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Stuff You Should Know

The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How X-Rays Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Like many huge discoveries, X-rays were accidentally stumbled upon. That serendipity led to a medical breakthrough still in use today. Learn about how X-rays are created and why they make such delightful images of our bones.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.4

Hey, Chuck here, we're almost done, everybody, with the science playlist.

0:08.4

I hope all of our egghead friends out there got into this one.

0:12.0

This one is, I feel like quite a while ago.

0:15.6

But it's about x-rays.

0:16.8

It's called How X-rays Work, and it's super nerdy and super fascinating.

0:21.3

Give it a listen.

0:24.4

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.

0:34.1

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryan, as always.

0:39.6

And there's Jerry over there fiddling around with stuff. So it's stuff you should know the podcast.

0:45.7

Not stuff you should know the movie.

0:48.5

That's right. You know?

0:50.1

We're sworn to secrecy about that. That'd be a good movie. That'd be a bad movie.

0:53.9

I don't know, man.

0:54.6

It could go either way. I always see, I imagine it like strange brew. Oh, yeah? Yes. They could base it on the stuff you should know, tell all book I'm writing. Oh, yeah? That would be exciting. That would be very exciting. I'm looking forward to that book. Like a lifetime movie of the week.

1:12.2

Do you like switch people's names?

1:14.5

Like in my... would be exciting. That would be very exciting. I'm looking forward to that book. Like a lifetime

1:11.1

movie of the week. Do you like switch people's names? Like am I Joe? Joe Clack? Yeah, exactly.

1:19.3

No, it's sort of like like did you see the Save by the Bell movie on? Oh yeah, didn't

1:26.3

Screech write a book? It was based on a book by Screech, right? Yeah. Wasn't it like all sex and drugs and stuff? Oh, it was a bunch of teenagers in Hollywood, so sure, there was some of that in there. But it was, I didn't read the book, but the movie was bad and not nearly as salacious as you wanted it to be.

1:44.7

Right.

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