General Knowledge
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Do You Really Have Two Brains?
Does being creative means you are “right-brained”? Or if you like math and science, are you definitely “left-brained”? More importantly,…
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Which Came First – Flowers or Bees?
] Here’s a riddle: Roses are red, violets are blue, flowers need bees, but bees need flowers too. These two…
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The Amazing Science of… Dust?
Today on It’s Okay To Be Smart, we’re gonna do a little bit of spring cleaning. [cough] I just cleaned…
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How Did We Figure Out What Light Is?
If a light is on and no one is around to see it, is anything actually lit up? The ancient…
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How to See Time Travel!!!
Right now we’re sitting in the middle of a storm. Not rain, though. There’s an invisible shower of subatomic particles…
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The Essentials of Energy
Nuclear or solar? Fracking or tar sands? Pipelines or no pipelines? And what the heck is a kilowatt-hour anyway? Confused?…
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Orchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
In 1879, when James Hingsley returned to Australia from Indonesia he brought back tales of an orchid that engulfed butterflies…
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How Many Trees Are There?
This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. [MUSIC] The world’s tallest tree reaches 380 feet into the sky. One…
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23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
2016, you were a [bleep], i mean a real [bleep], right in the [bleep]. Geopolitical upheaval, record temperatures, Brexit, Aleppo,…
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A Brief History Of Time(keeping)
A long time ago on a far-away island, the people kept time by sunrise, sunset, and the cannon. Every day…
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