The Very Excellent Reasons We Have a 7-Day Week & How Cats Became Pets
As you know, you can’t tickle yourself. But if you are ticklish, anyone else can tickle you. So why is that? Even if you know someone is about to tickle you, it still tickles. Listen as this episode b...
22 Mai 202348min
SYSK Choice: The Science of Happily Ever After & How To Rethink Anything
When you have a smart phone, you can take pictures of anything, anytime, anywhere. This episode starts with one very simple piece of advice that can make the pictures you take more interesting and mor...
20 Mai 202354min
The Benefits of Finding Wonder In The World & What Is Money and How Does It Work?
Where and when did someone come up with the idea for sunglasses? This episode begins with a brief history that goes way back in time to the very first sunglasses and how our modern-day sunglasses came...
18 Mai 202346min
Why We All Get Stuck In Life and How To Get Unstuck & The New Science of Longevity
You know that if you don’t drink enough water you get dehydrated. Still, there are other factors that can accelerate dehydration you may not be aware of. This episode begins by explaining what situati...
15 Mai 202348min
SYSK Choice: Your Illusion of Knowledge & Has Restaurant Nutrition Really Improved?
Timing is important, especially when it comes to the big life decisions you make. In fact, the time of day you make a big decision matters a lot. This episode begins with an explanation of how timing ...
13 Mai 202351min
How The “User Experience” Became A Thing & How To Change Someone’s Mind
“Don’t spoil the ending!” It seems no one wants to know how a story or movie ends until they see it end in real time. But maybe knowing the ending first could make the experience better. Is that possi...
11 Mai 202350min
Why Parking Your Car Is Such a Pain & How Invisible Microbes Shape Your World
Drinking coffee in the morning is a pleasant habit for many of us. However, this episode begins by explaining why you might want to smell your coffee as well as drink it to help you think better and b...
8 Mai 202349min
SYSK Choice: Improving Your Digital Body Language & How Food Affected Human Evolution
Doctors are supposed to know medical truth from myth. Yet a lot of doctors are misinformed – at least on some things. This episode begins with some information about a survey that showed how many pedi...
6 Mai 202349min
