HowStuffWorks
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Oct 28, 2026
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Treats are nice, and buying them from companies that care about their workers is even better.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Today's episode is based on the article, How That Creamy Chocolate Is Made, on HowStuffWorks.com, written by Shanna Friedman and Aliyah Hoyt.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
BrainStuff is a production of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with HowStuffWorks.com and is produced by Tyler Klang.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
For more shows from iHeart Podcasts, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
This episode is brought to you by Restigo.
Ben BowlinHOST
A moot of a backstory, if we may, courtesy of our old paterfamilias, Marshall Brain.
Ben BowlinHOST
Marshall Brain wrote about SmartDust years and years ago in an article for HowStuffWorks.
Ben BowlinHOST
And the way he explains it, smart dust is just one of the more recent names for a computing concept, also known as MOTES, M-O-T-E-S, or wireless sensing networks.
Ben BowlinHOST
And Marshall is the guy who taught us how to break complex ideas down into simple, understandable components.
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Ben BowlinHOST
And of course, the Rand Corporation and our old friends at DARPA, which we sometimes call the mad science wing of the U.S. military.
Matt FrederickHOST
Just to date this stuff, it is 2003 when you see most of the writing begin, like the public writing begin about this technology.
Matt FrederickHOST
And I wish HowStuffWorks dated their articles.
Matt FrederickHOST
Isn't that crazy?
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Then the story fell off the radar.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
So, for the article this episode is based on, HowStuffWorks talked to Grams.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
He said via email,
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The burden of
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
in Las Vegas, which hosts collections of supposedly paranormal objects.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
So whether the stories about James Dean's cursed car are true or not, they're still selling tickets.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Today's episode is based on the article, Was James Dean's Car Cursed? on HowStuffWorks.com, written by Charisse Threewith.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
BrainStuff is a production of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with HowStuffWorks.com and is produced by Tyler Klang.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Everyone has free will.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Today's episode is based on the article Lilydale, Where the Living and the Dead Reconnect, on HowStuffWorks.com, written by Kristen Hall Geisler.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
BrainStuff is a production of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with HowStuffWorks.com and is produced by Tyler Klang.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
For more shows from iHeart Podcasts, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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How do you know that Claude won't become manipulative?
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
We all like a good story.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Today's episode is based on the article, How the Philadelphia Experiment Worked, on HowStuffWorks.com, written by Dave Ruse.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
And BrainStuff is a production of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with HowStuffWorks.com and is produced by Tyler Klang.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
For more shows from iHeart Podcasts, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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How do you know that Claude won't become manipulative?
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Today's episode is based on the articles Can Your Hair Turn White Overnight? by Laurie L.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Dove and Does Stress Really Make Your Hair Go Gray? by Molly Edmonds and Sarah Gleim, both on HowStuffWorks.com.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
BrainStuff is a production of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with HowStuffWorks.com and is produced by Tyler Klang.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
For more shows from iHeart Podcasts, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
This episode is brought to you by Restigo.
EmilyHOST
So first, my sources, of which there are so many because I had to go down a lot of rabbit holes.
EmilyHOST
People Magazine, History.com, All That's Interesting, Wikipedia, Medium, Japanese Time, or Japan Times, MonsterWith21Faces.com, HowStuffWorks, History Channel, Today, Psychology Today, and that should be it.
EmilyHOST
Boy.
EmilyHOST
That should be, I know.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
You can always email us.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
We're at parttimegenius@howstuffworks.com, or you could call us on our 24/7 fact hotline.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
That's 1-844-PT-GENIUS.
Mangesh HattikudurHOST
Or you can find us on Facebook or Twitter.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
Their native range is actually pretty limited, and they don't travel very far.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
For the article this episode is based on, HowStuffWorks spoke with Richard Vetter, a retired technician in the University of California Riverside Urban Entomology Department, whose work has changed the way doctors diagnose spider bites.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
He said, The distribution of brown recluses in the U.S. is a little like a rain cloud over the Midwest.
Lauren VogelbaumHOST
If you're standing in the center of the storm, in Kansas or Oklahoma, you're going to get very wet.
RachelHOST
There is an Australian Dingo Foundation.
RachelHOST
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies, the Australian Museum, HowStuffWorks, LindyChamberlain.com.
RachelHOST
It could be Mamma Mia or Mamma Mia.
RachelHOST
I'm not sure which.
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