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Laurence Hurst
Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?
5:54
Nina Medvinskaya
Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions
5:13
Mark Robinson
A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect
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A brief history of plastic
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Sarah Kurnick
"Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology
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Takis S. Pappas
The rise of modern populism
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George Siedel and Christine Ladwig
Ethical dilemma: The burger murders
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Lucy Cooke
No one can figure out how eels have sex
4:29
Iseult Gillespie
The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece
4:51
Philip Freeman
The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors
3:56
Alex Gendler
The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris
4:24
Susan Lupack
The race to decode a mysterious language
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Neal Katyal
How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)
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Rod Phillips
What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol
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Jose Antonio Vargas
3 questions to ask yourself about US citizenship
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Pratik Aghor
The greatest mathematician that never lived
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Cameron Morin
What do all languages have in common?
14:49
Cara Greene Epstein
How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics
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Titus Kaphar
Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?
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Constantine N. Vaporis
A day in the life of a teenage samurai
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Dustin Tahmahkera
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
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Alex Gendler
Which voting system is the best?
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
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Iseult Gillespie
How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe
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Gabriel Prieto
A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman
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Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
The path to ending systemic racism in the US
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Alex Rosenthal
When is a pandemic over?
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Sascha Morrell
Why should you read "Moby Dick"?
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Ibram X. Kendi
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
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Kay Read
A day in the life of an Aztec midwife
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Brian A. Pavlac
What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials
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Daina Ramey Berry
The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth
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Stefan C. Dombrowski
The dark history of IQ tests
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Stefan Al
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees?
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Ming Luke
What's the point(e) of ballet?
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Riché D. Richardson
The hidden life of Rosa Parks
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