List of Stuff You Should Know episodes (2010)

Stuff You Should Know is a free podcast and video series published by HowStuffWorks and hosted by Josh Clark and Charles W. "Chuck" Bryant, both writers at HowStuffWorks. The podcast educates listeners on a wide variety of topics, often using popular culture as a reference giving the podcast comedic value. Episodes are normally around 45 minutes in length, although for more in-depth topics the show has run longer than an hour.

Main article: List of Stuff You Should Know episodes

The winner of the 2014[1] and the 2016[2] People's Voice Webby Award,[3] the show is downloaded more than 1 million times per week and is consistently on iTunes’ Top 10 podcast rankings.[4] Stuff You Should Know's "beautifully, beautifully done" production has set "the audio standard," according to podcast reviewers Pod on Pod. They added that the audio quality "could not be improved" on the NPR-level production.[5] One reviewer said of it: "It is never not fun to listen to."[5]

2010 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
178[6]	1	"How Noodling Works"	28 minutes	January 5, 2010 (2010-01-05)
179[7]	2	"How Mercenaries Work"	29 minutes	January 7, 2010 (2010-01-07)
180[8]	3	"How Organ Donation Works"	35 minutes	January 12, 2010 (2010-01-12)
181[9]	4	"How the Sun Works"	24 minutes	January 14, 2010 (2010-01-14)
182[10]	5	"Why are honeybees disappearing?"	25 minutes	January 19, 2010 (2010-01-19)
183[11]	6	"Will the moon save humanity?"	22 minutes	January 21, 2010 (2010-01-21)
184[12]	7	"What are ninja?"	33 minutes	January 26, 2010 (2010-01-26)
185[13]	8	"Are there undiscovered people?"	24 minutes	January 28, 2010 (2010-01-28)
186[14]	9	"How Swat Teams Work"	37 minutes	February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02)
187[15]	10	"Why do we believe in urban legends?"	32 minutes	February 4, 2010 (2010-02-04)
188[16]	11	"How Witchcraft Works"	43 minutes	February 9, 2010 (2010-02-09)
189[17]	12	"How Braille Works"	29 minutes	February 11, 2010 (2010-02-11)
190[18]	13	"Who are the Amish?"	41 minutes	February 16, 2010 (2010-02-16)
191[19]	14	"Five Crazy Government Experiments"	24 minutes	February 18, 2010 (2010-02-18)
192[20]	15	"How Bail Works"	24 minutes	February 23, 2010 (2010-02-23)
193[21]	16	"How Bounty Hunters Work"	23 minutes	February 25, 2010 (2010-02-25)
194[22]	17	"Was Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization?"	27 minutes	March 2, 2010 (2010-03-02)
195[23]	18	"How Scabies Work"	20 minutes	March 4, 2010 (2010-03-04)
196[24]	19	"What’s the deal with carbon trading?"	32 minutes	March 9, 2010 (2010-03-09)
197[25]	20	"What exactly is Fascism?"	20 minutes	March 11, 2010 (2010-03-11)
198[26]	21	"How Lotteries Work"	25 minutes	March 16, 2010 (2010-03-16)
199[27]	22	"Who were the Vikings?"	31 minutes	March 18, 2010 (2010-03-18)
200[28]	23	"How Urban Planning Works"	29 minutes	March 23, 2010 (2010-03-23)
201[29]	24	"How Taxidermy Works"	30 minutes	March 25, 2010 (2010-03-25)
202[30]	25	"What the heck is a hiccup?"	23 minutes	March 30, 2010 (2010-03-30)
203[31]	26	"How McDonald’s Works"	42 minutes	April 1, 2010 (2010-04-01)
204[32]	27	"How Desertification Works"	22 minutes	April 6, 2010 (2010-04-06)
205[33]	28	"Are zoos good or bad for animals?"	26 minutes	April 8, 2010 (2010-04-08)
206[34]	29	"How Tourette Syndrome Works"	30 minutes	April 13, 2010 (2010-04-13)
207[35]	30	"How Castles Work"	28 minutes	April 16, 2010 (2010-04-16)
208[36]	31	"Are there people who can’t feel pain?"	30 minutes	April 20, 2010 (2010-04-20)
209[37]	32	"Mirror Neurons: Are there people who feel others’ pain?"	35 minutes	April 22, 2010 (2010-04-22)
210[38]	33	"What makes a genius?"	35 minutes	April 27, 2010 (2010-04-27)
211[39]	34	"How Cliff Diving Works"	27 minutes	April 29, 2010 (2010-04-29)
212[40]	35	"How LEGOs Work"	36 minutes	May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04)
213[41]	36	"How hard is it to steal a work of art?"	30 minutes	May 6, 2010 (2010-05-06)
214[42]	37	"How Twins Work How Twins Work"	38 minutes	May 11, 2010 (2010-05-11)
215[43]	38	"5 Successful Counterfeiters"	26 minutes	May 13, 2010 (2010-05-13)
216[44]	39	"SYSK’s Guatemalan Adventure, Part One"	55 minutes	May 18, 2010 (2010-05-18)
217[45]	40	"SYSK’s Guatemalan Adventure, Part Two"	46 minutes	May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20)
218[46]	41	"What makes a serial killer?"	44 minutes	May 25, 2010 (2010-05-25)
219[47]	42	"Can humans start an earthquake?"	24 minutes	May 27, 2010 (2010-05-27)
220[48]	43	"How do you clean up an oil spill?"	25 minutes	June 1, 2010 (2010-06-01)
221[49]	44	"How Flamethrowers Work"	24 minutes	June 3, 2010 (2010-06-03)
222[50]	45	"What’s the deal with sinkholes?"	29 minutes	June 8, 2010 (2010-06-08)
223[51]	46	"Can your grandfather’s diet shorten your life?"	30 minutes	June 10, 2010 (2010-06-10)
224[52]	47	"How the Innocence Project Works"	35 minutes	June 15, 2010 (2010-06-15)
225[53]	48	"How Samurai Work"	34 minutes	June 17, 2010 (2010-06-17)
226[54]	49	"How Ghost Prisons Work"	34 minutes	June 22, 2010 (2010-06-22)
227[55]	50	"Can quicksand kill you?"	25 minutes	June 24, 2010 (2010-06-24)
228[56]	51	"How Traffic Works"	32 minutes	June 29, 2010 (2010-06-29)
229[57]	52	"Did Thomas Jefferson rewrite the Bible?"	23 minutes	July 1, 2010 (2010-07-01)
230[58]	53	"What’s the deal with Voodoo?"	32 minutes	July 6, 2010 (2010-07-06)
231[59]	54	"How do butterfly wings get their color?"	26 minutes	July 8, 2010 (2010-07-08)
232[60]	55	"How Reincarnation Works"	36 minutes	July 13, 2010 (2010-07-13)
233[61]	56	"What’s the deal with Bond, James Bond?"	39 minutes	July 15, 2010 (2010-07-15)
234[62]	57	"Taste and How it Works"	35 minutes	July 20, 2010 (2010-07-20)
235[63]	58	"Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think!"	37 minutes	July 22, 2010 (2010-07-22)
236[64]	59	"Why Ticks Suck"	39 minutes	July 27, 2010 (2010-07-27)
237[65]	60	"How Presidential Pardons Work"	41 minutes	July 29, 2010 (2010-07-29)
238[66]	61	"How Quantum Suicide Works"	31 minutes	August 3, 2010 (2010-08-03)
239[67]	62	"What’s so special about Route 66?"	23 minutes	August 5, 2010 (2010-08-05)
240[68]	63	"How Grow Houses Work"	36 minutes	August 10, 2010 (2010-08-10)
241[69]	64	"Prisons: Not as Fun as You’d Think"	44 minutes	August 12, 2010 (2010-08-12)
242[70]	65	"Breathalyzers: Really, Really Complicated"	32 minutes	August 17, 2010 (2010-08-17)
243[71]	66	"How the MARS Turbine Works"	27 minutes	August 19, 2010 (2010-08-19)
244[72]	67	"How Sleepwalking Works"	25 minutes	August 24, 2010 (2010-08-24)
245[73]	68	"How Freemasons Work"	45 minutes	August 26, 2010 (2010-08-26)
246[74]	69	"How Cremation Works"	41 minutes	August 31, 2010 (2010-08-31)
247[75]	70	"How are college football rankings determined?"	33 minutes	September 2, 2010 (2010-09-02)
248[76]	71	"How Crime-Scene Clean-up Works"	32 minutes	September 7, 2010 (2010-09-07)
249[77]	72	"How Customs Works"	28 minutes	September 9, 2010 (2010-09-09)
250[78]	73	"How Mirrors Work"	26 minutes	September 14, 2010 (2010-09-14)
251[79]	74	"What is biospeleology?"	29 minutes	September 16, 2010 (2010-09-16)
252[80]	75	"Octopus, Octopi, Octopod, Octopuses"	36 minutes	September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21)
253[81]	76	"Hypnosis: You’re Getting Sleepy"	31 minutes	September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23)
254[82]	77	"How Roller Derby Works"	38 minutes	September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28)
255[83]	78	"Is tone deafness hereditary?"	21 minutes	September 30, 2010 (2010-09-30)
256[84]	79	"Why would anyone want multiple spouses?"	34 minutes	October 5, 2010 (2010-10-05)
257[85]	80	"How Knights Work"	48 minutes	October 7, 2010 (2010-10-07)
258[86]	81	"Is science phasing out sleep?"	36 minutes	October 12, 2010 (2010-10-12)
259[87]	82	"How House Swapping Works"	31 minutes	October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14)
260[88]	83	"How Gender Reassignment Works"	50 minutes	October 19, 2010 (2010-10-19)
261[89]	84	"Can you treat mental illness with psychedelics?"	42 minutes	October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21)
262[90]	85	"Jealous much?"	46 minutes	October 26, 2010 (2010-10-26)
263[91]	86	"The Tomb"	30 minutes	October 28, 2010 (2010-10-28)
264[92]	87	"Animal Migration: Where’s that gnu gnoing?"	27 minutes	November 2, 2010 (2010-11-02)
265[93]	88	"Addiction: Why you can’t kick SYSK"	43 minutes	November 4, 2010 (2010-11-04)
266[94]	89	"Prohibition: Turns Out That America Loves to Drink"	39 minutes	November 9, 2010 (2010-11-09)
267[95]	90	"How Rehab Works"	45 minutes	November 11, 2010 (2010-11-11)
268[96]	91	"Have all the good ideas already been discovered?"	32 minutes	November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16)
269[97]	92	"Can Lifestraw save the world?"	33 minutes	November 18, 2010 (2010-11-18)
270[98]	93	"A Rigid, Sterile Look at Kissing"	32 minutes	November 23, 2010 (2010-11-23)
271[99]	94	"How Dreadlocks Work"	31 minutes	November 25, 2010 (2010-11-25)
272[100]	95	"How Circumcision Works"	41 minutes	November 30, 2010 (2010-11-30)
273[101]	96	"How the Rules of War Work"	34 minutes	December 2, 2010 (2010-12-02)
274[102]	97	"Green Renovation and Construction"	30 minutes	December 7, 2010 (2010-12-07)
275[103]	98	"How Hanukkah Works"	21 minutes	December 9, 2010 (2010-12-09)
276[104]	99	"How Agritourism Works"	33 minutes	December 14, 2010 (2010-12-14)
277[105]	100	"How Migraines Work"	29 minutes	December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16)
278[106]	101	"Why can’t we find Amelia Earhart?"	27 minutes	December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21)
279[107]	102	"How Homelessness Works"	40 minutes	December 23, 2010 (2010-12-23)
280[108]	103	"How Immigration Works"	49 minutes	December 28, 2010 (2010-12-28)
281[109]	104	"How Volcanoes Work"	30 minutes	December 30, 2010 (2010-12-30)

References

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2. "2016 Peoples Voice Awards". Webby Awards. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
3. "2014 People's Voice". International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
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6. How Noodling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
7. How Mercenaries Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
8. How Organ Donation Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
9. How the Sun Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
10. Why are honeybees disappearing?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
11. Will the moon save humanity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
12. What are ninja?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
13. Are there undiscovered people?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
14. How Swat Teams Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
15. Why do we believe in urban legends?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
16. How Witchcraft Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
17. How Braille Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
18. Who are the Amish?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
19. Five Crazy Government Experiments. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
20. How Bail Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
21. How Bounty Hunters Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
22. Was Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
23. How Scabies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
24. What’s the deal with carbon trading?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
25. What exactly is Fascism?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
26. How Lotteries Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
27. Who were the Vikings?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
28. How Urban Planning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
29. How Taxidermy Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
30. What the heck is a hiccup?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
31. How McDonald’s Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
32. How Desertification Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
33. Are zoos good or bad for animals?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
34. How Tourette Syndrome Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
35. How Castles Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
36. Are there people who can’t feel pain?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
37. Mirror Neurons: Are there people who feel others’ pain?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
38. What makes a genius?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
39. How Cliff Diving Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
40. How LEGOs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
41. How hard is it to steal a work of art?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
42. How Twins Work How Twins Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
43. 5 Successful Counterfeiters. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
44. SYSK’s Guatemalan Adventure, Part One. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
45. SYSK’s Guatemalan Adventure, Part Two. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
46. What makes a serial killer?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
47. Can humans start an earthquake?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
48. How do you clean up an oil spill?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
49. How Flamethrowers Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
50. What’s the deal with sinkholes?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
51. Can your grandfather’s diet shorten your life?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
52. How the Innocence Project Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
53. How Samurai Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
54. How Ghost Prisons Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
55. Can quicksand kill you?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
56. How Traffic Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
57. Did Thomas Jefferson rewrite the Bible?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
58. What’s the deal with Voodoo?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
59. How do butterfly wings get their color?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
60. How Reincarnation Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
61. What’s the deal with Bond, James Bond?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
62. Taste and How it Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
63. Saunas: More Interesting Than You Think!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
64. Why Ticks Suck. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
65. How Presidential Pardons Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
66. How Quantum Suicide Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
67. What’s so special about Route 66?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
68. How Grow Houses Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
69. Prisons: Not as Fun as You’d Think. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
70. Breathalyzers: Really, Really Complicated. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
71. How the MARS Turbine Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
72. How Sleepwalking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
73. How Freemasons Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
74. How Cremation Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
75. How are college football rankings determined?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
76. How Crime-Scene Clean-up Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
77. How Customs Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
78. How Mirrors Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
79. What is biospeleology?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
80. Octopus, Octopi, Octopod, Octopuses. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
81. Hypnosis: You’re Getting Sleepy. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
82. How Roller Derby Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
83. Is tone deafness hereditary?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
84. Why would anyone want multiple spouses?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
85. How Knights Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
86. Is science phasing out sleep?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
87. How House Swapping Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
88. How Gender Reassignment Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
89. Can you treat mental illness with psychedelics?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
90. Jealous much?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
91. The Tomb. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
92. Animal Migration: Where’s that gnu gnoing?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
93. Addiction: Why you can’t kick SYSK. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
94. Prohibition: Turns Out That America Loves to Drink. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
95. How Rehab Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
96. Have all the good ideas already been discovered?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
97. Can Lifestraw save the world?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
98. A Rigid, Sterile Look at Kissing. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
99. How Dreadlocks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
100. How Circumcision Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
101. How the Rules of War Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
102. Green Renovation and Construction. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
103. How Hanukkah Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
104. How Agritourism Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
105. How Migraines Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
106. Why can’t we find Amelia Earhart?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
107. How Homelessness Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
108. How Immigration Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
109. How Volcanoes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-01-28.

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