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2540 episodes transcribedIn this week's SYSK Select episode, perhaps you equate the term to conspiracy theories and Holocaust denials, but revisionism is a genuine discipline...
When the immune system mistakes the tissue covering neural connections as foreign invaders, the result can devastate the body. There is hope, however,...
Until recently, most people probably never paid much attention to the National Security Council. It's been around a long time though, and the presiden...
In this week's SYSK Select episode, the first attempt at breast augmentation surgery was on a dog. The second on a woman who went in for tattoo remova...
Swearing is something that's been done across all cultures, virtually since humans began speaking. What is it about these taboo words that offend some...
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In this week's SYSK Select episode, studies find that absolutely everyone lies - some have found as much as a quarter of our daily interactions involv...
Until recently, volcanologists thought supervolcanoes were simply massive volcanoes. But further research has revealed that they are far different - a...
Being nominated as a Supreme Court Justice is no small thing, and it doesn't always go as planned. With this week's confirmation of Justice Gorsuch, J...
In this week's SYSK Select episode, in the early 1990s, Japanese researchers found a strange anomaly in their study subjects, five people who had inex...
Empathy can often be confused with sympathy and regular old compassion. But it's not exactly either one of those. Some say a lack of empathy can indic...
You may think composting is just a bunch of old banana peels rotting away into dirt but, friend, you're not looking closely enough. Inside that compos...
In this week's SYSK Select episode, although lots of people incorrectly believe the filibuster was an intentional rule created by the founders of the...
The Shroud of Turin is no ordinary bed sheet. Some think it's the burial cloth of Jesus. Others think it's an amazing piece of artwork. The truth is,...
Foreign accent syndrome isn't when your mom talks funny when she goes abroad. It's an actual condition where people wake up one day with an entirely d...
If you’re out there, Elon Musk, this one’s for you (although you already know everything in this episode). Everybody else, buckle in and sit back for...
In our continuing exploration of crime and punishment, we take a look at the practice of solitary confinement. To be sure, it has its place in prisons...
There was a time when the lower classes of the American South were considered lazy and dimwitted, a stereotype that still somewhat survives today. But...
Pain is subjective; it is whatever the person experiencing it says it is. But to effectively treat pain, it helps to quantify it, which is why medicin...
In the second of two parts, what was once a voluntary resettlement program becomes a violent, forced relocation under the leadership of President Andr...
