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Why Is Static Worse in Winter?
A Distant Galaxy Is Warping the Milky Way
What Most People Miss When Building Habits (w/ Jen Sincero)
We Still Don’t Know How Ice Skating Works
Why Your Dog’s Paws Smell Like Corn Chips
Disgusting Sights Literally Turn Your Stomach
A New Discovery About That Weird “Aurora” Named STEVE
Beat Stress with Laughter Yoga (w/ Madan Kataria, MD)
Why Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Kept So Cold?
People Respond to Music Even When They Can’t Hear It
Your Brain Treats Human Beauty Differently from Artistic Beauty
Why We Call Computer Glitches “Bugs”
What’s the Shortest Amount of Time Ever Recorded?
Swedish Death Cleaning Can Declutter Your Life
How “Flow” Can Help in Quarantine
The Right Way to Set Goals
When Smokers Quit, Dormant Lung Cells Wake Up
Do People Think More in Words or Pictures?
The Stinky Science of the World’s Smelliest Fruit
Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses for Science
Do Opposites Really Attract?
Why Toilet Paper Is White
The Time Pi Was Almost Legally Changed to 3.2
Why Do Bats Cause So Many Virus Outbreaks?
Why It's Good to Reveal Your Failures
Do Single-A Batteries Exist?
Early Female Hunters Were More Common Than We Thought
How Psilocybin Therapy Can Ease Depression
What Are Monoclonal Antibodies? (w/ Dr. Lawrence Purpura)
Why Birds Wore Funny Hats for Science
Are Sleep-Deprived Men More Masculine?
Insecure People Use More Jargon
Why Don’t We Have Battery-Powered Airplanes?
Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)
Why You Need Self-Compassion for Self-Improvement
Why It’s Relaxing to Breathe in Through Your Nose
Why Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs
The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)
Scientists Finally Found a Dinosaur Cloaca
The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email
Is That Real Money or Fun Money? The Trap of Mental Accounting
The More You Wish for Self-Control, the Less of It You Have
Do Turkeys Really Drown in Rainstorms?
What People Get Wrong About Evolution (w/ Neil Shubin)
Venus Flytraps Store Short-Term “Memories”
Do Rocket Stages Ever Hit Ships? (w/ NASA’s Cody Chambers)
Why Is Life Based on Carbon and Not Silicon?
What to Do When You Make the Wrong Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
The Best Time to Make a Gut Decision (w/ Annie Duke)
4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena
Why Are Spacesuits White?
Befriend Cats with the Slow Blink
Why Bugs Are Basically Robots (w/ Alie Ward)
Ask Smart People Stupid Questions (w/ Alie Ward)
Why You Need a Virtual Commute
You Can Control Your Dreams with Science
A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness
5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts
How to Make the Most of Your Negativity Bias (w/ John Tierney)
Can a Selfie Screen You for Heart Disease?
The Door to Hell Is a Fiery Pit That’s Been Burning Since 1971
Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science
Einstein Worried That Science Can't Explain "The Now"
How Hollywood Gets Seances Wrong
How 19th-Century Body-Snatchers Contributed to Medical Science
Could Parasites Turn Us into Zombies?
The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse
Viking Was a Job Description, Not Heredity
Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey into Extinction?
Why Social Isolation Could Breed Conspiracy Theorists
How Romantic Partners Influence Each Other's Relationship Goals
Our Ability to Drink Milk Evolved Way Faster Than Scientists Thought
How Superstitions Can Reduce Anxiety
Hacking Earth to Fight Climate Change
Earth's Atmosphere May Be Rusting the Moon
It’s “Patient O,” Not “Patient Zero”
How Cold Was the Last Ice Age?
How Scientists Teleported Fish Behavior
How Cancer Evolves in the Body (w/ Dr. Kat Arney)
3 Mythological Creatures That Were Inspired by Real Fossils
Why The Mantis Shrimp Can Punch So Hard Without Damage
What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?
The Dirty, Smelly History of Soap (w/ Cody Cassidy)
Who Ate the First Oyster? (w/ Cody Cassidy)
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!)
Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep?
The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19
Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms
Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking
Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu?
Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling
Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands
A Dark Sense of Humor May Mean a High IQ, Origin of the Word Orange, and Zombie Fires in the Arctic
Can Smiling Actually Make You Happier? And Why a Clockmaker Figured Out Longitude
Two Types of Empathy, Why Razors Dull, and Can You Learn Perfect Pitch?
We All Think We’re Bad With Names, The Genius of Hobo Code, and How Attractive Do You Think You Are?
A Harmful Mutation Evolved for Good, Why Astronauts Are Using Old Sailing Tech in Space, and Cody’s Message
The Rando Who Translated Gilgamesh, Why Horses Lost Their Toes, and a Sperm-Swimming Discovery
Difference Between Unscented & Fragrance-Free and Cow Gene Editing for More Male Offspring
Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star