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Eva-Maria Geigl: The history of the world according to cats
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03, 2019
In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And unlike dogs, who have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats. .. show full overview
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Scott A. Mellor: How Thor got his hammer
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07, 2019
Loki the mischief-maker, writhes in Thor's iron grip. The previous night, he'd snuck up on Thor's wife and shorn off her beautiful hair. To fix what he'd done, Loki rushes to the dwarves .. show full overview
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Brooke Buddemeier and Jessica S. Wieder: Can you survive nuclear fallout?
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08, 2019
Nuclear weapons are some of the most powerful tools of destruction on Earth, and the full scope of a nuclear detonation is almost unimaginable. However, there is a scientifically .. show full overview
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Alex Gendler: Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle?
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10, 2019
After years of experiments, you've finally created the pets of the future – nano-rabbits! They're tiny, they're fuzzy ... and they multiply faster than the eye can see. But a rival lab .. show full overview
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Helen M. Farrell: The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
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14, 2019
In 1982, a young nurse was suffering from severe, unrelenting depression. She couldn't work, socialize or concentrate. One controversial treatment changed everything: after two courses .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: The myth of Pandora's box
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15, 2019
Pandora was the first mortal woman, breathed into being by Hephaestus, god of fire. The gods gave her gifts of language, craftsmanship and emotion. From Zeus she received two gifts: the .. show full overview
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Anne F. Broadbridge: A day in the life of a Mongolian queen
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17, 2019
As dawn breaks over a moveable city of ten thousand yurts, Queen Boraqchin readies her kingdom for departure to their summer camping grounds. While her husband, the grandson of Genghis .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Fahrenheit 451"?
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22, 2019
Ray Bradbury's novel imagines a world where books are banned- and possessing, let alone reading them, is forbidden.The protagonist, Montag, is a fireman responsible for destroying what .. show full overview
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Andrea M. Henle: How CRISPR lets you edit DNA
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24, 2019
From the smallest single-celled organism to the largest creatures on Earth, every living thing is defined by its genes. With recent advancements, scientists can change an organism's .. show full overview
2019x10
Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the vampire hunter riddle?
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28, 2019
You've stealthily descended into the darkness of a vampire cave, setting a sequence of mirrors as you go. When the sun reaches the right angle in the sky, a beam of light will ricochet .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read Flannery O'Connor?
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29, 2019
Flannery O'Connor scribbled tales of outcasts, intruders and misfits staged in the world she knew best: the American South. She was a master of the grotesque, but her work pushed beyond .. show full overview
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Jennifer Verduin: How do ocean currents work?
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31, 2019
In 1992, a cargo ship carrying bath toys got caught in a storm. Shipping containers washed overboard, and the waves swept 28,000 rubber ducks and other toys into the North Pacific. But .. show full overview
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Christina Greer: How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable
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04, 2019
In the late 1800's, lynchings were happening all over the American South, often without any investigation or consequences for the murderers. A young journalist set out to expose the .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"?
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05, 2019
Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves. It is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the .. show full overview
2019x21
Stefan Al: Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper?
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07, 2019
In 1956, architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a mile-high skyscraper, a building five times as high as the Eiffel Tower. While this massive tower was never built, today bigger and .. show full overview
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Michael S. A. Graziano: What is consciousness?
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11, 2019
Patient P.S. suffered a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain, leaving her unaware of everything on her left side. If someone threw a ball at her left side, she might duck. But .. show full overview
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Christina Greer: Notes of a native son: the world according to James Baldwin
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12, 2019
In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of America's most celebrated minds. The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Baldwin, one .. show full overview
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Anne Gaskett: The sexual deception of orchids
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14, 2019
Nearly 28,000 species of orchid grow all around the world, bearing every imaginable color, shape and pattern. There's a cunning purpose behind these elaborate displays: many orchids .. show full overview
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Venus Keus: Three ways the universe could end
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19, 2019
We know about our universe's past: the Big Bang theory predicts that all matter, time and space began about 14 billion years ago. And we know about the present: scientists' observations .. show full overview
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Christina Greer: An unsung hero of the civil rights movement
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21, 2019
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington to nearly a quarter million people. None of it would have been possible without the .. show full overview
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Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey: Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?
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25, 2019
Much science fiction features white male heroes who blast aliens or become saviors of brown people. Octavia E. Butler knew she could tell a better story. She built stunning worlds rife .. show full overview
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Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the jail break riddle?
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26, 2019
Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds .. show full overview
2019x29
Jordana Moore Saggese: The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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28, 2019
Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat used similar techniques to remix his materials. Pulling in .. show full overview
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Michelle Mehrtens: The historic women's suffrage march on Washington
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04, 2019
On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a .. show full overview
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Damion Searls: How does the Rorschach inkblot test work?
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05, 2019
For nearly a century, ten inkblots have been used as an almost mystical personality test. Long kept confidential for psychologists and their patients, the mysterious images were said to .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read Sylvia Plath?
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07, 2019
Under her shrewd eye and pen, Sylvia Plath turned everyday objects into haunting images: a "new statue in a drafty museum," a shadow in a mirror, a slab of soap. Her breathtaking .. show full overview
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Nick Pizzo: The physics of surfing
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11, 2019
Whether or not you realize it, surfers are masters of complicated physics. The science of surfing begins as soon as a board first hits the water. Surfers may not be thinking about .. show full overview
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Lillian Faderman: Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality
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12, 2019
By 1973, Harvey Milk had already been many things: naval officer, high school teacher, bit-part actor and wandering hippie. Starting fresh in San Francisco, his belief in a more personal .. show full overview
2019x35
Valentin Hammoudi: How tall can a tree grow?
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14, 2019
Reaching heights of over 100 meters, Californian sequoias tower over Earth's other 60,000 tree species. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits: no sequoia on record has been .. show full overview
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Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle?
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18, 2019
A shooting star crashes onto Earth and a hideous blob emerges. It creeps and leaps, it glides and slides. It's also unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and .. show full overview
2019x37
Using radioactive drugs to see inside your body - Pedro Brugarolas
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19, 2019
Is there a way to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s before they advance too far? Doctors are using injected radioactive drugs that circulate through the body and act as a .. show full overview
2019x38
Iseult Gillespie: The wicked wit of Jane Austen
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21, 2019
Whether she's describing bickering families, quiet declarations of love, or juicy gossip, Jane Austen's writing often feels as though it was written just for you. Her dry wit and cheeky .. show full overview
2019x39
Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler: What "Machiavellian" really means
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25, 2019
From Shakespeare's plays to modern TV dramas, the unscrupulous schemer for whom the ends always justify the means has become a familiar character type we love to hate. For centuries, .. show full overview
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David Ian Howe: A brief history of dogs
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26, 2019
Since their emergence over 200,000 years ago, modern humans have established communities all over the planet. But they didn't do it alone. Whatever corner of the globe you find humans in .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend
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28, 2019
In 1925, Frida Kahlo was on her way home from school in Mexico City when the bus she was riding collided with a streetcar. She suffered near-fatal injuries and her disability became a .. show full overview
2019x42
Tim Seibles: "First Kiss"
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01, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Stacie Bosley: How to spot a pyramid scheme
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02, 2019
In 2004, a nutrition company offered a life-changing opportunity to earn a full-time income for part-time work. There were only two steps to get started: purchase a $500 kit and recruit .. show full overview
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M Jackson: How to grow a glacier
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04, 2019
In the 13th century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering countries and drawing them into his empire. But, legend has it that there was one .. show full overview
2019x45
Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl: Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
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08, 2019
In 132 CE, Zhang Heng presented his latest invention: a large vase he claimed could tell them whenever an earthquake occurred for hundreds of miles. Today, we no longer rely on pots as .. show full overview
2019x46
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - Greg Foot
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09, 2019
The human body is made up of about 30 trillion cells that carry a code which has been duplicated over and over for billions of years - with varying degrees of accuracy. So what happens .. show full overview
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Kenny Coogan: The wild world of carnivorous plants
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11, 2019
Around the world there are more than 600 plant species that supplement a regular diet of sunlight, water and soil with insects, frogs and even rats. Flies, tadpoles and beetles fall prey .. show full overview
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Tomás Chor: Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics
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24, 2019
You're on an airplane when you feel a sudden jolt. Outside your window nothing seems to be happening, yet the plane continues to rattle you and your fellow passengers as it passes .. show full overview
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Michelle Brown: What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art?
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24, 2019
A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end. These bizarre images, painted with squirrel-hair brushes .. show full overview
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Christian Moro: The surprising reason our muscles get tired
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24, 2019
You're lifting weights. The first time feels easy, but each lift takes more and more effort until you can't continue. Inside your arms, the muscles responsible for the lifting have .. show full overview
2019x51
Sajan Saini: The hidden network that makes the internet possible
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24, 2019
In 2012, a team of researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that's 10,000 hours of high-def video— over a fifty-kilometer cable, in a second. This wasn't just any .. show full overview
2019x52
Silvia Moreno-García: Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
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24, 2019
Arcane books of forbidden lore, disturbing secrets in the family bloodline, and terrors so unspeakable the very thought of them might drive you mad. These have become standard elements .. show full overview
2019x53
Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle?
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25, 2019
You've promised to get your son the cutest creature in creation: the cuddly. It's part of the Wuddly species, cousin to the terrifying duddly and the hideous fuddly. To make one, 100 .. show full overview
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Oliver Elfenbaum: How does the stock market work?
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29, 2019
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe. In order to fund their voyages, the company turned to private citizens to invest .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why is this painting so shocking?
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01, 2019
In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed the village of Guernica in Northern Spain. For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a .. show full overview
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Denice Frohman: "Accents"
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06, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Amber M. Yates: How this disease changes the shape of your cells
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06, 2019
What shape are your cells? Squishy cylinders? Jagged zig-zags? You might not spend a lot of time thinking about the bodies of these building blocks, but microscopically, small variations .. show full overview
2019x58
Shunan Teng: The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake
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07, 2019
The talented herbalist Xu Xian had just started his own medicine shop where he created remedies with the help of his wife, Bai Su Zhen. One day a monk named Fa Hai approached him, .. show full overview
2019x59
Kay Almere Read: The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
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09, 2019
Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world. There had already been four worlds, each set in motion by its own "Lord Sun," .. show full overview
2019x60
Sajan Saini: How do self-driving cars "see"?
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13, 2019
It's late, pitch dark and a self-driving car winds down a narrow country road. Suddenly, three hazards appear at the same time. With no human at the wheel, the car uses smart eyes, .. show full overview
2019x61
Alex Gendler: Why should you read "Crime and Punishment"?
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14, 2019
What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer's mind? And what kind of a society breeds such people? Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took .. show full overview
2019x62
Fabio Pacucci: Can a black hole be destroyed?
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16, 2019
Black holes are among the most destructive objects in the universe. Anything that gets too close to a black hole, be it an asteroid, planet, or star, risks being torn apart by its .. show full overview
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Joshua W. Pate: The mysterious science of pain
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20, 2019
In 1995, the British Medical Journal published a report about a builder who accidentally jumped onto a nail, which pierced straight through his steel-toed boot. He was in such agonizing .. show full overview
2019x64
Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan: Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1)
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21, 2019
In medicine, there's often a disconnect between news headlines and the scientific research they cover. While headlines are designed to catch attention, many studies produce meaningful .. show full overview
2019x13
Safia Elhillo: "To Make Use of Water"
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24, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
2019x65
Shunan Teng: The Chinese myth of the white snake and the meddling monk
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24, 2019
Xu Xian had just received an invitation to the opening ceremony of a new temple. His wife, Bai Su Zhen, warned him not to attend, but Xu Xian, a devout Buddhist, felt obligated to make .. show full overview
2019x66
Claire Simeone: The lovable (and lethal) sea lion
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28, 2019
Sunning themselves on rocks or waddling awkwardly across the beach, it's easy to think of sea lions more as sea house cats. But don't be fooled by their beachside behavior. Under the .. show full overview
2019x18
Andrea Gibson: "The Nutritionist"
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30, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
2019x67
Alex Gendler: Why should you read "The Master and Margarita"?
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30, 2019
The Devil has come to town. But don't worry– all he wants to do is stage a magic show. This absurd premise forms the central plot of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece, "The Master and .. show full overview
2019x17
William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming"
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31, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
2019x68
Brendan Constantine: The Opposites Game
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03, 2019
A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun? This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for .. show full overview
2019x69
Sajan Saini: You are more transparent than you think
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04, 2019
It’s an increasingly common sight in hospitals around the world: a nurse measures our height, weight, blood pressure, and attaches a glowing plastic clip to our finger. Suddenly, a .. show full overview
2019x16
William Shakespeare: "All the World's a Stage"
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05, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan: This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait
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06, 2019
Health headlines are published every day, sometimes making opposite claims from each other. There can be a disconnect between broad, attention-grabbing headlines and the often specific, .. show full overview
2019x15
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz: "Three Months After"
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07, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
2019x71
Philip A. Chan: How close are we to eradicating HIV?
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10, 2019
The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: eradicating HIV. And to do this, we won't even have to cure the disease. We simply .. show full overview
2019x14
Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
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12, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Brian A. Pavlac: Ugly History: Witch Hunts
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12, 2019
In the German town of Nördlingen in 1593, innkeeper Maria Höll found herself accused of witchcraft. She was arrested for questioning, and denied the charges. She insisted she wasn't a .. show full overview
2019x73
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis: Underwater farms vs. climate change
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17, 2019
For billions of people, seafood provides a significant source of protein and nutrition, but over half the seafood we eat isn't caught in the wild, it's grown through aquaculture. Farmed .. show full overview
2019x74
Kaitlyn Sadtler: Your body vs. implants
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17, 2019
Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking. .. show full overview
2019x75
Graham Baird: How do crystals work?
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18, 2019
Many crystals have signature shapes— like the cascade of pointed quartz or a pile of galena cubes. Every crystal's atoms have a defining feature: their organized, repeating pattern. The .. show full overview
2019x76
Augusto Carballido: There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system
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20, 2019
Deep in our solar system, a new era of exploration is unfolding. Beneath the thick ice of Europa; in the vapor plumes on Enceladus; and within the methane lakes of Titan, scientists are .. show full overview
2019x77
Janelle Peters: How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles
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24, 2019
Starting in 80 CE, residents of Rome and visitors from across the Roman Empire would fill the stands of the Colosseum to see gladiators duel, animals fight and chariots race around the .. show full overview
2019x78
Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Hamlet"?
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25, 2019
"Who's there?" Whispered in the dark, this question begins a tale of conspiracy, deception and moral ambiguity. And in a play where everyone has something to hide, its answer is far from .. show full overview
2019x79
Melvin Sanicas: What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?
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27, 2019
In 2008, two 9,000-year old skeletons were found with their bones infected by an all too familiar bacterium. The ancient Greeks knew its effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky .. show full overview
2019x80
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard: The secret language of trees
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01, 2019
Most of the forest lives in the shadow of the giants that make up the highest canopy. These are the oldest trees, with hundreds of children and grandchildren. They check in with their .. show full overview
2019x81
Emma Lazarus: "New Colossus"
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08, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Emma Bryce: The most common STI in the world
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09, 2019
At some point, most sexually active people will be infected with human papillomavirus, or HPV. There are over 100 types of HPV, and most of the time the body eliminates infections .. show full overview
2019x83
Ilan Stavans: Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges
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16, 2019
What would it be like to have a limitless memory? Can the meaning of life be found in an infinite library? Is time a labyrinth or a single moment? Jorge Luis Borges explored these .. show full overview
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Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the dark matter fuel riddle?
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16, 2019
It's an incredible discovery: an abandoned alien space station filled with precursor technology. Now every species in the galaxy is in a mad dash to get there first, but you've got a .. show full overview
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Ramon Glazov: Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor
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18, 2019
In the 16th century, an anatomist named Andreas Vesalius made a shocking discovery: the most famous human anatomy texts in the world were wrong. While Vesalius knew he was right, .. show full overview
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Ilan Stavans: Romance and revolution: the poetry of Pablo Neruda
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23, 2019
A romantic and a revolutionary, Pablo Neruda was one of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century, but also one of the most accessible and controversial. Originally written in .. show full overview
2019x87
Bill Schutt: A brief history of cannibalism
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25, 2019
15th century Europeans believed they had hit upon a miracle cure: a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea and virtually any other medical ailment. It was a brown powder known .. show full overview
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Judy Cebra-Thomas: How turtle shells evolved... twice
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30, 2019
Modern turtle shells are almost as diverse as the turtles themselves. Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for gliding through the water. Land-dwelling tortoises have domed shells .. show full overview
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Soraya Field Fiorio: The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar
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01, 2019
In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were in a fight. It started with a disagreement over the behavior of a militia of monks, and ended with an accusation of .. show full overview
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Shrabani Basu: From pacifist to spy: WWII's surprising secret agent
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07, 2019
In May 1940, with the German army ready to occupy Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was faced with a difficult choice: stand on the sidelines or join the Allied forces fighting the Nazis. After .. show full overview
2019x91
Ben Longdon: How do viruses jump from animals to humans?
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08, 2019
At a Maryland country fair in 2017, farmers reported feverish hogs with inflamed eyes and running snouts. While farmers worried about the pigs, the department of health was concerned .. show full overview
2019x92
Chiara Decaroli: The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work
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13, 2019
Quantum computers could eventually outstrip the computational limits of classical computers. They rely on the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles, whose quantum states are .. show full overview
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Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the multiverse rescue mission riddle?
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15, 2019
It was a normal Tuesday at the superconductor, until a bug in the system caused your team to be trapped in 11 separate dimensions. Fortunately, there's a half-finished experimental .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Kafka on the Shore"?
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20, 2019
Desperate to escape his tyrannical father and the family curse he feels doomed to repeat, Haruki Murakami's teenage protagonist renames himself "Kafka" after his favorite author and runs .. show full overview
2019x95
Alex Gendler: A day in the life of a Cossack warrior
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26, 2019
The year is 1676, and a treaty has officially ended hostilities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. Despite a serene sunset on the Dnipro river, the mood .. show full overview
2019x96
Luka Seamus Wright: The mysterious origins of life on Earth
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26, 2019
Billions of years ago, simple organic compounds assembled into more complex coalitions that could grow and reproduce. At the time, Earth had widespread volcanic activity and a hostile .. show full overview
2019x97
Iseult Gillespie: The myth of Jason and the Argonauts
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27, 2019
Hercules, the strongest man alive with a mighty heart to match. Orpheus, charmer of nature and master of music. Castor and Pollux, the twin tricksters. The Boreads, sons of the North .. show full overview
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Anne F. Broadbridge: The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire
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29, 2019
It was the largest contiguous land empire in history— stretching from Korea to Ukraine, and from Siberia to southern China. And was forged on the open plains. In the 12th century, the .. show full overview
2019x99
Iseult Gillespie: The secret student resistance to Hitler
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03, 2019
In 1943, Allied aircraft rained tens of thousands of leaflets on Nazi Germany below. The leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fight furiously for the future— and to never give .. show full overview
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Lorin Swint Matthews: The dust bunnies that built our planet
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06, 2019
Consider the spot where you're sitting. Travel backwards in time and it might've been submerged at the bottom of a shallow sea, buried under miles of rock or floating through a molten .. show full overview
2019x101
Clint Smith: "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
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09, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Midnight's Children"?
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10, 2019
It begins with a countdown. A woman goes into labor as the clock ticks towards midnight. Across India, people wait for the declaration of independence after nearly 200 years of British .. show full overview
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Alex Gendler: A brief history of chess
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12, 2019
The attacking infantry advances, their elephants already having broken the defensive line. The king tries to retreat, but the enemy flanks him from the rear. Escape is impossible. This .. show full overview
2019x104
Alex Gendler: Can you solve the secret sauce riddle?
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16, 2019
One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kidnapped by operatives from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce recipe. Little do they know that a third .. show full overview
2019x105
Philip Freeman: A day in the life of an ancient Celtic Druid
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17, 2019
As the sun rises in 55 BCE, Camma lays two pigeons on the altar at the center of her village. She wrings the birds' necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine .. show full overview
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What makes neon signs glow? A 360° animation - Michael Lipman
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19, 2019
When the Hoover Dam was completed, it created a huge source of hydroelectric power and zapped a sleepy desert town to life: Las Vegas, Nevada. With the power supply from the dam, Las .. show full overview
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Think Like a Coder | Teaser Trailer
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21, 2019
We’re thrilled to announce our series: Think Like A Coder. This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two .. show full overview
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Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara: The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed
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23, 2019
After a skirmish at sea and long days of being battered by waves, Väinämöinen— a powerful bard as old as the world itself— washed up on the shores of distant Pohjola. A cunning witch .. show full overview
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Laura Wright: Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy?
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24, 2019
Set in a small town in India, "The God of Small Things" revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are separated for 23 years after the fateful hours in which their cousin .. show full overview
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Amber Stuver: Einstein's twin paradox explained
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26, 2019
On their 20th birthday, identical twin astronauts volunteer for an experiment. Terra will remain on Earth, while Stella will board a spaceship. Stella's ship will travel to visit a star .. show full overview
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Alex Rosenthal: The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1
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30, 2019
This is episode 1 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two .. show full overview
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Densho: Ugly history: Japanese American incarceration camps
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01, 2019
On December 7, 1941, 16 year-old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Unbeknownst to her, this shared experience would .. show full overview
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Aracelis Girmay: "For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card"
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03, 2019
This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest .. show full overview
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Marlene Daut: The first and last king of Haiti
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07, 2019
The royal couple of Haiti rode into their coronation to thunderous applause. After receiving his ornate crown, Henry Christophe ascended his throne, towering 20 meters in the air. But .. show full overview
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Zohreh Davoudi: Are we living in a simulation?
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08, 2019
All life on Earth— living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic— is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants. And this opens up a question: If the universe is .. show full overview
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Sheila Marie Orfano: Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"?
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10, 2019
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here..." Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, this prophecy sets into motion an epic journey for salvation. Written over 10 years, Dante Alighieri's .. show full overview
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Alex Rosenthal: The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2
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14, 2019
This is episode 2 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two .. show full overview
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Richard Coffin: What causes an economic recession?
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15, 2019
For millennia, the people of Britain had been using bronze to make tools and jewelry, and as a currency for trade. But around 800 BCE, that began to change: the value of bronze declined, .. show full overview
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Taneka Jones: How to 3D print human tissue
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17, 2019
There are currently hundreds of thousands of people on transplant lists, waiting for critical organs like kidneys, hearts and livers that could save their lives. Unfortunately, there .. show full overview
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TED-Ed: The Maya myth of the morning star
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21, 2019
Chak Ek', the morning star, rose from the underworld to the surface of the eastern sea and on into the heavens. His brother K'in Ahaw, the sun, followed. Though Chak Ek' had risen first, .. show full overview
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Fabio Pacucci: Hawking's black hole paradox explained
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22, 2019
Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel modern science: the black hole information paradox. Every object in the universe is composed of particles with .. show full overview
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Adrienne Mayor: The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot
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24, 2019
Hephaestus, god of technology, was hard at work on his most ingenious invention yet. He was creating a new defense system for King Minos, who wanted fewer intruders on his island kingdom .. show full overview
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Let’s plant 20 million trees together! #TeamTrees
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25, 2019
Join #TeamTrees and become a part of the biggest YouTube collaboration in history! Let’s work together to reforest our beautiful world, combat climate change and secure the funds to .. show full overview
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Michael S.A. Graziano: How close are we to uploading our minds?
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29, 2019
Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and .. show full overview
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Matthew Borths: Claws vs. nails
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29, 2019
Consider the claw. Frequently found on animals around the world, it's one of nature's most versatile tools. Bears use claws for digging as well as defense. An eagle's needle-like talons .. show full overview
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Chip Berlet: Are the Illuminati real?
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31, 2019
The year was 1776. In Bavaria, new ideals of rationalism, religious freedom and universal human rights competed with the Catholic church's heavy influence over public affairs. Adam .. show full overview
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Bill Keegan: The Taino myth of the cursed creator
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04, 2019
Before the world of humans began, there was the world of the gods. Four brothers wandered this celestial realm. One day, the brothers snuck into a spirit's house and spotted a giant .. show full overview
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Lucas Husted: Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior?
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05, 2019
Given a range of integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to 2/3 of the average of all numbers guessed be? For example, if the average of all guesses is 60, the .. show full overview
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Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust: Why haven't we cured arthritis?
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08, 2019
The bad backs, elbow pain, and creaky knees so common in older people often aren't just "old age." In fact, the source of this stiffness plagues many young people as well. The culprit is .. show full overview
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Dorsa Amir: Why do humans have a third eyelid?
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11, 2019
You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye? It's actually the remnant of a third eyelid. In humans, it's vestigial, meaning it no longer serves its original .. show full overview
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Céline Valéry: The dangers of mixing drugs
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12, 2019
Which of the following is risky behavior: a person taking cholesterol medicine with grapefruit juice? Or a person taking Acetaminophen before going out for drinks? Or a person on blood .. show full overview
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Alex Gendler: The myth of Loki and the master builder
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14, 2019
Asgard, a realm of wonders, was where the Norse Gods made their home. There Odin's great hall of Valhalla towered above the mountains and Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, anchored itself. .. show full overview
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Alex Rosenthal: The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3
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18, 2019
This is episode 3 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two .. show full overview
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Dan Reinstein: How does laser eye surgery work?
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19, 2019
In 1948, Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer Moner was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itself, without relying on external aids. .. show full overview
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Theresa A. Yugar: History's "worst" nun
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21, 2019
Juana Ramírez de Asbaje sat before a panel of prestigious theologians, jurists, and mathematicians. They had been invited to test Juana's knowledge with the most difficult questions they .. show full overview
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Alex Gendler: Can you outsmart this logical fallacy?
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25, 2019
Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. Which do you think is more likely: that Lucy is a portrait artist, or that Lucy is a .. show full overview
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Chris A. Kniesly: How corn conquered the world
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02, 2019
Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production. And over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow Dent #2. This means that humans grow more .. show full overview
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Anees Bahji: Is marijuana bad for your brain?
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02, 2019
In 1970, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 drug in the United States: the strictest designation possible, meaning it was completely illegal and had no recognized medical uses. .. show full overview
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Alex Gendler: Why doesn't the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?
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03, 2019
In 1990, the Italian government enlisted top engineers to stabilize Pisa's famous Leaning Tower. There'd been many attempts during its 800 year history, but computer models revealed the .. show full overview
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Hyunsoo Joshua No: How does chemotherapy work?
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05, 2019
During World War I, scientists were trying to develop an antidote to the poisonous yellow cloud known as mustard gas. They discovered the gas was irrevocably damaging the bone marrow of .. show full overview
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Alex Rosenthal: The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4
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09, 2019
This is episode 4 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two .. show full overview
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Tal Danino: Hacking bacteria to fight cancer
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11, 2019
In 1884, an unlucky patient who had a rapidly growing cancer in his neck came down with an unrelated bacterial skin infection. As he recovered from the infection, the cancer surprisingly .. show full overview
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Jill Dash: Why should you read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding?
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12, 2019
After witnessing the atrocities of his fellow man in World War II, William Golding was losing his faith in humanity. Later, during the Cold War, as superpowers began threatening one .. show full overview
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Sheila Marie Orfano: Why should you read "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan?
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16, 2019
In her Auntie An-mei's home, Jing-Mei reluctantly takes her seat at the eastern corner of the mahjong table. At the north, south and west corners are her aunties, long-time members of .. show full overview
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Dan Kwartler: Why should you read "Dune" by Frank Herbert?
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17, 2019
A mother and son trek across an endless desert. Wearing special suits to dissipate heat and recycle moisture, the travelers aren't worried about dying of thirst. Their fears are much .. show full overview
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William D. Desmond: The philosophy of cynicism
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19, 2019
In the 4th century BCE, a young Diogenes of Sinope was found to be counterfeiting coins. He was stripped of his citizenship, his money, all his possessions and sent into exile. He .. show full overview

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