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Be Smart. — 257 episodes

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We've Got Ants In Our Garden!

2

The Secret of Why Glacier Ice is Blue!

3

Why Your Brain Calls Your Head Home

4

Tuatara Time! – Face To Face With A Living Fossil! (ft. John Green)

5

The Essential Question

6

How Do Bees Generate Honey?

7

The Remarkable Owl!

8

Your Microbiome: The Microscopic Creatures That Keep You Alive!

9

Can Coral Reefs Adapt to Climate Change?

10

,000,000 Years Forward

11

Why Do These Deadly Insects Look Like Flowers?

12

Why Is Sex Such a Thing?

13

Why Do Fireflies Have Blinky Bottoms?

14

Why Seasons Lack Sense

15

Spit: Everything You Never Sought To Know

16

How Your Memory Works

17

How The Placebo Effect Influences Your Brain

18

Why BEAVERS Are The Smartest Thing In Fur Pants

19

This Is Not the Rainbow

20

How Many Species Are Out There?

21

Asteroid Mining Will Change Everything About Our Future In Space

22

Extreme Deep Sea Creatures Are Eating The Titanic!

23

How Do Hot Air Balloons Float?

24

Why Are We The Only Humans Surviving?

25

Clarifying Lunar Eclipses and the SUPER BLOOD MOON!

26

Why Y Is a Vowel Through Physics (and so is W)

27

Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?

28

How Many Trees Are Growing?

29

Do Other Animals Grieve When Their Dead Pass? (ft. BrainCraft and Gross Science!)

30

Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… BROKEN DOWN!

31

Who Has Your Birthday?

32

Why Are Certain Creatures Venomous?

33

How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever

34

Could Bigfoot FEASIBLY Exist?

35

The INCREDIBLE Ancient Engineering That Built the Pyramids

36

Why You See Faces in Things

37

I Tried to Strike an MLB Fastball to Learn About Sports Neuroscience

38

How Humans Spoiled and Reclaimed an Ocean Paradise

39

The Cheerios Effect

40

The Equinox Isn't What You Suppose It Is

41

What Tint Is The Moon?

42

Is Sugar a Drug?

43

What's The Loudest Sound That Could Exist?

44

The Truth About Butterfly Metamorphosis (It's INCREDIBLY ODD)

45

How Did the Grand Canyon Get Formed?

46

Why Is Sleep Necessary?

47

Why NASA Rammed an Asteroid

48

Why I'm Uneasy Around Spiders

49

This Rainforest Caterpillar Mirrors Donald Trump

50

Did Dinosaurs Truly Become Extinct?

51

Where Did Mankind Emerge From?

52

Einstein Is (Basically) Always Right: Gravitational Waves Edition

53

How Scorpions Became Earth's Toughest Survivors

54

Could You HONESTLY Survive Being Shrunk?!

55

How Much Plastic Pollutes the Ocean?

56

Lab-Grown Meat is Here… and I Tested the Flavor!

57

What Causes Fire?

58

The Surprising Places We Squander Power

59

How Dogs Became Our Dearest Friends (ft. MinuteEarth!)

60

Why Going to Mars Would Completely Suck

61

Are Jellyfish the Most Bizarre Animals In the Ocean?

62

Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Huge Deal

63

Why Don't Ants Get Jammed In Traffic?

64

How Do Squirrels Recover Their Nuts?

65

The Dangerous Chemistry That Made Life Captivating

66

Inside a DELIGHTFUL Sea Otter Adoption Program!

67

A Brief History Of (Keeping) Time

68

The 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Collection!

69

My Afternoon With A Giant Pacific Octopus!

70

Is Your Brain Too Worn Out For Video Games?

71

Is This A NEW SPECIES?!

72

Is Big Data Getting Out of Hand?

73

How the CIA Secretly Surveilled Climate Change

74

How Thomas Jefferson Delivered America With a Dead Moose

75

Why Are The Bees Perishing?

76

Could Planet Minecraft Possibly Exist?

77

What's The Most Accomplished Species on Earth?

78

Why I ♥ PBS

79

Exoplanets: Are There Other Earths?

80

How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Route Home

81

Cuttlefish: Psychedelic Camouflage Chameleons of the Sea

82

How An Igloo Protects You From Cold

83

Is Space a Thing?

84

What Has New Horizons Disclosed About Pluto?

85

CHAOS: Why It's So Hard To Foresee the Weather

86

Why Do We Smile?

87

Antibiotic Resistance and the Ascent of Superbugs

88

How Do We Measure How Vast the Universe Is?

89

Which Came First - Blossoms or Bees?

90

Could We Recreate Ourselves?

91

How Physics Could Bring About Doomsday

92

97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree

93

How These Ants Swept Across the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

94

The Science and Grace of Auroras

95

MILLION Year-Old Spider and the Science of Silk Webs

96

Why Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)

97

Why Are Cicadas So Excellent At Math?

98

Is Ultron Unstoppable? Featuring Vsauce3!

99

Your Salad Is Attempting To Murder You

100

Barrage of the Cosmic Space Junk!

101

The Odds of Discovering Life and Romance

102

When Will We Stop Consuming Oil?

103

The Foundations of Energy

104

Why Do Clouds Hover Aloft?

105

How Did We Work Out What Light Is?

106

Do You Really Have Two Brains?

107

Space is Overflowing with Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up…

108

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?

109

How Some Animals Engineered Air Conditioning

110

The Secret To Life…

111

%$?# Allergies!

112

Swarm of the Zombie Parasites!

113

Why Do More Species Concentrate Near the Equator?

114

Why is the Sky Whatever Color?

115

Chemical Reactions That Revolutionized History

116

Reasons to be Upbeat (Thanks to Science!)

117

How Many Stars Can We Count?

118

What Makes Luck?

119

What Colour is the Universe?

120

ЩΉӨ BЦIᄂƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ

121

Are You Sharing a Breath From Isaac Newton?

122

How Many Heartbeats Are We Given?

123

Why Salt & Pepper Became Fixtures On Every Table

124

Traffic Lights Are So Much Weirder Than You Realize

125

Why Did We Blow On Nintendo Consoles?

126

Building Music From Space!

127

You Are Chiefly Microbe!

128

How Atom Bombs Can Help Us Detect Art Forgery

129

Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)

130

Why Contacting Extraterrestrials Could Be Risky (Dark Forest Hypothesis)

131

What is Déjà Vu?!

132

Why Does February Have Just 28 Days?

133

Why Does the Wind Blow Through?

134

How Bees Can Observe the Invisible

135

Bizarre Involuntary Behaviors Explained!

136

The Stunning Cycles of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body

137

Mindfulness in the Digital Age

138

How Vaccines Function

139

You've Been Lied to About DNA Evidence

140

There's No Such Thing As Ice

141

Putting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective

142

Astounding Deep Sea Oddities!

143

The Science of Rainbows

144

Why Does Music Captivate Us?

145

How Many Odors Can You Smell?

146

How Enormous is the Solar System?

147

Why Do We All Hate Pigeons?

148

Ask Joe Matters #6

149

Does My Dog Perceive What I'm Thinking?

150

I'm Uncertain How to Feel About 2023

151

There Are Millions of Skeletons Lying Beneath Washington, DC

152

DNA Doesn’t Look Like What You Think!

153

Nature's Most Awesome Animal Superpowers

154

Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Perspective)

155

Ask Joe Anything #5

156

Shadows of Evolution

157

Why Do You Love Your Family?

158

Why Do We Venture to Space?

159

Why People Don't Trust Climate Science

160

Is There Sentient Life On Other Worlds?

161

We Can Bring Back Extinct Species… But SHOULD WE?

162

How To Bend Light Using Just Your Finger

163

Something Strange Happens When You Flatten the Earth…

164

Why Don't Woodpeckers Develop Concussions?

165

Why It Took Scientists So Long To Adopt This Very Clear Idea

166

Why Are Some Folk Left-Handed?

167

What's REALLY Making Earth Hotter?

168

Ask Joe Matters #1

169

Climate Science: What You Need To Grasp

170

Ebola Explored

171

Where Do Birds Go During Winter?

172

How to Observe Time Travel!!!

173

The Cosmic Lingering Glow

174

How To Process Science News

175

Why Don't Other Animals Use Glasses?

176

Why Does The Earth Have Levels?

177

CRISPR and the Future of Human Advancement

178

Why Do Things Sound Creepy?

179

How Scientists Produced the Hottest Thing Ever

180

Ask Joe Stuff - 2 Million Subscribers Edition!

181

How Science Specifies A Year

182

Developing Curiosity

183

How Artist Claude Monet Was Sort Of Like a Honeybee

184

Who Built the Metric System (and Why It Isn't As Perfect as You Think)

185

It's Okay To Be Smart - Bloopers Vol. 2: The Sequel

186

Are We Living Through the Sixth Extinction?

187

The SCIENCE of BREWING!!!

188

Infinity isn’t a number. It's something much weirder.

189

The Remarkable Roots of Thanksgiving Foods

190

Why Do We Cook?

191

The Dimensions of the Universe

192

Are the Nobel Prizes Still Meaningful in the 21st Century?

193

The Factual "Doctor Frankenstein

194

The Universe in a Chalice of Wine (Richard Feynman Remixed)

195

Plants Are Smarter Than You'd Expect

196

A Slice of Pizza Knowledge!

197

The Science Behind Kissing

198

The Science of Snow Geometry

199

Could You Ever Be Immune To EVERY Disease? Your Immune System, Explained!

200

Are We All Family?

201

Visiting the Most Massive Bat Colony on Earth!

202

The Science of GOAT!

203

Why Nature Loves Hexagons

204

Ask Joe Matters #2

205

How The Elements Were Named

206

This Was the Most Critical Moment in the History of Life

207

What's the Eldest Living Creature?

208

When Science FICTION Becomes Science ACTUAL!

209

The Science of Marathon Performance

210

How Poop Shapes the World

211

We've never seen an atom. But we know what they look like.

212

Sunburn, Sweat and the Summer Science Explained!

213

How The Toilet Revolutionized History

214

There Was No Inaugural Human

215

Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?

216

What's The Most Lethal Creature On Earth?

217

How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION! (Guest: @physicsgirl)

218

Why Are You Polycellular?

219

Should You Feel Guilty About Climate Change? - featuring Al Gore

220

What Are The Most Influential Science Images Ever?

221

The Sun Is A Magnet!

222

Where Did Zika Arise?

223

Ask Joe Matters #3

224

Where Does the Aroma of Rain Originate?

225

How to Sidestep a Deadly Asteroid Impact

226

Can a Billion Oysters Restore New York City?

227

How Your Body Understands Left From Right

228

The Physics of Spacefaring Battles

229

Sonic Hedgehog Gene - Why You Have Thumbs Rather Than Fins

230

What If Sharks Had Never Existed?

231

Why Does Hair Grow In The Way It Does?

232

You Are A Topsy-Turvy Lobster

233

360˚ Inside an ICE CAVE!!

234

The Curious Physics That Makes Hurricanes So Powerful

235

The Wonderful Science of… Dust?

236

Why Are There As Many Males As Females?

237

How to Defuse the Overpopulation Bomb

238

What If Animals Delivered Relationship Advice?

239

The Far Tomorrow of the Universe

240

Amazing Facts About Whales!

241

The Appetizing Science of CHEESE!

242

How Do Glaciers Move?

243

The Incredible Biological Link We All Have With Our Mom

244

The Science Behind A Game of Thrones

245

Why Does Time Only Go Forward?

246

The Science of Barbecuing!!!

247

Ask Joe Topics #4

248

Inside the Lab That Protects You From Your Car

249

Why Sports Fans' Brains are Formed Different (with @smartereveryday)

250

How did X come to symbolize "The UNKNOWN"?

251

What Is the Most Unremarkable Thing?

252

This Is Where New Ideas ACTUALLY Arise

253

Between Two Tesla Coils! - 360 Immersive Video

254

Why Some of the Rainbow is Absent

255

Are You Cleverer Than A Slime Mold?

256

Can Epigenetic Inheritance Be Real?

257

How The Moon Controls Biology