All Episodes

How To Sniff Like A Dog

What's Your Cat Really Thinking?

We Get Fired Up Over Peppers

Why Vinegar Deserves More Credit As An Ingredient

The Secrets Behind Succulent Sauces

How To Go Vegan

How To Succeed Even If You're An Introvert

How Addiction Works

How The First Amendment Works

What Happens When We Sleep?

What Happens When A Dog Drinks Water?

What's The Future Of DACA?

How Legal Pot Could Be Monopolized

Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft

Why We Love To Run

All The Light We Cannot See

Why Coral Is Dying Around The World

Become A Food Preserving Pro!

Don't Bug Out! The Secret World Of Insects

How To Cut The Clutter And Get Organized

What's Your Cat Thinking About?

The Yucky Stuff You've Always Wondered About

Protecting Yourself From Ticks and Lyme Disease

The Shocking Truth About Lightning

The Science Of Success

How Climate Change Will Alter Tides

How Daydreaming Can Help You Focus

The Buzz Around Honey And Beekeeping

Exploring Spanish Cuisine

The Secrets Of Pie Making

Making Cents Of America's Tax Code

Understanding Psychosomatic Illness

How To Navigate the Open Seas

Spring is Coming. So Are Allergies.

What's At Stake With Clean Water Regulation Rollbacks?

Pulling the Curtain Back on NASA

Understanding CRISPR, the Sci-Fi-Esque Gene Editing Tool

Why Can't You Just Stop?

Demystifying That Four-Letter Word (Hint: It Starts with L)

How You Can Have a Say, In Politics and Your Community

Listening to Body Language

Oh, the Things Our Bodies Would Say

Why Fat Is So Misunderstood

Finding Light on the Darkest Day: The Winter Solstice & Yuletide

A Deep Dive into Aquariums

What's Keeping You Up at Night?

Behold the Wonders of Butter

Have a Seat: The History of Chairs

How the Electric Guitar Revolutionized Music

The Science of Cheese

Beyond Butternut: A Guide to Squash, Gourds, Pumpkins & More!

Please Explain: The Leonard Lopate Show!

The History of Restaurants Revealed

How to Define 'Creepiness'

Bees, Wasps, Ants, Scorpions... Whose Stings Hurt the Most?

Sweet Dreams (and Nightmares) Are Made of This

The Secret Life of Ballerinas

Is Cursive Obsolete? The Writing May be on the Wall

We've Got the Scoop on Ice Cream!

Satisfying Our Sweet Tooth

Dim Sum: Dumplings & Buns that Make the Perfect Bite

Our Indispensable Guide to Buying Eggs!

Finding Our Way: A Guide to Trails

Collecting Data on Mass Shootings in the U.S.

How to Make Arguments... And Win!

Diving into the Mysterious World of Dolphins

Weaving Together the Science and Social History of Hair

The Psychology Behind Violence and Mass Shootings

Unwrapping the History of Paper

Why Bird Brains Are Smarter Than You Think

A Farm Grows in Brooklyn

From Medieval England to Lingua Franca: The Evolution of English

Have We Lost the Art of Conversation in Our Digital World?

An Education on Charter Schools

Inside the Politics of the Supreme Court

American Folk Music, as Told by Eli Smith and Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton

Bigfoot and Nessie and Yetis... Oh My!

Who are the Superdelegates? What are Brokered Conventions? A Guide to the Presidential Primaries.

Why Birds Are Really Living Dinosaurs

The New Face of Philanthropy

How to Spot Financial Scams and Prevent Identity Theft

Questions about Punctuation? We've Got the Answers... Period.

Eat Your Heart Out: The Brains Behind Sweetbreads

The Secret Ingredient is Xanthan Gum, or Maybe Acesulfame Potassium

We're Wrapped Up in Tacos!

From Pesto to Béchamel, Let's Talk Sauce!

Is Cast Iron Cookware Weighing You Down? We're Here to Help.

Whiskey: A Spirited History, an Intoxicating Journey

We Are Never Alone, Thanks to Microbes

Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You

The Long Life of the Dead

The Honest Truth About Lies

The Unbalanced Power of Expert Witnesses

Understanding How The Media Reports on Health and Nutrition

Translating the Untranslatable

Humans and Horses: Together (Nearly) Forever

Should Fantasy Sports Be Regulated Like Gambling?

Why Are Life-Saving Drugs So Expensive?

Lurking Behind Your Fear

Why The Pop Music Machine Is Dominated by the Swedes

The Truth Behind "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"

The Art of Dressing A Man

Cockroaches: They've Been Around Forever, And They Aren't Going Anywhere

The Birds of New York City

Eight Armed Mischief: The Deeply Intelligent Octopus

Why Leave Home After 5,000 Years?

What is Meat? Changing the Answer Might Change the Planet.

A Beginner's Guide To Kosher And Halal Food

The Weapon In Your Kitchen

Pulling the Perfect Shot

Understanding those 4th of July Missiles That Explode Into Colors: Fireworks

An Everything Guide to Farming and Eating Mussels, Clams, and more

The Secrets of Ramen

The Fats and Oils That Give You the Perfect Meal

From Fast Food to Foie Gras: The Rise of the Burger

Unclipping The History Behind Our Office Supplies

Understanding Cults

From Lobo to Fido: The Story of Domestication

The Human Threats to The Livelihood of Birds

Neil deGrasse Tyson Gives Dark Matter a New Name: 'Fred'

The Sweet Adelines and The Lustre Quartet Explain The Barbershop Quartet!

The Conservation Efforts Trying to Keep Frogs From Going Extinct

Pesticides, Produce, and Your Health

A Baby Plant in a Box... With its Lunch

From Sideshow to the Big Top: The History of the Circus

So Close to Humans, So Far Extinct

The Touch, The Feel, The Worldwide Domination, of Cotton

From 'The Scarlet Letter' to YouTube: Shame Isn't Going Anywhere

Expect 1-3 Feet of Snow... Or Maybe 4 Inches. Predicting Blizzards.

What the Future Has in Store for Your Brain

Inside The Mind Of An Actor

The Science of Studying Eruptions

How Do We Keep the Resolutions We Make? Harness The Power of Habits.

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

How do Grand Juries, and Trial Juries, Influence Our Criminal Justice System?

From Louis XIV To St. Petersburg To Lincoln Center: The History of Ballet

How the Best Minds In The Field Search for Life in Outer Space

Will The Internet Remain Accessible to All?

Digging Up Ancient Artifacts, Human Remains, Lost Civilizations

The History of Medical Quarantines, and What That Could Mean For Americans Today

Why Do Kids Sext and Is It a Crime?

Where Does the Word Ketchup Come From? And Other Questions on the Language of Food

Many Varieties of Seeds Are Becoming Extinct. Meet Two People Who Are Bringing Them Back.

How to Be a Restaurant Reviewer

Mercury Rising: Which Fish - and How Much - Is Safe to Eat

Nose-to-Tail Eating

How Healthy is a Raw Food Diet?

Rice in Culture and Cuisine Around the World

Alawites to Yazidis: A Guide to Religious Communities in the Middle East

How Highways Changed America

How to Contain and Control the Ebola Outbreak

Freeze! Or Can or Pickle!

What the Sun Does to Your Skin

How to Grow and Use Herbs

How to Use Airbnb Without Getting Evicted

Some Tips on How To Learn a Foreign Language

Food Labels and What 'Natural' Really Means

Please Explain: The Science of Sound

Please Explain: Why I'm Sneezing So Much

Please Explain: The Eye

I Feel Your Pain: All About Empathy

The Stuff That Dreams (and Nightmares) Are Made Of

Please Explain: Insomnia and Other Sleep Disturbances

Please Explain: Arthritis

Please Explain: Medical Marijuana

Please Explain: Glaciers

Sitting Too Much Is Harmful for Our Bodies, Minds, and Spirits

Please Explain: Hypnosis

Please Explain: Breast Cancer

Please Explain: Genius

Please Explain: Shipping Containers and How Cargo Moves around the World

Please Explain: Cats

Please Explain: Dogs

Please Explain: Apps

Please Explain: How to Get Organized - Clean Sweep for the New Year

Please Explain: The Politics of Food

Please Explain: Butchery

Please Explain: Coffee

Please Explain: Kitchen Tools

Please Explain: Beer

Please Explain: The Slow Cooker

Please Explain: Candy

Please Explain: Wine

Please Explain: The Farm Bill

Please Explain: Pepper

Please Explain: Calories

Please Explain: Yiddish

Please Explain: Whales

Please Explain: Ticks

Please Explain: Pain Medication

Please Explain: Sleep Apnea

Please Explain: How to Complain Effectively

Please Explain: Sink Holes

Please Explain: Alzheimer's Disease and New Alzheimer's Research

Please Explain: Pain

Please Explain: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition

Please Explain: Pasta

Please Explain: Olive Oil

Please Explain: The Science of Cooking

Please Explain: Mushrooms and Fungi

Please Explain: Fertilizer

Please Explain: Grains

Please Explain: Natural and Artificial Flavors

Please Explain: Cheese and Making Cheese

Please Explain: The Science of Baking

Please Explain: Superfoods

Please Explain: Endocrine Disruptors and Human Health

Please Explain: Nursing

Please Explain: Hearing and Sound

Please Explain: How to Exercise Smarter

Please Explain: The Post Office

Please Explain: The Year in Science 2012

Please Explain: Helium

Please Explain: Stress, Part 2

Please Explain: Stress, Part 1

Please Explain: Calendars

Please Explain: Mold

Please Explain: The Microbes Inside

Please Explain: Predicting the Weather

Please Explain: Skyscrapers

Please Explain: Fungal Meningitis and Compounding Pharmacies

Please Explain: Stunts

Please Explain: Cloud Computing and Data Barns

Please Explain: Prosthetics

Please Explain: Concussions and Sports

Please Explain: What Do Organic Labels Mean?

Please Explain: Butterflies

Please Explain: Wonder Bread

Please Explain: Spiders

Please Explain: Pigeons

Please Explain: Teams and Teamwork

Please Explain: Meditation

Please Explain: Doping

Please Explain: The Higgs Boson

Please Explain: Artificial Sweeteners

Please Explain: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Please Explain: The Human Microbiome Project

Please Explain: Tattoos

Please Explain: 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and Saving for Retirement

Please Explain: Vitamins

Please Explain: Drones

Please Explain: Credit Ratings

Please Explain: Bioluminescence

Please Explain: Lobbying

Please Explain: Movie Special Effects

Please Explain: Deep Sea Exploration

Please Explain: Satellites

Please Explain: Bullying

Please Explain: Anxiety and Benzodiazepenes

Please Explain: The Science of Taste

Please Explain: Norovirus

Please Explain: The Subway

Please Explain: How to Save the World—World Peace

Please Explain: How to Save the World—Food Security

Please Explain: How to Save the World—the Future of Garbage

Please Explain: How to Save the World—Climate Change and How to Stop It

Please Explain: How to Save the World—Population Growth and Control

Please Explain: How to Save the World—The Global Water Supply

Please Explain: Tuberculosis

Please Explain: Hoarding

Please Explain: Willpower

Please Explain: Teenagers' Brains

Please Explain: The Railroads

Please Explain: New York Road (and Bridge, Tunnel, and other Place) Names

Please Explain: The Flat Tax

Please Explain: Medical Myths and Wives' Tales

Please Explain: E-mail and Online Etiquette

Please Explain: Children's Brains

Please Explain: The Lottery

Please Explain: Endangered Species

Please Explain: The UN General Assembly

Please Explain: Common Sense

Please Explain: The Inner Lives of Dogs

Please Explain: Cephalopods and Sea Creatures

Please Explain: Gluten

Please Explain: Thunder and Lightning

Please Explain: Roller Coasters

Please Explain: Urban Evolution

Please Explain: Weeds

Please Explain: Wildfires

Please Explain: Jellyfish

Please Explain: Sunscreen and the New FDA Rules

Please Explain: Coupons

Please Explain: Why Honeybees Are Disappearing

Please Explain: Aspirin

Please Explain: Apocalypse Predictions

Please Explain: Generic Drugs

Please Explain: Bad Bugs

Please Explain: Recipes

Good Friday Gospel Hour

Please Explain: Hormone Replacement Therapy

Please Explain: Apartments

Please Explain: Anger

Please Explain: Radiation

Please Explain: Tsunamis

Please Explain: Accents and Dialects

Please Explain: Silk

Please Explain: Sneezing

Please Explain: Computer Viruses and Worms

Please Explain: Salt

Please Explain: Tests

Please Explain: Wool

Please Explain: Sustainable Seafood and Seafood Safety

Please Explain: Espionage

Please Explain: Health Care Reform

Please Explain: Food Myths

Please Explain: Running

Please Explain: Procrastination

Please Explain: Dating Etiquette

Please Explain: Psychedelic Drugs

Please Explain: Tipping

Please Explain: Rubber

Please Explain: Roller Derby

Please Explain: Soda

Please Explain: Breakfast Cereal

Please Explain: Lyme Disease

Please Explain: Jet Lag

Please Explain: Canning and Pickling

Please Explain: Caffeine

Please Explain: Heat Stroke

Please Explain: Dreams and Nightmares

Please Explain: How Sun Affects Skin

Please Explain: Poisonous Plants

Please Explain: Algorithms

Please Explain: Batteries

Please Explain: Food-Borne Illness and Food Safety

Please Explain: Cake Baking

Please Explain: Lying

Please Explain: Matter, Anti-Matter, and Dark Matter

Please Explain: Art Conservation

Please Explain: Fat

Please Explain: Off-Shore Oil Drilling

Please Explain: Recycling Plastic

Please Explain: Food Labels

Please Explain: Skin Care

Please Explain: The Science of Happiness

Please Explain: Hypnosis

Please Explain: Strange and Mysterious Plants

Please Explain: Dust

Please Explain: 3D Technology and 3D Vision

Please Explain: Chiropractic

Please Explain: Invasive Species

Please Explain: BPA

Please Explain: Indian Classical Music

Please Explain: The Soil

Please Explain: Postpartum Depression and Perinatal Psychiatry

Please Explain: My Cable Bill

Please Explain: Hibernation

Please Explain: Digestion

Please Explain: Epigenetics

Please Explain: Strokes

Please Explain: Eco-Labels

Please Explain: Alcohol

Please Explain: Electricity

Please Explain: Sleep

Please Explain: Regional Accents

Please Explain: Prions

Please Explain: Animal Migration

Please Explain: Sharks

Please Explain: Trees

Please Explain: Typography

Please Explain: Intuition and Gut Reaction

Please Explain: Neurofeedback

Please Explain: Spices

Please Explain: Endangered Languages

Please Explain: Obesity

Please Explain: Mosquitoes

Please Explain: Plastic Surgery

Please Explain: Dry Cleaning

Please Explain: The Atmosphere

Please Explain: Bees

Please Explain: Girls

Please Explain: Bankruptcy

Please Explain: Jazz Improvisation

Please Explain: Measuring Climate Change

Please Explain: Addiction

Please Explain: Organ Transplants

Please Explain: How We Read

Please Explain: Socialism

Please Explain: Flowers

Please Explain: Superstition

Please Explain: Oil

Please Explain: Vitamin Supplements

Please Explain: Emotion and Color

Please Explain: Internet Dating

Please Explain: Luck

Please Explain: Cockroaches

Please Explain: Cold

Please Explain: Food, from the Farm to the Table

Please Explain: Credit

Please Explain: Baking

Please Explain: Metabolism

Please Explain: Tea

Please Explain: The Sun

Please Explain: Autism

Please Explain: After the Campaigns Are Over

Please Explain: Undecided Voters

Please Explain: Jealousy

Please Explain: Botox

Please Explain: Photosynthesis

Please Explain: Alzheimer’s

Please Explain: Mushrooms

Please Explain: Wall Street Crisis

Please Explain: Microchips

Please Explain: Satellites

Please Explain: Waste Management

Please Explain: Jellyfish

Please Explain: Light Pollution

Please Explain: Muscles

Please Explain: BBQ

Please Explain: Hamburgers

Please Explain: Solar Power

Please Explain: Brainwashing

Please Explain: Snoopology

Please Explain: Futures

Please Explain: Hot Dogs

Please Explain: Hybrid Cars

Please Explain: Farm Subsidies

Please Explain: Malaria

Please Explain: DNA

Please Explain: Plastic

Please Explain: Foreclosure

Please Explain: Crying

Please Explain: Games of Make Believe

Please Explain: NPR

Please Explain: Balance and Proprioception

Please Explain: Parkways

Please Explain: Carbon Footprints

Please Explain: Ants

Please Explain: Steroids and Human Growth Hormones

Please Explain: Science of Love

Please Explain: Mormons and the Church of LDS

Please Explain: Stock Markets

Please Explain: Delegates

Please Explain: The History of Money

Please Explain: Anger and Aggression

Please Explain: Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

Please Explain: Snow

Please Explain: The Science of Consciousness

Please Explain: Oil Spills

Please Explain: Laughter

Please Explain: Insomnia

Please Explain: The Human Heart

Please Explain: Acupuncture

Please Explain: Apples

Please Explain: Over-the-Counter Painkillers

Please Explain: Hair

Please Explain: Birth Control

Please Explain: Smell

Please Explain: Fireworks

Please Explain: Making Green Building Affordable

Please Explain: Chocolate

Please Explain: Radiology

Please Explain: Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Please Explain: Bridges

Please Explain Cats

Please Explain Vitamins

A Taxing Subject

Please Explain: Get Organized

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