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How Income Taxes Work

Episode Date: April 3, 2014

They are among the more reviled concepts of modern life, and yet they are as inevitable as death. Join Josh and Chuck as they look into the history an...

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How 3D Printing Works

Episode Date: April 1, 2014

With 3D printing you can print not just pictures and words, but actual objects from files. And as costs come down, the list of things you can print ex...

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How Landslides Work

Episode Date: March 27, 2014

Landslides are a form of mass movement of the Earth, and with the amount of death and destruction they wreak on the people and towns they cover, their...

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How Amnesia Works

Episode Date: March 26, 2014

Those movies where someone gets hit on the head and can't remember who they are anymore? They're actually not too far off from the reality of amnesia....

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How Electricity Works

Episode Date: March 20, 2014

It is literally all around you (and even inside you) - electricity makes up the basis of modern life. But what exactly is electricity and how does it...

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How Black Boxes Work

Episode Date: March 13, 2014

Black boxes are designed to be the only survivor of plane crashes so they can live to tell the tale of what went wrong to prevent future accidents. Le...

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How Skateboarding Works

Episode Date: March 11, 2014

Skateboarding started out as something bored surfers did when the waves weren't breaking, but after a few improvements to the design, it took off like...

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How Online Dating Works

Episode Date: March 6, 2014

No longer weird, possibly still desperate and approaching normal, online dating's been around almost as long as the Internet itself. So what exactly i...

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How Amputation Works

Episode Date: February 20, 2014

Amputation is one of the oldest surgeries and an even older punishment for crime, but it wasn't until the American Civil War and its 50,000 amputation...

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How Salt Works

Episode Date: February 18, 2014

A Roman senator once said, "Mankind can live without gold, but not without salt." Right he was. The human body needs salt so much we have developed a...

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How Cave Dwellers Work

Episode Date: February 13, 2014

You know the cavemen, a race of human cousins who lived exclusively in caves? They didn't exist. Sure prehistoric hominids used caves sometimes but th...

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How Sign Language Works

Episode Date: February 7, 2014

It wasn't until the was developed and despite its co-existence alongside English, a user would be hard-pressed to sign with a British person. Find ou...