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Richard E. Cytowic
What percentage of your brain do you use?
5:54
Tucker Hiatt
How fast are you moving right now?
5:46
Jeff Dekofsky
The Infinite Hotel Paradox
2:55
Rose Eveleth
The mystery of motion sickness
5:03
Kate Messner
How to build a fictional world
4:48
Nicole Avena
How sugar affects the brain
4:36
Emma Bryce
Should we eat bugs?
4:04
Rose Eveleth
How do we smell?
4:20
Renée Hlozek
The death of the universe
7:16
Maya Penn
Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist ...
2:25
Rose Eveleth
The loathsome lethal mosquito
4:15
Stephanie Warren
The chemistry of cookies
4:14
Claudia Aguirre
Why is yawning contagious?
4:15
Nicki Beaman Griffin
The fight for the right to vote in the United States
2:02
Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
Mysteries of vernacular: Robot
3:32
George Zaidan and Charles Morton
The uncertain location of electrons
3:53
Mikael Cho
The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)
4:18
Addison Anderson
The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of
4:00
Amanda Mattes
Kabuki: The people's dramatic art
5:05
John McWhorter
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?
4:02
Aatish Bhatia
The physics of human sperm vs. the physics of the sperm whale
5:43
Lucianne Walkowicz
Light waves, visible and invisible
3:53
Vance Kite
Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years
3:55
Craig A. Kohn
What are stem cells?
4:44
Brad Troeger
What is love?
2:30
Rose Eveleth
Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet
3:53
Andrew Vanden Heuvel
The moon illusion
3:40
Michael Molina
What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?
3:35
Daniel Garrie
Defining cyberwarfare... in hopes of preventing it
4:09
Camille Seaman
The Arctic vs. the Antarctic
4:23
Peter Mende-Siedlecki
Should you trust your first impression?
4:32
Jeff Steers
Who won the space race?
4:34
Ami Angelowicz
The terrors of sleep paralysis
4:12
John McWhorter
A brief history of plural word...s
5:16
Tim Hansen
How to read music
4:19
Kelli Sandman-Hurley
What is dyslexia?
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