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Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious-curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood.

Did you know that stars are seasonal?

Here are hundreds of questions you didn't get answered the first time around - questions you'd only ask a doctor after a few drinks!

The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?

A light-hearted look at everything you ever wanted to know about dogs .

An informative look at everything you ever wanted to know about cats .

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?

'A very well written book about geology and geological history' Sir David Attenborough, The Times'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past.

THE FOUR MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe brilliantly argued and impassioned classic polemic from the world s best-known atheist.

We are born with the instinct to create and invent.

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart.

From the author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Female Brain comes this eagerly awaited follow-up.

The description of creation as it appears in the Bible makes no sense.

Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed?

Without plants, there would be no life on earth.

When and how did the universe begin?

When the powers that be reduced the speed limit on Lake Windermere to 10 knots, waterskiers complained that their sport was now completely scuppered.

'Alternative' medicine is now used by one in three of us.

Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get out of bed in the morning?

Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment?

This is a book about universes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2015 As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category.

It is estimated that there are over 100,000 people suffering from M.

A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.

'A surprising, absorbing and perceptive book.

Filled with intriguing true stories, and packed with black-and-white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists - including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms specialists, and autopsists - to uncover the vast and detailed under workings of criminal investigation.

Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion.

Timothy Ferris, bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, brilliantly synthesizes inner and outer space with a penetrating examination into the nature of the universe and the human brain that perceives it.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

In Lost in Space, Greg Klerkx argues that ever since the triumphant Apollo moon missions, the Space Age has been stuck in the wrong orbit, and that NASA, the agency whose daring once fueled the world's extra-terrestrial vision, has been largely responsible for keeping it there.

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged.

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged.

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged.

Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium.

Why does my shampoo stop working?

In 2010, scientists led by J.

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age.

'This is an important book.

Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter.

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of the international bestseller The Double Helix, tells the story of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago, following modern genetics from his own Nobel prize-winning work in the fifties to today's Dolly the sheep, designer babies and GM foods.

Can we make a human being?

What if we told you.

When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men.

All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history.

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of silicon about the size of a thumbnail.

The constants of nature are the numbers that define the essence of the Universe.

How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing?

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHere is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war.