March 3, 2026March 3, 2026Season 8 Episode 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it? Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. […]
March 2, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City What happens if you put a bunch of rats in an enclosure and provision them with unlimited food and water? Researcher John […]
February 17, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8 Episode 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away Poop is an incredibly valuable and massively underutilized resource. However, most of us don’t see it that way because of our evolutionarily […]
February 10, 2026February 10, 2026Season 8 Episode 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made It might be stinky and it might be unpleasant to behold, but we all do it. For many of us, our poop […]
February 3, 2026January 20, 2026Season 8 Special Episode Nicola Twilley & Frostbite For much of the world, refrigeration is such a commonplace technology that we rarely stop to wonder at the many ways it […]
January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Season 8 Episode 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable Now that we know just how critical sleep is, we’re all making sure we get the amount we need, right? Unfortunately no. […]
January 20, 2026January 20, 2026Season 8 Episode 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open Sleep is a universal experience. It’s not just the lion that sleeps tonight – it’s also the butterfly, the chicken, the jellyfish, […]
January 13, 2026January 20, 2026Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison The widespread use of leaded gasoline in the 20th century led to one of the world’s biggest public health and environmental disasters, […]
January 6, 2026January 6, 2026Season 8 Episode 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone Ah, the new year. After the last month and a half of indulgent food and drink, disrupted schedules, and laying around the […]
December 16, 2025January 6, 2026Season 8 Episode 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction? Did your grandma ever warn you against going out in the cold with wet hair because “you’ll catch your death”? Or have […]