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Episode 14, Season 1
Barnacle Penises Can Teach You A Ton About Biology

Well-endowed barnacles can change the size and shape of their penises.

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Episode 11, Season 1
You Have Mites Living On Your Face

Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face

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Episode 10, Season 1
What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain?

Herpes is probably hiding in your nerve cells right now.

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Episode 9, Season 1
Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb

Sand tiger shark fetuses eat their siblings in the womb.

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Episode 8, Season 1
Can Cocaine Make Your Ears Rot?

Cocaine is being mixed with a dangerous drug called levamisole.

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Episode 31, Season 1
Why Don't Vultures Get Food Poisoning?

Vultures have a number of traits that allow them to eat the grossest stuff.

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Episode 29, Season 1
How Dirty Are Public Restrooms?

What is lurking in the bathroom?

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Episode 22, Season 1
What Is the Black Plague... And Should You Be Worried?

osemite National Park just shut down two campgrounds due to the plague.

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Episode 21, Season 1
Can Spider Venom Cure Erectile Dysfunction?

Venom from the Brazilian wandering spider can give men a long-lasting, painful erection.

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Episode 20, Season 1
What Can You Learn From Ancient Poop?

Fossilized poop, called coprolites, can reveal surprising secrets about the past.

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Episode 19, Season 1
Why Neuroscientists Love Kinky Sea Slugs

The California brown sea hare has gigantic neurons. It also has a very strange way of repr

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Episode 17, Season 1
Would You Wear Clothing Made of Slime?

Scientists think hagfish slime could be the next eco-friendly, high-performance material.

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Episode 16, Season 1
These Baby Toads Burst Out Of Their Mom's Back

Like popping pimples? Then you'll love how the Surinam toad gives birth.

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Episode 12, Season 1
What Lives In Cheese?

What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it.

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Episode 40, Season 1
Could We Rid The World Of Mosquitoes?

A new technology could make diseases like Zika a thing of the past. But should we use it?

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Episode 39, Season 1
What Really Causes Cavities?

Hate going to the dentist? Keep the millions of microbes in your mouth happy.

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Episode 32, Season 1
How Far Do Sneezes and Vomit Travel?

Germs can travel way farther than you might think.

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Episode 35, Season 1
How To Make Glow-In-The-Dark Slime!

You can make glow-in-the-dark slime with common household items—and learn some really cool

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Episode 33, Season 1
5 Gross Facts About Koalas

Baby koalas eat their mom's poop... and that's just the beginning.

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Episode 30, Season 1
Can Microbes Solve Murder Mysteries?

Meet your necrobiome: The microbes that feast on your body after death.

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Episode 28, Season 1
Much A-Doo About Poo

Poop is a great source of fertilizer, heat, and electricity.

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Episode 26, Season 1
The Horrors of Ancient Cataract Surgeries

Doctors have been slicing into eyeballs for over 2500 years.

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Episode 13, Season 1
The Strangest Use For Bacon... Ever?

Everyone loves bacon. Even parasitic botflies living under your skin.

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Episode 7, Season 1
Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?

Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.

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Episode 5, Season 1
Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming?

Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere.

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Episode 4, Season 1
Can Poop Cure an Infection?

Fecal transplants-putting one person's poop into another person's gut-are surprisingly eff

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Episode 3, Season 1
Sea Cucumber Evisceration

Sea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves.

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Episode 27, Season 1
Why Get Your Tetanus Shot?

Avoiding your tetanus shot? Here’s why that might be a bad idea.

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Episode 25, Season 1
Three Ways Pee Could Change the World

We can use urine to make medicines, power cell phones, and create “pee-cycled” water.

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Episode 23, Season 1
These Animals Use Poop to Protect Themselves

Nothing says “stay away” quite like a fecal shield.

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Episode 18, Season 1
Why Don't These Cicadas Have Butts?

The fungus Massospora cicadina makes periodical cicadas’ butts fall off.

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Episode 15, Season 1
What are Tonsil Stones?

If you’ve got white lumps in your throat, they could be tonsil stones or “tonsilloliths.”

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Episode 24, Season 1
White Sand Beaches Are Made of Fish Poop

Parrotfish poop out sand, and that’s just the beginning of what makes these guys weird.

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Episode 2, Season 1
Death of Dragon Worms

Guinea worms have plagued humans for millennia, but they’re almost extinct.

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Episode 38, Season 1
Why Do Deep Sea Creatures Look So Scary?

Deep sea creatures like the anglerfish look terrifying.

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Episode 37, Season 1
Build Your Own Microscope

See the creatures living in a puddle using your phone, poster tack, and a laser pointer.

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Episode 36, Season 1
Why Do You Get Sick After Exams?

Does it seem like every year you get sick the minute you start your vacation?

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Episode 1, Season 1
How Different Diseases Make You Smell

What's making you sick? You might be able to tell based on how you smell.

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