List of Stuff You Should Know episodes (2012)

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This is a list of episodes from 2012 for the Stuff You Should Know podcast

Contents

2012 season

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TitleLengthOriginal air date
386 [1] 1"How Yo-Yos Work"31 minutesJanuary 3, 2012 (2012-01-03)
387 [2] 2"Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?"38 minutesJanuary 5, 2012 (2012-01-05)
388 [3] 3"Can you vacation in Antarctica?"36 minutesJanuary 10, 2012 (2012-01-10)
389 [4] 4"What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?"44 minutesJanuary 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)
390 [5] 5"Are contrails actually chemtrails?"32 minutesJanuary 17, 2012 (2012-01-17)
391 [6] 6"How Mexican Wrestling Works"40 minutesJanuary 19, 2012 (2012-01-19)
392 [7] 7"How Human Trafficking Works"34 minutesJanuary 24, 2012 (2012-01-24)
393 [8] 8"How Floods Work"32 minutesJanuary 26, 2012 (2012-01-26)
394 [9] 9"How Magic Mushrooms Work"50 minutesJanuary 31, 2012 (2012-01-31)
395 [10] 10"What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?"46 minutesFebruary 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)
396 [11] 11"Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?"32 minutesFebruary 7, 2012 (2012-02-07)
397 [12] 12"How Coral Reefs Work"35 minutesFebruary 9, 2012 (2012-02-09)
398 [13] 13"How Zero Works"30 minutesFebruary 14, 2012 (2012-02-14)
399 [14] 14"How Autopsies Work"49 minutesFebruary 16, 2012 (2012-02-16)
400 [15] 15"How Spies Work"43 minutesFebruary 21, 2012 (2012-02-21)
401 [16] 16"Fasting: deadly or what?"34 minutesFebruary 23, 2012 (2012-02-23)
402 [17] 17"How Crying Works"39 minutesFebruary 28, 2012 (2012-02-28)
403 [18] 18"How SETI Works"38 minutesMarch 1, 2012 (2012-03-01)
404 [19] 19"Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet"42 minutesMarch 6, 2012 (2012-03-06)
405 [20] 20"How Noah’s Ark Worked"31 minutesMarch 8, 2012 (2012-03-08)
406 [21] 21"Should chimps be used for medical testing?"32 minutesMarch 13, 2012 (2012-03-13)
407 [22] 22"How the Donner Party Worked"36 minutesMarch 15, 2012 (2012-03-15)
408 [23] 23"How Comic Books: Live from SXSW"56 minutesMarch 20, 2012 (2012-03-20)
409 [24] 24"How Tipping Works"50 minutesMarch 22, 2012 (2012-03-22)
410 [25] 25"10 Big Cases of Revenge"44 minutesMarch 27, 2012 (2012-03-27)
411 [26] 26"How Music Sampling Works"44 minutesMarch 29, 2012 (2012-03-29)
412 [27] 27"How Diamonds Work"40 minutesApril 3, 2012 (2012-04-03)
413 [28] 28"How Beer Works"48 minutesApril 5, 2012 (2012-04-05)
414 [29] 29"Was Atlantis a real place?"32 minutesApril 10, 2012 (2012-04-10)
415 [30] 30"Body Odor: You Stink"45 minutesApril 11, 2012 (2012-04-11)
416 [31] 31"How Whaling Works"35 minutesApril 17, 2012 (2012-04-17)
417 [32] 32"Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think"38 minutesApril 19, 2012 (2012-04-19)
418 [33] 33"How Air Traffic Control Works"39 minutesApril 24, 2012 (2012-04-24)
419 [34] 34"How Medical Marijuana Works"33 minutesApril 26, 2012 (2012-04-26)
420 [35] 35"How did language evolve?"27 minutesMay 1, 2012 (2012-05-01)
421 [36] 36"How Bullfighting Works"44 minutesMay 3, 2012 (2012-05-03)
422 [37] 37"Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?"34 minutesMay 8, 2012 (2012-05-08)
423 [38] 38"What is a shotgun house?"23 minutesMay 10, 2012 (2012-05-10)
424 [39] 39"Interpol: World Police"32 minutesMay 15, 2012 (2012-05-15)
425 [40] 40"What is the future of Earth?"33 minutesMay 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)
426 [41] 41"How Labor Unions Work"48 minutesMay 22, 2012 (2012-05-22)
427 [42] 42"Are we obsessed with goals?"40 minutesMay 24, 2012 (2012-05-24)
428 [43] 43"Do video games produce real-life violence?"32 minutesMay 29, 2012 (2012-05-29)
429 [44] 44"Can it rain frogs?"25 minutesMay 31, 2012 (2012-05-31)
430 [45] 45"How Moss Works"32 minutesJune 5, 2012 (2012-06-05)
431 [46] 46"Fractals: Whoa"34 minutesJune 7, 2012 (2012-06-07)
432 [47] 47"Should we have a fat tax?"35 minutesJune 12, 2012 (2012-06-12)
433 [48] 48"Whatever happened to acid rain?"30 minutesJune 14, 2012 (2012-06-14)
434 [49] 49"How Icebergs Work (Very Cool)"38 minutesJune 19, 2012 (2012-06-19)
435 [50] 50"10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers"36 minutesJune 21, 2012 (2012-06-21)
436 [51] 51"Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar"50 minutesJune 26, 2012 (2012-06-26)
437 [52] 52"What’s the deal with Executive Orders?"34 minutesJune 28, 2012 (2012-06-28)
438 [53] 53"Is the Dead Sea dead?"26 minutesJuly 3, 2012 (2012-07-03)
439 [54] 54"How Tabloids Work"50 minutesJuly 5, 2012 (2012-07-05)
440 [55] 55"Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo"28 minutesJuly 10, 2012 (2012-07-10)
441 [56] 56"How Lightning Works"39 minutesJuly 12, 2012 (2012-07-12)
442 [57] 57"How Disco Works"48 minutesJuly 17, 2012 (2012-07-17)
443 [58] 58"Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?"28 minutesJuly 19, 2012 (2012-07-19)
444 [59] 59"How White-collar Crime Works"44 minutesJuly 24, 2012 (2012-07-24)
445 [60] 60"How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con)"27 minutesJuly 26, 2012 (2012-07-26)
446 [61] 61"How the Musketeers Worked"29 minutesJuly 31, 2012 (2012-07-31)
447 [62] 62"Can we build an elevator to space?"30 minutesAugust 2, 2012 (2012-08-02)
448 [63] 63"How Ramadan Works"31 minutesAugust 7, 2012 (2012-08-07)
449 [64] 64"How Shark Attacks Work"39 minutesAugust 9, 2012 (2012-08-09)
450 [65] 65"The Shark Diaries"40 minutesAugust 14, 2012 (2012-08-14)
451 [66] 66"Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?"34 minutesAugust 16, 2012 (2012-08-16)
452 [67] 67"Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record"31 minutesAugust 21, 2012 (2012-08-21)
453 [68] 68"What happens to abandoned mines?"26 minutesAugust 23, 2012 (2012-08-23)
454 [69] 69"How the Electoral College Works"41 minutesAugust 28, 2012 (2012-08-28)
455 [70] 70"How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work"27 minutesAugust 30, 2012 (2012-08-30)
456 [71] 71"Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?"29 minutesSeptember 4, 2012 (2012-09-04)
457 [72] 72"Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish"36 minutesSeptember 6, 2012 (2012-09-06)
458 [73] 73"How Asexuality Works"34 minutesSeptember 11, 2012 (2012-09-11)
459 [74] 74"How Book Banning Works"30 minutesSeptember 13, 2012 (2012-09-13)
460 [75] 75"Are we all Martians?"28 minutesSeptember 18, 2012 (2012-09-18)
461 [76] 76"Why does music provoke emotion?"64 minutesSeptember 20, 2012 (2012-09-20)
462 [77] 77"Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes"28 minutesSeptember 25, 2012 (2012-09-25)
463 [78] 78"Subways: HUH! What are they good for?"43 minutesSeptember 27, 2012 (2012-09-27)
464 [79] 79"How Whiskey Runners Worked"30 minutesOctober 2, 2012 (2012-10-02)
465 [80] 80"How Fire Works"28 minutesOctober 4, 2012 (2012-10-04)
466 [81] 81"How Rainforests Work"40 minutesOctober 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)
467 [82] 82"How Pizza Works!"51 minutesOctober 11, 2012 (2012-10-11)
468 [83] 83"How Black Holes Work"31 minutesOctober 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)
469 [84] 84"How Lion Taming Works"28 minutesOctober 18, 2012 (2012-10-18)
470 [85] 85"How Commercial Jingles Work"35 minutesOctober 23, 2012 (2012-10-23)
471 [86] 86"Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?"31 minutesOctober 25, 2012 (2012-10-25)
472 [87] 87"SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!"24 minutesOctober 30, 2012 (2012-10-30)
473 [88] 88"Is Stockholm Syndrome real?"34 minutesNovember 1, 2012 (2012-11-01)
474 [89] 89"Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines"37 minutesNovember 6, 2012 (2012-11-06)
475 [90] 90"What will happen when we reach the Singularity?"40 minutesNovember 8, 2012 (2012-11-08)
476 [91] 91"How close are we to holographic environments?"24 minutesNovember 13, 2012 (2012-11-13)
477 [92] 92"How Meth Works"48 minutesNovember 15, 2012 (2012-11-15)
478 [93] 93"Should we be designing our children?"35 minutesNovember 20, 2012 (2012-11-20)
479 [94] 94"Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It"46 minutesNovember 22, 2012 (2012-11-22)
480 [95] 95"Why do leaves change colors in the fall?"24 minutesNovember 27, 2012 (2012-11-27)
481 [96] 96"How Caving Works"50 minutesNovember 29, 2012 (2012-11-29)
482 [97] 97"How Vampires Work"49 minutesDecember 4, 2012 (2012-12-04)
483 [98] 98"Will we reach peak oil?"38 minutesDecember 6, 2012 (2012-12-06)
484 [99] 99"Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?"37 minutesDecember 11, 2012 (2012-12-11)
485 [100] 100"How Condoms Work"62 minutesDecember 13, 2012 (2012-12-13)
486 [101] 101"Lab-grown meat: Order up!"29 minutesDecember 18, 2012 (2012-12-18)
487 [102] 102"How Barbie® Doll Works"62 minutesDecember 20, 2012 (2012-12-20)
488 [103] 103"Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012"46 minutesDecember 21, 2012 (2012-12-21)
489 [104] 104"How Dog Shows Work"41 minutesDecember 27, 2012 (2012-12-27)

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References

  1. How Yo-Yos Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  2. Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  3. Can you vacation in Antarctica?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  4. What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. Are contrails actually chemtrails?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  6. How Mexican Wrestling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  7. How Human Trafficking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  8. How Floods Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  9. How Magic Mushrooms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  10. What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  11. Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  12. How Coral Reefs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  13. How Zero Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  14. How Autopsies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  15. How Spies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  16. Fasting: deadly or what?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  17. How Crying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  18. How SETI Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  19. Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  20. How Noah’s Ark Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  21. Should chimps be used for medical testing?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  22. How the Donner Party Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  23. How Comic Books: Live from SXSW. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  24. How Tipping Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  25. 10 Big Cases of Revenge. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  26. How Music Sampling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  27. How Diamonds Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  28. How Beer Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  29. Was Atlantis a real place?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  30. Body Odor: You Stink. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  31. How Whaling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  32. Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  33. How Air Traffic Control Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  34. How Medical Marijuana Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  35. How did language evolve?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  36. How Bullfighting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  37. Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  38. What is a shotgun house?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  39. Interpol: World Police. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  40. What is the future of Earth?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  41. How Labor Unions Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  42. Are we obsessed with goals?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  43. Do video games produce real-life violence?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  44. Can it rain frogs?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  45. How Moss Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  46. Fractals: Whoa. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  47. Should we have a fat tax?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  48. Whatever happened to acid rain?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  49. How Icebergs Work (Very Cool). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  50. 10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  51. Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  52. What’s the deal with Executive Orders?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  53. Is the Dead Sea dead?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  54. How Tabloids Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  55. Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  56. How Lightning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  57. How Disco Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  58. Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  59. How White-collar Crime Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  60. How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  61. How the Musketeers Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  62. Can we build an elevator to space?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  63. How Ramadan Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  64. How Shark Attacks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  65. The Shark Diaries. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  66. Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  67. Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  68. What happens to abandoned mines?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  69. How the Electoral College Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  70. How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  71. Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  72. Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  73. How Asexuality Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  74. How Book Banning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  75. Are we all Martians?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  76. Why does music provoke emotion?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  77. Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  78. Subways: HUH! What are they good for?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  79. How Whiskey Runners Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  80. How Fire Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  81. How Rainforests Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  82. How Pizza Works!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  83. How Black Holes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  84. How Lion Taming Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  85. How Commercial Jingles Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  86. Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  87. SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  88. Is Stockholm Syndrome real?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  89. Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  90. What will happen when we reach the Singularity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  91. How close are we to holographic environments?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  92. How Meth Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  93. Should we be designing our children?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  94. Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  95. Why do leaves change colors in the fall?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  96. How Caving Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  97. How Vampires Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  98. Will we reach peak oil?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  99. Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  100. How Condoms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  101. Lab-grown meat: Order up!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  102. How Barbie® Doll Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  103. Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  104. How Dog Shows Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.