Podcasts de sysk

How Racial Profiling Works

At its base, criminal profiling is a legitimate investigatory tool. The Supreme Court has drawn a...

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How Bats Work

They are creepy, sure, but they are also useful, cute and in great danger of extinction. Get a...

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How Earth-Like Planets Work

Since the Kepler telescope went online, astronomers have found there may be an estimate 40...

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How Droughts Work

Droughts can be an inevitable feature of a local climate or a catastrophic result of human...

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How Auto-Tune Works

What began as a challenge to an oil engineer to make a terrible singer into a pitch-perfect one,...

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Hula-Hoops: The toy that's a shape

We've covered our fair share of pop-culture icons and here is another - Hula-Hoops. They've been...

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Pigeons: Homing, Passenger, Carrier and Otherwise

Pigeons can get a little confusing. Passengers, messengers, carriers, homing - the list goes on....

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How Umami Works!

For millennia humans have recognized four tastes, but in the 1980s a fifth taste first isolated...

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How Hot Air Balloons Work

Arguably the most beautiful objects in the entire world, hot air balloons take advantage of some...

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The Stuff You Should Know 2015 Jolly Christmas Special

It’s the most wonderful time of year again! Join Chuck and Josh as they explore Christmas...

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How Gossip Works

You know what I heard? That Josh and Chuck hate each other and they're just faking being friends...

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The Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978

Long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas allowed the Star Wars Holiday Special to be...

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How the Antikythera Mechanism Works

In 1900 sponge divers found the wreck of a 2000 year-old treasure ship that contained within it a...

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How Reverse Psychology Works

You have very likely used reverse psychology before, trying to persuade someone to do something...

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Carl Sagan: American Hero

Carl Sagan was the world's first mainstream media super scientist, capapble of breaking down...

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How HIV/AIDS Works, Part II

In part two of the series on HIV/AIDS, Chuck and Josh explore how the battle against the disease...

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How HIV/AIDS Works, Part I

AIDS is one of the most well-known and most misunderstood diseases humans are susceptible to. In...

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Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works

After a year of taking it on the road, Josh and Chuck are releasing their show on public...

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How Anonymous Works

Anonymous is an amorphous group of hacktivists with no single leader or power structure. Some...

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How Dementia Works

The number of people suffering from dementia is expected to explode in the coming decades and, in...

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