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13:33
Marvin Minsky
Health and the human mind
Posted
Sep 2008
4:53
Angela Koine Flynn
The science of skin color
Posted
Feb 2016
4:29
Emma Bryce
Why do we itch?
Posted
Apr 2017
4:38
Claire Bowern
Where did English come from?
Posted
Jul 2015
13:30
Roger Hanlon
The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods
Posted
May 2019
4:58
G. Richard Scott
Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn't?
Posted
May 2023
3:54
Leslie Kenna
The brilliance of bioluminescence
Posted
May 2013
5:15
Lorin Swint Matthews
The dust bunnies that built our planet
Posted
Sep 2019
5:02
Masako Tamaki
Can you be awake and asleep at the same time?
Posted
May 2021
15:53
Ella Al-Shamahi
The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring
Posted
Jul 2019
5:50
Sarah Parcak
Armchair archaeologist
Posted
Apr 2018
4:52
Luka Seamus Wright
These animals are also plants ... wait, what?
Posted
Jun 2022
10:12
Stephen Hawking
Questioning the universe
Posted
Apr 2008
16:17
Frans Lanting
The story of life in photographs
Posted
Apr 2007
4:23
Andreea S. Calude
Does grammar matter?
Posted
Apr 2016
16:09
Toby Kiers
Lessons from fungi on markets and economics
Posted
Oct 2019
14:47
Anjan Chatterjee
How your brain decides what is beautiful
Posted
Aug 2017
12:02
Stuart Kauffman
The "adjacent possible" — and how it explains human innovation
Posted
Aug 2023
4:40
Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira
The movement that inspired the Holocaust
Posted
Mar 2022
5:43
Susan Freitas and Darren Parker
How does this all-female species reproduce?
Posted
Apr 2023
52:49
Lucy Cooke
What can animals teach us about sex and gender?
Posted
Jul 2022
3:51
Elizabeth Cox
The benefits of daydreaming
Posted
Sep 2022
7:45
Dan Dennett
Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
Posted
Mar 2009
16:46
Annie Murphy Paul
What we learn before we're born
Posted
Nov 2011
12:27
Latif Nasser
You have no idea where camels really come from
Posted
Mar 2016
5:00
Augusto Carballido
There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system
Posted
Jun 2019
17:51
Paul Ewald
Can we domesticate germs?
Posted
May 2008
5:35
Jeff Dekofsky
The most colorful gemstones on Earth
Posted
Dec 2020
10:49
Carolyn Freiwald
The hidden history found in your teeth
Posted
Feb 2021
23:42
Martin Seligman
The new era of positive psychology
Posted
Jul 2008
15:34
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars
Posted
Dec 2019
23:06
Sam Harris
Science can answer moral questions
Posted
Mar 2010
5:42
Lucy Cooke
No one can figure out how eels have sex
Posted
Aug 2020
3:58
Kay Almere Read
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
Posted
May 2019
4:25
Susan G. Wardle
Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia
Posted
Jun 2023
5:27
David Gallo
Underwater astonishments
Posted
Jan 2008
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