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13:01

Chip Colwell

Why museums are returning cultural treasures

Posted Sep 2018
5:01

Jim Chuchu

Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums?

Posted Aug 2021
4:32

Ziyah Gafić

Everyday objects, tragic histories

Posted Aug 2014
15:00

Amit Sood

Every piece of art you've ever wanted to see — up close and searchable

Posted Jun 2016
19:45

Elif Shafak

The politics of fiction

Posted Jul 2010
13:18

Chris Fisher

Why we should archive everything on the planet

Posted Oct 2019
9:16

Jorge Mañes Rubio

What should humans take to space (and leave behind)?

Posted Jul 2021
13:15

Chris Fisher

Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR

Posted Aug 2020
12:07

Gregory Heyworth

How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts

Posted Feb 2016
16:26

Matt Ridley

When ideas have sex

Posted Jul 2010
15:33

Denis Dutton

A Darwinian theory of beauty

Posted Nov 2010
4:22

Brandon Clifford

Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders

Posted Jun 2019
17:00

David Kelley

Human-centered design

Posted May 2007
17:01

Rajesh Rao

A Rosetta Stone for a lost language

Posted Jun 2011
12:51

Katie Bouman

How to take a picture of a black hole

Posted Apr 2017
3:01

A.J. Jacobs

The evolution of the coffee cup lid

Posted Feb 2020
14:45

Melaku Belay

The ecstasy of Eskista, an ancient Ethiopian dance

Posted Jan 2023
11:12

Elizabeth Strickler

NFTs, the metaverse and the future of digital art

Posted Apr 2022
7:30

Jae Rhim Lee

My mushroom burial suit

Posted Oct 2011
12:19

Ariana Curtis

Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary

Posted Dec 2018
15:36

Johanna Blakley

Lessons from fashion's free culture

Posted May 2010
23:20

Anil Seth

How your brain invents your "self"

Posted Nov 2021
18:45

Lawrence Lessig

Re-examining the remix

Posted May 2010
15:27

Lara Durgavich

An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

Posted Apr 2020
20:10

Mark Pagel

How language transformed humanity

Posted Aug 2011
11:20

Jane Fonda

Life's third act

Posted Jan 2012
10:48

Carolyn Jones

A tribute to nurses

Posted May 2017
15:33

Margaret Wertheim

The beautiful math of coral

Posted Apr 2009
28:31

Philip Rosedale

Life in Second Life

Posted Dec 2008
11:28

Roxane Gay

Confessions of a bad feminist

Posted Jun 2015
18:16

Jonathan Haidt

Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Posted Mar 2012
14:19

Ben Goldacre

Battling bad science

Posted Sep 2011
12:49

Manuel Lima

A visual history of human knowledge

Posted Aug 2015
13:36

Heather Lanier

"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves

Posted Dec 2017
12:28

Jonathan Drori

What we think we know

Posted Sep 2008
15:58

Alexis Jones

Redefining manhood—one locker room talk at a time

Posted Oct 2018