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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
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