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Be Smart. — 200 episodes

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1

Paying Attention in the Digital Age

2

There's No Such Thing As Cold

3

The Science of Rainbows

4

How Many Smells Can You Smell?

5

How Big is the Solar System?

6

Why Does Everyone Hate Pigeons?

7

Ask Joe Stuff #6

8

Does My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?

9

I Don’t Know How to Feel About 2023

10

There Are Millions of Skeletons Hidden In Washington, DC

11

Nature's Most Amazing Animal Superpowers

12

Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)

13

Why Do We Go to Space?

14

Why People Don't Believe In Climate Science

15

Why It Took Scientists So Long To Accept This Very Obvious Idea

16

Ask Joe Stuff #1

17

Climate Science: What You Need To Know

18

Where Do Birds Go In Winter?

19

The Cosmic Afterglow

20

Why Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?

21

Why Do Things Sound Scary?

22

Building Curiosity

23

Are We Living In the Sixth Extinction?

24

Do the Nobel Prizes Still Make Sense in the 21st Century?

25

Ask Joe Stuff #5

26

Ghosts of Evolution

27

Is There Intelligent Life On Other Planets?

28

Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Concussions?

29

Why Are Some People Left-Handed?

30

What’s REALLY Warming the Earth?

31

Ebola Explained

32

How to See Time Travel!!!

33

How To Read Science News

34

Why Does The Earth Have Layers?

35

How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever

36

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

37

Why Do We Cook?

38

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

39

A Slice of Pizza Science!

40

The Science of Snowflakes

41

Visiting the Largest Bat Colony on Earth!

42

Ask Joe Stuff #2

43

This Was the Most Important Moment in the History of Life

44

Where Did Zika Come From?

45

The Physics of Space Battles

46

How Science Defines A Year

47

How Artist Claude Monet Was Kind Of Like a Honeybee

48

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

49

The SCIENCE of BEER!!!

50

The Surprising Origins of Thanksgiving Foods

51

The Scale of the Universe

52

The Real "Doctor Frankenstein"

53

Plants Are Smarter Than You Realize

54

The Science of Kissing

55

The Science of GOATS!

56

When Science FICTION Becomes Science FACT!

57

How The Toilet Changed History

58

What's The Deadliest Animal In The World?

59

What Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?

60

Where Does the Smell of Rain Come From?

61

Can a Billion Oysters Save New York City?

62

What If There Were No Sharks?

63

How The Elements Got Their Names

64

What's the Oldest Living Thing?

65

The Science of Marathon Running

66

Sunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!

67

There Was No First Human

68

How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION! (Feat. @physicsgirl )

69

Why Are You Multicellular?

70

The Sun Is A Magnet!

71

Ask Joe Stuff #3

72

How to Avoid a Deadly Asteroid Impact

73

How Your Body Knows Left From Right

74

"Sonic Hedgehog Gene" - Why You Have Thumbs And Not Fins

75

You Are An Upside-Down Lobster

76

The Strange Physics That Makes Hurricanes So Powerful

77

The Amazing Science of… Dust?

78

What If Animals Gave Relationship Advice?

79

Why Your Brain Is In Your Head

80

The Far Future of the Universe

81

The Delicious Science of CHEESE!

82

The Incredible Biological Connection We All Share With Our Mom

83

The Science of Game of Thrones

84

Why Does Time Go Forward?

85

The Science of BBQ!!!

86

Ask Joe Stuff #4

87

Inside the Lab That Keeps Your Car From Killing You

88

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

89

How did X come to mean "The UNKNOWN"?

90

What Is the Most Average Thing?

91

This Is Where New Ideas REALLY Come From

92

Between Two Tesla Coils! - 360 Video

93

Why Some of the Rainbow is Missing

94

We've Got Ants In Our Plants!

95

Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?

96

Is Epigenetic Inheritance Real?

97

The Ultimate Question

98

How Do Bees Make Honey?

99

The Superb Owl!

100

Your Microbiome: The Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!

101

Why Is Sex a Thing?

102

How Many Trees Are There?

103

I Tried to Hit a MLB Fastball to Learn About Sports Neuroscience

104

The Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is

105

Einstein Is (Almost) Always Right: Gravitational Waves Edition

106

Why Going to Mars Would Totally Suck

107

How Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?

108

Is Big Data Getting Too Big?

109

100,000,000 Years From Now

110

Why Seasons Make No Sense

111

This Is Not a Rainbow

112

Who Shares Your Birthday?

113

Could Bigfoot REALLY Exist?

114

The 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Series!

115

Could Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?

116

How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home

117

Can Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change?

118

Spit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know

119

How The Placebo Effect Tricks Your Brain

120

How Many Species Are There?

121

How Do Hot Air Balloons Stay Up?

122

Explaining Lunar Eclipses and the SUPER BLOOD MOON!

123

Do Other Animals Mourn Their Dead? (ft. BrainCraft and Gross Science!)

124

Why Are Some Animals Venomous?

125

What Color Is The Moon?

126

The Truth About Butterfly Metamorphosis (It's VERY WEIRD)

127

Why I'm Scared of Spiders

128

How Scorpions Became Earth’s Ultimate Survivors

129

Lab-Grown Meat is Here… and I Taste-Tested It!

130

Are Jellyfish the Weirdest Animals In the Ocean?

131

The Deadly Chemistry That Made Life Interesting

132

My Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!

133

How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change

134

Cuttlefish: Disco Camouflage Chameleons of the Sea

135

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

136

Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… EXPLAINED!

137

How Humans Ruined and Rescued an Ocean Paradise

138

Is Sugar a Drug?

139

This Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump

140

What Is Fire?

141

Is This A NEW SPECIES?!

142

What Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?

143

Why Do We Laugh?

144

How These Ants Took Over the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

145

Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?

146

Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

147

How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?

148

Could You REALLY Survive Being Shrunk?!

149

Inside an ADORABLE Sea Otter Adoption Program!

150

How Thomas Jefferson Saved America With a Dead Moose

151

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

152

How Do We Measure How Big the Universe Is?

153

Why NASA Punched an Asteroid

154

Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Big Deal

155

Why Are The Bees Dying?

156

Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?

157

What's The Loudest Possible Sound?

158

Did Dinosaurs Really Go Extinct?

159

The Surprising Places We Waste Energy

160

Why Don't Ants Get Stuck In Traffic?

161

What's The Most Successful Species on Earth?

162

How An Igloo Keeps You Warm

163

Could We Clone Ourselves?

164

Is Ultron Inevitable? Featuring Vsauce3!

165

The Odds of Finding Life and Love

166

When Will We Stop Using Oil?

167

Is Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?

168

Antibiotic Resistance and the Rise of Superbugs

169

The Science and Beauty of Auroras

170

20 MILLION Year-Old Spider and the Science of Spider Silk

171

Attack of the Cosmic Space Junk!

172

The Essentials of Energy

173

Space is Full of Junk. Here’s How to Clean It Up…

174

The Recipe For Life…

175

%$?# Allergies!

176

Why is the Sky Any Color?

177

How Many Stars Are There?

178

What Color is the Universe?

179

You Are Mainly Microbe!

180

Why Sending Messages to Extraterrestrials Could Be Risky (Dark Forest Hypothesis)

181

Attack of the Zombie Parasites!

182

Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?

183

23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)

184

Are You Sharing a Breath With Isaac Newton?

185

Why Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?

186

Why Does February Only Have 28 Days?

187

How Bees Can See the Invisible

188

The Beautiful Cycles of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body

189

Why Vaccines Work

190

8 Incredible Deep Sea Oddities!

191

Why Does Music Move Us?

192

6 Chemical Reactions That Changed History

193

How Many Heartbeats Do We Get?

194

Why Salt & Pepper Ended Up On Every Table

195

Making Music From Space!

196

What is Déjà Vu?!

197

Why Does the Wind Blow?

198

5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!

199

Why Do We Have To Sleep?

200

Why Do Clouds Stay Up?