El iconoclasta Adam Conover de CollegeHumor le da la vuelta a los hechos de la vida tal como los conocemos para enseñarnos lo falsas, innecesarias, y a veces horribles, que son las cosas que damos por sentadas: desde el origen de los anillos de compromiso a la verdad tras los alimentos orgánicos o el negocio tras las prisiones.
Adam Ruins Everything (Temporada 2)
Adam Ruins Having a Baby 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-07-11
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam dispels the myth about getting pregnant after 35, delves into breastfeeding vs formula, and explores postpartum depression for women - and men.
Adam Ruins Weight Loss 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-07-18
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Host Adam Conover illustrates all the reasons low-fat diets can actually make you fatter, and why counting calories is a waste of time.
Adam Ruins the Hospital 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-07-25
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam Conover explains that inflated hospital costs have created a system that's unaffordable and unfair. Plus, the reckless prescription of antibiotics is making them worthless, and you might not need a mammogram.
Adam Ruins Dating 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-08-01
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam swipes right on knowledge by exposing the flaws in dating sites; the existence of alpha males (and wolves); personality tests.
Adam Ruins Art 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-08-08
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam poses the question of what makes great art and shows why pieces visible to the masses are revered, regardless of artistic merit. He then exposes the masters as copycats and reveals that today's art market is a moneymaking scheme.
Adam Ruins What We Learned in School 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-08-15
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam shows that Columbus didn't discover America, King Tut was a dud and the rules of grammar are not as ironclad as people think.
Adam Ruins College 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-08-22
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam explains why the odds of becoming a dropout billionaire are not in your favor, how manipulated school rankings have little to do with education quality and why the privatization of student loans created a massive debt crisis.
Emily Ruins Adam 6.5
Fecha de emisión: 2017-08-29
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Emily takes over to “ruin” Adam, pointing out where his facts fall short. She debunks the idea that IQ tests measure intelligence and points to information Adam has gotten wrong in the past. Plus, she explains the “backfire effect.”
Adam Ruins His Vacation 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-09-19
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam Conover and his girlfriend take a journey across America, where he reveals that Mount Rushmore was built on stolen Native American land, Vegas slot machines are purposely designed to be addicting, and a whole lot more!
Adam Ruins the Suburbs 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-09-26
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam explains how the idealized lawn is an unnatural monstrosity, and that the design of the suburbs is slowly killing you. Plus, the racist history of suburban planning led to today's institutionalized segregation in schools.
Adam Ruins The Economy 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-10-03
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam explains why lobbying makes filing your taxes so complicated, and why the economic numbers we focus on don't provide the whole story. Plus, American manufacturing can't come back because it was a fluke to begin with.
Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-10-10
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam Conover debunks the fake moon landing theory, discusses the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and reveals how to spot a false theory.
Adam Ruins Spa Day 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-10-17
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Pricey “detoxifying” treatments cleanse you of cash (and may do more harm than good), while MSG's scary reputation is undeserved. Plus, the placebo effect is way more powerful than you think!
Adam Ruins Halloween 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-10-24
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam reveals why you have nothing to fear from strangers with candy and how the “panic” over Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was the clickbait of the 1930s. And, mediums and séances have a long history - of being fake.
Adam Ruins Science 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-10-31
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Testing mice means wasted resources because what works on them often fails on humans. Scarce funding stops scientists from seeking cures, and there's no money in reproducing results, even though it's essential in proving findings.
Adam Ruins the Future 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2017-11-07
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam explains that unregulated food expiration dates lead to waste and that your 401(k) won't be enough to support your retirement. Plus, Adam's girlfriend Melinda proves that even with research, the future is unpredictable.
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Truth 8.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-03-20
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam Conover undermines everything you thought you knew about the American Revolution with startling facts about George Washington, Paul Revere's overrated ride, and the tale of a slave who helped America win.
The First Factsgiving 8.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-03-27
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: The Pilgrims didn't break bread with Native Americans, but did dig up their graves! There was no romance between Pocahontas and John Smith, and cities in the New World rivaled London in scale before their “discovery.”
Mutually Assured Ruination 7.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-04-03
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam reveals that the United States kicked off the Cuban Missile Crisis; a lone female politician stands up to Joseph McCarthy; a bureaucratic mistake brings down the Berlin Wall.
An Ancient History of Violence 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-04-10
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam shares that it was against the rules for gladiators to kill opponents, and tells the story of a Celtic woman who brought the Roman Empire to its knees. Plus, the brave “300” Spartans numbered closer to 7000.
The Copernican Ruin-aissance 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-04-17
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam sheds some light on Copernicus, who was actually supported (NOT persecuted) by the Catholic Church. Plus, a rogue dwarf revolutionized what we know about anatomy, and just wait until you hear about Tulip Mania!
100 Years Ago Today 6.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-04-24
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam digs into the Panama Canal, where Teddy Roosevelt formed a new country to snag free land. Plus, one man fought to keep food from killing us, while the Spanish Flu killed more Americans than all 20th century wars combined!
Adam Ruins Guns 8.5
Fecha de emisión: 2018-11-27
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam gets a shot at both sides of the gun debate by reviewing the science evidence of the effectiveness of gun regulation including stating that a ban on assault weapons would be ineffective, showing how the NRA has evolved over the years and influenced how the country interprets the meaning of the Second Amendment, and that both sides of the gun debate ignore how guns and gun regulation affect minorities.
Adam Ruins Sleep 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-12-04
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam states that the mattress industry was always a huge scam, that cheap school systems created sleep-deprived teenagers, and how "safe" sleep medications may actually be harmful.
Adam Ruins Tech 8.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-12-11
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam logs in to dulge into monopolistic tech companies by stating how Amazon's monopoly over online shopping harms consumers; how consumers do not fully own their technology devices because of corporate abuse of copyright law; and that tech companies not only routinely evade taxes, but also downright eradicate competition and harm society by abusing their monopoly power.
Adam Ruins Flying 0.0
Fecha de emisión: 2018-12-18
Duración: 30 min
Sinopsis: Adam takes to the skies to elucidate how airline miles and other credit card rewards are huge ripoffs, the extremely sexist "golden age of flying," and how lack of government regulation allowed the skies to be ruled with an iron fist.
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