Stuff You Should Know

    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.

  • Selects: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

  • The Story of Tavern on the Green

  • Short Stuff: The Gaslighting of Martha Mitchell

  • The Saga of Silk Road

  • Selects: The Cleveland Torso Murders

  • The Fascinating History of Dandelions

  • Short Stuff: The wAve

  • Kids' Chemistry Sets: KABOOM!

  • Selects: What's a quinceañera anyway?

  • ADHD pt 2

  • Short Stuff: Tornado Alley

  • ADHD pt 1

  • Selects: The Strange Story of Sea Monkeys

  • 15th Annual SYSK Halloween Spooktacular!

  • Short Stuff: Two Scary True Shorties!

  • The Mystery of the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake

  • Selects: Why Landmines Are The Deadliest Legacy Of War

  • Spend Some Time with Fairies

  • Short Stuff: The Story of Spirit Halloween

  • Q Anon: When Wild Conspiracy Went (sort of) Mainstream

  • Selects: Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies

  • Kudzu: The Vine That Just Won't Stop

  • Short Stuff: Redacted!

  • The Anarchist Cookbook: Funny but Dangerous

  • Selects: How Paramedics Work

  • Swatches!

  • Short Stuff: Mystery of the Sarah Jo

  • Gobekli Tepe

  • Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

  • The Strange Story of Lysol

  • Short Stuff: Flower Power

  • The Shadow Biosphere: Is There Other Life on Earth?

  • Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change

  • The Judas Priest Suicide Trial

  • Short Stuff: The SS Ourang Medang

  • Four Eyes Good: The History of Glasses

  • Selects: How Government Shutdowns Work

  • Tom Slick: Not the Cartoon

  • Short Stuff: The Killing Stone

  • Would A Love Drug Be Ethical?

  • Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 2

  • Celebration Florida: The Story of a Utopia that Never Was

  • Short Stuff: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

  • Henry Ford: The Good, Bad and Ugly

  • Selects: How Futurology Works

  • Ludwig II: The Only Real King of the 19th Century

  • Short Stuff: Rescuing Mistreated Pets

  • The History of Streaming Music

  • Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 1

  • How Bomb Disposal Works

  • Short Stuff: Skid Row (not the band)

  • The Strange Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon

  • Selects: Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom

  • The Luddites: Misunderstood Working Class Heroes

  • Short Stuff: Chupacabra

  • True Mysteries of the Internet

  • Selects: Body Language!

  • The Cher Episode

  • Short Stuff: Tarring and Feathering

  • Minecraft! Minecraft! Minecraft!

  • Selects: Genghis Khan: Madman or Genius?

  • The Call of the Void: Don’t Pick Up!

  • Short Stuff: Pruney Skin

  • The Story of Rudolf Diesel

  • Selects: Timber! How Timber Works

  • The One About Car Washes

  • Short Stuff: ZIP Codes!

  • Who was Dr. Bronner?

  • Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots'

  • The KILLDOZER Rampage

  • Short Stuff: The Ritchie Boys

  • Phone Phreaking: The Advent of Hacking

  • Selects: The Duality of Caffeine

  • HPV and You

  • Short Stuff: Sitzpinklers Unite

  • The Puritans in America

  • Selects: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician

  • Salsa: NOT THE DANCE

  • Short Stuff: Milk Wars

  • Jane Goodall: All Good

  • Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part II

  • Salute to Women Inventors

  • Short Stuff: POW Olympics

  • How Dopamine Works

  • Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work

  • EXTRA! EXTRA! The Newsboy Strike Episode!

  • Short Stuff: James Dean's Car

  • Whistling!

  • Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I

  • The Big Episode on Wikipedia

  • Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture

  • Why Must Widowhood Be So Difficult?

  • Selects: The Murder Mystery of Ötzi the Iceman

  • A Brief History of Air Travel

  • Short Stuff: Peace Sign

  • Coercive Control, the Invisible Basis of Abuse

  • Selects: Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen

  • The Ballad of Grit

  • Short Stuff: Amber Alerts

  • Conductors: What the heck is going on there?

  • Selects: What are think tanks all about?

  • The Guinness Book of Records

  • Short Stuff: What's a mudlarker?

  • The shameful and harrowing story Unit 731

  • Selects: How Vomit Phobia Works

  • J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 2

  • Short Stuff: Hobo Signs

  • J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 1

  • Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth

  • The Silurian Hypothesis

  • Short Stuff: Zambonis!

  • NYC Trash: A study in persistence

  • Selects: How Stuttering Works

  • 10 - Yes, 10! - Dumb Criminals

  • Short Stuff: Titanic Survivors!

  • Misophonia: More Than an Annoyance

  • Selects: The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold

  • Atomic Clocks, Ahoy!

  • Short Stuff: Getting Winded

  • The Village People Episode

  • Selects: How the Beagle Brigade Works

  • The Awful Crimes of Georgia Tann

  • Short Stuff: The Sad, Strange Tale of Margaret Schilling

  • The Power of the Wind

  • Selects: Special Effects: A Short History

  • Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out!

  • Short Stuff: The Amazing Tale of Juliane Koepcke

  • The Dubious Science of Arson Investigation

  • Selects: How Famines Work

  • Testosterone and Estrogen: Wondrous Hormones

  • Short Stuff: Straitjackets

  • The 1977 Women's Conference That Changed America

  • Selects: All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh

  • The Everglades: Wowee

  • Short Stuff: Knock on Wood

  • Greedflation Is Real

  • Selects: Who is The Man of the Hole?

  • The Pulitzer Prize: A major award!

  • Short Stuff: Ramree Island Crocodile Massacre

  • Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds

  • Selects: MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood

  • Peanuts (the comic) Part II

  • Short Stuff: Mariko Aoki Phenomenon

  • Peanuts (the comic) Part I

  • Selects: How Dyslexia Works

  • The Alien Abduction Phenomenon of the Mid-20th Century

  • Short Stuff: Skittles and TIO2

  • Leave Brutalism Alone!

  • Selects: The Science of Break-Ups

  • The Smiley, Stubborn Llama

  • Short Stuff: Roly Poly...Bugs?

  • Multitasking: Working slower with worse results

  • Selects: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Wireless Electricity: When Can We Unplug Our TVs?

  • Short Stuff: Smudging: Not just for hippies

  • Haile Selassie: Statesman, Colonizer, God?

  • Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works

  • The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout

  • Short Stuff: Benin Bronzes

  • Ray and Charles Eames: More than Chairs

  • Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't

  • Like, here's the episode on "like"

  • Short Stuff: The Original Snake Oil Salesman

  • What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws

  • Selects: The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least

  • What's the Pygmalion Effect?

  • Short Stuff: School Bus Yellow

  • Clue(do): Third Best Board Game Ever

  • Selects: How Disgust Works

  • The History of Las Vegas

  • Short Stuff: Wainscoting: When Half a Wall is Enough

  • The Harrowing Story of the North Hollywood Shootout

  • Selects: A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer

  • Esperanto: Tre Mojosa

  • Short Stuff: Hot Cold Plunge

  • The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

  • Selects: Is yogurt a miracle food?

  • Jonestown

  • Short Stuff: Frozen Dead Guy

  • Dry Cleaning: Not Really Dry(!)

  • Selects: History's Greatest Traitors

  • How Cranes Work

  • Short Stuff: NYT Bestseller List

  • Kenton Grua: Grand Canyon Legend

  • Selects: Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • The 2000 Presidential Election: A Real Cluster

  • Short Stuff: Blueprints

  • SYSK Live in Nashville: The Biosphere II Experiment

  • Selects: Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans

  • How Primitive Will Our Descendants Find Us?

  • Short Stuff: Scheele's Green

  • How Snails Work

  • Selects: How Fireplaces Work

  • The 2023 SYSK Ho-Ho-Holiday Spectacular!

  • Short Stuff: Christmas Lights

  • Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion

  • Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

  • Selects: How Dictators Work

  • What was the Skeleton Army?

  • Short Stuff: Pickles

  • The Matewan Massacre

  • Selects: What were the Freedom Schools?

  • The Murder of John Lennon

  • Short Stuff: Boba Tea

  • The Life and Works of J.D. Salinger

  • Selects: Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun

  • You Down With OED?

  • Short Stuff: The Zipper Merge

  • Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable

  • Selects: NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel

  • The Wreck of the Costa Concordia

  • Short Stuff: Magnetic Pole Switcheroo

  • Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)

  • Selects: E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?

  • Diners: The Most American Establishment?

  • Short Stuff: Liberty Bell

  • The Tragic Death of Natalie Wood

  • Selects: Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

  • How Scuba Works

  • Short Stuff: Petrified Wood

  • Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

  • Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?

  • The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures

  • Short Stuff: White Dog Poop

  • The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

  • Selects: How Mummies Work

  • Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love

  • Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts

  • The Compton Cafeteria Riot

  • Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

  • Kindness: Do It

  • Short Stuff: Candy Corn

  • The Criminal Father of Criminology

  • Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

  • How Intellectual Property Works

  • Short Stuff: Longyou Caves

  • Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!

  • Selects: How Motion Sickness Works

  • How Andy Warhol Worked

  • Short Stuff: Rhodium

  • Night of the Grizzlies

  • Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think

  • Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet

  • Short Stuff: The Dakota

  • The Amazing Life of Christine Granville

  • Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

  • Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness

  • Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs

  • 10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever

  • Selects: How Floods Work

  • The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster

  • Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky

  • Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico

  • Selects: How Space Stations Work

  • Native American Reservations

  • Short Stuff: History of OK

  • The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K

  • Selects: Body Odor: You Stink

  • Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music

  • Short Stuff: Evil Eye

  • Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan

  • Selects: How Toy Testing Works

  • Plant Migration

  • Short Stuff: Saturn's Rings

  • Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To

  • Selects: How Music Sampling Works

  • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition

  • Short Stuff: Edward Mordake

  • How We’re Learning to Talk to Animals

  • Selects: How Magnets Work

  • Xenobiotics

  • Short Stuff: History of English

  • Dear Diary...

  • Selects: Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever

  • The Last Meal Ritual

  • Short Stuff: NATO Alphabet

  • BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

  • Selects: What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?

  • MAD Magazine: A Tribute

  • Short Stuff: Blue Highway Signs

  • Learning a Foreign Language

  • Selects: Nirvana: Not The Band

  • Magic Eye Illusions

  • Short Stuff: Pie-In-The-Face Gag

  • Insomnia: Why you can't sleep

  • Selects: How Police Lineups Work

  • How PCP Works

  • Short Stuff: Père-Lachaise Cemetery

  • Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice

  • Selects: How Bats Work

  • James Beard: Food Legend

  • Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign

  • How Trucking Works

  • Selects: What Makes Lead So Poisonous?

  • Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!

  • Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius

  • Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

  • Selects: How Ocean Currents Work

  • How Afrofuturism Works

  • Short Stuff: Chia Pet

  • Large Language Models and You

  • Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps

  • How Alumin(i)um Works

  • Short Stuff: Suicide Forest

  • The Stinky History of Human Hygiene

  • Selects: How Audience Testing Works

  • Is Reality Real?

  • Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage

  • Why Manners?

  • Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs

  • What's the deal with intermittent fasting?

  • Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg

  • The Saga of Milli Vanilli

  • Selects: How Color Works

  • The Semi-Recent History of Exercise

  • Short Stuff: Pollen Count

  • What is the Bechdel Test?

  • Selects: How Dog Shows Work

  • How Juries Work

  • Short Stuff: Mood Rings

  • The Inflammation Theory of Disease

  • Selects: How Slinky Works

  • How TV Weathercasters Work

  • Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA

  • The Colosseum

  • Selects: Does the body replace itself?

  • Introducing Smell-O-Vision!

  • Short Stuff: Dunbar's Number

  • Nerf!

  • Selects: How Manhunts Work

  • Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway

  • Short Stuff: Botox Brain

  • Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?

  • Selects: Was There A Real Robin Hood?

  • METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes

  • Short Stuff: Routines

  • Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?

  • Selects: How Coffins Work

  • John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?

  • Short Stuff: Red Snow

  • How Skydiving Works

  • Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories

  • Playing Cards? You Got That Right!

  • Short Stuff: Beethoven’s DNA

  • What Caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?

  • Selects: How Jet Lag Works

  • What's the deal with dowsing?

  • Short Stuff: Theme Park Cremations

  • The First Road Trip

  • Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

  • An Interesting, Vastly Incomplete Look at Baseball Cards

  • Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation

  • The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins

  • Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?

  • Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds

  • Short Stuff: John Cage's 639 Year Concert

  • That's Amaro!

  • Selects: The Time Nazis Invaded Florida

  • Woodstock: The Festival for Stardust, Golden Hippies

  • Short Stuff: Paprika

  • Noncompete Agreements, Come On

  • Selects: Live From San Francisco: How Malls Work

  • Crosswords episode, perhaps?

  • Short Stuff: La Pascualita

  • The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon

  • Selects: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?

  • Naps: Chuck's Secret Talent

  • Short Stuff: Sleeping On It

  • The Mystery of the Lost Amber Room

  • Selects: The Max Headroom Affair

  • The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire

  • Short Stuff: Beulah Mae Donald

  • The Glorious Flamingo

  • Selects: Cave Diving: Totally Nuts

  • How (O)possums Work

  • Short Stuff: No Shirt, No Shoes, WTF

  • Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar

  • Selects: How Easy Bake Ovens Work

  • The Largely Equine History of Veterinary Medicine

  • Short Stuff: Bird Migration

  • Must We Suffer Emotional Pain?

  • Selects: Elephants: The Best Animals?

  • How Attachment Theory Works

  • Short Stuff: Adam's Apples and Throat Lumps

  • Let's Talk About John DeLorean

  • Selects: How Game Shows Work

  • Toast: As in browned bread

  • Short Stuff: Women Pirates

  • The Louisiana Purchase: Not a Purchase

  • Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works

  • How Tarot Works?

  • Short Stuff: Forest Lawn Memorial Park

  • How Enron Fooled the World

  • Selects: How Perfume Works

  • When Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top

  • Short Stuff: Dangers of Nose Picking

  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (not the song)

  • Selects: Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show Podcast Episode

  • Short Stuff: Mesas: Flat

  • Juicy: The Fried Chicken Story

  • Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

  • 2022 Holiday Spectacular!

  • Short Stuff: Snow Globes

  • Who was Dorothy Parker, really?

  • Selects: Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.

  • Interesting Origins of Everyday Phrases

  • Short Stuff: The Atlanta Washer Woman Strike

  • How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

  • Selects: How Polar Bears Work

  • True Crime: The Phantom of Heilbronn

  • Short Stuff: Birthday Paradox

  • How Face Blindness Works

  • Selects: The Rubik's Cube Episode

  • How Down Syndrome Works

  • Short Stuff: Goosebumps

  • Peripersonal Space: Humans’ Got Talent

  • Selects: How Umami Works!

  • Roller Skating: Fun and Cool

  • Short Stuff: Liquid Paper

  • Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

  • Selects: How Dark Money Works

  • Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?

  • Short Stuff: Incomplete Yawns

  • The Sordid History of Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties

  • Selects: Finders Keepers: Real Law

  • How Owls Work

  • Short Stuff: Dodleston Messages

  • What's so important about legal precedent?

  • Selects: What is an invasive species?

  • Vaudeville: Step Right Up!

  • Short Stuff: Birth Certificate Access

  • The Harvey's Casino Bombing of 1980

  • Selects: How Vampires Work

  • The 13th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

  • Short Stuff: Robert the Doll

  • The Tale of the Bloody Benders

  • Selects: 10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck

  • Fundamentalism: Menace II Society

  • Short Stuff: Water Towers

  • The History of Fake Towns.

  • Selects: How Pompeii Worked

  • 10 Cases of Mistaken Identity

  • Short Stuff: Blaschko's Lines

  • Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!

  • Selects: Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre

  • How License Plates Work

  • Short Stuff: Scratching

  • Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work

  • Selects: How Clowns Work

  • How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked

  • Short Stuff: Curse Tablets

  • Vasectomies: Stop Being A Wimp

  • Selects: How LSD Works

  • Sitcoms Part II

  • Short Stuff: Laugh Tracks

  • Sitcoms Part I

  • Selects: Frida Kahlo: Painter, Icon, Genius

  • Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters

  • Short Stuff: Hangry?

  • The Georgia Guidestones: The Elite Have a Laugh

  • Selects: What Happened to the Neanderthals?

  • Everything We Know About Squids

  • Short Stuff: RIP Man of the Hole

  • Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?

  • Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

  • Rolling Stone Magazine

  • Short Stuff: Mason-Dixon Line

  • We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday

  • Selects: Knife Throwing: Super Cool

  • Kissing Cousins: A History of Marrying Family

  • Short Stuff: Marrying Up

  • Introvert or Extravert: Which are you? (Probably both)

  • Selects: How Gossip Works

  • How Enemas Work

  • Short Stuff: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge

  • Mariachi: The Rodney Dangerfield of Music

  • Selects: Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus

  • The Origins of Breakfast Foods

  • Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax

  • What's the deal with energy drinks?

  • Selects: How Droughts Work

  • Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis

  • Short Stuff: Divorcing Your Parents

  • Silly String: Disaster in a Can

  • Selects: Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking

  • How Menstruation Works

  • Short Stuff: The Mars Rock with Signs of Life?

  • Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?

  • Selects: What's the misery index?

  • Googie: The Architecture of the Space Age

  • Short Stuff: Death from Astral Projection

  • Supernovae: Best Around, Case Closed

  • Selects: What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?

  • Why Bowling is Awesome

  • Short Stuff: Catatumbo Lightning

  • Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

  • Selects: How Ayahuasca Works

  • The Maya Civilization

  • Short Stuff: Alligator Gar

  • How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

  • Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

  • A Dispassionate Review of Roe v Wade

  • Short Stuff: What did we use before infant formula?

  • How Alien Contact Might Work

  • Selects: Chiggers: The Phantom Menace

  • What's up with bariatric surgery?

  • Short Stuff: Do Fish Get Thirsty?

  • The Appalachian Trail: A Heckuva Hike

  • Selects: How Steadicams Work

  • What were the IRA hunger strikes?

  • Short Stuff: HR8 Gun Legislation

  • How Wind Works

  • Selects: How Drowning Works

  • The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?

  • Short Stuff: Cleveland’s Infamous 10-Cent Beer Night

  • How Freedom of the Press Works

  • Selects: How Satanism Works

  • Kidney Donation: You Could Be A Saint!

  • Short Stuff: Happy Foods!

  • The Scintillating World of Interest Rates

  • Selects: Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?

  • The Myth of Absinthe

  • Short Stuff: Do people move in predictable directions?

  • Cats: Invasive Species?

  • Selects: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five

  • What's in a surname?

  • Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor

  • Squirrels, Ahoy!

  • Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked

  • Rhinoplasty, aka Nose Jobs

  • Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood

  • What are land acknowledgments?

  • Selects: How Champagne Works

  • Marcus Garvey: Black Moses

  • Short Stuff: Shar Pei

  • The Mystery of Coal

  • Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA

  • Understudies: Hardest Workers on Broadway?

  • Short Stuff: Smelly Homes

  • “Postmodernism:”

  • Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach

  • Just Say No to... Bottled Water

  • Short Stuff: Salute the Grilled Cheese

  • The Christine Collins Story

  • Selects: What happens to abandoned mines?

  • How Mensa Works

  • Short Stuff: Animal Politicians

  • The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

  • Selects: A Partial History of Action Figures

  • The Delightful History of Pubs

  • Short Stuff: The Church Choir That Didn't Explode

  • Watermelons: Nature's Gift to the World

  • Selects: How No-fly Zones Work

  • What’s NATO All About?

  • Short Stuff: Greenbrier Bunker

  • How Light Pollution Works

  • Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part II

  • Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part I

  • The Truth Behind Cage-Free and Free-Range

  • Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing

  • Why was Titicut Follies banned?

  • Selects: How Hate Works

  • How Rewilding Works

  • Short Stuff: Nose Breathing

  • Operation Northwoods: The False Flag Op That Never Was

  • Selects: A Brief Overview of Punk Rock

  • Aleister Crowley: Blowhard Narcissist?

  • Short Stuff: Great Smog of London

  • Behold, National Parks!

  • Selects: How Tabloids Work

  • How Effective Altruism Works

  • Short Stuff: Friends of Dorothy

  • What's the deal with phantom pain?

  • Selects: Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy?

  • How Mindfulness Works

  • Short Stuff: Commensalism

  • The Improbable Story of Martin Guerre

  • Selects: How Moss Works

  • The Ins and Outs of Albinism

  • Short Stuff: Cassowary

  • Leeches: Oh Hell No!

  • Selects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping

  • Littering: Not Cool

  • Short Stuff: Schmidt Stinging Pain Index

  • The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping

  • Selects: What's the Deal With Staring?

  • How the Nobel Peace Prize Works

  • Short Stuff: Firewalking

  • How Tacos Work

  • Selects: How Sloths Work

  • How Forgiveness Works

  • Short Stuff: Arctic Fox

  • Tug of War

  • Selects: How SETI Works

  • How Classified Information Works

  • Short Stuff: Jaywalking

  • Rock Paper Scissors: Decider of Things

  • Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub

  • What were the black codes?

  • Short Stuff: Fortune Cookies

  • The Circleville Poison Pen Letters Mystery

  • Selects: Carl Sagan: American Hero

  • Ants! Part 2!

  • Short Stuff: The Casket Racket

  • Ants! Part 1!

  • Selects: Horoscopes: Written in the Stars?

  • Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!

  • Short Stuff: Traffic Signals

  • Unsung Heroes of the Court

  • Selects: How Tipping Works

  • SYSK’s 2021 Glad Tidings Bonanza Holiday Special

  • Short Stuff: Christmas Cards

  • How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work

  • Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

  • Kidney Stones: No! Please, NO!

  • Short Stuff: Charity Tips

  • Palm Trees: Technically, Giant Plants

  • Selects: How the Terracotta Army Works

  • What's the deal with blue people?

  • Short Stuff: Funny Bone

  • Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?

  • Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria?

  • Your Gut Is Also A Brain

  • Short Stuff: SINA

  • The Twisted History of Dentistry

  • Selects: Why Do Lefties Exist?

  • Python-a-palooza!

  • Short Stuff: Mayday!

  • The Apache Wars

  • Selects: How Hoarding Works

  • Why Is DC Not A State?

  • Short Stuff: The Paper Dress Fad

  • Hot Dog!(s)

  • Selects: How Feng Shui Works

  • The Flannan Isles Mystery

  • Short Stuff: Your Dirty Bed

  • What are blue laws?

  • Selects: The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads

  • The Rock Ampersand Roll Hall of Fame

  • Short Stuff: Friendly Floatees

  • How mRNA Vaccines Work

  • Selects: What is folklore?

  • 2021 Halloween Spooktacular!

  • Short Stuff: Most Haunted House in England

  • Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know

  • Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

  • Harry Houdini: More than Magic

  • Short Stuff: Bloody Mary

  • Heat Waves!

  • Selects: Why is Venice so wet?

  • Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!

  • Short Stuff: Jack O'Lanterns and Sleepy Hollow

  • Venus Flytraps: Plant or Monster?

  • Selects: How X-Rays Work

  • The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius

  • Short Stuff: Dingoes!

  • Research Bias: Sort It Out, Science

  • Selects: How Empathy Works

  • All About Alligators

  • Short Stuff: Exploring Irish Monk

  • How Numerology Works

  • Selects: Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy

  • The Statue of Liberty

  • Short Stuff: Lake Erie's Rights

  • How Mail Order Marriages Work

  • Selects: How Free Speech Works

  • What's the deal with crash testing?

  • Short Stuff: The Javelina

  • How Embalming Works

  • Selects: Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm

  • How the Magna Carta Worked

  • Short Stuff: Chameleons

  • The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil

  • Selects: How Temper Tantrums Work

  • Criminal Records: No Thanks!

  • Short Stuff: Handwashing vs Dishwashers

  • How Trepanation Worked

  • Selects: Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process

  • Les Paul & Leo Fender Part II

  • Short Stuff: Jackalope

  • Les Paul & Leo Fender Part I

  • Selects: How Pet Psychics Work

  • Y2K: Much Ado About Something

  • Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species

  • How MRI Works

  • Selects: How Animal Domestication Works

  • How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work

  • Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty

  • Child Labor: Not Funny

  • Selects: How Landslides Work

  • How Transcendentalism Works

  • Short Stuff: Calamity Jane

  • The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Experiment

  • Selects: How Police Interrogation Works

  • How Sarcasm Works

  • Short Stuff: Space Hurricanes

  • Conservatorships: #freebritney

  • Selects: How Mars Works

  • The Origins of Some Everyday Superstitions

  • Short Stuff: RICO Act

  • Stranger Danger!

  • Selects: How Ketchup Works

  • How Reverse Osmosis Will Save the World

  • Short Stuff: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

  • The Radium Girls

  • Selects: How Historic Districts Work

  • SYSK Live: Koko, the Gorilla Who Talked

  • Short Stuff: Sulfanilamide Disaster

  • The Sad Story of William James Sidis

  • Selects: Are good samaritan laws effective?

  • The Grand Ole Opry Cast

  • Short Stuff: Beast of Gevaudan

  • Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing

  • Selects: How Royalty Works

  • How Faraday Cages Work

  • Short Stuff: Chastity Belts

  • The Mystery of Damascus Steel

  • Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis

  • How Venus Works

  • Short Stuff: Mojave Megaphone

  • Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World

  • Selects: How Sea Monsters Work

  • POGs: The 90s in a Bottle Cap

  • Short Stuff: Chinatowns

  • Slime Mold: 0% Mold, 100% Amazing

  • Selects: Who was America's first murderer?

  • John Muir: Outdoor Enthusiast

  • Short Stuff: Runner's High

  • What Causes Inflation?

  • Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works

  • Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

  • Short Stuff: Parachute Emergency!

  • How Cleft Lips and Palates Work

  • Selects: How Hot Wheels Work

  • Girl Scouts: More than cookie sellers

  • Short Stuff: Speed Reading

  • The Cleveland Torso Murders

  • Selects: How Limousines Work

  • How Monster Trucks Work

  • Short Stuff: Garter Snakes

  • The Ivy League

  • Selects: How Snake Handlers Work

  • How Uranium Mining Works

  • Short Stuff: Squarer Than Wombat Poop

  • The Appendix: No Respect

  • Selects: How Cave Dwellers Work

  • How Corporate Taxes Work

  • Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless

  • Truffles: Underground Treasures

  • Selects: How Profiling Works

  • How Stamp Collecting Works

  • Short Stuff: Madam C.J. Walker

  • Mechanical Bulls!

  • Selects: How Tupperware Works

  • Hair Loss: The Pits

  • Short Stuff: Palindromes

  • How the Electrical Grid Works

  • Selects: The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children

  • Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

  • Short Stuff: Venus de Milo

  • Havana Syndrome: ¿Qué Diablos?

  • Selects: How Circus Families Work

  • How the Titanic Worked: Part Two

  • Short Stuff: What's the oldest book?

  • How the Titanic Worked: Part One

  • Selects: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

  • Space Junk, Ahoy!

  • Short Stuff: Cellphones on Airplanes

  • What is biophilic design?

  • Selects: How Lighthouses Work

  • The Texas City Disaster of 1947

  • Short Stuff: Brazilian Jars

  • The Parrot Episode

  • Selects: Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Convertors Work

  • Karaoke: Tuesday Night Fever

  • Short Stuff: Tooth Fairy: Not Real

  • Dragons: As Real as Mermaids

  • Selects: Mermaids: Not a real thing

  • Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified?

  • Short Stuff: Dog Suicide Bridge

  • Is the Free Radical Theory of Aging Wrong?

  • Selects: Bridges: Nature Abhors Them

  • How Bruce Lee Worked

  • Short Stuff: The Body in the Cylinder

  • What Will Farming 4.0 Look Like?

  • Selects: How Chili Peppers Work

  • How Blue Holes Work

  • Short Stuff: Freedom House Ambulance Services

  • The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

  • Selects: Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia?

  • How Housing Discrimination Works

  • Short Stuff: How California Got Its Name

  • Sacagawea: Impressive Teen

  • Selects: Earwax: Live With It

  • The NAACP

  • Short Stuff: Balloonfest

  • How Groundhog Day Works

  • Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out

  • How Hydropower Works

  • Short Stuff: Vantablack

  • The KKK: Loathsome Cosplay Rednecks

  • Selects: How Blimps Work

  • Finding the Fenn Treasure

  • Short Stuff: Necco

  • What does a tire company know about food?

  • Selects: What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys?

  • The Science of Cute

  • Short Stuff: Silverfish

  • Hell! Hell! Hell!

  • Selects: How Skateboarding Works

  • The Wright Brothers

  • Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre?

  • Space Weather - What's That?!

  • Selects: How Auto-Tune Works

  • La Dame de Fer (Eiffel Tower)

  • Short Stuff: Ig-pay Atin-lay (Sorry)

  • Theremins: World's First Electronic Music

  • SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth

  • The SYSK 2020 Holly Jolly Extravaganza!

  • Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas

  • How Buffets Work

  • SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

  • Aspirin: The Wonder Drug

  • Short Stuff: Modern Funerals

  • Joseph Merrick, aka "The Elephant Man"

  • SYSK Selects: What is a hangover, really?

  • The Taliesin Massacre

  • Short Stuff: Cramming

  • How Class Action Lawsuits Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe

  • John Lennon and the FBI

  • Short Stuff: Pimento Cheese!

  • Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century

  • SYSK Selects: How Tea Works

  • Gobble Gobble: Turkeys!

  • Short Stuff: How Eyes In a Painting Follow You

  • Patty Hearst: Brainwashed or Bandit?

  • SYSK Selects: Whatever happened to acid rain?

  • The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth

  • Short Stuff: Squirrel Nuts

  • How Pain Works

  • SYSK Selects: Who Gets to Name Continents?

  • How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works

  • Short Stuff: Plastic Pink Flamingos

  • The Bay of Pigs Disaster

  • SYSK Selects: Geysers: Nature's Innuendo

  • All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh

  • Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why?

  • The Amazing Roberto Clemente

  • SYSK Selects: How Ghosts Work

  • SYSK’s Scare Your Pants Off (and Back On) Halloween Spooktacular

  • Short Stuff: Poe Toaster

  • A History of Nursing Homes

  • Chuck Bryant On The Why I’m Voting Podcast

  • SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works

  • Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun

  • Short Stuff: Haunted Real Estate

  • 10 Voter Suppression Methods

  • SYSK Selects: How Sushi Works

  • Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies

  • Short Stuff: What is Latinx anyway?

  • Wind Tunnels: More Important Than You Realize

  • SYSK Selects: How Bigfoot Works

  • Printing press? Big deal!

  • Short Stuff: Lying in State

  • What's the deal with swing states?

  • SYSK Selects: How the Electoral College Works

  • Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

  • Short Stuff: That's A Head Scratcher

  • Conjugal Visits: Not exactly what you think

  • SYSK Selects: How Rabies Works

  • At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode

  • Short Stuff: Petticoat Rulers

  • How Sweepstakes Work

  • SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works

  • How Election Polling Works and Doesn't Work

  • Short Stuff: Black Cowboys

  • Origami: Folding Goodness

  • SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work

  • Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!

  • Short Stuff: Streisand Effect

  • Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

  • SYSK Selects: How Police Chases Work

  • The Disturbing Disappearance of Tara Calico

  • Short Stuff: More Phrase Origins

  • How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

  • SYSK Selects: Polyamory: When two just won't do

  • Blacksmiths? You got that right!

  • Short Stuff: Carrots and Your Eyes

  • How Sneezing Works

  • SYSK Selects: How Panic Attacks Work

  • 1-800-PODCAST

  • Short Stuff: The Great American Coin Shortage of 2020

  • How Anti-Dieting Works

  • SYSK Selects: How The Human Microbiome Project Works

  • Olympic Torches: Remember Those?

  • Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!

  • Pirate Radio: Mavericks on the High Seas

  • SYSK Selects: How The Moonwalk Works

  • How Miniature Golf Works

  • Short Stuff: Jigsaw Puzzles

  • Wasps: Not as cute as bees

  • SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works

  • How Soap Works

  • Short Stuff: Habsburg Jaw

  • How Hurricanes Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Lobbying Works

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mobile Phones

  • Short Stuff: The Death of Billy the Kid

  • How We Almost Got Rid of Polio

  • SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works

  • Robber Barons!

  • Short Stuff: Centralia Coal Fire

  • Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad

  • SYSK Selects: How Landfills Work

  • Essential Oils: Nature's Cure?

  • Short Stuff: The @ Symbol

  • What was the KGB?

  • SYSK Selects: All We Know About Guessing

  • Oh Yes, How Soil Works

  • Short Stuff: The Science of Funny Words

  • Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits

  • SYSK Selects: Juggling: What the Heck

  • Matcha: That Ain't Just Tea

  • Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble!

  • How Ultrasound Works

  • SYSK Selects: Research tips from SYSK

  • The Manhattan Grid

  • Short Stuff: Haint Blue

  • The War on Fat: The Seven Countries Study

  • SYSK Selects: How Flamethrowers Work

  • Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight?

  • Short Stuff: Foie Gras

  • How Project Star Gate Worked

  • SYSK Selects: How The Black Panther Party Worked

  • The Massacre at Tiananmen Square

  • Short Stuff: Disappearing Dirty Dancing Lake

  • Heroin: The Drug

  • SYSK Selects: How Jackhammers Work

  • How Narcolepsy Works

  • Short Stuff: Lawn Darts

  • Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom

  • SYSK Selects: How The Enlightenment Works

  • Josh Clark's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020

  • How Bras Work

  • Short Stuff: Mary Had A Little Lamb

  • How Spiritualism Works

  • Chuck Bryant's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020

  • SYSK Selects: How Fire Works

  • How Peanut Butter Works

  • Short Stuff: Charley Horse

  • How Herd Immunity Works

  • SYSK Selects: How Caving Works

  • Zippers: Humans’ Greatest Invention? No, But Still Good

  • Short Stuff: Gibtown: Sideshow Central

  • I'm Spartacus!

  • SYSK Selects: How do dogs perceive time?

  • Agatha Christie: Queen of the Murder Mystery

  • Short Stuff: Mullets: 'Nuff Said

  • How Existential Risks Work

  • SYSK Selects: How the U.S. Postal Service Works

  • How the Voyager Golden Records Work

  • Short Stuff: The NY Times Crossword

  • The Soul Train Episode

  • SYSK Selects: How Labor Unions Work

  • How Wastewater Treatment Works

  • Short Stuff: Turning Down the Radio When You're Lost

  • Bidets: Now More Than Ever

  • SYSK Selects: How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works

  • Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician

  • Short Stuff: AAirpass

  • The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold

  • SYSK Selects: How the Deep Web Works

  • Student Loans: UGH!

  • Short Stuff: 666

  • How Dog Training Works

  • SYSK Selects: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?

  • How COVID-19 Works

  • Short Stuff: Dagen H

  • Could A Robot Tax Win the War on Poverty?

  • SYSK Selects: Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Jim Henson Worked

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: SYSK Live: How Bars Work

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Grass Works? Yes, How Grass Works

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Terraforming Will Work

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rogue Waves Work

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: Was there a real King Arthur?

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: The Amazing History of Soda

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Pinball Works

  • SYSK Distraction Playlist: Sugar: It Powers the Earth

  • What was the Falkland Islands War all about anyway?

  • Short Stuff: The Pledge of Allegiance

  • Chopsticks > Forks

  • SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works

  • How Ice Climbing Works

  • Short Stuff: Teresita Basa

  • How Coyotes Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Gold Works

  • Mardi Gras! One month late

  • Short Stuff: Exclamation Points!

  • How Morphic Fields Work?

  • SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?

  • Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

  • Short Stuff: Hawaiian Night Marchers

  • What's the deal with indigo?

  • SYSK Selects: How Cult Deprogramming Works

  • Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil

  • Short Stuff: Mexican Jumping Beans

  • The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances

  • SYSK Selects: A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes

  • 911 Is Not a Joke

  • Short Stuff: Body Under The Bed

  • Optogenetics: Controlling Your Genes with Light

  • SYSK Selects: How Bonsai Works

  • Why are Pentecostals growing so rapidly?

  • Short Stuff: The Iowa Caucus

  • How AI Facial Recognition Works

  • SYSK Selects: How Maglev Trains Work

  • Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

  • Short Stuff: The O.K. Corral

  • Amazing Animal Stories!

  • SYSK Selects: How the Scientific Method Works

  • Barefoot Running: The Best Podcast Episode in History

  • Short Stuff: Byford Dolphin Incident

  • Why Postal Employees Go Postal

  • SYSK Selects: How the Placebo Effect Works

  • The Tulsa 'Race Riots'

  • Short Stuff: The Mona Lisa

  • Transdermal Implants: Body Art or Nightmare Fuel?

  • SYSK Selects: Jellyfish - Even Cooler Than Octopi?

  • The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part II

  • Short Stuff: Corduroy

  • The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part I

  • SYSK Selects: Will Computers Replace Doctors?

  • How Safecracking Works

  • Short Stuff: Why Does Time Speed Up As You Age?

  • Are broken arrows a problem?

  • SYSK Selects: How Wine Fraud Works

  • SYSK Live: Andre the Giant

  • Short Stuff: The Santa Claus Association

  • The SYSK Holiday Spectacular

  • SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

  • Cave Diving: Totally Nuts

  • Short Stuff: Obituaries

  • MC Escher and His Trippy Art

  • SYSK Selects: How Currency Works

  • How Anorexia and Bulimia Work

  • Short Stuff: Whisky or Bourbon?

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gin

  • SYSK Selects: How Amnesia Works

  • What's a gap year anyway?

  • Short Stuff: Macadamia Nuts

  • Did Climate Cause the Collapse of the Maya?

  • SYSK Selects: Fractals - Whoa

  • How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work

  • Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered

  • How Carbon-14 Dating Works

  • SYSK Selects: Have all the good ideas already been discovered?

  • What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy?

  • Short Stuff: Backyard Burials

  • The Murder Mystery of Ötzi the Iceman

  • SYSK Selects: How Salt Works

  • NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel

  • Short Stuff: The Conch Republic

  • Augmented Reality: Coming Soon?

  • SYSK Selects: Can you Treat Mental Illness with Psychedelics?

  • Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

  • How Ironman Triathlons Work

  • Short Stuff: The History of Paternity Testing

  • SYSK Selects: Halitosis - Worst Smell Ever?

  • SYSK’s Scare Your Socks Off Halloween Spooktacular 2019

  • Short Stuff: Our Shortie Halloween Spooktacular

  • Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

  • SYSK Selects: How Haunted House Attractions Work

  • How Historic Districts Work

  • Short Stuff: The Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez

  • What's the deal with subpoenas?

  • SYSK Selects: The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s

  • How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II

  • Short Stuff: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce

  • How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I

  • SYSK Selects: How Black Boxes Work

  • The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping

  • Short Stuff: The Devil's Den

  • How Environmental Psychology Works

  • SYSK Selects: How Pez Works

  • What were the Freedom Schools?

  • Short Stuff: Fish n' Chips

  • Guardian Angels: Behind the Red Beret

  • SYSK Selects: What Happened at Kent State?

  • What are paraphilias?

  • Short Stuff: Dare Stones

  • We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters

  • SYSK Selects: Could You Live Without a Refrigerator?

  • How the US Interstate System Works

  • Short Stuff: Scurvy

  • The Skinny on Lyme Disease

  • SYSK Selects: How Wills Work

  • Special Effects: A Short History

  • Short Stuff: Papasan Chairs

  • How Government Shutdowns Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Ouija Boards Work

  • What's the deal with MSG?

  • Short Stuff: Barbed Wire

  • Ed Gein: The Serial Killer's Serial Killer

  • SYSK Selects: How Icebergs Work

  • The Rubik's Cube Episode

  • Short Stuff: Dead Bodies and Airline Codes

  • A Brief Overview of Punk Rock

  • SYSK Selects: How Sleepwalking Works

  • How Ventriloquism Works

  • Short Stuff: Horseshoe Crab Blood

  • Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans

  • SYSK Selects: Are We in a Cyberwar?

  • How Peyote Works

  • Short Stuff: Petrichor

  • Solar Power: The Future or What?

  • SYSK Selects: What Is a Shotgun House?

  • Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2

  • Short Stuff: Time Zones

  • Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1

  • SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked

  • What Were the BONE WARS?

  • Short Stuff: The Man Who Didn’t Eat for a Year

  • Will Deepfakes Ruin the World?

  • SYSK Selects: How Human Cannonballs Work

  • How Eyewitness Testimony Works(?)

  • Short Stuff: Aristides de Sousa Mendes

  • MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood

  • SYSK Selects: How Crack Works

  • Sand Dunes: They Are What You Think They Are

  • Short Stuff: Yellow Rain

  • How Going to the Moon Works

  • SYSK Selects: Duels - A Guide to Throwing Down the Gauntlet

  • How Sloths Work

  • Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult

  • Cleopatra: Ms. Understood

  • SYSK Selects: What Makes us Yawn?

  • How the Fairness Doctrine Worked

  • Short Stuff: Mitsuye Endo

  • Is photographic memory a real thing?

  • SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?

  • What is the Civil Air Patrol?

  • Short Stuff: Prison Food

  • Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy

  • SYSK Selects: How the Donner Party Worked

  • What happened to the Neanderthals?

  • Short Stuff: Emperor Norton

  • How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works

  • SYSK Selects: What's the Deal with Crop Circles?

  • How Area 51 Works

  • Short Stuff: Smoke Signals

  • What's the gig economy?

  • SYSK Selects: How Capgras Syndrome Works

  • What is perfect pitch?

  • Short Stuff: Robert Johnson and the Devil

  • How Barcodes Work

  • SYSK Selects: How TV Ratings Work

  • The Tylenol Murders, Part II

  • Short Stuff: Look-Alike Old Couples

  • The Tylenol Murders, Part I

  • SYSK Selects: How Acne Works

  • What was Tin Pan Alley?

  • Short Stuff: James Polk, Disinterred

  • How Crystals Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Dying Works

  • 10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck

  • Short Stuff: Honorary Degrees

  • How Trampolines Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Lie Detectors Work

  • Do Dietary Supplements Work?

  • Short Stuff: Nicknames

  • Remembering Live Aid

  • SYSK Selects: How Does a Diving Bell Work?

  • What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?

  • Short Stuff: The Number 23

  • Michael Dillon: Trans Pioneer

  • SYSK Selects: How Zero Works

  • What Were Human Zoos?

  • Short Stuff: Fear of Public Speaking

  • Is birth order important?

  • SYSK Selects: How Marijuana Works

  • How the Hoover Dam Works, Part II

  • Short Stuff: Emu Wars

  • How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I

  • SYSK Selects: How Yo-Yos Work

  • How the Electric Chair Works

  • Short Stuff: Lake Peigneur

  • How Free Range Parenting Works

  • SYSK Selects: How Pollen Works

  • Were Nazis Drug-Fueled Crankheads?

  • Short Stuff: Unspent Campaign Money

  • How Rape Kits Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Immigration Works

  • Etch A Sketch!

  • Short Stuff: When Elvis Met Nixon

  • How Druids Worked

  • SYSK Selects: How Sign Language Works

  • How Disgust Works

  • Short Stuff: The Sandman

  • Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus

  • SYSK Selects: Was Atlantis A Real Place?

  • The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

  • Short Stuff: Bedbugs

  • The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

  • SYSK Selects: How Wildfires Work

  • How Dyslexia Works

  • Short Stuff: Wigs in English Court

  • What's the deal with ASMR?

  • SYSK Selects: How the Panama Canal Works

  • Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes

  • Short Stuff: Black Loyalists

  • The Science of Break-Ups

  • SYSK Selects: How Lewis and Clark Worked

  • How Galaxies Work

  • Short Stuff: Turbulence

  • Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot

  • SYSK Selects: Interpol: World Police

  • Elephants: The Best Animals?

  • Short Stuff: War of Jenkins' Ear

  • Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?

  • SYSK Selects: How Coral Reefs Work

  • The True Story of BlacKkKlansman

  • Short Stuff: Ellen Richards

  • The Insidious Abuse of Stalking

  • SYSK Selects: Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think!

  • How Central Park Works

  • Short Stuff: Johnny Appleseed

  • How Ping Pong Works

  • SYSK Selects: Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish

  • The Legend of Betsy Ross

  • Short Stuff: Thread Count

  • SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health

  • SYSK Selects: How Lobotomies Work

  • The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler

  • Short Stuff: Olestra

  • How Airbags Work

  • SYSK Selects: How Schizophrenia Works

  • The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper

  • Short Stuff: How Often Do You Need To Change Your Oil?

  • How the Spanish Flu Worked

  • SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works

  • What was the Tunguska event?

  • Short Stuff: Khipu

  • Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years

  • SYSK Selects: How Fossils Work

  • Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  • Short Stuff: The Brain-Bladder Connection

  • SYSK Live Christmas Spectacular!

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  • How Muppets Work

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  • Bizarre Ways to Die

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