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5:22

Alex Gendler

Why elephants never forget

Posted Nov 2014

12:00

Beth Mortimer and Tarje Nissen-Meyer

The enigmatic language of elephants

Posted May 2019

13:23

Lucy King

How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans

Posted Feb 2020

4:28

David L. Hu

Do larger animals take longer to pee?

Posted Nov 2020

4:52

Chase LaDue and Bruce A. Schulte

The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk

Posted Mar 2021

13:24

Kaeli Swift

What crows teach us about death

Posted Oct 2020

20:01

Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf

The interspecies internet? An idea in progress

Posted Jul 2013

12:03

Shane Campbell-Staton

How life on Earth adapts to you and me

Posted Jul 2023

16:36

Lynne Elvins

The myths of gay adoption

Posted Jun 2020

19:26

Carl Safina

What are animals thinking and feeling?

Posted Nov 2015

5:20

Alex Gendler

A brief history of chess

Posted Sep 2019

4:09

Oliver Elfenbaum

How does the stock market work?

Posted Apr 2019

5:27

Mei Lin Neo

The fascinating secret lives of giant clams

Posted Sep 2017

14:42

Barbara J. King

Grief and love in the animal kingdom

Posted Jul 2019

12:08

Helen Marriage

Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination

Posted Apr 2019

10:22

Hendrik Poinar

Bring back the woolly mammoth!

Posted May 2013

5:43

Gautam Shah

Can the metaverse bring us closer to wildlife?

Posted Dec 2022

7:23

Farwiza Farhan

The powerful women on the front lines of climate action

Posted Nov 2021

14:33

Ralph Chami

What a living whale is worth — and why the economy should protect nature

Posted Nov 2022

16:52

Frans de Waal

Moral behavior in animals

Posted Apr 2012

13:11

Luke Syson

How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art

Posted Jan 2014

5:15

Asha de Vos

Why are blue whales so enormous?

Posted Feb 2013

5:42

Barbara J. King

Can other animals understand death?

Posted Jul 2023

17:08

Yuval Noah Harari

What explains the rise of humans?

Posted Jul 2015

15:10

George Monbiot

For more wonder, rewild the world

Posted Sep 2013

13:50

Greg Asner

Ecology from the air

Posted Nov 2013

22:19

Allan Savory

How to fight desertification and reverse climate change

Posted Mar 2013

5:01

Stephanie Honchell Smith

The rise and fall of the Mughal Empire

Posted May 2023

18:18

Corneille Ewango

A hero of the Congo forest

Posted Jul 2008

9:01

Steve Boyes

How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

Posted Jul 2018

4:32

Yossi Elran

Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle?

Posted Oct 2016

6:15

Jaap de Roode

How butterflies self-medicate

Posted Feb 2015

30:31

Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson

Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist

Posted Jan 2018

9:41

Eleftheria Pissadaki

A mathematical model for predicting Parkinson's

Posted Feb 2018

8:27

Jonas Eliasson

How to solve traffic jams

Posted Nov 2012

15:51

Zeresenay Alemseged

The search for humanity's roots

Posted Sep 2007