Stuff You Should Know

Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

It’s easy to think of people in the distant past as kinda dumb for believing things like that...

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Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?

Are laws that are meant to protect the sanctity of the polling place in reality designed to make...

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The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures

The Harlem Globetrotters are an American entertainment institution. Their story may not be quite...

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Short Stuff: White Dog Poop

If you grew up from the 70s to the 90s you know white dog poop. It’s the old, crusty – yes, white...

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The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

As per tradition, today Josh and Chuck perform a spooky Halloween story reading to delight, amuse...

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Selects: How Mummies Work

A mummy is a human being whose soft tissue has been preserved after death, and there are mummies...

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Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Naked mole rats are funny looking to be sure, but neither moles nor rats. So what are they?...

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Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts

The simple bed sheet has provided countless kids and adults with an easy go-to Halloween costume....

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The Compton Cafeteria Riot

Three years before the riots at Stonewall, the LGBTQ community of San Francisco's Tenderloin rose...

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

We aren’t exactly sure who invented trick-or-treating – kids who realized they could extort...

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Kindness: Do It

In the tradition of our episodes on forgiveness and revenge, comes the third installment in the...

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Short Stuff: Candy Corn

Is it vile? Is it delicious? It seems to be both! Hear all about the history of candy corn, how...

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The Criminal Father of Criminology

Eugene Francois Vidocq is without a doubt one of the most interesting figures in modern history....

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Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

Pain is subjective; it is whatever the person experiencing it says it is. But to effectively...

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How Intellectual Property Works

Intellectual property sounds as dry as can be, but it’s actually very interesting. It’s at the...

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Short Stuff: Longyou Caves

What’s better than discovering a mysterious cavern? Discovering five! See...

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Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!

Parasocial relationships are fascinating and it turns out Chuck knows what it's like from both...

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Selects: How Motion Sickness Works

Motion sickness is the worst and hits about 25 to 40 percent of humans when they ride in cars,...

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Approved How Andy Warhol Worked

You know Andy Warhol from his quip on being famous for 15 minutes and paintings of soup cans, but...

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Short Stuff: Rhodium

Rhodium is one of the most valuable precious metals on Earth, though it has dropped in value by...

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