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 Jan 24, 2024

2bepainted
 Dec 10, 2023
meh

the Beefcake
 Dec 7, 2023
Great pod, but I don't know how much longer I can listen to the commercials with Meathead Rob Reiner talking about JFK. the guy is a trump derangement syndrome hack and needs to go away

M
 Nov 11, 2023
Fav podcast by far

podcast rebuplic user
 Oct 25, 2023
getting too judgemental, not historical, hate their repeats

Description

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

Episode Date
The Pulitzer Prize: A major award!
Mar 28, 2024
Short Stuff: Ramree Island Crocodile Massacre
Mar 27, 2024
Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds
Mar 26, 2024
Selects: MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood
Mar 23, 2024
Peanuts (the comic) Part II
Mar 21, 2024
Short Stuff: Mariko Aoki Phenomenon
Mar 20, 2024
Peanuts (the comic) Part I
Mar 19, 2024
Selects: How Dyslexia Works
Mar 16, 2024
The Alien Abduction Phenomenon of the Mid-20th Century
Mar 14, 2024
Short Stuff: Skittles and TIO2
Mar 13, 2024
Leave Brutalism Alone!
Mar 12, 2024
Selects: The Science of Break-Ups
Mar 09, 2024
The Smiley, Stubborn Llama
Mar 07, 2024
Short Stuff: Roly Poly...Bugs?
Mar 06, 2024
Multitasking: Working slower with worse results
Mar 05, 2024
Selects: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Mar 02, 2024
Wireless Electricity: When Can We Unplug Our TVs?
Feb 29, 2024
Short Stuff: Smudging: Not just for hippies
Feb 28, 2024
Haile Selassie: Statesman, Colonizer, God?
Feb 27, 2024
Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works
Feb 24, 2024
The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout
Feb 22, 2024
Short Stuff: Benin Bronzes
Feb 21, 2024
Ray and Charles Eames: More than Chairs
Feb 20, 2024
Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't
Feb 17, 2024
Like, here's the episode on "like"
Feb 15, 2024
Short Stuff: The Original Snake Oil Salesman
Feb 14, 2024
What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws
Feb 13, 2024
Selects: The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least
Feb 10, 2024
What's the Pygmalion Effect?
Feb 08, 2024
Short Stuff: School Bus Yellow
Feb 07, 2024
Clue(do): Third Best Board Game Ever
Feb 06, 2024
Selects: How Disgust Works
Feb 03, 2024
The History of Las Vegas
Feb 01, 2024
Short Stuff: Wainscoting: When Half a Wall is Enough
Jan 31, 2024
The Harrowing Story of the North Hollywood Shootout
Jan 30, 2024
Selects: A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer
Jan 27, 2024
Esperanto: Tre Mojosa
Jan 25, 2024
Short Stuff: Hot Cold Plunge
Jan 24, 2024
The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy
Jan 23, 2024
Selects: Is yogurt a miracle food?
Jan 20, 2024
Jonestown
Jan 18, 2024
Short Stuff: Frozen Dead Guy
Jan 17, 2024
Dry Cleaning: Not Really Dry(!)
Jan 16, 2024
Selects: History's Greatest Traitors
Jan 13, 2024
How Cranes Work
Jan 11, 2024
Short Stuff: NYT Bestseller List
Jan 10, 2024
Kenton Grua: Grand Canyon Legend
Jan 09, 2024
Selects: Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jan 06, 2024
The 2000 Presidential Election: A Real Cluster
Jan 04, 2024
Short Stuff: Blueprints
Jan 03, 2024
SYSK Live in Nashville: The Biosphere II Experiment
Jan 02, 2024
Selects: Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans
Dec 30, 2023
How Primitive Will Our Descendants Find Us?
Dec 28, 2023
Short Stuff: Scheele's Green
Dec 27, 2023
How Snails Work
Dec 26, 2023
Selects: How Fireplaces Work
Dec 23, 2023
The 2023 SYSK Ho-Ho-Holiday Spectacular!
Dec 21, 2023
Short Stuff: Christmas Lights
Dec 20, 2023
Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion
Dec 19, 2023
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
Dec 16, 2023
Selects: How Dictators Work
Dec 15, 2023
What was the Skeleton Army?
Dec 14, 2023
Short Stuff: Pickles
Dec 13, 2023
The Matewan Massacre
Dec 12, 2023
Selects: What were the Freedom Schools?
Dec 09, 2023
The Murder of John Lennon
Dec 07, 2023
Short Stuff: Boba Tea
Dec 06, 2023
The Life and Works of J.D. Salinger
Dec 05, 2023
Selects: Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun
Dec 02, 2023
You Down With OED?
Nov 30, 2023
Short Stuff: The Zipper Merge
Nov 29, 2023
Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable
Nov 28, 2023
Selects: NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel
Nov 25, 2023
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
Nov 23, 2023
Short Stuff: Magnetic Pole Switcheroo
Nov 22, 2023
Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
Nov 21, 2023
Selects: E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?
Nov 18, 2023
Diners: The Most American Establishment?
Nov 16, 2023
Short Stuff: Liberty Bell
Nov 15, 2023
The Tragic Death of Natalie Wood
Nov 14, 2023
Selects: Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
Nov 11, 2023
How Scuba Works
Nov 09, 2023
Short Stuff: Petrified Wood
Nov 08, 2023
Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
Nov 07, 2023
Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
Nov 04, 2023
The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures
Nov 02, 2023
Short Stuff: White Dog Poop
Nov 01, 2023
The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!
Oct 31, 2023
Selects: How Mummies Work
Oct 28, 2023
Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love
Oct 26, 2023
Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts
Oct 25, 2023
The Compton Cafeteria Riot
Oct 24, 2023
Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?
Oct 21, 2023
Kindness: Do It
Oct 19, 2023
Short Stuff: Candy Corn
Oct 18, 2023
The Criminal Father of Criminology
Oct 17, 2023
Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!
Oct 14, 2023
How Intellectual Property Works
Oct 12, 2023
Short Stuff: Longyou Caves
Oct 11, 2023
Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!
Oct 10, 2023
Selects: How Motion Sickness Works
Oct 07, 2023
How Andy Warhol Worked
Oct 05, 2023
Short Stuff: Rhodium
Oct 04, 2023
Night of the Grizzlies
Oct 03, 2023
Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think
Sep 30, 2023
Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
Sep 28, 2023
Short Stuff: The Dakota
Sep 27, 2023
The Amazing Life of Christine Granville
Sep 26, 2023
Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
Sep 23, 2023
Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness
Sep 21, 2023
Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs
Sep 20, 2023
10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever
Sep 19, 2023
Selects: How Floods Work
Sep 16, 2023
The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster
Sep 14, 2023
Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky
Sep 13, 2023
Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico
Sep 12, 2023
Selects: How Space Stations Work
Sep 09, 2023
Native American Reservations
Sep 07, 2023
Short Stuff: History of OK
Sep 06, 2023
The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K
Sep 05, 2023
Selects: Body Odor: You Stink
Sep 02, 2023
Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music
Aug 31, 2023
Short Stuff: Evil Eye
Aug 30, 2023
Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan
Aug 29, 2023
Selects: How Toy Testing Works
Aug 26, 2023
Plant Migration
Aug 24, 2023
Short Stuff: Saturn's Rings
Aug 23, 2023
Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To
Aug 22, 2023
Selects: How Music Sampling Works
Aug 19, 2023
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition
Aug 17, 2023
Short Stuff: Edward Mordake
Aug 16, 2023
How We’re Learning to Talk to Animals
Aug 15, 2023
Selects: How Magnets Work
Aug 12, 2023
Xenobiotics
Aug 10, 2023
Short Stuff: History of English
Aug 09, 2023
Dear Diary...
Aug 08, 2023
Selects: Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever
Aug 05, 2023
The Last Meal Ritual
Aug 03, 2023
Short Stuff: NATO Alphabet
Aug 02, 2023
BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?
Aug 01, 2023
Selects: What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?
Jul 29, 2023
MAD Magazine: A Tribute
Jul 27, 2023
Short Stuff: Blue Highway Signs
Jul 26, 2023
Learning a Foreign Language
Jul 25, 2023
Selects: Nirvana: Not The Band
Jul 22, 2023
Magic Eye Illusions
Jul 20, 2023
Short Stuff: Pie-In-The-Face Gag
Jul 19, 2023
Insomnia: Why you can't sleep
Jul 18, 2023
Selects: How Police Lineups Work
Jul 15, 2023
How PCP Works
Jul 13, 2023
Short Stuff: Père-Lachaise Cemetery
Jul 12, 2023
Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice
Jul 11, 2023
Selects: How Bats Work
Jul 08, 2023
James Beard: Food Legend
Jul 06, 2023
Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign
Jul 05, 2023
How Trucking Works
Jul 04, 2023
Selects: What Makes Lead So Poisonous?
Jul 01, 2023
Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!
Jun 29, 2023
Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius
Jun 28, 2023
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians
Jun 27, 2023
Selects: How Ocean Currents Work
Jun 24, 2023
How Afrofuturism Works
Jun 22, 2023
Short Stuff: Chia Pet
Jun 21, 2023
Large Language Models and You
Jun 20, 2023
Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps
Jun 17, 2023
How Alumin(i)um Works
Jun 15, 2023
Short Stuff: Suicide Forest
Jun 14, 2023
The Stinky History of Human Hygiene
Jun 13, 2023
Selects: How Audience Testing Works
Jun 10, 2023
Is Reality Real?
Jun 08, 2023
Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage
Jun 07, 2023
Why Manners?
Jun 06, 2023
Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
Jun 03, 2023
What's the deal with intermittent fasting?
Jun 01, 2023
Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg
May 31, 2023
The Saga of Milli Vanilli
May 30, 2023
Selects: How Color Works
May 27, 2023
The Semi-Recent History of Exercise
May 25, 2023
Short Stuff: Pollen Count
May 24, 2023
What is the Bechdel Test?
May 23, 2023
Selects: How Dog Shows Work
May 20, 2023
How Juries Work
May 18, 2023
Short Stuff: Mood Rings
May 17, 2023
The Inflammation Theory of Disease
May 16, 2023
Selects: How Slinky Works
May 13, 2023
How TV Weathercasters Work
May 11, 2023
Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA
May 10, 2023
The Colosseum
May 09, 2023
Selects: Does the body replace itself?
May 06, 2023
Introducing Smell-O-Vision!
May 04, 2023
Short Stuff: Dunbar's Number
May 03, 2023
Nerf!
May 02, 2023
Selects: How Manhunts Work
Apr 29, 2023
Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway
Apr 27, 2023
Short Stuff: Botox Brain
Apr 26, 2023
Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?
Apr 25, 2023
Selects: Was There A Real Robin Hood?
Apr 22, 2023
METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes
Apr 20, 2023
Short Stuff: Routines
Apr 19, 2023
Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?
Apr 18, 2023
Selects: How Coffins Work
Apr 15, 2023
John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?
Apr 13, 2023
Short Stuff: Red Snow
Apr 12, 2023
How Skydiving Works
Apr 11, 2023
Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories
Apr 08, 2023
Playing Cards? You Got That Right!
Apr 06, 2023
Short Stuff: Beethoven’s DNA
Apr 05, 2023
What Caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
Apr 04, 2023
Selects: How Jet Lag Works
Apr 01, 2023
What's the deal with dowsing?
Mar 30, 2023
Short Stuff: Theme Park Cremations
Mar 29, 2023
The First Road Trip
Mar 28, 2023
Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?
Mar 25, 2023
An Interesting, Vastly Incomplete Look at Baseball Cards
Mar 23, 2023
Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation
Mar 22, 2023
The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins
Mar 21, 2023
Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?
Mar 18, 2023
Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds
Mar 16, 2023
Short Stuff: John Cage's 639 Year Concert
Mar 15, 2023
That's Amaro!
Mar 14, 2023
Selects: The Time Nazis Invaded Florida
Mar 11, 2023
Woodstock: The Festival for Stardust, Golden Hippies
Mar 09, 2023
Short Stuff: Paprika
Mar 08, 2023
Noncompete Agreements, Come On
Mar 07, 2023
Selects: Live From San Francisco: How Malls Work
Mar 04, 2023
Crosswords episode, perhaps?
Mar 02, 2023
Short Stuff: La Pascualita
Mar 01, 2023
The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
Feb 28, 2023
Selects: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
Feb 25, 2023
Naps: Chuck's Secret Talent
Feb 23, 2023
Short Stuff: Sleeping On It
Feb 22, 2023
The Mystery of the Lost Amber Room
Feb 21, 2023
Selects: The Max Headroom Affair
Feb 18, 2023
The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
Feb 16, 2023
Short Stuff: Beulah Mae Donald
Feb 15, 2023
The Glorious Flamingo
Feb 14, 2023
Selects: Cave Diving: Totally Nuts
Feb 11, 2023
How (O)possums Work
Feb 09, 2023
Short Stuff: No Shirt, No Shoes, WTF
Feb 08, 2023
Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar
Feb 07, 2023
Selects: How Easy Bake Ovens Work
Feb 04, 2023
The Largely Equine History of Veterinary Medicine
Feb 02, 2023
Short Stuff: Bird Migration
Feb 01, 2023
Must We Suffer Emotional Pain?
Jan 31, 2023
Selects: Elephants: The Best Animals?
Jan 28, 2023
How Attachment Theory Works
Jan 26, 2023
Short Stuff: Adam's Apples and Throat Lumps
Jan 25, 2023
Let's Talk About John DeLorean
Jan 24, 2023
Selects: How Game Shows Work
Jan 21, 2023
Toast: As in browned bread
Jan 19, 2023
Short Stuff: Women Pirates
Jan 18, 2023
The Louisiana Purchase: Not a Purchase
Jan 17, 2023
Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works
Jan 14, 2023
How Tarot Works?
Jan 12, 2023
Short Stuff: Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Jan 11, 2023
How Enron Fooled the World
Jan 10, 2023
Selects: How Perfume Works
Jan 07, 2023
When Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top
Jan 05, 2023
Short Stuff: Dangers of Nose Picking
Jan 04, 2023
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (not the song)
Jan 03, 2023
Selects: Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?
Dec 31, 2022
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Podcast Episode
Dec 29, 2022
Short Stuff: Mesas: Flat
Dec 28, 2022
Juicy: The Fried Chicken Story
Dec 27, 2022
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
Dec 24, 2022
2022 Holiday Spectacular!
Dec 22, 2022
Short Stuff: Snow Globes
Dec 21, 2022
Who was Dorothy Parker, really?
Dec 20, 2022
Selects: Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.
Dec 17, 2022
Interesting Origins of Everyday Phrases
Dec 15, 2022
Short Stuff: The Atlanta Washer Woman Strike
Dec 14, 2022
How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever
Dec 13, 2022
Selects: How Polar Bears Work
Dec 10, 2022
True Crime: The Phantom of Heilbronn
Dec 08, 2022
Short Stuff: Birthday Paradox
Dec 07, 2022
How Face Blindness Works
Dec 06, 2022
Selects: The Rubik's Cube Episode
Dec 03, 2022
How Down Syndrome Works
Dec 01, 2022
Short Stuff: Goosebumps
Nov 30, 2022
Peripersonal Space: Humans’ Got Talent
Nov 29, 2022
Selects: How Umami Works!
Nov 26, 2022
Roller Skating: Fun and Cool
Nov 24, 2022
Short Stuff: Liquid Paper
Nov 23, 2022
Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance
Nov 22, 2022
Selects: How Dark Money Works
Nov 19, 2022
Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?
Nov 17, 2022
Short Stuff: Incomplete Yawns
Nov 16, 2022
The Sordid History of Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties
Nov 15, 2022
Selects: Finders Keepers: Real Law
Nov 12, 2022
How Owls Work
Nov 10, 2022
Short Stuff: Dodleston Messages
Nov 09, 2022
What's so important about legal precedent?
Nov 08, 2022
Selects: What is an invasive species?
Nov 05, 2022
Vaudeville: Step Right Up!
Nov 03, 2022
Short Stuff: Birth Certificate Access
Nov 02, 2022
The Harvey's Casino Bombing of 1980
Nov 01, 2022
Selects: How Vampires Work
Oct 29, 2022
The 13th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!
Oct 27, 2022
Short Stuff: Robert the Doll
Oct 26, 2022
The Tale of the Bloody Benders
Oct 25, 2022
Selects: 10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck
Oct 22, 2022
Fundamentalism: Menace II Society
Oct 20, 2022
Short Stuff: Water Towers
Oct 19, 2022
The History of Fake Towns.
Oct 18, 2022
Selects: How Pompeii Worked
Oct 15, 2022
10 Cases of Mistaken Identity
Oct 13, 2022
Short Stuff: Blaschko's Lines
Oct 12, 2022
Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!
Oct 11, 2022
Selects: Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre
Oct 08, 2022
How License Plates Work
Oct 06, 2022
Short Stuff: Scratching
Oct 05, 2022
Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work
Oct 04, 2022
Selects: How Clowns Work
Oct 01, 2022
How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked
Sep 29, 2022
Short Stuff: Curse Tablets
Sep 28, 2022
Vasectomies: Stop Being A Wimp
Sep 27, 2022
Selects: How LSD Works
Sep 24, 2022
Sitcoms Part II
Sep 22, 2022
Short Stuff: Laugh Tracks
Sep 21, 2022
Sitcoms Part I
Sep 20, 2022
Selects: Frida Kahlo: Painter, Icon, Genius
Sep 17, 2022
Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters
Sep 15, 2022
Short Stuff: Hangry?
Sep 14, 2022
The Georgia Guidestones: The Elite Have a Laugh
Sep 13, 2022
Selects: What Happened to the Neanderthals?
Sep 10, 2022
Everything We Know About Squids
Sep 08, 2022
Short Stuff: RIP Man of the Hole
Sep 07, 2022
Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?
Sep 06, 2022
Selects: How the Pony Express Worked
Sep 03, 2022
Rolling Stone Magazine
Sep 01, 2022
Short Stuff: Mason-Dixon Line
Aug 31, 2022
We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday
Aug 30, 2022
Selects: Knife Throwing: Super Cool
Aug 27, 2022
Kissing Cousins: A History of Marrying Family
Aug 25, 2022
Short Stuff: Marrying Up
Aug 24, 2022
Introvert or Extravert: Which are you? (Probably both)
Aug 23, 2022
Selects: How Gossip Works
Aug 20, 2022
How Enemas Work
Aug 18, 2022
Short Stuff: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge
Aug 17, 2022
Mariachi: The Rodney Dangerfield of Music
Aug 16, 2022
Selects: Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus
Aug 13, 2022
The Origins of Breakfast Foods
Aug 11, 2022
Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax
Aug 10, 2022
What's the deal with energy drinks?
Aug 09, 2022
Selects: How Droughts Work
Aug 06, 2022
Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
Aug 04, 2022
Short Stuff: Divorcing Your Parents
Aug 03, 2022
Silly String: Disaster in a Can
Aug 02, 2022
Selects: Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking
Jul 30, 2022
How Menstruation Works
Jul 28, 2022
Short Stuff: The Mars Rock with Signs of Life?
Jul 27, 2022
Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?
Jul 26, 2022
Selects: What's the misery index?
Jul 23, 2022
Googie: The Architecture of the Space Age
Jul 21, 2022
Short Stuff: Death from Astral Projection
Jul 20, 2022
Supernovae: Best Around, Case Closed
Jul 19, 2022
Selects: What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?
Jul 16, 2022
Why Bowling is Awesome
Jul 14, 2022
Short Stuff: Catatumbo Lightning
Jul 13, 2022
Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?
Jul 12, 2022
Selects: How Ayahuasca Works
Jul 09, 2022
The Maya Civilization
Jul 07, 2022
Short Stuff: Alligator Gar
Jul 06, 2022
How Ultraprocessed Foods Work
Jul 05, 2022
Selects: How Freak Shows Worked
Jul 02, 2022
A Dispassionate Review of Roe v Wade
Jun 30, 2022
Short Stuff: What did we use before infant formula?
Jun 29, 2022
How Alien Contact Might Work
Jun 28, 2022
Selects: Chiggers: The Phantom Menace
Jun 25, 2022
What's up with bariatric surgery?
Jun 23, 2022
Short Stuff: Do Fish Get Thirsty?
Jun 22, 2022
The Appalachian Trail: A Heckuva Hike
Jun 21, 2022
Selects: How Steadicams Work
Jun 18, 2022
What were the IRA hunger strikes?
Jun 16, 2022
Short Stuff: HR8 Gun Legislation
Jun 15, 2022
How Wind Works
Jun 14, 2022
Selects: How Drowning Works
Jun 11, 2022
The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?
Jun 09, 2022
Short Stuff: Cleveland’s Infamous 10-Cent Beer Night
Jun 08, 2022
How Freedom of the Press Works
Jun 07, 2022
Selects: How Satanism Works
Jun 04, 2022
Kidney Donation: You Could Be A Saint!
Jun 02, 2022
Short Stuff: Happy Foods!
Jun 01, 2022
The Scintillating World of Interest Rates
May 31, 2022
Selects: Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?
May 28, 2022
The Myth of Absinthe
May 26, 2022
Short Stuff: Do people move in predictable directions?
May 25, 2022
Cats: Invasive Species?
May 24, 2022
Selects: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five
May 21, 2022
What's in a surname?
May 19, 2022
Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor
May 18, 2022
Squirrels, Ahoy!
May 17, 2022
Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked
May 14, 2022
Rhinoplasty, aka Nose Jobs
May 12, 2022
Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood
May 11, 2022
What are land acknowledgments?
May 10, 2022
Selects: How Champagne Works
May 07, 2022
Marcus Garvey: Black Moses
May 05, 2022
Short Stuff: Shar Pei
May 04, 2022
The Mystery of Coal
May 03, 2022
Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
Apr 30, 2022
Understudies: Hardest Workers on Broadway?
Apr 28, 2022
Short Stuff: Smelly Homes
Apr 27, 2022
“Postmodernism:”
Apr 26, 2022
Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach
Apr 23, 2022
Just Say No to... Bottled Water
Apr 21, 2022
Short Stuff: Salute the Grilled Cheese
Apr 20, 2022
The Christine Collins Story
Apr 19, 2022
Selects: What happens to abandoned mines?
Apr 16, 2022
How Mensa Works
Apr 14, 2022
Short Stuff: Animal Politicians
Apr 13, 2022
The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Apr 12, 2022
Selects: A Partial History of Action Figures
Apr 09, 2022
The Delightful History of Pubs
Apr 07, 2022
Short Stuff: The Church Choir That Didn't Explode
Apr 06, 2022
Watermelons: Nature's Gift to the World
Apr 05, 2022
Selects: How No-fly Zones Work
Apr 02, 2022
What’s NATO All About?
Mar 31, 2022
Short Stuff: Greenbrier Bunker
Mar 30, 2022
How Light Pollution Works
Mar 29, 2022
Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part II
Mar 26, 2022
Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part I
Mar 26, 2022
The Truth Behind Cage-Free and Free-Range
Mar 25, 2022
Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing
Mar 23, 2022
Why was Titicut Follies banned?
Mar 22, 2022
Selects: How Hate Works
Mar 19, 2022
How Rewilding Works
Mar 17, 2022
Short Stuff: Nose Breathing
Mar 16, 2022
Operation Northwoods: The False Flag Op That Never Was
Mar 15, 2022
Selects: A Brief Overview of Punk Rock
Mar 12, 2022
Aleister Crowley: Blowhard Narcissist?
Mar 10, 2022
Short Stuff: Great Smog of London
Mar 09, 2022
Behold, National Parks!
Mar 08, 2022
Selects: How Tabloids Work
Mar 05, 2022
How Effective Altruism Works
Mar 03, 2022
Short Stuff: Friends of Dorothy
Mar 02, 2022
What's the deal with phantom pain?
Mar 01, 2022
Selects: Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy?
Feb 26, 2022
How Mindfulness Works
Feb 24, 2022
Short Stuff: Commensalism
Feb 23, 2022
The Improbable Story of Martin Guerre
Feb 22, 2022
Selects: How Moss Works
Feb 19, 2022
The Ins and Outs of Albinism
Feb 17, 2022
Short Stuff: Cassowary
Feb 16, 2022
Leeches: Oh Hell No!
Feb 15, 2022
Selects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
Feb 12, 2022
Littering: Not Cool
Feb 10, 2022
Short Stuff: Schmidt Stinging Pain Index
Feb 09, 2022
The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
Feb 08, 2022
Selects: What's the Deal With Staring?
Feb 05, 2022
How the Nobel Peace Prize Works
Feb 03, 2022
Short Stuff: Firewalking
Feb 02, 2022
How Tacos Work
Feb 01, 2022
Selects: How Sloths Work
Jan 29, 2022
How Forgiveness Works
Jan 27, 2022
Short Stuff: Arctic Fox
Jan 26, 2022
Tug of War
Jan 25, 2022
Selects: How SETI Works
Jan 22, 2022
How Classified Information Works
Jan 20, 2022
Short Stuff: Jaywalking
Jan 19, 2022
Rock Paper Scissors: Decider of Things
Jan 18, 2022
Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
Jan 15, 2022
What were the black codes?
Jan 13, 2022
Short Stuff: Fortune Cookies
Jan 12, 2022
The Circleville Poison Pen Letters Mystery
Jan 11, 2022
Selects: Carl Sagan: American Hero
Jan 08, 2022
Ants! Part 2!
Jan 06, 2022
Short Stuff: The Casket Racket
Jan 05, 2022
Ants! Part 1!
Jan 04, 2022
Selects: Horoscopes: Written in the Stars?
Jan 01, 2022
Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!
Dec 30, 2021
Short Stuff: Traffic Signals
Dec 29, 2021
Unsung Heroes of the Court
Dec 28, 2021
Selects: How Tipping Works
Dec 25, 2021
SYSK’s 2021 Glad Tidings Bonanza Holiday Special
Dec 23, 2021
Short Stuff: Christmas Cards
Dec 22, 2021
How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work
Dec 21, 2021
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
Dec 18, 2021
Kidney Stones: No! Please, NO!
Dec 16, 2021
Short Stuff: Charity Tips
Dec 15, 2021
Palm Trees: Technically, Giant Plants
Dec 14, 2021
Selects: How the Terracotta Army Works
Dec 11, 2021
What's the deal with blue people?
Dec 09, 2021
Short Stuff: Funny Bone
Dec 08, 2021
Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?
Dec 07, 2021
Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria?
Dec 04, 2021
Your Gut Is Also A Brain
Dec 02, 2021
Short Stuff: SINA
Dec 01, 2021
The Twisted History of Dentistry
Nov 30, 2021
Selects: Why Do Lefties Exist?
Nov 27, 2021
Python-a-palooza!
Nov 25, 2021
Short Stuff: Mayday!
Nov 24, 2021
The Apache Wars
Nov 23, 2021
Selects: How Hoarding Works
Nov 20, 2021
Why Is DC Not A State?
Nov 18, 2021
Short Stuff: The Paper Dress Fad
Nov 17, 2021
Hot Dog!(s)
Nov 16, 2021
Selects: How Feng Shui Works
Nov 13, 2021
The Flannan Isles Mystery
Nov 11, 2021
Short Stuff: Your Dirty Bed
Nov 10, 2021
What are blue laws?
Nov 09, 2021
Selects: The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads
Nov 06, 2021
The Rock Ampersand Roll Hall of Fame
Nov 04, 2021
Short Stuff: Friendly Floatees
Nov 03, 2021
How mRNA Vaccines Work
Nov 02, 2021
Selects: What is folklore?
Oct 30, 2021
2021 Halloween Spooktacular!
Oct 28, 2021
Short Stuff: Most Haunted House in England
Oct 27, 2021
Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know
Oct 26, 2021
Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
Oct 23, 2021
Harry Houdini: More than Magic
Oct 21, 2021
Short Stuff: Bloody Mary
Oct 20, 2021
Heat Waves!
Oct 19, 2021
Selects: Why is Venice so wet?
Oct 16, 2021
Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!
Oct 14, 2021
Short Stuff: Jack O'Lanterns and Sleepy Hollow
Oct 13, 2021
Venus Flytraps: Plant or Monster?
Oct 12, 2021
Selects: How X-Rays Work
Oct 09, 2021
The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius
Oct 07, 2021
Short Stuff: Dingoes!
Oct 06, 2021
Research Bias: Sort It Out, Science
Oct 05, 2021
Selects: How Empathy Works
Oct 02, 2021
All About Alligators
Sep 30, 2021
Short Stuff: Exploring Irish Monk
Sep 29, 2021
How Numerology Works
Sep 28, 2021
Selects: Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy
Sep 25, 2021
The Statue of Liberty
Sep 23, 2021
Short Stuff: Lake Erie's Rights
Sep 22, 2021
How Mail Order Marriages Work
Sep 21, 2021
Selects: How Free Speech Works
Sep 18, 2021
What's the deal with crash testing?
Sep 16, 2021
Short Stuff: The Javelina
Sep 15, 2021
How Embalming Works
Sep 14, 2021
Selects: Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm
Sep 11, 2021
How the Magna Carta Worked
Sep 09, 2021
Short Stuff: Chameleons
Sep 08, 2021
The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil
Sep 07, 2021
Selects: How Temper Tantrums Work
Sep 04, 2021
Criminal Records: No Thanks!
Sep 02, 2021
Short Stuff: Handwashing vs Dishwashers
Sep 01, 2021
How Trepanation Worked
Aug 31, 2021
Selects: Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process
Aug 28, 2021
Les Paul & Leo Fender Part II
Aug 26, 2021
Short Stuff: Jackalope
Aug 25, 2021
Les Paul & Leo Fender Part I
Aug 24, 2021
Selects: How Pet Psychics Work
Aug 21, 2021
Y2K: Much Ado About Something
Aug 19, 2021
Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species
Aug 18, 2021
How MRI Works
Aug 17, 2021
Selects: How Animal Domestication Works
Aug 14, 2021
How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work
Aug 12, 2021
Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty
Aug 11, 2021
Child Labor: Not Funny
Aug 10, 2021
Selects: How Landslides Work
Aug 07, 2021
How Transcendentalism Works
Aug 05, 2021
Short Stuff: Calamity Jane
Aug 04, 2021
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Experiment
Aug 03, 2021
Selects: How Police Interrogation Works
Jul 31, 2021
How Sarcasm Works
Jul 29, 2021
Short Stuff: Space Hurricanes
Jul 28, 2021
Conservatorships: #freebritney
Jul 27, 2021
Selects: How Mars Works
Jul 24, 2021
The Origins of Some Everyday Superstitions
Jul 22, 2021
Short Stuff: RICO Act
Jul 21, 2021
Stranger Danger!
Jul 20, 2021
Selects: How Ketchup Works
Jul 17, 2021
How Reverse Osmosis Will Save the World
Jul 15, 2021
Short Stuff: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered
Jul 14, 2021
The Radium Girls
Jul 13, 2021
Selects: How Historic Districts Work
Jul 10, 2021
SYSK Live: Koko, the Gorilla Who Talked
Jul 08, 2021
Short Stuff: Sulfanilamide Disaster
Jul 07, 2021
The Sad Story of William James Sidis
Jul 06, 2021
Selects: Are good samaritan laws effective?
Jul 03, 2021
The Grand Ole Opry Cast
Jul 01, 2021
Short Stuff: Beast of Gevaudan
Jun 30, 2021
Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing
Jun 29, 2021
Selects: How Royalty Works
Jun 26, 2021
How Faraday Cages Work
Jun 24, 2021
Short Stuff: Chastity Belts
Jun 23, 2021
The Mystery of Damascus Steel
Jun 22, 2021
Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
Jun 19, 2021
How Venus Works
Jun 17, 2021
Short Stuff: Mojave Megaphone
Jun 16, 2021
Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World
Jun 15, 2021
Selects: How Sea Monsters Work
Jun 12, 2021
POGs: The 90s in a Bottle Cap
Jun 10, 2021
Short Stuff: Chinatowns
Jun 09, 2021
Slime Mold: 0% Mold, 100% Amazing
Jun 08, 2021
Selects: Who was America's first murderer?
Jun 05, 2021
John Muir: Outdoor Enthusiast
Jun 03, 2021
Short Stuff: Runner's High
Jun 02, 2021
What Causes Inflation?
Jun 01, 2021
Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works
May 29, 2021
Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry
May 27, 2021
Short Stuff: Parachute Emergency!
May 26, 2021
How Cleft Lips and Palates Work
May 25, 2021
Selects: How Hot Wheels Work
May 22, 2021
Girl Scouts: More than cookie sellers
May 20, 2021
Short Stuff: Speed Reading
May 19, 2021
The Cleveland Torso Murders
May 18, 2021
Selects: How Limousines Work
May 15, 2021
How Monster Trucks Work
May 13, 2021
Short Stuff: Garter Snakes
May 12, 2021
The Ivy League
May 11, 2021
Selects: How Snake Handlers Work
May 08, 2021
How Uranium Mining Works
May 06, 2021
Short Stuff: Squarer Than Wombat Poop
May 05, 2021
The Appendix: No Respect
May 04, 2021
Selects: How Cave Dwellers Work
May 01, 2021
How Corporate Taxes Work
Apr 29, 2021
Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless
Apr 28, 2021
Truffles: Underground Treasures
Apr 27, 2021
Selects: How Profiling Works
Apr 24, 2021
How Stamp Collecting Works
Apr 22, 2021
Short Stuff: Madam C.J. Walker
Apr 21, 2021
Mechanical Bulls!
Apr 20, 2021
Selects: How Tupperware Works
Apr 17, 2021
Hair Loss: The Pits
Apr 15, 2021
Short Stuff: Palindromes
Apr 14, 2021
How the Electrical Grid Works
Apr 13, 2021
Selects: The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children
Apr 10, 2021
Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness
Apr 08, 2021
Short Stuff: Venus de Milo
Apr 07, 2021
Havana Syndrome: ¿Qué Diablos?
Apr 06, 2021
Selects: How Circus Families Work
Apr 03, 2021
How the Titanic Worked: Part Two
Apr 01, 2021
Short Stuff: What's the oldest book?
Mar 31, 2021
How the Titanic Worked: Part One
Mar 30, 2021
Selects: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?
Mar 27, 2021
Space Junk, Ahoy!
Mar 25, 2021
Short Stuff: Cellphones on Airplanes
Mar 24, 2021
What is biophilic design?
Mar 23, 2021
Selects: How Lighthouses Work
Mar 20, 2021
The Texas City Disaster of 1947
Mar 18, 2021
Short Stuff: Brazilian Jars
Mar 17, 2021
The Parrot Episode
Mar 16, 2021
Selects: Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Convertors Work
Mar 13, 2021
Karaoke: Tuesday Night Fever
Mar 11, 2021
Short Stuff: Tooth Fairy: Not Real
Mar 10, 2021
Dragons: As Real as Mermaids
Mar 09, 2021
Selects: Mermaids: Not a real thing
Mar 06, 2021
Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified?
Mar 04, 2021
Short Stuff: Dog Suicide Bridge
Mar 03, 2021
Is the Free Radical Theory of Aging Wrong?
Mar 02, 2021
Selects: Bridges: Nature Abhors Them
Feb 27, 2021
How Bruce Lee Worked
Feb 25, 2021
Short Stuff: The Body in the Cylinder
Feb 24, 2021
What Will Farming 4.0 Look Like?
Feb 23, 2021
Selects: How Chili Peppers Work
Feb 20, 2021
How Blue Holes Work
Feb 18, 2021
Short Stuff: Freedom House Ambulance Services
Feb 17, 2021
The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Feb 16, 2021
Selects: Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia?
Feb 13, 2021
How Housing Discrimination Works
Feb 11, 2021
Short Stuff: How California Got Its Name
Feb 10, 2021
Sacagawea: Impressive Teen
Feb 09, 2021
Selects: Earwax: Live With It
Feb 06, 2021
The NAACP
Feb 04, 2021
Short Stuff: Balloonfest
Feb 03, 2021
How Groundhog Day Works
Feb 02, 2021
Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out
Jan 30, 2021
How Hydropower Works
Jan 28, 2021
Short Stuff: Vantablack
Jan 27, 2021
The KKK: Loathsome Cosplay Rednecks
Jan 26, 2021
Selects: How Blimps Work
Jan 23, 2021
Finding the Fenn Treasure
Jan 21, 2021
Short Stuff: Necco
Jan 20, 2021
What does a tire company know about food?
Jan 19, 2021
Selects: What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys?
Jan 16, 2021
The Science of Cute
Jan 14, 2021
Short Stuff: Silverfish
Jan 13, 2021
Hell! Hell! Hell!
Jan 12, 2021
Selects: How Skateboarding Works
Jan 09, 2021
The Wright Brothers
Jan 07, 2021
Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre?
Jan 06, 2021
Space Weather - What's That?!
Jan 05, 2021
Selects: How Auto-Tune Works
Jan 02, 2021
La Dame de Fer (Eiffel Tower)
Dec 31, 2020
Short Stuff: Ig-pay Atin-lay (Sorry)
Dec 30, 2020
Theremins: World's First Electronic Music
Dec 29, 2020
SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth
Dec 26, 2020
The SYSK 2020 Holly Jolly Extravaganza!
Dec 24, 2020
Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas
Dec 23, 2020
How Buffets Work
Dec 22, 2020
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Dec 19, 2020
Aspirin: The Wonder Drug
Dec 17, 2020
Short Stuff: Modern Funerals
Dec 16, 2020
Joseph Merrick, aka "The Elephant Man"
Dec 15, 2020
SYSK Selects: What is a hangover, really?
Dec 12, 2020
The Taliesin Massacre
Dec 10, 2020
Short Stuff: Cramming
Dec 09, 2020
How Class Action Lawsuits Work
Dec 08, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Dec 05, 2020
John Lennon and the FBI
Dec 03, 2020
Short Stuff: Pimento Cheese!
Dec 02, 2020
Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century
Dec 01, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Tea Works
Nov 28, 2020
Gobble Gobble: Turkeys!
Nov 26, 2020
Short Stuff: How Eyes In a Painting Follow You
Nov 25, 2020
Patty Hearst: Brainwashed or Bandit?
Nov 24, 2020
SYSK Selects: Whatever happened to acid rain?
Nov 21, 2020
The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
Nov 19, 2020
Short Stuff: Squirrel Nuts
Nov 18, 2020
How Pain Works
Nov 17, 2020
SYSK Selects: Who Gets to Name Continents?
Nov 14, 2020
How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works
Nov 12, 2020
Short Stuff: Plastic Pink Flamingos
Nov 11, 2020
The Bay of Pigs Disaster
Nov 10, 2020
SYSK Selects: Geysers: Nature's Innuendo
Nov 08, 2020
All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh
Nov 05, 2020
Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why?
Nov 04, 2020
The Amazing Roberto Clemente
Nov 03, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Ghosts Work
Oct 31, 2020
SYSK’s Scare Your Pants Off (and Back On) Halloween Spooktacular
Oct 29, 2020
Short Stuff: Poe Toaster
Oct 28, 2020
A History of Nursing Homes
Oct 27, 2020
Chuck Bryant On The Why I’m Voting Podcast
Oct 25, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works
Oct 24, 2020
Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun
Oct 22, 2020
Short Stuff: Haunted Real Estate
Oct 21, 2020
10 Voter Suppression Methods
Oct 20, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Sushi Works
Oct 17, 2020
Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies
Oct 15, 2020
Short Stuff: What is Latinx anyway?
Oct 14, 2020
Wind Tunnels: More Important Than You Realize
Oct 13, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Bigfoot Works
Oct 10, 2020
Printing press? Big deal!
Oct 08, 2020
Short Stuff: Lying in State
Oct 07, 2020
What's the deal with swing states?
Oct 06, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the Electoral College Works
Oct 03, 2020
Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)
Oct 01, 2020
Short Stuff: That's A Head Scratcher
Sep 30, 2020
Conjugal Visits: Not exactly what you think
Sep 29, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Rabies Works
Sep 26, 2020
At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode
Sep 24, 2020
Short Stuff: Petticoat Rulers
Sep 23, 2020
How Sweepstakes Work
Sep 22, 2020
SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works
Sep 19, 2020
How Election Polling Works and Doesn't Work
Sep 17, 2020
Short Stuff: Black Cowboys
Sep 16, 2020
Origami: Folding Goodness
Sep 15, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work
Sep 12, 2020
Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!
Sep 10, 2020
Short Stuff: Streisand Effect
Sep 09, 2020
Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown
Sep 08, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Police Chases Work
Sep 05, 2020
The Disturbing Disappearance of Tara Calico
Sep 03, 2020
Short Stuff: More Phrase Origins
Sep 02, 2020
How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked
Sep 01, 2020
SYSK Selects: Polyamory: When two just won't do
Aug 29, 2020
Blacksmiths? You got that right!
Aug 27, 2020
Short Stuff: Carrots and Your Eyes
Aug 26, 2020
How Sneezing Works
Aug 25, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Panic Attacks Work
Aug 22, 2020
1-800-PODCAST
Aug 20, 2020
Short Stuff: The Great American Coin Shortage of 2020
Aug 19, 2020
How Anti-Dieting Works
Aug 18, 2020
SYSK Selects: How The Human Microbiome Project Works
Aug 15, 2020
Olympic Torches: Remember Those?
Aug 13, 2020
Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!
Aug 12, 2020
Pirate Radio: Mavericks on the High Seas
Aug 11, 2020
SYSK Selects: How The Moonwalk Works
Aug 08, 2020
How Miniature Golf Works
Aug 06, 2020
Short Stuff: Jigsaw Puzzles
Aug 05, 2020
Wasps: Not as cute as bees
Aug 04, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works
Aug 01, 2020
How Soap Works
Jul 30, 2020
Short Stuff: Habsburg Jaw
Jul 29, 2020
How Hurricanes Work
Jul 28, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Lobbying Works
Jul 25, 2020
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mobile Phones
Jul 23, 2020
Short Stuff: The Death of Billy the Kid
Jul 22, 2020
How We Almost Got Rid of Polio
Jul 21, 2020
SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works
Jul 18, 2020
Robber Barons!
Jul 16, 2020
Short Stuff: Centralia Coal Fire
Jul 15, 2020
Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad
Jul 14, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Landfills Work
Jul 11, 2020
Essential Oils: Nature's Cure?
Jul 09, 2020
Short Stuff: The @ Symbol
Jul 08, 2020
What was the KGB?
Jul 07, 2020
SYSK Selects: All We Know About Guessing
Jul 04, 2020
Oh Yes, How Soil Works
Jul 02, 2020
Short Stuff: The Science of Funny Words
Jul 01, 2020
Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits
Jun 30, 2020
SYSK Selects: Juggling: What the Heck
Jun 27, 2020
Matcha: That Ain't Just Tea
Jun 25, 2020
Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble!
Jun 24, 2020
How Ultrasound Works
Jun 23, 2020
SYSK Selects: Research tips from SYSK
Jun 20, 2020
The Manhattan Grid
Jun 18, 2020
Short Stuff: Haint Blue
Jun 17, 2020
The War on Fat: The Seven Countries Study
Jun 16, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Flamethrowers Work
Jun 13, 2020
Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight?
Jun 11, 2020
Short Stuff: Foie Gras
Jun 10, 2020
How Project Star Gate Worked
Jun 09, 2020
SYSK Selects: How The Black Panther Party Worked
Jun 06, 2020
The Massacre at Tiananmen Square
Jun 04, 2020
Short Stuff: Disappearing Dirty Dancing Lake
Jun 03, 2020
Heroin: The Drug
Jun 02, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Jackhammers Work
May 30, 2020
How Narcolepsy Works
May 28, 2020
Short Stuff: Lawn Darts
May 27, 2020
Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom
May 26, 2020
SYSK Selects: How The Enlightenment Works
May 23, 2020
Josh Clark's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020
May 22, 2020
How Bras Work
May 21, 2020
Short Stuff: Mary Had A Little Lamb
May 20, 2020
How Spiritualism Works
May 19, 2020
Chuck Bryant's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020
May 18, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Fire Works
May 16, 2020
How Peanut Butter Works
May 14, 2020
Short Stuff: Charley Horse
May 13, 2020
How Herd Immunity Works
May 12, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Caving Works
May 09, 2020
Zippers: Humans’ Greatest Invention? No, But Still Good
May 07, 2020
Short Stuff: Gibtown: Sideshow Central
May 06, 2020
I'm Spartacus!
May 05, 2020
SYSK Selects: How do dogs perceive time?
May 02, 2020
Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery
Apr 30, 2020
Short Stuff: Mullets: 'Nuff Said
Apr 29, 2020
How Existential Risks Work
Apr 28, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the U.S. Postal Service Works
Apr 25, 2020
How the Voyager Golden Records Work
Apr 23, 2020
Short Stuff: The NY Times Crossword
Apr 22, 2020
The Soul Train Episode
Apr 21, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Labor Unions Work
Apr 18, 2020
How Wastewater Treatment Works
Apr 16, 2020
Short Stuff: Turning Down the Radio When You're Lost
Apr 15, 2020
Bidets: Now More Than Ever
Apr 14, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works
Apr 11, 2020
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician
Apr 09, 2020
Short Stuff: AAirpass
Apr 08, 2020
The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold
Apr 07, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the Deep Web Works
Apr 04, 2020
Student Loans: UGH!
Apr 02, 2020
Short Stuff: 666
Apr 01, 2020
How Dog Training Works
Mar 31, 2020
SYSK Selects: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
Mar 28, 2020
How COVID-19 Works
Mar 26, 2020
Short Stuff: Dagen H
Mar 25, 2020
Could A Robot Tax Win the War on Poverty?
Mar 24, 2020
SYSK Selects: Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck
Mar 21, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Jim Henson Worked
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: SYSK Live: How Bars Work
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Grass Works? Yes, How Grass Works
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Terraforming Will Work
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rogue Waves Work
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: Was there a real King Arthur?
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: The Amazing History of Soda
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Pinball Works
Mar 20, 2020
SYSK Distraction Playlist: Sugar: It Powers the Earth
Mar 20, 2020
What was the Falkland Islands War all about anyway?
Mar 19, 2020
Short Stuff: The Pledge of Allegiance
Mar 18, 2020
Chopsticks > Forks
Mar 17, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works
Mar 14, 2020
How Ice Climbing Works
Mar 12, 2020
Short Stuff: Teresita Basa
Mar 11, 2020
How Coyotes Work
Mar 10, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Gold Works
Mar 07, 2020
Mardi Gras! One month late
Mar 05, 2020
Short Stuff: Exclamation Points!
Mar 04, 2020
How Morphic Fields Work?
Mar 03, 2020
SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?
Feb 29, 2020
Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
Feb 27, 2020
Short Stuff: Hawaiian Night Marchers
Feb 26, 2020
What's the deal with indigo?
Feb 25, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Cult Deprogramming Works
Feb 22, 2020
Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
Feb 20, 2020
Short Stuff: Mexican Jumping Beans
Feb 19, 2020
The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances
Feb 18, 2020
SYSK Selects: A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes
Feb 15, 2020
911 Is Not a Joke
Feb 13, 2020
Short Stuff: Body Under The Bed
Feb 12, 2020
Optogenetics: Controlling Your Genes with Light
Feb 11, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Bonsai Works
Feb 08, 2020
Why are Pentecostals growing so rapidly?
Feb 06, 2020
Short Stuff: The Iowa Caucus
Feb 05, 2020
How AI Facial Recognition Works
Feb 04, 2020
SYSK Selects: How Maglev Trains Work
Feb 01, 2020
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
Jan 30, 2020
Short Stuff: The O.K. Corral
Jan 29, 2020
Amazing Animal Stories!
Jan 28, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the Scientific Method Works
Jan 25, 2020
Barefoot Running: The Best Podcast Episode in History
Jan 23, 2020
Short Stuff: Byford Dolphin Incident
Jan 22, 2020
Why Postal Employees Go Postal
Jan 21, 2020
SYSK Selects: How the Placebo Effect Works
Jan 18, 2020
The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
Jan 16, 2020
Short Stuff: The Mona Lisa
Jan 15, 2020
Transdermal Implants: Body Art or Nightmare Fuel?
Jan 14, 2020
SYSK Selects: Jellyfish - Even Cooler Than Octopi?
Jan 11, 2020
The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part II
Jan 09, 2020
Short Stuff: Corduroy
Jan 08, 2020
The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part I
Jan 07, 2020
SYSK Selects: Will Computers Replace Doctors?
Jan 04, 2020
How Safecracking Works
Jan 02, 2020
Short Stuff: Why Does Time Speed Up As You Age?
Jan 01, 2020
Are broken arrows a problem?
Dec 31, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works
Dec 28, 2019
SYSK Live: Andre the Giant
Dec 26, 2019
Short Stuff: The Santa Claus Association
Dec 25, 2019
The SYSK Holiday Spectacular
Dec 24, 2019
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Dec 21, 2019
Cave Diving: Totally Nuts
Dec 19, 2019
Short Stuff: Obituaries
Dec 18, 2019
MC Escher and His Trippy Art
Dec 17, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Currency Works
Dec 14, 2019
How Anorexia and Bulimia Work
Dec 12, 2019
Short Stuff: Whisky or Bourbon?
Dec 11, 2019
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gin
Dec 10, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Amnesia Works
Dec 07, 2019
What's a gap year anyway?
Dec 05, 2019
Short Stuff: Macadamia Nuts
Dec 04, 2019
Did Climate Cause the Collapse of the Maya?
Dec 03, 2019
SYSK Selects: Fractals - Whoa
Nov 30, 2019
How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work
Nov 28, 2019
Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered
Nov 27, 2019
How Carbon-14 Dating Works
Nov 26, 2019
SYSK Selects: Have all the good ideas already been discovered?
Nov 23, 2019
What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy?
Nov 21, 2019
Short Stuff: Backyard Burials
Nov 20, 2019
The Murder Mystery of Ötzi the Iceman
Nov 19, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Salt Works
Nov 16, 2019
NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel
Nov 14, 2019
Short Stuff: The Conch Republic
Nov 13, 2019
Augmented Reality: Coming Soon?
Nov 12, 2019
SYSK Selects: Can you Treat Mental Illness with Psychedelics?
Nov 09, 2019
Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
Nov 07, 2019
How Ironman Triathlons Work
Nov 06, 2019
Short Stuff: The History of Paternity Testing
Nov 06, 2019
SYSK Selects: Halitosis - Worst Smell Ever?
Nov 02, 2019
SYSK’s Scare Your Socks Off Halloween Spooktacular 2019
Oct 31, 2019
Short Stuff: Our Shortie Halloween Spooktacular
Oct 30, 2019
Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?
Oct 29, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Haunted House Attractions Work
Oct 26, 2019
How Historic Districts Work
Oct 24, 2019
Short Stuff: The Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez
Oct 23, 2019
What's the deal with subpoenas?
Oct 22, 2019
SYSK Selects: The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s
Oct 19, 2019
How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
Oct 17, 2019
Short Stuff: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
Oct 16, 2019
How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I
Oct 15, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Black Boxes Work
Oct 12, 2019
The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
Oct 10, 2019
Short Stuff: The Devil's Den
Oct 09, 2019
How Environmental Psychology Works
Oct 08, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Pez Works
Oct 05, 2019
What were the Freedom Schools?
Oct 03, 2019
Short Stuff: Fish n' Chips
Oct 02, 2019
Guardian Angels: Behind the Red Beret
Oct 01, 2019
SYSK Selects: What Happened at Kent State?
Sep 28, 2019
What are paraphilias?
Sep 26, 2019
Short Stuff: Dare Stones
Sep 25, 2019
We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters
Sep 24, 2019
SYSK Selects: Could You Live Without a Refrigerator?
Sep 21, 2019
How the US Interstate System Works
Sep 19, 2019
Short Stuff: Scurvy
Sep 18, 2019
The Skinny on Lyme Disease
Sep 17, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Wills Work
Sep 14, 2019
Special Effects: A Short History
Sep 12, 2019
Short Stuff: Papasan Chairs
Sep 11, 2019
How Government Shutdowns Work
Sep 10, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Ouija Boards Work
Sep 07, 2019
What's the deal with MSG?
Sep 05, 2019
Short Stuff: Barbed Wire
Sep 04, 2019
Ed Gein: The Serial Killer's Serial Killer
Sep 03, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Icebergs Work
Aug 31, 2019
The Rubik's Cube Episode
Aug 29, 2019
Short Stuff: Dead Bodies and Airline Codes
Aug 28, 2019
A Brief Overview of Punk Rock
Aug 27, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Sleepwalking Works
Aug 24, 2019
How Ventriloquism Works
Aug 22, 2019
Short Stuff: Horseshoe Crab Blood
Aug 21, 2019
Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans
Aug 20, 2019
SYSK Selects: Are We in a Cyberwar?
Aug 17, 2019
How Peyote Works
Aug 15, 2019
Short Stuff: Petrichor
Aug 14, 2019
Solar Power: The Future or What?
Aug 13, 2019
SYSK Selects: What Is a Shotgun House?
Aug 10, 2019
Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2
Aug 08, 2019
Short Stuff: Time Zones
Aug 07, 2019
Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1
Aug 06, 2019
SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked
Aug 03, 2019
What Were the BONE WARS?
Aug 01, 2019
Short Stuff: The Man Who Didn’t Eat for a Year
Jul 31, 2019
Will Deepfakes Ruin the World?
Jul 30, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Human Cannonballs Work
Jul 27, 2019
How Eyewitness Testimony Works(?)
Jul 25, 2019
Short Stuff: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Jul 24, 2019
MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood
Jul 23, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Crack Works
Jul 20, 2019
Sand Dunes: They Are What You Think They Are
Jul 18, 2019
Short Stuff: Yellow Rain
Jul 17, 2019
How Going to the Moon Works
Jul 16, 2019
SYSK Selects: Duels - A Guide to Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Jul 13, 2019
How Sloths Work
Jul 11, 2019
Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult
Jul 10, 2019
Cleopatra: Ms. Understood
Jul 09, 2019
SYSK Selects: What Makes us Yawn?
Jul 06, 2019
How the Fairness Doctrine Worked
Jul 04, 2019
Short Stuff: Mitsuye Endo
Jul 03, 2019
Is photographic memory a real thing?
Jul 02, 2019
SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
Jun 29, 2019
What is the Civil Air Patrol?
Jun 27, 2019
Short Stuff: Prison Food
Jun 26, 2019
Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy
Jun 25, 2019
SYSK Selects: How the Donner Party Worked
Jun 22, 2019
What happened to the Neanderthals?
Jun 20, 2019
Short Stuff: Emperor Norton
Jun 19, 2019
How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works
Jun 18, 2019
SYSK Selects: What's the Deal with Crop Circles?
Jun 15, 2019
How Area 51 Works
Jun 13, 2019
Short Stuff: Smoke Signals
Jun 12, 2019
What's the gig economy?
Jun 11, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Capgras Syndrome Works
Jun 08, 2019
What is perfect pitch?
Jun 06, 2019
Short Stuff: Robert Johnson and the Devil
Jun 05, 2019
How Barcodes Work
Jun 04, 2019
SYSK Selects: How TV Ratings Work
Jun 01, 2019
The Tylenol Murders, Part II
May 30, 2019
Short Stuff: Look-Alike Old Couples
May 29, 2019
The Tylenol Murders, Part I
May 28, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Acne Works
May 25, 2019
What was Tin Pan Alley?
May 23, 2019
Short Stuff: James Polk, Disinterred
May 22, 2019
How Crystals Work
May 21, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Dying Works
May 18, 2019
10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck
May 16, 2019
Short Stuff: Honorary Degrees
May 15, 2019
How Trampolines Work
May 14, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Lie Detectors Work
May 11, 2019
Do Dietary Supplements Work?
May 09, 2019
Short Stuff: Nicknames
May 08, 2019
Remembering Live Aid
May 07, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Does a Diving Bell Work?
May 04, 2019
What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?
May 02, 2019
Short Stuff: The Number 23
May 01, 2019
Michael Dillon: Trans Pioneer
Apr 30, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Zero Works
Apr 27, 2019
What Were Human Zoos?
Apr 25, 2019
Short Stuff: Fear of Public Speaking
Apr 24, 2019
Is birth order important?
Apr 23, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Marijuana Works
Apr 20, 2019
How the Hoover Dam Works, Part II
Apr 18, 2019
Short Stuff: Emu Wars
Apr 17, 2019
How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I
Apr 16, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Yo-Yos Work
Apr 13, 2019
How the Electric Chair Works
Apr 11, 2019
Short Stuff: Lake Peigneur
Apr 10, 2019
How Free Range Parenting Works
Apr 09, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Pollen Works
Apr 06, 2019
Were Nazis Drug-Fueled Crankheads?
Apr 04, 2019
Short Stuff: Unspent Campaign Money
Apr 03, 2019
How Rape Kits Work
Apr 02, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Immigration Works
Mar 30, 2019
Etch A Sketch!
Mar 28, 2019
Short Stuff: When Elvis Met Nixon
Mar 27, 2019
How Druids Worked
Mar 26, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Sign Language Works
Mar 23, 2019
How Disgust Works
Mar 21, 2019
Short Stuff: The Sandman
Mar 20, 2019
Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus
Mar 19, 2019
SYSK Selects: Was Atlantis A Real Place?
Mar 16, 2019
The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name
Mar 14, 2019
Short Stuff: Bedbugs
Mar 13, 2019
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Mar 12, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Wildfires Work
Mar 09, 2019
How Dyslexia Works
Mar 07, 2019
Short Stuff: Wigs in English Court
Mar 06, 2019
What's the deal with ASMR?
Mar 05, 2019
SYSK Selects: How the Panama Canal Works
Mar 02, 2019
Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes
Feb 28, 2019
Short Stuff: Black Loyalists
Feb 27, 2019
The Science of Break-Ups
Feb 26, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Lewis and Clark Worked
Feb 23, 2019
How Galaxies Work
Feb 21, 2019
Short Stuff: Turbulence
Feb 20, 2019
Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot
Feb 19, 2019
SYSK Selects: Interpol: World Police
Feb 16, 2019
Elephants: The Best Animals?
Feb 14, 2019
Short Stuff: War of Jenkins' Ear
Feb 13, 2019
Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?
Feb 12, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Coral Reefs Work
Feb 09, 2019
The True Story of BlacKkKlansman
Feb 07, 2019
Short Stuff: Ellen Richards
Feb 06, 2019
The Insidious Abuse of Stalking
Feb 05, 2019
SYSK Selects: Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think!
Feb 02, 2019
How Central Park Works
Jan 31, 2019
Short Stuff: Johnny Appleseed
Jan 30, 2019
How Ping Pong Works
Jan 29, 2019
SYSK Selects: Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish
Jan 26, 2019
The Legend of Betsy Ross
Jan 24, 2019
Short Stuff: Thread Count
Jan 23, 2019
SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health
Jan 22, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Lobotomies Work
Jan 19, 2019
The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Jan 17, 2019
Short Stuff: Olestra
Jan 16, 2019
How Airbags Work
Jan 15, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Schizophrenia Works
Jan 12, 2019
The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper
Jan 10, 2019
Short Stuff: How Often Do You Need To Change Your Oil?
Jan 09, 2019
How the Spanish Flu Worked
Jan 08, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works
Jan 05, 2019
What was the Tunguska event?
Jan 03, 2019
Short Stuff: Khipu
Jan 02, 2019
Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years
Jan 01, 2019
SYSK Selects: How Fossils Work
Dec 29, 2018
Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dec 27, 2018
Short Stuff: The Brain-Bladder Connection
Dec 26, 2018
SYSK Live Christmas Spectacular!
Dec 25, 2018
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Dec 22, 2018
E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?
Dec 20, 2018
Short Stuff: Unique Snowflakes
Dec 19, 2018
Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't
Dec 18, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work
Dec 15, 2018
Are good samaritan laws effective?
Dec 13, 2018
Short Stuff: Laughing Buddha
Dec 12, 2018
How Ayahuasca Works
Dec 11, 2018
SYSK Selects: That Dang-old Goat Fell Over
Dec 08, 2018
Was the PMRC censorship in disguise?
Dec 06, 2018
Short Stuff: Dolphin Detectors
Dec 05, 2018
How Search and Rescue Dogs Work
Dec 04, 2018
SYSK Selects: Can Your Grandfather's Diet Shorten Your Life?
Dec 01, 2018
Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry
Nov 29, 2018
Short Stuff: iSmell
Nov 28, 2018
How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked
Nov 27, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Black Friday Works
Nov 24, 2018
Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic)
Nov 22, 2018
Short Stuff: Safety Pins
Nov 21, 2018
Finders Keepers: Real Law
Nov 20, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Kleptomania Works
Nov 17, 2018
Olive Oil: Mother Nature's Gift
Nov 15, 2018
Short Stuff: Lemonade
Nov 14, 2018
Pando: Earth’s Oldest, Hugest Organism Is Trees!
Nov 13, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Pizza Works
Nov 10, 2018
Is yogurt a miracle food?
Nov 08, 2018
Short Stuff: Vomitoria
Nov 07, 2018
What were war masks?
Nov 06, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Grief Works
Nov 03, 2018
How Easy Bake Ovens Work
Nov 01, 2018
Short Stuff: Labor Day
Oct 31, 2018
SYSK’s 2018 Super Spooktacular
Oct 30, 2018
SYSK Selects: What's with the Winchester Mystery House?
Oct 27, 2018
How the Amityville Horror Worked
Oct 25, 2018
Short Stuff: Exploding Manholes
Oct 24, 2018
How Epilepsy Works
Oct 23, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Aphrodisiacs Work
Oct 20, 2018
Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?
Oct 18, 2018
Short Stuff: Korean Fan Death
Oct 17, 2018
Was There A Real Robin Hood?
Oct 16, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Homelessness Works
Oct 13, 2018
When inventions kill!
Oct 11, 2018
Short Stuff: William King
Oct 10, 2018
How Marathons Work
Oct 09, 2018
SYSK Selects: Is lethal injection humane?
Oct 06, 2018
Algae: Food, Fuel, What?
Oct 04, 2018
Short Stuff: Grandfather Clocks
Oct 03, 2018
How the Concorde Worked
Oct 02, 2018
SYSK Selects: Does the five-second rule work?
Sep 29, 2018
Seriously, What Is Dark Matter?
Sep 27, 2018
What is colorblindness?
Sep 25, 2018
SYSK Selects: Was Malthus right about carrying capacity?
Sep 22, 2018
How Ranked Choice Voting Works
Sep 20, 2018
Roundabouts: The Problem Is You
Sep 18, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Commercial Jingles Work
Sep 15, 2018
What are think tanks all about?
Sep 13, 2018
SYSK Live: How Game Shows Work
Sep 11, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Circumcision Works
Sep 08, 2018
The Lava Lamp: Goes Great With Acid
Sep 06, 2018
How Police Lineups Work
Sep 04, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Patents Work
Sep 01, 2018
How Elimination Diets Work
Aug 30, 2018
Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore
Aug 28, 2018
SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Voodoo?
Aug 25, 2018
Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
Aug 23, 2018
Ballpoint pens? Heck yes, ballpoint pens!
Aug 21, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works
Aug 18, 2018
Who is The Man of the Hole?
Aug 16, 2018
How Board Breaking Works
Aug 14, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Traffic Works
Aug 11, 2018
How Attila the Hun Worked
Aug 09, 2018
How Search and Rescue Works
Aug 07, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Miranda Rights Work
Aug 04, 2018
How the U.S. Military Draft Works
Aug 02, 2018
How the Pony Express Worked
Jul 31, 2018
SYSK Selects: How the Cannonball Run Worked
Jul 28, 2018
The Dyatlov Pass Mystery
Jul 26, 2018
Recycling Update: How’s It Going?
Jul 24, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Foot Binding Worked
Jul 21, 2018
How Attorney-Client Privilege Works
Jul 19, 2018
Jobs of Bygone Eras
Jul 17, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Twinkies Work
Jul 14, 2018
Gerrymandering: How to Stifle Democracy
Jul 12, 2018
The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five
Jul 10, 2018
SYSK Selects: Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
Jul 07, 2018
How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked
Jul 05, 2018
How Diabetes Works
Jul 03, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Ponzi Schemes Work
Jun 30, 2018
Narwhals: Unicorns of the Sea
Jun 28, 2018
Can Anarchism Work?
Jun 26, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Condoms Work
Jun 23, 2018
Genghis Khan: Madman or Genius?
Jun 21, 2018
How The Pill Changed the World
Jun 19, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Bullfighting Works
Jun 16, 2018
Skyscrapers: 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Jun 14, 2018
How Tsunamis Work
Jun 12, 2018
SYSK Selects: How The Hum Works
Jun 09, 2018
Frida Kahlo: Painter, Icon, Genius
Jun 07, 2018
The Max Headroom Incident
Jun 05, 2018
SYSK Selects: Was there a real King Arthur?
Jun 02, 2018
Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy?
May 31, 2018
How Drug Courts Work
May 29, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Pinball Works
May 26, 2018
How Occam's Razor Works
May 24, 2018
A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer
May 22, 2018
SYSK Selects: Is brain size related to intelligence?
May 19, 2018
The Collar Bomb Heist
May 18, 2018
What's a quinceañera anyway?
May 15, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Cremation Works
May 12, 2018
How Drowning Works
May 10, 2018
PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard
May 08, 2018
SYSK Selects: Are there undiscovered people?
May 05, 2018
North Korea: What's the Deal?
May 03, 2018
Nepotism: When Hiring the Best Just Won't Do
May 01, 2018
SYSK Selects: Who killed JFK?
Apr 28, 2018
Does Pyromania Actually Exist?
Apr 26, 2018
Emojis: A New Language? Nah.
Apr 24, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Mirrors Work
Apr 21, 2018
Two Times In the 70s When People Buried Ferraris
Apr 19, 2018
The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least
Apr 17, 2018
SYSK Selects: What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
Apr 14, 2018
How Paramedics Work
Apr 12, 2018
Why Landmines Are The Deadliest Legacy Of War
Apr 10, 2018
SYSK Selects: Sherpas: Warm, Friendly Living
Apr 07, 2018
Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
Apr 05, 2018
When Words Take on New Meanings
Apr 03, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Guide Dogs Work
Mar 31, 2018
What are false positives?
Mar 29, 2018
How Meals on Wheels Works
Mar 27, 2018
SYSK Selects: Subways: HUH! What are they good for?
Mar 24, 2018
How the Framingham Heart Study Works
Mar 22, 2018
How the New England Vampire Panics Worked
Mar 20, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Trickle-Down Economics Works
Mar 17, 2018
Is Vaping Really Bad For You?
Mar 15, 2018
The Huggable, Lovable Walrus
Mar 13, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Cockroaches Work
Mar 10, 2018
Why Do People Believe In Faith Healing?
Mar 08, 2018
The Strange Story of Sea Monkeys
Mar 06, 2018
SYSK Selects: Is there treasure on Oak Island?
Mar 03, 2018
SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps
Mar 01, 2018
Knife Throwing: Super Cool
Feb 27, 2018
SYSK Selects: How the MPAA Works
Feb 24, 2018
Rosa Parks: Agent of Change
Feb 22, 2018
Are Feral Children Real?
Feb 20, 2018
SYSK Selects: How the Underground Railroad Worked
Feb 17, 2018
The Harriet Tubman Story
Feb 15, 2018
How Pompeii Worked
Feb 13, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Narco States Work
Feb 10, 2018
The Mystery of The Grand Canyon Newlyweds
Feb 08, 2018
What is a Mold-A-Rama?
Feb 06, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Lion Taming Works
Feb 03, 2018
Marijuana Vs. Alcohol: Which Is Worse For You?
Feb 01, 2018
The Manson Family Murders Part II
Jan 30, 2018
SYSK Selects: Prisons - Not as Fun as You'd Think
Jan 27, 2018
The Manson Family Murders Part I
Jan 25, 2018
How Hoarding Works
Jan 23, 2018
SYSK Selects: Lab-grown meat: Order up!
Jan 20, 2018
How Hang Gliding Works
Jan 18, 2018
How Removing Public Monuments Work
Jan 16, 2018
SYSK Selects: The Wind Cries Typhoid Mary
Jan 13, 2018
What is an invasive species?
Jan 11, 2018
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Jan 09, 2018
SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
Jan 06, 2018
How Impeachment Works
Jan 04, 2018
How Orchids Work
Jan 02, 2018
SYSK Selects: How Willpower Works
Dec 30, 2017
How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part II
Dec 28, 2017
How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part I
Dec 26, 2017
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Dec 23, 2017
The 2017 SYSK Christmas Extravaganza!
Dec 21, 2017
Narcissism: But what about me?
Dec 19, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Population Works
Dec 16, 2017
How the Globe of Death Works
Dec 14, 2017
The Deal With Doulas
Dec 12, 2017
SYSK Selects: How much money is there in the world?​
Dec 09, 2017
How Flight Attendants Work
Dec 07, 2017
How Vomit Phobia Works
Dec 05, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Crime Scene Cleanup Works
Dec 02, 2017
Cake: So Great. So, So Great
Nov 30, 2017
How Toy Testing Works
Nov 28, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Organ Donation Works
Nov 25, 2017
What is nuclear forensics?
Nov 23, 2017
Bath Salts: Steer Clear
Nov 21, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Daylight Saving Time Works
Nov 18, 2017
Can movies be cursed?
Nov 16, 2017
How the Flu Works
Nov 14, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Silly Putty Works
Nov 11, 2017
What's permaculture all about?
Nov 09, 2017
How Restaurant Health Inspections Work
Nov 07, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Exorcism Works
Nov 04, 2017
Movie Crush: Tig Notaro on Mask
Nov 03, 2017
Movie Crush: Janet Varney on Tron
Nov 03, 2017
How Global Warming Works
Nov 02, 2017
SYSK's 2017 Super Spooktacular!
Oct 31, 2017
SYSK Selects: How SPAM Works
Oct 28, 2017
Episode 1,000: The Simpsons Spectacular Part II
Oct 26, 2017
Episode 999: The Simpsons Spectacular Part I
Oct 24, 2017
SYSK Selects: The Cheesiest SYSK Episode Ever
Oct 21, 2017
How Internships Work
Oct 19, 2017
SYSK Live: The DB Cooper Heist
Oct 17, 2017
SYSK Selects: Is there such a thing as a truth serum?
Oct 14, 2017
How Buildering Works
Oct 12, 2017
How the Rolling Jubilee Works
Oct 10, 2017
SYSK Selects: Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?
Oct 07, 2017
How Giraffes Work
Oct 05, 2017
How Police Body Cameras Work
Oct 03, 2017
SYSK Selects: What was the most peaceful time in history?
Sep 30, 2017
How Nude Beaches Work
Sep 28, 2017
How FOIA Works
Sep 26, 2017
SYSK Selects: Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?
Sep 23, 2017
A Nostalgic Look at Crayons
Sep 21, 2017
How Frogs Work
Sep 19, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Handwriting Analysis Works
Sep 16, 2017
How the Secret Service Works
Sep 14, 2017
How Psychopaths Work
Sep 12, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Hip-hop Works
Sep 09, 2017
Are crickets the future of food?
Sep 07, 2017
The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach
Sep 05, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Shrunken Heads Work
Sep 02, 2017
How Satanism Works
Aug 31, 2017
A Lip-Smacking Look at Barbecue
Aug 29, 2017
SYSK Selects: Is Stockholm Syndrome real?
Aug 26, 2017
How Personality Tests Work
Aug 24, 2017
Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Aug 22, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Exploitation Films Work
Aug 19, 2017
What's the deal with accents?
Aug 17, 2017
How Stuttering Works
Aug 15, 2017
SYSK Selects: How McCarthyism Works
Aug 12, 2017
How Bioarchaeology Works
Aug 10, 2017
Do motivational speakers motivate people?
Aug 08, 2017
SYSK Selects: Why do men have nipples?
Aug 05, 2017
Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
Aug 03, 2017
How Public Broadcasting Works
Aug 01, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Disco Works
Jul 29, 2017
A Dry Look at Toilet Paper
Jul 27, 2017
What is Ghost Fishing?
Jul 25, 2017
SYSK Selects: How the Sun Works
Jul 22, 2017
All We Know About Guessing
Jul 20, 2017
Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen
Jul 18, 2017
SYSK Selects: Why can't we find Amelia Earhart?
Jul 15, 2017
How Fever Dreams Work
Jul 13, 2017
Why is There a Battle Over Net Neutrality?
Jul 11, 2017
SYSK Selects: How HeLa Cells Work
Jul 08, 2017
Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre
Jul 06, 2017
What exactly is stoicism?
Jul 04, 2017
SYSK Selects: Why isn't the U.S. on the metric system?
Jul 01, 2017
How Standardized Patients Work
Jun 29, 2017
Remembering Stonewall
Jun 27, 2017
SYSK Selects: Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?
Jun 24, 2017
How Ketchup Works
Jun 22, 2017
How Seed Banks Work
Jun 20, 2017
SYSK Selects: Do you stay conscious after being decapitated?
Jun 17, 2017
What was Camp X?
Jun 15, 2017
How the Beagle Brigade Works
Jun 13, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Maps Work
Jun 10, 2017
Why Are Whale Strandings Still a Mystery?
Jun 08, 2017
How Coelacanths Work
Jun 06, 2017
SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death?
Jun 03, 2017
The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads
Jun 01, 2017
Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
May 30, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Beer Works
May 27, 2017
How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement
May 25, 2017
Is a head transplant really a thing?
May 23, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Magic Mushrooms Work
May 20, 2017
How the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis Work
May 18, 2017
How Champagne Works
May 16, 2017
SYSK Selects: Gesundheit! How Allergies Work
May 13, 2017
How Charismatic Megafauna Work
May 11, 2017
How Itching Works
May 09, 2017
SYSK Selects: What's the 10,000 Year Clock?
May 06, 2017
Some Nutso Fan Theories
May 04, 2017
How Poetry Works
May 02, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Revisionist History Works
Apr 29, 2017
How Multiple Sclerosis Works
Apr 27, 2017
How the National Security Council Works
Apr 25, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Breast Implants Work
Apr 22, 2017
How Swearing Works
Apr 20, 2017
How Corsets Work
Apr 18, 2017
SYSK Selects: Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar
Apr 15, 2017
How Supervolcanoes Work
Apr 13, 2017
How Supreme Court Nominations Work
Apr 11, 2017
SYSK Selects: Can you die of a broken heart?
Apr 08, 2017
How Empathy Works
Apr 06, 2017
Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process
Apr 04, 2017
SYSK Selects: How Filibusters Work
Apr 01, 2017
The Shroud Of Turin: No Ordinary Bed Sheet
Mar 30, 2017
How Foreign Accent Syndrome Works
Mar 28, 2017
How the Hyperloop Will Work
Mar 23, 2017
Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual
Mar 21, 2017
Southerners Aren’t Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm
Mar 16, 2017
Pain Scales: Yeeeow!
Mar 14, 2017
History of the Trail of Tears, Part II
Mar 09, 2017
History of the Trail of Tears, Part I
Mar 07, 2017
How Optical Illusions Work
Mar 02, 2017
How Free Speech Works
Feb 28, 2017
How Famines Work
Feb 23, 2017
The ins and outs of the DEATH TAX
Feb 21, 2017
The Black Panther Party
Feb 16, 2017
Tardigrades: Nature's Cuddly, Indestructible Microanimal
Feb 14, 2017
Live from San Francisco: How Malls Work
Feb 09, 2017
The Quinoa Revolution!
Feb 07, 2017
What's the future of virtual sex?
Feb 02, 2017
Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch
Jan 31, 2017
How Pacifism Works (And Could It?)
Jan 26, 2017
How Dictators Work
Jan 24, 2017
How Soylent Works
Jan 19, 2017
Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Bad For You?
Jan 17, 2017
How Watersheds Work
Jan 12, 2017
What's the deal with Baby Boomers?
Jan 10, 2017
How Feeding Babies Works: The Bottle
Jan 05, 2017
How Feeding Babies Works: The Breast
Jan 03, 2017
Human Blockheads: A Real Thing
Dec 29, 2016
Can you live without a bank account?
Dec 27, 2016
The Stuff You Should Know 2016 Christmas Extravaganza in 3-D!
Dec 22, 2016
The Golden Age of Grave Robbing: Stuff You Should Know Live in London
Dec 20, 2016
How Porta-Potties Work
Dec 15, 2016
Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
Dec 13, 2016
Is computer addiction a thing?
Dec 08, 2016
Horoscopes: Written in the Stars?
Dec 06, 2016
How a Flea Circus Works
Dec 01, 2016
Frostbite: Yeeeow!
Nov 29, 2016
Should Advertising to Kids Be Banned?
Nov 24, 2016
The Kitty Genovese Story
Nov 22, 2016
What's the Deal with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
Nov 17, 2016
How Fireplaces Work
Nov 15, 2016
How Monty Python Worked: SYSK Live from LA Podfest
Nov 10, 2016
Do sin taxes work?
Nov 08, 2016
A Partial History of Action Figures
Nov 03, 2016
Ham Radio and the Hams Who Use Them
Nov 01, 2016
SYSK The Podcast: Special Halloween Bonus Episode 2016, The Sequel – From Hell
Oct 31, 2016
The Hinterkaifeck Axe Murders
Oct 27, 2016
How Sleep Paralysis Works, or The Worst Thing That Can Happen While You're Sleeping
Oct 25, 2016
Living Underground in Beijing
Oct 20, 2016
What's the What with Fish Fraud?
Oct 18, 2016
How the Census Works
Oct 13, 2016
Hibernation: Not a Snooze
Oct 11, 2016
Why Did Easter Island's Civilization Collapse?
Oct 06, 2016
The Amazing History of Soda
Oct 03, 2016
How Polar Bears Work
Sep 29, 2016
How Ice Ages Work
Sep 27, 2016
All we know about Zika so far...
Sep 22, 2016
How Cerebral Palsy Works
Sep 20, 2016
What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?
Sep 15, 2016
Alexander Hamilton: Most Influential American?
Sep 13, 2016
Do Animals Have Natural Rights?
Sep 08, 2016
How Animal Testing Works
Sep 06, 2016
How the Negro Leagues Worked
Sep 01, 2016
How Food Tasters Work
Aug 30, 2016
This Custom of Customs
Aug 25, 2016
Jellyfish: Even Cooler than Octopi?
Aug 23, 2016
The Delightful History of Steam Technology
Aug 18, 2016
How Woolly Mammoths Worked
Aug 16, 2016
Evel Knievel Part II
Aug 11, 2016
Evel Knievel Part I
Aug 09, 2016
Mermaids: Not a real thing
Aug 04, 2016
How Night Terrors Work
Aug 01, 2016
What is exploding head syndrome?
Jul 28, 2016
How Triage Works
Jul 26, 2016
How the Moonwalk Works
Jul 21, 2016
How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Jul 19, 2016
The Gettysburg Address: Short and Sweet
Jul 14, 2016
How Radiation Sickness Works
Jul 12, 2016
What's with this "Internet of Things"?
Jul 07, 2016
Research tips from SYSK
Jul 05, 2016
How Lighthouses Work
Jun 30, 2016
How Underground Mining Works
Jun 28, 2016
What's the misery index?
Jun 23, 2016
How Space Stations Work
Jun 21, 2016
How Steadicams Work
Jun 16, 2016
Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia?
Jun 14, 2016
What's the deal with controlled burns?
Jun 09, 2016
How Motion Sickness Works
Jun 07, 2016
How Gene Editing Works
Jun 02, 2016
How SuperBalls Work
May 31, 2016
How Crumple Zones Work
May 25, 2016
Chiggers: The Phantom Menace
May 23, 2016
The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children
May 18, 2016
How Bonsai Works
May 16, 2016
True stories of survival cannibalism!
May 11, 2016
How Snake Handlers Work
May 09, 2016
How LSD Works
May 05, 2016
How Megalodon Worked
May 03, 2016
What was Operation Plowshare?
Apr 28, 2016
Myths and Truths About Tornadoes
Apr 25, 2016
Does Kin Selection Explain Altruism?
Apr 21, 2016
What Makes Lead So Poisonous?
Apr 19, 2016
How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Apr 14, 2016
How the Gender Pay Gap Works
Apr 12, 2016
How Labor Strikes Work
Apr 07, 2016
Our cats episode - right here, right meow
Apr 05, 2016
Nostalgia is not the most toxic impulse
Mar 31, 2016
What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys?
Mar 29, 2016
How TED Talks Work: Featuring Roman Mars
Mar 24, 2016
Who Gets to Name Continents?
Mar 22, 2016
How Makeup Works
Mar 17, 2016
Some Really Interesting Cases of Mass Hysteria
Mar 15, 2016
How Dark Money Works
Mar 10, 2016
How The Iditarod Works
Mar 08, 2016
How Freak Shows Worked
Mar 03, 2016
How El Nino Works
Mar 01, 2016
(Approximately) 10 Things That Vanished Mysteriously
Feb 25, 2016
The Future of Renewable Energy, Featuring Bill Gates
Feb 23, 2016
How Nitrous Oxide Works
Feb 18, 2016
How Jackhammers Work
Feb 16, 2016
What's the Deal With Poop?
Feb 11, 2016
How Rabies Works
Feb 09, 2016
How Land Diving Works
Feb 04, 2016
Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
Feb 02, 2016
Does Whole-Body Cryotherapy Work?
Jan 28, 2016
How Personalized Medicine Works
Jan 26, 2016
Timber! How Timber Works
Jan 21, 2016
Sir Isaac Newton: Greatest Scientist of All Time?
Jan 19, 2016
The Duality of Caffeine
Jan 14, 2016
How Futurology Works
Jan 12, 2016
Body Language!
Jan 07, 2016
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s
Jan 05, 2016
How Lizzie Borden Worked
Dec 31, 2015
The Great Wall of China Episode
Dec 29, 2015
The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Extravaganza
Dec 24, 2015
How Gossip Works
Dec 22, 2015
The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Dec 17, 2015
How the Antikythera Mechanism Works
Dec 15, 2015
How Reverse Psychology Works
Dec 10, 2015
Carl Sagan: American Hero
Dec 08, 2015
How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II
Dec 03, 2015
How HIV/AIDS Works, Part I
Dec 01, 2015
Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works
Nov 26, 2015
The Lowdown on Anonymous
Nov 24, 2015
How Dementia Works
Nov 19, 2015
How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
Nov 18, 2015
What's the Deal With Staring?
Nov 17, 2015
How The Voynich Manuscript Works
Nov 12, 2015
Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out
Nov 10, 2015
How Grimm's Fairy Tales Work
Nov 05, 2015
The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales
Nov 03, 2015
Josh N Chuck's Hallowe'en Spooky Scarefest
Oct 29, 2015
How Passports Work
Oct 27, 2015
Vocal Fry and Other Speech Trends
Oct 22, 2015
Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Converters Work
Oct 20, 2015
How Wine Fraud Works
Oct 15, 2015
How Vestigial Organs Work
Oct 13, 2015
What was the Philadelphia Experiment?
Oct 08, 2015
How Lobbying Works
Oct 06, 2015
How PEZ Works
Oct 01, 2015
Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty
Sep 29, 2015
Geothermal Energy: Earth's Gift to Mankind
Sep 24, 2015
How Cult Deprogramming Worked
Sep 22, 2015
The Great Nuclear Winter Debate of 1983
Sep 17, 2015
How Publicists Work
Sep 15, 2015
How Chili Peppers Work
Sep 10, 2015
How Police Dogs Work
Sep 08, 2015
How Alcoholism Works
Sep 03, 2015
How to Donate Your Body to Science
Sep 01, 2015
Nirvana: Not The Band
Aug 27, 2015
How Hot Air Balloons Work
Aug 25, 2015
How Umami Works!
Aug 20, 2015
Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise
Aug 18, 2015
Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape
Aug 13, 2015
How Auto-Tune Works
Aug 11, 2015
How Droughts Work
Aug 06, 2015
How Earth-Like Planets Work
Aug 04, 2015
How Bats Work
Jul 30, 2015
How Profiling Works
Jul 28, 2015
Road Rage: GRRRR!!!
Jul 23, 2015
How Citizen's Arrests Work
Jul 21, 2015
The Time Nazis Invaded Florida
Jul 16, 2015
How the Terracotta Army Works
Jul 14, 2015
How Brickfilm Works
Jul 09, 2015
How Egypt's Pyramids Work
Jul 07, 2015
How Circus Families Work
Jul 02, 2015
How Audience Testing Works
Jun 30, 2015
Mosquitoes: The Worst
Jun 25, 2015
How Landfills Work
Jun 23, 2015
Are You My Mother?: How Animal Imprinting Works
Jun 18, 2015
How BASE Jumping Works
Jun 16, 2015
Bridges: Nature Abhors Them
Jun 11, 2015
How the Wow! Signal Works
Jun 09, 2015
How Ocean Currents Work
Jun 04, 2015
How Street Gangs Work
Jun 02, 2015
How Tupperware Works
May 28, 2015
How Junk Food Works
May 26, 2015
How Color Works
May 21, 2015
How Internet Censorship Works
May 19, 2015
How Pinewood Derbies Work
May 14, 2015
Does the FDA Protect Americans?
May 12, 2015
Josh and Chuck Make It Through Male Puberty
May 07, 2015
How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works
May 05, 2015
How Spiders Work
Apr 30, 2015
How Water Slides Work
Apr 28, 2015
Oh No, Snakes!
Apr 23, 2015
How Clowns Work
Apr 21, 2015
How Zero Population Growth Works
Apr 16, 2015
How Slinky Works
Apr 14, 2015
What's the deal with blood types?
Apr 09, 2015
Polyamory: When two just won't do
Apr 07, 2015
Thanks, Easter Bunny! Bock Bock!
Apr 02, 2015
Does the body replace itself?
Mar 31, 2015
How Desalination Works
Mar 26, 2015
10 Bizarre Medical Treatments
Mar 24, 2015
Earwax: Live With It
Mar 19, 2015
How Anesthesia Works
Mar 17, 2015
How Tea Works
Mar 12, 2015
How Fleas Work
Mar 10, 2015
How Stonehenge Works
Mar 05, 2015
How ESP Works(?)
Mar 03, 2015
Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking
Feb 26, 2015
Why Do Lefties Exist?
Feb 24, 2015
How Perfume Works
Feb 19, 2015
Is there treasure on Oak Island?
Feb 17, 2015
What is folklore?
Feb 12, 2015
How Feng Shui Works
Feb 10, 2015
How Ice Cream Works
Feb 05, 2015
Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever
Feb 03, 2015
How Hot Wheels Work
Jan 29, 2015
How Poison Ivy Works
Jan 27, 2015
Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.
Jan 22, 2015
How the March on Washington Worked
Jan 20, 2015
Juggling: What the Heck
Jan 15, 2015
How the Scientific Method Works
Jan 13, 2015
How Online Gambling Works
Jan 08, 2015
How Jim Henson Worked
Jan 06, 2015
SYSK Live: How Bars Work
Jan 01, 2015
How Sea Monsters Work
Dec 30, 2014
Josh and Chuck's 2014 Christmas Extravaganza!
Dec 25, 2014
How the GED Test Works
Dec 23, 2014
How Cinnamon Works
Dec 18, 2014
Boomerangs: Magic Sticks of Physics
Dec 16, 2014
Homeschooling: Not Just For Hippies and Religious People Anymore
Dec 11, 2014
How The Hum Works
Dec 09, 2014
How X-Rays Work
Dec 04, 2014
How Leper Colonies Worked
Dec 02, 2014
How Terraforming Will Work
Nov 27, 2014
How Kickstarter Works
Nov 25, 2014
What is Collective Hysteria?
Nov 20, 2014
How the Enlightenment Works
Nov 18, 2014
What's the deal with crop circles?
Nov 13, 2014
How Patents Work
Nov 11, 2014
How Limousines Work
Nov 06, 2014
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
Nov 04, 2014
SYSK's Halloween Scare Fest
Oct 31, 2014
How Haunted House Attractions Work
Oct 30, 2014
Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?
Oct 28, 2014
How Animal Camouflage Works
Oct 23, 2014
How Extinction Works
Oct 21, 2014
How The Great Train Robbery Worked
Oct 16, 2014
Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck
Oct 14, 2014
How Skywriting Works
Oct 09, 2014
How Karate Works
Oct 07, 2014
How Panic Attacks Work
Oct 02, 2014
How Rogue Waves Work
Sep 30, 2014
How Animal Domestication Works
Sep 25, 2014
How Police Interrogation Works
Sep 23, 2014
How Currency Works
Sep 18, 2014
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Sep 16, 2014
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Sep 09, 2014
How TV Ratings Work
Sep 04, 2014
How Pinball Works
Sep 02, 2014
How Blimps Work
Aug 28, 2014
What's the deal with headstones?
Aug 26, 2014
How the Berlin Wall Worked
Aug 21, 2014
Going Up: Elevators
Aug 19, 2014
How Ebola Works
Aug 14, 2014
How the NSA Works
Aug 12, 2014
What is a Numbers Station?
Aug 07, 2014
How Play-Doh Works
Aug 05, 2014
How Morgellons Disease Works
Jul 31, 2014
Is there a dark side of the moon?
Jul 29, 2014
The Skinny on Probiotics
Jul 24, 2014
How Trickle-Down Economics Works
Jul 22, 2014
How In Vitro Fertlization Works
Jul 17, 2014
How Sushi Works
Jul 15, 2014
How Grass Works? Yes, How Grass Works
Jul 10, 2014
Is brain size related to intelligence?
Jul 08, 2014
How Monopoly Works
Jul 03, 2014
How The Louvre Works
Jul 01, 2014
How the MPAA Works
Jun 26, 2014
How the La Brea Tar Pits Work
Jun 24, 2014
How Soccer Works
Jun 19, 2014
Is your employer spying on you?
Jun 17, 2014
Sugar: It Powers the Earth
Jun 12, 2014
How the Placebo Effect Works
Jun 10, 2014
How the Space Race Worked
Jun 05, 2014
Why is Venice so wet?
Jun 03, 2014
Archaeology in a Nutshell
May 29, 2014
How Temper Tantrums Work
May 27, 2014
How Avalanches Work
May 22, 2014
8 Reasons Why Your Body Is So Gross
May 20, 2014
How the Paleo Diet Works
May 15, 2014
How the Human Microbiome Project Works
May 13, 2014
How Bipolar Disorder Works
May 08, 2014
How Gypsies Work
May 06, 2014
How Marijuana Works
May 01, 2014
How the ACLU Works
Apr 29, 2014
Halitosis: Worst Smell Ever?
Apr 24, 2014
How Mars Works
Apr 22, 2014
How Burlesque Works
Apr 17, 2014
How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works
Apr 15, 2014
How Natural Selection Works
Apr 10, 2014
How Charles Darwin Worked
Apr 08, 2014
How Income Taxes Work
Apr 03, 2014
How 3D Printing Works
Apr 01, 2014
How Landslides Work
Mar 27, 2014
How Amnesia Works
Mar 25, 2014
How Electricity Works
Mar 20, 2014
Tattoos: Not Just For Dirtbags Anymore
Mar 18, 2014
How Black Boxes Work
Mar 13, 2014
How Skateboarding Works
Mar 11, 2014
How Online Dating Works
Mar 06, 2014
How the Spanish Inquisition Worked
Mar 04, 2014
What happened at Kent State?
Feb 27, 2014
Termites: They Bore But They Aren't Boring
Feb 25, 2014
How Amputation Works
Feb 20, 2014
How Salt Works
Feb 18, 2014
How Cave Dwellers Work
Feb 13, 2014
Do objects or experiences make us happier?
Feb 11, 2014
How Sign Language Works
Feb 06, 2014
Will computers replace doctors?
Feb 04, 2014
What are crystal skulls?
Jan 30, 2014
What's the deal with the debt ceiling?
Jan 28, 2014
How the Deep Web Works
Jan 23, 2014
Chuck and Josh Bust a Few Everyday Myths
Jan 21, 2014
How Pet Psychics Work
Jan 16, 2014
Was there a real King Arthur?
Jan 14, 2014
Your limb is torn off - now what?
Jan 07, 2014
Could you live without a refrigerator?
Jan 02, 2014
Will solar sails take us to the stars?
Dec 31, 2013
How Fire Breathing Works
Dec 26, 2013
Josh and Chuck's Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013
Dec 24, 2013
Is lethal injection humane?
Dec 19, 2013
How Manhunts Work
Dec 17, 2013
How Underwater Tunnels Work
Dec 12, 2013
How Maglev Trains Work
Dec 05, 2013
How Castration Works
Dec 03, 2013
How Black Friday Works
Nov 28, 2013
Is there a scientific formula for funny?
Nov 26, 2013
Who killed JFK?
Nov 21, 2013
How Chocolate Works
Nov 19, 2013
How Werewolves Work
Nov 14, 2013
Some Interesting Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking
Nov 12, 2013
How Lewis and Clark Worked
Nov 07, 2013
How Chess Works
Nov 05, 2013
What's with the Winchester Mystery House?
Oct 31, 2013
The Empty House
Oct 30, 2013
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Oct 29, 2013
How Guide Dogs Work
Oct 22, 2013
10 Easy Ways to Save Money
Oct 17, 2013
How the Maori Work
Oct 15, 2013
Did Archimedes build a death ray?
Oct 08, 2013
Can NASA predict natural disasters?
Oct 03, 2013
What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?
Oct 01, 2013
Does owning a gun change your behavior?
Sep 26, 2013
How Crack Works
Sep 24, 2013
How Dying Works
Sep 19, 2013
How IEDs Work
Sep 17, 2013
How much money is in the world?
Sep 05, 2013
How the Rosetta Stone Works
Sep 03, 2013
How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?
Aug 29, 2013
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Aug 27, 2013
History's Greatest Traitors
Aug 22, 2013
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Aug 20, 2013
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Aug 15, 2013
Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?
Aug 13, 2013
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Aug 08, 2013
The Shark Diaries
Aug 07, 2013
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Aug 06, 2013
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Aug 01, 2013
How LARP Works
Jul 30, 2013
Why should you never scare a vulture?
Jul 23, 2013
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Jul 18, 2013
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Jul 16, 2013
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Jul 11, 2013
10 Medieval Torture Devices
Jul 09, 2013
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Jul 04, 2013
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Jul 02, 2013
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Jun 27, 2013
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Jun 20, 2013
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Jun 17, 2013
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Jun 11, 2013
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Jun 11, 2013
How do trees affect the weather?
Jun 06, 2013
What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?
Jun 04, 2013
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May 28, 2013
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May 28, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 09, 2013
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May 07, 2013
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May 02, 2013
What makes us yawn?
Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 16, 2013
Do men and women have different brains?
Apr 11, 2013
What's the deal with duckbill platypuses?
Apr 09, 2013
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Apr 04, 2013
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Apr 02, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 14, 2013
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Mar 12, 2013
Can We Build an Elevator to Space?
Mar 09, 2013
Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?
Mar 07, 2013
What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
Mar 05, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 23, 2013
What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?
Feb 21, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
Myths About the Brain
Feb 14, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013
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Feb 09, 2013
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Feb 07, 2013
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Feb 05, 2013
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Jan 31, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Jan 26, 2013
How the Frick Fracking Works
Jan 22, 2013
Does the five-second rule work?
Jan 17, 2013
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Jan 15, 2013
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Jan 08, 2013
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Jan 03, 2013
How Bigfoot Works
Jan 01, 2013
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Dec 27, 2012
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Dec 21, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012
Lab-grown meat: Order up!
Dec 18, 2012
How Condoms Work
Dec 13, 2012
Will we reach peak oil?
Dec 06, 2012
How Vampires Work
Dec 04, 2012
How Caving Works
Nov 29, 2012
Why do leaves change colors in the fall?
Nov 27, 2012
Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It
Nov 22, 2012
Should we be designing our children?
Nov 20, 2012
How Meth Works
Nov 15, 2012
How close are we to holographic environments?
Nov 13, 2012
What will happen when we reach the Singularity?
Nov 08, 2012
Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines
Nov 06, 2012
SYSK's Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!
Oct 30, 2012
Exoskeletons: How's it coming?
Oct 25, 2012
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Oct 23, 2012
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Oct 18, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012
How Pizza Works!
Oct 11, 2012
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Oct 09, 2012
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Oct 04, 2012
How Whiskey Runners Worked
Oct 02, 2012
Subways: HUH! What are they good for?
Sep 27, 2012
Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes
Sep 25, 2012
Why does music provoke emotion?
Sep 20, 2012
Are we all Martians?
Sep 18, 2012
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Sep 13, 2012
How Asexuality Works
Sep 11, 2012
Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish
Sep 06, 2012
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Sep 04, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Aug 28, 2012
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Aug 23, 2012
Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record
Aug 21, 2012
Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
Aug 16, 2012
The Shark Diaries
Aug 14, 2012
How Shark Attacks Work
Aug 09, 2012
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Aug 07, 2012
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Aug 02, 2012
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Jul 31, 2012
How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con)
Jul 26, 2012
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Jul 24, 2012
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Jul 12, 2012
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Jul 10, 2012
How Tabloids Work
Jul 05, 2012
Is the Dead Sea dead?
Jul 03, 2012
What's the deal with Executive Orders?
Jun 28, 2012
10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers
Jun 21, 2012
How Icebergs Work (Very Cool)
Jun 19, 2012
Whatever happened to acid rain?
Jun 14, 2012
Should we have a fat tax?
Jun 12, 2012
Fractals: Whoa
Jun 07, 2012
How Moss Works
Jun 05, 2012
Can it rain frogs?
May 31, 2012
Do video games produce real-life violence?
May 29, 2012
Are we obsessed with goals?
May 24, 2012
How Labor Unions Work
May 22, 2012
What is the future of Earth?
May 17, 2012
Interpol: World Police
May 15, 2012
What is a shotgun house?
May 10, 2012
Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?
May 08, 2012
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May 03, 2012
How did language evolve?
May 01, 2012
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Apr 26, 2012
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Apr 24, 2012
Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think
Apr 19, 2012
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Apr 17, 2012
Body Odor: You Stink
Apr 11, 2012
Was Atlantis a real place?
Apr 10, 2012
How Diamonds Work
Apr 03, 2012
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Mar 29, 2012
10 Big Cases of Revenge
Mar 27, 2012
How Tipping Works
Mar 22, 2012
How Comic Books: Live from SXSW
Mar 20, 2012
How the Donner Party Worked
Mar 15, 2012
Should chimps be used for medical testing?
Mar 13, 2012
How Noah's Ark Worked
Mar 08, 2012
Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet
Mar 06, 2012
How SETI Works
Mar 01, 2012
How Crying Works
Feb 28, 2012
Fasting: deadly or what?
Feb 23, 2012
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Feb 16, 2012
How Zero Works
Feb 14, 2012
How Coral Reefs Work
Feb 09, 2012
Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?
Feb 07, 2012
How Floods Work
Jan 26, 2012
How Human Trafficking Works
Jan 24, 2012
How Mexican Wrestling Works
Jan 19, 2012
Are contrails actually chemtrails?
Jan 17, 2012
What's the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?
Jan 12, 2012
Can you vacation in Antarctica?
Jan 10, 2012
Was there a curse on King Tut's tomb?
Jan 05, 2012
How Yo-Yos Work
Jan 03, 2012
Coffee: The World's Drug of Choice
Dec 29, 2011
What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
Dec 27, 2011
Josh and Chuck's Christmas Extravaganza
Dec 22, 2011
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Dec 20, 2011
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Dec 15, 2011
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Dec 08, 2011
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Dec 06, 2011
What made the donkey and the elephant political?
Dec 01, 2011
Cash Debit or Credit: Which is best?
Nov 29, 2011
How Thoroughbred Horses Work
Nov 24, 2011
Crossbows: They Look Cool
Nov 22, 2011
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What Saved the American Bison
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Nov 01, 2011
Berenice
Oct 27, 2011
How Anti-matter Spacecraft Will Work
Oct 25, 2011
Do you lose the right to privacy when you die?
Oct 20, 2011
The Nile IS Just a River in Egypt
Oct 18, 2011
The Wind Cries Typhoid Mary
Oct 13, 2011
A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes
Oct 11, 2011
How the Peace Corps Works
Oct 06, 2011
How Silly Putty Works
Oct 04, 2011
How U.S. Marshals Work
Sep 29, 2011
How Sword Swallowing Works
Sep 27, 2011
How Family Crests Work
Sep 22, 2011
How Acne Works
Sep 20, 2011
How the Moon Works
Sep 15, 2011
How Casinos Work
Sep 13, 2011
How the World Trade Center Memorial Works
Sep 08, 2011
10 Scientists Who Were Their Own Guinea Pigs
Sep 06, 2011
How Lie Detectors Work
Sep 01, 2011
Cryonics: Hi, Frozen Body!
Aug 30, 2011
How Schizophrenia Works
Aug 23, 2011
How to Land on a Government Watch List
Aug 18, 2011
How Murphy's Law Works, the Redux
Aug 16, 2011
Laughter: What's so funny about that?
Aug 11, 2011
What's the future of the internet?
Aug 09, 2011
Ethnobotany: How to Get Drugs from Plants
Aug 04, 2011
Can you sweat colors?
Aug 02, 2011
How SPAM Works
Jul 28, 2011
How Wildfires Work
Jul 26, 2011
How Karma Works
Jul 21, 2011
Does smiling make you happy?
Jul 19, 2011
Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 2: Baseball and Apple Pie
Jul 14, 2011
Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 1: Mom
Jul 12, 2011
How Human Cannonballs Work
Jul 07, 2011
How Hate Works
Jul 05, 2011
Who was America's first murderer?
Jun 30, 2011
How Asteroid Mining Could Work
Jun 28, 2011
How Suicide Bombers Work
Jun 21, 2011
How Curiosity Works
Jun 16, 2011
How Military Snipers Work
Jun 14, 2011
Was Malthus right about carrying capacity?
Jun 09, 2011
How the Underground Railroad Worked
Jun 07, 2011
How Fear Works
Jun 02, 2011
How Nicotine Works
May 31, 2011
How do I start my own country?
May 26, 2011
What is terror management theory?
May 24, 2011
What is parallel evolution?
May 19, 2011
Can the sun kill you?
May 17, 2011
How Con Artists Work
May 12, 2011
What is mountaintop removal mining?
May 10, 2011
A Podcast to Remember (How Memory Works)
May 05, 2011
How Parkour Works
May 03, 2011