August 22, 2025August 28, 2025Season 8 Episode 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting” Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs, milk and cereal, London and smog. Or at least, that’s […]
August 12, 2025August 12, 2025Season 8 Episode 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us For most of us, there probably hasn’t been a good reason for you to think about your gallbladder. Ever. Much of the […]
August 12, 2025August 12, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne In the first years of the COVID pandemic, a debate raged: was the virus transmitted via respiratory droplets, or was it airborne? […]
July 30, 2025July 30, 2025Season 8 Episode 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action Last week, we took you on a journey of discovery and innovation, and this week we’re gonna tell you how the heck […]
July 30, 2025July 30, 2025Season 8 Episode 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin Since first hitting the shelves nearly 40 years ago, SSRIs have become one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antidepressants around […]
July 15, 2025July 4, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos We’ve got a very special episode of the TPWKY book club this week! We’re featuring our very first fiction book: King of […]
July 8, 2025July 30, 2025Season 8 Episode 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts What’s in a name? What can you really tell from a label like “polycystic ovarian syndrome”? And how much of that is […]
July 1, 2025July 1, 2025Season 8 Episode 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing This episode, we aren’t asking you to taste the rainbow, but we are scrutinizing the artificial dyes that give it its color. […]
June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Season 8, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle From the earliest grunts and gestures to the complex sentences we use today to convey a multitude of concepts, language has evolved […]
June 17, 2025July 1, 2025Season 8 Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail In last week’s episode, we traced the history of fluoridation (and the anti-fluoridation movement) to its roots in the early 20th century, […]