Topic Town

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12:45
TOPIC TOWN - Immortal Mice?
Nov 13, 2014
10:15
TOPIC TOWN - Amazon Echo?
Nov 21, 2014
12:37
TOPIC TOWN - Two Myths About Thanksgiving!
Nov 26, 2014
14:08
TOPIC TOWN - ASMR? (with SPECIAL GUEST)
Dec 3, 2014
10:24
TOPIC TOWN - Electrophonic Hearing?
Dec 10, 2014
14:41
What's The Best Frame Rate? - TOPIC TOWN
Dec 19, 2014
12:46
Who Is This Santa Guy Anyway? - TOPIC TOWN
Dec 24, 2014
20:14
When will we get our driverless cars?? - TOPIC TOWN
Mar 26, 2015
15:39
What Will Aliens Look Like?? - TOPIC TOWN
Apr 3, 2015
19:55
Brontosaurus Is Real?? - TOPIC TOWN
Apr 24, 2015
16:47
NASA Built A Warp Drive?? - TOPIC TOWN
Apr 30, 2015
13:25
What Is Exploding Head Syndrome?? - TOPIC TOWN
May 14, 2015

2021

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3:22
Worst Year Ever
Feb 1, 2021
3:51
How Streaming Music Ended a War (The Loudness War, That Is)
Mar 1, 2021
3:24
How Algorithms Are Homogenizing Music (and the World)
Mar 29, 2021
3:17
This Is The Elevator Paradox
Apr 26, 2021
3:38
The Mystery of the Left-handed Stegosaurus
Jun 1, 2021
3:30
The Forbidden Experiment (That Has Been Done Several Times Throughout History)
Jun 28, 2021
3:16
Will A Frog Really Stay In Boiling Water?
Aug 2, 2021
6:29
What Is A Black Swan Event?
Aug 30, 2021
7:36
How Machines Make Us *Think* They Can Think
Sep 27, 2021

2020

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7:29
Is This Whale a Russian Spy?
Jan 1, 2020
10:07
Why Are Americans so Crazy About Guns?
Feb 3, 2020
5:39
That Time Pepsi Became a Global Military Power (And Took Over the USSR)
Mar 2, 2020
5:42
Should You Feel Guilty For Having Children?
Mar 17, 2020
7:22
Waffle House Never Closes (Unless It's Really Bad)
Apr 13, 2020
5:31
How We Beat the Y2K Bug (Or Not)
May 4, 2020
5:14
Modern Food Delivery Was Forged In Battle (And Beat the Nazis)
Jun 8, 2020
6:00
The Legendary Shelf Life of a Twinkie (How Long Can a Twinkie REALLY Last?)
Jul 6, 2020
6:35
The Virtual Plague That Predicted A Real Pandemic (2005 WoW Corrupted Blood Incident)
Aug 10, 2020
5:30
The Lonesome Extinction of Blockbuster
Sep 8, 2020
5:22
Why Don't (More) Americans Vote?
Oct 19, 2020
21:56
How This Non-Profit Massively Reduced Violent Crime by Treating it Like a Virus
Oct 30, 2020

2019

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13:11
Why Are Violent Killers Almost Always Men?
Jan 14, 2019
11:40
That Time Climate Change Wasn't Real (And Why We Deny It Today)
Feb 18, 2019
11:58
Why We Love Conspiracy Theories (And Why They Are So Popular Today)
Mar 25, 2019
6:02
Teddy Roosevelt's $50,000 Snake (Or Why It's So Hard to Measure a Snake)
Apr 22, 2019
7:46
Why is America So Scared of Socialism?
May 20, 2019
6:14
The Bet That "Proved" the Earth Is Flat (Or, Why Facts Aren't Always Enough)
Jun 24, 2019
6:23
This is When Humans Will Go Extinct (Probably)
Jul 22, 2019
5:06
How Mt. Everest Got So Overcrowded (SPOILER: It's Money)
Aug 19, 2019
6:54
The Only Photo of the Whole Earth Taken by a Person
Oct 1, 2019
7:59
The Tortoises That Beat Humans to the Moon
Oct 28, 2019
7:07
How the First Black Friday Nearly Destroyed the Economy
Nov 27, 2019

2018

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6:26
That Time Tulips Crashed the Economy (Maybe) 🌷
Jan 5, 2018
6:51
Here's How Star Wars & Star Trek Saved the Ozone Layer
Jan 19, 2018
5:37
The Amazing Story of the Lab Rat
Jan 26, 2018
4:34
NASA Needs Plutonium! (And it's Running Out)
Feb 16, 2018
6:19
Earth's Rotation is Slowing Down! And It Could Mean More Earthquakes!
Feb 23, 2018
6:03
The Birth and Death of The Shopping Mall
Mar 1, 2018
6:17
Bitcoin is Hurting the Search for Aliens!
Mar 16, 2018
6:26
Is This the End of the Internal Combustion Engine?
Apr 2, 2018
5:50
When Did the Anthropocene Really Begin?
Apr 16, 2018
5:56
We Are Running Out of Sand. Yes. SAND.
Apr 30, 2018
7:07
This is Why Everybody Loves Avocados Now ❤️🥑
May 14, 2018
7:47
This is Why Everybody Wants a Lawn 🏡(And it's Killing the Planet)🌎
Jun 25, 2018

2017

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7:10
2016 Was the Best Year Ever and It's Ok to Feel Bad about It
Jan 13, 2017
8:15
How Solar Power Will Empower the World
Jan 27, 2017
15:31
How Real is Virtual Reality?
Feb 2, 2017
7:27
What's the Doomsday Clock?
Feb 17, 2017
8:14
How Smart is a Supercomputer?
Mar 1, 2017
12:30
Is Virtual Reality Just a Fad?
Mar 10, 2017
6:33
Are We About to Discover a Ninth Planet . . . Again?
Mar 24, 2017
8:36
Can Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth Save the Planet??
Mar 31, 2017
7:40
How Meteorites Destroyed the Universe
Apr 14, 2017
6:20
The Unbelievable Benefits of Being Bored
May 26, 2017
11:05
Inside a Real Life Holodeck
Jun 9, 2017
6:36
The First Computers Were Human (and Mostly Women)
Jun 16, 2017

2016

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10:20
Why We Need A Revolution In Energy Storage
Jan 5, 2016
13:49
Is Nuclear Power Good Or Bad?
Jan 12, 2016
7:03
What if The Civil War Were Tweeted? | Time Capsule
Jan 15, 2016
12:41
Earthships: Living Off The Grid
Jan 19, 2016
9:43
The Complicated History Of The Confederate Flag | Time Capsule
Jan 22, 2016
8:27
The Origins Of Government Surveillance | Time Capsule
Jan 29, 2016
13:51
Visiting Area 51
Feb 2, 2016
9:10
The Birth of Modern Medical Care in America | Time Capsule
Feb 5, 2016
11:50
The Secret Life and Art of Henry Darger
Feb 9, 2016
7:59
The Lasting Impact of Women in The Civil War | Time Capsule
Feb 12, 2016
12:03
What the Heck is Dark Matter?
Feb 17, 2016
9:48
From the Abolitionist Movement to #BlackLivesMatter | Time Capsule
Feb 19, 2016

2015

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8:00
How Science Changed Sleep Forever
May 18, 2015
10:10
Why Do We Sleep?
May 19, 2015
13:56
Why Do We Dream?
May 20, 2015
11:10
How To Sleep Better!
May 21, 2015
3:02
A Shout To The Heavens! - Update
Jun 4, 2015
8:50
A History Of Robots
Jun 8, 2015
9:50
Innovative Robots That Will Make Our Lives Better
Jun 9, 2015
12:06
Will Machines Take Over The World?
Jun 10, 2015
11:54
Are We Becoming Robots?
Jun 11, 2015
11:31
James Randi vs. The Supernatural
Jul 14, 2015
11:00
What Are The Limits Of Your Perception?
Jul 21, 2015
10:50
Are We Alone In The Universe?
Jul 28, 2015

2014

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2:05
TIME
Jan 9, 2014
4:47
A Brief History of Timekeeping
Jan 10, 2014
8:01
Is Time Travel Possible?
Jan 11, 2014
8:03
What Is Time?
Jan 12, 2014
5:50
Your New Year's Resolutions
Jan 13, 2014
1:54
Best of The Good Stuff
Jan 30, 2014
2:07
What is The Good Stuff?
Feb 3, 2014
3:55
Help Us Make The Good Stuff
Feb 10, 2014
2:29
What Are Your Communities?
Feb 17, 2014
7:10
Does Time Exist?
Feb 24, 2014
4:19
Crowds Are Smarter Than You Think
Feb 27, 2014
1:55
COMMUNITY
Feb 27, 2014

2013

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5:44
Matt Talks: Kal-El of the Wild
Mar 13, 2013
4:57
Making a Show Stopper
Mar 15, 2013
2:57
Do You Have Airplane Stories?
Mar 18, 2013
6:12
Origin of Me Continued
Mar 20, 2013
5:00
Bill Nye: Past and Future
Mar 22, 2013
4:32
Send Us Your Good Stuff!
Mar 25, 2013
4:58
The Origin of 'My Bad'
Mar 28, 2013
4:01
Making The Good Office
Apr 4, 2013
4:32
Upcoming Future Times
Apr 19, 2013
2:56
Don't Sing Happy Birthday
Apr 25, 2013
3:36
Ever Been a Rockstar?
May 3, 2013
2:34
Origins
May 12, 2013

Teasers and announcements

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A Tiny Teaser
Feb 22, 2013
0:16
Super Teaser
Mar 2, 2013
2:54
Future Good Stuff
Mar 11, 2013
2:39
Favorite Good Stuff Video?
Jan 24, 2014
2:37
The Good Stuff is Moving to Patreon
Mar 16, 2015
2:04
The Good Stuff Mystery Partner Revealed!
May 7, 2015