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5:25

Laurence Hurst

Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?

Posted Sep 2020
5:54

Nina Medvinskaya

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

Posted Sep 2020
2:03

Lewis Carroll

"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

Posted Sep 2020
5:13

Mark Robinson

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

Posted Sep 2020
4:39

Iseult Gillespie

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

Posted Sep 2020
4:57

Daniel L. Schacter

Are all of your memories real?

Posted Sep 2020
4:57

Joseph Isaac

Why people fall for misinformation

Posted Sep 2020
5:23

Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the sorting hat riddle?

Posted Sep 2020
14:00

David Epstein

Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success

Posted Sep 2020
5:26

Noah R. Bressman

The fish that walk on land

Posted Aug 2020
5:24

Lucas Husted

How to outsmart the Prisoner's Dilemma

Posted Aug 2020
5:02

R. Saravanan

Is the weather actually becoming more extreme?

Posted Aug 2020
4:21

Michael Corballis

Evolution's great mystery: Language

Posted Aug 2020
6:02

Takis S. Pappas

The rise of modern populism

Posted Aug 2020
6:00

Kate Slabosky

Can the ocean run out of oxygen?

Posted Aug 2020
5:17

Marc Fagelson

What's that ringing in your ears?

Posted Aug 2020
5:11

Jan Stejskal

The last living members of an extinct species

Posted Aug 2020
5:10

Dan Katz

Can you solve the cheating royal riddle?

Posted Aug 2020
5:14

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors?

Posted Aug 2020
4:45

Mike Gil

The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs

Posted Aug 2020
4:28

Iseult Gillespie

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

Posted Aug 2020
5:09

Fabio Pacucci

Newton's three-body problem explained

Posted Aug 2020
4:58

Dan Finkel

Can you solve the honeybee riddle?

Posted Aug 2020
5:25

George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

Ethical dilemma: The burger murders

Posted Aug 2020
5:42

Lucy Cooke

No one can figure out how eels have sex

Posted Aug 2020
4:21

Gareth Gaskell

How do our brains process speech?

Posted Jul 2020
4:29

Iseult Gillespie

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

Posted Jul 2020
4:51

Philip Freeman

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

Posted Jul 2020
3:56

Alex Gendler

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

Posted Jul 2020
4:24

Susan Lupack

The race to decode a mysterious language

Posted Jul 2020
5:10

Steven Anderson

What makes volcanoes erupt?

Posted Jul 2020
4:54

Rod Phillips

What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol

Posted Jul 2020
5:02

Iseult Gillespie

The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil

Posted Jul 2020
4:50

Pratik Aghor

The greatest mathematician that never lived

Posted Jul 2020
6:03

Dustin Tahmahkera

The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire

Posted Jul 2020
4:34

Dan Finkel

Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle?

Posted Jul 2020