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15:10

Julieanna L. Richardson

The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

Posted Jun 2022

5:30

Allison Leigh

Artemisia Gentileschi: The woman behind the paintings

Posted Jun 2022

6:00

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy?

Posted Jun 2022

5:02

Henri Picciotto

Can you solve the fortress riddle?

Posted May 2022

1h 2m

Mary Ziegler, Loretta J. Ross, Erika Bachiochi, Joshua Prager

The future of US reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade

Posted May 2022

6:14

Timothy Williams

Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide

Posted May 2022

5:39

Diana Sierra Becerra

The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal

Posted May 2022

4:39

Kayla Wolf

The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history

Posted May 2022

14:46

Bill Gates

We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

Posted Apr 2022

4:49

Christopher M. Moreman

The dark history of zombies

Posted Apr 2022

14:58

Garry Kasparov

Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil

Posted Apr 2022

5:35

Stephanie Honchell Smith

History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror

Posted Apr 2022

4:51

Fabio Pacucci

Why the Sun could crash your internet

Posted Apr 2022

4:00

Lijun Zhang

The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers

Posted Mar 2022

9:48

Kevin Kelly

The future will be shaped by optimists

Posted Mar 2022

4:03

Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles

How pigeons took over the world

Posted Mar 2022

5:27

Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman

What does it mean to be a refugee?

Posted Mar 2022

49:09

Ian Bremmer

War in Ukraine — and what it means for the world order

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

The movement that inspired the Holocaust

Posted Mar 2022

21:33

Anna Malaika Tubbs

The critical role of Black mothers — and how to support all moms

Posted Mar 2022

49:33

Yuval Noah Harari

The war in Ukraine could change everything

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

The dark history of the suburbs

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Alex Gendler

Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Sydney Iaukea

The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Dwan Reece

The origins of blackface and Black stereotypes

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Dan Kwartler

The myth of Gawain and the Green Knight

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation?

Posted Feb 2022

4:17

Emily Zobel Marshall

The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider

Posted Jan 2022

12:24

Sally Murphy

Why we need better stories

Posted Jan 2022

15:16

Liu Thai Ker

The architectural mastermind behind modern Singapore

Posted Jan 2022

0:00

Noah Charney

Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?

Posted Jan 2022

12:21

Anna Malaika Tubbs

How moms shape the world

Posted Jan 2022

0:00

Alex Gendler

Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam

Posted Dec 2021

0:00

Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means

The dark history of Mount Rushmore

Posted Dec 2021

14:08

Jennifer B. Nuzzo

3 ways to prepare society for the next pandemic

Posted Dec 2021

0:00

Adam Clulow

How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power

Posted Dec 2021