
Your weekly dose of some of the world’s latest and greatest science news, technological advancements, absurd curiosities, and groundbreaking research in everything from ancient history to the future of astrophysics. Join Lauren Vogelbaum and the HowStuffWorks team as they explore humanity’s newest discoveries in HowStuffWorks NOW.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 59 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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| Category | Society & Culture | ||||

Since sexual contact can transmit disease, why don't any diseases increase our sex drive? Why is Wednesday pronounced differently than it's spelled? Why do British lawyers and judges still wear powdered wigs? The answers, plus a fond farewell.
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There's science behind why reheated coffee is terrible. In the incredible future, we may have better ways to mammogram. Plus, the woman who founded home economics was all kinds of amazing.
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Research into missing limbs indicates that our brains control function differently than we thought. Underground mole rats can live without oxygen. Plus, the mysteries of Blood Falls have been solved.
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Female Supreme Court justices get interrupted three times as often as male justices. Climbing stairs may be as effective as caffeine at perking you up. Plus, today's teens are doing pretty OK. Really.
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I came across your podcast a few months ago. Since then I’ve binged on every podcast from the show. I’m currently listening to How Drowning Works. This hits home. My nephew drowned while serving in the Special Forces. He was an Olympic swimmer and this kind of death was unimaginable. On that note, there is a thing called Shallow Water Drowning that you may want to do a show on.
Keep up the great work of educational things that we all need to know and store in our brains.
Carol C
Baltimore, MD
HowStuffWorks NOW is a slice into HowStuffWorks' history. If you want to see the logical progression after Stuff You Should Know and HowStuffWorks' robust articles, and if you want to see the predecessor to The Daily Zeitgeist, this show gives you a taste of that. By far the most interesting episode is the transhumanist one.
Great podcast to listen to when walking for a short time 👍🏼, the length of the podcast makes sense for people in this day and age
Interesting and relevant content delivered in digestible bite sized audio mouthfuls! Keep it up!
I love the how stuff works shows but the host uses "axed", instead of asked.
Why is it so difficult to speak Escape, Especially, and Asked.
It's a phenomenon I've wondered for years, even for stuff you should know.
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