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5:12

Gary Devore

Run, sail or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii

Posted May 2021
5:07

Orisanmi Burton

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion

Posted May 2021
4:57

Alex Gendler

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper

Posted May 2021
5:11

Ilan Stavans

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

Posted May 2021
5:15

Alex Gendler

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

Posted Apr 2021
5:08

Erick Wilberding

This tool will help improve your critical thinking

Posted Apr 2021
39:54

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

Mantua Townshi‪p‬

Posted Apr 2021
19:11

Kate Lister

An honest history of an ancient and "nasty" word

Posted Apr 2021
13:14

Archie Crowley

Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has)

Posted Mar 2021
4:39

Kayla Wolf

Why every world map is wrong

Posted Mar 2021
4:46

Brian A. Pavlac

A brief history of the devil

Posted Mar 2021
5:24

Kayla Wolf

Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition

Posted Mar 2021
5:57

Lisa Krause

Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered?

Posted Mar 2021
4:28

Karen L. Cox

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history

Posted Feb 2021
16:18

Greg Anderson

Why there's no such thing as objective reality

Posted Feb 2021
12:03

Sarah Kurnick

"Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology

Posted Feb 2021
14:49

Cara Greene Epstein

How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics

Posted Feb 2021
5:08

Evan Zodl

The unexpected math of origami

Posted Feb 2021
10:49

Carolyn Freiwald

The hidden history found in your teeth

Posted Feb 2021
4:49

Melanie E. Peffer

The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine

Posted Feb 2021
7:24

Juan Enriquez

How technology changes our sense of right and wrong

Posted Feb 2021
5:21

Rod Phillips

A brief history of divorce

Posted Jan 2021
4:54

Mostafa Minawi

The rise of the Ottoman Empire

Posted Jan 2021
5:26

John Kitching

Who decides how long a second is?

Posted Jan 2021
5:48

Amanda Gorman

"The Hill We Climb"

Posted Jan 2021
4:29

Soraya Field Fiorio

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Posted Jan 2021
4:47

Yen Pham

Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"?

Posted Jan 2021
5:17

Noah Charney

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting

Posted Dec 2020
6:00

Kluane Adamek

The legacy of matriarchs in the Yukon First Nations

Posted Dec 2020
15:20

Emily Levesque

A stellar history of modern astronomy

Posted Dec 2020
13:03

Gloria Steinem

To future generations of women, you are the roots of change

Posted Nov 2020
5:42

John Soluri

The dark history of bananas

Posted Nov 2020
4:06

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?

Posted Oct 2020
5:15

Elizabeth Cox

The hidden treasures of Timbuktu

Posted Oct 2020
5:21

Soraya Field Fiorio

The rise and fall of history's first empire

Posted Oct 2020
18:21

John Biewen

The lie that invented racism

Posted Sep 2020