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4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich

Posted Aug 2021
5:08

Nigel Hughes

Is this the most successful animal ever?

Posted Aug 2021
5:40

Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou

How we can detect pretty much anything

Posted Aug 2021
7:43

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy?

Posted Aug 2021
4:48

Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly

Posted Aug 2021
5:08

Dan Sayers

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp

Posted Aug 2021
4:23

Dan Finkel

Can you solve the giant spider riddle?

Posted Aug 2021
4:52

James A. Smith

The method that can "prove" almost anything

Posted Aug 2021
4:58

Christopher E. Gaw

What causes seizures, and how can we treat them?

Posted Aug 2021
5:02

Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes

Posted Jul 2021
4:37

Gilad Bino

A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals

Posted Jul 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
7:38

Molly Wright

How every child can thrive by five

Posted Jul 2021
5:00

Marcus du Sautoy

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

Posted Jul 2021
4:38

Jonathan Smith

How do governments create money out of thin air?

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
4:37

Stefan Al

Could we build a wooden skyscraper?

Posted Jul 2021
5:39

Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Posted Jul 2021
1h 0m

The TED Interview

How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth

Posted Jun 2021
5:00

Darien Satterfield

Real-life "Alien" jaws

Posted Jun 2021
5:37

Iseult Gillespie

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

Posted Jun 2021
4:36

Shravan S K

Can you cheat death by solving this riddle?

Posted Jun 2021
5:02

Luis Zambrano

These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die)

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
5:28

Luka Seamus Wright

The sharks that hunt in forests

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
4:03

Nina G. Jablonski

Why do we have hair in such random places?

Posted Jun 2021
5:07

Soraya Field Fiorio

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

Posted Jun 2021
5:07

Dennis Shasha

Can you solve the Trojan War riddle?

Posted May 2021
5:56

Brittany Young

How dirt bikes and STEM ignite ingenuity in Baltimore

Posted May 2021