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Useful Science — 67 episodes
Climate Anxiety and Winter Sports
21 Rerelease: Sleep
Dog Ownership and Gift Giving
Fatigue & Risk Management in Healthcare Workers
Racial Disparities in Health and Medicine, Part 2
Racial Disparities in Health and Medicine, Part 1
Neighborhood Connections and Green Spaces
Cultural Change
Food and Allergies
Behavior Change
Parenting, Part 2
Parenting, Part 1
Vaccine Skepticism
Sleep and Lunch Breaks
Blind Cooperation
The Ig Nobel Prize
Laughter and Social Connection
Climate Change and Health
Microplastics
5-Year Anniversary
Productivity and the Color Green
Social Justice
Dogs and Wellbeing
Knots
Clinical Trials, COVID-19, and Ethics
Murder Hornets
Sugar
Expiration Dates
Physics and Teaching Complicated Concepts
Special: COVID-19 Followup
Temper Tantrums
Office Fitness
Politics and Polarization
Special: COVID-19
Social Inclusion and Well-Being
Antibiotics
Red Meat vs. The World
The Circadian Rhythm
The Science of Pets
Smartphones
Having a Useful Summer
Pop Music
The Science of Love
Sleep
Going Outside
Audio Quality
Green spaces
Bad science reporting
Interview: Social impact, documentaries, VR, and empathy with Harmony Institute
Art museums, napping, and male and female brains
Getting out the vote, ADHD, and self-compassion
Interview: Defending science in the classroom with Josh Rosenau
BMI, classroom humor, and poop
Online dating, marathon runners, and pizza
Getting drunk, getting full, and attracting mosquitos
Ambient noise, email checking frequency, and academic tracking
Male faces, sex frequency, and organic beef
Adolescent brains, legal drinking ages, and antibacterial soap
Misconceptions, math anxiety, and healthy personalities
Malleable intelligence, merit badges, and depressed roommates
Fast food, 6-year-old justice, and HIV prevention
Placebos
Music, napping, and video games
Wealth equality, antidepressants, and happiness
Power posing, arguing with teenagers, and creative walking
Gift giving, vocal fry, and love
Sleep paralysis, cool 13-year-olds, toxoplasmosis, and Wikipedia reliability