How To Stop Scrolling
The apps on our phones do an amazing job of sucking us in. In fact, a big court case just found that some of these companies should be held responsible for basically designing products to be addictive...
2 Apr 37min
The Great Mysteries of Sex with Mary Roach
Today, best-selling author and nerd Mary Roach joins us to talk all about sex. We’ll uncover the secrets of the female orgasm (does “upsuck” exist?), detail the bizarre methods of pioneering sex resea...
26 Mar 54min
Colon Cancer: Should Young People Worry?
Colorectal cancer has long been thought of as a disease of older folks. But that's changing — fast. Rates in older people are actually going down, and more and more people under 50 are getting this di...
19 Mar 40min
Sad Nipple Syndrome: A Booby Baffler
People are reporting a very strange phenomenon: They say that when their nipples get touched, they feel this weird sinking feeling. People describe it like being homesick, or hung over. Some feel angu...
12 Mar 27min
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?
UPDATE [June 30, 2026]: If we had our time again we would have produced this episode differently. We got carried away with the wildness of the story, from a scientific perspective, and didn't take tim...
26 Feb 25min
Brian Can’t Stop Fact-Checking His Mother-in-Law
We’ve all been there. Feeling stuck with a problem because no one in our life can relate. Or because the one person we need to talk to … won’t. Or can’t. Enter Yowei Shaw and the show Proxy. Proxy is ...
19 Feb 53min
Is Your Relationship … OK?
Forget the questionable relationship advice from internet influencers. Today, we’re diving into the science of lasting love, fighting, and "red flags” to find out what really matters for a healthy rel...
12 Feb 47min
What Do Tear Gas and ICE Raids Do to People?
Federal agents have descended on Minneapolis in the U.S., and things have gotten chaotic — and deadly. The Trump administration says the agents are there to enforce immigration law, but officers have ...
29 Jan 40min
