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  • Created June 24, 2019
  • Modified May 9, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2018E01 Why Are Resolutions So Easy to Break?
January 1, 2018
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S2018E02 How Similar Is the Opioid Epidemic to the Crack Epidemic?
January 2, 2018
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S2018E03 Could Some Microbes Live on Air Alone?
January 3, 2018
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S2018E04 Why Are Teens Cyberbullying Themselves?
January 4, 2018
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S2018E05 How Much Can Ice Tell Us About Climate Change?
January 5, 2018
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S2018E06 Did the Genes for Light Skin Colors Evolve in Europe?
January 8, 2018
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S2018E07 What Tech Will Replace the Smartphone?
January 9, 2018
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S2018E08 Can Bats Jam Each Other's Sonar?
January 10, 2018
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S2018E09 Could You Legally Bury Someone in Your Backyard?
January 12, 2018
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S2018E10 What Does Self-Defense Insurance Protect Gun Owners Against?
January 12, 2018
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S2018E11 Why Doesn't Airline Food Taste Good?
January 15, 2018
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S2018E12 How Green Is Your Favorite Superhero?
January 16, 2018
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S2018E13 What Do (and Don't) We Know About the Pentagon's UFO Program?
January 18, 2018
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S2018E14 How Does Anxiety Cause Underarm Sweat?
January 18, 2018
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S2018E15 What Animal Has the Best Echolocation Abilities?
January 19, 2018
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S2018E16 Can the Speed of Video Make Us Look More Innocent or Guilty?
January 22, 2018
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S2018E17 Could Colonists Dig Up Ice on Mars?
January 24, 2018
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S2018E18 How Did a Parisian Lemonade Craze Fight the Plague?
January 24, 2018
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S2018E19 What Is the 25th Amendment?
January 25, 2018
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S2018E20 Do Some Fabrics Make Body Odor Worse?
January 26, 2018
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S2018E21 Could Drones Replace News Helicopters?
January 29, 2018
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S2018E22 How Do Astronauts React to Lunar Landing Conspiracy Theories?
January 30, 2018
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S2018E23 Which States Get the Most Money from the Federal Government?
January 31, 2018
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S2018E24 Should You Give Cats Milk?
February 1, 2018
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S2018E25 Are Wine Glasses Getting Bigger?
February 2, 2018
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S2018E26 Do Vegetarians' Farts Smell Worse?
February 5, 2018
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S2018E27 What on Earth Are Skyquakes?
February 6, 2018
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S2018E28 Are We in an Insect Armageddon?
February 8, 2018
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S2018E29 How Much of the Internet Is Underwater?
February 8, 2018
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S2018E30 Can People Be Allergic to Water?
February 9, 2018
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S2018E31 What Happens to Mardi Gras Beads?
February 12, 2018
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S2018E32 Do Automatic Toilets Waste Water?
February 13, 2018
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S2018E33 Can You Be Addicted to Love?
February 15, 2018
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S2018E34 Can Magic Mushrooms Help Stop Depression?
February 15, 2018
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S2018E35 How Can Technology Help Stop Rhino Poachers?
February 16, 2018
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S2018E36 Did Velociraptors Really Hunt in Packs?
February 19, 2018
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S2018E37 Can Used Books Spread Germs?
February 20, 2018
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S2018E38 An Ice Cream that Doesn't Melt
February 21, 2018
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S2018E39 Can Autonomous Vehicles Break the Speed Limit?
February 22, 2018
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S2018E40 Could Human Waste Feed Astronauts?
February 23, 2018
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S2018E41 Are We Getting Lonelier?
February 26, 2018
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S2018E42 Sea Turtles Are Hatching Up to 99 Percent Female
February 27, 2018
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S2018E43 Could Humans Control Volcanic Eruptions?
February 28, 2018
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S2018E44 Does Hot Yoga Need to Be So Hot?
March 1, 2018
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S2018E45 Why Do Humans Dream?
March 2, 2018
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S2018E46 Do Female Praying Mantises Really Decapitate Mates?
March 5, 2018
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S2018E47 Why Are Stars and Planets Nearly Spherical?
March 6, 2018
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S2018E48 Where Did Middle Names Come From?
March 7, 2018
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S2018E49 Cuttlefish Camouflage Is an Energy-Efficient Superpower
March 8, 2018
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S2018E50 Is There a Better Alternative to Cash Bail?
March 9, 2018
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S2018E51 Is Room-Temperature Pizza Safe to Eat?
March 12, 2018
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S2018E52 Why Are Mass Shootings Happening in U.S. Schools?
March 13, 2018
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S2018E53 How Do Boogers Form?
March 14, 2018
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S2018E54 Does Technology Make Us Worse Drivers?
March 15, 2018
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S2018E55 What Can We Learn from Fish about Walking?
March 16, 2018
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S2018E56 How Can We Recycle More, and Smarter?
March 19, 2018
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S2018E57 Could Technology Replace Animal Testing?
March 20, 2018
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S2018E58 Why Are the Oceans Salty?
March 21, 2018
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S2018E59 What Happens to the Unclaimed Dead?
March 22, 2018
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S2018E60 Can Losing Sleep Make You Gain Weight?
March 23, 2018
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S2018E61 How Did Spring Break Get Its Start?
March 26, 2018
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S2018E62 What If Cockroaches Went Extinct?
March 27, 2018
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S2018E63 What's the Most Dangerous Air Pollution?
March 28, 2018
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S2018E64 What's the Difference Between Eggs of Different Colors?
March 29, 2018
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S2018E65 Can Your Face's Temperature Reveal Your Mood?
March 30, 2018
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S2018E66 Botox Exists Thanks to Bad Sausages
April 2, 2018
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S2018E67 Is Prozac Endangering Crabs' Survival?
April 3, 2018
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S2018E68 How Is New Laser Technology Discovering Ancient Ruins?
April 4, 2018
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S2018E69 How Much Salt Is Too Much?
April 5, 2018
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S2018E70 Is There a Gene for Infidelity?
April 6, 2018
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S2018E71 What Makes Durian Fruit Smell So Bad?
April 9, 2018
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S2018E72 Does Diabetes Lead to Disordered Eating?
April 10, 2018
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S2018E73 Could Platypus Milk Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Disease?
April 11, 2018
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S2018E74 How Much Electricity Can Urine Provide?
April 12, 2018
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S2018E75 How Can a Plant Outsource Photosynthesis?
April 13, 2018
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S2018E76 Why Are So Many People Nearsighted?
April 16, 2018
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S2018E77 What Happens to Wine Grape Waste?
April 17, 2018
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S2018E78 Is the Human Brain Hardwired for Poetry?
April 18, 2018
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S2018E79 Did an 19th-Century Man Predict Your Death?
April 19, 2018
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S2018E80 Why Were Fruit Flies the First Animal in Space?
April 20, 2018
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S2018E81 Is Our Tipping System Gratuitous?
April 23, 2018
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S2018E82 What Was the First Killer Robot?
April 24, 2018
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S2018E83 Why Can't I Taste My Tongue?
April 25, 2018
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S2018E84 Why Shouldn't Compressed Air Canisters Be Shaken?
April 26, 2018
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S2018E85 How Can Your Birth Season Determine Your Allergies?
April 27, 2018
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S2018E86 Do Happy Cows Really Make Better Milk?
April 30, 2018
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S2018E87 Can Talking About Yourself in the Third Person Make You Feel Better?
May 1, 2018
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S2018E88 How Nuclear Weapons Testing Created New Minerals
May 2, 2018
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S2018E89 Can a New Egyptian Dinosaur Fossil Explain How the Continents Formed?
May 3, 2018
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S2018E90 What's Chocolate's Carbon Footprint?
May 4, 2018
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S2018E91 What's the Happiest Country in the World?
May 7, 2018
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S2018E92 What Is Chinese Five Spice?
May 8, 2018
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S2018E93 What Is Red Snow?
May 9, 2018
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S2018E94 Will Ants Rescue Wounded Comrades?
May 10, 2018
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S2018E95 How Do We Define 'Suspicious Behavior' Without Bias?
May 11, 2018
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S2018E96 City Birds Use Cigarette Butts as Bug Repellent
May 14, 2018
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S2018E97 What Are the Most-Believed Myths About Our Brains?
May 15, 2018
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S2018E98 How Easy Is It to Immigrate to the U.S.?
May 16, 2018
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S2018E99 Should Airplanes Have Shoulder Seat Belts?
May 17, 2018
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S2018E100 Can We Save the Moai?
May 18, 2018
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S2018E101 Why Is Popping Zits So Satisfying?
May 21, 2018
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S2018E102 What Was Stephen Hawking's Final Project?
May 22, 2018
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S2018E103 How Do Snails Grow Their Shells?
May 23, 2018
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S2018E104 Is Coffee Good or Bad for You?
May 24, 2018
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S2018E105 Why Does Uranus Stink?
May 25, 2018
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S2018E106 Why Do Turtles Have Shells?
May 28, 2018
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S2018E107 Can You Microwave a Steak to Perfection?
May 29, 2018
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S2018E108 How Can You Be Your Own Twin?
May 30, 2018
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S2018E109 Does Earth's Crust Have Its Own Tides?
May 31, 2018
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S2018E110 Will the Paper of the Future Be Made from Poop?
June 1, 2018
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S2018E111 What Happens to Red Carpet Dresses?
June 4, 2018
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S2018E112 What Can't You Name Your Baby?
June 5, 2018
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S2018E113 Could a Plastic-Eating Enzyme Help Save the Planet?
June 6, 2018
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S2018E114 Does Spicy Food Burn Your Tastebuds?
June 7, 2018
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S2018E115 How One Blood Donor Saved Over 2 Million Babies
June 8, 2018
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S2018E116 How Do Sea Spiders Breathe Through Their Legs?
June 11, 2018
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S2018E117 Can You Really Catch Up on Sleep?
June 12, 2018
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S2018E118 The Man Behind Rube Goldberg Machines
June 13, 2018
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S2018E119 Why Does Microwaved Coffee Taste So Bad?
June 14, 2018
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S2018E120 Are We Moving Closer to 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'?
June 15, 2018
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S2018E121 Is Cockroach Milk the Next Big Thing?
June 18, 2018
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S2018E122 Is Life on Earth of Alien Origin?
June 19, 2018
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S2018E123 Do Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Communicate with Us?
June 20, 2018
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S2018E124 Can Copper Create Mummies?
June 21, 2018
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S2018E125 What Is Music's 'Word' for Death?
June 22, 2018
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S2018E126 Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible?
June 25, 2018
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S2018E127 How Can the Fashion Industry Better Serve People with Disabilities?
June 26, 2018
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S2018E128 When Will Arlington Cemetery Run Out of Space?
June 27, 2018
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S2018E129 Can Beaches Be Saved by Adding Sand?
June 28, 2018
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S2018E130 Boxer Crabs Use Anemones as Weapons
June 29, 2018
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S2018E131 Why Do We Feel Hungry When We're Not?
July 2, 2018
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S2018E132 What's Killing Ancient Baobab Trees?
July 3, 2018
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S2018E133 Could the Waterbed Make a Comeback?
July 4, 2018
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S2018E134 How Can We Prevent Suicides While Protecting Gun Rights?
July 5, 2018
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S2018E135 Who Was the First Fashion Designer?
July 6, 2018
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S2018E136 Are We Still Discovering Human Organs?
July 9, 2018
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S2018E137 How Can Robots Help Catch Poachers?
July 10, 2018
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S2018E138 Do Boys and Girls Bully Differently?
July 11, 2018
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S2018E139 Why Did Victorians Think Green Tea Causes Hallucinations?
July 12, 2018
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S2018E140 How Did the U.S.-Mexico Border Become Such a Flashpoint?
July 13, 2018
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S2018E141 How Close Are We to Recycling Carbon Dioxide Emissions?
July 16, 2018
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S2018E142 What Are Vampire Squid?
July 17, 2018
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S2018E143 No, There's No 'Secret' Cure for Cancer
July 18, 2018
10
S2018E144 What Is the Museum of Broken Relationships?
July 19, 2018
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S2018E145 Should You Really Eat Activated Charcoal?
July 20, 2018
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S2018E146 Why Do Hounds Have Floppy Ears?
July 22, 2018
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S2018E147 What's the History of Toothpaste?
July 23, 2018
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S2018E148 When Do Presidential Approval Ratings Really Matter?
July 24, 2018
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S2018E149 What Kind of Dinos Did Today's Birds Evolve From?
July 25, 2018
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S2018E150 What Are Macronutrients and Micronutrients?
July 26, 2018
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S2018E151 Why Does It Feel So Good To Be Scared?
July 27, 2018
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S2018E152 Could Recycled Urine Make Sustainable Fertilizer?
July 30, 2018
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S2018E153 What Did Our Ancestors Really Eat?
July 31, 2018
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S2018E154 Why Shouldn't You Hold in a Sneeze?
August 1, 2018
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S2018E155 Can Absurdly Big Numbers Be Useful?
August 2, 2018
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S2018E156 Can Different Species of Birds Understand Each Other?
August 3, 2018
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S2018E157 Can We Make Roads Out of Recycled Plastic?
August 6, 2018
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S2018E158 What Makes Stars Twinkle?
August 7, 2018
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S2018E159 What If Bandages Could Monitor Your Wound?
August 8, 2018
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S2018E160 Can You Train a Bee?
August 9, 2018
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S2018E161 Why Do Books Smell So Good?
August 10, 2018
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S2018E162 Who Does the Real Magic: Magicians, or Assistants?
August 13, 2018
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S2018E163 How Do Nutrients Get into the World's Oceans?
August 14, 2018
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S2018E164 Could Spending Money on Experiences Save the World?
August 15, 2018
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S2018E165 Why Is Head Scratching a Gesture of Thought?
August 16, 2018
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S2018E166 Yes, Your Dog Wants to Help When You're Upset
August 17, 2018
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S2018E167 Do Doctors' Biases Affect Health Care?
August 20, 2018
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S2018E168 What Happens When Hurricanes Hit Volcanoes?
August 21, 2018
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S2018E169 Is Hangry a Real Emotion?
August 22, 2018
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S2018E170 How Can Squid 'Speak' With Their Skin?
August 23, 2018
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S2018E171 What Is Breakup Bootcamp?
August 24, 2018
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S2018E172 Should You Really Take Fish Oil Pills?
August 27, 2018
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S2018E173 How Bad Is It to Run Your Car on Empty?
August 28, 2018
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S2018E174 Are Chimps Cleaner Than Us?
August 29, 2018
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S2018E175 What States Failed to Become Part of the U.S.?
August 30, 2018
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S2018E176 Why Did NASA Send Sperm Into Orbit?
August 31, 2018
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S2018E177 What's the History of Lemonade?
September 3, 2018
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S2018E178 Can Cannabis Help Break Opioid Addiction?
September 4, 2018
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S2018E179 Why Do You Stop Noticing Scents After a While?
September 5, 2018
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S2018E180 Does Playing with Toy Guns Lead to Violent Behavior?
September 6, 2018
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S2018E181 How Can an Ancient Pregnancy Test Actually Work?
September 7, 2018
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S2018E182 How Do New Religions Take Root?
September 10, 2018
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S2018E183 Why Does Skin Tan and Freckle?
September 11, 2018
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S2018E184 Why Do Dogs Love Rolling in Stinky Stuff?
September 12, 2018
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S2018E185 How Could We Get Into Space Without Big Rockets?
September 13, 2018
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S2018E186 What Are Food Deserts?
September 14, 2018
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S2018E187 Why Are Hydrogen Peroxide Bottles Brown?
September 17, 2018
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S2018E188 Are Artists Hardwired To Be Poor?
September 18, 2018
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S2018E189 Did Pirates Really Talk Like That?
September 19, 2018
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S2018E190 How Do Migrating Birds Navigate?
September 20, 2018
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S2018E191 Why Is Alzheimers's So Difficult to Treat?
September 21, 2018
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S2018E192 Why Do We Drink So Much Bottled Water?
September 24, 2018
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S2018E193 Can Side Sleeping Help Prevent Snoring?
September 25, 2018
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S2018E194 What Was The Great Pox?
September 26, 2018
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S2018E195 Who Is The Laughing Buddha?
September 27, 2018
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S2018E196 Could Jupiter Have Water After All?
September 28, 2018
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S2018E197 Is Printing with Sound the Wave of the Future?
September 29, 2018
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S2018E198 Why Do We Get Hiccups?
September 30, 2018
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S2018E199 Does Milk Really Make Mucus Worse?
October 1, 2018
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S2018E200 What Would Happen If You Wrecked a Car on a Test-Drive?
October 2, 2018
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S2018E201 What Is Nuclear Pasta?
October 3, 2018
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S2018E202 Was George Washington Almost King of the United States?
October 4, 2018
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S2018E203 What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
October 5, 2018
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S2018E204 What Happens to Balloons When You Release Them?
October 6, 2018
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S2018E205 Why Are Ice Pops Called Quiescently Frozen Confections?
October 7, 2018
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S2018E206 Could a Giant Squid Take Down a Submarine?
October 8, 2018
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S2018E207 What's the History of Southern Biscuits?
October 9, 2018
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S2018E208 How Do Our Bones Grow?
October 10, 2018
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S2018E209 Why Is Blackface So Controversial?
October 11, 2018
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S2018E210 What Was the First Computer?
October 12, 2018
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S2018E211 How Can Sunlight Make You Sneeze?
October 13, 2018
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S2018E212 Is Coconut Oil a 'Superfood' or 'Pure Poison'?
October 15, 2018
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S2018E213 Why Can't You Reach the End of a Rainbow?
October 16, 2018
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S2018E214 Is Physics as We Know It About to Change?
October 17, 2018
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S2018E215 How Often Have Supreme Court Nominees Been Rejected?
October 18, 2018
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S2018E216 How Do Animals Survive Big Storms?
October 19, 2018
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S2018E217 Why Did People Once Rob Graves for Science?
October 21, 2018
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S2018E218 Do Boomers and Gen-Xers Really Work Harder Than Millennials?
October 22, 2018
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S2018E219 Were Unicorns Always Sweet?
October 23, 2018
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S2018E220 Would Psychic Powers Really Cause Nosebleeds?
October 24, 2018
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S2018E221 Why Do We Make Our Monsters Cute?
October 25, 2018
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S2018E222 Why Do We Carve Pumpkins Around Halloween?
October 26, 2018
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S2018E223 Why Is the Winchester House Built So Strangely?
October 27, 2018
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S2018E224 Would Cannibalism Have Been Calorically Worthwhile?
October 28, 2018
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S2018E225 Would You Really Stay Conscious After Being Decapitated?
October 29, 2018
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S2018E226 Are Any Superstitions Universal?
October 30, 2018
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S2018E227 Why Do We Trick-Or-Treat on Halloween?
October 31, 2018
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S2018E228 Why Is Elephants' Skin So Wrinkly?
November 1, 2018
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S2018E229 Why Did Fruit Evolve in Different Colors?
November 2, 2018
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S2018E230 What Are Sea Cucumbers?
November 3, 2018
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S2018E231 How Did a Family Feud Spawn Adidas and Puma?
November 4, 2018
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S2018E232 Does CBD Oil Really Work?
November 5, 2018
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S2018E233 Does Syncing Traffic Lights Reduce Traffic?
November 6, 2018
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S2018E234 Are Yeti Just a Bunch of Bears?
November 7, 2018
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S2018E235 How Effective Are Bulletproof Vests?
November 8, 2018
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S2018E236 The End Of The World with Josh Clark Series Preview
November 8, 2018
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S2018E237 How Should You Answer When Asked 'What Are Your Salary Requirements'?
November 9, 2018
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S2018E238 Why Does Ice Get Cloudy?
November 12, 2018
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S2018E239 Could We Build A Real Gundam?
November 13, 2018
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S2018E240 Why Are Dogs’ Noses Wet?
November 14, 2018
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S2018E241 Will Temperature Changes Make You Sick?
November 15, 2018
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S2018E242 Do Carrots Really Help Your Eyesight?
November 16, 2018
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S2018E243 Does Apple Cider Vinegar Really Help With Weight Loss?
November 19, 2018
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S2018E244 Why Does Hot Food Seem More Satisfying?
November 20, 2018
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S2018E245 Is There a Best Way to Load the Dishwasher?
November 21, 2018
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S2018E246 Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?
November 22, 2018
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S2018E247 Is Black Friday the Busiest Shopping Day?
November 23, 2018
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S2018E248 Are E-Cigarette Liquids Safe?
November 26, 2018
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S2018E249 Why Do Dogs' Paws Smell Like Corn Chips?
November 27, 2018
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S2018E250 Why Did London Once Have a Train for the Dead?
November 28, 2018
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S2018E251 Can Cheese Actually Make Wine Taste Better?
November 29, 2018
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S2018E252 How Did the Inca Knot Language Work?
November 30, 2018
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S2018E253 Is the Meaning of Life '137'?
December 1, 2018
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S2018E254 Will Amazon's Corporate Megadeal Change How Business Works?
December 2, 2018
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S2018E255 What Can Probiotics Really Do?
December 3, 2018
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S2018E256 Why Do We Test Middle Schoolers' Fitness?
December 4, 2018
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S2018E257 Could Cheap Magnets Help Save Sharks?
December 5, 2018
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S2018E258 How Can I Donate My Brain to Science?
December 6, 2018
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S2018E259 How Do We Define the Kilogram?
December 7, 2018
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S2018E260 How Does Gelatin Work?
December 10, 2018
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S2018E261 Could Neanderthals Laugh?
December 11, 2018
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S2018E262 How Have Funerals Changed Since the '60s?
December 12, 2018
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S2018E263 Who Is Krampus?
December 13, 2018
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S2018E264 Why Are Stop Signs Red?
December 14, 2018
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S2018E265 When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
December 17, 2018
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S2018E266 Do Dogs Get Embarrassed When We Put Them in Costumes?
December 18, 2018
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S2018E267 Why Is Palm Oil in So Many Things?
December 19, 2018
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S2018E268 Why Do We Sing in the Shower?
December 20, 2018
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S2018E269 What Happens When Elevator Cables Break?
December 21, 2018
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S2018E270 Why Is Holly a Christmas Decoration?
December 23, 2018
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S2018E271 Why Are Christmas Trees That Shape?
December 24, 2018
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S2018E272 What Exactly Are Frankincense and Myrrh?
December 25, 2018
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S2018E273 Why Does Beer Foam Last Longer Than Soda Foam?
December 26, 2018
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S2018E274 Why Are Some Words Funny?
December 27, 2018
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S2018E275 Do Whales Have Pop Songs?
December 28, 2018
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S2018E276 How Can We Make Better Resolutions?
season finale
December 31, 2018
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