Adam hits the gridiron – hard – to tackle why playoffs almost never determine which team is best, how myths about hydration are putting kids at risk and why the game must change due to football-related brain injuries.
From the glitzy red carpet to behind the scenes at the biggest awards to the sets of not-so-real reality shows, Adam flips the script on the entertainment biz. Here are his sources. Rated JWA… just as weird and arbitrary as the motion picture ratings system.
Is there a real difference between winning and losing? Why do athletes sometimes bite their medals? Why are sports so popular anyway? Go for the gold in knowledge with the facts behind the Adam Ruins Everything "Adam Ruins Sports" marathon that aired on truTV on August 16.
Here's something to talk about at your July 4th cookout: the facts behind everything we take for granted on Independence Day, as presented during the Adam Ruins Everything "Adam Ruins Americana" marathon that aired on truTV on June 28.
Don't let summer vacation make you dumber! Here are the sources behind all of the surprising new facts presented during the Adam Ruins Everything "Adam Ruins Summer" marathon that aired on truTV on May 24.
In this episode, Adam explained that death is inevitable and that that reality must be accepted, showed why immortality is nothing but a fantasy, revealed that the American funeral industry is a racket that exploits mourner's grief and fear of death and demonstrated how if you don't accept death, you can make terrible medical decisions that ruin what life you have left.
In this episode, Adam explained why vitamin supplements don't make us healthier and showed us the weird history behind the idea that they do, revealed that the balanced breakfast that advertisers push down our throats is anything but balanced and told us how due to faulty research and credulous reporters, much of the nutrition science reported on by the media isn't science at all.
In this episode, Adam explained that circumcision was popularized by a bunch of 19th-century prudes in an effort to curb masturbation, that no one should worry about whether or not they have herpes and why the term "pop your cherry" is a whole bunch of nonsense.