Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Science inquiries and expert answers • Climate change and food science • Space exploration and astrobiology • COVID-19 research and impacts • Behavioral sciences and happiness • Cutting-edge technology and innovation
"Science Rules! with Bill Nye" is a podcast hosted by the renowned science communicator Bill Nye, in collaboration with science writer Corey S. Powell. The podcast aims to address a vast array of scientific questions and topics, providing listeners with insightful discussions and expert opinions. Each episode delves into different scientific phenomena, presenting complex concepts in an engaging and accessible manner.
The podcast covers a myriad of topics, with recurring themes including environmental science, space exploration, health and medicine, and the impact of scientific advancements on society. Episodes explore diverse subjects such as the potential for alien life in our solar system, the intricacies of lab-grown meat and GMO foods, and the science behind common daily practices like cooking. They also address urgent contemporary issues like climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy, often featuring expert analyses and interviews to provide comprehensive understandings.
Another prevailing theme is the practical application of science in various fields. Listeners are introduced to innovative research and groundbreaking discoveries, such as the preservation of near-Earth objects by amateur astronomers, or the psychological and neurological impact of long-haul COVID-19. The podcast doesn't shy away from exploring speculative and futuristic scenarios either, pondering what it would be like to be immune to all poisons or how to effectively quarantine in space.
Interwoven with humor and curiosity, episodes also often feature science in popular culture. Discussions may include how real science is integrated into movies, the physics of NFL games, or the cognitive aspects revealed by studying Neanderthal artifacts. Special segments occasionally highlight notable personalities’ contributions to education and science, such as actors with a strong interest in scientific subjects, or well-known figures managing massive scientific campaigns.
In essence, "Science Rules! with Bill Nye" provides a comprehensive, informative, and often entertaining look at the world through the lens of science, tackling both profound questions and everyday curiosities with equal vigor. It's a podcast that seeks not only to inform but also to inspire a deeper appreciation for the scientific investigation and its implications across all walks of life.
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Episodes:
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Introducing Sound Detectives from LeVar Burton
2023-Nov-01
7 minutes
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Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy!
2023-Apr-10
29 minutes
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An Update From Bill and Corey
2021-Jun-24
5 minutes
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Planetary Radio: Amateur Astronomers Saving the World
2021-Jun-17
67 minutes
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Coronavirus: What Do the CDC and a Garden of Fake Flowers Have in Common?
2021-Jun-15
29 minutes
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This Podcast Will Kill You: Coccidioidomycosis
2021-Jun-10
81 minutes
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Flash Forward: What If You Could Be Immune to Everything?
2021-Jun-03
54 minutes
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Coronavirus: Using Science to Fight Vaccine Hesitancy
2021-Jun-01
30 minutes
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Hidden Brain: Humor Us
2021-May-27
53 minutes
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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
2021-May-20
100 minutes
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Coronavirus: A Vaccine for the Economy?
2021-May-18
21 minutes
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99% Invisible: Their Dark Materials
2021-May-13
40 minutes
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A String Theorist Helps Superheroes Time Travel
2021-May-06
57 minutes
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Coronavirus: W.H.O. Can Prevent COVID-21?
2021-May-04
22 minutes
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The World’s Most Top-to-Bottom Explorer
2021-Apr-29
47 minutes
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Coronavirus: An Announcement
2021-Apr-27
1 minute
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The Blunt Truth About Weed
2021-Apr-20
54 minutes
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Gets Students to Camp Skyhook
2021-Apr-15
35 minutes
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Coronavirus: Do Cry Over Spillovers
2021-Apr-13
25 minutes
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“Meat” the Man Who Wants to Destroy the Beef Industry
2021-Apr-08
47 minutes
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What Do You Need to Hunt for Life on Mars? Perseverance!
2021-Apr-01
43 minutes
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Coronavirus: Piercing the “Brain Fog” of Long-Haul Covid
2021-Mar-30
27 minutes
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The Science of Smell: New Cars, Old People, and the Stink of the Moon
2021-Mar-25
47 minutes
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SOS: Save Our Sperm
2021-Mar-18
51 minutes
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Coronavirus: Why It Hits High-Income Countries Hardest
2021-Mar-16
24 minutes
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Neanderthal Sex *
2021-Mar-11
58 minutes
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Meet the Woman Tasked With Keeping Joe Biden's Climate Promises
2021-Mar-04
35 minutes
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Coronavirus: Panic Over Variants, and Other Media Mistakes
2021-Mar-02
29 minutes
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Acting Is Like Learning Science Backwards
2021-Feb-25
44 minutes
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How to Outrun a Horse: Surprising Insights From an Exercise Scientist
2021-Feb-18
59 minutes
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Coronavirus: President Biden’s Report Card
2021-Feb-16
24 minutes
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Cooking with Science: Why Eggs Turn White, Pickles Crunch, and Popcorn Sets Off Your Smoke Detectors
2021-Feb-11
46 minutes
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NFL Meets MIT: Science Tackles the Super Bowl
2021-Feb-04
49 minutes
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Coronavirus: Did COVID Escape From a Lab?
2021-Feb-02
26 minutes
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It's a Parasite's World. We Just Live in It.
2021-Jan-28
57 minutes
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The Greatest Invention of All Time Is ... TIME!
2021-Jan-21
55 minutes
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Coronavirus: 100 Days, 100 Million Shots
2021-Jan-19
28 minutes
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The True Limit to Space Exploration: Our Sanity
2021-Jan-14
50 minutes
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Mayim Bialik’s Contract With the Universe
2021-Jan-07
56 minutes
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How To (Still) Be Happy
2020-Dec-31
48 minutes
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Save the Oceans: Recycling Is Not Enough
2020-Dec-24
45 minutes
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Meet the Olympic Swimmer Making Ripples Out of the Pool
2020-Dec-17
44 minutes
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The Sound of Stonehenge (and Other Aural Mysteries)
2020-Dec-10
57 minutes
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Coronavirus: America’s King of Health Is Skipping Christmas … and So Should You
2020-Dec-08
37 minutes
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What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?
2020-Dec-03
51 minutes
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Our Fishy Ancestors Grew a Pair (of Legs)
2020-Nov-26
55 minutes
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Coronavirus: With 4 Million Currently Infected, How to Give Safe Thanks
2020-Nov-24
32 minutes
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The Science of Bond — James Bond
2020-Nov-19
54 minutes
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Werner Herzog and the Vermin of the Sky
2020-Nov-12
42 minutes
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Yuval Noah Harari Charts the Evolution of Homo Sapiens
2020-Nov-05
55 minutes
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Science Stands Up to Politics
2020-Oct-29
45 minutes
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Coronavirus: A Vaccine Maker Gets Personal
2020-Oct-27
38 minutes
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Why You're Worrying About the Wrong Technologies
2020-Oct-22
47 minutes
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The Asteroid Hunter Catches His Prey
2020-Oct-15
52 minutes
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Coronavirus: Killing Covid-19 at the Speed of (UV) Light
2020-Oct-13
28 minutes
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Supermodel Karlie Kloss Takes on Silicon Valley
2020-Oct-08
41 minutes
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Science is Racist. Here's How to Fix It.
2020-Oct-01
53 minutes
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Coronavirus: Dude, Where’s My Vaccine?
2020-Sep-29
27 minutes
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The Hidden Inventors Who Changed the World
2020-Sep-24
45 minutes
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Gene Editing and the Future of Us
2020-Sep-17
50 minutes
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Coronavirus: How Social Isolation Hurts Us — and How to Prevent It
2020-Sep-15
26 minutes
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Jane Fonda Fights Climate Change With Fire... Drills
2020-Sep-10
42 minutes
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Failed Stars and Other Strange New Worlds
2020-Sep-03
46 minutes
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Coronavirus: Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Testing
2020-Sep-01
31 minutes
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Bringing Psychology to Disney, Iraq, and You
2020-Aug-27
49 minutes
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Conspiracies? Fake News? We Connect the Dots
2020-Aug-20
48 minutes
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Coronavirus: Long-Term Health Effects
2020-Aug-18
25 minutes
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
2020-Aug-13
44 minutes
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Natalie Portman Is Keeping Science in the Family
2020-Aug-06
46 minutes
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Coronavirus: Back to School?
2020-Aug-04
34 minutes
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Architecture vs. Waste
2020-Jul-30
45 minutes
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Save the Bears, Save the World!
2020-Jul-23
44 minutes
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Coronavirus: Can a Stranger’s Blood Save Your Life?
2020-Jul-21
27 minutes
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The OTHER Microsoft Guy Who Wants to Save the World
2020-Jul-16
55 minutes
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Do You Need More Grit in Your Life?
2020-Jul-09
44 minutes
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Coronavirus: Got Pandemic Questions? We’ve Got Answers
2020-Jul-07
26 minutes
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How to Do Anything — With xkcd!
2020-Jul-02
43 minutes
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How We Humans Found Our Voices
2020-Jun-25
42 minutes
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Coronavirus: What Lies Ahead? It Depends
2020-Jun-23
30 minutes
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Coronavirus: Dr. Fauci’s Plan to Save the World
2020-Jun-11
23 minutes
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Coronavirus: To Protest or Not to Protest?
2020-Jun-05
31 minutes
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Coronavirus: Should We Let People Get Infected?
2020-Jun-02
30 minutes
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Coronavirus: A Vaccine Is Coming — But How, Where, and When?
2020-May-29
31 minutes
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Coronavirus: Contact Tracing 101
2020-May-27
22 minutes
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Coronavirus: So, What’s the Plan?
2020-May-22
23 minutes
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Coronavirus: Why Does This Keep Happening?
2020-May-19
25 minutes
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Coronavirus: Being Comfortable with Uncertainty
2020-May-15
20 minutes
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Coronavirus: The Search for Antiviral Drugs
2020-May-13
23 minutes
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Coronavirus: Facing Existential Crises
2020-May-08
26 minutes
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A 21-year-old’s Guide to Alien Worlds
2020-May-07
43 minutes
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Coronavirus: Who do you Believe?
2020-May-05
20 minutes
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Coronavirus: Too Soon for Nashville Nightlife?
2020-May-03
23 minutes
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Coronavirus: Should I Get an Antibody Test?
2020-May-01
21 minutes
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Breaking Scientific Barriers
2020-Apr-30
55 minutes
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Coronavirus: Racial Disparities of this Disease
2020-Apr-26
21 minutes
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Coronavirus: Busting Covid19 Myths
2020-Apr-24
24 minutes
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30 Years On, The Hubble Telescope Still Blows Our Minds
2020-Apr-23
53 minutes
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Coronavirus: The End of the Beginning Pt. 2
2020-Apr-21
20 minutes
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Coronavirus: Why Your Anxiety is Normal
2020-Apr-17
26 minutes
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Whatever The Question, Data Has The Answer
2020-Apr-16
44 minutes
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Coronavirus: The End of the Beginning Pt. 1
2020-Apr-14
18 minutes
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Coronavirus: Is Six Feet Enough?
2020-Apr-10
19 minutes
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The Wonder of Cephalopods
2020-Apr-09
49 minutes
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Coronavirus: A Vaccine, Then What?
2020-Apr-07
21 minutes
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Coronavirus: Shopping Safely
2020-Apr-04
21 minutes
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Coronavirus: The Economics of COVID-19
2020-Apr-03
20 minutes
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The Medicine of Regeneration
2020-Apr-02
42 minutes
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Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered
2020-Mar-31
21 minutes
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Coronavirus: What The Numbers Tell Us
2020-Mar-27
20 minutes
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Real Fears, Fake Risks
2020-Mar-26
44 minutes
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Coronavirus: Where Are The Tests?
2020-Mar-24
23 minutes
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Fires and Climate Change: A Vicious Cycle
2020-Mar-19
44 minutes
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Coronavirus: How Afraid Should You Be?
2020-Mar-12
47 minutes
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Can Carbon Capture Reverse Climate Change?
2020-Mar-05
28 minutes
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Wrestling with Einstein
2020-Feb-27
41 minutes
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Are We Still Evolving?
2020-Feb-20
35 minutes
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Your Relationship (With Your Germs)
2020-Feb-13
42 minutes
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The Mystery of Memory
2020-Feb-06
49 minutes
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Flight on an Alien Moon
2020-Jan-30
42 minutes
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To Have Kids Or Not To
2019-Dec-26
49 minutes
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Why Space Should Be Explored
2019-Dec-19
46 minutes
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Do Vitamins Even Do Anything?
2019-Dec-12
45 minutes
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The Secret To Your Diet
2019-Dec-05
43 minutes
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Energy & You
2019-Nov-28
47 minutes
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OMG, GMOs!
2019-Nov-21
47 minutes
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How To Be Happy
2019-Nov-14
47 minutes
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Underwater Clues About Aliens
2019-Nov-07
45 minutes
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The End of the World
2019-Oct-31
38 minutes
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What’s Clean, Green and Combats Climate Change?
2019-Oct-24
49 minutes
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Why There's Nothing Odd About Queer
2019-Oct-17
34 minutes
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Complete World Knowledge
2019-Oct-10
47 minutes
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The Story of Skin Color
2019-Oct-03
48 minutes
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Introducing Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi
2019-Sep-27
6 minutes
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Big Problems, Tiny Solutions
2019-Sep-26
52 minutes
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What's a Psychopath?
2019-Sep-19
51 minutes
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How to Survive Another Chernobyl
2019-Aug-22
44 minutes
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Machine Smarts
2019-Aug-15
45 minutes
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Are We Living in a Simulation?
2019-Aug-08
46 minutes
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What Evolution Wants
2019-Aug-01
34 minutes
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Your Climate Change Reality Check
2019-Jul-25
47 minutes
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Eating Like a Science Guy
2019-Jul-18
46 minutes
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Discover Your Reading Superpower with LeVar Burton
2019-Jul-11
39 minutes
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Are We Alone in the Universe?
2019-Jul-04
42 minutes
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Language Rules!
2019-Jun-27
45 minutes
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Loose Nukes? You Betcha
2019-Jun-20
47 minutes
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What's on Your Mind in That Brain of Yours?
2019-Jun-13
51 minutes
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Heredity & Me
2019-Jun-06
40 minutes
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How to Die Young at an Old Age
2019-May-30
46 minutes
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The Right Drug for the Right Bug
2019-May-23
41 minutes
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WE'RE ALL SCIENCE PEOPLE
2019-May-16
45 minutes
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Coming Soon: Science Rules!
2019-Apr-23
1 minute
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