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17:47
Fred Jansen
How to land on a comet
4:52
Daniel M. Abrams
Why are some people left-handed?
4:28
Joshua Harvey
The evolution of the human eye
14:57
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
What veterinarians know that physicians don't
4:53
Colm Kelleher
The science of symmetry
9:52
Ray Kurzweil
Get ready for hybrid thinking
13:51
Sara Lewis
The loves and lies of fireflies
14:09
Deborah Gordon
What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
2:25
Rose Eveleth
The loathsome lethal mosquito
3:32
George Zaidan and Charles Morton
The uncertain location of electrons
4:18
Addison Anderson
The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of
4:44
Brad Troeger
What is love?
4:07
Alex Gendler
Myths and misconceptions about evolution
13:31
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
What is so special about the human brain?
3:54
Leslie Kenna
The brilliance of bioluminescence
3:12
Carl Zimmer
How did feathers evolve?
10:22
Hendrik Poinar
Bring back the woolly mammoth!
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
16:25
Emma Teeling
The secret of the bat genome
8:44
Ruby Wax
What's so funny about mental illness?
16:48
Juan Enriquez
Will our kids be a different species?
11:20
Diane Kelly
What we didn't know about penis anatomy
18:16
Jonathan Haidt
Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
5:31
Christina Warinner
Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
17:01
Svante Pääbo
DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
20:10
Mark Pagel
How language transformed humanity
19:59
Daniel Wolpert
The real reason for brains
16:46
Annie Murphy Paul
What we learn before we're born
14:37
Martin Hanczyc
The line between life and not-life
17:21
Harvey Fineberg
Are we ready for neo-evolution?
7:48
Louie Schwartzberg
The hidden beauty of pollination
18:51
Christoph Adami
Finding life we can't imagine
10:25
Angela Belcher
Using nature to grow batteries
10:40
Jeremy Rifkin
The empathic civilization
4:01
Jessa Gamble
Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
18:12
Mike deGruy
Hooked by an octopus
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