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- How Does Aspirin Work?How does aspirin target your pain? The plants that aspirin were derived from have been used as medicine for about 6000 years, we finally discovered how it works in 1971, and Christian explains it to you now.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com7 min
- How Long Would It Take To Walk Around The World?Christian explains what goes into calculating how long it would take to traverse the globe on foot, and tells us about some intrepid explorers who've tried to do it.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com8 min
- How Does Déjà vu Work?Ever gotten the strange feeling that you’re repeating an experience? Researchers have over 40 theories about what’s going on in the brain during déjà vu, and Christian is here to explain the most popular ones.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com6 min
- How Does Crooke's Radiometer Work?Christian explains the science behind this seemingly magical gizmo.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com6 min
- What the Heck is GDP?GDP, GNP – what does it all mean? Jonathan explains what economists mean when they bring up these common economic indicators.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com7 min
- What Determines Your Hair Color?There's a lot of natural variation in the color of human hair. What's the physical explanation for the difference?Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com5 min
- Why Is Bacon Considered A Breakfast Food?Sure, everyone knows that bacon and eggs are a traditional breakfast - but why? Listen in to learn how Freud's nephew invented PR and changed the way America eats breakfast.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com5 min
- What Are Brain Orgasms And ASMR Whisperers?Christian delves into the euphoric sensations of the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and reveals what triggers it and how science has responded so far.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com6 min
- The Way We Think About Sugar Is Going To ChangeThe FDA recently changed their Nutrition Facts label to include added sugars. But why?Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com9 min
- How Do Erasers Erase?Erasers lift our mistakes right off the page, but it's not magic - it's the microscopic physics of stickiness.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com5 min
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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.