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Eric Liu
There's no such thing as not voting
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J.D. Vance
America's forgotten working class
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James Beacham
How we explore unanswered questions in physics
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Peter Campbell
Real life sunken cities
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Why the metric system matters
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Alex Gendler
How did Hitler rise to power?
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Jessica Oreck
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Cláudio Guerra
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Julia Bacha
How women wage conflict without violence
16:37
Anand Giridharadas
A letter to all who have lost in this era
17:22
Alexander Betts
Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next
15:52
Monica Araya
A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
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Jennifer Brea
What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
6:59
Sarah Parcak
Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations -- with satellites
14:27
Sam Harris
Can we build AI without losing control over it?
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Steven Zheng
How does anesthesia work?
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Noah Tavlin
What makes something "Kafkaesque"?
11:23
Maria Golubeva
Why medieval politics was nothing like Game of Thrones
5:27
Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman
What does it mean to be a refugee?
4:33
James Coll
Why wasn't the Bill of Rights originally in the US Constitution?
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Chance Coughenour
How your pictures can help reclaim lost history
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Ewandro Magalhaes
How interpreters juggle two languages at once
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Emily Parsons-Lord
Art made of the air we breathe
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The origin of countless conspiracy theories
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Peter Paccone
Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend?
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Kanawat Senanan
How computer memory works
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Derek Abbott
Should you trust unanimous decisions?
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Caro Verbeek
The historical significance of smell
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Andreea S. Calude
Does grammar matter?
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The poet who painted with his words
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Christina Bozsik
Why is this painting so captivating?
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Craig Zimmer
This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world
4:38
Adrienne Westwood
The origins of ballet
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Curtis Austin
The real story of the Black Panther Party
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Felipe Galindo
How ancient art influenced modern art
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Addison Anderson
The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia
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