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BrainStuff

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Whether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on BrainStuff to explore -- and explain -- the everyday science in the world around us.

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2,739 episodes

  1. BrainStuff Classics: How Does Samhain Work? 6:13
  2. What Really Happened at the 'Amityville Horror' House? 14:08
  3. How Is Chocolate Made? 13:56
  4. Was James Dean's Final Car Cursed? 11:26
  5. BrainStuff Classics: Does the Community of Lily Dale Reconnect the Living and the Dead? 6:52
  6. How Did the Philadelphia Experiment Work? 13:57
  7. Can Your Hair Really Turn White Overnight? 13:43
  8. Why Are Brown Recluse Spiders Not All That Scary? 11:14
  9. BrainStuff Classics: When Has a Single Vote Decided an Election? 7:50
  10. How Do You Grow a 3,000-Pound Pumpkin? 11:56
  11. How Do Your Nerves Tell Your Muscles to Function? 13:30
  12. Why Did the Massive Maginot Line Fail to Stop Hitler? 11:37
  13. BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Some Americans Cancelling Columbus Day? 7:17
  14. American Versus British English: What Are Biscuits, Muffins, and Pudding? 9:51
  15. How Do Sunspots Work? 14:22
  16. Did the Lost Continent of Lemuria Really Exist? 11:05
  17. BrainStuff Classics: How Did a Mad King Design Disney's Castle? 8:09
  18. Could the Bird Flu Cause a Human Pandemic? 14:57
  19. Where Do Butternut Squash Come From? 10:08
  20. How Did the Great Stink of London Work? 12:10
  21. BrainStuff Classics: How Do Blue Whales Work? 8:42
  22. Do Political TV Ads Really Change Minds? 12:27
  23. How Does Myasthenia Gravis Work? 13:48
  24. What Is It Like In Our Asteroid Belt? 12:54
  25. BrainStuff Classics: How Did Fish & Chips Become England's National Dish? 7:17
  26. Do Lemmings Really Jump Off Cliffs? 13:23
  27. What Would Happen If You Drank Saltwater? 12:13
  28. How Is Tungsten So Hard and Heat-Resistant? 9:20
  29. BrainStuff Classics: How Does the Hippocampus Work? 7:12
  30. What Happened During Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance? 13:53
  31. How Does Escargot Work? 12:08
  32. How Does a Geiger Counter Work? 12:14
  33. BrainStuff Classics: How Do Starling Murmurations Work? 8:19
  34. Why Was Rome's Emperor Commodus So Hated? 12:09
  35. What If Earth Had Rings? 12:46
  36. Why Do We Blush When We're Embarrassed? 10:23
  37. BrainStuff Classics: How Are Ethnicity and Race Different? 9:41
  38. How Does Butter Get Its Texture, Flavor, and Color? 14:02
  39. Why Do We Call Dibs and Shotgun, and Who Was the Real McCoy? 9:22
  40. Why Is Siberia's Batagaika Crater Known as the Doorway to Hell? 10:56
  41. BrainStuff Classics: How Would Authorities Handle a Murder in Space? 8:18
  42. How Does Taste Work? 13:59
  43. How Did Weasels Get a Bad Rap? 15:38
  44. How Did Napoleon I, the Emperor of the French, Rise and Fall? 15:09
  45. BrainStuff Classics: How Did Alchemy Create Chemistry? 7:12
  46. How Did Sundown Towns Say the Quiet Part Out Loud? 11:36
  47. Why Do We Yawn, and Why Is It Catching? 12:03
  48. How Do Rip Currents Work? 9:28
  49. BrainStuff Classics: Can the Same Animal Evolve Twice? 7:21
  50. Where Did Tomatoes Come From? 10:42