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13:49

Steven Johnson

How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century

Posted Oct 2021
4:19

Geoff Emberling

What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush?

Posted Oct 2021
5:06

Diane J. Rayor

Ancient Greece's greatest popstar

Posted Sep 2021
13:50

Lizzo

The Black history of twerking — and how it taught me self-love

Posted Sep 2021
4:13

Abdallah Ewis

The forgotten queen of Egypt

Posted Sep 2021
4:58

Hanako Sawada

The secrets of the world's most famous symphony

Posted Sep 2021
4:48

Martin Hilpert

What makes a language... a language?

Posted Sep 2021
5:39

Pekka Hämäläinen

The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire

Posted Sep 2021
5:10

Sarah E. Tracy

What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you?

Posted Sep 2021
5:58

Germán Santillán

A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition

Posted Sep 2021
4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich

Posted Aug 2021
7:43

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy?

Posted Aug 2021
5:08

Dan Sayers

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp

Posted Aug 2021
5:01

Jim Chuchu

Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums?

Posted Aug 2021
3:04

Armand D'Angour

The ancient origins of the Olympics

Posted Jul 2021
4:54

Andrew McDonald

The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man

Posted Jul 2021
5:00

Marcus du Sautoy

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Posted Jul 2021
10:21

Candis Watts Smith

3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress

Posted Jul 2021
5:13

Lukas Rieppel

The most notorious scientific feud in history

Posted Jul 2021
5:38

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

History's deadliest king

Posted Jul 2021
18:07

Sean Sherman

Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?

Posted Jul 2021
5:39

Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Posted Jul 2021
5:37

Iseult Gillespie

How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis

Posted Jun 2021
5:31

Haimanti Roy

Why was India split into two countries?

Posted Jun 2021
4:46

Meg Jacobs

What few people know about the program that "saved" America

Posted Jun 2021
5:05

Francis de los Reyes

A brief history of toilets

Posted Jun 2021
4:53

Sheila Marie Orfano

How do you know what's true?

Posted Jun 2021
5:07

Susan M. Reverby

Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment

Posted Jun 2021
4:57

Mark Robinson

A day in the life of the Oracle of Delphi

Posted Jun 2021
5:07

Soraya Field Fiorio

The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death

Posted Jun 2021
4:59

Alex Gendler

The woman who stared at the sun

Posted May 2021
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