Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know episodes

March 07, 2020 SYSK Selects: How Gold Works
As of early 2013, only 161,00 metric tons of gold had been mined in the entire history of the world. Considering about 85 percent of it is recycled, there's a decent chance your jewelry may once have been part of an Incan headdress or Mycenaean face mask. Dive in to gold in this classic episode.

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47 min
March 05, 2020 Mardi Gras! One month late
In true SYSK fashion, Josh and Chuck are late to the game. But never fear, they will still detail Mardi Gras in all its colorful glory.

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47 min
March 04, 2020 Short Stuff: Exclamation Points!
We all use them! But did we always? NO!! Learn all about everyone's favorite punctuation mark today!

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14 min
March 03, 2020 How Morphic Fields Work?
Biologist and science historian Rupert Sheldrake is known as a heretic of science, mostly for his deeply strange ideas about what connects all living things. But his pokes at science help keep the field from growing dogmatic and for that we salute him.

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54 min
February 29, 2020 SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?
Were you to be the unfortunate victim of a limb removal of any sort, you could take hope. Here in the 21st century, doctors have gotten pretty handy at reattaching arms and legs, replacing thumbs with toes, rebuilding breasts, all to great success thanks to microsurgery techniques.

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35 min
February 27, 2020 Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure
Today Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.

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57 min
February 26, 2020 Short Stuff: Hawaiian Night Marchers
Get ready for some Hawaiian folklore, people. Today we discuss the Night Marchers.

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11 min
February 25, 2020 What's the deal with indigo?
Indigo is a color with a rich past. Learn all about it today.

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46 min
February 22, 2020 SYSK Selects: How Cult Deprogramming Works
The fear of cults in the 1970s drove Americans to look the other way on kidnappings, abuse and torture of cult members by deprogrammers – but did it even work? Find out in this classic episode.

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39 min
February 20, 2020 Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil
It’s a pretty safe assumption that people have been born with birthmarks since humanity began, and between then and now we’ve come up with some wacky, even dangerous, explanations for them – even a few that survive still today.

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50 min

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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.