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  • Created June 24, 2019
  • Modified May 9, 2025
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S2021E01 How Did a South Carolina Monkey Farm Help Defeat Polio?
January 1, 2021
S2021E02 Why Would the Creator of Graham Crackers Be Horrified by Them Today?
January 4, 2021
S2021E03 Do 'I Voted' Stickers Do Anything?
January 5, 2021
S2021E04 What Did the Arecibo Radio Telescope Help Us Learn?
January 6, 2021
S2021E05 How Do Penguins Work?
January 7, 2021
S2021E06 How Does Damascus Steel Work?
January 8, 2021
S2021E07 Who Was the First Person in Space?
January 11, 2021
S2021E08 What Is Worcestershire Sauce?
January 12, 2021
S2021E09 What Is Populism?
January 13, 2021
S2021E10 Does Dry January Lead to Binging in February?
January 14, 2021
S2021E11 How Might Universal Basic Income Work?
January 15, 2021
S2021E12 How Did Martin Luther King Influence 'Star Trek'?
January 18, 2021
S2021E13 How Can Nasal Breathing Help Keep You Healthier?
January 19, 2021
S2021E14 Have Inaugurations Always Involved Celebrities?
January 20, 2021
S2021E15 What Astronomy Events Are Happening in 2021?
January 21, 2021
S2021E16 How Do Presidential Pardons Work?
January 22, 2021
S2021E17 How Do Astronauts Shower in Space?
January 25, 2021
S2021E18 How Did 'The Green Book' Work?
January 26, 2021
S2021E19 Why Do We See Faces in Inanimate Objects?
January 27, 2021
S2021E20 What's the Difference Between Burrata and Mozzarella?
January 28, 2021
S2021E21 How Often Should You Wash Your Pillow?
January 29, 2021
S2021E22 How Do Unrelated Species Develop Similar Traits?
February 1, 2021
S2021E23 How Did Human-Skin Shoes Feature in a Politician's Wardrobe?
February 2, 2021
S2021E24 How Do Roadrunners Work?
February 3, 2021
S2021E25 How Were Neanderthals Smarter Than We Think?
February 4, 2021
S2021E26 How Does Xanthan Gum Work?
February 5, 2021
S2021E27 Who Were the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution?
February 8, 2021
S2021E28 How Do Axolotls Work?
February 9, 2021
S2021E29 What's the Difference Between Dukes, Earls, and Other British Peers?
February 10, 2021
S2021E30 Does Closure Really Exist?
February 11, 2021
S2021E31 Should We All Be Wearing Two Face Masks?
February 12, 2021
S2021E32 Will a Second Bump to the Head Really Cure Amnesia?
February 15, 2021
S2021E33 Where Does the Vice President Live?
February 16, 2021
S2021E34 How Can Pit Vipers 'See' Heat?
February 17, 2021
S2021E35 When Can You Claim Defamation?
February 18, 2021
S2021E36 Can a Dripping Faucet Really Prevent Pipe Damage?
February 19, 2021
S2021E37 Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?
February 22, 2021
S2021E38 How Smart Are Dolphins?
February 23, 2021
S2021E39 What Is the Wilhelm Scream?
February 24, 2021
S2021E40 What If the Earth Stopped Spinning?
February 25, 2021
S2021E41 How Accurate Is 'Bridgerton'?
February 26, 2021
S2021E42 What Does It Take to Freeze a Waterfall?
March 1, 2021
S2021E43 How Does Breadfruit Work?
March 2, 2021
S2021E44 What Happens When Plants Bloom Early?
March 3, 2021
S2021E45 Did Women Really Burn Their Bras During Protests?
March 4, 2021
S2021E46 How Do Badgers Work?
March 5, 2021
S2021E47 Who Was Sacagawea?
March 8, 2021
S2021E48 Why Did Germany Have to Sacrifice Sausages to Fly Zeppelins?
March 9, 2021
S2021E49 How Does the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Work?
March 10, 2021
S2021E50 Can We Tell Whether a Dinosaur Was Male or Female?
March 11, 2021
S2021E51 Who Invented Macaroni and Cheese?
March 12, 2021
S2021E52 Who Was Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers?
March 15, 2021
S2021E53 What Reptiles Are Most Endangered?
March 16, 2021
S2021E54 How Has COVID-19 Changed How We Mourn?
March 17, 2021
S2021E55 The Firm vs. the Family: How Does the British Monarchy Work?
March 18, 2021
S2021E56 How Do Belly Buttons Work?
March 19, 2021
S2021E57 What Is the World's Oldest Book?
March 22, 2021
S2021E58 Why Was 1816 the Year With No Summer?
March 23, 2021
S2021E59 Why Do 17-Year Cicadas Appear Almost Every Year?
March 24, 2021
S2021E60 How Did Anna May Wong Fight Racism On- and Off-Screen?
March 25, 2021
S2021E61 When Was a Battle Fought Over Eggs?
March 26, 2021
S2021E62 How Did Jean Macnamara Help Vanquish Polio?
March 29, 2021
S2021E63 How Does Tabasco Sauce Work?
March 30, 2021
S2021E64 How Do Capybaras Work?
March 31, 2021
S2021E65 What Was the Great Moon Hoax of 1835?
April 1, 2021
S2021E66 Why Do Most People Have 46 Chromosomes?
April 2, 2021
S2021E67 How Does Budget Reconciliation Work?
April 5, 2021
S2021E68 Why Is Coal Ash Such a Problem?
April 6, 2021
S2021E69 Is It Better to Shower in the Morning or Evening?
April 7, 2021
S2021E70 How Do Spider Webs Work?
April 8, 2021
S2021E71 Did Lucille Ball Use Her Fillings to Spy?
April 9, 2021
S2021E72 How Is Climate Changing the French Wine Industry?
April 12, 2021
S2021E73 How Did Oregon Enforce a White-Only Population Until 1926?
April 13, 2021
S2021E74 How Can Herd Immunity Help Keep a Population Safe?
April 14, 2021
S2021E75 How Do Emus Work?
April 15, 2021
S2021E76 Why Do Ordinary People Commit Espionage?
April 16, 2021
S2021E77 How Do Garter Snakes Work?
April 19, 2021
S2021E78 What Causes the Smell After a Rain?
April 20, 2021
S2021E79 How Does the U.S. Secret Service Work?
April 21, 2021
S2021E80 Could We Ever Find Noah's Ark?
April 22, 2021
S2021E81 What Is 'Chutzpah'?
April 23, 2021
S2021E82 How Does Mesa Verde National Park Work?
April 26, 2021
S2021E83 How Do Whistled Languages Work?
April 27, 2021
S2021E84 Why Do We Talk About the First 100 Days?
April 28, 2021
S2021E85 How Do Astronauts Play Music in Space?
April 29, 2021
S2021E86 Do Koalas Smell Like Cough Drops?
April 30, 2021
S2021E87 Why Do Elephants Seldom Get Cancer?
May 3, 2021
S2021E88 Do the Beale Ciphers Contain Directions to Hidden Treasure?
May 5, 2021
S2021E89 Who Were Oscar, Tony and Emmy?
May 6, 2021
S2021E90 How Did Early Facial Prostheses Work?
May 7, 2021
S2021E91 Can Some Animals Be Half Male and Half Female?
May 10, 2021
S2021E92 How Could the World's Whitest Paint Fight Climate Change?
May 11, 2021
S2021E93 Was a Whaling Captain Once Buried in Rum?
May 12, 2021
S2021E94 Will Some Port Cities Start Banning Cruise Ships?
May 13, 2021
S2021E95 How Did Edgar Allan Poe Work?
May 14, 2021
S2021E96 How Have Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Helped Shape Civil and Workers' Rights?
May 17, 2021
S2021E97 How Can Cryptocurrency Clean Up Its Act?
May 18, 2021
S2021E98 Do We Really Swallow Spiders in Our Sleep?
May 19, 2021
S2021E99 How Does Hematite Work?
May 20, 2021
S2021E100 How Do Humpback Whales Work?
May 21, 2021
S2021E101 Can You Make Weedkillers at Home?
May 24, 2021
S2021E102 How Did Allosaurus Work?
May 25, 2021
S2021E103 Why Is There a Chlorine Shortage?
May 26, 2021
S2021E104 Does Your Diet Really Affect Your Dreams?
May 27, 2021
S2021E105 How Do Jackalopes Work?
May 28, 2021
S2021E106 Should You Wear White Clothes to Stay Cool?
May 31, 2021
S2021E107 How Do Macaws Work?
June 1, 2021
S2021E108 How Does the Westminster Dog Show Work?
June 3, 2021
S2021E109 Have the Olympic Games Ever Been Canceled?
June 7, 2021
S2021E110 Why Do Seabirds Eat Plastic?
June 8, 2021
S2021E111 Are Pentagon-Confirmed UFOs a Threat to National Security?
June 9, 2021
S2021E112 How Do Plate Tectonics Work?
June 10, 2021
S2021E113 How Can You Stop an Opioid Overdose?
June 11, 2021
S2021E114 What Was the Tulsa Massacre?
June 14, 2021
S2021E115 How Do Lyres Work?
June 15, 2021
S2021E116 What Happens to Whales When They Die?
June 17, 2021
S2021E117 Is Vaccine Hesitancy a New Phenomenon?
June 18, 2021
S2021E118 How Does the Summer Solstice Work?
June 21, 2021
S2021E119 Why Did England and Spain Go to War Over an Ear?
June 22, 2021
S2021E120 What's the Deadliest Spider in the World?
June 23, 2021
S2021E121 How Could Lab-Grown Meat Change the Pet Food World?
June 24, 2021
S2021E122 What Is a Coup D'Etat, and Could It Happen In America?
June 25, 2021
S2021E123 Why Don't Ground Bees Sting?
June 30, 2021
S2021E124 How Do Muons Work?
July 1, 2021
S2021E125 Why Are Gasoline Prices Higher in the Summer?
July 2, 2021
S2021E126 Is Drought the New Normal for the Western U.S.?
July 5, 2021
S2021E127 Why Is Pink the World's Oldest Color?
July 6, 2021
S2021E128 How Do Coronavirus Variants Work?
July 7, 2021
S2021E129 What's the Difference Between Brown and Black Bears?
July 8, 2021
S2021E130 How Much Money Is There in the World?
July 9, 2021
S2021E131 Is Paul Bunyan Based on a Real Person?
July 12, 2021
S2021E132 What Animals Are the Deadliest in the Wild?
July 13, 2021
S2021E133 How Does Bastille Day Work?
July 14, 2021
S2021E134 Will Sharks Die If They Stop Moving?
July 15, 2021
S2021E135 Are Bug Zappers a Bad Idea?
July 16, 2021
S2021E136 How Bad Is America's Infrastructure?
July 19, 2021
S2021E137 How Did Earth Gain a New Ocean?
July 20, 2021
S2021E138 Why Is There a Semiconductor Shortage?
July 21, 2021
S2021E139 Why Are We So Obsessed with Owls?
July 22, 2021
S2021E140 How Far Can a Plane Glide Without Engines?
July 23, 2021
S2021E141 Why Are Pistachios Sold in Their Shells?
July 26, 2021
S2021E142 How Does Ransomware Work?
July 27, 2021
S2021E143 What Is the World's Largest Bee?
July 28, 2021
S2021E144 How Do Astronauts Sleep in Space?
July 29, 2021
S2021E145 How Has the U.S. Prevented Citizens from Voting?
July 30, 2021
S2021E146 How Do Box Jellyfish Work?
August 2, 2021
S2021E147 Why Are Airbnb, VRBO Fees Skyrocketing?
August 3, 2021
S2021E148 How Does Racketeering Work?
August 5, 2021
S2021E149 What Is an Abscessed Tooth?
August 6, 2021
S2021E150 How Did Two Tortoises Beat Apollo to the Moon?
August 9, 2021
S2021E151 What Are the Predictions for Hurricane Season 2021?
August 10, 2021
S2021E152 How Do Broken Bones Heal?
August 11, 2021
S2021E153 What Exactly Is a Blue Moon?
August 12, 2021
S2021E154 How Can Rivers Actually Protect Fossils?
August 13, 2021
S2021E155 Why Is South Florida Overrun with Green Iguanas?
August 16, 2021
S2021E156 How Did Bonnie and Clyde Die?
August 17, 2021
S2021E157 What Trees Have Been to the Moon and Back?
August 18, 2021
S2021E158 How Do Breakthrough Infections Work?
August 19, 2021
S2021E159 How Did Chopsticks Become Such a Popular Eating Utensil?
August 20, 2021
S2021E160 How Did the Battle for the 19th Amendment Work?
August 23, 2021
S2021E161 How Do Space Hurricanes Work?
August 24, 2021
S2021E162 Why Are Noncompete Agreements So Common?
August 26, 2021
S2021E163 What's the Difference Between Lox, Gravlax, and Nova Salmon?
August 27, 2021
S2021E164 Who Investigates Deaths in Antarctica?
August 30, 2021
S2021E165 What's at the Bottom of the Fosse Dionne Spring?
August 31, 2021
S2021E166 How Does Steganography Work?
September 1, 2021
S2021E167 How Do You Sleep When Sailing 4,000 Miles Solo?
September 2, 2021
S2021E168 How Do Red Squirrels Work?
September 3, 2021
S2021E169 Can You Get a Flu Shot If You Have an Egg Allergy?
September 6, 2021
S2021E170 Why Do Birds Fly Into Windows?
September 7, 2021
S2021E171 Why Should School Buses Go Electric?
September 8, 2021
S2021E172 How Does the Stratosphere Work?
September 9, 2021
S2021E173 What Kind of Animal Is Godzilla?
September 10, 2021
S2021E174 How Can We Help Prevent Suicide?
September 13, 2021
S2021E175 Are Stick Shifts Going Extinct?
September 14, 2021
S2021E176 How Do Toucans Work?
September 15, 2021
S2021E177 Why Are There Diamonds in the Ocean?
September 16, 2021
S2021E178 How Does the Venus de Milo Work?
September 17, 2021
S2021E179 Why Are Siberia's Wildfires So Intense This Year?
September 20, 2021
S2021E180 How Does CRISPR Work?
September 21, 2021
S2021E181 How Did an Amateur Design the U.S. Capitol?
September 22, 2021
S2021E182 How Do Gila Monsters Work?
September 23, 2021
S2021E183 What's Next for Roe v. Wade?
September 24, 2021
S2021E184 How Did a Cat Make Aviation History?
September 27, 2021
S2021E185 Why Shouldn't You Share Antibiotics?
September 28, 2021
S2021E186 Why Do Bats Land Upside Down?
September 29, 2021
S2021E187 How Does Ambulance Diversion Work?
September 30, 2021
S2021E188 How Does the Mars Solar Conjunction Affect NASA?
October 1, 2021
S2021E189 What Gets Featured on Blue Highway Signs?
October 4, 2021
S2021E190 Can Horses Help Humans Heal?
October 5, 2021
S2021E191 What Is Bubblegum Flavor Anyway?
October 6, 2021
S2021E192 How Do Starfish Work?
October 7, 2021
S2021E193 What Did the 2020 Census Reveal?
October 8, 2021
S2021E194 How Did Nigersaurus Work?
October 11, 2021
S2021E195 Could a Spaceship Ignite an Alien Atmosphere?
October 12, 2021
S2021E196 How Do Sea Otters Work?
October 14, 2021
S2021E197 Why Are Airplane Windows Round?
October 15, 2021
S2021E198 How Do Blue-Ringed Octopuses Work?
October 16, 2021
S2021E199 What Really Happened at the O.K. Corral?
October 19, 2021
S2021E200 Do Our Brains Have Fingerprints Too?
October 20, 2021
S2021E201 Why Is Rudeness So Contagious?
October 21, 2021
S2021E202 How Did Stegosaurus Work?
October 22, 2021
S2021E203 Do You Have to Tell Buyers Your House Is Haunted?
October 25, 2021
S2021E204 How Do Fruit Bats Work?
October 26, 2021
S2021E205 Were Witches Really Burned at the Stake in Salem?
October 27, 2021
S2021E206 How Did Benjamin Franklin Help Create the Jersey Devil?
October 28, 2021
S2021E207 Devil's Den: Is Gettysburg Haunted?
October 29, 2021
S2021E208 Would We Have Pumpkin Pie If Mastodons Had Survived?
November 1, 2021
S2021E209 How Much Starlight Has Been Emitted Since the Beginning of Time?
November 2, 2021
S2021E210 How Does the Invasive Joro Spider Work?
November 3, 2021
S2021E211 Who's Been Sending NASA Flowers for Thirty Years?
November 4, 2021
S2021E212 How Does the Cerebellum Work?
November 5, 2021
S2021E213 Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg?
November 9, 2021
S2021E214 Could Thorium Revamp Nuclear Energy?
November 10, 2021
S2021E215 Can You Really Shatter Glass with a High Note?
November 11, 2021
S2021E216 Why Are Death Cap Mushrooms Invading America?
November 12, 2021
S2021E217 How Do Anglerfish Work?
November 15, 2021
S2021E218 How Does Crowd Control Work?
November 16, 2021
S2021E219 How Do Fungal Pesticides Work?
November 17, 2021
S2021E220 Should You Ditch Your Backup Plans?
November 18, 2021
S2021E221 How Do Mink Work?
November 19, 2021
S2021E222 Is Going Sockless Unhealthy?
November 22, 2021
S2021E223 Can Solar Panels Power Cars?
November 23, 2021
S2021E224 What Is the Mojave Megaphone?
November 24, 2021
S2021E225 Where Do Baby Vegetables Come From?
November 25, 2021
S2021E226 Have We Found the First Planet Outside the Milky Way?
November 26, 2021
S2021E227 Do Hand Dryers Really Spread Germs?
November 29, 2021
S2021E228 How Could CRISPR Improve Agriculture?
November 30, 2021
S2021E229 How Does Pancreatic Cancer Work?
December 1, 2021
S2021E230 What's the Difference Between Dusk and Twilight?
December 2, 2021
S2021E231 Why Does Eating Meat Consume More Resources Than Eating Plants?
December 3, 2021
S2021E232 How Does Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Work?
season finale
December 6, 2021

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