Thanksgiving Dinner

In our last episode, we learn how to drink tea, build human towers, watch the sunset forever and find the Ian inside all of us. 

We learn what happened to a two-thousand year-old toe, and what to do when our voices make you sick. 

Devil In The White City author Erik Larson helps us write gooder, and we tell you how to snack silently at the movies. 

We love eating dinner together with friends and extended family, and we miss it! But why does sharing a meal mean so much—and can we ever recreate that on Zoom? As we wait for the dinner parties, cookouts, and potlucks of our post-pandemic future, join us as we explore the scienc ... Show More

How to win over Chinese friends and wrangle more dinner invites? It's all about the compliments, people. Learning how to wax poetic about food bodes well for your future popularity with your new-found partners in calories. In this podcast, learn to rhapsodize in Mandarin over ... Show More

Neil and Rob talk about comfort food and what actually makes us eat it. 

Bill rambles about the Super Bowl, things that should be illegal, and conflicting food facts. 

Hearing talk of turkey and mashed potatoes is like cruel and unusual punishment to oven-deprived China-ites. Rather than drooling, get into the spirit of Thanksgiving and be grateful: for cheap massages, the ayi you have that you could never afford at home, those BBQ meat skewers ... Show More

Daily gratitude + law of attraction + spiciest curry I’ve ever eaten + the most emotional episode finale I have ever watched Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

In recognition of Thanksgiving, Robert and Joe devote this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind to the very topics that might float through your head at the dinner table: What is a wishbone, why do we pull it apart and what does it have to do with dinosaurs? Are turkeys mes ... Show More

Go through an entire meal of expressions with this episode of Words and Their Stories. 

What do you and your family chat about at dinner? We eavesdrop on conversations over food all over the world, hearing about poetry, politics, what is on TV and how Morag’s leg is recovering. Whether you gossip or have more philosophical debates find out how integral good communic ... Show More