Stuff You Should Know Transcripts

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Beans and Rice Feeds the World
Aug 4, 202643 min8,993 words
Selects: How Peanut Butter Works
Aug 1, 202656 min11,507 words
Short Stuff: Shark Arm Murders
Jul 29, 202616 min3,324 words
The Beloved Judy Blume
Jul 28, 202644 min9,769 words
Selects: Plant Migration
Jul 25, 202645 min9,286 words
What's the deal with Swiss neutrality?
Jul 23, 202647 min9,669 words
Short Stuff: Sardines!
Jul 22, 202612 min2,698 words
The Tobacco Master Settlement: That Time We Got Em
Jul 21, 202646 min9,421 words
Selects: The Soul Train Episode
Jul 18, 202646 min9,842 words
White Boy Rick
Jul 16, 202649 min10,286 words
Short Stuff: The Voice of God
Jul 15, 202614 min3,060 words
You Are Not Alone With Postpartum Depression
Jul 14, 202646 min8,960 words
Selects: The First Road Trip
Jul 11, 202649 min10,305 words
Eleanor Roosevelt: Best First Lady
Jul 9, 202647 min9,347 words
Short Stuff: Great Britain
Jul 8, 202612 min2,660 words
Kola: The World’s Deepest Hole
Jul 7, 202646 min9,860 words
Selects: Chopsticks > Forks
Jul 4, 202650 min11,006 words
Alaska Earthquake of 1964
Jul 2, 202636 min7,955 words
Short Stuff: Toronto Clown Riot
Jul 1, 202612 min2,778 words
The Hillsborough Disaster
Jun 30, 202646 min9,965 words
Selects: How Enron Fooled the World
Jun 27, 202660 min11,455 words
Freetown Christiania
Jun 25, 202637 min8,000 words
Short Stuff: Why does it feel good to be scared?
Jun 24, 202612 min2,776 words
Some Interesting Curses
Jun 23, 202648 min9,953 words
Selects: Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
Jun 20, 202649 min10,585 words
How Global Warming Works
Jun 19, 202660 min11,676 words
How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
Jun 19, 202655 min11,190 words
Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
Jun 19, 202644 min9,379 words
How X-Rays Work
Jun 19, 202638 min8,470 words
Elastics: Where God and Science Smooch
Jun 19, 202652 min10,477 words
How Occam's Razor Works
Jun 19, 202640 min8,077 words
Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
Jun 19, 202660 min11,964 words
How the Scientific Method Works
Jun 19, 202643 min8,779 words
How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jun 19, 202667 min13,399 words
Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
Jun 19, 202647 min9,572 words
M*A*S*H: The Story of the 4077th
Jun 18, 202656 min11,864 words
Short Stuff: Does singing make you happy?
Jun 17, 202611 min2,561 words
Did 24-Hour Cable News Kill America?
Jun 16, 202654 min10,907 words
Selects: How the Fairness Doctrine Worked
Jun 13, 202652 min10,438 words
The NY Subway Vigilante
Jun 11, 202647 min10,243 words
Short Stuff: Rain Barrels!
Jun 10, 202612 min2,858 words
Smile
Jun 9, 202648 min10,319 words
Selects: 911 Is Not a Joke
Jun 6, 202654 min11,423 words
Three Mile Island
Jun 4, 202645 min9,327 words
Short Stuff: 1955 Le Mans Disaster
Jun 3, 202612 min2,750 words
The Tragic Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Jun 2, 202651 min10,782 words
Selects: Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?
May 30, 202655 min11,068 words
Howard Hughes in Las Vegas
May 28, 202649 min10,400 words
Short Stuff: Knuckle Cracking
May 27, 202610 min2,374 words
The Story of Starvation Heights
May 26, 202646 min9,367 words
Selects: How Flight Attendants Work
May 23, 202641 min9,343 words
The 1993 Waco Siege
May 21, 202649 min10,553 words
Short Stuff: All about BPAs
May 20, 202612 min2,636 words
Eels Alive!
May 19, 202643 min9,364 words
Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?
May 16, 202652 min11,025 words
The Hindenburg Disaster
May 14, 202650 min10,287 words
Short Stuff: Did Tippy Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?
May 13, 202612 min2,691 words
Humanists, the Happy Heathens
May 12, 202650 min10,319 words
Selects: Can movies be cursed?
May 9, 202652 min10,790 words
Let's Go to Camp... David!
May 7, 202643 min9,091 words
Short Stuff: Why do kangaroos hop?
May 6, 202613 min2,986 words
Boeing's Nosedive: The 737-MAX
May 5, 202648 min10,091 words
Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
May 2, 202650 min10,210 words
How to Drink a Tree's Blood
Apr 30, 202649 min10,328 words
Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth
Apr 29, 202613 min2,749 words
Save the Whales!
Apr 28, 202644 min9,442 words
Selects: How Fever Dreams Work
Apr 25, 202635 min7,810 words
UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity
Apr 23, 202641 min8,528 words
Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird
Apr 22, 202611 min2,411 words
Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular
Apr 21, 202642 min9,087 words
Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
Apr 18, 202656 min11,641 words
The Sewol Ferry Disaster
Apr 16, 202645 min9,255 words
Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms
Apr 15, 202612 min2,773 words
Are Generations Even a Thing?
Apr 14, 202649 min10,237 words
Selects: What is a Numbers Station?
Apr 11, 202638 min7,889 words
How Worker Co-ops Works
Apr 9, 202644 min9,341 words
Short Stuff: History of Spring Break
Apr 8, 202614 min2,991 words
Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made?
Apr 7, 202641 min8,231 words
Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease
Apr 4, 202648 min9,850 words
The Colorado River Compact
Apr 2, 202636 min7,651 words
Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement
Apr 1, 202612 min2,690 words
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?
Mar 31, 202652 min10,477 words
Selects: The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Mar 28, 202643 min9,212 words
Malcom X
Mar 26, 202655 min11,728 words
Short Stuff: Kentucky Meat Shower
Mar 25, 202611 min2,455 words
The History of Fire
Mar 24, 202637 min8,023 words
Selects: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gin
Mar 21, 202649 min10,262 words
Contortionism: Bend It Like Gumby
Mar 19, 202643 min9,185 words
Short Stuff: Jeddah Tower
Mar 18, 202611 min2,439 words
Ruth Lyons: TV Pioneer
Mar 17, 202645 min9,759 words
Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?
Mar 14, 202644 min9,166 words
How the Kowloon Walled City Worked
Mar 12, 202641 min8,966 words
Short Stuff: In-Flight Entertainment
Mar 11, 202612 min2,740 words
The Fyre Festival Fiasco
Mar 10, 202646 min9,844 words
Selects: How Spiritualism Works
Mar 7, 202661 min12,133 words
Let's All Go to the World's Fair
Mar 5, 202652 min11,496 words
Short Stuff: Johnny Ringo
Mar 4, 202613 min2,889 words
The Gold Standard: When Money Meant Something
Mar 3, 202652 min10,880 words
Selects: How Dopamine Works
Feb 28, 202645 min9,321 words
The Battle of the Sexes
Feb 26, 202649 min10,503 words
Short Stuff: MacGuffins
Feb 25, 202613 min2,832 words
The Murder of Jane Stanford
Feb 24, 202642 min9,055 words
Selects: How Free Range Parenting Works
Feb 21, 202651 min10,542 words
How the Flexner Report Changed Medicine
Feb 19, 202637 min8,102 words
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins
Feb 18, 202614 min2,929 words
How Crowds Work
Feb 17, 202646 min9,872 words
Selects: How Charles Darwin Worked
Feb 14, 202650 min10,126 words
How Lasers Work
Feb 12, 202646 min9,934 words
Short Stuff: Aztec Death Whistle
Feb 11, 202611 min2,461 words
How Cognitive Biases Work
Feb 10, 202656 min11,440 words
Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?
Feb 7, 202644 min9,077 words
The Cajun Navy: Heroes or Liability?
Feb 5, 202638 min8,622 words
Short Stuff: Color Psychology
Feb 4, 202612 min2,507 words
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: Miracle is Right
Feb 3, 202643 min8,707 words
Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
Jan 31, 202645 min9,467 words
The Magnificent Golden Gate Bridge
Jan 29, 202650 min10,643 words
Short Stuff: Magic 8 Ball
Jan 28, 202612 min2,813 words
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jan 27, 202643 min8,922 words
Selects: The Truth Behind Cage-Free and Free-Range
Jan 24, 202654 min11,132 words
The Ballad of Biggie and Tupac
Jan 22, 202651 min10,734 words
Short Stuff: The S7VEN Deadly Sins
Jan 21, 202611 min2,554 words
Keeping Time
Jan 20, 202650 min10,684 words
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?
Jan 17, 202650 min10,169 words
Data Centers: Can't Live With Em, Can't Live Without Em
Jan 15, 202648 min8,635 words
Short Stuff: Did a vampire legend help win the Cold War?
Jan 14, 202612 min2,608 words
Selects: How Forgiveness Works
Jan 10, 202659 min11,722 words
The SAD Episode
Jan 8, 202651 min9,879 words
Short Stuff: Neighborhood Watch
Jan 7, 202612 min2,651 words
Selects: MC Escher and His Trippy Art
Jan 3, 202657 min11,775 words
TV Moments That Changed The World
Jan 1, 202645 min9,441 words
Short Stuff: All About Porcelain
Dec 31, 202512 min2,883 words
What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec
Dec 30, 202540 min9,197 words
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works
Dec 27, 202548 min10,155 words
Dolls and Dolls, Guys!
Dec 25, 202549 min9,450 words
Doggerland: Lost at Sea
Dec 18, 202539 min8,542 words
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Yo-Yos Work
Dec 12, 202531 min7,602 words
SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Play-Doh Works
Dec 12, 202542 min9,827 words
Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process
Jun 24, 202551 min10,603 words
Squirrels, Ahoy!
Jun 17, 202552 min11,169 words
Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar
Jun 10, 202554 min11,118 words

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