All Episodes

Wed. 05/04 - Margaret Thatcher's Empire Strikes Back

Tue. 05/03 - Why Can't The US Have Weird Chip Flavors?

Mon. 05/02 - Waste More Time

Fri. 04/29 - Books That Kill: Arsenic-Laced Covers & Other Poisonous Pigments

Thu. 04/28 - Oreology: The Science of Oreos

Wed. 04/27 - Our Backstabbed Two-Faced Moon

Tue. 04/26 - When the CIA Funded an Animal Farm Cartoon

Mon. 04/25 - Monopoly’s Scandalous Anti-Monopoly History

Fri. 04/22 - Some Like It Hot... But Why?

Thu. 04/22 - The Sport of Extreme Sitting

Wed. 04/20 - The AI Microwave Out for Revenge

Tue. 04/19 - Holoportation & the Real Scream Queen

Mon. 04/18 - The Old Villains Are the New Heroes + the Big Mac Index

Fri. 04/15 - We Need a Time Variance Authority

Thu. 04/14 - Redefining Units of Time for the Techno-Era

Wed. 04/13 - That's A Big Ol' Comet

Tue. 04/12 - Social Media as the Fall of the Tower of Babel

Mon. 04/11 - You Have Livetweeted Dysentery

Fri. 04/08 - Short Kings & Barbie Girls

Thu. 04/07 - Scaly Dino Fossil From the Day the Asteroid Hit Found (maybe)

Wed. 04/06 - The Darwin Book Thief

Tue. 04/05 - So You Wanna Be A Fossil

Mon. 04/04 - The Artwork Made By Six Million People and Counting

Fri. 04/01 - Star Wars Kid: A New Hope

Thu. 03/31 - We Don't Talk About Pluto

Wed. 03/30 - Prayers on the Blockchain & the Oldest Ever Star

Tue. 03/29 - Koons' Moons

Mon. 03/28 - The Hoax Behind Pringles' Mascot's Name

Fri. 03/25 - Digital Rest Stop Ahead

Thu. 03/24 - You're Not Actually Laughing, lol

Wed. 03/23 - Lettuce Medicine, Ranch Diamonds, & eWaste Coins

Tue. 03/22 - Competitive Water Drinkers On YouTube: One of the Internet's Last Friendly Places?

Mon. 03/21 - Squid Tech to Prevent Human Sunburns

Fri. 03/18 - What Do We Lose By Keeping The Lights On?

Thu. 03/17 - Why Are Movies So Long These Days?

Wed. 03/16 - Permanent Daylight Saving Time?

Tue. 03/15 - Solar Storms & Subvariants, But It's All Fine

Mon. 03/14 - Why COVID Causes Loss of Smell and How To (Maybe) Get It Back

Fri. 03/11 - Abe Lincoln: Telegraph Influencer

Thu. 03/10 - We Need To Talk About The Spiders

Wed. 03/09 - Why Has "Z" Become a Pro-War Symbol?

Tue. 03/08 - Diamonds Are the Air's Best Friend

Mon. 03/07 - Why Have Some Of Us Never Gotten COVID?

Fri. 03/04 - How Hybrid Work Could Change Cities & the Workforce

Thu. 03/03 - Designing Gotham: Batman's Universal Hometown

Wed. 03/02 - Death to Plastic

Tue. 03/01 - Dino Drama: Should Tyrannosaurus Be Split Into Three Species?

Mon. 02/28 - Pres. Zelensky's Uncanny Comedy Career & the Perils of Idol-worship

Fri. 02/25 - The Meme Accounts Behind Misinformation

Thu. 02/24 - The Little-Known Women Who Saved Millions of Children

Wed. 02/23 - I'm Feeling Lucky

Tue. 02/22 - Hot Jupiter Is Raining Gems

Mon. 02/21 - Emo Poet & Wrestling Champ Abe Lincoln

Fri. 02/18 - Did the Index Destroy How We Read? Will eBooks?

Thu. 02/17 - The Origins and Physics of Luge

Wed. 02/16 - EPCOT 2.0? Disney's New Residential Housing Communities

Tue. 02/15 - The Love Story Behind the High Five Wikipedia Page

Mon. 02/14 - Rejected Olympic Sports

Fri. 02/11 - Rams vs. Bengals In the Wild

Thu. 02/10 - Valentine's Meat Juice

Wed. 02/09 - 300 y/o Arctic Sponges Found Surviving on Fossilized Worms

Tue. 02/08 - Wine Bricks To The Rescue + Decoding Dickens & Digital Dollars

Mon. 02/07 - How Many Micromorts Is Listening To This Podcast?

Fri. 02/04 - The "Eminently Boycottable" Olympics

Thu. 02/03 - Where Did Numbers Come From?

Wed. 02/02 - How Many Weeks of Winter When the Groundhog Dies?

Tue. 02/01 - 2,500 Subway Cars Under the Sea

Mon. 01/31 - I Want a Christmas Moon Tree & A Shot of Spikevax

Fri. 01/28 - Why the Metaverse Doesn't Have Legs

Thu. 01/27 - The History of “sus” is… pretty sus

Wed. 01/26 - Dun, Dun, Duuuuun!

Tue. 01/25 - Extreme Ironing: Can You Take The Heat?

Mon. 01/24 - Why Do Americans Eat So Much Peanut Butter?

Fri. 01/21 - False Bananas & Sexy Skeletons

Thu. 01/20 - A Film Studio IN SPACE

Wed. 01/19 - No Fries, Pricey Lumber, & Fake Soup

Tue. 01/18 - tl;dr idk (and that's ok)

Mon. 01/17 - What's In a Name? From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to MLK

Fri. 01/14 - The Internet's (and French Dressing's) Identity Crisis

Thu. 01/13 - Un-distilled Non-Whiskey & the King of No One

Wed. 01/12 - Go Ahead and Listen To This Episode at 1.5x Speed

Tue. 01/11 - Wordle Wordle Everywhere

Mon. 01/10 - Deep Space Tardigrades

Fri. 01/07 - Boaty McBoatface and the Doomsday Glacier

Thu. 01/06 - 1922's Predictions for 2022 + FOVs (Fish-Operated Vehicles)

Wed. 01/05 - The Climate Emergency: Reasons to Hope

Tue. 01/04 - Time Capsules in a Confederate Statue & the History of the Future

Mon. 01/03 - It's Raining Fish (Hallelujah)

Wed. 12/29 - Why Donuts Are Emblems of America (& some NYE traditions from around the globe)

Tue. 12/28 - Emojis As Folklore & Cows On Waterbeds

Mon. 12/27 - I'm Disgusted

Wed. 12/22 - Rollerskating, The Holy Pooper, & X-Mas Carol Extortion: Traditions From Around the World & Days of Yore

Tue. 12/21 - Why the Webb Telescope Launch Is Freaking Out Astronomers

Mon. 12/20 - Athletes' Supercharged Blood & Pro Santas On a Boat

Fri. 12/17 - The Mystery of the Secret Library Hidden Inside a Library Book

Thu. 12/16 - DOOM BLOOM: Spotted Lanternfly-Tainted Honey

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’