All Episodes

1651: "The NERVA Program"

1650: "Ion Drives"

1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger"

1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?"

1647: "Fermilab"

1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion"

1645: "The Gulf of Tonkin"

1644: “Krafft Ehricke”

1643: “Why Are Stop Signs Octagons?”

1642: “Nedra Talley”

1641: "Operation Northwoods"

1640: "David Allan Coe"

1639: "Eberhard Rees"

1638: "Route 66 Turns 100"

1637: “Norbert aka Tony Pork”

1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium"

1634: "Chernobyl Explodes and Igor Khiryak Goes Back In"

1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness"

1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level"

1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing"

1630: "The 392 HEMI"

1629: "The Sacking of the Libraries of Alexandria and Cleopatra"

1628: "Shooting Drones with an F-35"

1627: "British Columbia Tree Seed Centre"

1626: "Can You Hear Electricity?"

1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians"

1624: "Cord Meyer"

1623: "The Whiskey Rebellion and the Power to Tax"

1622: "The Morgan Horse"

1621: "The Blue Room"

1620: "The Danger of Media Spin"

1619: "Deer Island"

1618: "Signals Intelligence in Commercial Radio"

1617: "Catfish Have Venom"

1616: “Robins Island"

1615: "Why Dogs Can't Have Chocolate"

1614: "Lunar Sphere of Influence"

1613: "Victor Glover Jr.”

1612: "Artemis Doesn’t Have a Fridge"

1611: "Who Is Bob Lazar?"

1610: "Hidden Toxins, Wasted Money, True Longevity: The Subtraction Revolution"

1609: "What If the Earth Actually Doesn’t Spin?"

1608: "Inside a Patriot Battery"

1607: "Why Do You Itch?"

1606: "Louise Fitzpatrick: The Only Student of Albert Pinkham Ryder"

1605: "The Complexity of Midair Refueling"

1604: "What Is Time Dilation?"

1603: "Remembering Ted Nichols"

1602: "Redstone Arsenal"

1601: "Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner"

1600: "Wernher von Braun"

1599: "Remembering Chuck Norris"

1598: "Lewis Latimer and the Globe-Supporter for Electric Lamps"

1597: "Albert Pinkham Ryder"

1596: "Vanessa Williams: The Crown That Came Back"

1595: "How Hard It Is to Fly a Stealth Bomber for 44 Hours"

1594: "America’s First St. Patrick’s Day Wasn’t Where You Think"

1593: "USS Pickerel"

1592: "Three's Company"

1591: "The NIKE Site Hidden in the Woods Near Orchard Park"

1590: "The Penn Dixie Fossil Site"

1589: "Nathan Detroit"

1588: "Sarah Brown"

1587: "Sky Masterson"

1586: "The Crap Game That Cleaned Up Broadway"

1585: "Lake Warren"

1584: "The Hafele–Keating Experiment"

1583: "Why Having a Dog Makes You a Better Person"

1582: "Remembering Lou Holtz"

1581: "The Central–Mid-Levels Escalator"

1580: "Camp Century"

1579: "Dorsey’s Art Gallery and the Man Who Opened the Door"

1578: Neil Sedaka

1577: "Thin Mints"

1576: "Barbara Ann and the Accidental Hit"

1575: "Joni Eareckson Tada: Paralyzed at Seventeen"

1574: "Milli Vanilli and the Sound of Silence"

1573: "Levi Strauss"

1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?"

1571: "What Loss Leaves Behind"

1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It"

1569: "Polyphonic Perception"

1568: "Ski Mountaineering"

1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy"

1566: "Smokey Robinson"

1565: "Robert Duvall"

1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat"

1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance"

1562: "The Helios Laser"

1561: "Saint Valentine"

1560: “The 3 Squeeze Rule

1559: "What is Love?"

1558: "Eye Contact and Tight Hugs"

1557: "Cessna 210"

1556: "Paul Laurence Dunbar"

1555: "Project Nobska"

1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto”

1553: “Curling - Mixed Doubles”

1552: "Milano Cortina"

1551: “Birthplace of the Winter Olympics – Chamonix 1924 to Beijing 2022”

1550: “Hákarl”

1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB"

1548: "Sly Dunbar"

1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That Shaped the Universe"

1546: "Emotional Invalidation"

1545: "The Eltanin Antenna"

1544: "Vivipary"

1543: "John Deere and the Problem of Plowing Blind"

1542: "Simple Riddle 14"

1541: "Taipei 101"

1540: "Choosing to Receive"

1539: "Soviet Volga Transmitters"

1538: "Dundurn Castle Hamilton"

1537: "Heavy Whipping Cream”

1536: "Getting Stuck on the Highway in a Blizzard"

1535: "Why We Remember - MLK Day"

1534: "The Henry Plant Museum"

1533: "What Is Returned – The Story of Thomas Westerhaus"

1532: "Wasabi or Horseradish?"

1531: "People Who Lie Without Knowing They’re Lying"

1530: "What Is Boom Bap?"

1529: "Platypus"

1528: "Metacognition"

1527: "The Golden Child"

1526: "Radio Swan"

1525: "The Trial of Joan of Arc"

1524: "Ratification of the 11th Amendment (1798)"

1523: "Manganese"

1522: "Project Echo"

1521: “Itzhak Bentov and Consciousness”

1520: "What is a Surge Wrasse Fish?"

1519: "Can Dogs Eat Bones?"

1518: "The Original Alien Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith"

1517: "Austin’s Coffee Crafters"

1516: "When New Year’s Eve Finally Changed Television"

1515: "Brigitte Bardot"

1514: "Artificial Photosynthesis"

1513: "What Makes Cheese Sharp?"

1512: "Learned Helplessness"

1511: "Faith No More – Midlife Crisis"

1510: "Jesus Outside the Bible"

1509: "Christmas Eve, Earthrise"

1508: “The Log That Gave Gifts”

1507: "The Orange in the Stocking"

1506: "Eating the Top Tier of the Wedding Cake”

1505: "Misheard Lyrics"

1504: "The NCAA Football Playoff Bracket"

1503: "Gravity and Heavy Energy"

1502: “The World’s Largest Pinecone Isn’t What You Think”

1501: "When Metal Touches Metal in Space"

1500: "James Brown - Inmate 155413"

1499: "Dance Hall Days"

1498: "The History of Hot Tubs"

1497: "French Fries"

1496: "The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke"

1495: “The Grand Island Bridges - 90 Years of Steel and the People Who Took Care of It”

1494: "What Is Auracast and How Does It Work?"

1493: "Donald Ewen Cameron"

1492: “10,000 Days – Wings for Marie”

1491: "Judith – A Perfect Circle"

1490: "What Are Moop Eyes?"

1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402"

1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths"

1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire"

1486: "December"

1485: "Professor Abel Wolman"

1484: "Indoor Plumbing"

1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry"

1482: "The First Thanksgiving Game"

1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven"

1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina"

1479: "The Montauk Project"

1478: "Sensory Deprivation"

1477: "Telekinesis"

1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?"

1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained"

1474: "Do Hard Things"

1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?"

1472: "Rumi and Poetry"

1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves"

1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing"

1469: "Subjectivity and Judging"

1468: "The Hobbit of Flores"

1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher"

1466: "What is a Veteran?"

1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps"

1464: "NCO vs Officer"

1463: "The Red Ball Express"

1462: "Cream City Brick"

1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home"

1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her Eye Over Tradition"

1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds"

1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra"

1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor"

1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone"

1455: "The Houdini Séance"

1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"

1453: "Bear Lake Monster"

1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"

1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"

1450: "The Alkonost"

1449: "The Encantado"

1448: "Fall Foliage"

1447: "The Invention That Rewired the World"

1446: "Transmitting Electricity Through the Air"

1445: "Ace Frehley"

1444: "The Plane Crash that Changed Music Forever"

1443: "Carbon Fiber"

1442: "Albrecht Dürer"

1441: "A Simple Riddle 12"

1440: “Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis”

1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight"

1438: "Diane Keaton"

1437: "The Silkworm"

1436: "Quantum Entanglement – Spooky Action at a Distance"

1435: “The Tiny Sausages of Nuremberg”

1434: "Thelonious Monk and the Shape of Modern Jazz"

1433: "The James Webb Space Telescope"

1432: "The Lowell Observatory"

1431: "Viewing 3I/ATLAS from Mars"

1430: "Richard Dedekind Redefining Number Theory"

1429: "Alternate and Special Uniforms in the NFL"

1428: "Jane Goodall"

1427: "GPS Trackers on Birds"

1426: "The Tunnel of Whiteface Mountain"

1425: "The Steam That Moved a Nation"

1424: "The Mustang"

1423: "Three Kings Kaikomako"

1422: "What the Garden Gives Back"

1421: "Carbonated Soda"

1420: "Vanta Black"

1419: "Stanislaw Petrow"

1418: "What is Leucovorin?"

1417: "Dr. Green’s Light"

1416: "Water on Mars"

1415: "The 21st Night of September"

1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones"

1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness"

1412: "Robert Redford"

1411: "Acoustic Shadows"

1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"

1409: "The Hidden Patterns of Statistics"

1408: "The Imperial Castle"

1407: "What is a Reddit Kid?"

1406: "The British Lion"

1405: "Tropical Waves"

1404: "The Amateur Radio Operators of 9/11"

1403: "September 10th, 2001"

1402: "Keithroy Maynard"

1401: "Dorothy Dandridge"

1400: "The Blood Moon"

1399: "Giorgio Armani"

1398: "American Paint Horse"

1397: "What is a Florida Ounce?"

1396: "An Animal Lying on the Side of the Road Probably Isn’t Sick or Napping"

1395: "September 2nd - The Beginning and the End"

1394: "The Great Barrington UFO Encounter of 1969"

1393: "Mary Ann Nichols: The First Victim of Jack the Ripper"

1392: "What is Calculus"

1391: "Sauerkraut Balls"

1390: "Dr. Joseph Murphy"

1389: "Krakatoa"

1388: "How are Fossils Made?"

1387: "Northwest Mountain Rose Apples"

1386: "Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time"

1385: "Judge Frank Caprio"

1384: "Does Black Paint Make Metal Hotter"

1383: "Hawaii, the 50th Star"

1382: "Lazy Pierogi"

1381: "Terence Stamp"

1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die"

1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws"

1378: "The Brazilian Current"

1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII"

1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter"

1375: "The Piri Reis Map"

1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past"

1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant"

1372: "James Lovell - Commander of Apollo 13"

1371: "Bookless Library"

1370: "Fly Fishing"

1369: "Purple Heart Day"

1368: "The Truth About Glass"

1367: "Loni Anderson"

1366: "Today Is a Great Day!”

1365: "Heterochromia"

1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?"

1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?"

1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington"

1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench"

1360: "Invisible Ink"

1359: "The Runit Dome"

1358: "George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso"

1357: "Hulk Hogan"

1356: "Chuck Mangione"

1355: "Malcolm-Jamal Warner"

1354: "John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne"

1353: "Interglacial Period"

1352: "The Soto Dolmen in Trigueros, Spain"

1351: "Mitochondria"

1350: "The Kiss Cam"

1349: "Connie Francis"

1348: "Ozempic Venom"

1347: "Kola Superdeep Borehole"

1346: "Napoleon's Rabbit Hunt Gone Wrong!"

1345: "Flash Floods"

1344: "The SnackWrap Guy of Hendersonville"

1343: "The Cochno Stone"

1342: "Jumping Out of a Moving Car"

1341: "The History of 7-Eleven"

1340: "Ellesmere Island in Canada"

1339: "Zoroastrianism"

1338: "Don't Skip Lunch"

1337: "Tamerlane"

1336: "Iceland Has No Trees"

1335: "The Housefly That Didn't Drown"