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What’s It Like To Get Curious? with Jonathan Van Ness

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Why Do We Fall For Fake News? with Dr. Nadia Brashier

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How Do You Get Your Bake Off? with Prue Leith

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How Major Are Volcanoes? with Professor Chris Jackson

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What’s Indigenous Science? with Dr. Jessica Hernandez

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Can Figure Skaters Defy Gravity? with Dr. Deborah King

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Do Spider Exoskeletons Go Out Of Style? with Dr. Maydianne Andrade

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What’s The Soundtrack To Your Life? with Brandi Carlile

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How Much History Is In A Burrito? with Pati Jinich

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What’s It Like To Be An Ex-Nun? with Kelli Dunham and Mary Johnson

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Who Built The Panama Canal? with Professor Kaysha Corinealdi

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How Sharp Is The History Of Scissors? with Teresa Collenette

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How Expansive Is Oregon Trail History? with Professor Margaret Huettl

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What’s The Deal With Tear Gas? with Professor Anna Feigenbaum

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How Can We Put The “I” In LGBTQIA+? with Alicia Roth Weigel

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What’s The Cure For Vaccine Misinformation? with Dr. Kolina Koltai

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Are Dams Cute… Or Not So Cute? with Professor Heather Randell

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How Do You Make Me LOL So Hard? with Amanda Seales

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What’s It Like To Survive An Earthquake? with Professor Ashly Cabas

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How Do You Bring It On? with Gabrielle Union

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Has Our Medicine System Expired? with Priti Krishtel

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Is This What Harmony Sounds Like? with Demi Lovato

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What’s Chemistry Got To Do With Haircare? with Ramya Viswanathan

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What Are You Cooking Up This Fall? with Padma Lakshmi

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What Does The US Department Of Education Do? with Secretary Miguel Cardona

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Ready For Another Round? with Getting Curious LIVE!

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How Hot Is This Episode? with Getting Curious LIVE!

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Who Was Keeping It Real In Ancient Mesoamerica? with James Doyle

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How Can My Dogs Live Their Best Lives? with Dr. Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere

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What’s The Cost Of Intimate Partner Violence? with Sonya Passi

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What Were The Very First Olympics Like? with Professors Sarah E. Bond and Joel Christensen

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What Does Justice Look Like For Farmworkers? with Mónica Ramírez

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How Can We Mobilize For The Midterms? with Lala Wu and Gaby Goldstein

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What Does Pride Mean To You? with Ashlee Marie Preston

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Do Beauty Standards Need A Glow Up? with David Yi

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Who Was Doing The Most In Early China? with Professor Jue Guo

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How Are You Making History In Congress? with Rep. Sharice Davids

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So… Did You Miss Us? with Queer Eye’s Fab Five

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Are Cicadas Partying Like It’s 2004? with Dr. Jessica Ware

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We’re Being Watched. Now What? with Meredith Broussard

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How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? with Sohla El-Waylly

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What Was Canada Up To During The American Revolution? with Professor Jeffers Lennox

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How Much Do We ♥ Arlo? an Arlo The Alligator Boy Roundtable

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How Can We Find Clarity Through Art? with Lanecia Rouse

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What’s On Animals’ Minds? with Eva Meijer

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What’s Astrology All About? with Diana Rose

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Are Plants Literal Geniuses? with Professor Beronda Montgomery

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Does Sun Protection Have That “It” Factor? with Dr. Emily Newsom

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Can You Set The Scene For Early China? with Professor Jue Guo

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How Did You Become Such An Amazing Artist? with A’Driane Nieves

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Does This Episode Need Its Own Royal Title? with Emerald Fennell

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How Do You Persevere, Mars Rover? with Christina Hernandez

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Can You Even Believe It’s Our 200th Episode?

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How Can We Honor Black Motherhood? with Anna Malaika Tubbs

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How Can We Raise The Bar On Trans Rights? with Lui Asquith

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How Can We Show Up For Mutual Aid? with Dean Spade

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How Fair is Banking? with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran

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Who Gave Ancient Egyptians Permission To Be So Advanced? with Dr. Kathryn Howley

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How Does Figure Skating Give Us Life? with Michelle Kwan and Eliot Halverson

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What’s It Like To Make Triple Axel History? with Mirai Nagasu

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How Can Local Politics Be More Gender Inclusive? with Jesse Pierce and Samy Nemir Olivares

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What Is Civil Asset Forfeiture? with Professor Saleema Snow

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Can I Sing My Way Through the Holidays? with Meghan Trainor

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How Grateful Are We To Live Beyond The Gender Binary? with ALOK

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How Can We Get To Cloud Nine? with Professor Kristen Rasmussen

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Are We Imagining A Better Future Into Existence? with adrienne maree brown

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Can Comedy Save Us All? with Samantha Bee

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Is Deep Canvassing The Serum America Needs? with George Goehl

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Why Are Domestic Workers’ Rights Essential? with Alicia Garza

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How Are Contemporary Native Americans Thriving? with Dr. Elizabeth Rule

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Would I Have Been The Toast Of The Ancient Mediterranean? with Dr. Sarah E. Bond

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Are You Getting Every Word Of This? with Erin Brockovich

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How Can I Be A Better Cat Parent? with Jackson Galaxy

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Can A House Divided Stand? with Sec. Julián Castro

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How Can We Take Charge Of Our Lives? with Dr. Edith Eger

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Are Unions A Good Bargain? with Professor Rebecca Givan

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Is Guaranteed Income America’s Next Top Model? with Mayor Michael Tubbs

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Why Do We Need A Green New Deal? with Senator Ed Markey

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What’s It Like To Live On The Edge? with Astronaut & Oceanographer Kathy Sullivan

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Am I A Self-Karen? with Ashlee Marie Preston

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Am I Your Favorite Non-Binary Gardener / Gymnast? with Aly Raisman

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How Can We Give the Theater World a Revival? with Audra McDonald

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How Can Progressives Stick The 2020 Election Landing? with Ben O’Keefe

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Are We Hearing A Crescendo of Anti-Racism in Classical Music? with Dr. Kira Thurman and Ashleigh Gordon

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Are Cicadas The Only Ones Having a Hawt Gurl Summer? with Dr. Jessica Ware

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How Can We Shablam on Voter Suppression? with Stacey Abrams

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Is Trump An Autocratic Basic B? with Masha Gessen

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How Can Democrats Be Anti-Racist? with Alicia Garza

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What Was Poppin’ In Prehistoric America? with Dr. Julia Clarke

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How Did You Become So F*#%!ng Fierce? with Christian Siriano

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When Did We Start To Demonize Poverty? with Mary O'Hara

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How Can We Stop Being Such Grumpy Nightmares? with Dr. Laurie Santos

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What Happened After WW2? with Professor Pascale R. Bos (Part Two)

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Do We Understand How The Holocaust Happened? with Professor Pascale R. Bos (Part One)

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How Funny Are You, Queen?! with Mawaan Rizwan

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What Happened To The Racist F***ing A**hole Dick Officials Of The Confederacy After The Civil War? with Professor Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez

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Do We Know Enough About Queer History? With Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown

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What Is Ableism and How Does It Affect Your Life? with Carson Tueller

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How Are You Rescuing The Animals In Australia? with Tanya Dominguez

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How Do Firefighters Fight Bushfires? with Fiona Macken