What’s the Best Passport to Carry? (And Why Do We Carry Passports?)
Travel identification has taken many forms over the years, from stone tablets to an exhausting process that involved posting your itinerary on a church door. But how did we arrive at the standardized ...
10 Mar 35min
Is Recycling Worth the Hassle?
Why does Germany use five different bins for recycling? Can you trick people into being greener by putting wolves on packaging? And is recycling a good business to be in? Plus, why Totes McGoats is on...
6 Mar 42min
9 Nutty Facts About Hard-Shelled Fruit
Why did people start (and stop) dyeing pistachios red? How do thieves pull off high-stakes nut heists? What’s up with the coconut that looks like a butt? And why do so many members of the PTG team hav...
3 Mar 27min
How Clean Should We Be?
Is our obsession with cleanliness keeping us from peak health? Also, can hookworm cure allergies? Will harvesting panda poop make you rich? Plus: Why Amish dust is superior to other dust (seriously!)....
27 Feb 40min
What’s the Best Way to Break a Bad Habit?
Why is it so hard to stop oversleeping and eating candy? Why is it equally hard to start going to the gym and preparing healthy snacks? If you’ve been struggling with New Year’s resolutions, you’re no...
24 Feb 34min
What Are the Only 10 Foods You'd Need to Survive?
We have ZERO intention of eating less food! But if you had to pare down your pantry to the bare minimum, what are the only foods you'd need to survive? Is an all-potato diet healthy? And did Steve Job...
20 Feb 40min
9 Awesome Facts about Opossums
We honk at them in the street and shoo them away from our trash cans, but opossums are so much more than nocturnal nuisances. In today’s episode, Mango and Gabe get better acquainted with America’s on...
17 Feb 33min
Why Are Humans So Obsessed With Chocolate?
Will and Mango are on a mission to uncover chocolate's darkest secrets. What's the difference between cacao and cocoa? Why have Swiss scientists been working on a pink chocolate for so long, and what ...
13 Feb 37min
