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The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

Season 9 Episode 2
22:36
What is Impossible in Evolution?

What is Impossible in Evolution?

Season 9 Episode 3
19:29
Why Are We Warm-Blooded?

Why Are We Warm-Blooded?

Season 9 Episode 6
11:18
A Brief (Scientific) History of Butts

A Brief (Scientific) History of Butts

Season 9 Episode 8
12:27
Why Is Sex a Thing?

Why Is Sex a Thing?

Season 9 Episode 9
12:31
How Much Of You Is Alive?

How Much Of You Is Alive?

Season 9 Episode 10
12:05
How the Zebra Really Got Its Stripes?

How the Zebra Really Got Its Stripes?

Season 9 Episode 11
13:13
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It's Okay to Be Smart

When Is Now?

Season 9 Episode 1

When is now? Seems like a pretty simple question… just look at your watch. But do you and I share the same “now”? Let’s journey from Einstein’s thought experiments about relativity to cutting-edge neuroscience research to try and answer that question.

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How Scientists Cracked the Secret To Making Diamonds
12:15
These diamond makers create one of the most amazing materials on Earth — from dead people.
Camouflage Isn't What It Appears To Be
11:20
Learn nature’s ultimate game of hide-and-seek, and the way to win this game is all in the brain.
Why Don’t Humans Hibernate?
11:17
Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive winter. None are weirder than hibernation.
The Paradox of Voting
12:40
Political scientist Don Green joins Joe to figure out the complex psychological and social factors t
Why Do We Hate Certain Sounds
16:27
Why do certain sounds make some of us so upset?!
The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System
11:43
Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system.
Why You See Faces in Things
10:23
People see faces everywhere thanks to a quirk of the brain called visual pareidolia.
Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning…
10:00
Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies?
The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers
15:25
Our animal brains deal with quantities in very specific, and fascinating, ways.
Computers Can Predict When You're Going to Die… Here's How
12:54
Can new technologies make death prediction even more accurate?
Can AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
21:33
AI may help us talk to whales soon. But should we?!
Measuring the Universe With a 14-Billion Light-Year Ruler
10:40
The cosmic distance ladder is the world’s longest ruler, built to measure the universe.
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