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2402 episodes transcribedYou can stick them to the fridge or use them to transpose sound to tape, whatever they are used for magnets are surprisingly interesting. And knowing...
The idea that a person who can't understand the crime they've committed is wrong lets them off the hook from culpability for their actions is a longst...
You can tell a lot about a culture through marriage statistics: what age people get married, how many divorce, who is excluded from legal marriage. It...
It's a pretty touchy subject because of the possible implications - if you find differences between the brains of men and women, does that mean there...
It is pretty much impossible to describe duckbill platypuses without using the word "hodgepodge" and for good reason. These mammals also share feature...
You can probably name the five stages of grief - from denial to acceptance - they've become pretty well known since being proposed in 1969. But later...
It's on more than one list of the Seven Wonders of the World and for good reason - the Panama Canal is one of the great feats of engineering ever unde...
They have become such a ubiquitous tool used by the UN and NATO to intervene in international crises, that it seems like no-fly zones have been around...
After WWII, while the rest of the world grew more socially progressive, the government of South Africa turned inward to focus its attention on dominat...
The USPS is currently teetering on the edge of going under and there are a lot of plans to save it, from cutting Saturday service to creating federall...
Creating composite drawings of suspected criminals from eyewitness accounts has been around since a Frenchman introduced it in the 19th century. Despi...
Anyone who knows anything about Jean-Claude Van Damme knows he played a French legionnaire in the movies. He was just one of many actors to star in fi...
The term "one-hit wonder" gets thrown around a lot, and - yes - you probably are using it correctly, but Chuck Bryant went to the trouble to really de...
In February 2013, Pope Benedict said he would become the first pope to retire in 600 years. Check out this episode of Stuff You Should Know to find ou...
You have a golden opportunity to make yourself into a worthwhile human being simply by learning how to perform CPR. The chances are you'll never need...
Psst. You want to know how governments and corporations get the drop on one another? The frontline of intelligence is populated by spies. Learn about...
Over the last 400 million years, the day has grown longer by two full hours thanks to a slowing of the rotation of the Earth on its axis. While it wil...
You know the Beach Boys and you've seen those Hang Ten shirts with the little feet emblem, but there's a lot more to surfing than appears on pop cultu...
As is usual for SYSK, Josh and Chuck go over some, but not all, of the entries in this list of ten common myths about the brain. While it lives there...
It was only since 1958 that the Jet Age began, and jet lag became a real condition. Also known as desynchronosis, jet lag can lead to all manner of ai...
