Into the Ossuary: Consult the Bones - Part 2

Into the Ossuary: Consult the Bones - Part 2

You and your skeleton are cordially invited to join your Stuff to Blow Your Mind hosts on an excursion into the bone-choked depths of the HowStuffWorks ossuary. What curious skulls and skeletal specimens will they uncover? What curious science and cultural anomalies will factor into their discoveries? Grab a torch and join them in the depths in part 2 of 2.

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Supernormal Stimuli

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Techno-Religion for the Masses: Part 2

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Mass Extinction: Earth's Cycle of Annihilation

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Five mass extinction events have ravaged the species of Earth, and we just might be living in the sixth. How can humanity survive the threat of cosmic calamity and its own tireless work to unbalance t...

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Heartbeat in the Brain, Hole in the Skull

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Trepanation is an ancient surgical procedure and we've found the millennia-aged skulls to prove it - each punctured and gouged to relieve inner-pressure and inner-madness. But is such cranial perforat...

2 Jun 201532min

Silk of the Spider, Thread of the Future

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Scientifically Sound Weather Superstitions

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The Science of Coincidence

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