Sinopsis
How do landfills work? How do mosquitos work? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know about everything from genes to the Galapagos in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
Episodios
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Selects: How Ocean Currents Work
24/06/2023 Duración: 39minIt's easy to overlook the importance of ocean currents - they move along out at sea, while we stay mostly on land. But we are globally affected by them every day. Currents form the base of the food chain, drive weather and keep life as we know it going. Explore them with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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How Afrofuturism Works
22/06/2023 Duración: 53minBlack sci-fi writers were shut out of their genre in the 20th century so they created their own vision of the future. That sentiment spread to music and film and today it’s so engrained in pop culture it doesn't need its own label. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Chia Pet
21/06/2023 Duración: 12minIt has arrived, the most important podcast episode in the history of the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Large Language Models and You
20/06/2023 Duración: 54minThere is a good chance that in March of 2023, humans crossed a threshold into a transformative new era when a new, smarter type of AI was let loose in the wild and an AI arms race began. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps
17/06/2023 Duración: 01h09minFor this special live benefit episode recorded in Atlanta, Josh and Chuck go back to the 70s and look at the decidedly ungroovy course of events that led to Ford recalling its Pinto after people started burning up in them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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How Alumin(i)um Works
15/06/2023 Duración: 51minHumans made it through the Bronze Age and Iron Age, then we dabbled in steel, and now we are living in the Aluminum Age. The metal is so ubiquitous it seems like it’s been around forever, but we’ve only been really using it since the 20th century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Suicide Forest
14/06/2023 Duración: 11minThe suicide forest in Japan is a beautiful place with a checkered reputation. Trigger Warning: This episode features a discussion of suicide. If you or anyone you know needs help, please call 988.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Stinky History of Human Hygiene
13/06/2023 Duración: 57minEver wondered when and why people started caring about body odors and cleanliness? Well look no further than today's episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Selects: How Audience Testing Works
10/06/2023 Duración: 40minDid you know some of our most beloved movies originally had different, sometimes better, endings? That is until they were tested in front of focus groups. Learn all about the how, what, and why of audience testing in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Is Reality Real?
08/06/2023 Duración: 43minPhilosophers have been wondering whether we experience reality as it is for millennia now. They’ve pretty much settled on no, no we don’t. Now science has taken up the investigation and it’s proving the philosophers correct. So what is reality then?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage
07/06/2023 Duración: 11minOne of the more futuristic things around right now on Earth is research into encoding data into strings of genetic code.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Why Manners?
06/06/2023 Duración: 47minKeeping your elbows off the table, keeping your fingers out of the gravy boat – at some point these became very important rules of etiquette. But what purpose do manners serve? It turns out they just may be the glue that prevents society from unraveling.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
03/06/2023 Duración: 38minAlmost everything you know about pterosaurs is wrong. They weren't birds, they weren't flying dinosaurs and they weren't all pterodactyls. Which makes this classic episode a great one for you to learn some new and amazing stuff about terrifying prehistoric beasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's the deal with intermittent fasting?
01/06/2023 Duración: 44minCould eating at only certain times of the day lead to weight loss? Possibly! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg
31/05/2023 Duración: 14minEveryone knows what a Rube Goldberg machine is, but what do you know about the cartoonist who they're named after?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Saga of Milli Vanilli
30/05/2023 Duración: 53minFor a moment Milli Vanilli was the hottest musical act in the world. Then came the news that it was just that, an act, and the fall came swiftly and humiliatingly. Now, 30 years on, a look back yields not so much a cautionary tale as a very sad story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Selects: How Color Works
27/05/2023 Duración: 41minScience doesn't have a good explanation for why we sense color, yet it is everywhere and affecting us all the time. But why should minutely different wavelengths of light have such an impact on our moods and motivations? Explore these questions and more with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Semi-Recent History of Exercise
25/05/2023 Duración: 55minHumans exercising for better health has not been around that long. Today we dive into this fun history as we cover why and when we started this now commonplace pastime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Short Stuff: Pollen Count
24/05/2023 Duración: 12minIf you watch the news and hear the pollen count is high for some particular type of plant then it’s high time you learned how they do that.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What is the Bechdel Test?
23/05/2023 Duración: 42minThe Bechdel Test is a is a measure of the representation of women in film. You'd be surprised how many movies fail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.