It wasn’t too long ago when black holes were strictly predictions in theoretical math. Over...
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Podcasts de howstuffworks
Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes
There’s a secret war going on around us, and it's happening on a daily basis. The Air Force...
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Did Reagan's Star Wars program win the Cold War?
Putting lasers in space to blast Soviet missiles out of the air was a very real part of Ronald...
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Can we build an elevator to space?
With the end of the shuttle program and an International Space Station still in need of supplies,...
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Stuff You Should Know, Live at Comic-Con
How does time travel work? Could it ever cross the line from science fiction into science fact?...
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Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar
Studies find that absolutely everyone lies – some have found as much as a quarter of our daily...
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" Icebergs: floating chunks of ice. True, but whoa there. Scientists are learning that there’s a...
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We’ve all been brought up to keep our eyes on the prize and our pedal to the medal when we go for...
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What will the Earth be like in 5,000 or 50,000 years? In this far-sighted episode, Josh and Chuck...
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Interpol is an international police agency that helps other law-enforcement agencies track...
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When the Visigoths ruled Spain, they introduced the idea of battling bulls at festivals. Today...
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Chuck and Josh end up making reduxes of past episodes on things like sweating and deodorant in...
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At long last, Josh and Chuck take on perhaps their most important topic ever. Learn about the...
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Should chimps be used for medical testing?
If you’ve got half a heart it’s an easy question to answer. But if you’re happy living without...
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For thousands of years, humans have used hallucinogenic mushrooms for spiritual reasons. Today,...
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Are contrails actually chemtrails?
You know those trails that jets leave in the sky? While science has explained why they happen,...
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Coffee: The World’s Drug of Choice
There’s a 98 percent chance you’re drinking coffee right now. Maybe not, sure, but coffee is...
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What happens in the brain during an orgasm?
Chuck and Josh test the limits of their decorum as they explore the physiology of an orgasm....
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Lt. John Pike of the Davis, Calif., police department brought the wrath of the Internet on...
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Should a company be able to own the rights to something found inside your own body? In this...
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