Skip to content
BrainStuff cover art

All Episodes

BrainStuff — 1,000 episodes · page 6 of 10

#
Title
501

How Did the Eggnog Riot Work?

502

What Does It Cost to Run Santa's Workshop?

503

Why Are Different Injections Given in Your Arm, Rear, or Elsewhere?

504

Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Large Dogs?

505

How Do Latkes Work?

506

BrainStuff Classics: Could Recycled Urine Make Sustainable Fertilizer?

507

Will Cats Sit In Imaginary Boxes?

508

How Does Mistletoe Work?

509

How Do Ticks Cause Meat Allergies?

510

Why Do Scientists Want You to Say 'UAPs', not 'UFOs'?

511

BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Get Hiccups?

512

Is Every Snowflake Really Unique?

513

Why Does Rudolph's Nose Glow Red?

514

How Could Temporary Tattoos Revolutionize Blood Pressure Monitoring?

515

How Does the Artemis I Mission Work?

516

BrainStuff Classics: What Happens to Balloons When You Release Them?

517

BrainStuff Classics: Can Side Sleeping Help Prevent Snoring?

518

How Does Checkout Charity Work?

519

Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys for Thanksgiving?

520

How Do Pop-Up Wetlands Work?

521

Reign of Terror: The Story of the Osage Murders

522

How Do Eels Reproduce?

523

What's the Oldest Tree in the World?

524

BrainStuff Classics: How Do Homeless Americans Vote?

525

BrainStuff Classics: What Was The Great Pox?

526

How Do Seahorses Work?

527

Can the President Control Gasoline Prices?

528

Can You Get Pregnant During Your Period?

529

Do Political TV Ads Really Change Voters' Minds?

530

Why Are Graveyards Scary?

531

Why Does It Feel So Good To Be Scared?

532

How Does the Monstrous Lamia Work?

533

Can You Sleep With Your Eyes Open?

534

How Did Prehistoric Animals Get So Big?

535

BrainStuff Classics: What Is Nuclear Pasta?

536

Why Are Caskets So Expensive?

537

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?

538

What's the Difference Between Redistricting and Gerrymandering?

539

Why Do So Many Animals Have Snot?

540

BrainStuff Classics: Could Jupiter Have Water After All?

541

BrainStuff Classics: What Would Happen If You Wrecked a Car on a Test-Drive?

542

Who Really Profited from the Gold Rush?

543

What's the Coldest Place On Earth?

544

What Causes Nightmares, and How Can You Prevent Them?

545

How Could Blue Denim Be Greener?

546

How Do Hognose Snakes Play Dead?

547

Should You Worry About Nitrates in Your Food?

548

What Artefacts Has This Summer's Drought Uncovered?

549

How Did Queen Elizabeth II Fall in Love with Corgis?

550

What Does Your Pinky Toe Actually Do?

551

How Do Muskrats Work?

552

How Could Saudi Arabia's Futuristic City 'The Line' Work?

553

BrainStuff Classics: What Is Breakup Bootcamp?

554

BrainStuff Classics: What Are Food Deserts?

555

How Did a Conman Sell the Brooklyn Bridge -- Over and Over?

556

How Does Gallium Work?

557

Why Do Animals Sploot?

558

How Does Doomscrolling Work?

559

How Did Vikings' Gut Worms Create Today's Lung Disease?

560

BrainStuff Classics: Who Is The Laughing Buddha?

561

BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Alzheimers's So Difficult to Treat?

562

How Can Turning Lights Off Save Birds?

563

How Do Kangaroos' Pouches Work?

564

How Does Ectopic Pregnancy Work?

565

Why Does the Fed Change the Interest Rate?

566

BrainStuff Classics: How Do Migrating Birds Navigate?

567

What Size Lottery Jackpot Makes People Play?

568

How Does Monkeypox Work?

569

Project Acoustic Kitty: How Did the CIA Make a Cat a Spy?

570

How Do Robot Umpires Work?

571

Why Are Giant Land Snails Invading Florida Again?

572

BrainStuff Classics: Are Artists Hardwired To Be Poor?

573

BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Hydrogen Peroxide Bottles Brown?

574

Why Do Female Songbirds Sing?

575

How Did a Grudge Match Between States Create the U.S. Constitution?

576

How Does the Zoo Hypothesis Work?

577

How Do Cooling Fabrics Work?

578

How Does Lyme Disease Work?

579

BrainStuff Classics: How Does Anxiety Cause Underarm Sweat?

580

What Does Space Smell Like?

581

How Were Pregnancy Tests Invented?

582

What Colors Can Dogs See?

583

How Could Smart Traffic Lights Work?

584

Why Do Watermelons Explode Sometimes?

585

How Do Insect Hotels Work?

586

BrainStuff Classics: Can Your Face's Temperature Reveal Your Mood?

587

How Does Human Conception Work?

588

What Would Happen If Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?

589

How Did Roe v Wade Work?

590

BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Mass Shootings Happening in U.S. Schools?

591

How Has Grandma Gatewood Inspired Generations of Hikers?

592

Should You Turn the Air Conditioner Off While You're Out?

593

What Did People Feed Babies Before Formula?

594

How Did the Mona Lisa Get So Popular?

595

How Do Magpies Work?

596

BrainStuff Classics: Are Wine Glasses Getting Bigger?

597

Why Does Your Cat Lick You?

598

How Do Heat Officers Work?

599

How Were Common Currency Symbols Invented?

600

How Does Prehab Work?