If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD,
" Icebergs: floating chunks of ice. True, but whoa there. Scientists are learning that there's a lot
Along with the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain was one of the first international environmental t
The concept of fighting unhealthy behavior like overeating by taxing unhealthy food has been around
In the 1980s, IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot gazed for the first time upon his famous fractal.
Think you have moss figured out? You probably don't. Join Josh and Chuck as they explore some of the
If you've seen the movie Magnolia, you've seen what it looks like to rain frogs. While there are rep
The disturbing trend of school shootings around the world has dragged violence in video games into t
We've all been brought up to keep our eyes on the prize and our pedal to the medal when we go for th
Yes, it's true: Unions have a shady mob-related past and were originally championed by anarchists. B
What will the Earth be like in 5,000 or 50,000 years? In this far-sighted episode, Josh and Chuck ex
Interpol is an international police agency that helps other law-enforcement agencies track criminals
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Today nutmeg is commonplace, but this wasn't always the case. In the 17th century, the Dutch and the
When the Visigoths ruled Spain, they introduced the idea of battling bulls at festivals. Today matad
" Sure animals talk in their own way, with chirps and grunts and the like, but only humans can form
Some quarters of the medical establishment endorse it, others abhor it. The DEA is cracking down on
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Do you know that up until July 2011 an ambitious hacker with a good software program could deduce yo
Despite its embattled status as brutal and illegal, commercial whaling is a tradition that dates bac
Chuck and Josh end up making reduxes of past episodes on things like sweating and deodorant in this
