List of Stuff You Should Know episodes (2012)

This is a list of episodes from 2012 for the Stuff You Should Know podcast

2012 season

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Length	Original air date
386[1]	1	"How Yo-Yos Work"	31 minutes	January 3, 2012
387[2]	2	"Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?"	38 minutes	January 5, 2012
388[3]	3	"Can you vacation in Antarctica?"	36 minutes	January 10, 2012
389[4]	4	"What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?"	44 minutes	January 12, 2012
390[5]	5	"Are contrails actually chemtrails?"	32 minutes	January 17, 2012
391[6]	6	"How Mexican Wrestling Works"	40 minutes	January 19, 2012
392[7]	7	"How Human Trafficking Works"	34 minutes	January 24, 2012
393[8]	8	"How Floods Work"	32 minutes	January 26, 2012
394[9]	9	"How Magic Mushrooms Work"	50 minutes	January 31, 2012
395[10]	10	"What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?"	46 minutes	February 2, 2012
396[11]	11	"Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?"	32 minutes	February 7, 2012
397[12]	12	"How Coral Reefs Work"	35 minutes	February 9, 2012
398[13]	13	"How Zero Works"	30 minutes	February 14, 2012
399[14]	14	"How Autopsies Work"	49 minutes	February 16, 2012
400[15]	15	"How Spies Work"	43 minutes	February 21, 2012
401[16]	16	"Fasting: deadly or what?"	34 minutes	February 23, 2012
402[17]	17	"How Crying Works"	39 minutes	February 28, 2012
403[18]	18	"How SETI Works"	38 minutes	March 1, 2012
404[19]	19	"Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet"	42 minutes	March 6, 2012
405[20]	20	"How Noah’s Ark Worked"	31 minutes	March 8, 2012
406[21]	21	"Should chimps be used for medical testing?"	32 minutes	March 13, 2012
407[22]	22	"How the Donner Party Worked"	36 minutes	March 15, 2012
408[23]	23	"How Comic Books: Live from SXSW"	56 minutes	March 20, 2012
409[24]	24	"How Tipping Works"	50 minutes	March 22, 2012
410[25]	25	"10 Big Cases of Revenge"	44 minutes	March 27, 2012
411[26]	26	"How Music Sampling Works"	44 minutes	March 29, 2012
412[27]	27	"How Diamonds Work"	40 minutes	April 3, 2012
413[28]	28	"How Beer Works"	48 minutes	April 5, 2012
414[29]	29	"Was Atlantis a real place?"	32 minutes	April 10, 2012
415[30]	30	"Body Odor: You Stink"	45 minutes	April 11, 2012
416[31]	31	"How Whaling Works"	35 minutes	April 17, 2012
417[32]	32	"Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think"	38 minutes	April 19, 2012
418[33]	33	"How Air Traffic Control Works"	39 minutes	April 24, 2012
419[34]	34	"How Medical Marijuana Works"	33 minutes	April 26, 2012
420[35]	35	"How did language evolve?"	27 minutes	May 1, 2012
421[36]	36	"How Bullfighting Works"	44 minutes	May 3, 2012
422[37]	37	"Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?"	34 minutes	May 8, 2012
423[38]	38	"What is a shotgun house?"	23 minutes	May 10, 2012
424[39]	39	"Interpol: World Police"	32 minutes	May 15, 2012
425[40]	40	"What is the future of Earth?"	33 minutes	May 17, 2012
426[41]	41	"How Labor Unions Work"	48 minutes	May 22, 2012
427[42]	42	"Are we obsessed with goals?"	40 minutes	May 24, 2012
428[43]	43	"Do video games produce real-life violence?"	32 minutes	May 29, 2012
429[44]	44	"Can it rain frogs?"	25 minutes	May 31, 2012
430[45]	45	"How Moss Works"	32 minutes	June 5, 2012
431[46]	46	"Fractals: Whoa"	34 minutes	June 7, 2012
432[47]	47	"Should we have a fat tax?"	35 minutes	June 12, 2012
433[48]	48	"Whatever happened to acid rain?"	30 minutes	June 14, 2012
434[49]	49	"How Icebergs Work (Very Cool)"	38 minutes	June 19, 2012
435[50]	50	"10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers"	36 minutes	June 21, 2012
436[51]	51	"Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar"	50 minutes	June 26, 2012
437[52]	52	"What’s the deal with Executive Orders?"	34 minutes	June 28, 2012
438[53]	53	"Is the Dead Sea dead?"	26 minutes	July 3, 2012
439[54]	54	"How Tabloids Work"	50 minutes	July 5, 2012
440[55]	55	"Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo"	28 minutes	July 10, 2012
441[56]	56	"How Lightning Works"	39 minutes	July 12, 2012
442[57]	57	"How Disco Works"	48 minutes	July 17, 2012
443[58]	58	"Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?"	28 minutes	July 19, 2012
444[59]	59	"How White-collar Crime Works"	44 minutes	July 24, 2012
445[60]	60	"How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con)"	27 minutes	July 26, 2012
446[61]	61	"How the Musketeers Worked"	29 minutes	July 31, 2012
447[62]	62	"Can we build an elevator to space?"	30 minutes	August 2, 2012
448[63]	63	"How Ramadan Works"	31 minutes	August 7, 2012
449[64]	64	"How Shark Attacks Work"	39 minutes	August 9, 2012
450[65]	65	"The Shark Diaries"	40 minutes	August 14, 2012
451[66]	66	"Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?"	34 minutes	August 16, 2012
452[67]	67	"Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record"	31 minutes	August 21, 2012
453[68]	68	"What happens to abandoned mines?"	26 minutes	August 23, 2012
454[69]	69	"How the Electoral College Works"	41 minutes	August 28, 2012
455[70]	70	"How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work"	27 minutes	August 30, 2012
456[71]	71	"Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?"	29 minutes	September 4, 2012
457[72]	72	"Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish"	36 minutes	September 6, 2012
458[73]	73	"How Asexuality Works"	34 minutes	September 11, 2012
459[74]	74	"How Book Banning Works"	30 minutes	September 13, 2012
460[75]	75	"Are we all Martians?"	28 minutes	September 18, 2012
461[76]	76	"Why does music provoke emotion?"	64 minutes	September 20, 2012
462[77]	77	"Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes"	28 minutes	September 25, 2012
463[78]	78	"Subways: HUH! What are they good for?"	43 minutes	September 27, 2012
464[79]	79	"How Whiskey Runners Worked"	30 minutes	October 2, 2012
465[80]	80	"How Fire Works"	28 minutes	October 4, 2012
466[81]	81	"How Rainforests Work"	40 minutes	October 9, 2012
467[82]	82	"How Pizza Works!"	51 minutes	October 11, 2012
468[83]	83	"How Black Holes Work"	31 minutes	October 16, 2012
469[84]	84	"How Lion Taming Works"	28 minutes	October 18, 2012
470[85]	85	"How Commercial Jingles Work"	35 minutes	October 23, 2012
471[86]	86	"Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?"	31 minutes	October 25, 2012
472[87]	87	"SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!"	24 minutes	October 30, 2012
473[88]	88	"Is Stockholm Syndrome real?"	34 minutes	November 1, 2012
474[89]	89	"Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines"	37 minutes	November 6, 2012
475[90]	90	"What will happen when we reach the Singularity?"	40 minutes	November 8, 2012
476[91]	91	"How close are we to holographic environments?"	24 minutes	November 13, 2012
477[92]	92	"How Meth Works"	48 minutes	November 15, 2012
478[93]	93	"Should we be designing our children?"	35 minutes	November 20, 2012
479[94]	94	"Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It"	46 minutes	November 22, 2012
480[95]	95	"Why do leaves change colors in the fall?"	24 minutes	November 27, 2012
481[96]	96	"How Caving Works"	50 minutes	November 29, 2012
482[97]	97	"How Vampires Work"	49 minutes	December 4, 2012
483[98]	98	"Will we reach peak oil?"	38 minutes	December 6, 2012
484[99]	99	"Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?"	37 minutes	December 11, 2012
485[100]	100	"How Condoms Work"	62 minutes	December 13, 2012
486[101]	101	"Lab-grown meat: Order up!"	29 minutes	December 18, 2012
487[102]	102	"How Barbie® Doll Works"	62 minutes	December 20, 2012
488[103]	103	"Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012"	46 minutes	December 21, 2012
489[104]	104	"How Dog Shows Work"	41 minutes	December 27, 2012

References

1. How Yo-Yos Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
2. Was there a curse on King Tut’s tomb?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
3. Can you vacation in Antarctica?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
4. What’s the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
5. Are contrails actually chemtrails?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
6. How Mexican Wrestling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
7. How Human Trafficking Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
8. How Floods Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
9. How Magic Mushrooms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
10. What’s the 10,000 Year Clock?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
11. Pickpockets: Artists or Crooks?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
12. How Coral Reefs Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
13. How Zero Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
14. How Autopsies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
15. How Spies Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
16. Fasting: deadly or what?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
17. How Crying Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
18. How SETI Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
19. Duels: A guide to throwing down the gauntlet. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
20. How Noah’s Ark Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
21. Should chimps be used for medical testing?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
22. How the Donner Party Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
23. How Comic Books: Live from SXSW. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
24. How Tipping Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
25. 10 Big Cases of Revenge. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
26. How Music Sampling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
27. How Diamonds Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
28. How Beer Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
29. Was Atlantis a real place?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
30. Body Odor: You Stink. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
31. How Whaling Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
32. Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You’d Think. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
33. How Air Traffic Control Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
34. How Medical Marijuana Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
35. How did language evolve?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
36. How Bullfighting Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
37. Did the Dutch trade Manhattan for nutmeg?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
38. What is a shotgun house?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
39. Interpol: World Police. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
40. What is the future of Earth?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
41. How Labor Unions Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
42. Are we obsessed with goals?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
43. Do video games produce real-life violence?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
44. Can it rain frogs?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
45. How Moss Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
46. Fractals: Whoa. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
47. Should we have a fat tax?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
48. Whatever happened to acid rain?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
49. How Icebergs Work (Very Cool). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
50. 10 Accidental Inventions: By the Numbers. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
51. Lying Liars: How Lying Works, Liar. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
52. What’s the deal with Executive Orders?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
53. Is the Dead Sea dead?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
54. How Tabloids Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
55. Geysers: Nature’s Innuendo. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
56. How Lightning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
57. How Disco Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
58. Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
59. How White-collar Crime Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
60. How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con). HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
61. How the Musketeers Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
62. Can we build an elevator to space?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
63. How Ramadan Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
64. How Shark Attacks Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
65. The Shark Diaries. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
66. Did Reagan’s Star Wars program win the Cold War?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
67. Why You Probably Have a Criminal Record. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
68. What happens to abandoned mines?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
69. How the Electoral College Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
70. How Flesh-eating Bacteria Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
71. Can you test a nuclear weapon without a fallout?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
72. Bioluminescence: A Bright and Shiny Fish. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
73. How Asexuality Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
74. How Book Banning Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
75. Are we all Martians?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
76. Why does music provoke emotion?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
77. Q: Are we in the midst of cyberwar? A: Yes. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
78. Subways: HUH! What are they good for?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
79. How Whiskey Runners Worked. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
80. How Fire Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
81. How Rainforests Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
82. How Pizza Works!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
83. How Black Holes Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
84. How Lion Taming Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
85. How Commercial Jingles Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
86. Exoskeletons: How’s it coming?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
87. SYSK’s Halloween Horror Fiction Winner!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
88. Is Stockholm Syndrome real?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
89. Yakuza: From Samurai to Slot Machines. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
90. What will happen when we reach the Singularity?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
91. How close are we to holographic environments?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
92. How Meth Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
93. Should we be designing our children?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
94. Philanthropy: Humankind and Loving It. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
95. Why do leaves change colors in the fall?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
96. How Caving Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
97. How Vampires Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
98. Will we reach peak oil?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
99. Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
100. How Condoms Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
101. Lab-grown meat: Order up!. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
102. How Barbie® Doll Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
103. Josh and Chuck’s Christmas Extravaganza 2012. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
104. How Dog Shows Work. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

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