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  • Created June 24, 2019
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2020E01 What Makes Champagne Champagne?
January 1, 2020
S2020E02 Was The Grinch Based on Dr. Seuss?
January 2, 2020
S2020E03 What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder?
January 3, 2020
S2020E04 Should School Buses Have Seat Belts?
January 6, 2020
S2020E05 What's So American About Apple Pie?
January 7, 2020
S2020E06 Can Hair Dyes and Straighteners Cause Cancer?
January 8, 2020
S2020E07 Can 'Reef DJs' Bring Fish Back to Damaged Reefs?
January 9, 2020
S2020E08 How Does the Wayback Machine Work?
January 10, 2020
S2020E09 Could Your Next Car Say 'No' to Drunk Driving?
January 14, 2020
S2020E10 What's the Difference Between Toilet Paper and Facial Tissues?
January 14, 2020
S2020E11 Could There Be a Fifth Fundamental Force?
January 15, 2020
S2020E12 Are Pringles Really Potato Chips?
January 16, 2020
S2020E13 Why Is the Exclamation Point on the Rise?
January 19, 2020
S2020E14 Are We Running Out of Cork?
January 20, 2020
S2020E15 Do Monkeys Lack the Brains or the Vocal Anatomy for Human Speech?
January 21, 2020
S2020E16 Why Are Bananas Berries, but Strawberries Aren't?
January 22, 2020
S2020E17 What's the Difference Between Avenues, Roads, and Boulevards?
January 23, 2020
S2020E18 How Do Bengal Cats Work?
January 24, 2020
S2020E19 What's the Best Kind of Dog Leash?
January 27, 2020
S2020E20 Is There a Science to Aging Beer?
January 28, 2020
S2020E21 Could Electric Motors Save Classic Cars?
January 29, 2020
S2020E22 How Did White House Press Briefings Go From Daily to Done?
January 30, 2020
S2020E23 Are Super Bowl Ads Really Worth $30 Million?
January 31, 2020
S2020E24 Would King Kong Be Considered an Endangered Species?
February 3, 2020
S2020E25 Why Do People Say 'Holy Cow'?
February 4, 2020
S2020E26 Why Are Scientists Asking Hikers to Stop Stacking Rocks?
February 5, 2020
S2020E27 Why Can a Mongoose Take on a Cobra?
February 6, 2020
S2020E28 How Do Wine, Cars, and Clothes Defy Economics?
February 7, 2020
S2020E29 How Did Georgia Tech's Most Famous Student Never Exist?
February 10, 2020
S2020E30 Are Single-Use Plastics Really That Bad?
February 11, 2020
S2020E31 What Is Balut, and How Do You Eat It?
February 12, 2020
S2020E32 Why Do Cats Knead?
February 13, 2020
S2020E33 Does Chocolate Give You a Happy High?
February 14, 2020
S2020E34 What Do People Get Wrong About Rosa Parks?
February 17, 2020
S2020E35 Are Humans Built to Drink Milk as Adults?
February 18, 2020
S2020E36 How Do Scientists Know What's Inside Dinosaur Eggs?
February 19, 2020
S2020E37 What's the History of the Tooth Fairy?
February 20, 2020
S2020E38 How Did Indigo Help Start America's Slave Trade?
February 21, 2020
S2020E39 Why Is Black History Month During February?
February 24, 2020
S2020E40 Can You Put Emoji on License Plates?
February 25, 2020
S2020E41 What Was the First Cat in Space?
February 26, 2020
S2020E42 Could We Turn Air Pollution Into Ink?
February 27, 2020
S2020E43 Who Put the Baby in King Cake?
February 28, 2020
S2020E44 Could Sonic the Hedgehog Survive His Own Speeds?
March 2, 2020
S2020E45 Is There a Best Time of Day for Making Decisions?
March 3, 2020
S2020E46 How Did an Enslaved Man Help Save Colonial Boston from Smallpox?
March 4, 2020
S2020E47 Why Are Legal Pads Yellow?
March 5, 2020
S2020E48 Do Other Animals Have Blood Types Too?
March 6, 2020
S2020E49 What Is Coronavirus?
March 9, 2020
S2020E50 What Else Did Shel Silverstein Write?
March 10, 2020
S2020E51 Why Do Cars Have Alarms If We Ignore Them?
March 11, 2020
S2020E52 How Does Saturn Work?
March 12, 2020
S2020E53 Why Are We Afraid of Friday the 13th?
March 13, 2020
S2020E54 What Is Pi?
March 14, 2020
S2020E55 Is Old Faithful Becoming Less Faithful?
March 16, 2020
S2020E56 Why Are Four-Leaf Clovers Considered Lucky?
March 17, 2020
S2020E57 Farts Can Be Silent, But Can They Be Deadly?
March 18, 2020
S2020E58 Were Turtles Once the Size of Cars?
March 19, 2020
S2020E59 How Long Can Viruses Last on Surfaces?
March 20, 2020
S2020E60 How Can Social Distancing Save Lives?
March 22, 2020
S2020E61 Why Does Hand Washing Beat Hand Sanitizer Hands Down?
March 22, 2020
S2020E62 Why Does the U.S. Sell Soda in Liters but Milk in Gallons?
March 23, 2020
S2020E63 Do You Have an Inner Monologue?
March 25, 2020
S2020E64 Can You Start Your Own Bank?
March 25, 2020
S2020E65 Why Are Fruit Flies Science Superstars?
March 26, 2020
S2020E66 How Will Food Banks Meet Demand Related to COVID-19?
March 27, 2020
S2020E67 How Will a New Solar Orbiter Teach Us About the Sun?
March 28, 2020
S2020E68 What Famous Places Can You Explore from Home?
March 30, 2020
S2020E69 How Does Ghee Work?
March 31, 2020
S2020E70 How Do Ventilators Work?
April 1, 2020
S2020E71 What Is Entropy?
April 2, 2020
S2020E72 Why Was 'The Last Supper' the Masterpiece Leonardo da Vinci Didn't Want to Paint?
April 3, 2020
S2020E73 How Can You Safely Unpack Your Groceries Amidst
April 6, 2020
S2020E74 Why Is One Manta Ray Neon Pink?
April 7, 2020
S2020E75 Why Are We Still Talking About Plato After 2100 Years?
April 8, 2020
S2020E76 What's the First Nation with Totally Dark Skies?
April 9, 2020
S2020E77 Why Is American Money Used Around the World?
April 10, 2020
S2020E78 How Did Gregor MacGregor Swindle People into Moving to a Country that Didn't Exist?
April 13, 2020
S2020E79 Is Glass a Liquid or a Solid?
April 14, 2020
S2020E80 Why Do Stores Keep Running Out of Toilet Paper?
April 15, 2020
S2020E81 What's the Difference Between Turtles and Tortoises?
April 16, 2020
S2020E82 How Was the Golden Gate Bridge Designed?
April 17, 2020
S2020E83 How Is Our Food Supply Chain Changing?
April 20, 2020
S2020E84 Can a Cell Phone Make a Gas Pump Explode?
April 21, 2020
S2020E85 How Does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle Work?
April 22, 2020
S2020E86 Why Is the Sky Blue?
April 23, 2020
S2020E87 What Do We Get Wrong About Cleopatra?
April 24, 2020
S2020E88 How Does Neptune Work?
April 27, 2020
S2020E89 Why Do Pistachios' Color Depend on the Iran Hostage Crisis?
April 28, 2020
S2020E90 How Did Emmett Till's Murder Shake the U.S.?
April 29, 2020
S2020E91 Is the Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct?
April 30, 2020
S2020E92 Why Was the Mad Hatter Mad?
May 1, 2020
S2020E93 What Was New England's Vampire Panic?
May 4, 2020
S2020E94 Why Is Plankton Our Tiniest Unsung Hero?
May 5, 2020
S2020E95 Could We Be Entering an Era of Commercialized Space Exploration?
May 6, 2020
S2020E96 How Can You Keep Your Car in Shape During Shelter-in-Place
May 7, 2020
S2020E97 What Are The World's Biggest, Baddest Jigsaw Puzzles?
May 8, 2020
S2020E98 What Were Samurai and Ninja Really Like?
May 11, 2020
S2020E99 Why Do Birds Mob?
May 12, 2020
S2020E100 What Were African American Spirituals, and What's Their Musical Legacy?
May 13, 2020
S2020E101 What Is NASA's Astronaut Beach House?
May 14, 2020
S2020E102 What Are Antibodies, and Why Are We Testing for Them?
May 15, 2020
S2020E103 How Do Chia Pets Work?
May 18, 2020
S2020E104 How Did a Court Case End Japanese Internment?
May 19, 2020
S2020E105 How Do Cuttlefish Work?
May 20, 2020
S2020E106 How Does Uranus Work?
May 21, 2020
S2020E107 Who Was Karl Marx, and What Were His Philosophies?
May 22, 2020
S2020E108 Why Do We Observe Memorial Day?
May 25, 2020
S2020E109 What Is NASA's Odor Panel?
May 26, 2020
S2020E110 Is Shangri-La A Real Place?
May 27, 2020
S2020E111 Can the Wind Knock You Off Your Feet?
May 28, 2020
S2020E112 If You BBC Someone on an Email, Can Other Recipients Find Out?
May 29, 2020
S2020E113 What Is the World's Most Dangerous Tree?
June 1, 2020
S2020E114 How Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perceived During His Time?
June 5, 2020
S2020E115 How Many Americans Know Someone in Jail or Prison?
June 5, 2020
S2020E116 How Did the Mason-Dixon Line Come to Divide the North from the South?
June 5, 2020
S2020E117 Is It Safe to Swim During the COVID-19 Outbreak?
June 5, 2020
S2020E118 Why Is Tear Gas Especially Dangerous During COVID-19?
June 8, 2020
S2020E119 Can a Star Survive a Black Hole Encounter?
June 9, 2020
S2020E120 How Were Squeaky Floors Used for Security?
June 10, 2020
S2020E121 When Has a Single Vote Decided an Election?
June 11, 2020
S2020E122 What Were Jim Crow Laws?
June 12, 2020
S2020E123 What Would It Take to Postpone a Presidential Election?
June 15, 2020
S2020E124 How Do Roly-Poly Bugs Work?
June 16, 2020
S2020E125 What Is Intersectionality?
June 17, 2020
S2020E126 Can You Train Yourself to Become Ambidexterous?
June 18, 2020
S2020E127 How Did Juneteenth Get Started?
June 19, 2020
S2020E128 What Is Commensalism?
June 22, 2020
S2020E129 Why Was a Doctor Once Ridiculed for Recommending Hand Washing?
June 23, 2020
S2020E130 How Many Continents Are There?
June 24, 2020
S2020E131 Why Is Carmine, a Dye Made from Bugs, So Popular?
June 25, 2020
S2020E132 What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre?
June 26, 2020
S2020E133 How Does the 'Streisand Effect' Make Cover-ups Go Viral?
June 29, 2020
S2020E134 Why Does the Hellbender Salamander Need Our Help?
June 30, 2020
S2020E135 Why Isn't Washington, D.C. a State?
July 1, 2020
S2020E136 Why Is Real Vanilla So Expensive?
July 2, 2020
S2020E137 Will the Fires That Made Centralia a Ghost Town Ever Go Out?
July 3, 2020
S2020E138 Why Is There a Crack in the Liberty Bell?
July 6, 2020
S2020E139 What Was the Biggest Snake on Earth?
July 7, 2020
S2020E140 Do Rainy Days Make Us Sad?
July 8, 2020
S2020E141 How Much of Our Food Do Moths Pollinate?
July 9, 2020
S2020E142 How Did the Harlem Renaissance Work?
July 10, 2020
S2020E143 Who Were the Wild West's 'Petticoat Rulers'?
July 15, 2020
S2020E144 How Do Betta Fish Work?
July 15, 2020
S2020E145 Where Did the Phrase 'Grandfathered In' Come From?
July 15, 2020
S2020E146 Could Science Build a Better Grain?
July 16, 2020
S2020E147 Why Is There a Parthenon in Nashville?
July 17, 2020
S2020E148 How Big Does a Meteoroid Have to Be to Make It to the Ground?
July 20, 2020
S2020E149 Why Don't We Know Much About Druids?
July 21, 2020
S2020E150 How Do Homeless Americans Vote?
July 22, 2020
S2020E151 Why Is 'Mayday' the International Distress Call?
July 23, 2020
S2020E152 How Did Ankylosaurus Work?
July 24, 2020
S2020E153 How Is Frederick Douglass the Father of the Civil Rights Movement?
July 27, 2020
S2020E154 What's the Difference Between Ethyl and Isopropyl Alcohol?
July 28, 2020
S2020E155 How Long Can Andean Condors Fly Without Flapping Their WIngs?
July 29, 2020
S2020E156 Why Is There a Coin Shortage in America?
July 30, 2020
S2020E157 How Does Planet Mercury Work?
July 31, 2020
S2020E158 How Will NASA's Perseverance Rover Search for Ancient Life on Mars?
August 3, 2020
S2020E159 How Do Tanuki Work?
August 5, 2020
S2020E160 Where Should You Go on a Science Road Trip?
August 5, 2020
S2020E161 Are You Putting on Enough Sunscreen?
August 6, 2020
S2020E162 How Did the Saltwater Underground Railroad Work?
August 7, 2020
S2020E163 What Are Daddy Longlegs, Anyway?
August 10, 2020
S2020E164 Why Does the White House Have a Rose Garden?
August 11, 2020
S2020E165 Who Owns the Rights to Dinosaur Fossils?
August 12, 2020
S2020E166 What Family Has Won the Most Nobel Prizes?
August 13, 2020
S2020E167 How Can Hair Be Tougher than Razor Blades?
August 14, 2020
S2020E168 Why Does Fertilizer Sometimes Explode?
August 17, 2020
S2020E169 Who Insures Race Cars and Their Drivers?
August 18, 2020
S2020E170 How Does Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Exercise Work?
August 19, 2020
S2020E171 How Micro Are Microclimates?
August 20, 2020
S2020E172 How Do Trebuchets Work?
August 21, 2020
S2020E173 What Were the World's Last Woolly Mammoths?
August 24, 2020
S2020E174 Who Were the First Cowboys?
August 25, 2020
S2020E175 How Do Hurricanes Get Their Names?
August 26, 2020
S2020E176 What's the Largest Lake in the World?
August 27, 2020
S2020E177 What Do the Numbers on Interstate Signs Mean?
August 28, 2020
S2020E178 How Can You Help After a Natural Disaster?
August 31, 2020
S2020E179 What Does It Mean to Be a Modern-Day Explorer?
September 1, 2020
S2020E180 Are Most Words Already Trademarked?
September 2, 2020
S2020E181 Did Paintings Portray Food More Realistically Than Instagram?
September 3, 2020
S2020E182 Why Is a Universal Flu Vaccine So Difficult to Develop?
September 4, 2020
S2020E183 Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?
September 7, 2020
S2020E184 How Does the Butterfly Effect Work?
September 8, 2020
S2020E185 How Are Hot Dogs Made?
September 9, 2020
S2020E186 How Did Triceratops Work?
September 10, 2020
S2020E187 Why Does Grief Sometimes Come in Waves?
September 11, 2020
S2020E188 Can Foods Really Boost Your Immune System?
September 14, 2020
S2020E189 What Happens If a Dog Loses Its Sense of Smell?
September 15, 2020
S2020E190 Is It Safe to Drive Without a Gas Cap?
September 16, 2020
S2020E191 How Does the Great Green Wall Work?
September 17, 2020
S2020E192 Who Does the Cooking for Cooking Shows?
September 18, 2020
S2020E193 How Do Mantis Shrimp Work?
September 21, 2020
S2020E194 What Are Some of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Landmark Cases?
September 22, 2020
S2020E195 Is Stainless Steel Really Stainless?
September 23, 2020
S2020E196 How Have Hispanic Americans Helped Shape the U.S.?
September 24, 2020
S2020E197 Why Do Dogs Love Belly Rubs But Cats Don't?
September 25, 2020
S2020E198 Does Element 115 Really Have a Connection With UFOs?
September 28, 2020
S2020E199 Why Do People Store Art in Freeports?
September 29, 2020
S2020E200 Did the Pilgrims Really Land at Plymouth Rock Because They Ran Out of Beer?
September 30, 2020
S2020E201 What's Up With America's European Replica Towns?
October 1, 2020
S2020E202 What's It Like to Live and Work in Antarctica?
October 2, 2020
S2020E203 How Did the Bear-Sized Beaver, Castoroides, Work?
October 5, 2020
S2020E204 Does the Community of Lily Dale Reconnect the Living and the Dead?
October 6, 2020
S2020E205 What's the Difference Between Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
October 7, 2020
S2020E206 Is Betelgeuse About to Go Supernova?
October 8, 2020
S2020E207 How Does Mortgage Forbearance Work?
October 9, 2020
S2020E208 What Foods Should Be Kept Out of the Fridge?
October 12, 2020
S2020E209 How Can the Dutch Reach Save Cyclists' Lives?
October 13, 2020
S2020E210 How Has Knitting Been Used for Subterfuge?
October 14, 2020
S2020E211 How Does Anhedonia Work?
October 15, 2020
S2020E212 Are Cats Actually Good at Catching Rats?
October 16, 2020
S2020E213 Is the Nebra Sky Disk the Oldest Star Chart?
October 19, 2020
S2020E214 How Do Sea Snakes Work?
October 20, 2020
S2020E215 What Are Some of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Harshest Dissents?
October 21, 2020
S2020E216 How Can We Detect Tornadoes Earlier?
October 22, 2020
S2020E217 Could Hand Sanitizer Help Preserve Insects for Science?
October 23, 2020
S2020E218 Why Was Speed Surgery a Thing, and How Fast Could It Get?
October 26, 2020
S2020E219 Is There a Real Legend About Nosferatu?
October 27, 2020
S2020E220 Who Pressed Records onto Human X-Ray Vinyl?
October 28, 2020
S2020E221 How Do You Sense Your Own Body -- And How Can That Go Wrong?
October 29, 2020
S2020E222 How Does Samhain Work?
October 30, 2020
S2020E223 How Will the PROTEUS Underwater Station Work?
November 2, 2020
S2020E224 Why Does the U.S. Hold Elections on Tuesdays?
November 3, 2020
S2020E225 When Is Paranoia Normal, and When Is It a Problem?
November 4, 2020
S2020E226 How Do Cats and Dogs Perceive Time?
November 5, 2020
S2020E227 How Is 1968's Poor People's Campaign Reviving Today?
November 6, 2020
S2020E228 What's the Difference Between Gold and Pyrite?
November 9, 2020
S2020E229 How Big Was Giganatosaurus?
November 10, 2020
S2020E230 How Does the Nitrogen Cycle Work?
November 11, 2020
S2020E231 What Is the World's Longest-Living Vertebrate?
November 12, 2020
S2020E232 Why Did Bootleggers Once Smuggle Margarine?
November 13, 2020
S2020E233 What Are the Differences Between COVID-19 and the Flu?
November 16, 2020
S2020E234 Why Would We Need Artificial Gravity in Space?
November 17, 2020
S2020E235 Should We All Be in the Same Time Zone?
November 18, 2020
S2020E236 Why Is It So Difficult to Overturn a Guilty Verdict?
November 19, 2020
S2020E237 How Has 'A Wrinkle in Time' Inspired Real Scientists?
November 20, 2020
S2020E238 Who's the Only Woman to Receive a Medal of Honor?
November 23, 2020
S2020E239 How Does the Maillard Reaction Make Food Tastier?
November 24, 2020
S2020E240 What's Really in the Flu Vaccine?
November 25, 2020
S2020E241 Where Did Pumpkin Pie Come From?
November 26, 2020
S2020E242 Did the Native American Great Law of Peace Inspire the U.S. Constitution?
November 27, 2020
S2020E243 What's the White Stuff in Soil Mixes?
November 30, 2020
S2020E244 Why Is It So Hard to Remember What Day It Is?
December 1, 2020
S2020E245 What Is the McRib Made Of?
December 2, 2020
S2020E246 Why Do Kangaroos Hop?
December 3, 2020
S2020E247 How Could COVID-19 Vaccines Change the World?
December 4, 2020
S2020E248 How Does Pimento Cheese Work?
December 7, 2020
S2020E249 What Is the Immigrant Paradox?
December 8, 2020
S2020E250 How Did the Lazy Susan Get Its Name?
December 9, 2020
S2020E251 How Deadly Are Black Widow Spiders?
December 10, 2020
S2020E252 How Did the Truman Doctrine Change U.S. Foreign Policy?
December 11, 2020
S2020E253 What Are Wine Diamonds?
December 14, 2020
S2020E254 How Does the Larynx Work?
December 15, 2020
S2020E255 How Did Galileo Become the First Superstar Scientist?
December 16, 2020
S2020E256 How Did Manischewitz Become the Biggest Name in Kosher Wine?
December 17, 2020
S2020E257 What Is the Great Conjunction?
December 18, 2020
S2020E258 What Was the Biggest Nuclear Weapon Ever Built?
December 21, 2020
S2020E259 How Do Obelisks Work?
December 22, 2020
S2020E260 Why Is There a Pooping Figure in Catalonian Nativity Sets?
December 23, 2020
S2020E261 How Does Santa's Sleigh Work?
December 24, 2020
S2020E262 When Did Christmas Become an American Holiday?
December 25, 2020
S2020E263 How Does Kwanzaa Work?
December 28, 2020
S2020E264 Why Is Snow White?
December 29, 2020
S2020E265 How Do Lionfish Work?
December 30, 2020
S2020E266 One of Our Favorite Podcasts of 2020 - The Ten News
December 30, 2020
S2020E267 What Does 'Auld Lang Syne' Mean?
season finale
December 31, 2020

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