 17, 2010)
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• How the Innocence Project Works (Tue, Jun 15, 2010)
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• Can your grandfather's diet shorten your life? (Thu, Jun 10, 2010)
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• What's the deal with sinkholes? (Tue, Jun 08, 2010)
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• How Flamethrowers Work (Thu, Jun 03, 2010)
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• How do you clean up an oil spill? (Tue, Jun 01, 2010)
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• Can humans start an earthquake? (Thu, May 27, 2010)
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• What makes a serial killer? (Tue, May 25, 2010)
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• SYSK's Guatemalan Adventure, Part Two (Thu, May 20, 2010)
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• SYSK's Guatemalan Adventure, Part One (Tue, May 18, 2010)
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• 5 Successful Counterfeiters (Thu, May 13, 2010)
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• How Twins Work How Twins Work (Tue, May 11, 2010)
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• How hard is it to steal a work of art? (Thu, May 06, 2010)
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• How LEGOs Work (Tue, May 04, 2010)
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• How Cliff Diving Works (Thu, Apr 29, 2010)
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• What makes a genius? (Tue, Apr 27, 2010)
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• Mirror Neurons: Are there people who feel others' pain? (Thu, Apr 22, 2010)
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• Are there people who can't feel pain? (Tue, Apr 20, 2010)
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• How Castles Work (Fri, Apr 16, 2010)
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• How Tourette Syndrome Works (Tue, Apr 13, 2010)
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• Are zoos good or bad for animals? (Thu, Apr 08, 2010)
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• How Desertification Works (Tue, Apr 06, 2010)
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• How McDonald's Works (Thu, Apr 01, 2010)
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• What the heck is a hiccup? (Tue, Mar 30, 2010)
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• How Taxidermy Works (Thu, Mar 25, 2010)
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• How Urban Planning Works (Tue, Mar 23, 2010)
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• Who were the Vikings? (Thu, Mar 18, 2010)
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• How Lotteries Work (Tue, Mar 16, 2010)
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• What exactly is Fascism? (Thu, Mar 11, 2010)
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• What's the deal with carbon trading? (Tue, Mar 09, 2010)
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• How Scabies Work (Thu, Mar 04, 2010)
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• Was Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization? (Tue, Mar 02, 2010)
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• How Bounty Hunters Work (Thu, Feb 25, 2010)
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• How Bail Works (Tue, Feb 23, 2010)
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• Five Crazy Government Experiments (Thu, Feb 18, 2010)
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• Who are the Amish? (Tue, Feb 16, 2010)
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• How Braille Works (Thu, Feb 11, 2010)
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• How Witchcraft Works (Tue, Feb 09, 2010)
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• Why do we believe in urban legends? (Thu, Feb 04, 2010)
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• How Swat Teams Work (Tue, Feb 02, 2010)
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• Are there undiscovered people? (Thu, Jan 28, 2010)
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• What are ninja? (Tue, Jan 26, 2010)
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• Will the moon save humanity? (Thu, Jan 21, 2010)
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• Why are honeybees disappearing? (Tue, Jan 19, 2010)
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• How Organ Donation Works (Tue, Jan 12, 2010)
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• How Mercenaries Work (Thu, Jan 07, 2010)
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• How Noodling Works (Tue, Jan 05, 2010)
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• How Human Experimentation Works (Thu, Dec 31, 2009)
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• How Pirates Work (Tue, Dec 29, 2009)
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• How Christmas Worked (Thu, Dec 24, 2009)
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• Do concussions cause early death? (Tue, Dec 22, 2009)
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• How Kleptomania Works (Thu, Dec 17, 2009)
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• How Narco States Work (Tue, Dec 15, 2009)
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• How the Hells Angels Work (Thu, Dec 10, 2009)
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• Will the Large Hadron Collider destroy the Earth? (Tue, Dec 08, 2009)
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• How Near-Death Experiences Work (Thu, Dec 03, 2009)
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• How Food Cravings Work (Tue, Dec 01, 2009)
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• How Hostage Negotiation Works (Thu, Nov 26, 2009)
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• What is Mutual Assured Destruction? (Tue, Nov 24, 2009)
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• 10 Odd Town Festivals (Thu, Nov 19, 2009)
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• What's the deal with totem poles? (Tue, Nov 17, 2009)
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• How Population Works (Thu, Nov 12, 2009)
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• How will the future crime database work? (Tue, Nov 10, 2009)
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• How Product Placement Works (Thu, Nov 05, 2009)
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• Can you remember being born? (Tue, Nov 03, 2009)
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• The Real How Jack the Ripper Worked (Thu, Oct 29, 2009)
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• How Witness Protection Works (Tue, Oct 27, 2009)
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• How the Cannonball Run Worked (Thu, Oct 22, 2009)
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• What is China's one-child policy? (Tue, Oct 20, 2009)
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• What is a hangover, really? (Thu, Oct 15, 2009)
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• How to Find the History of Your House (Tue, Oct 13, 2009)
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• Who were the first Americans? (Thu, Oct 08, 2009)
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• Health Care Systems Around the World (Tue, Oct 06, 2009)
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• Is Bhutan on to something with Gross National Happiness? (Thu, Oct 01, 2009)
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• Rumors, Myths and Truths Behind Obama's Health Care Plan (Tue, Sep 29, 2009)
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• Do zombies really exist? (Thu, Sep 24, 2009)
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• President Obama's Health Care Plan: Soup to Nuts (Tue, Sep 22, 2009)
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• How do dogs perceive time? (Thu, Sep 17, 2009)
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• How Health Care in the United States Works Right Now (Tue, Sep 15, 2009)
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• Could microlending develop the world? (Thu, Sep 10, 2009)
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• What is geocaching? (Tue, Sep 08, 2009)
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• What is an Ig Nobel Prize? (Thu, Sep 03, 2009)
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• Why is the U.S. so dependent on cars? (Tue, Sep 01, 2009)
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• How Muppets Work (Thu, Aug 27, 2009)
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• How easy is it to steal a nuclear bomb? (Tue, Aug 25, 2009)
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• Is the Necronomicon real? (Thu, Aug 20, 2009)
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• What's sarcopenia and what can you do about it? (Tue, Aug 18, 2009)
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• Is fluoride making us stupid? (Thu, Aug 13, 2009)
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• What are Japanese stragglers? (Tue, Aug 11, 2009)
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• What's up with competitive eating? (Thu, Aug 06, 2009)
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• How Agent Orange Worked (Tue, Aug 04, 2009)
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• How Whale Sharks Work (Thu, Jul 30, 2009)
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• What are tinnovators? (Tue, Jul 28, 2009)
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• Three Gross Parasites (Thu, Jul 23, 2009)
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• Are stupid people happier? (Tue, Jul 21, 2009)
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• What is a body farm? (Thu, Jul 16, 2009)
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• How has toxoplasma turned the world into zombies? (Tue, Jul 14, 2009)
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• How Twinkies Work (Thu, Jul 09, 2009)
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• Is it possible to brainwash someone? (Tue, Jul 07, 2009)
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• How can hypermiling save you gas? (Thu, Jul 02, 2009)
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• How Earthquakes Work (Tue, Jun 30, 2009)
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• How Body Dysmorphic Disorder Works (Thu, Jun 25, 2009)
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• Can you control your dreams? (Tue, Jun 23, 2009)
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• What exactly is the Peter Principle? (Thu, Jun 18, 2009)
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• Three Innovations We Need Right Now (Tue, Jun 16, 2009)
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• How Carbon Capture and Storage Works (Thu, Jun 11, 2009)
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• How did Nikola Tesla change the way we use energy? (Tue, Jun 09, 2009)
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• How Biohydrocarbons Work (Thu, Jun 04, 2009)
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• What's a brownfield remediation project? (Tue, Jun 02, 2009)
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• Is spontaneous human combustion real? (Thu, May 28, 2009)
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• How Propaganda Works (Tue, May 26, 2009)
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• Do animals have a sixth sense? (Thu, May 21, 2009)
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• How Lobotomies Work (Tue, May 19, 2009)
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• Is it better to buy local or organic food? (Thu, May 14, 2009)
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• What causes rigor mortis? (Tue, May 12, 2009)
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• How can a lake explode? (Thu, May 07, 2009)
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• Why do humans have body hair? (Tue, May 05, 2009)
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• How do credit default swaps work? (Thu, Apr 30, 2009)
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• Is high fructose corn syrup bad for you? (Tue, Apr 28, 2009)
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• How Face Transplants Work (Thu, Apr 23, 2009)
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• How much money do I really need to live? (Tue, Apr 21, 2009)
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• Do toads cause warts? (Thu, Apr 16, 2009)
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• How Money Laundering Works (Tue, Apr 14, 2009)
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• How Ponzi Schemes Work (Thu, Apr 09, 2009)
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• How can some centenarians lead unhealthy lives? (Tue, Apr 07, 2009)
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• Bizarre Ways to Die (Thu, Apr 02, 2009)
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• Is the world going to end in 2012? (Tue, Mar 31, 2009)
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• Are there dead bodies on Mount Everest? (Thu, Mar 26, 2009)
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• How Déjà Vu Works (Tue, Mar 24, 2009)
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• Can anger be a good thing? (Thu, Mar 19, 2009)
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• What are microexpressions? (Tue, Mar 17, 2009)
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• How Aphrodisiacs Work (Thu, Mar 12, 2009)
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• Who owns the oceans? (Tue, Mar 10, 2009)
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• How Alien Hand Syndrome Works (Thu, Mar 05, 2009)
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• Could a 'thinking cap' make me a genius? (Tue, Mar 03, 2009)
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• How Junk Mail Works (Thu, Feb 26, 2009)
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• Can people really die of fright? (Tue, Feb 24, 2009)
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• How Going Over Niagara Works (Thu, Feb 19, 2009)
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• How Squatting Works (Tue, Feb 17, 2009)
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• How Friday the 13th Works (Thu, Feb 12, 2009)
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• How long can you go without food and water? (Tue, Feb 10, 2009)
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• Why is it so hard to say "toy boat" three times fast? (Thu, Feb 05, 2009)
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• Why do some people believe the moon landings were a hoax? (Tue, Feb 03, 2009)
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• How Hypoallergenic Cats Work (Thu, Jan 29, 2009)
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• How Comas Work (Tue, Jan 27, 2009)
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• Recycling and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Tue, Jan 20, 2009)
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• Where's the best place on your body to get shot? (Tue, Dec 16, 2008)
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• Extended Product Warranties: To Buy or Not to Buy? (Thu, Dec 11, 2008)
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• How the Five Day Weekend Works (Tue, Dec 09, 2008)
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• How OCD Works (Tue, Dec 02, 2008)
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• How Albert Einstein's Brain Worked (Tue, Nov 25, 2008)
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• How Corporate Personhood Works (Thu, Nov 20, 2008)
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• How Eco-anxiety Works (Tue, Nov 18, 2008)
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• Why doesn't the FDA regulate herbal supplements? (Thu, Nov 13, 2008)
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• Did the CIA test LSD on unsuspecting Americans? (Tue, Nov 11, 2008)
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• How Mortgage-backed Securities Work (Thu, Nov 06, 2008)
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• How Prayer Healing Works (Thu, Oct 30, 2008)
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• Is a free market "free" if it's regulated? (Tue, Oct 28, 2008)
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• How do Tibetans avoid altitude sickness? (Thu, Oct 23, 2008)
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• How the Bailout Works (Tue, Oct 21, 2008)
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• How Living Off the Grid Works (Thu, Oct 16, 2008)
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• Will we soon be extinct? (Tue, Oct 14, 2008)
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• How Cannibalism Works (Thu, Oct 09, 2008)
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• How Entomophagy Works (Tue, Oct 07, 2008)
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• How Delta Force Works (Tue, Sep 30, 2008)
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• How Graceland Works (Thu, Sep 25, 2008)
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• How Can I Erase My Identity and Start Over? (Thu, Sep 18, 2008)
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• Is sleep that important? (Tue, Sep 09, 2008)
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• What's the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant? (Thu, Sep 04, 2008)
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• Is there a worst way to die? (Tue, Sep 02, 2008)
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• What are smart mobs? (Thu, Aug 28, 2008)
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• Will robots get married? (Tue, Aug 26, 2008)
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• How Blood Pressure Works (Thu, Aug 21, 2008)
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• Are humans wired to survive? (Tue, Aug 19, 2008)
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• 10 Terribly Bungled Crimes (Thu, Aug 14, 2008)
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• Is there a torture manual? (Fri, Aug 08, 2008)
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• Exactly what happens if we run out of water? (Thu, Jul 31, 2008)
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• Is knife hunting the fairest way to hunt? (Tue, Jul 29, 2008)
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• Why do people blush? (Thu, Jul 24, 2008)
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• How Carbon Capture Works (Tue, Jul 22, 2008)
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• Are Dogs a Shark's Favorite Meal? (Thu, Jul 17, 2008)
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• Can I Survive a Shark Attack by Gouging Out Its Eyes? (Tue, Jul 15, 2008)
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• How Ripperology Works (Thu, Jul 10, 2008)
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• How Personal Rapid Transport Works (Mon, Jul 07, 2008)
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• How Abandoned Cities Work (Tue, Jul 01, 2008)
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• How Murphy's Law Works (Tue, Jul 01, 2008)
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• How Death-Proof Cars Work (Thu, Jun 26, 2008)
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• How Oil Shale Works (Tue, Jun 24, 2008)
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• How Swearing at Work Works (Fri, Jun 20, 2008)
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• How Manufacturing Water Works (Wed, Jun 18, 2008)
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• What's the most expensive toilet in the world? (Thu, Jun 12, 2008)
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• Could salt water fuel cars? (Tue, Jun 10, 2008)
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• How The Eye of a Tornado Works (Thu, Jun 05, 2008)
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• How Contagious Yawning Works (Tue, Jun 03, 2008)
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• Can People Really Get Hysterical Strength? (Thu, May 29, 2008)
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• How Antibacterial Soap Works (Wed, May 28, 2008)
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• Does Gum Stay in your Stomach for Seven Years? (Thu, May 22, 2008)
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• Are Dogs Really Man's Best Friend? (Tue, May 20, 2008)
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• How Evolution in Isolation Works (Thu, May 15, 2008)
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• Why Does Toothpaste Make Orange Juice Taste Bad? (Tue, May 13, 2008)
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• How Trolley Problems Work (Tue, May 06, 2008)
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• Can I feel pregnant when my wife is? (Tue, May 06, 2008)
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• Are Nazi War Criminals Still At Large? (Wed, Apr 30, 2008)
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• How Altruism Works (Thu, Apr 17, 2008)
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