How many seasons does Be Smart have?

Be Smart has 14 seasons with 416 episodes.

When did Be Smart premiere?

Be Smart premiered on January 28, 2013.

Be Smart

Name: Be Smart
Cast: Joe Hanson

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14 Seasons · 416 Episodes · Premiered January 28, 2013

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 2013

25 episodes

E01

What's The Most Successful Species on Earth?

Mon, Jan 28 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

The Odds of Finding Life and Love

Mon, Feb 11 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

The Science and Beauty of Auroras

Mon, Feb 25 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Why is the Sky Any Color?

Mon, Mar 11 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

You Are Mainly Microbe!

Mon, Mar 25 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

Are You Sharing a Breath With Isaac Newton?

Mon, Apr 8 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

How Bees Can See the Invisible

Mon, Apr 22 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Why Does Music Move Us?

Wed, May 8 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

Making Music from Space!

Mon, May 20 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

Why Does the Wind Blow?

Mon, Jun 3 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Paying Attention in the Digital Age

Mon, Jun 17 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

The Science of Rainbows

Mon, Jul 1 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

How Big Is the Solar System?

Mon, Jul 15 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Nature's Most Amazing Animal Superpowers

Wed, Aug 7 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

There Are Millions of Skeletons Hidden In Washington, DC

Mon, Sep 9 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

Why Do We Go to Space?

Mon, Sep 23 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

Evolution: The Book Of Life

Mon, Oct 7 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Why Do Things Sound Scary?

Mon, Oct 28 2013 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

Do the Nobel Prizes Still Make Sense in the 21st Century?

Mon, Nov 4 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

Remembering Carl Sagan

Mon, Nov 18 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

Ghosts of Evolution

Mon, Nov 25 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

Exoplanets: Are There Other Earths?

Mon, Dec 2 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E23

Is There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?

Mon, Dec 9 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E24

How To Read Science News

Thu, Dec 19 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E25

Why Do We Cook?

Mon, Dec 23 2013 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2014

47 episodes

Season 2015

61 episodes

E01

Does My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?

Mon, Jan 5 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

How Many Smells Can You Smell?

Mon, Jan 12 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

There's No Such Thing As Cold

Mon, Jan 19 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!

Mon, Jan 26 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

What is Déjà Vu?!

Mon, Feb 2 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

How Many Heartbeats Do We Get?

Mon, Feb 9 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

Why Vaccines Work

Mon, Feb 16 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Why Does February Only Have 28 Days?

Mon, Feb 23 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

Attack of the Zombie Parasites!

Mon, Mar 2 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

What Color is the Universe?

Mon, Mar 16 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

How Many Stars Are There?

Mon, Mar 23 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

%$?# Allergies!

Mon, Mar 30 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

The Recipe For Life…

Mon, Apr 6 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Antibiotic Resistance and the Rise of Superbugs

Wed, Apr 15 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

Is Ultron Inevitable?

Fri, Apr 24 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

Could We Clone Ourselves?

Mon, May 4 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

What's The Loudest Possible Sound?

Mon, May 11 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?

Mon, May 18 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

The Essentials of Energy

Tue, May 26 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

When Will We Stop Using Oil?

Fri, May 29 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

The Surprising Places We Waste Energy

Mon, Jun 1 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

Did Dinosaurs Really Go Extinct?

Mon, Jun 8 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E23

WHICH CAME FIRST - FLOWERS OR BEES?

Mon, Jun 15 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E24

Why Are The Bees Dying?

Mon, Jun 22 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E25

How Thomas Jefferson Saved America With a Dead Moose

Mon, Jun 29 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E26

How Does A Canyon Become Grand?

Mon, Jul 6 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E27

Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Wed, Jul 15 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E28

Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?

Mon, Jul 20 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E29

Why Do We Laugh?

Mon, Jul 27 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E30

What is Fire?

Mon, Aug 3 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E31

What Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?

Tue, Aug 11 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E32

Amazing Facts About Whales!

Mon, Aug 24 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E33

How Humans Ruined and Rescued an Ocean Paradise

Fri, Aug 28 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E34

Cuttlefish - Tentacles In Disguise

Sat, Aug 29 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E35

My Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!

Sun, Aug 30 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E36

Are Jellyfish the Weirdest Animals In the Ocean?

Mon, Aug 31 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E37

8 Incredible Deep Sea Oddities!

Tue, Sep 1 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E38

Inside an ADORABLE Sea Otter Adoption Program!

Thu, Sep 3 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E39

Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… EXPLAINED!

Mon, Sep 21 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E40

Why Do We Have To Sleep?

Mon, Sep 28 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E41

El Niño and Why It's So Hard To Predict the Weather

Mon, Oct 5 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E42

What Color Is The Moon?

Mon, Oct 12 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E43

How To Hit A Fastball (According to Science!!!)

Mon, Oct 19 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E44

Do Other Animals Mourn Their Dead? (ft. BrainCraft and Gross Science!)

Mon, Oct 26 2015 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E45

Explaining Lunar Eclipses and the SUPER BLOOD MOON!

Mon, Nov 2 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E46

Riding In a Hot Air Balloon Shaped Like a Pig… For SCIENCE

Tue, Nov 10 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E47

How The Placebo Effect Tricks Your Brain

Mon, Nov 16 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E48

Can Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change #OursToLose

Mon, Nov 23 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E49

Could Planet Minecraft Actually Exist

Mon, Nov 30 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E50

What Is Evolution, Anyway - 12 Days of Evolution #1

Mon, Dec 14 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E51

Is Evolution Random - 12 Days of Evolution #2

Tue, Dec 15 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E52

Have We Ever Seen Evolution Happen - 12 Days of Evolution #3

Wed, Dec 16 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E53

Can Evolution Make an Eye - 12 Days of Evolution #4

Thu, Dec 17 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E54

Have We Ever Seen A New Species Arise - 12 Days of Evolution #5

Fri, Dec 18 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E55

Evolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6

Sat, Dec 19 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E56

Why Do Men Have Nipples - 12 Days of Evolution #7

Sun, Dec 20 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E57

Does Evolution Violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - 12 Days of Evolution #8

Mon, Dec 21 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E58

Can Evolution Create Information - 12 Days of Evolution #9

Tue, Dec 22 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E59

Why Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10

Wed, Dec 23 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E60

Are Humans Still Evolving - 12 Days of Evolution #11

Thu, Dec 24 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E61

Does Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12

Fri, Dec 25 2015 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2016

43 episodes

Season 2017

43 episodes

Season 2018

37 episodes

Season 2019

33 episodes

E01

Is There Life on Earth?

Thu, Feb 7 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

The Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time

Tue, Feb 12 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

Are You Afraid of Holes?

Wed, Feb 27 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Where Do You Weigh The Most?

Tue, Mar 5 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

Why Are So Many People Allergic To Food?

Wed, Mar 20 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

How to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!

Tue, Apr 2 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

Decoding the Great Monarch Butterfly Migration

Tue, Apr 9 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Migration in VR180

Tue, Apr 9 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

Why We Get Dizzy (…and Astronauts Don't)

Fri, Apr 26 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

How To Drink Coffee In Space

Fri, May 3 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Where Your Eye Color Comes From… SurprEYESing Science!

Sat, May 18 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

How To Make One Million Species Disappear

Fri, May 24 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

See INSIDE a Chrysalis! - Painting Wings with CRISPR

Tue, Jun 18 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Could You Be a Chimera?

Fri, Jun 21 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

Seeing a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope - STELLAR

Wed, Jul 3 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

Apollo's Most Important Discovery (Inside NASA's Moon Rock Vault!)

Tue, Jul 9 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

Why We Are Losing the Night Sky

Sun, Jul 14 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Is This Why We Haven't Found Alien Civilizations? - STELLAR

Mon, Jul 22 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

Do Trees Talk?

Sat, Jul 27 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

How Blind People See With Sound…

Sat, Aug 10 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?

Mon, Aug 19 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!

Fri, Sep 6 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E23

Money Is A Technological Fiction (The Invention of $$$)

Sun, Sep 29 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E24

What's In a 20,000 Year-Old Cube of Ice?

Mon, Oct 7 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E25

This Face Changes the Human Story

Mon, Oct 21 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E26

What Would Trees Look Like On Other Planets?

Fri, Oct 25 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E27

IN YOUR FACE EXPLOSIVE CHEMISTRY!! (VR180)

Sat, Nov 2 2019 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E28

What Color Is A Banana?

Sat, Nov 9 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E29

Evolution FAILS in the Human Body

Tue, Nov 19 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E30

I Ate Worms! Trying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs

Sat, Nov 23 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E31

Recycling Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.

Tue, Dec 10 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E32

The Strange (Unexpected) Reason Ice is Slippery

Tue, Dec 17 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E33

Why We Should Put Rockets On the Moon

Mon, Dec 30 2019 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2020

25 episodes

E01

3 Ways Trees Can Save the Climate (With Our Help)

Tue, Feb 11 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

Can Supercrops Feed 10 BILLION People?

Wed, Feb 19 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

Humans Are Smart. Why Are Babies So Unsmart?

Tue, Feb 25 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think. Here's Why…

Tue, Mar 3 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

Fixing Daylight Saving Time Is THIS Easy

Tue, Mar 10 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19

Tue, Mar 17 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

Why Soap Is Still Our Best Weapon Against the Coronavirus

Wed, Mar 25 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Why the Heck Are We Ticklish?

Tue, Apr 14 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

Fly Through a Nebula 163,000 Light Years Away (30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope)

Sat, Apr 25 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

How Evolution Made COVID-19 Our Perfect Enemy (and Why We'll Beat It)

Wed, May 6 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Counting the Species in my Backyard… for SCIENCE!

Tue, May 19 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

Why Do Other Animals Keep Giving Us Viruses?

Wed, Jun 3 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly?

Tue, Jun 9 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

What Is A Dinosaur And What Isn't?

Tue, Jun 23 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

How Well Do Masks Work? (Schlieren Imaging In Slow Motion!)

Sat, Jul 4 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED!

Thu, Jul 23 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

Why Is Our Skeleton On the Inside?

Tue, Jul 28 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Why a Tuesday Can Feel Like July and Sometimes Never (How We Perceive Time)

Tue, Sep 1 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

The Fastest Animals Are Way Faster Than You Think

Sun, Sep 13 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

4 Ways to End the Universe

Tue, Oct 13 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

The Secret Behind a Gecko's Gravity-Defying Grip

Sat, Oct 31 2020 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

Why Are There 7 Days In a Week?

Mon, Nov 9 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E23

The SHOCKING Truth About Ben Franklin and the Kite

Wed, Nov 18 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E24

Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine

Tue, Dec 8 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E25

Why the Heck Is Glass Transparent?

Wed, Dec 23 2020 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2021

18 episodes

E01

Why Do We Lie?

Mon, Jan 11 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 17 min

Everyone lies. Even you and even me. We lie about small things and we lie about big things. We lie to help ourselves and we lie to protect others. Powerful people lie, all the way down to little kids telling fibs. Why do we do this if we're supposed to be the most socially developed species on Earth? Why can't we tell the truth? Are we doomed to lie? Well, maybe. Here's why.

E02

Visualizing Herd Immunity (with 500 Mousetraps!)

Thu, Feb 4 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 15 min

Since the start of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the term "herd immunity" has been all over the news. But what does it really mean? One thing most people don't realize about vaccines is that they aren't just to protect the person who gets the shot. They also protect the population as a whole, even people who didn't get the shot. We use mousetraps & ping-pong balls to show you how that works.

E03

When Is Now?

Mon, Feb 15 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 20 min

When is now? Seems like a pretty simple question… just look at your watch. But do you and I share the same "now"? Let's journey from Einstein's thought experiments about relativity to cutting-edge neuroscience research to try and answer that question.

E04

The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

Wed, Mar 10 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 23 min

The golden ratio. Some say it's the most mythical number in the universe. Others say it underlies everything from nature's patterns to beauty in art and design. But, like, what is it? And does the myth of the golden ratio hold up to its mathematical reality? Let's find out.

E05

What is Impossible in Evolution?

Wed, Mar 17 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 19 min

Could humans ever evolve to have wings? Why don't fish have propellers? Why don't tigers have wheels? Why don't zebras have laser turrets? These might all seem like stupid questions (and maybe they are!) but they can teach us a lot about how evolution actually works, and how it doesn't work.

E06

The Transcontinental Burrito Hypertunnel

Thu, Apr 1 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 12 min

The finest burritos in the world are made in San Francisco's Mission District. But how can you get a hot & fresh one in New York City in time for lunch? Physics, that's how. For this very serious and scientific video, we dug a classic documentary out of the vault that tells the story of the transcontinental burrito tunnel, and its successor, the transcontinental burrito hypertunnel.

E07

How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them)

Mon, Apr 19 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 13 min

Ocean currents are our planet's circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we're changing Earth in ways that threaten to disrupt and even break critical ocean currents like the planet-wide Great Ocean Conveyor. We explain how ocean currents work, how climate change is threatening to disrupt them, and what we can do to stop that from happening.

E08

Why Are We Warm-Blooded?

Tue, May 4 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 11 min

A human with the metabolism of a hummingbird would need to eat about 80,000 calories a day to survive. That's because staying warm by making your own heat takes a ton of energy; creating your own body heat is incredibly expensive. So, why aren't cold-blooded… like crocodiles? Here's the science.

E09

The Shocking Way Your Body Makes Electricity

Wed, Jun 2 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 19 min

How do neurons actually work? Maybe you've heard that it involves electricity, but does that mean you've got little zaps and lightning bolts running through your veins like Pikachu? Don't worry, here we are to set you straight on what a neuron is, what an action potential is, and how fast your nervous system really communicates.

E10

A Brief (Scientific) History of Butts

Wed, Jun 30 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 12 min

Hold on to your butts. This episode is about… butts. The science and evolutionary history of your rear end, the down-low on your derriere, shining a little light where the sun don't shine… you get the picture. But(t) seriously, we don't talk about this all-important hole enough, and how, from an evolutionary perspective, it might be the most important orifice on your body.

E11

Why Is Sex a Thing?

Fri, Jul 30 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 13 min

Why does sex exist? You might think the obvious answer is "reproduction" but there are plenty of organisms on Earth that don't require sex to reproduce. And the more that scientists examined sex, the more they realized that it's an expensive and inefficient way to get your genes to the next generation. The true purpose of sex is actually one of the longest-standing mysteries in biology.

E12

How Much Of You Is Alive?

Tue, Sep 7 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 12 min

Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you are dying. Some of your cells even died before you were born. And some will never come back. These are all very strange, mildly uncomfortable things to think about. And what's even stranger than that is a big fraction of your body is, was, and will never be alive. So how much of you is dead?

E13

This Simple Code Is Behind Nature's Most Complex Patterns

Wed, Sep 22 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 13 min

Would you believe the answer is… math? This is the story of a WWII wartime codebreaker and his quest to decode nature's most beautiful patterns. Alan Turing uncovered a simple code that explains everything from stripes to spots and all the patterns in between… he was just too far ahead of his time. Only recently have biologists found evidence that his pattern-forming system.

E14

I Can't Believe We're Making Another COVID Video

Fri, Oct 8 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 16 min

After a year and a half, we are still experiencing the effects Covid. Let's see where we are now.

E15

Sand Dunes Shouldn't Exist (Here's Why They Do)

Wed, Oct 20 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 16 min

How can sand, blown by the wind, form such intricate and beautiful patterns as ripples and dunes? The answer is a surprising secret of self-organization. In this video, we travel to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado to climb the largest sand dunes in North America and bring you the science of how wind and sand combine to create ordered landforms out of chaos. The science must flow.

E16

Inside the Largest Living Thing On Earth!

Sat, Nov 6 2021 4:00 PM GMT+0000 9 min

The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth… is a tree? Hard to believe, but it's true. Travel with me to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to go inside the most massive species on our planet, and learn what unique and special evolutionary adaptations let them get so big.

E17

What Is Nothing?

Tue, Nov 23 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 14 min

is zero something even if it's nothing? Is nothing just an idea? And if nothing is the opposite of something, does it actually exist?

E18

Why Do We Dream?

Wed, Dec 22 2021 5:00 PM GMT+0000 14 min

It would be a lot easier to study the science of dreaming if we weren't asleep every time we did it. Why do we dream? What does dreaming do for our brains? How did dreaming evolve? Here's a look at the current theories from psychology and neuroscience.

Season 2022

22 episodes

E01

Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?

Thu, Jan 6 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

Here's What I Learned From Getting COVID

Tue, Jan 25 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

The Weird Brain Illusion That Makes Movies Work

Tue, Feb 1 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

How Do We Read? It's Magic (Almost)

Tue, Feb 15 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

What's Actually on the Other Side of a Mirror?

Thu, Mar 3 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

How Evolution Beat Cancer (…for Whales at Least)

Tue, Mar 22 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

Can Life Really Be Explained By Physics?

Fri, Apr 8 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Can Illusions Teach Us How the Mind Works?

Tue, Apr 26 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

Are Humans Still Evolving?

Thu, May 19 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

This Machine Makes 300+ km/h Winds (INDOOR HURRICANE!)

Thu, Jun 2 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Why You Can't Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You)

Tue, Jun 21 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove a Point)

Wed, Jul 6 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

Why No One Can Agree What's REALLY the Tallest Mountain

Fri, Jul 22 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Why is Puberty so Weird?

Thu, Aug 4 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

The Crime Wave We Can Blame on… Neutron Stars?

Tue, Aug 23 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

The Biggest Myth About Climate Change

Thu, Sep 15 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

The Unbelievable Story of Earth's Most Epic Flood

Tue, Oct 11 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Why 8 Eyes Are Better Than 2 (...If You're a Spider)

Tue, Oct 25 2022 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

How We Solved the Greatest Riddle In Navigation

Tue, Nov 8 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

The Unexpected Measure that Makes the Modern World Tick

Tue, Nov 22 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

In Search of the Blackest Thing on Earth

Tue, Dec 6 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

Why Embarrassment Is Actually GOOD For You

Tue, Dec 20 2022 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2023

22 episodes

E01

The Evolutionary Purpose of Fun

Tue, Jan 31 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

The Dark Room Where Science Was Invented

Tue, Feb 14 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

The Beautiful Science of Iridescence

Tue, Feb 28 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Can We Solve the Air Conditioning Paradox?

Tue, Mar 14 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

Why Does Every Animal Look Like This?

Tue, Mar 28 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

The Mystery Behind Earth's Most Epic Migration

Wed, Apr 19 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

How To Go Faster Than Light Speed

Thu, May 4 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Why Y Is a Vowel (and so is W) According to Physics

Tue, May 16 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change

Thu, Jun 1 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

The Deadly Chemistry That Made Life Interesting

Thu, Jun 15 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

From Lab to Table: I Tasted the World's First Cultivated Meat!

Tue, Jun 27 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

How Scorpions Became Earth's Ultimate Survivors

Tue, Jul 11 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

The Truth About Butterfly Metamorphosis (It's VERY WEIRD)

Tue, Jul 25 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Why ROYGBIV is Wrong

Thu, Aug 10 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

The Biggest Myth About Innovation

Tue, Aug 22 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

What Is the Most Average Thing?

Thu, Sep 7 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

Why Are We So Obsessed With X?

Thu, Sep 21 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

The Strange Psychology of Superfans

Thu, Oct 5 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

CRASH TEST Science! (Hacking Physics To Save Lives)

Thu, Oct 19 2023 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E20

Can a Billion Oysters Save New York City?

Thu, Nov 30 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E21

How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever

Thu, Dec 14 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E22

I Don't Know How to Feel About 2023

Thu, Dec 21 2023 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2024

19 episodes

E01

Maybe We've Already Made First Contact…

Mon, Jan 15 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

Why NASA Punched an Asteroid

Thu, Jan 25 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

This Is How We'll Clean Up Space Junk

Thu, Feb 15 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Big Deal

Thu, Mar 7 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

How the Heck Do you Measure an Entire UNIVERSE?

Wed, Apr 10 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

Can Humans Talk to Whales? This Might Let Us...

Sun, Apr 21 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

Computers Can Predict When You're Going to Die… Here's How

Thu, May 9 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

The Surprising Power of Sex in Evolution

Thu, May 23 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers

Thu, Jun 20 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning…

Thu, Jul 18 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Why Do We See Faces In Everything?

Thu, Aug 1 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System

Thu, Aug 15 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

Why Do We HATE Certain Sounds?

Wed, Sep 4 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

Why Do We Vote? It's Not For the Reasons You Think…

Thu, Sep 26 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

Why Don't Humans Hibernate?

Thu, Oct 10 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E16

Camouflage Isn't What It Appears To Be

Thu, Oct 31 2024 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E17

How To Turn Dead People Into Diamonds

Thu, Nov 21 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E18

Why Useless Knowledge Can Be So Useful

Thu, Dec 19 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E19

What Synesthesia Feels Like

Mon, Dec 30 2024 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2025

15 episodes

E01

The Weird Science That Lets Insects Fly in the Rain

Fri, Feb 21 2025 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

Why Your Grandma Is an Evolutionary Mystery

Fri, Mar 21 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

What's inside the oldest rocks in the world?

Mon, Mar 31 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

Photosynthesis Has a Fatal Flaw (and We Can Fix It)

Thu, Apr 24 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

I Talked to the Scientists Who (Maybe) Brought Back the Dire Wolf

Thu, May 8 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

What could we see with a planet-sized telescope?

Tue, May 27 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E07

The Dinosaur Dilemma That Darwin Couldn't Solve

Thu, Jun 19 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E08

Why Are Blood Types a Thing?

Thu, Jul 10 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E09

The Randomness Crisis Threatening the Internet

Thu, Jul 31 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E10

Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen

Thu, Aug 21 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E11

Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (It's Not What You Think)

Thu, Oct 2 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E12

Something Weird Is Going On With Mars' Sunsets

Thu, Oct 23 2025 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E13

Did I Make This Video to Debunk Your Biology Class?

Thu, Nov 13 2025 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E14

The Day That Ended the Dinosaurs (Moment by Moment)

Thu, Dec 4 2025 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E15

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Alpha Males

Thu, Dec 18 2025 5:00 PM GMT+0000

Season 2026

6 episodes

E01

Why Everything You Taste Is a Trick

Thu, Jan 15 2026 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E02

The Intelligence Test Where Ants Beat Humans

Thu, Feb 5 2026 5:00 PM GMT+0000

E03

The Color You Were Born to Obey

Tue, Mar 10 2026 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E04

You've Been Lied to About DNA Evidence

Tue, Mar 31 2026 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E05

Something Strange Happens When You Flatten the Earth…

Tue, Apr 21 2026 4:00 PM GMT+0000

E06

Infinity isn't a number. Its something much weirder.

Thu, May 14 2026 4:00 PM GMT+0000

Cast

Joe Hanson as Host