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2413 episodes transcribedWe love animals. A lot. Especially underrated ones like the darling porcupine. Listen in to this classic episode to learn all about these stabby littl...
If you're from the American South, then kudzu is something that cannot be avoided. But how did this invasive species get here and why does it love to...
The process of redacting sensitive information is long and storied. But are there even any rules that apply to when and how it's done? See omnystudio....
You might have owned the Anarchist Cookbook once, but you probably didn’t use it to turn a shotgun into a grenade launcher or build a bomb. Unfortunat...
Paramedics are not EMTs. Or fire fighters. Or cops. But they do ride around in ambulances (and drive) to help to save lives. It's a stressful job and...
The story of the Swatch is super cool and one of the great retail successes. Listen in today to find out just why a country known for the finest craft...
In another chapter of our continuing mysteries of the sea theme, we deliver a truly baffling mystery involving a ship that was lost and found, which b...
Gobekli Tepe is a profoundly ancient spiritual site that shouldn’t exist, according to conventional wisdom. The massive site of columns and pictograms...
In 1962, three ordinary criminals transcended into folk heroes when they crawled out of their cells in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to the water...
The Lysol we know now is sold as disinfectant only. But at one time it was also marketed as a means of birth control. Listen in today to the twisted h...
What we equate with acid, hippies, and garish polyester prints actually began as a theatrical way of protesting bans on free speech and the Vietnam Wa...
As far as we know life evolved once in the universe – here on Earth in the form of life as we know it. Could life have originated in other conditions...
Rosa Parks finishes out our Black History Month episodes in grand fashion. While most know her from that fateful day on the Montgomery city bus, she a...
A greatest hit of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s came when the metal band Judas Priest was put on trial for the suicides of two teens. While the case...
We love our ghost ships here at SYSK and this is one of the better ones. But did it really even exist? Not likely. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
Glasses as we know them have only been around for a few hundred years. So what did people do before this? And how did things change once spectacles we...
Every year Congress decides how the federal government will spend money. Simple enough, but in practice politics tend to mess it up. Sometimes it gets...
There's a good chance that if you don't live in San Antonio, Texas, you may not know who scientist/adventurer Tom Slick is. Today we tackle the story...
The Killing Stone looms large in Japanese folklore, so when it split in half in March 2022, people were worried it would bring devastating effects in...
What if science could create a drug that made you connect with people more deeply, let your emotions flow more openly, and sparked love and attachment...
