Why Do We Wear Clothes?

Deep in the basement of the San Diego Natural History Museum, there are thousands of jars filled with preserved reptiles and amphibians. In this episode, But Why takes a tour with collections manager Adam Clause to answer your questions about lizards! How do lizards climb walls? ...  Show more

But Why turns ten years old on April 1, 2026! To celebrate this milestone, we’re listening back to our very first episode. We’ve got owls and turtles and bears. Naturalist Mary Holland gets into the details about hibernation–including the questions you may not even have thought t ...  Show more

Clothes are records of the bodies we’ve lived in. Think of the old sweater that you used to have that’s just not your style anymore, or the jeans that just aren’t your size anymore. We are like snakes who shed our skins and grow new ones as we age. And it all starts in the kid ...

Why do the prices of clothes vary so much for similar items? How do the clothes at fast fashion franchises compare with the high-end clothing celebrities wear? In this episode, we talk with fashion experts to answer these questions and explore the history of the clothing we wear ...  Show more

Barbara hat mir eine Mail geschrieben. Sie reist im Juli nach Deutschland und möchte nicht als Touristin auffallen. Sie ist 50 Jahre alt und fragt, ob sie Jeans tragen kann, oder ob sie einen Rock anziehen soll. Ich finde es toll, dass sie sich über so etwas Gedanken macht! Also ...  Show more

Muchos de los estereotipos que existen en la sociedad están relacionados con la ropa y nuestro estilo. Desde que nacemos nos asignan colores para la ropa, la niñas de rosa, los niños de azul, los niños con pantalones, las niñas con vestidos. Esto no solo limita la forma en la que ...  Show more