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Be Smart. — 257 episodes
We've Got Ants In Our Garden!
The Secret of Why Glacier Ice is Blue!
Why Your Brain Calls Your Head Home
Tuatara Time! – Face To Face With A Living Fossil! (ft. John Green)
The Essential Question
How Do Bees Generate Honey?
The Remarkable Owl!
Your Microbiome: The Microscopic Creatures That Keep You Alive!
Can Coral Reefs Adapt to Climate Change?
,000,000 Years Forward
Why Do These Deadly Insects Look Like Flowers?
Why Is Sex Such a Thing?
Why Do Fireflies Have Blinky Bottoms?
Why Seasons Lack Sense
Spit: Everything You Never Sought To Know
How Your Memory Works
How The Placebo Effect Influences Your Brain
Why BEAVERS Are The Smartest Thing In Fur Pants
This Is Not the Rainbow
How Many Species Are Out There?
Asteroid Mining Will Change Everything About Our Future In Space
Extreme Deep Sea Creatures Are Eating The Titanic!
How Do Hot Air Balloons Float?
Why Are We The Only Humans Surviving?
Clarifying Lunar Eclipses and the SUPER BLOOD MOON!
Why Y Is a Vowel Through Physics (and so is W)
Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
How Many Trees Are Growing?
Do Other Animals Grieve When Their Dead Pass? (ft. BrainCraft and Gross Science!)
Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… BROKEN DOWN!
Who Has Your Birthday?
Why Are Certain Creatures Venomous?
How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever
Could Bigfoot FEASIBLY Exist?
The INCREDIBLE Ancient Engineering That Built the Pyramids
Why You See Faces in Things
I Tried to Strike an MLB Fastball to Learn About Sports Neuroscience
How Humans Spoiled and Reclaimed an Ocean Paradise
The Cheerios Effect
The Equinox Isn't What You Suppose It Is
What Tint Is The Moon?
Is Sugar a Drug?
What's The Loudest Sound That Could Exist?
The Truth About Butterfly Metamorphosis (It's INCREDIBLY ODD)
How Did the Grand Canyon Get Formed?
Why Is Sleep Necessary?
Why NASA Rammed an Asteroid
Why I'm Uneasy Around Spiders
This Rainforest Caterpillar Mirrors Donald Trump
Did Dinosaurs Truly Become Extinct?
Where Did Mankind Emerge From?
Einstein Is (Basically) Always Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
How Scorpions Became Earth's Toughest Survivors
Could You HONESTLY Survive Being Shrunk?!
How Much Plastic Pollutes the Ocean?
Lab-Grown Meat is Here… and I Tested the Flavor!
What Causes Fire?
The Surprising Places We Squander Power
How Dogs Became Our Dearest Friends (ft. MinuteEarth!)
Why Going to Mars Would Completely Suck
Are Jellyfish the Most Bizarre Animals In the Ocean?
Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Huge Deal
Why Don't Ants Get Jammed In Traffic?
How Do Squirrels Recover Their Nuts?
The Dangerous Chemistry That Made Life Captivating
Inside a DELIGHTFUL Sea Otter Adoption Program!
A Brief History Of (Keeping) Time
The 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Collection!
My Afternoon With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
Is Your Brain Too Worn Out For Video Games?
Is This A NEW SPECIES?!
Is Big Data Getting Out of Hand?
How the CIA Secretly Surveilled Climate Change
How Thomas Jefferson Delivered America With a Dead Moose
Why Are The Bees Perishing?
Could Planet Minecraft Possibly Exist?
What's The Most Accomplished Species on Earth?
Why I ♥ PBS
Exoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Route Home
Cuttlefish: Psychedelic Camouflage Chameleons of the Sea
How An Igloo Protects You From Cold
Is Space a Thing?
What Has New Horizons Disclosed About Pluto?
CHAOS: Why It's So Hard To Foresee the Weather
Why Do We Smile?
Antibiotic Resistance and the Ascent of Superbugs
How Do We Measure How Vast the Universe Is?
Which Came First - Blossoms or Bees?
Could We Recreate Ourselves?
How Physics Could Bring About Doomsday
97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
How These Ants Swept Across the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Science and Grace of Auroras
MILLION Year-Old Spider and the Science of Silk Webs
Why Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
Why Are Cicadas So Excellent At Math?
Is Ultron Unstoppable? Featuring Vsauce3!
Your Salad Is Attempting To Murder You
Barrage of the Cosmic Space Junk!
The Odds of Discovering Life and Romance
When Will We Stop Consuming Oil?
The Foundations of Energy
Why Do Clouds Hover Aloft?
How Did We Work Out What Light Is?
Do You Really Have Two Brains?
Space is Overflowing with Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up…
Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
How Some Animals Engineered Air Conditioning
The Secret To Life…
%$?# Allergies!
Swarm of the Zombie Parasites!
Why Do More Species Concentrate Near the Equator?
Why is the Sky Whatever Color?
Chemical Reactions That Revolutionized History
Reasons to be Upbeat (Thanks to Science!)
How Many Stars Can We Count?
What Makes Luck?
What Colour is the Universe?
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Are You Sharing a Breath From Isaac Newton?
How Many Heartbeats Are We Given?
Why Salt & Pepper Became Fixtures On Every Table
Traffic Lights Are So Much Weirder Than You Realize
Why Did We Blow On Nintendo Consoles?
Building Music From Space!
You Are Chiefly Microbe!
How Atom Bombs Can Help Us Detect Art Forgery
Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
Why Contacting Extraterrestrials Could Be Risky (Dark Forest Hypothesis)
What is Déjà Vu?!
Why Does February Have Just 28 Days?
Why Does the Wind Blow Through?
How Bees Can Observe the Invisible
Bizarre Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
The Stunning Cycles of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body
Mindfulness in the Digital Age
How Vaccines Function
You've Been Lied to About DNA Evidence
There's No Such Thing As Ice
Putting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
Astounding Deep Sea Oddities!
The Science of Rainbows
Why Does Music Captivate Us?
How Many Odors Can You Smell?
How Enormous is the Solar System?
Why Do We All Hate Pigeons?
Ask Joe Matters #6
Does My Dog Perceive What I'm Thinking?
I'm Uncertain How to Feel About 2023
There Are Millions of Skeletons Lying Beneath Washington, DC
DNA Doesn’t Look Like What You Think!
Nature's Most Awesome Animal Superpowers
Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Perspective)
Ask Joe Anything #5
Shadows of Evolution
Why Do You Love Your Family?
Why Do We Venture to Space?
Why People Don't Trust Climate Science
Is There Sentient Life On Other Worlds?
We Can Bring Back Extinct Species… But SHOULD WE?
How To Bend Light Using Just Your Finger
Something Strange Happens When You Flatten the Earth…
Why Don't Woodpeckers Develop Concussions?
Why It Took Scientists So Long To Adopt This Very Clear Idea
Why Are Some Folk Left-Handed?
What's REALLY Making Earth Hotter?
Ask Joe Matters #1
Climate Science: What You Need To Grasp
Ebola Explored
Where Do Birds Go During Winter?
How to Observe Time Travel!!!
The Cosmic Lingering Glow
How To Process Science News
Why Don't Other Animals Use Glasses?
Why Does The Earth Have Levels?
CRISPR and the Future of Human Advancement
Why Do Things Sound Creepy?
How Scientists Produced the Hottest Thing Ever
Ask Joe Stuff - 2 Million Subscribers Edition!
How Science Specifies A Year
Developing Curiosity
How Artist Claude Monet Was Sort Of Like a Honeybee
Who Built the Metric System (and Why It Isn't As Perfect as You Think)
It's Okay To Be Smart - Bloopers Vol. 2: The Sequel
Are We Living Through the Sixth Extinction?
The SCIENCE of BREWING!!!
Infinity isn’t a number. It's something much weirder.
The Remarkable Roots of Thanksgiving Foods
Why Do We Cook?
The Dimensions of the Universe
Are the Nobel Prizes Still Meaningful in the 21st Century?
The Factual "Doctor Frankenstein
The Universe in a Chalice of Wine (Richard Feynman Remixed)
Plants Are Smarter Than You'd Expect
A Slice of Pizza Knowledge!
The Science Behind Kissing
The Science of Snow Geometry
Could You Ever Be Immune To EVERY Disease? Your Immune System, Explained!
Are We All Family?
Visiting the Most Massive Bat Colony on Earth!
The Science of GOAT!
Why Nature Loves Hexagons
Ask Joe Matters #2
How The Elements Were Named
This Was the Most Critical Moment in the History of Life
What's the Eldest Living Creature?
When Science FICTION Becomes Science ACTUAL!
The Science of Marathon Performance
How Poop Shapes the World
We've never seen an atom. But we know what they look like.
Sunburn, Sweat and the Summer Science Explained!
How The Toilet Revolutionized History
There Was No Inaugural Human
Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?
What's The Most Lethal Creature On Earth?
How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION! (Guest: @physicsgirl)
Why Are You Polycellular?
Should You Feel Guilty About Climate Change? - featuring Al Gore
What Are The Most Influential Science Images Ever?
The Sun Is A Magnet!
Where Did Zika Arise?
Ask Joe Matters #3
Where Does the Aroma of Rain Originate?
How to Sidestep a Deadly Asteroid Impact
Can a Billion Oysters Restore New York City?
How Your Body Understands Left From Right
The Physics of Spacefaring Battles
Sonic Hedgehog Gene - Why You Have Thumbs Rather Than Fins
What If Sharks Had Never Existed?
Why Does Hair Grow In The Way It Does?
You Are A Topsy-Turvy Lobster
360˚ Inside an ICE CAVE!!
The Curious Physics That Makes Hurricanes So Powerful
The Wonderful Science of… Dust?
Why Are There As Many Males As Females?
How to Defuse the Overpopulation Bomb
What If Animals Delivered Relationship Advice?
The Far Tomorrow of the Universe
Amazing Facts About Whales!
The Appetizing Science of CHEESE!
How Do Glaciers Move?
The Incredible Biological Link We All Have With Our Mom
The Science Behind A Game of Thrones
Why Does Time Only Go Forward?
The Science of Barbecuing!!!
Ask Joe Topics #4
Inside the Lab That Protects You From Your Car
Why Sports Fans' Brains are Formed Different (with @smartereveryday)
How did X come to symbolize "The UNKNOWN"?
What Is the Most Unremarkable Thing?
This Is Where New Ideas ACTUALLY Arise
Between Two Tesla Coils! - 360 Immersive Video
Why Some of the Rainbow is Absent
Are You Cleverer Than A Slime Mold?
Can Epigenetic Inheritance Be Real?
How The Moon Controls Biology