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6:06
Carrie Nugent
Adventures of an asteroid hunter
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Mar 2017
14:16
Phil Plait
How to defend Earth from asteroids
Posted
Nov 2011
29:42
Stephen Petranek
10 ways the world could end
Posted
Sep 2007
20:01
Jonathan Haidt
How common threats can make common (political) ground
Posted
Jan 2013
19:41
Peter Ward
A theory of Earth's mass extinctions
Posted
Jan 2009
3:16
Ron Shaneyfelt
Is space trying to kill us?
Posted
May 2013
4:49
Fabio Pacucci
Can a black hole be destroyed?
Posted
May 2019
15:32
Astro Teller
The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
Posted
Apr 2016
13:52
Mike Brown
The search for our solar system's ninth planet
Posted
Nov 2019
13:24
Karen J. Meech
The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
Posted
Jun 2018
17:47
Fred Jansen
How to land on a comet
Posted
Apr 2015
15:49
Kenneth Lacovara
Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
Posted
Apr 2016
7:53
Jon Nguyen
Tour the solar system from home
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Jun 2012
4:58
Fabio Pacucci
Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?
Posted
Sep 2018
6:05
Lauren Sallan
How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
Posted
Oct 2017
13:51
James Orsulak
Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet
Posted
Jan 2018
17:39
Andrew Connolly
What's the next window into our universe?
Posted
Sep 2014
13:27
Curtis Austin
The real story of the Black Panther Party
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Feb 2020
9:38
Sue Austin
Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair
Posted
Jan 2013
13:50
Greg Asner
Ecology from the air
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Nov 2013
16:50
Michael Benton
Mass extinctions and the future of life on Earth
Posted
Feb 2019
14:59
Austin Eubanks
What surviving the Columbine shooting taught me about pain
Posted
May 2019
29:10
Richard Dawkins
Militant atheism
Posted
Apr 2007
1:00
Clint Smith
"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
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Sep 2019
10:06
Emma Hart
Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution
Posted
Mar 2022
17:40
David Christian
The history of our world in 18 minutes
Posted
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8:38
George Dyson
The story of Project Orion
Posted
Feb 2008
13:42
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
A climate change solution that's right under our feet
Posted
Sep 2019
5:04
TED-Ed
The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity
Posted
Jul 2022
14:17
DK Osseo-Asare
What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
Posted
Aug 2018
5:00
Fabio Pacucci
Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space
Posted
Dec 2021
4:14
Doug MacKay
You can only save one— who do you choose?
Posted
Dec 2021
5:15
Lorin Swint Matthews
The dust bunnies that built our planet
Posted
Sep 2019
5:09
Fabio Pacucci
Newton's three-body problem explained
Posted
Aug 2020
17:51
James Hansen
Why I must speak out about climate change
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Mar 2012
16:17
Frans Lanting
The story of life in photographs
Posted
Apr 2007
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