Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
It's a pretty safe assumption that people have been born with birthmarks since humanity began, and between then and now we've come up with s...
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20 of 2,828 episodesThe Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Since the age of Descartes, science has put all of its eggs in the basket of determinism, the idea that with accurate enough measurements an...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Global Warming Works
It's a confusing part of climate change when it seems winter is as cold as ever, but as global temperatures creep ever so slightly higher, a...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How the Scientific Method Works
It evolved over centuries to become the gold standard for conducting scientific inquiry. Yet many people - including some scientists - don't...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are a number of theories for how the universe evolved but none are more widely accepted than the Big Bang theory. Learn about the mind...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
It's easy to think of people in the distant past as kinda dumb for believing things like that mice could spontaneously generate from old gra...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Occam's Razor Works
You know the rule that says the simplest explanation is probably the correct one? That's called a razor and it's meant to guide logic. But o...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
The world's energy consumption is ruining the planet but for decades physicists have been working on what could solve the world's energy and...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch
You could be forgiven for thinking the story behind elastics was boring. You'd still be wrong, though. The story of what's holding up your u...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How X-Rays Work
Like many huge discoveries, X-rays were accidentally stumbled upon. That serendipity led to a medical breakthrough still in use today. Learn...
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
If you've ever wanted to listen to two totally untrained, non-chemists who are fully unqualified to explain how the periodic table works ner...
M*A*S*H: The Story of the 4077th
Chuck loved M*A*S*H. Josh didn't. Listen in as they fight to the death.
Short Stuff: Does singing make you happy?
Does singing make you happy? Yes, yes it does.
Did 24-Hour Cable News Kill America?
You can make a pretty good case that the rise of opinion "news" and filter bubbles on cable tv created the current cultural and political sc...
Selects: How the Fairness Doctrine Worked
Back in the day, broadcasters were bound by law to provide contrasting opinions on political matters. Why? Because of the Fairness Doctrine....
The NY Subway Vigilante
Today we dive into the unremorseful life of NYC Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz.
Short Stuff: Rain Barrels!
Harvesting rainwater has tons of upsides and not many downsides – you just need to take a few precautions first. Don't miss this episo...
Smile
They say that smiling requires fewer muscles than frowning, so why not smile? That doesn't seem to be true, or at least unproven, and there...
Selects: 911 Is Not a Joke
Josh and Chuck delve into the world of 911 in this classic episode.
Three Mile Island
The disaster at Three Mile Island thankfully did not cost any lives directly, but the notion that it didn't harm people is very much up in t...