All episodes

Wed. 12/15 - Are Floating Neighborhoods the Future?

Tue. 12/14 - Sad Keanu & A Sleeping Bag to Save Astronauts' Eyeballs From Being Squashed

Mon. 12/13 - Science-Backed Nap Hacks From Salvador Dalí

Fri. 12/10 - The Science (& Ethics) of Netflix’s ‘Don’t Look Up’

Thu. 12/09 - Birds Aren't Real (And Neither Is This Gen Z Conspiracy Theory)

Wed. 12/08 - Cleaning Hacks From Victorians

Tue. 12/07 - Scientists Want SpaceX's Starship To Go To Infinity & Beyond

Mon. 12/06 - Why Is It So Hard To Hear Movie Dialogue These Days?

Fri. 12/04 - Krampus, the Unabomber, & Tickle Me Elmo

Thu. 12/02 - How a College Student Invented Oregon Trail 50 Years Ago

Wed. 12/01 - Duolingo's Bizarre Sentences

Tue. 11/30 - How Mark Twain Invented the Bra Clasp

Mon. 11/29 - Canada's Emergency Maple Syrup Reserves

Wed. 11/24 - Made-Up Words For Very Real Feelings

Tue. 11/23 - Why Do We Say "Sh*t Hit the Fan"?

Mon. 11/22 - Oxygen From Moon Rocks Could Sustain Humanity for 100,000 Years

Fri. 11/19 - The Fake 2000s Yo-Yo Career of 'What We Do In the Shadows' Mark Proksch

Thu. 11/18 - AMC Will Soon Deliver Popcorn to Your Home

Wed. 11/17 - The 1930s "Streaming" Music Service from Seattle

Tue. 11/16 - Pastel Pavement to Appeal to Women Drivers & More Tired Ideas From Auto History

Mon. 11/15 - Welcome To The Human Library

Fri. 11/12 - The Year Without A Santa Claus? "Labor Shortages" Hit the North Pole

Wed. 11/10 - Could Dogs Survive Without Us?

Tue. 11/09 - Why Does America Have So Few Public Restrooms?

Mon. 11/08 - The Messy Legacy of Emily Dickinson and Her Favorite Cake

Fri. 11/05 - A Universal Vaccine For EVERY Coronavirus, Not Just COVID-19

Thu. 11/04 - Steel Igloos In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Rocks

Wed. 11/03 - The McRib, Space Tacos, and Tropicana Toothpaste

Tue. 11/02 - How to Rewild Your Attention

Mon. 11/01 - "Behind The Joy Are The Algorithms"

Fri. 10/29 - Disease and the Vampire Myth + Hallowmeme History

Thu. 10/28 - Human Eggs Made From Blood Cells

Wed. 10/27 - Permafrost Thaw May Unleash Radioactive Waste & Bacteria

Tue. 10/26 - Can AI Simulations Solve the Supply Chain Disruptions?

Mon. 10/25 - Music That Gives You Chills, and Why It Does

Fri. 10/22 - A Solar Storm Proved the Vikings Visited The Americas Exactly 1000 Years Ago

Thu. 10/21 - Using These Memes Is A Red Flag 🚩

Wed. 10/20 - None Pizza With Left Beef: A Slice of History

Tue. 10/19 - Grand Duke Travis of Westarctica Wants To Save the Planet

Mon. 10/18 - Thank Exoplanets For Your iPhone's Display

Fri. 10/15 - Responding to Pandemic Uncertainty Like an Engineer

Thu. 10/14 - Do Spoilers Actually Make Movies Better?

Wed. 10/13 - Who's To Blame For Candy Corn?

Tue. 10/12 - Why Do We Casually Kill Spiders Without Remorse?

Mon. 10/11 - The Very Intense Miss Navajo Nation Pageant

Fri. 10/08 - Is The Nobel Prize Bad For Science?

Thu. 10/07 - It's Like Venmo, But For the Post Office

Wed. 10/06 - "Corpse Medicine," Brain Implants, & Actors In Space

Tue. 10/05 - The Facebook Outage Revealed a Grim Reality

Mon. 10/04 - Thor's Antiviral COVID-19 Pill & Sexist Suitcases

Fri. 10/01 - Edibles In Your Kid's Trick-Or-Treat Candy? Don't Bet On It.

Thu. 09/30 - Chinese Takeout Boxes Are Americancore

Wed. 09/29 - When Humans Die On Mars, What Will Happen?

Tue. 09/28 - Are Climate Companies Reliving the Dot Com Era?

Mon. 09/27 - 900 Year Old Cosmic Mystery: Officially Solved

Fri. 09/24 - Ancient Teens Shake Up History of Human Migration

Thu. 09/23 - Birds Are Real (and Got Louder During Lockdown)

Wed. 09/22 - The Wonders of Fall, and the Cosmos

Tue. 09/21 - Making 26,000 People Out of 20: Ted Lasso's Trick

Mon. 09/20 - Poison Ivy Vaccines & A Mosh Pit History

Fri. 09/17 - Night-Lunch and the Origin of Food Trucks

Thu. 09/16 - Jane Austen's Advice for Social Media Users

Wed. 09/15 - Civilian? Amateur? Private? Whatever, They're Going to Space!

Tue. 09/14 - Steve Wozniak's New Space Company

Mon. 09/13 - De-Extinct Woolly Mammoths & Potty-Trained Cows

Fri. 09/10 - The Mystery of Blue Moon Ice Cream

Thu. 09/09 - Roof Panels That Cool Your Home, No A/C Required!

Wed. 09/08 - What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning?

Tue. 09/07 - Mars Rocks, A Billionaire's Utopia, & The Free Blockbuster Movement

Fri. 09/03 - The Billion Year Gap In the Grand Canyon's Rocks

Thu. 09/02 - What Is Grimace & Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?

Wed. 09/01 - Flying EVs, Bedroom Pop, & Murder Hornets 2: Venomous Boogaloo

Tue. 08/31 - Could We Delete Our Memories One Day?

Mon. 08/30 - Electric Cars Almost Became the Norm in the 1800s

Fri. 08/27 - The History of the ICEE, The Coolest Drink In Town

Thu. 08/26 - What If All Food Was Square?

Wed. 08/25 - Comirnaty? How Pfizer's Vaccine Got Its Brand Name (and what it almost was)

Tue. 08/24 - Pixels Aren't Square. Or Visible.

Mon. 08/23 - Critics Hate Them! Netflix's UNBELIEVABLE Clickbait Strategies

Fri. 08/20 - The Necrobiome: Dead and Loving It

Thu. 08/19 - The #1 Site on Facebook is a Green Bay Packers Alumni Company?

Wed. 08/18 - A "Wright Bros. Moment" In Nuclear Fusion

Tue. 08/17 - The Thriving Imported Mango Market on WhatsApp

Mon. 08/16 - Eerily Accurate 1990s Predictions of Current Tech Dangers

Fri. 08/13 - Woolly Mammoth Adventures & Goodreads Pages Held For Ransom

Thu. 08/12 - The Nickelodeon Design Aesthetic

Wed. 08/11 - Robin, Batman's Sidekick, Has Come Out of the Closet

Tue. 08/10 - A New Carnivorous Flower CAPTCHAs Its Prey

Mon. 08/09 - That “Code Red” Climate Report, Explained

Fri. 08/06 - A Gardener's High? Can Playing In Dirt Make You Happier?

Thu. 08/05 - Vaccine APP-rehension

Wed. 08/04 - Why Is Snow on the Alps Turning Red?

Tue. 08/03 - What Edgar Allan Poe's Forgotten Science Writing Can Tell Us About Misinformation

Mon. 08/02 - Why Skateboarding Is An Olympic Sport, But Cricket Isn't

Fri. 07/30 - Millions of Views & Not a Dollar To Show For It

Thu. 07/29 - Kids Are Using Soda To Fake Positive COVID Tests

Wed. 07/28 - Why the COVID Vaccines WEREN'T Hacked... So Far

Tue. 07/27 - Are Personalized Digital Billboards the Future?

Mon. 07/26 - An Olympic Medal For Designing Olympic Medals

Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping