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George Steinmetz
Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair
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Jan 2018
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Nnedi Okorafor
Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa
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Richard Browning
How I built a jet suit
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Carrie Nugent
Adventures of an asteroid hunter
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Caroline Paul
To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
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Nagin Cox
What time is it on Mars?
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Sarah Parcak
Help discover ancient ruins — before it's too late
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Jia Jiang
What I learned from 100 days of rejection
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Dec 2016
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Steven Johnson
The playful wonderland behind great inventions
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Pico Iyer
The beauty of what we'll never know
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Rainn Wilson
Ideas worth dating
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Oct 2016
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6:59
Sarah Parcak
Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations — with satellites
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Aug 2016
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13:07
Adam Savage
My love letter to cosplay
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Jul 2016
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7:14
Zaria Forman
Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth
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Monica Byrne
A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
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15:49
Kenneth Lacovara
Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
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Apr 2016
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11:21
Laura Robinson
The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor
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Mar 2016
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10:10
Thomas Peschak
Dive into an ocean photographer's world
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Feb 2016
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15:49
Andrés Ruzo
The boiling river of the Amazon
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Feb 2016
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13:54
David Gruber
Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures
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Jan 2016
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6:49
Jill Heinerth
The mysterious world of underwater caves
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Jan 2016
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Guillaume Néry
The exhilarating peace of freediving
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Dec 2015
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14:37
Francesco Sauro
Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science
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Oct 2015
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14:28
Alan Eustace
I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
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Sep 2015
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9:26
Dawn Landes
A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
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May 2015
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6:02
Nizar Ibrahim
How we unearthed the Spinosaurus
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Apr 2015
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17:04
Ben Saunders
To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life
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Dec 2014
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Fabien Cousteau
What I learned from spending 31 days underwater
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Oct 2014
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Chris Hadfield
What I learned from going blind in space
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Mar 2014
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4:28
David Lang
My underwater robot
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Dec 2013
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Holly Morris
Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.
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Oct 2013
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8:38
Edith Widder
How we found the giant squid
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Mar 2013
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6:41
Munir Virani
Why I love vultures
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Nov 2012
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10:08
Karen Bass
Unseen footage, untamed nature
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May 2012
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18:12
Mike deGruy
Hooked by an octopus
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Feb 2012
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14:48
Yves Rossy
Fly with the Jetman
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Nov 2011
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Fascinating, Courageous
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