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101

Something Strange Happens When You Flatten the Earth…

102

These Butt-Tickling Ants Are Endangered Butterfly Bodyguards | IN OUR NATURE

103

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

104

Ask Joe Stuff - 2 Million Subscribers Edition!

105

Can a Billion Oysters Restore New York City?

106

What's the Eldest Living Creature?

107

Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?

108

It's Okay To Be Smart is on Patreon!

109

Why Don't Woodpeckers Develop Concussions?

110

How Some Animals Engineered Air Conditioning

111

How Physics Could Bring About Doomsday

112

Are We All Family?

113

How Enormous is the Solar System?

114

What is Impossible in Evolution?

115

There Was No Inaugural Human

116

How Do We Actually See Color?

117

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

118

CRISPR and the Future of Human Advancement

119

Are Humans Running Out Of Food??

120

The Cosmic Lingering Glow

121

The Factual "Doctor Frankenstein

122

Nature's Most Awesome Animal Superpowers

123

Ask Joe Matters #3

124

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

125

IN YOUR FACE EXPLOSIVE CHEMISTRY!! (VR180)

126

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

127

Why is the Sky Whatever Color?

128

There's No Such Thing As Ice

129

Shadows of Evolution

130

Why Is Our Skeleton On the Inside?

131

Plants Are Smarter Than You'd Expect

132

Humans Are Smart. Why Are Babies So Dumb?

133

The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

134

Sunburn, Sweat and the Summer Science Explained!

135

The Weird Science of the Raisin Bran Effect

136

The Science of Snow Geometry

137

How The Elements Were Named

138

The Remarkable Roots of Thanksgiving Foods

139

Astounding Deep Sea Oddities!

140

The Appetizing Science of CHEESE!

141

Between Two Tesla Coils! - 360 Immersive Video

142

These Death-Eating Scavengers Are Real Life-Savers | IN OUR NATURE

143

Putting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective

144

Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?

145

The Science Behind Kissing

146

This Is How Astronauts Drink Coffee In Space!

147

This Salamander Can Regrow Limbs Like Deadpool

148

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

149

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

150

Does Someone Else Have Your Face? Doppelgängers Explained!

151

We Can Bring Back Extinct Species… But SHOULD WE?

152

What Would Happen if ONE MILLION Species Went Extinct?

153

How Your Body Understands Left From Right

154

The Magic (and Mystery) of Mirrors

155

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

156

Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

157

Why Nature Loves Hexagons

158

The SCIENCE of BREWING!!!

159

How To Bend Light Using Just Your Finger

160

Ask Joe Topics #4

161

Why Does Time Only Go Forward?

162

How Artist Claude Monet Was Sort Of Like a Honeybee

163

How Science Specifies A Year

164

This Was the Most Critical Moment in the History of Life

165

Amazing Facts About Whales!

166

Why Geckos Are Sticky Without Being Sticky

167

Are We Living Through the Sixth Extinction?

168

What's the Largest Living Thing On Earth?

169

Why Soap Is Our Secret Weapon Against Germs

170

Why Do Things Sound Creepy?

171

Is Height Genetic?

172

The Surprising Species That Everything Else Depends On | IN OUR NATURE

173

The Far Tomorrow of the Universe

174

COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED!

175

Spit: Everything You Never Sought To Know

176

The Science of GOAT!

177

The Weird Reason Plants Aren't Black

178

Why Are There 7 Days In a Week? EXPLAINED

179

How did X come to symbolize "The UNKNOWN"?

180

Is There Life on Earth?

181

Why the Heck Are We Ticklish?

182

Why We Should Launch Rockets From the Moon

183

Why Are You Polycellular?

184

The Curious Physics That Makes Hurricanes So Powerful

185

What If Animals Delivered Relationship Advice?

186

Developing Curiosity

187

Where Does the Aroma of Rain Originate?

188

Sand Dunes Shouldn’t Exist (Here’s Why They Do)

189

Why Does Hair Grow In The Way It Does?

190

How Do Glaciers Move?

191

Sonic Hedgehog Gene - Why You Have Thumbs Rather Than Fins

192

The Science of Marathon Performance

193

How to Sidestep a Deadly Asteroid Impact

194

This Is Where New Ideas ACTUALLY Arise

195

7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!

196

When Is Now?

197

How Poop Shapes the World

198

How to Observe Time Travel!!!

199

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

200

Can We Get Older Without Aging?