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**Stuff You Should Know**

If you’ve ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

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Short Stuff: Laughing Buddha Dec 12, 2018

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Did you know that the friendly, smiling Buddha we all know from bars and restaurants isn't really Buddha?

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How Ayahuasca Works Dec 11, 2018

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One day in the Amazon Basin, a shaman put together a plant containing DMT with a vine that allows the body to absorb DMT. The combination, a foul-tasting, wildly hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca, has changed cultures throughout the Americas.

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SYSK Selects: That Dang-old Goat Fell Over Dec 08, 2018

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Due to a condition known as Thomsen's disease, the muscles of fainting goats tense up whenever the animal is startled. In this episode, Josh and Chuck break down the science behind this bizarre condition.

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Was the PMRC censorship in disguise? Dec 06, 2018

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The Parents Music Resource Center in the 1980s was really just censorship in disguise. But it kind of backfired. Learn all about Tipper Gore's crusade in today's episode.

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Short Stuff: Dolphin Detectors Dec 05, 2018

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They don’t actually disarm mines, but navies around the world use dolphins to find and tag sea mines so humans can disarm the mines themselves. But even if it’s safe, is it ethical?

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How Search and Rescue Dogs Work Dec 04, 2018

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All dogs are great, but some dogs work harder than others. Or play harder, depending on your view. Learn all about the good boys and girls who find lost people and recover bodies to bring humans peace and closure.

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SYSK Selects: Can Your Grandfather's Diet Shorten Your Life? Dec 01, 2018

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Epigenetics is a fascinating field of genetics that studies how the epigenome and environmental, nutritional and social factors affect gene expression. Josh and Chuck explain how epigenetics works in this episode.

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Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry Nov 29, 2018

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Join Josh and Chuck today as they go down the sport shoe rabbit hole, detailing the strange tail of the brothers who brought Puma and Adidas to the world. Sibling rivalry, Nazis, shoes - there's a lot to unpack here.

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Short Stuff: iSmell Nov 28, 2018

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Two men once had a dream - to add smell to the internet. And they almost gave it to us.

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How the Navajo Code Talkers Worked Nov 27, 2018

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In WWII the US Marines devised an unbreakable code-within-a-code made from Navajo, one of the most linguistically difficult languages in the world. A handful of Navajos sent messages on the frontlines in a language they’d been forbidden to speak as school kids.

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