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Daniel Finkel
Can you solve the troll's paradox riddle?
4:36
Eldridge Adams
Can animals be deceptive?
5:03
Fiona Radford
From slave to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus
5:15
Paul S. Kindstedt
A brie(f) history of cheese
4:49
Darren Croft
Inside the killer whale matriarchy
4:26
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
4:55
Leonora Neville
The princess who rewrote history
4:28
Gillian Gibb
Why can't some birds fly?
5:38
Ilan Stavans
Why should you read "Don Quixote"?
5:09
Joshua W. Pate
The fascinating science of phantom limbs
4:30
Iseult Gillespie
Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales"
5:16
Dan Kwartler
What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
4:17
Elizabeth Cox
What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it?
4:03
Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen
How to stay calm under pressure
5:06
Dan Kwartler
What causes headaches?
10:09
David Cage
How video games turn players into storytellers
5:57
Tommy McCall
The simple genius of a good graphic
5:08
Emma Bryce
How does the immune system work?
4:46
Brian Christian
How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines)
5:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Charles Dickens?
4:50
David Dunning
Why incompetent people think they're amazing
6:09
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read "Macbeth"?
5:59
Sam Slote
Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"?
5:36
Mark Robinson
Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"?
6:03
Iseult Gillespie
Why should you read Virginia Woolf?
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Alex Gendler
How does impeachment work?
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
Will the ocean ever run out of fish?
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Clifford Robbins
What happens when you have a concussion?
3:51
Elizabeth Waters
The left brain vs. right brain myth
3:49
Lea Gaslowitz
How to spot a misleading graph
5:30
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Negative Space
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Brandon Rodriguez
The power of creative constraints
6:06
Janja Lalich
Why do people join cults?
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Shohini Ghose
The genius of Marie Curie
5:10
Netta Schramm
Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work?
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Peta Greenfield
Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job?
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