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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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Episodes 2,737 episodes in the feed

  1. How Is Chocolate Made?

    13 min

  2. Was James Dean's Final Car Cursed?

    11 min

  3. BrainStuff Classics: Does the Community of Lily Dale Reconnect the Living and the Dead?

    6 min

  4. How Did the Philadelphia Experiment Work?

    13 min

  5. Can Your Hair Really Turn White Overnight?

    13 min

  6. Why Are Brown Recluse Spiders Not All That Scary?

    11 min

  7. BrainStuff Classics: When Has a Single Vote Decided an Election?

    7 min

  8. How Do You Grow a 3,000-Pound Pumpkin?

    11 min

  9. How Do Your Nerves Tell Your Muscles to Function?

    13 min

  10. Why Did the Massive Maginot Line Fail to Stop Hitler?

    11 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Some Americans Cancelling Columbus Day?

    7 min

  2. American Versus British English: What Are Biscuits, Muffins, and Pudding?

    9 min

  3. How Do Sunspots Work?

    14 min

  4. Did the Lost Continent of Lemuria Really Exist?

    11 min

  5. BrainStuff Classics: How Did a Mad King Design Disney's Castle?

    8 min

  6. Could the Bird Flu Cause a Human Pandemic?

    14 min

  7. Where Do Butternut Squash Come From?

    10 min

  8. How Did the Great Stink of London Work?

    12 min

  9. BrainStuff Classics: How Do Blue Whales Work?

    8 min

  10. Do Political TV Ads Really Change Minds?

    12 min

  11. How Does Myasthenia Gravis Work?

    13 min

  12. What Is It Like In Our Asteroid Belt?

    12 min

  13. BrainStuff Classics: How Did Fish & Chips Become England's National Dish?

    7 min

  14. Do Lemmings Really Jump Off Cliffs?

    13 min

  15. What Would Happen If You Drank Saltwater?

    12 min

  16. How Is Tungsten So Hard and Heat-Resistant?

    9 min

  17. BrainStuff Classics: How Does the Hippocampus Work?

    7 min

  18. What Happened During Agatha Christie's Mysterious Disappearance?

    13 min

  19. How Does Escargot Work?

    12 min

  20. How Does a Geiger Counter Work?

    12 min

  21. BrainStuff Classics: How Do Starling Murmurations Work?

    8 min

  22. Why Was Rome's Emperor Commodus So Hated?

    12 min

  23. What If Earth Had Rings?

    12 min

  24. Why Do We Blush When We're Embarrassed?

    10 min

  25. BrainStuff Classics: How Are Ethnicity and Race Different?

    9 min

  26. How Does Butter Get Its Texture, Flavor, and Color?

    14 min

  27. Why Do We Call Dibs and Shotgun, and Who Was the Real McCoy?

    9 min

  28. Why Is Siberia's Batagaika Crater Known as the Doorway to Hell?

    10 min

  29. BrainStuff Classics: How Would Authorities Handle a Murder in Space?

    8 min

  30. How Does Taste Work?

    13 min

  31. How Did Weasels Get a Bad Rap?

    15 min

  32. How Did Napoleon I, the Emperor of the French, Rise and Fall?

    15 min

  33. BrainStuff Classics: How Did Alchemy Create Chemistry?

    7 min

  34. How Did Sundown Towns Say the Quiet Part Out Loud?

    11 min

  35. Why Do We Yawn, and Why Is It Catching?

    12 min

  36. How Do Rip Currents Work?

    9 min

  37. BrainStuff Classics: Can the Same Animal Evolve Twice?

    7 min

  38. Where Did Tomatoes Come From?

    10 min

  39. How Does Aspirin Know Where to Go in Your Body?

    14 min

  40. What Is the Deepest Hole in the World?

    14 min

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