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How Coffins Work

Episode Date: May 28, 2013

Sure, you've probably laid in one at the store or a funeral home, but how much do you know about receptacles used to bury the dead? We'll bet you'll l...

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How Police Chases Work

Episode Date: May 28, 2013

Entire TV shows are dedicated to them and Americans love to watch a live one, but police chases aren't as routine as they seem. While police assert ch...

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How PTSD Works

Episode Date: May 23, 2013

With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder the sufferer relives, over and over again, the worst moment of his life. What's worse is medicine still doesn't kn...

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How Cicadas Work

Episode Date: May 22, 2013

Cicadas are crawling out from underground, where they have been hiding in the darkness for almost two decades. As of May 2013, they're invading the Ea...

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How Aerosol Cans Work

Episode Date: May 16, 2013

In the 87 years since they were invented aerosol cans have protected soldiers, temporarily fixed flat tires, killed a boy who used too much deodorant...

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How Fair Trade Works

Episode Date: May 7, 2013

The West has gotten rich off the backs of underpaid labor living elsewhere; people who are dedicated to Fair Trade feel it's time people at a disadvan...

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What makes us yawn?

Episode Date: April 25, 2013

What is it that makes us suddenly draw in a deep breath through a wide-open mouth? The beautiful thing about yawning is that researchers really don't...

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How Magnets Work

Episode Date: April 23, 2013

You can stick them to the fridge or use them to transpose sound to tape, whatever they are used for magnets are surprisingly interesting. And knowing...

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How Marriage Works

Episode Date: April 16, 2013

You can tell a lot about a culture through marriage statistics: what age people get married, how many divorce, who is excluded from legal marriage. It...

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How Grief Works

Episode Date: April 4, 2013

You can probably name the five stages of grief - from denial to acceptance - they've become pretty well known since being proposed in 1969. But later...

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How No-fly Zones Work

Episode Date: March 29, 2013

They have become such a ubiquitous tool used by the UN and NATO to intervene in international crises, that it seems like no-fly zones have been around...

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How Apartheid Worked

Episode Date: March 19, 2013

After WWII, while the rest of the world grew more socially progressive, the government of South Africa turned inward to focus its attention on dominat...