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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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2,741 episodes

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