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4:20

Jonathan Smith

Does trickle-down economics actually work?

Posted May 2022

4:39

Kayla Wolf

The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history

Posted May 2022

0:00

Iseult Gillespie

Love vs. Honor: The Irish myth of Diarmuid's betrayal

Posted May 2022

5:01

Lucia Carminati

How the Suez Canal changed the world

Posted May 2022

4:50

Shannon Zhao

The myth of the original star-crossed lovers

Posted Apr 2022

5:38

Henri Picciotto

Can you solve the feeding frenzy riddle?

Posted Apr 2022

4:49

Christopher M. Moreman

The dark history of zombies

Posted Apr 2022

4:50

Ameya Gondhalekar

Why are cockroaches so hard to kill?

Posted Apr 2022

5:14

Iseult Gillespie

The myth of Hades and Persephone

Posted Apr 2022

4:29

Alex Worsnip

Ethical dilemma: Who should you believe?

Posted Apr 2022

4:51

Andrew Whitworth

If you're scared of snakes, watch this

Posted Apr 2022

5:35

Stephanie Honchell Smith

History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror

Posted Apr 2022

4:51

Fabio Pacucci

Why the Sun could crash your internet

Posted Apr 2022

4:50

Henri Picciotto

A riddle of ice and fire dragons

Posted Mar 2022

4:00

Lijun Zhang

The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers

Posted Mar 2022

4:15

Daniel Gregory

How do you know you're not dreaming?

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Viann Nguyen-Feng

4 signs of emotional abuse

Posted Mar 2022

4:03

Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles

How pigeons took over the world

Posted Mar 2022

5:27

Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman

What does it mean to be a refugee?

Posted Mar 2022

49:09

Ian Bremmer

War in Ukraine — and what it means for the world order

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

The movement that inspired the Holocaust

Posted Mar 2022

4:19

Cynthia Fay Davis

The myth of the moon goddess

Posted Mar 2022

4:26

Francesca Bot

The ingredient in almost everything you eat

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

The dark history of the suburbs

Posted Mar 2022

0:00

James Tanton

Can you survive the creation of the universe by solving this riddle?

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Alex Gendler

Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Sydney Iaukea

The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Iseult Gillespie

The myth of Narcissus and Echo

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Richard Browning

How do jetpacks work? And why don't we all have them?

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Yana Buhrer Tavanier

What is "normal" and what is "different"?

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Dan Kwartler

The myth of Gawain and the Green Knight

Posted Feb 2022

0:00

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation?

Posted Feb 2022

4:17

Emily Zobel Marshall

The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider

Posted Jan 2022

0:00

Thomas W. Cronin

Which animal has the best eyesight?

Posted Jan 2022

0:00

Marie Brodsky

Can you solve the birthday cake riddle?

Posted Jan 2022

0:00

Iseult Gillespie

The tragic myth of the Sun God's son

Posted Jan 2022