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5:13

Mark Robinson

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

Posted Sep 2020

16:12

Neal Katyal

How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)

Posted Sep 2020

15:13

Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah

How do daily habits lead to political violence?

Posted Sep 2020

6:02

Takis S. Pappas

The rise of modern populism

Posted Aug 2020

6:39

Denise Zmekhol

A story of Brazil through a single iconic building

Posted Aug 2020

8:48

Jose Antonio Vargas

3 questions to ask yourself about US citizenship

Posted Aug 2020

13:15

Chris Fisher

Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR

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

2:05

Beautyrest

Innovations in sleep

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

4:54

Rod Phillips

What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol

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

5:02

Cameron Morin

What do all languages have in common?

Posted Jul 2020

15:19

D-L Stewart

Scenes from a Black trans life

Posted Jul 2020

13:35

Titus Kaphar

Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Posted Jul 2020

14:40

Aparna Pallavi

What foods did your ancestors love?

Posted Jun 2020

12:18

Farish Ahmad-Noor

Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?

Posted Jun 2020

5:06

Constantine N. Vaporis

A day in the life of a teenage samurai

Posted Jun 2020

5:08

Alex Gendler

Which voting system is the best?

Posted Jun 2020

51:14

Ibram X. Kendi

The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

Posted Jun 2020

15:18

Michael Green

How flags unite (and divide) us

Posted Jun 2020

6:21

Prosanta Chakrabarty

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?

Posted Jun 2020

6:35

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

The bill has come due for the US's history of racism

Posted Jun 2020

7:27

Dr. Bernice King

The US needs a radical revolution of values

Posted Jun 2020

8:46

Anthony D. Romero

The ACLU's call to defund the police

Posted Jun 2020

4:38

Iseult Gillespie

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Posted Jun 2020

4:28

Gabriel Prieto

A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman

Posted Jun 2020

1h 6m

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero

The path to ending systemic racism in the US

Posted Jun 2020

5:35

Alex Rosenthal

When is a pandemic over?

Posted Jun 2020

5:36

Sascha Morrell

Why should you read "Moby Dick"?

Posted May 2020

4:13

Kay Read

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife

Posted May 2020