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How do landfills work? How do mosquitos work? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks Podcasts.

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"And since I said 5K…"

Not to pick sides here, but… Go #TeamChuck!

More Miles = More Smiles!

"And since I said 10K…"

The perfect accessory for your DeLorean, Pinto, reinvented 2012 Camry, or what have you. (*Wayback Machine not included.)

The best of both hosts! Go #TeamChosh!

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The best of both hosts! Go #TeamJuck!

Mmm, Stroopwafels…

You say it all the time to your friends, now you can just point to your shirt!

Be all that you can be… with this sweet SYSK Army gear! (Each and every sale supports Kiva!)

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Official t-shirt for the live shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY

Be all that you can be… with this sweet SYSK Army gear! (Each and every sale supports Kiva!)

Don't yuck someone's yum.

BRAINS!

We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first. How about surviving in style!

How do landfills work? How do mosquitos work? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks Podcasts.

Major in nonsense, minor in tomfoolery

As LGBTQI allies, Josh and Chuck want to help all SYSK listeners show their Pride and podcast love year round!

Let's all hop in Stuff You Should Know's Wayback Machine...!

Clark me this awesome design!

Surprisingly the field of particle physics poses a handful of existential threats, not just for us humans, but for everything alive on Earth – and in some cases, the entire universe. Poking around on the frontier of scientific understanding has its risks.

We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first. Join Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know for a 10-episode deep dive that explores the future of humanity and finds dangers we have never encountered before lurking just ahead. And if we humans are alone in the universe, if we don't survive intelligent life dies out with us too.

Chuck Bryant of Stuff You Should Know sits down with your favorite people to talk about their favorite movie. More conversation than interview, Movie Crush, at its heart, is about the love affair we all have with the silver screen.

We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first. Join Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know for a 10-episode deep dive that explores the future of humanity and finds dangers we have never encountered before lurking just ahead. And if we humans are alone in the universe, if we don't survive intelligent life dies out with us too.

Epilogue: There’s one last thing. Maybe the reason why we don’t see other intelligent life, maybe the reason we are in the astoundingly unique position of having to save the future of the human race, is because we are simulated human beings. It would explain a lot.

Natural viruses and bacteria can be deadly enough; the 1918 Spanish Flu killed 50 million people in four months. But risky new research, carried out in an unknown number of labs around the world, are creating even more dangerous humanmade pathogens.

We humans are our own worst enemies when it comes to what it will take to deal with existential risks. We are loaded with cognitive biases, can’t coordinate on a global scale, and see future generations as freeloaders. Seriously, are we going to survive?

Humanity could have a future billions of years long – or we might not make it past the next century. If we have a trip through the Great Filter ahead of us, then we appear to be entering it now. It looks like existential risks will be our filter.

The Great Filter hypothesis says we’re alone in the universe because the process of evolution contains some filter that prevents life from spreading into the universe. Have we passed it or is it in our future? Humanity’s survival may depend on the answer.