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  • Created June 24, 2019
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2019E01 Why Does Helium Make Your Voice Squeaky?
January 1, 2019
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S2019E02 Are Restaurants' Michelin Stars Related to Michelin Tires?
January 2, 2019
10
S2019E03 How Do Cold-Blooded Animals Survive the Winter?
January 3, 2019
10
S2019E04 Is the Earth Humming to Us?
January 4, 2019
10
S2019E05 Skim Versus Whole Milk: Which Spoils Faster?
January 7, 2019
10
S2019E06 Why Do Scorpions Glow Under Black Light?
January 8, 2019
10
S2019E07 What Makes Some Lakes Explode?
January 9, 2019
10
S2019E08 What's the History of Nail Polish?
January 10, 2019
10
S2019E09 Could Hemp Become America's Biggest Crop?
January 11, 2019
10
S2019E10 Why Do Bruises Change Color?
January 14, 2019
10
S2019E11 What's the Biggest Building on Earth?
January 15, 2019
10
S2019E12 Why Is Lobster So Expensive?
January 16, 2019
10
S2019E13 How Did the 'Green Book' Change Life for Black Travelers?
January 17, 2019
10
S2019E14 Could a Vaccine Help Save Honey Bees?
January 18, 2019
10
S2019E15 Are the Dare Stones Forgeries or the Key to the Roanoke Mystery?
January 21, 2019
10
S2019E16 Do Footballs Fly Farther in Denver?
January 22, 2019
10
S2019E17 How Can a Star Become a Giant Crystal?
January 23, 2019
10
S2019E18 Why Do Coffee Drinks Often Have Italian Names?
January 24, 2019
10
S2019E19 Can We Save the World's Coral?
January 25, 2019
10
S2019E20 How Many People Really Have Food Allergies?
January 29, 2019
10
S2019E21 What Is Light?
January 29, 2019
10
S2019E22 Why Don't Penguin Feet Freeze?
January 30, 2019
10
S2019E23 Will Saturn's Rings Last Forever?
January 31, 2019
10
S2019E24 Why Are Peat Bogs So Good at Preserving Human Remains?
February 1, 2019
10
S2019E25 Are Electric Cars or Gasoline-Powered Cars Faster?
January 4, 2019
10
S2019E26 Is Quinoa Unhealthy For Its Producers?
February 5, 2019
10
S2019E27 Why Are Whales Big (But Not Bigger)?
February 6, 2019
10
S2019E28 What's Up with the New 'Tesla Tower'?
February 7, 2019
10
S2019E29 Why Are Suburbs So Unwalkable?
February 8, 2019
10
S2019E30 Why Are Sloths' Toilet Habits So Dangerous?
February 12, 2019
10
S2019E31 Why Are People Fascinated with the Number 23?
February 13, 2019
10
S2019E32 Why a Gaggle of Geese? Where Do Collective Nouns Come From?
February 13, 2019
10
S2019E33 Could Genetics Grow a Square Tomato?
February 14, 2019
10
S2019E34 Was Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon?
February 15, 2019
10
S2019E35 What Did the Opportunity Rover Teach Us?
February 19, 2019
10
S2019E36 Should You Be Squatting More?
February 19, 2019
10
S2019E37 How Does a 500-Year Experiment Work?
February 20, 2019
10
S2019E38 What's Really Happening on Plum Island?
February 21, 2019
10
S2019E39 Why Can't 911 Find You If Lyft Can?
February 22, 2019
10
S2019E40 Why Isn't Arkansas Pronounced 'Ar-Kansas'?
February 25, 2019
10
S2019E41 How Can You Help a Friend with Depression?
February 26, 2019
10
S2019E42 Why Do Flying Squirrels Glow Hot Pink in UV Light?
February 27, 2019
10
S2019E43 Have We Hit Peak Recycling?
February 28, 2019
10
S2019E44 How Has the HANS Device Improved Car Racing?
March 1, 2019
10
S2019E45 Where Do Sandman Myths Come From?
March 4, 2019
10
S2019E46 Why Is NASA Going Back to the Moon?
March 5, 2019
10
S2019E47 What's in Movie Theater Popcorn?
March 6, 2019
10
S2019E48 How Long Can Animals Hold Their Breath?
March 7, 2019
10
S2019E49 Can the Fear of Public Speaking Be Conquered?
March 8, 2019
10
S2019E50 How Are Airlines Cracking Down on Emotional Support Animals?
March 11, 2019
10
S2019E51 Are We Living in a New Epoch?
March 12, 2019
10
S2019E52 What's the History (and Future) of Toilets?
March 13, 2019
10
S2019E53 Can an Insurance Company Label an ER Visit 'Avoidable'?
March 14, 2019
10
S2019E54 Why Is Our Galaxy Warped?
March 15, 2019
10
S2019E55 How Did Desi Arnaz Change Television?
March 18, 2019
10
S2019E56 What Can Earth's Deserts Teach Us About Martian Life?
March 19, 2019
10
S2019E57 How Did Sealab Work?
March 20, 2019
10
S2019E58 Why Does Cashmere Cost So Much?
March 22, 2019
10
S2019E59 What Would 'Medicare for All' Really Mean?
March 22, 2019
10
S2019E60 What Happens to Donated Blood?
March 25, 2019
10
S2019E61 What Is the Mandela Effect?
March 26, 2019
10
S2019E62 Could California Get an Autobahn?
March 27, 2019
10
S2019E63 Why is Horseshoe Crab Blood So Expensive?
March 28, 2019
10
S2019E64 Should We Retest Licensed Drivers Periodically?
March 29, 2019
10
S2019E65 What Can Babies See in the Womb?
April 1, 2019
10
S2019E66 How Do Mail Carriers Get Their Routes?
April 2, 2019
10
S2019E67 Why Don't Snakes Have Legs?
April 3, 2019
10
S2019E68 How Does the Pollen Count Work?
April 4, 2019
10
S2019E69 Why Is Cramming the Worst Way to Study?
April 5, 2019
10
S2019E70 How Common Is Postpartum Depression in Dads?
April 8, 2019
10
S2019E71 Can a Medicine's Inactive Ingredients Be Harmful?
April 9, 2019
10
S2019E72 Are Windowless Airplanes the Future of Flight?
April 10, 2019
10
S2019E73 What If the Meteor that Helped Wipe out the Dinosaurs Had Missed Earth?
April 11, 2019
10
S2019E74 Why Are Opossums Awesome?
April 12, 2019
10
S2019E75 Do Modern Cars Still Need Tuneups?
April 15, 2019
10
S2019E76 How Do Paleoartists Create Dinosaur Drawings?
April 16, 2019
10
S2019E77 What Weird Pets Have Lived in the White House?
April 17, 2019
10
S2019E78 What Was the Emu War?
April 18, 2019
10
S2019E79 What Did NASA's Twin Study Find?
April 19, 2019
10
S2019E80 What Can an Image of a Black Hole Teach Us?
April 22, 2019
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S2019E81 Why Do People Plagiarize?
April 23, 2019
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S2019E82 How Unlikely Is a Hole-in-One?
April 24, 2019
10
S2019E83 Do Truly Unselfish Acts Really Exist?
April 25, 2019
10
S2019E84 Can All Plants Be Preserved in Seed Banks?
April 26, 2019
10
S2019E85 Were Some Viking Warriors Women?
April 30, 2019
10
S2019E86 How Often Should You Change Your Oil?
April 30, 2019
10
S2019E87 What's the Controversy Behind 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'?
May 1, 2019
10
S2019E88 What Is the Humboldt Ocean Current?
May 2, 2019
10
S2019E89 Why Are Grocery Store Tomatoes So Meh?
May 3, 2019
10
S2019E90 What Can Marsquakes Teach Us?
May 6, 2019
10
S2019E91 What Does the Word 'Caucasian' Really Mean?
May 7, 2019
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S2019E92 Why Is the Blobfish Blobby?
May 8, 2019
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S2019E93 Why Do Some People Eat Dirt?
May 9, 2019
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S2019E94 What Happened at America's Secret Atomic City?
May 10, 2019
10
S2019E95 Has Anyone Been Buried on the Moon?
May 13, 2019
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S2019E96 How Does Henry Ford's Feud with the Dodge Brothers Affect Businesses Today?
May 14, 2019
10
S2019E97 What Is Agnosticism?
May 15, 2019
10
S2019E98 Could Transplanted Organs Be Reused?
May 16, 2019
10
S2019E99 What Is Relative Humidity?
May 17, 2019
10
S2019E100 Why Does Measles Reset Your Immune System?
May 20, 2019
10
S2019E101 Why and How Are Documents Redacted?
May 21, 2019
10
S2019E102 Can Galaxies Exist Without Dark Matter?
May 22, 2019
10
S2019E103 How Hazardous Is Peeing in the Pool?
May 23, 2019
10
S2019E104 How Many Legs Do Millipedes Have?
May 24, 2019
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S2019E105 Are There Winners and Losers in a Trade War?
May 28, 2019
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S2019E106 How Did Jane Goodall Get Her Start(s)?
May 29, 2019
10
S2019E107 Should You Be Afraid of Wolf Spiders?
May 29, 2019
10
S2019E108 Why Did Victorians Collect Hair?
May 30, 2019
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S2019E109 How Bad Is Prison Food?
May 31, 2019
10
S2019E110 Could Earthly Lava Structures Help Us Colonize Space?
June 4, 2019
10
S2019E111 Do Dogs Experience Puberty Like We Do?
June 4, 2019
10
S2019E112 How Did Clickers Save Lives on D-Day?
June 5, 2019
10
S2019E113 Could the Great Depression Happen Again?
June 6, 2019
10
S2019E114 Why Should You Bring Ear Plugs to Music Festivals?
June 7, 2019
10
S2019E115 How Does NASA Schedule Space Launches?
June 10, 2019
10
S2019E116 What Are Honey Badgers Really Like?
June 11, 2019
10
S2019E117 What Is an Oligarchy (and Are We One)?
June 12, 2019
10
S2019E118 What Is a Swedish Death Clean?
June 13, 2019
10
S2019E119 Can the Same Animal Evolve Twice?
June 14, 2019
10
S2019E120 What Happens If You Ignore a Subpoena?
June 17, 2019
10
S2019E121 Why Are Camel Spiders Harmless?
June 18, 2019
10
S2019E122 How Was André the Giant Larger than Life?
June 19, 2019
10
S2019E123 How Do Isotopes Work?
June 20, 2019
10
S2019E124 How Does the U.S. Presidential Motorcade Work?
June 21, 2019
10
S2019E125 Where's the Line Between Cultural Appropriation and Appreciation?
June 24, 2019
10
S2019E126 How Has the Korean War Changed History?
June 25, 2019
10
S2019E127 How Did Alchemy Create Chemistry?
June 26, 2019
10
S2019E128 Why Doesn't Alcohol Have Nutrition Labels?
June 27, 2019
10
S2019E129 Can You Lactate from Areas Outside Your Breasts?
June 28, 2019
10
S2019E130 How (And Why) Do Chameleons Change Color?
July 2, 2019
10
S2019E131 Could the Electoral College Become Obsolete?
July 2, 2019
10
S2019E132 Is Canned Food Really Worse Than Fresh or Frozen?
July 3, 2019
10
S2019E133 Who Was Alan Turing, and What's the Turing Test?
July 4, 2019
10
S2019E134 How Do Spaghetti Plots Help Predict Storms?
July 5, 2019
10
S2019E135 Why Do Cats Chase Laser Pointers?
July 8, 2019
10
S2019E136 Is Raw Milk Better Than Pasteurized Milk?
July 9, 2019
10
S2019E137 Who Was History's Most Successful Pirate?
July 10, 2019
10
S2019E138 What Is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
July 11, 2019
10
S2019E139 Can You Live Without a Working Amygdala?
July 12, 2019
10
S2019E140 How Do We Find Asteroids Inside Earth's Orbit?
July 15, 2019
10
S2019E141 How Health-Helpful Is Turmeric?
July 16, 2019
10
S2019E142 How Could Hypersonic Missiles Work?
July 17, 2019
10
S2019E143 How Do Tidal Bores Work?
July 18, 2019
10
S2019E144 How Do Birds Sing?
July 19, 2019
10
S2019E145 How Do Food Forests Help Fight Hunger?
July 23, 2019
10
S2019E146 Does the Military Teach a Sleep Meditation Technique?
July 23, 2019
10
S2019E147 How Will Exploring Saturn's Moon Titan Be Different?
July 24, 2019
10
S2019E148 Should You Rent Grass-Mowing Goats?
July 25, 2019
10
S2019E149 How Do Animals Get Their Scientific Names?
July 26, 2019
10
S2019E150 What's the Difference Between Coroners and Medical Examiners?
July 30, 2019
10
S2019E151 Is Permafrost Really Permanent?
July 30, 2019
10
S2019E152 How Does the Hippocampus Work?
July 31, 2019
10
S2019E153 Could Frozen Zoo DNA Stave Off Species' Extinction?
August 1, 2019
10
S2019E154 What Is the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?
August 2, 2019
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S2019E155 How Are Ethnicity and Race Different?
August 5, 2019
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S2019E156 Why Does America Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius?
August 6, 2019
10
S2019E157 What Is Peyote?
August 7, 2019
10
S2019E158 How Do Blue Whales Work?
August 8, 2019
10
S2019E159 What's the History of Paternity Testing?
August 9, 2019
10
S2019E160 Do Beaches Need Seashells?
August 12, 2019
10
S2019E161 Why Aren’t There Female CPR Mannequins?
August 13, 2019
10
S2019E162 How Many Trees Would We Need to Plant to Slow Climate Change?
August 14, 2019
10
S2019E163 Why Is There a Rhino-Shaped Cave in Washington State?
August 15, 2019
10
S2019E164 Is Sparkling Water Good For You?
August 16, 2019
10
S2019E165 How Do Starling Murmurations Work?
August 19, 2019
10
S2019E166 Why Is the Ocean Different Colors?
August 20, 2019
10
S2019E167 How Did Fish & Chips Become England's National Dish?
August 21, 2019
10
S2019E168 What Can You Do If Your U.S. Money Gets Mangled?
August 22, 2019
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S2019E169 Why Is Building Muscle Important for Everyone?
August 23, 2019
10
S2019E170 What's the World's Biggest Food Fight?
August 26, 2019
10
S2019E171 Does Aging Always Increase Risk of Death?
August 27, 2019
10
S2019E172 How Are Animal and Plant Cells Different?
August 28, 2019
10
S2019E173 Should You Really Punch an Animal in the Nose If Attacked?
August 29, 2019
10
S2019E174 Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
August 30, 2019
10
S2019E175 How Can Jupiter Have 79 Moons While Other Planets Have None?
September 2, 2019
10
S2019E176 What's the Oldest Active Building Project in the World?
September 3, 2019
10
S2019E177 Can Going Sockless Be Bad for Your Feet?
September 4, 2019
10
S2019E178 How Does Cobalt Work?
September 5, 2019
10
S2019E179 How Can We Film Giant Squid?
September 6, 2019
10
S2019E180 Can Automated Lights Really Stop Burglars?
September 10, 2019
10
S2019E181 What's the Buzz on Alcohol in Space?
September 10, 2019
10
S2019E182 What Is the U.S. Presidential Seal?
September 11, 2019
10
S2019E183 Why Is Declawing Cats Controversial?
September 12, 2019
10
S2019E184 Does Sigmund Freud Still Matter?
September 13, 2019
10
S2019E185 Do Fish Experience Thirst?
September 17, 2019
10
S2019E186 Could Maggots End World Hunger?
September 17, 2019
10
S2019E187 How Would Authorities Handle a Murder in Space?
September 18, 2019
10
S2019E188 How Can Gingko Leaves Help Track Climate Change?
September 19, 2019
10
S2019E189 What's the History of the Statue of Liberty?
September 20, 2019
10
S2019E190 Did Lyme Disease Start as a Bioweapon?
September 23, 2019
10
S2019E191 How Can I Become a Mermaid?
September 24, 2019
10
S2019E192 Why Are Blueprints Blue?
September 25, 2019
10
S2019E193 What's the Difference Between Aspirin, Ibuprofen, and Acetaminophen?
September 26, 2019
10
S2019E194 How Are Maine Coons Different From Other Cats?
September 27, 2019
10
S2019E195 How Often Should You Wash Your Coffee Mug?
September 30, 2019
10
S2019E196 How Can You Escape a Sinking Car?
October 1, 2019
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S2019E197 How Young Is Too Young to Face Arrest?
October 2, 2019
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S2019E198 How Rare Are All-Black Chickens?
October 3, 2019
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S2019E199 Who Wore High-Heeled Shoes First?
October 4, 2019
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S2019E200 What's the Best Strategy for Finding a Parking Spot?
October 7, 2019
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S2019E201 How Did Bobcats Come Back from the Brink?
October 8, 2019
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S2019E202 Should Cities Require Green Roofs?
October 9, 2019
10
S2019E203 How Did the Shar-Pei Get Its Wrinkles?
October 10, 2019
10
S2019E204 Does Our Solar System Contain a Primordial Black Hole?
October 11, 2019
10
S2019E205 Why Are Some Americans Cancelling Columbus Day?
October 14, 2019
10
S2019E206 How Can 3-D Printing Help Save Animals?
October 15, 2019
10
S2019E207 Can Red Flag Laws Help Prevent Mass Shootings?
October 16, 2019
10
S2019E208 How Does Photosynthesis Power Life on Earth?
October 17, 2019
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S2019E209 Were the Dyatlov Pass Hikers Murdered?
October 18, 2019
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S2019E210 How Do Ecosystems Work?
October 22, 2019
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S2019E211 What Is Dead Butt Syndrome?
October 22, 2019
10
S2019E212 How Does Venus Work?
October 23, 2019
10
S2019E213 How Do Sea Urchins Work?
October 24, 2019
10
S2019E214 Can We 3-D Print Meat in Space?
October 25, 2019
10
S2019E215 What Is the Legend of the Hawaiian Night Marchers?
October 28, 2019
10
S2019E216 What's Happening During A Near-Death Experience?
October 29, 2019
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S2019E217 What Exactly Is Candy Corn?
October 30, 2019
10
S2019E218 What Is Eye of Newt?
October 31, 2019
10
S2019E219 Did Humans Evolve To Be Superstitious?
November 1, 2019
10
S2019E220 Could Science Create a Better Blood Supply?
November 4, 2019
10
S2019E221 What's the Science Behind Applause?
November 5, 2019
10
S2019E222 How Could Artificial Glaciers Hydrate the Himalayas?
November 6, 2019
10
S2019E223 How Can a Hen Turn into a Rooster?
November 7, 2019
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S2019E224 What's the Difference Between Hornets and Wasps?
November 8, 2019
10
S2019E225 Why Should You Stop Raking Fall Leaves?
November 12, 2019
S2019E226 How Do Wolverines Work?
November 12, 2019
S2019E227 Can We Win the War on Cockroaches?
November 13, 2019
S2019E228 Could We Recycle Excess Subway Heat?
November 14, 2019
S2019E229 Can 'Hypoallergenic' Dogs Still Trigger Allergies?
November 15, 2019
S2019E230 How Do You Deep Fry a Turkey?
November 18, 2019
S2019E231 Do Humans and Bananas Really Share Half Their DNA?
November 19, 2019
S2019E232 Why Don't Evergreen Trees Lose Their Needles?
November 20, 2019
S2019E233 How Did the Ancient Land Blob Called Gondwana Become Today's Southern Continents?
November 21, 2019
S2019E234 Can Your Brain Get Tired Like Your Muscles Do?
November 22, 2019
S2019E235 How Did Turducken Become a Thing?
November 25, 2019
S2019E236 Do Dogs Have Belly Buttons?
November 26, 2019
S2019E237 Would Turkey Be So Popular Without Thanksgiving?
November 27, 2019
S2019E238 How Does Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Work?
November 28, 2019
S2019E239 Do You Or Your Dishwasher Get Dishes Cleaner?
November 29, 2019
S2019E240 How Did a Mad King Design Disney's Castle?
December 2, 2019
S2019E241 Will There Always Be a North Star?
December 3, 2019
S2019E242 How Can a Sea Slug Use Solar Power?
December 4, 2019
S2019E243 Why Do Bees Beard?
December 5, 2019
S2019E244 Why Are Macadamia Nuts So Expensive?
December 6, 2019
S2019E245 Why Can We Hear Others' Footsteps But Not Our Own?
December 9, 2019
S2019E246 How Did A Comma Decide A Court Case?
December 10, 2019
S2019E247 Why Do People Still Use Fax Machines?
December 11, 2019
S2019E248 Why Does Ancient Roman Concrete Outlast Our Own?
December 12, 2019
S2019E249 When Is Moldy Food Safe to Eat?
December 13, 2019
S2019E250 Why Wasn't 'Groom of the Stool' a Crappy Job?
December 16, 2019
S2019E251 Why Doesn't My Sushi Come with Real Wasabi?
December 17, 2019
S2019E252 What Is Florida's Red Tide?
December 19, 2019
S2019E253 Can Camping Help Us Sleep Better?
December 19, 2019
S2019E254 Who Was Physicist Hedwig Kohn?
December 20, 2019
S2019E255 Why Do Men Have Nipples?
December 23, 2019
S2019E256 Why Does Rudolph's Nose Glow Red?
December 24, 2019
S2019E257 Why Are We Dreaming of a White Christmas?
December 25, 2019
S2019E258 What's in the Secret Apartment Atop the Eiffel Tower?
December 26, 2019
S2019E259 How Can Closing Your Door at Night Save Your Life?
December 27, 2019
S2019E260 Who Created the Peace Sign (and Why)?
December 30, 2019
S2019E261 Why Do We Drop a Ball on New Year's Eve?
season finale
December 31, 2019

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