Tracks by Josh & Chuck

How Scuba Works

Short Stuff: Petrified Wood

Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?

The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures

Short Stuff: White Dog Poop

The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

Selects: How Mummies Work

Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts

The Compton Cafeteria Riot

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

Kindness: Do It

Short Stuff: Candy Corn

The Criminal Father of Criminology

Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

How Intellectual Property Works

Short Stuff: Longyou Caves

Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!

Selects: How Motion Sickness Works

How Andy Warhol Worked

Short Stuff: Rhodium

Night of the Grizzlies

Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think

Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet

Short Stuff: The Dakota

The Amazing Life of Christine Granville

Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness

Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs

10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever

Selects: How Floods Work

The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster

Short Stuff: Why Spilling Salt is Unlucky

Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico

Selects: How Space Stations Work

Native American Reservations

Short Stuff: History of OK

The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K

Selects: Body Odor: You Stink

Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music

Short Stuff: Evil Eye

Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan

Selects: How Toy Testing Works

Plant Migration

Short Stuff: Saturn's Rings

Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To

Selects: How Music Sampling Works

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Franklin Expedition

Short Stuff: Edward Mordake

How We’re Learning to Talk to Animals

Selects: How Magnets Work

Xenobiotics

Short Stuff: History of English

Dear Diary

Selects: Rainbows: Delighting humanity since forever

The Last Meal Ritual

Short Stuff: NATO Alphabet

BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Selects: What's the deal with Stradivarius violins?

MAD Magazine: A Tribute

Short Stuff: Blue Highway Signs

Learning a Foreign Language

Selects: Nirvana: Not The Band

Magic Eye Illusions

Short Stuff: Pie-In-The-Face Gag

Insomnia: Why you can't sleep

Selects: How Police Lineups Work

How PCP Works

Short Stuff: Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice

Selects: How Bats Work

James Beard: Food Legend

Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign

How Trucking Works

Selects: What Makes Lead So Poisonous?

Butterflies: Caterpillars with Wings!

Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius

Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Selects: How Ocean Currents Work

How Afrofuturism Works

Short Stuff: Chia Pet

Large Language Models and You

Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps

How Alumin(i)um Works

Short Stuff: Suicide Forest

The Stinky History of Human Hygiene

Selects: How Audience Testing Works

Is Reality Real?

Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage

Why Manners?

Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs

What's the deal with intermittent fasting?

Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg

The Saga of Milli Vanilli

Selects: How Color Works

The Semi-Recent History of Exercise

Short Stuff: Pollen Count

What is the Bechdel Test?

Selects: How Dog Shows Work

How Juries Work

Short Stuff: Mood Rings

The Inflammation Theory of Disease

Selects: How Slinky Works

How TV Weathercasters Work

Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA

The Colosseum

Selects: Does the body replace itself?

Introducing Smell-O-Vision!

Short Stuff: Dunbar's Number

Nerf!

Selects: How Manhunts Work

Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway

Short Stuff: Botox Brain

Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?

Selects: Was There A Real Robin Hood?

METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes

Short Stuff: Routines

Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?

Selects: How Coffins Work

John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?

Short Stuff: Red Snow

How Skydiving Works

Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories

Playing Cards? You Got That Right!

Short Stuff: Beethoven’s DNA

What Caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?

Selects: How Jet Lag Works

What's the deal with dowsing?

Short Stuff: Theme Park Cremations

The First Road Trip

Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

An Interesting, Vastly Incomplete Look at Baseball Cards

Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation

The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins

Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?

Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds

Short Stuff: John Cage's 639 Year Concert

That's Amaro!

Selects: The Time Nazis Invaded Florida

Woodstock: The Festival for Stardust, Golden Hippies

Short Stuff: Paprika

Noncompete Agreements, Come On

Selects: Live From San Francisco: How Malls Work

Crosswords episode, perhaps?

Short Stuff: La Pascualita

The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon

Selects: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?

Naps: Chuck's Secret Talent

Short Stuff: Sleeping On It

The Mystery of the Lost Amber Room

Selects: The Max Headroom Affair

The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire

Short Stuff: Beulah Mae Donald

The Glorious Flamingo

Selects: Cave Diving: Totally Nuts

How (O)possums Work

Short Stuff: No Shirt, No Shoes, WTF

Honey: Nature's Wonder Sugar

Selects: How Easy Bake Ovens Work

The Largely Equine History of Veterinary Medicine

Short Stuff: Bird Migration

Must We Suffer Emotional Pain?

Selects: Elephants: The Best Animals?

How Attachment Theory Works

Short Stuff: Adam's Apples and Throat Lumps

Let's Talk About John DeLorean

Selects: How Game Shows Work

Toast: As in browned bread

Short Stuff: Women Pirates

The Louisiana Purchase: Not a Purchase

Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works

How Tarot Works?

Short Stuff: Forest Lawn Memorial Park

How Enron Fooled the World

Selects: How Perfume Works

When Mount St. Helens Blew Its Top

Short Stuff: Dangers of Nose Picking

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (not the song)

Selects: Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Podcast Episode

Short Stuff: Mesas: Flat

Juicy: The Fried Chicken Story

Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

2022 Holiday Spectacular!

Short Stuff: Snow Globes

Who was Dorothy Parker, really?

Selects: Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much

Interesting Origins of Everyday Phrases

Short Stuff: The Atlanta Washer Woman Strike

How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Selects: How Polar Bears Work

True Crime: The Phantom of Heilbronn

Short Stuff: Birthday Paradox

How Face Blindness Works

Selects: The Rubik's Cube Episode

How Down Syndrome Works

Short Stuff: Goosebumps

Peripersonal Space: Humans’ Got Talent

Selects: How Umami Works!

Roller Skating: Fun and Cool

Short Stuff: Liquid Paper

Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

Selects: How Dark Money Works

Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?

Short Stuff: Incomplete Yawns

The Sordid History of Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties

Selects: Finders Keepers: Real Law

How Owls Work

Short Stuff: Dodleston Messages

What's so important about legal precedent?

Selects: What is an invasive species?

Vaudeville: Step Right Up!

Short Stuff: Birth Certificate Access

The Harvey's Casino Bombing of 1980

Selects: How Vampires Work

The 13th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

Short Stuff: Robert the Doll

The Tale of the Bloody Benders

Selects: 10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck

Fundamentalism: Menace II Society

Short Stuff: Water Towers

The History of Fake Towns

Selects: How Pompeii Worked

10 Cases of Mistaken Identity

Short Stuff: Blaschko's Lines

Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!

Selects: Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre

How License Plates Work

Short Stuff: Scratching

Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work

Selects: How Clowns Work

How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked

Short Stuff: Curse Tablets

Vasectomies: Stop Being A Wimp

Selects: How LSD Works

Sitcoms Part II

Short Stuff: Laugh Tracks

Sitcoms Part I

Selects: Frida Kahlo: Painter, Icon, Genius

Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters

Short Stuff: Hangry?

The Georgia Guidestones: The Elite Have a Laugh

Selects: What Happened to the Neanderthals?

Everything We Know About Squids

Short Stuff: RIP Man of the Hole

Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?

Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

Rolling Stone Magazine

Short Stuff: Mason-Dixon Line

We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday

Selects: Knife Throwing: Super Cool

Kissing Cousins: A History of Marrying Family

Short Stuff: Marrying Up

Introvert or Extravert: Which are you? (Probably both)

Selects: How Gossip Works

How Enemas Work

Short Stuff: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge

Mariachi: The Rodney Dangerfield of Music

Selects: Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus

The Origins of Breakfast Foods

Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax

What's the deal with energy drinks?

Selects: How Droughts Work

Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis

Short Stuff: Divorcing Your Parents

Silly String: Disaster in a Can

Selects: Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking

How Menstruation Works

Short Stuff: The Mars Rock with Signs of Life?

Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?

Selects: What's the misery index?

Googie: The Architecture of the Space Age

Short Stuff: Death from Astral Projection

Supernovae: Best Around, Case Closed

Selects: What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?

Why Bowling is Awesome

Short Stuff: Catatumbo Lightning

Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

Selects: How Ayahuasca Works

The Maya Civilization

Short Stuff: Alligator Gar

How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

A Dispassionate Review of Roe v Wade

Short Stuff: What did we use before infant formula?

How Alien Contact Might Work

Selects: Chiggers: The Phantom Menace

What's up with bariatric surgery?

Short Stuff: Do Fish Get Thirsty?

The Appalachian Trail: A Heckuva Hike

Selects: How Steadicams Work

What were the IRA hunger strikes?

Short Stuff: HR8 Gun Legislation

How Wind Works

Selects: How Drowning Works

The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?

Short Stuff: Cleveland’s Infamous 10-Cent Beer Night

How Freedom of the Press Works

Selects: How Satanism Works

Kidney Donation: You Could Be A Saint!

Short Stuff: Happy Foods!

The Scintillating World of Interest Rates

Selects: Waterbeds: The Sexiest Bed?

The Myth of Absinthe

Short Stuff: Do people move in predictable directions?

Cats: Invasive Species?

Selects: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five

What's in a surname?

Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor

Squirrels, Ahoy!

Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked

Rhinoplasty, aka Nose Jobs

Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood

What are land acknowledgments?

Selects: How Champagne Works

Marcus Garvey: Black Moses

Short Stuff: Shar Pei

The Mystery of Coal

Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From LA

Understudies: Hardest Workers on Broadway?

Short Stuff: Smelly Homes

“Postmodernism:”

Selects: The Baffling Case of the Body On Somerton Beach

Just Say No to... Bottled Water

Short Stuff: Salute the Grilled Cheese

The Christine Collins Story

Selects: What happens to abandoned mines?

How Mensa Works

Short Stuff: Animal Politicians

The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Selects: A Partial History of Action Figures

The Delightful History of Pubs

Short Stuff: The Church Choir That Didn't Explode

Watermelons: Nature's Gift to the World

Selects: How No-fly Zones Work

What’s NATO All About?

Short Stuff: Greenbrier Bunker

How Light Pollution Works

Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part II

Selects: The Tylenol Murders, Part I

The Truth Behind Cage-Free and Free-Range

Short Stuff: Magnet Fishing

Why was Titicut Follies banned?

Selects: How Hate Works

How Rewilding Works

Short Stuff: Nose Breathing

Operation Northwoods: The False Flag Op That Never Was

Selects: A Brief Overview of Punk Rock

Aleister Crowley: Blowhard Narcissist?

Short Stuff: Great Smog of London

Behold, National Parks!

Selects: How Tabloids Work

How Effective Altruism Works

Short Stuff: Friends of Dorothy

What's the deal with phantom pain?

Selects: Is the Pied Piper About a Real Historic Tragedy?

How Mindfulness Works

Short Stuff: Commensalism

The Improbable Story of Martin Guerre

Selects: How Moss Works

The Ins and Outs of Albinism

Short Stuff: Cassowary

Leeches: Oh Hell No!

Selects: The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping

Littering: Not Cool

Short Stuff: Schmidt Stinging Pain Index

The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping

Selects: What's the Deal With Staring?

How the Nobel Peace Prize Works

Short Stuff: Firewalking

How Tacos Work

Selects: How Sloths Work

How Forgiveness Works

Short Stuff: Arctic Fox

Tug of War

Selects: How SETI Works

How Classified Information Works

Short Stuff: Jaywalking

Rock Paper Scissors: Decider of Things

Selects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub

What were the black codes?

Short Stuff: Fortune Cookies

The Circleville Poison Pen Letters Mystery

Selects: Carl Sagan: American Hero

Ants! Part 2!

Short Stuff: The Casket Racket

Ants! Part 1!

Selects: Horoscopes: Written in the Stars?

Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!

Short Stuff: Traffic Signals

Unsung Heroes of the Court

Selects: How Tipping Works

SYSK’s 2021 Glad Tidings Bonanza Holiday Special

Short Stuff: Christmas Cards

How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work

Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

Kidney Stones: No! Please, NO!

Short Stuff: Charity Tips

Palm Trees: Technically, Giant Plants

Selects: How the Terracotta Army Works

What's the deal with blue people?

Short Stuff: Funny Bone

Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?

Selects: What Is Collective Hysteria?

Your Gut Is Also A Brain

Short Stuff: SINA

The Twisted History of Dentistry

Selects: Why Do Lefties Exist?

Python-a-palooza!

Short Stuff: Mayday!

The Apache Wars

Selects: How Hoarding Works

Why Is DC Not A State?

Short Stuff: The Paper Dress Fad

Hot Dog!(s)

Selects: How Feng Shui Works

The Flannan Isles Mystery

Short Stuff: Your Dirty Bed

What are blue laws?

Selects: The Stories Behind A Few Food Fads

The Rock Ampersand Roll Hall of Fame

Short Stuff: Friendly Floatees

How mRNA Vaccines Work

Selects: What is folklore?

2021 Halloween Spooktacular!

Short Stuff: Most Haunted House in England

Salem Witchcraft Trials: More Bonkers Than You Know

Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

Harry Houdini: More than Magic

Short Stuff: Bloody Mary

Heat Waves!

Selects: Why is Venice so wet?

Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!

Short Stuff: Jack O'Lanterns and Sleepy Hollow

Venus Flytraps: Plant or Monster?

Selects: How X-Rays Work

The Tale of the Church of the SubGenius

Short Stuff: Dingoes!

Research Bias: Sort It Out, Science

Selects: How Empathy Works

All About Alligators

Short Stuff: Exploring Irish Monk

How Numerology Works

Selects: Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy

The Statue of Liberty

Short Stuff: Lake Erie's Rights

How Mail Order Marriages Work

Selects: How Free Speech Works

What's the deal with crash testing?

Short Stuff: The Javelina

How Embalming Works

Selects: Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm

How the Magna Carta Worked

Short Stuff: Chameleons

The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil

Selects: How Temper Tantrums Work

Criminal Records: No Thanks!

Short Stuff: Handwashing vs Dishwashers

How Trepanation Worked

Selects: Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process

Les Paul & Leo Fender Part II

Short Stuff: Jackalope

Les Paul & Leo Fender Part I

Selects: How Pet Psychics Work

Y2K: Much Ado About Something

Short Stuff: 5 Lazarus Species

How MRI Works

Selects: How Animal Domestication Works

How Fireflies and Lightning Bugs Work

Short Stuff: Humpty Dumpty

Child Labor: Not Funny

Selects: How Landslides Work

How Transcendentalism Works

Short Stuff: Calamity Jane

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Experiment

Selects: How Police Interrogation Works

How Sarcasm Works

Short Stuff: Space Hurricanes

Conservatorships: #freebritney

Selects: How Mars Works

The Origins of Some Everyday Superstitions

Short Stuff: RICO Act

Stranger Danger!

Selects: How Ketchup Works

How Reverse Osmosis Will Save the World

Short Stuff: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

The Radium Girls

Selects: How Historic Districts Work

SYSK Live: Koko, the Gorilla Who Talked

Short Stuff: Sulfanilamide Disaster

The Sad Story of William James Sidis

Selects: Are good samaritan laws effective?

The Grand Ole Opry Cast

Short Stuff: Beast of Gevaudan

Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing

Selects: How Royalty Works

How Faraday Cages Work

Short Stuff: Chastity Belts

The Mystery of Damascus Steel

Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis

How Venus Works

Short Stuff: Mojave Megaphone

Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World

Selects: How Sea Monsters Work

POGs: The 90s in a Bottle Cap

Short Stuff: Chinatowns

Slime Mold: 0% Mold, 100% Amazing

Selects: Who was America's first murderer?

John Muir: Outdoor Enthusiast

Short Stuff: Runner's High

What Causes Inflation?

Selects: How Nitrous Oxide Works

Night Trap: The Video Game Failure that Changed the Industry

Short Stuff: Parachute Emergency!

How Cleft Lips and Palates Work

Selects: How Hot Wheels Work

Girl Scouts: More than cookie sellers

Short Stuff: Speed Reading

The Cleveland Torso Murders

Selects: How Limousines Work

How Monster Trucks Work

Short Stuff: Garter Snakes

The Ivy League

Selects: How Snake Handlers Work

How Uranium Mining Works

Short Stuff: Squarer Than Wombat Poop

The Appendix: No Respect

Selects: How Cave Dwellers Work

How Corporate Taxes Work

Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless

Truffles: Underground Treasures

Selects: How Profiling Works

How Stamp Collecting Works

Short Stuff: Madam C.J. Walker

Mechanical Bulls!

Selects: How Tupperware Works

Hair Loss: The Pits

Short Stuff: Palindromes

How the Electrical Grid Works

Selects: The Unsolved Mystery Disappearance of the Sodder Children

Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Short Stuff: Venus de Milo

Havana Syndrome: ¿Qué Diablos?

Selects: How Circus Families Work

How the Titanic Worked: Part Two

Short Stuff: What's the oldest book?

How the Titanic Worked: Part One

Selects: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

Space Junk, Ahoy!

Short Stuff: Cellphones on Airplanes

What is biophilic design?

Selects: How Lighthouses Work

The Texas City Disaster of 1947

Short Stuff: Brazilian Jars

The Parrot Episode

Selects: Please Listen to How Plasma Waste Convertors Work

Karaoke: Tuesday Night Fever

Short Stuff: Tooth Fairy: Not Real

Dragons: As Real as Mermaids

Selects: Mermaids: Not a real thing

Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified?

Short Stuff: Dog Suicide Bridge

Is the Free Radical Theory of Aging Wrong?

Selects: Bridges: Nature Abhors Them

How Bruce Lee Worked

Short Stuff: The Body in the Cylinder

What Will Farming 4.0 Look Like?

Selects: How Chili Peppers Work

How Blue Holes Work

Short Stuff: Freedom House Ambulance Services

The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

Selects: Why Are So Many Disembodied Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia?

How Housing Discrimination Works

Short Stuff: How California Got Its Name

Sacagawea: Impressive Teen

Selects: Earwax: Live With It

The NAACP

Short Stuff: Balloonfest

How Groundhog Day Works

Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out

How Hydropower Works

Short Stuff: Vantablack

The KKK: Loathsome Cosplay Rednecks

Selects: How Blimps Work

Finding the Fenn Treasure

Short Stuff: Necco

What does a tire company know about food?

Selects: What Was the Deal With the Hatfields and McCoys?

The Science of Cute

Short Stuff: Silverfish

Hell! Hell! Hell!

Selects: How Skateboarding Works

The Wright Brothers

Short Stuff: Is It Theater or Theatre?

Space Weather - What's That?!

Selects: How Auto-Tune Works

La Dame de Fer (Eiffel Tower)

Short Stuff: Ig-pay Atin-lay (Sorry)

Theremins: World's First Electronic Music

SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth

The SYSK 2020 Holly Jolly Extravaganza!

Short Stuff: Chinese Food on Christmas

How Buffets Work

SYSK Selects: The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

Aspirin: The Wonder Drug

Short Stuff: Modern Funerals

Joseph Merrick, aka The Elephant Man

SYSK Selects: What is a hangover, really?

The Taliesin Massacre

Short Stuff: Cramming

How Class Action Lawsuits Work

SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe

John Lennon and the FBI

Short Stuff: Pimento Cheese!

Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century

SYSK Selects: How Tea Works

Gobble Gobble: Turkeys!

Short Stuff: How Eyes In a Painting Follow You

Patty Hearst: Brainwashed or Bandit?

SYSK Selects: Whatever happened to acid rain?

The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth

Short Stuff: Squirrel Nuts

How Pain Works

SYSK Selects: Who Gets to Name Continents?

How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works

Short Stuff: Plastic Pink Flamingos

The Bay of Pigs Disaster

SYSK Selects: Geysers: Nature's Innuendo

All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh

Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why?

The Amazing Roberto Clemente

SYSK Selects: How Ghosts Work

SYSK’s Scare Your Pants Off (and Back On) Halloween Spooktacular

Short Stuff: Poe Toaster

A History of Nursing Homes

SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works

Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun

Short Stuff: Haunted Real Estate

10 Voter Suppression Methods

SYSK Selects: How Sushi Works

Porcupines: Little Stabby Cutie Pies

Short Stuff: What is Latinx anyway?

Wind Tunnels: More Important Than You Realize

SYSK Selects: How Bigfoot Works

Printing press? Big deal!

Short Stuff: Lying in State

What's the deal with swing states?

SYSK Selects: How the Electoral College Works

Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

Short Stuff: That's A Head Scratcher

Conjugal Visits: Not exactly what you think

SYSK Selects: How Rabies Works

At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode

Short Stuff: Petticoat Rulers

How Sweepstakes Work

SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works

How Election Polling Works and Doesn't Work

Short Stuff: Black Cowboys

Origami: Folding Goodness

SYSK Selects: How Porta-Potties Work

Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!

Short Stuff: Streisand Effect

Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

SYSK Selects: How Police Chases Work

The Disturbing Disappearance of Tara Calico

Short Stuff: More Phrase Origins

How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked

SYSK Selects: Polyamory: When two just won't do

Blacksmiths? You got that right!

Short Stuff: Carrots and Your Eyes

How Sneezing Works

SYSK Selects: How Panic Attacks Work

1-800-PODCAST

Short Stuff: The Great American Coin Shortage of 2020

How Anti-Dieting Works

SYSK Selects: How The Human Microbiome Project Works

Olympic Torches: Remember Those?

Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!

Pirate Radio: Mavericks on the High Seas

SYSK Selects: How The Moonwalk Works

How Miniature Golf Works

Short Stuff: Jigsaw Puzzles

Wasps: Not as cute as bees

SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works

How Soap Works

Short Stuff: Habsburg Jaw

How Hurricanes Work

SYSK Selects: How Lobbying Works

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Mobile Phones

Short Stuff: The Death of Billy the Kid

How We Almost Got Rid of Polio

SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works

Robber Barons!

Short Stuff: Centralia Coal Fire

Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad

SYSK Selects: How Landfills Work

Essential Oils: Nature's Cure?

Short Stuff: The @ Symbol

What was the KGB?

SYSK Selects: All We Know About Guessing

Oh Yes, How Soil Works

Short Stuff: The Science of Funny Words

Bruxism: Grinding Your Teeth Is the Pits

SYSK Selects: Juggling: What the Heck

Matcha: That Ain't Just Tea

Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble!

How Ultrasound Works

SYSK Selects: Research tips from SYSK

The Manhattan Grid

Short Stuff: Haint Blue

The War on Fat: The Seven Countries Study

SYSK Selects: How Flamethrowers Work

Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight?

Short Stuff: Foie Gras

How Project Star Gate Worked

SYSK Selects: How The Black Panther Party Worked

The Massacre at Tiananmen Square

Short Stuff: Disappearing Dirty Dancing Lake

Heroin: The Drug

SYSK Selects: How Jackhammers Work

How Narcolepsy Works

Short Stuff: Lawn Darts

Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom

SYSK Selects: How The Enlightenment Works