SYSK Selects: How Breast Implants Work
In this week's SYSK Select episode, the first attempt at breast augmentation surgery was on a...
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SYSK Selects: What's the deal with Rasputin's death?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, Grigori Rasputin, the Russian charismatic cleric and...
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SYSK Selects: How HeLa Cells Work
In this week's SYSK Select episode, after she was diagnosed with the cervical cancer that shortly...
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SYSK Selects: Why can't we find Amelia Earhart?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance in 1937 is a...
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In this week's SYSK Select episode, at long last, Josh and Chuck take on perhaps their most...
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SYSK Selects: Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, for decades, Scooby Doo has captivated children across the...
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SYSK Selects: Why isn't the U.S. on the metric system?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, the U.S. stands proudly defiant and the world looks at...
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In today's SYSK Select episode, fly, robin, fly indeed. No musical genre has risen and burned out...
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SYSK Selects: Why do men have nipples?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, they’re always right there, taunting you: why do you have me,...
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SYSK Selects: How McCarthyism Works
In this week's SYSK Select episode, if you're accusing someone of disloyalty or subversion...
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SYSK Selects: Is Stockholm Syndrome real?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, since a hostage standoff in Sweden took place in 1972 a...
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SYSK Selects: How Handwriting Analysis Works
In this week's SYSK Select episode, one of the fields of forensic investigation, handwriting...
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SYSK Selects: What was the most peaceful time in history?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, there's a lot of debate about whether pre-agricultural humans...
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SYSK Selects: The Cheesiest SYSK Episode Ever
In this week's SYSK Select episode, cheese is often overlooked as a one of humanity's great...
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SYSK Selects: How Filibusters Work
In this week's SYSK Select episode, although lots of people incorrectly believe the filibuster...
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SYSK Selects: Can you die of a broken heart?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, in the early 1990s, Japanese researchers found a strange...
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SYSK Selects: Can you die of a broken heart?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, in the early 1990s, Japanese researchers found a strange...
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SYSK Selects: Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar
In this week's SYSK Select episode, studies find that absolutely everyone lies – some have found...
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SYSK Selects: Gesundheit! How Allergies Work
In this week's SYSK Select episode, about 30-40 percent of humans suffer from some sort of...
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SYSK Selects: What's the 10,000 Year Clock?
In this week's SYSK Select episode, in a desert in Texas a 200-feet-tall clock is being...
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