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5:16
Dan Adams
A brief history of goths
4:38
Shunan Teng
The history of Tea
9:31
Brett Hennig
What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?
1:51
Jessica Oreck
How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11
5:10
Brendan Pelsue
Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?
12:48
Anthony D. Romero
This is what democracy looks like
18:38
David Miliband
The refugee crisis is a test of our character
22:12
Jim Yong Kim
Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?
6:05
Lauren Sallan
How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
12:52
Titus Kaphar
Can art amend history?
16:40
Jorge Drexler
Poetry, music and identity
14:17
Noah Feldman
Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship
16:50
Michael Benton
Mass extinctions and the future of life on Earth
5:06
Stanley Stepanic
How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire?
12:01
Kelly Richmond Pope
How whistle-blowers shape history
15:30
Deborah Lipstadt
Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
1:57
Jessica Oreck
How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10
4:52
Lisa Winer
Can you solve the virus riddle?
5:53
Ewandro Magalhaes
How Magellan circumnavigated the globe
5:20
Melissa Kovacs
What makes a poem … a poem?
4:20
Deanna Pucciarelli
The history of chocolate
5:43
Ellen Schrecker
What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen?
4:54
Amy Adkins
The myth of Icarus and Daedalus
1:50
Jessica Oreck
How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9
4:44
David Parker
Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message?
4:12
Suja Thomas
What happened to trial by jury?
47:33
Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks
Political common ground in a polarized United States
5:01
Peter Campbell
Are ghost ships real?
5:02
Iseult Gillespie
Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein"
3:37
Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua
The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker
1:00:08
Yuval Noah Harari
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide
1:54
Jessica Oreck
How super glue was invented | Moments of Vision 8
4:28
Alex Gendler
History vs. Cleopatra
4:57
Jill Dash
Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey"
4:02
Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen
The myth behind the Chinese zodiac
4:55
Fumiko Futamura
The mathematics of sidewalk illusions
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