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Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?

The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures

Short Stuff: White Dog Poop

The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

Selects: How Mummies Work

Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts

The Compton Cafeteria Riot

Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

Kindness: Do It

Short Stuff: Candy Corn

The Criminal Father of Criminology

Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

How Intellectual Property Works

Short Stuff: Longyou Caves

Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!

Selects: How Motion Sickness Works

How Andy Warhol Worked

Short Stuff: Rhodium

Night of the Grizzlies

Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think

Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet

Short Stuff: The Dakota

The Amazing Life of Christine Granville

Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness

Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs

10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever

Selects: How Floods Work

The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster

Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky

Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico

Selects: How Space Stations Work

Native American Reservations

Short Stuff: History of OK

The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K

Selects: Body Odor: You Stink

Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music

Short Stuff: Evil Eye

Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan

Selects: How Toy Testing Works

Plant Migration

Short Stuff: Saturn's Rings

Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To

Selects: How Music Sampling Works

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition

Short Stuff: Edward Mordake

How We’re Learning to Talk to Animals

Selects: How Magnets Work

Xenobiotics

Short Stuff: History of English

Dear Diary...

Selects: Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever

The Last Meal Ritual

Short Stuff: NATO Alphabet

BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Selects: What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?

MAD Magazine: A Tribute

Short Stuff: Blue Highway Signs

Learning a Foreign Language

Selects: Nirvana: Not The Band

Magic Eye Illusions

Short Stuff: Pie-In-The-Face Gag

Insomnia: Why you can't sleep

Selects: How Police Lineups Work

How PCP Works

Short Stuff: Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice

Selects: How Bats Work

James Beard: Food Legend

Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign

How Trucking Works

Selects: What Makes Lead So Poisonous?

Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!

Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius

Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Selects: How Ocean Currents Work

How Afrofuturism Works

Short Stuff: Chia Pet

Large Language Models and You

Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps

How Alumin(i)um Works

Short Stuff: Suicide Forest

The Stinky History of Human Hygiene

Selects: How Audience Testing Works

Is Reality Real?

Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage

Why Manners?

Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs

What's the deal with intermittent fasting?

Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg

The Saga of Milli Vanilli

Selects: How Color Works

The Semi-Recent History of Exercise

Short Stuff: Pollen Count

What is the Bechdel Test?

Selects: How Dog Shows Work

How Juries Work

Short Stuff: Mood Rings

The Inflammation Theory of Disease