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Short Stuff: The Devil's Den
How to Donate Your Body to Science
How The Voynich Manuscript Works
Selects: The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children
How Dog Shows Work
How Food Cravings Work
How Monster Trucks Work
1-800-PODCAST
What's the deal with indigo?
How Hang Gliding Works
How Faraday Cages Work
How Online Dating Works
SYSK Selects: How the Panama Canal Works
How Dyslexia Works
Is spontaneous human combustion real?
How Poison Ivy Works
How Corsets Work
How Silly Putty Works
What is perfect pitch?
How Numerology Works
Can people really die of fright?
Short Stuff: Jackalope
How did Nikola Tesla change the way we use energy?
How Lewis and Clark Worked
How Miranda Rights Work
How Currency Works
Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Converters Work
Short Stuff: Barbed Wire
What is a shotgun house?
Myths About the Brain
How Bees Work
Short Stuff: The Iowa Caucus
How Delta Force Works
Josh and Chuck's Christmas Extravaganza 2012
How the Underground Railroad Worked
Short Stuff: Bedbugs
How Corporate Personhood Works
Is the Free Radical Theory of Aging Wrong?
Short Stuff: Aristides de Sousa Mendes
SYSK Selects: How Caving Works
Where's the best place on your body to get shot?
How Internet Censorship Works
SYSK Selects: How Human Cannonballs Work
How Propaganda Works
How Freak Shows Worked
Short Stuff: The Brain-Bladder Connection
How Can I Erase My Identity and Start Over?
SYSK's Halloween Scare Fest
Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad
Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape
Laughter: What's so funny about that?
How Igloos Work
Short Stuff: Friends of Dorothy
How Personal Rapid Transport Works
Chuck Bryant On The Why I’m Voting Podcast
Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1
How Sweepstakes Work
Space Weather - What's That?!
SYSK Selects: How the Cannonball Run Worked
Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria?
SYSK Selects: What Is a Shotgun House?
Short Stuff: Fear of Public Speaking
How Ranked Choice Voting Works
How Witchcraft Works
Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?
Short Stuff: Shar Pei
Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked
How Animal Domestication Works
How Mensa Works
Unsung Heroes of the Court
The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius
Supernovae: Best Around, Case Closed
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How the Rosetta Stone Works
How Building Implosions Work
SYSK Selects: How Condoms Work
Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!
Why Ticks Suck
How Fear Works
Short Stuff: SINA
How Water Slides Work
SYSK Selects: How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works
How Molecular Gastronomy Works
How Presidential Pardons Work
How the Moon Works
What is an invasive species?
10 Medieval Torture Devices
SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked
I'm Spartacus!
SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works
How can hypermiling save you gas?
What's the deal with headstones?
What's permaculture all about?
The Unsolved Indiana Dunes Disappearances
How a Flea Circus Works
How Rogue Waves Work
How Habeas Corpus Works
Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless
The Deal With Doulas
SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works
Does the five-second rule work?
SYSK Selects: Can you Treat Mental Illness with Psychedelics?
How Graceland Works
How Stuntmen (and -women) Work
The Real How Jack the Ripper Worked
Marijuana Vs. Alcohol: Which Is Worse For You?
Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus
What made the donkey and the elephant political?
How Asexuality Works
How Fossils Work
What are urban explorers?
What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
What's the gig economy?
How Buffets Work
How Environmental Psychology Works
How Barcodes Work
Short Stuff: Charley Horse
What's the deal with accents?
Short Stuff: The Santa Claus Association
Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are
The Kitty Genovese Story
How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?
Selects: How Police Interrogation Works
Pirate Radio: Mavericks on the High Seas
Gerrymandering: How to Stifle Democracy
Are Feral Children Real?
How Tourette Syndrome Works
How Mercenaries Work
SYSK Selects: Why do men have nipples?
SYSK's Guatemalan Adventure, Part One
Are Dogs Really Man's Best Friend?
How Ouija Boards Work
SYSK Selects: How Rabies Works
Tattoos: Not Just For Dirtbags Anymore
How Skateboarding Works
How Feng Shui Works
SYSK Selects: How Filibusters Work
How Burning Man Works
Whatever happened to acid rain?
Are Dogs a Shark's Favorite Meal?
Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing
How Socialism Works
What were war masks?
A Brief Overview of Punk Rock
Etch A Sketch!
Short Stuff: Laughing Buddha
How Marathons Work
SYSK Selects: Was there a real King Arthur?
Short Stuff: Brazilian Jars
Selects: How Mars Works
Selects: How Auto-Tune Works
Short Stuff: Lake Peigneur
The Tylenol Murders, Part II
How the Paleo Diet Works
What's the deal with crash testing?
Short Stuff: What is Latinx anyway?
How Blood Pattern Analysis Works
Short Stuff: Safety Pins
Fire twucks! Fire twucks! (sic)
How Wine Fraud Works
How Broken Bones Work
How Bartering Works
What Causes Inflation?
What’s NATO All About?
Can you control your dreams?
Are stupid people happier?
How to Control a Riot
How Whiskey Runners Worked
How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II
How Dungeons and Dragons Works
Short Stuff: Freedom House Ambulance Services
Exactly what happens if we run out of water?
How Avalanches Work
How Karate Works
SYSK Live: How Bars Work
Short Stuff: Nose Breathing
SYSK Selects: How Aphrodisiacs Work
SYSK Selects: How Traffic Works
Myths and Truths About Tornadoes
Short Stuff: Whisky or Bourbon?
How Cicadas Work
Short Stuff: Tooth Fairy: Not Real
Short Stuff: What's the oldest book?
SYSK Selects: How Igloos Work
How the Nobel Peace Prize Works
Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun
The True Story of BlacKkKlansman
Short Stuff: Speed Reading
How Coyotes Work
The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
How Oil Shale Works
Five Crazy Government Experiments
Bath Salts: Steer Clear
Cats: Invasive Species?
How SuperBalls Work
SYSK Selects: Have all the good ideas already been discovered?
Dragons: As Real as Mermaids
How Coelacanths Work
How Diamonds Work
How the Frick Fracking Works
Pando: Earth’s Oldest, Hugest Organism Is Trees!
How to Land on a Government Watch List
Some Interesting Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Hawking
E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?
SYSK Selects: Is lethal injection humane?
SYSK Selects: How Marijuana Works
Short Stuff: Cleveland’s Infamous 10-Cent Beer Night
The Skinny on Probiotics
How mRNA Vaccines Work
Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?
How Flirting Works
How Anesthesia Works
Why are Pentecostals growing so rapidly?
How Lion Taming Works
SYSK Selects: Are there undiscovered people?
The Skinny on Lyme Disease
How Charles Darwin Worked
How Lie Detectors Work
How Manhunts Work
SYSK Selects: How Crack Works
Joseph Merrick, aka "The Elephant Man"
How Crack Works
Les Paul & Leo Fender Part II
Your Gut Is Also A Brain
The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
How House Swapping Works
The Delightful History of Steam Technology
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
How BASE Jumping Works
Could a 'thinking cap' make me a genius?
Karaoke: Tuesday Night Fever
Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre?
How PEZ Works
Selects: How Tupperware Works
Oh No, Snakes!
Recycling Update: How’s It Going?
How Public Broadcasting Works
How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work
The Amazing History of Soda
Bidets: Now More Than Ever
How Blood Pressure Works
Kidney Donation: You Could Be A Saint!
How Chess Works
Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore
Can we build an elevator to space?
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Stuff You Should Know July 4th Extravaganza, Part 1: Mom
SYSK Selects: How The Human Microbiome Project Works
Selects: How Chili Peppers Work
How Foreign Accent Syndrome Works
Short Stuff: Obituaries
Short Stuff: Johnny Appleseed
How the Globe of Death Works
Short Stuff: Bloody Mary
How Mortgage-backed Securities Work
Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight?
SYSK Selects: Research tips from SYSK
Short Stuff: Venus de Milo
Short Stuff: Calamity Jane
SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work
How Rollercoasters Work, Minus the Fun
Operation Northwoods: The False Flag Op That Never Was
Selects: Who was America's first murderer?
Does Gum Stay in your Stomach for Seven Years?
Polyamory: When two just won't do
Selects: Earwax: Live With It
Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!
Do motivational speakers motivate people?
SYSK Selects: How Cremation Works
How Anorexia and Bulimia Work
Is science phasing out sleep?
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Jim Henson Worked
The Wright Brothers
Geysers: Nature's Innuendo
Was there a curse on King Tut's tomb?
Ed Gein: The Serial Killer's Serial Killer
SYSK Selects: How SPAM Works
SYSK Selects: Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
How Bail Works
How Jackhammers Work
SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works
How Sleepwalking Works
How Police Body Cameras Work
Short Stuff: What did we use before infant formula?
SYSK Selects: How Revisionist History Works
The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
Is computer addiction a thing?
What Makes Lead So Poisonous?
How FOIA Works
Our cats episode - right here, right meow
Short Stuff: Unique Snowflakes
Hair Loss: The Pits
SYSK Selects: How Pinball Works
SYSK Selects: How Haunted House Attractions Work
The Max Headroom Incident
How Mexican Wrestling Works
Short Stuff: More Phrase Origins
Short Stuff: Teresita Basa
How Lizzie Borden Worked
How Supreme Court Nominations Work
Short Stuff: Jigsaw Puzzles
Short Stuff: Macadamia Nuts
How Samurai Work
How Paramedics Work
John Lennon and the FBI
911 Is Not a Joke
NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel
SYSK Selects: How Mirrors Work
Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2
How CPR Works
What's the deal with totem poles?
SYSK Selects: Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?
Homeschooling: Not Just For Hippies and Religious People Anymore
The Massacre at Tiananmen Square
How the Human Microbiome Project Works
How the Hells Angels Work
Chuck and Josh Make It Through Female Puberty
Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works
Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas
Did Thomas Jefferson rewrite the Bible?
How Daylight Saving Time Works
How Transcendentalism Works
How Ketchup Works
How Bruce Lee Worked
How Tsunamis Work
Short Stuff: The @ Symbol
Short Stuff: Dolphin Detectors
How Play-Doh Works
SYSK Selects: How The Moonwalk Works
A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer
Short Stuff: Animal Politicians
What are blue laws?
How Product Placement Works
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Can you treat mental illness with psychedelics?
What's the deal with Bond, James Bond?
What's the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?
How Coral Reefs Work
Can you vacation in Antarctica?
Short Stuff: The Mona Lisa
How do credit default swaps work?
Is sleep that important?
How Orchids Work
Selects: How Champagne Works
How Karma Works
How Agritourism Works
How Junk Food Works
What's the most expensive toilet in the world?
How the Concorde Worked
SYSK Selects: How Cult Deprogramming Works
How Amnesia Works
SYSK Selects: How Salt Works
How Miniature Golf Works
10 Odd Town Festivals
Genghis Khan: Madman or Genius?
How Monopoly Works
Short Stuff: Chastity Belts
How Reverse Psychology Works
Is it possible to brainwash someone?
Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years
Is the world going to end in 2012?
Roundabouts: The Problem Is You
Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?
How Umami Works!
Behold, National Parks!
Just Say No to... Bottled Water
The Dyatlov Pass Mystery
How Roller Derby Works
How SPAM Works
How Bullfighting Works
Theremins: World's First Electronic Music
Aleister Crowley: Blowhard Narcissist?
The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
How Sea Monsters Work
How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I
Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble!
Can you sweat colors?
How Weather Modification Works
How Dementia Works
2021 Halloween Spooktacular!
How Earthquakes Work
Short Stuff: Christmas Cards
How Pinewood Derbies Work
The Christine Collins Story
How Landfills Work
How Muppets Work
How Standardized Patients Work
How the World Trade Center Memorial Works
How Personalized Medicine Works
Short Stuff: Dagen H
SYSK Selects: Do you stay conscious after being decapitated?
SYSK Selects: How Maglev Trains Work
Short Stuff: The O.K. Corral
How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work
SYSK Selects: What's with the Winchester Mystery House?
Short Stuff: Poe Toaster
How Human Cannonballs Work
What's the deal with phantom pain?
Cave Diving: Totally Nuts
How Supervolcanoes Work
The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Extravaganza
SYSK Selects: How Pizza Works
Selects: How Moss Works
How do I start my own country?
What's the Deal with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
Selects: How Royalty Works
What makes us yawn?
How the National Security Council Works
Short Stuff: RICO Act
10 Easy Ways to Save Money
SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
SYSK Selects: How the Electoral College Works
Gobble Gobble: Turkeys!
SYSK Selects: How Narco States Work
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
How Grow Houses Work
Is there a scientific formula for funny?
Why Postal Employees Go Postal
SYSK Selects: A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes
A Podcast on Zoot Suits? Yes
What's in a surname?
Harry Houdini: More than Magic
How a Nuclear Meltdown Works
How Limousines Work
SYSK Selects: How the Placebo Effect Works
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Short Stuff: Commensalism
How Blue Holes Work
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Pinball Works
All we know about Zika so far...
Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
How Flamethrowers Work
How Ironman Triathlons Work
The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name
Do objects or experiences make us happier?
Short Stuff: Parachute Emergency!
Skyscrapers: 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Are good samaritan laws effective?
How Soylent Works
Augmented Reality: Coming Soon?
Rhinoplasty, aka Nose Jobs
Little, Fluffy Clouds
How Alcatraz Works
How The Hum Works
Narcissism: But what about me?
What is terror management theory?
Ham Radio and the Hams Who Use Them
SYSK Selects: How Ponzi Schemes Work
Tug of War
Selects: Chiggers: The Phantom Menace
Short Stuff: The Church Choir That Didn't Explode
MC Escher and His Trippy Art
How the Berlin Wall Worked
The Stuff You Should Know 2016 Christmas Extravaganza in 3-D!
What happened at Kent State?
How Animal Testing Works
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Terraforming Will Work
SYSK Live: The DB Cooper Heist
What is Mutual Assured Destruction?
How Trickle-Down Economics Works
What is a hangover, really?
SYSK Selects: How Commercial Jingles Work
Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record
How Alien Contact Might Work
Short Stuff: Centralia Coal Fire
How Soap Works
Should chimps be used for medical testing?
The Manhattan Grid
How Guerrilla Gardening Works
How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works
A Dry Look at Toilet Paper
SYSK Selects: How Schizophrenia Works
Movie Crush: Tig Notaro on Mask
Who was America's first murderer?
Selects: Why Do Lefties Exist?
How Nitrous Oxide Works
How Tipping Works
How the Hoover Dam Works, Part II
Josh and Chuck's 2014 Christmas Extravaganza!
How Project Star Gate Worked
What is a Numbers Station?
How the Negro Leagues Worked
Ants! Part 1!
The Black Panther Party
The Duality of Caffeine
The ins and outs of the DEATH TAX
How Death-Proof Cars Work
The SYSK 2020 Holly Jolly Extravaganza!
Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process
Is a free market "free" if it's regulated?
How Rainforests Work
Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy
Have all the good ideas already been discovered?
How Hoarding Works
Josh and Chuck's Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013
SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
SYSK Selects: How TV Ratings Work
Short Stuff: Carrots and Your Eyes
Rock Paper Scissors: Decider of Things
Timber! How Timber Works
How Rehab Works
SYSK Selects: How Patents Work
How Comas Work
SYSK Selects: Geysers: Nature's Innuendo
Sir Isaac Newton: Greatest Scientist of All Time?
SYSK Selects: How Magic Mushrooms Work
How Wildfires Work
Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach
What's the deal with Baby Boomers?
How Knights Work
How Spiritualism Works
Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species
This Custom of Customs
“Postmodernism:”
Short Stuff: Dead Bodies and Airline Codes
How Going to the Moon Works
Short Stuff: Turbulence
Heat Waves!
Conjugal Visits: Not exactly what you think
Short Stuff: Firewalking
How Hurricanes Work
How the Beagle Brigade Works
How Zero Population Growth Works
How Suicide Bombers Work
How the Electrical Grid Works
How do you clean up an oil spill?
SYSK Selects: Fractals - Whoa
Selects: How Skateboarding Works
Essential Oils: Nature's Cure?
Why do leaves change colors in the fall?
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rogue Waves Work
How Natural Selection Works
What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?
Do you lose the right to privacy when you die?
How Skywriting Works
How the Autobahn Works
What is biophilic design?
How Ice Ages Work
SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps
Why don't we live underground?
SYSK Selects: Why isn't the U.S. on the metric system?
Selects: Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking
Vocal Fry and Other Speech Trends
Short Stuff: The Science of Funny Words
What's the deal with blue people?
SYSK Live: Andre the Giant
How Albert Einstein's Brain Worked
Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen
How Biohydrocarbons Work
Short Stuff: Papasan Chairs
How Desertification Works
SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
How Swearing at Work Works
How to Survive a Plane Crash
How Friday the 13th Works
What was the Tunguska event?
SYSK Selects: Was Malthus right about carrying capacity?
How the Black Death Worked
SYSK Selects: How Trickle-Down Economics Works
How Money Laundering Works
Short Stuff: Dare Stones
Are there real-life fight clubs?
Matcha: That Ain't Just Tea
Will Deepfakes Ruin the World?
How Blimps Work
Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
Why Is DC Not A State?
Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Bad For You?
How Patents Work
Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?
How Labor Unions Work
Short Stuff: Ig-pay Atin-lay (Sorry)
How do butterfly wings get their color?
How Pacifism Works (And Could It?)
How Ebola Works
Short Stuff: The Javelina
How the Hyperloop Will Work
Are there dead bodies on Mount Everest?
Short Stuff: Petticoat Rulers
Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified?
How Venus Works
Josh Clark's Speech from Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020
How Death Masks Work
How Scabies Work
Rosa Parks: Agent of Change
How Reincarnation Works
Short Stuff: Korean Fan Death
How Steadicams Work
SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works
Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out
How X-Rays Work
Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It
How Castration Works
Selects: How SETI Works
How Free Range Parenting Works
Short Stuff: Our Shortie Halloween Spooktacular
Selects: Are good samaritan laws effective?
Earwax: Live With It
What's the deal with swing states?
The KKK: Loathsome Cosplay Rednecks
How Audience Testing Works
How the Terracotta Army Works
SYSK Selects: Duels - A Guide to Throwing Down the Gauntlet
How has toxoplasma turned the world into zombies?
Selects: How Animal Domestication Works
How Ejection Seats Work
Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot
Was the PMRC censorship in disguise?
How Caving Works
Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think!
How Cinnamon Works
How Cannibalism Works
Selects: How Tabloids Work
Episode 999: The Simpsons Spectacular Part I
The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
How Wind Works
How Central Park Works
Short Stuff: The Sandman
Selects: A Partial History of Action Figures
Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits
How In Vitro Fertlization Works
How Bats Work
How Flight Attendants Work
Is knife hunting the fairest way to hunt?
How Peanut Butter Works
The Manson Family Murders Part II
What's the deal with crop circles?
Selects: How Snake Handlers Work
Movie Crush: Janet Varney on Tron
Short Stuff: James Polk, Disinterred
How Burlesque Works
The Legend of Betsy Ross
How the Placebo Effect Works
How Drug Courts Work
Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
How Meth Works
Does the FDA Protect Americans?
How Crumple Zones Work
Will the moon save humanity?
How Citizen's Arrests Work
What can be done with a dead body?
How the MPAA Works
Optogenetics: Controlling Your Genes with Light
The Collar Bomb Heist
10 Scientists Who Were Their Own Guinea Pigs
How Whale Sharks Work
How Night Terrors Work
The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper
Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
How do trees affect the weather?
How the U.S. Postal Service Works
How the Spanish Inquisition Worked
How Bounty Hunters Work
Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck
How El Nino Works
Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
Short Stuff: Petrichor
How Sarcasm Works
How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work
Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet
Short Stuff: Madam C.J. Walker
Are we all Martians?
Selects: How Sloths Work
SYSK Selects: How Tea Works
Sand Dunes: They Are What You Think They Are
That Dang-old Goat Fell Over
SYSK Selects: How Dying Works
How Lame Ducks Work
How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con)
Mechanical Bulls!
Is there a dark side of the moon?
SYSK Selects: How Cockroaches Work
How Stamp Collecting Works
What's the deal with sinkholes?
Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works
How TV Ratings Work
How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works
Short Stuff: Haunted Real Estate
SYSK Selects: Is there such a thing as a truth serum?
How Menstruation Works
The Sad Story of William James Sidis
How Search and Rescue Works
Selects: How Free Speech Works
Jobs of Bygone Eras
How Shark Attacks Work
Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?
How Porta-Potties Work
How COVID-19 Works
SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978
Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?
Can NASA predict natural disasters?
What were the black codes?
Carl Sagan: American Hero
How Radiation Sickness Works
The Disappearance of Flight MH370, Part I
Short Stuff: Cassowary
How does a diving bell work?
How Icebergs Work (Very Cool)
Stranger Danger!
How OCD Works
Selects: How Profiling Works
How Attorney-Client Privilege Works
Short Stuff: Mullets: 'Nuff Said
What was Tin Pan Alley?
How Tacos Work
Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
How Droughts Work
Sacagawea: Impressive Teen
How LSD Works
Wasps: Not as cute as bees
Should we have a fat tax?
Short Stuff: Time Zones
Palm Trees: Technically, Giant Plants
What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?
SYSK Selects: How Acne Works
What's the Deal With Staring?
Who are the Amish?
How Crystals Work
The Mystery of Damascus Steel
The Disturbing Disappearance of Tara Calico
How Redheads Work
How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
What is a body farm?
Does owning a gun change your behavior?
How Charismatic Megafauna Work
How Electricity Works
Why was Titicut Follies banned?
Who owns an abandoned house?
Short Stuff: Charity Tips
Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood
SYSK Selects: How Twinkies Work
SYSK Selects: How Exorcism Works
SYSK Selects: How Miranda Rights Work
Rumors, Myths and Truths Behind Obama's Health Care Plan
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
The Amazing Roberto Clemente
History of the Trail of Tears, Part I
What's the future of the internet?
Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!
How Trampolines Work
Short Stuff: Lemonade
How Triage Works
How the Antikythera Mechanism Works
What happens to abandoned mines?
How Monty Python Worked: SYSK Live from LA Podfest
Algae: Food, Fuel, What?
How Anti-Dieting Works
How Ocean Currents Work
Selects: How Lighthouses Work
Amazing Animal Stories!
Short Stuff: Thread Count
Selects: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five
How Con Artists Work
Could A Robot Tax Win the War on Poverty?
Seriously, What Is Dark Matter?
How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I
The Insidious Abuse of Stalking
How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work
Short Stuff: When Elvis Met Nixon
Does the body replace itself?
Can humans start an earthquake?
How the Gender Pay Gap Works
Short Stuff: The Body in the Cylinder
SYSK Selects: How Beer Works
How the Amityville Horror Worked
We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters
How Labor Strikes Work
How Grief Works
Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part I
SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works
What's the deal with MSG?
How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
What's the deal with ASMR?
Finders Keepers: Real Law
How Acne Works
Can I feel pregnant when my wife is?
How Taxidermy Works
How Circus Families Work
How Pirates Work
The Lowdown on Anonymous
Do men and women have different brains?
How Black Holes Work
SYSK Selects: How the Scientific Method Works
SYSK Selects: How Black Friday Works
How Schoolhouse Rock Rocked: Featuring Bob Nastanovich of Pavement
How Murphy's Law Works
What were the Freedom Schools?
SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health
Short Stuff: Most Haunted House in England
Why is Venice so wet?
SYSK Selects: What Makes us Yawn?
How IEDs Work
Knife Throwing: Super Cool
SYSK Selects: The Wind Cries Typhoid Mary
What's the misery index?
How Living Off the Grid Works
SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works
The NAACP
How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked
How the Framingham Heart Study Works
Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
Mosquitoes: The Worst
Were Nazis Drug-Fueled Crankheads?
How the ACLU Works
Mermaids: Not a real thing
Narwhals: Unicorns of the Sea
Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines
Is it legal to sterilize addicts?
Selects: Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?
Ants! Part 2!
How Vampires Work
Termites: They Bore But They Aren't Boring
Space Junk, Ahoy!
Are contrails actually chemtrails?
How Wills Work
Geothermal Energy: Earth's Gift to Mankind
How Makeup Works
10 Big Cases of Revenge
Is yogurt a miracle food?
How Historic Districts Work
How Clowns Work
What was Camp X?
Short Stuff: War of Jenkins' Ear
How Jim Henson Worked
Short Stuff: Mexican Jumping Beans
How Empathy Works
How Stem Cells Work
Living Underground in Beijing
Why do people blush?
Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century
Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
The Radium Girls
The Rubik's Cube Episode
Why does music provoke emotion?
Josh N Chuck's Hallowe'en Spooky Scarefest
Is the Necronomicon real?
How the Pony Express Worked
Selects: The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads
How Immigration Works
Short Stuff: Khipu
(Approximately) 10 Things That Vanished Mysteriously
Oh Yes, How Soil Works
How Druids Worked
How Dark Money Works
Short Stuff: The Man Who Didn’t Eat for a Year
How the Donner Party Worked
Will robots get married?
How Circumcision Works
SYSK Selects: Virus Talk with Josh and Chuck
Can quicksand kill you?
What's the What with Fish Fraud?
Boomerangs: Magic Sticks of Physics
All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh
How Book Banning Works
Hot Dog!(s)
How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
How Tabloids Work
How the US Interstate System Works
What's the deal with Voodoo?
How the Voyager Golden Records Work
The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold
SYSK's Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!
How Agent Orange Worked
How Ultraprocessed Foods Work
Tardigrades: Nature's Cuddly, Indestructible Microanimal
How Volcanoes Work
SYSK Selects: How Wildfires Work
Short Stuff: The Death of Billy the Kid
How Pizza Works!
Southerners Aren’t Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm
How Salt Works
How Cave Dwellers Work
PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard
Les Paul & Leo Fender Part I
What's the future of virtual sex?
What's so special about Route 66?
Did Archimedes build a death ray?
How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth
Are there people who can't feel pain?
Selects: How Temper Tantrums Work
North Korea: What's the Deal?
Remembering Live Aid
Were U.S. citizens in Japanese internment camps?
What are ninja?
What's up with bariatric surgery?
What happened to the Neanderthals?
Why do some people believe the moon landings were a hoax?
Is quitting smoking contagious?
The Parrot Episode
How the Deep Web Works
Research Bias: Sort It Out, Science
Short Stuff: Olestra
How Prayer Healing Works
SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA
Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?
Do Animals Have Natural Rights?
What's the deal with carbon trading?
What's the deal with controlled burns?
The Rock Ampersand Roll Hall of Fame
Fasting: deadly or what?
How Stonehenge Works
Did the CIA test LSD on unsuspecting Americans?
Why should you never scare a vulture?
What's the deal with the debt ceiling?
Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why?
Is brain size related to intelligence?
How Comic Books: Live from SXSW
How Crime-Scene Clean-up Works
Short Stuff: Lying in State
How Dictators Work
Short Stuff: Funny Bone
What the heck is a hiccup?
SYSK Selects: What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
How Christmas Worked
Can it rain frogs?
How Antibacterial Soap Works
Why Do Lefties Exist?
Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes
What are smart mobs?
Short Stuff: Chinatowns
How Woolly Mammoths Worked
How Bras Work
Was There A Real Robin Hood?
Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry
Transdermal Implants: Body Art or Nightmare Fuel?
How Alcoholism Works
How long can you go without food and water?
The Gettysburg Address: Short and Sweet
Short Stuff: Unspent Campaign Money
What's the deal with blood types?
SYSK Selects: How Capgras Syndrome Works
Will solar sails take us to the stars?
Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual
Can you remember being born?
Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?
Short Stuff: The NY Times Crossword
Olive Oil: Mother Nature's Gift
Taste and How it Works
Selects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping
The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?
Guardian Angels: Behind the Red Beret
Selects: How Hot Wheels Work
The Appendix: No Respect
Body Odor: You Stink
What Were Human Zoos?
Was Malthus right about carrying capacity?
How Brickfilm Works
How Desalination Works
Fractals: Whoa
The Soul Train Episode
The Ins and Outs of Albinism
How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Works, Part I
Why is it so hard to say "toy boat" three times fast?
How Pinball Works
How Rewilding Works
SYSK Selects: How the Deep Web Works
How Meals on Wheels Works
How Family Crests Work
SYSK Selects: Was Atlantis A Real Place?
How Lotteries Work
Alexander Hamilton: Most Influential American?
SYSK Selects: How Wills Work
How Cliff Diving Works
Short Stuff: Mayday!
Should Advertising to Kids Be Banned?
Short Stuff: Happy Foods!
Some Really Interesting Cases of Mass Hysteria
Chuck and Josh Bust a Few Everyday Myths
SYSK Selects: How the U.S. Postal Service Works
Selects: How X-Rays Work
Why's that dude in that dumpster?
Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!
What was the KGB?
How Seed Banks Work
How Morphic Fields Work?
How the Spanish Flu Worked
Short Stuff: Cramming
How the Bailout Works
How The Great Train Robbery Worked
History's Greatest Traitors
SYSK Selects: The 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s
10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck
How Epilepsy Works
Archaeology in a Nutshell
Littering: Not Cool
Aspirin: The Wonder Drug
How Egypt's Pyramids Work
How the Papacy Works
Short Stuff: The Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez
How the Musketeers Worked
How the Census Works
How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked
How Ventriloquism Works
The Empty House
How Sloths Work
How Fingerprinting Works
Short Stuff: Necco
Y2K: Much Ado About Something