List of Stuff You Should Know episodes (2013)

Main article: List of Stuff You Should Know episodes

This is a list of episodes from 2013 for the Stuff You Should Know podcast

2013 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
490 [1]	1	"How Bigfoot Works"	35 minutes	January 1, 2013 (2013-01-01)
491 [2]	2	"What was America’s first terrorist threat?"	27 minutes	January 3, 2013 (2013-01-03)
492 [3]	3	"Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag?"	25 minutes	January 8, 2013 (2013-01-08)
493 [4]	4	"Why do men have nipples?"	23 minutes	January 10, 2013 (2013-01-10)
494 [5]	5	"How Death Masks Work"	31 minutes	January 15, 2013 (2013-01-15)
495 [6]	6	"Does the five-second rule work?"	33 minutes	January 17, 2013 (2013-01-17)
496 [7]	7	"How Alien Hand Syndrome Works"	15 minutes	January 19, 2013 (2013-01-19)
497 [8]	8	"How the Frick Fracking Works"	45 minutes	January 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)
498 [9]	9	"Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?"	32 minutes	January 24, 2013 (2013-01-24)
499 [10]	10	"How Bees Work"	43 minutes	January 27, 2013 (2013-01-27)
500 [11]	11	"How Stuntmen (and -women) Work"	39 minutes	January 29, 2013 (2013-01-29)
501 [12]	12	"How Gold Works"	45 minutes	February 1, 2013 (2013-02-01)
502 [13]	13	"How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work"	25 minutes	February 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)
503 [14]	14	"How Willpower Works"	31 minutes	February 8, 2013 (2013-02-08)
504 [15]	15	"How Weather Modification Works"	32 minutes	February 9, 2013 (2013-02-09)
505 [16]	16	"How Jet Lag Works"	34 minutes	February 12, 2013 (2013-02-12)
506 [17]	17	"Myths About the Brain"	24 minutes	February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14)
507 [18]	18	"How Surfing Works"	49 minutes	February 19, 2013 (2013-02-19)
508 [19]	19	"What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?"	20 minutes	February 21, 2013 (2013-02-21)
509 [20]	20	"How CPR Works"	29 minutes	February 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)
510 [21]	21	"How the Papacy Works"	34 minutes	March 1, 2013 (2013-03-01)
511 [22]	22	"What Makes a One-hit Wonder?"	29 minutes	March 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)
512 [23]	23	"Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?"	21 minutes	March 7, 2013 (2013-03-07)
513 [24]	24	"Can We Build an Elevator to Space?"	30 minutes	March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)
514 [25]	25	"How Police Sketches Work"	39 minutes	March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)
515 [26]	26	"How the U.S. Postal Service Works"	45 minutes	March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
516 [27]	27	"How Apartheid Worked"	37 minutes	March 18, 2013 (2013-03-18)
517 [28]	28	"Gesundheit! How Allergies Work"	27 minutes	March 21, 2013 (2013-03-21)
518 [29]	29	"What was the most peaceful time in history?"	28 minutes	March 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)
519 [30]	30	"How No-fly Zones Work"	27 minutes	March 28, 2013 (2013-03-28)
520 [31]	31	"How the Panama Canal Works"	33 minutes	April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
521 [32]	32	"How Grief Works"	42 minutes	April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
522 [33]	33	"What’s the deal with duckbill platypuses?"	25 minutes	April 9, 2013 (2013-04-09)
523 [34]	34	"Do men and women have different brains?"	26 minutes	April 11, 2013 (2013-04-11)
524 [35]	35	"How Marriage Works"	41 minutes	April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
525 [36]	36	"Uses of the Insanity Defense"	31 minutes	April 18, 2013 (2013-04-18)
526 [37]	37	"How Magnets Work"	36 minutes	April 23, 2013 (2013-04-23)
527 [38]	38	"What makes us yawn?"	29 minutes	April 25, 2013 (2013-04-25)
528 [39]	39	"Is there such a thing as a truth serum?"	37 minutes	April 30, 2013 (2013-04-30)
529 [40]	40	"How Dungeons and Dragons Works"	48 minutes	May 2, 2013 (2013-05-02)
530 [41]	41	"How Fair Trade Works"	30 minutes	May 7, 2013 (2013-05-07)
531 [42]	42	"How Foot Binding Worked"	28 minutes	May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)
532 [43]	43	"How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works"	26 minutes	May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14)
533 [44]	44	"How Aerosol Cans Work"	24 minutes	May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16)
534 [45]	45	"How Cicadas Work"	30 minutes	May 21, 2013 (2013-05-21)
535 [46]	46	"How PTSD Works"	40 minutes	May 23, 2013 (2013-05-23)
536 [47]	47	"How Police Chases Work"	27 minutes	May 28, 2013 (2013-05-28)
537 [48]	48	"How Coffins Work"	41 minutes	May 30, 2013 (2013-05-30)
538 [49]	49	"What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?"	34 minutes	June 4, 2013 (2013-06-04)
539 [50]	50	"How do trees affect the weather?"	28 minutes	June 6, 2013 (2013-06-06)
540 [51]	51	"How Drag Queens Work"	43 minutes	June 11, 2013 (2013-06-11)
541 [52]	52	"Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are"	26 minutes	June 13, 2013 (2013-06-13)
542 [53]	53	"How Bitcoin Works"	37 minutes	June 18, 2013 (2013-06-18)
543 [54]	54	"How Ghosts Work"	43 minutes	June 20, 2013 (2013-06-20)
544 [55]	55	"What’s the deal with Rasputin’s death?"	32 minutes	June 25, 2013 (2013-06-25)
545 [56]	56	"How Burning Man Works"	33 minutes	June 27, 2013 (2013-06-27)
546 [57]	57	"How Pollen Works"	29 minutes	July 2, 2013 (2013-07-02)
547 [58]	58	"How Miranda Rights Work"	30 minutes	July 5, 2013 (2013-07-05)
548 [59]	59	"10 Medieval Torture Devices"	36 minutes	July 9, 2013 (2013-07-09)
549 [60]	60	"How Hip-hop Works"	52 minutes	July 11, 2013 (2013-07-11)
550 [61]	61	"How Building Implosions Work"	36 minutes	July 16, 2013 (2013-07-16)
551 [62]	62	"Who owns an abandoned house?"	31 minutes	July 18, 2013 (2013-07-18)
552 [63]	63	"Why should you never scare a vulture?"	32 minutes	July 23, 2013 (2013-07-23)
553 [64]	64	"How Maps Work"	41 minutes	July 25, 2013 (2013-07-25)
554 [65]	65	"How LARP Works"	35 minutes	July 30, 2013 (2013-07-30)
555 [66]	66	"How Fingerprinting Works"	35 minutes	August 1, 2013 (2013-08-01)
556 [67]	67	"How Horseshoes Work"	31 minutes	August 6, 2013 (2013-08-06)
557 [68]	68	"The Shark Diaries"	40 minutes	August 7, 2013 (2013-08-07)
558 [69]	69	"How does a diving bell work?"	31 minutes	August 8, 2013 (2013-08-08)
559 [70]	70	"Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?"	37 minutes	August 13, 2013 (2013-08-13)
560 [71]	71	"How Cockroaches Work"	44 minutes	August 15, 2013 (2013-08-15)
561 [72]	72	"How Ejection Seats Work"	39 minutes	August 20, 2013 (2013-08-20)
562 [73]	73	"History’s Greatest Traitors"	45 minutes	August 22, 2013 (2013-08-22)
563 [74]	74	"How Broken Bones Work"	43 minutes	August 27, 2013 (2013-08-27)
564 [75]	75	"How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?"	40 minutes	August 29, 2013 (2013-08-29)
565 [76]	76	"How the Rosetta Stone Works"	38 minutes	September 3, 2013 (2013-09-03)
566 [77]	77	"How much money is in the world?"	36 minutes	September 5, 2013 (2013-09-05)
567 [78]	78	"How Breast Implants Work"	60 minutes	September 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)
568 [79]	79	"Can you die of a broken heart?"	29 minutes	September 12, 2013 (2013-09-12)
569 [80]	80	"How IEDs Work"	35 minutes	September 17, 2013 (2013-09-17)
570 [81]	81	"How Dying Works"	64 minutes	September 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)
571 [82]	82	"How Crack Works"	49 minutes	September 24, 2013 (2013-09-24)
572 [83]	83	"Does owning a gun change your behavior?"	33 minutes	September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
573 [84]	84	"What’s the deal with diplomatic immunity?"	41 minutes	September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)
574 [85]	85	"Can NASA predict natural disasters?"	28 minutes	October 3, 2013 (2013-10-03)
575 [86]	86	"Did Archimedes build a death ray?"	36 minutes	October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08)
576 [87]	87	"How Handwriting Analysis Works"	43 minutes	October 10, 2013 (2013-10-10)
577 [88]	88	"How the Maori Work"	40 minutes	October 14, 2013 (2013-10-14)
578 [89]	89	"10 Easy Ways to Save Money"	45 minutes	October 17, 2013 (2013-10-17)
579 [90]	90	"How Guide Dogs Work"	40 minutes	October 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)
580 [91]	91	"How Revisionist History Works"	45 minutes	October 24, 2013 (2013-10-24)
581 [92]	92	"How Ouija Boards Work"	34 minutes	October 29, 2013 (2013-10-29)
582 [93]	93	"The Empty House"	40 minutes	October 30, 2013 (2013-10-30)
583 [94]	94	"What’s with the Winchester Mystery House?"	34 minutes	October 31, 2013 (2013-10-31)
584 [95]	95	"How Chess Works"	49 minutes	November 5, 2013 (2013-11-05)
585 [96]	96	"How Lewis and Clark Worked"	55 minutes	November 7, 2013 (2013-11-07)
586 [97]	97	"Some Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Stephen Hawking"	33 minutes	November 12, 2013 (2013-11-12)
587 [98]	98	"How Werewolves Work"	35 minutes	November 14, 2013 (2013-11-14)
588 [99]	99	"How Chocolate Works"	41 minutes	November 19, 2013 (2013-11-19)
589 [100]	100	"Who killed JFK?"	47 minutes	November 21, 2013 (2013-11-21)
590 [101]	101	"Is there a scientific formula for funny?"	43 minutes	November 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)
591 [102]	102	"How Black Friday Works"	40 minutes	November 27, 2013 (2013-11-27)
592 [103]	103	"How Castration Works"	42 minutes	December 3, 2013 (2013-12-03)
593 [104]	104	"How Maglev Trains Work"	33 minutes	December 5, 2013 (2013-12-05)
594 [105]	105	"How HeLa Cells Work"	27 minutes	December 10, 2013 (2013-12-10)
595 [106]	106	"How Underwater Tunnels Work"	34 minutes	December 11, 2013 (2013-12-11)
596 [107]	107	"How Manhunts Work"	35 minutes	December 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)
597 [108]	108	"Is lethal injection humane?"	45 minutes	December 19, 2013 (2013-12-19)
598 [109]	109	"Josh and Chuck’s Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013"	45 minutes	December 24, 2013 (2013-12-24)
599 [110]	110	"How Fire Breathing Works"	32 minutes	December 26, 2013 (2013-12-26)
600 [111]	111	"Will solar sails take us to the stars?"	25 minutes	December 30, 2013 (2013-12-30)

References

1. How Bigfoot Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
2. What was America’s first terrorist threat?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
3. Can you outrun an alligator in a zig-zag?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
4. Why do men have nipples?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
5. How Death Masks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
6. Does the five-second rule work?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
7. How Alien Hand Syndrome Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
8. How the Frick Fracking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
9. Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
10. How Bees Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
11. How Stuntmen (and -women) Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
12. How Gold Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
13. How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
14. How Willpower Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
15. How Weather Modification Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
16. How Jet Lag Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
17. Myths About the Brain. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
18. How Surfing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
19. What Would Happen If the World Stopped Spinning?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
20. How CPR Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
21. How the Papacy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
22. What Makes a One-hit Wonder?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
23. Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
24. Can We Build an Elevator to Space?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
25. How Police Sketches Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
26. How the U.S. Postal Service Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
27. How Apartheid Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
28. Gesundheit! How Allergies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
29. What was the most peaceful time in history?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
30. How No-fly Zones Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
31. How the Panama Canal Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
32. How Grief Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
33. What’s the deal with duckbill platypuses?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
34. Do men and women have different brains?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
35. How Marriage Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
36. Uses of the Insanity Defense. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
37. How Magnets Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
38. What makes us yawn?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
39. Is there such a thing as a truth serum?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
40. How Dungeons and Dragons Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
41. How Fair Trade Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
42. How Foot Binding Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
43. How Electroconvulsive Therapy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
44. How Aerosol Cans Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
45. How Cicadas Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
46. How PTSD Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
47. How Police Chases Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
48. How Coffins Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
49. What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
50. How do trees affect the weather?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
51. How Drag Queens Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
52. Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
53. How Bitcoin Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
54. How Ghosts Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
55. What’s the deal with Rasputin’s death?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
56. How Burning Man Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
57. How Pollen Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
58. How Miranda Rights Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
59. 10 Medieval Torture Devices. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
60. How Hip-hop Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
61. How Building Implosions Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
62. Who owns an abandoned house?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
63. Why should you never scare a vulture?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
64. How Maps Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
65. How LARP Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
66. How Fingerprinting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
67. How Horseshoes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
68. The Shark Diaries. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
69. How does a diving bell work?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
70. Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
71. How Cockroaches Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
72. How Ejection Seats Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
73. History’s Greatest Traitors. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
74. How Broken Bones Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
75. How did 168 conquistadors take down the Inca empire?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
76. How the Rosetta Stone Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
77. How much money is in the world?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
78. How Breast Implants Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
79. Can you die of a broken heart?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
80. How IEDs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
81. How Dying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
82. How Crack Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
83. Does owning a gun change your behavior?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
84. What’s the deal with diplomatic immunity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
85. Can NASA predict natural disasters?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
86. Did Archimedes build a death ray?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
87. How Handwriting Analysis Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
88. How the Maori Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
89. 10 Easy Ways to Save Money. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
90. How Guide Dogs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
91. How Revisionist History Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
92. How Ouija Boards Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
93. The Empty House. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
94. What’s with the Winchester Mystery House?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
95. How Chess Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
96. How Lewis and Clark Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
97. Some Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Stephen Hawking. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
98. How Werewolves Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
99. How Chocolate Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
100. Who killed JFK?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
101. Is there a scientific formula for funny?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
102. How Black Friday Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
103. How Castration Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
104. How Maglev Trains Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
105. How HeLa Cells Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
106. How Underwater Tunnels Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
107. How Manhunts Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
108. Is lethal injection humane?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
109. Josh and Chuck’s Warm and Cozy Christmas Extravaganza 2013. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
110. How Fire Breathing Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
111. Will solar sails take us to the stars?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-17.

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