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5:41

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Four billion years of evolution in six minutes

Posted Jun 2018 Rated Informative, Fascinating

12:29

Brittney Cooper

The racial politics of time

Posted Feb 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

11:54

Laura Vanderkam

How to gain control of your free time

Posted Dec 2016 Rated Inspiring, Informative

4:49

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish

Posted Jun 2016 Rated Informative, Fascinating

12:36

Stephen Wilkes

The passing of time, caught in a single photo

Posted Jun 2016 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

12:43

R. Luke DuBois

Insightful human portraits made from data

Posted Apr 2016 Rated Fascinating, Ingenious

14:03

Tim Urban

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

Posted Mar 2016 Rated Funny, Inspiring

12:46

Robert Waldinger

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Posted Dec 2015 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

4:42

Allan Adams

The discovery that could rewrite physics

Posted Apr 2014 Rated Fascinating, Informative

21:47

Brian Greene

Is our universe the only universe?

Posted Apr 2012 Rated Fascinating, Informative

8:38

Robin Ince

Science versus wonder?

Posted Nov 2011 Rated Funny, Inspiring

15:54

Sean M Carroll

Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

Posted May 2011 Rated Fascinating, Informative

19:52

Deb Roy

The birth of a word

Posted Mar 2011 Rated Fascinating, Ingenious

19:00

George Smoot

The design of the universe

Posted Nov 2008 Rated Fascinating, Informative

16:40

John Hodgman

Aliens, love — where are they?

Posted Oct 2008 Rated Funny, Beautiful

16:09

Patricia Burchat

Shedding light on dark matter

Posted Aug 2008 Rated Informative, Fascinating

10:12

Stephen Hawking

Questioning the universe

Posted Apr 2008 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

17:26

Martin Rees

Is this our final century?

Posted Jan 2007 Rated Fascinating, Informative

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