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How Much Candy Would Kill You?

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Season 3 Episode 46
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Can I Still Eat This?

Can I Still Eat This?

Season 3 Episode 48
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Season 3 Episode 49
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You Can Taste Garlic with Your Feet!?

You Can Taste Garlic with Your Feet!?

Season 3 Episode 50
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How To Get Rid of Beer Foam Fast

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Accidental Discoveries That Go Boom

Season 3 Episode 39

Sometimes accidents in chemistry can be a good thing. Reactions brings you the science behind the accidental discovery of TNT, dynamite, and air bags.

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I Created an Oil Spill in My House
7:36
Bacteria could be what save us from ourselves.
Death and Decomposition
7:04
Are humans destroying the circle of life?
Better Pizza Through Chemistry
6:20
We show you how two simple changes can turn cardboard-y pizza into award winning pie.
Science of Concrete & the Surfside Condo Collapse
7:19
We discover how the Surfside Condominium—a modern building built in 1981—fail.
Are We Standing on a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds?
7:38
But the furthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could we know that?
Why is There Plastic in Our Rain?
6:43
Every year more than 1,000 tons of plastic rains down onto national parks and wilderness.
We Tried to Preserve a Strawberry Forever. Things Got…Ugly
8:05
See what happens when we try to make a strawberry last forever.
How Does Sunscreen Work?
7:38
Can it actually stop us from getting wrinkles or skin cancer? We find out!
How Carbon Capture Works
7:39
Removing CO2 from our atmosphere can mean big business.
How Lead (Maybe?) Caused the Downfall of the Roman Empire
5:55
We unwrap the possibility that lead caused the Roman Empire’s collapse.
Pub Chemistry Trivia to Help You Interact With Humans
5:33
Get back out in the world with Pub Trivia!
Does Sugar Cause Diabetes?
5:50
We explore if eating a lot of sugar can actually cause diabetes.
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