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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of yoga. The beginnings of Yoga were developed by the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in Northern India over 5,000 years ago.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the properties of ice and water, a companion to our previous episode called …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the properties of water and ice. Water is unique in that it is the only …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into Astral Projection, an out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron delves into fluid intelligence. Fluid intelligence is the capacity to think logically and solve …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," it's our spooky 2019 Halloween special! Rich calls into the show to share a horrific Brazilian wax story, Zorg from the planet Zeon calls in to share that he's retired from …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into savants. What Makes an autistic person a savant? A savant is a person who is diagnosable with savant syndrome— a condition once referred to by the …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Rich is missing in action, but Aaron and producer Alex Knight are here to talk about indoor biomes, an …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of socialism and how it applies to modern times, both in Canada …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into what it means to seek asylum, with a focus on America's history.

Has the U.S. always offered asylum? In the country's early history, people fleeing …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the latest news and research behind the perils of vaping.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the psychology behind patriotism and other extreme forms of it.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into "Shine Theory," a practice of mutual investment in each other--and over the long term in helping someone be their best self and relying on their …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the absolute top 10 worst ways to die, and go into great detail about them. …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the highway of tears, which refers to a 724 km length of Yellowhead Highway 16 …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into hyponsis. Is it real and is there any science to it? Joining us is special …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the "Trail of Tears," which refers to the perilous journey of the "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast who were forced from their ancestral …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the public inquiry on the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

This is what it means to be born Indigenous, in Canada, in the 21st …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the criminal justice system and the Reid technique, a psychological method of …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich celebrate the Canada Day holiday by sharing some Canadian history, interesting facts, and …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the theory of Karma, why people believe in it, and whether or not it's complete BS.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the Denisovans, an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich get career advice from Jenn Swanson of "Careers By Jenn." They talk everything from podcasting, to work ethic, to how to secure a job.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the "Fear of Missing Out" (FOMO), with special guest Ned Donovan of the Encounter Party podcast!

FOMO is basically increased and pervasive anxiety …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), with special guest Ned Donovan of the Encounter Party podcast!

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into what polyamory is and is not, with special guest Ying Ying Lee.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into Overton's Window.

Joseph Overton observed that in a given public policy area, …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into Munchausen Syndrome. What exactly is it? It's a factitious disorder wherein …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into emerging science behind restoring cellular activity in dead pig brains, with …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast with special guest Paul Welters, a MMA …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of feminism, what it really means and how it's misunderstood, why it's hated, and more!

Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of inversion therapy, what it is, how it's used, and much more!

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into human emotions and explain how they serve a very specific purpose in evolution …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into aliens. Fact or fiction? Is there advanced life other than us in the cosmos?

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of the Bogeyman as it pertains to various cultures. You know, that …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into death, how to cope with it, how people and animals interpret it differently, and also share some personal stories.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the phenomena of crop circles, who creates them and why?

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of Valentine's Day and figure out when it changed from largely a …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the anti-vaxxer craze. What, you thought this issue went away?

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the regrettably common and often stigmatized issue of depression. We've aptly titled this episode "Smiling Depression," because a lot of us that …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into stress, how it affects the human body, and some remedies and preventative maintenance to minimize it.

What is stress? Stress is your body's way of …

Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into carbon tax, why we have it, and what it means for our environment and future.

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Synopsis: This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into sex vs gender, which an expansion on the episode we did on gender identity.

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the dark and unsettling history of residential schools in Canada.

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Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich celebrate the winter holiday by looking at the history of Christmas.

The first Christmas …

Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into online privacy. Is privacy a fundamental right and what are we doing to …

Synopsis This week on "Learn Me Something," Aaron and Rich delve into the history of tap dancing!

How it got started:

Tap dancing has a number of ancestors; most notably Irish step dancing and African dancing …

Synopsis This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into how we can all build better B.S. detectors, i.e, critical thinking skills.

David Foster Wallace famously argued that:

learning how to think really …

Synopsis This week on “Learn Me Something,” Aaron and Rich delve into the topic of tickling and how it relates to intimacy as well as torture.

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