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Rose Eveleth
The loathsome lethal mosquito
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Feb 2019
5:03
Anne Gaskett
The sexual deception of orchids
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Feb 2019
3:12
Carl Zimmer
How did feathers evolve?
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Feb 2019
5:41
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
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Jun 2018
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13:38
Ingrid Fetell Lee
Where joy hides and how to find it
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May 2018
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4:53
Angela Koine Flynn
The science of skin color
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14:47
Anjan Chatterjee
How your brain decides what is beautiful
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15:45
Juan Enriquez
What will humans look like in 100 years?
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Nov 2016
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Oded Shoseyov
How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish
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Juan Enriquez
We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely
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12:51
Lisa Nip
How humans could evolve to survive in space
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Mar 2016
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12:27
Latif Nasser
You have no idea where camels really come from
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Mar 2016
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19:26
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
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Nov 2015
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Yuval Noah Harari
What explains the rise of humans?
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21:50
Donald Hoffman
Do we see reality as it is?
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17:04
Sophie Scott
Why we laugh
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14:57
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
What veterinarians know that physicians don't
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Dec 2014
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13:51
Sara Lewis
The loves and lies of fireflies
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Jul 2014
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9:52
Ray Kurzweil
Get ready for hybrid thinking
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Jun 2014
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14:09
Deborah Gordon
What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
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May 2014
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
What is so special about the human brain?
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Nov 2013
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10:22
Hendrik Poinar
Bring back the woolly mammoth!
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May 2013
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Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
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Feb 2013
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16:25
Emma Teeling
The secret of the bat genome
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Oct 2012
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8:44
Ruby Wax
What's so funny about mental illness?
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Oct 2012
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11:20
Diane Kelly
What we didn't know about penis anatomy
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Jun 2012
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16:48
Juan Enriquez
Will our kids be a different species?
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Jun 2012
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Christina Warinner
Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque
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Jonathan Haidt
Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
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Mike deGruy
Hooked by an octopus
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Feb 2012
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Danny Hillis
Back to the future (of 1994)
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Feb 2012
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Annie Murphy Paul
What we learn before we're born
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Nov 2011
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14:37
Martin Hanczyc
The line between life and not-life
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Nov 2011
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19:59
Daniel Wolpert
The real reason for brains
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Nov 2011
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Christoph Adami
Finding life we can't imagine
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Oct 2011
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