1) The invisible life hidden beneath Antarctica's ice | Ariel Waldman 2) What happens if an engineered virus escapes the lab? | TED-Ed 3) The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin 4) How bones make blood | Melody Smith 5) How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry | Triona McGrath 6) How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins
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1) Why can't we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter 2) An aerialist on listening to your body's signals | Adie Delaney 3) The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor 4) Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones | Jenna C. Lester 5) The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn 6) A campaign for period positivity | Ananya Grover
1) A 5,300-year-old murder mystery | Albert Zink 2) The dark history of Mount Rushmore | Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means 3) The infamous and ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail | Cameron Paterson 4) The movement that inspired the Holocaust | Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira 5) The rise of the Ottoman Empire | Mostafa Minawi 6) Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield 7) How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world | Charita Gainey 8) Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition | Kayla Wolf 9) History vs. Thomas Jefferson | Frank Cogliano 10) The ancient origins of the Olympics | Armand D'Angour 11) The rise and fall of the Mughal Empire | Stephanie Honchell Smith
1) Why were there three popes at the same time? | Joëlle Rollo-Koster 2) Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal | Alex Gendler 3) The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire | Dustin Tahmahkera 4) What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence | Kenneth C. Davis 5) Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide | Timothy Williams 6) The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Empire | Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen 7) The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors | Philip Freeman 8) Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history | Karen L. Cox 9) The rise and fall of history's first empire | Soraya Field Fiorio 10) A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect | Mark Robinson
1) Seeing things that aren't there? It's pareidolia | Susan G. Wardle 2) How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca 3) How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers 4) Could your brain repair itself? - Ralitsa Petrova 5) Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski
1) The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard 2) How sound can hack your memory while you sleep | Greg Gage 3) What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic 4) What is melatonin -- and should you take it to fall asleep? | Matt Walker 5) Why helmets don't prevent concussions -- and what might | David Camarillo 6) This is your brain on air pollution | María Neira
1) Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey 2) Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power | Erika Cheung 3) The dream of educating Afghan girls lives on | Shabana Basij-Rasikh 4) The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
1) We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2) Why do ambitious women have flat heads? | Dame Stephanie Shirley 3) The powerful women on the front lines of climate action | Farwiza Farhan 4) The fight for the right to vote in the United States | Nicki Beaman Griffin
1) The invisible life hidden beneath Antarctica's ice | Ariel Waldman 2) What happens if an engineered virus escapes the lab? | TED-Ed 3) The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin 4) How bones make blood | Melody Smith 5) How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry | Triona McGrath 6) How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins
1) How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi 2) Do 9 out of 10 dentists really recommend that toothpaste? | Mona Chalabi 3) How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope 4) Everything you hear on film is a lie | Tasos Frantzolas 5) How accurate is the weather forecast? | Mona Chalabi
1) Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler 2) How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy 3) The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal 4) Why we all need to practice emotional first aid | Guy Winch 5) An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator | Todd Scott
1) The myth of Narcissus and Echo | Iseult Gillespie 2) The myth of the original star-crossed lovers | Shannon Zhao 3) How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor 4) The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie 5) The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions - Alex Gendler 6) The Taino myth of the cursed creator | Bill Keegan 7) The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider | Emily Zobel Marshall 8) The myth of Pegasus and the chimera | Iseult Gillespie 9) The Hawaiian story of the king's betrayal | Sydney Iaukea 10) The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar | Iseult Gillespie 11) The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe | Iseult Gillespie
1) The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu 2) Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff 3) Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl 4) The kingdom hidden in Brazil | Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes 5) How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? | George Zaidan and Charles Morton 6) The bizarre world of parasitic wasps | Miles Zhang 7) Why do people have seasonal allergies? | Eleanor Nelsen 8) What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? | Chand John 9) How dangerous was it to be a jester? | Beatrice K. Otto 10) What happens during a heart attack? | Krishna Sudhir 11) Why your phone battery gets worse over time | George Zaidan
1) A short history of trans people's long fight for equality | Samy Nour Younes 2) A queer journey from shame to self-love | Crystal Rasmussen 3) A day in the life of an ancient Peruvian shaman 4) What my gender transition taught me about womanhood | Paula Stone Williams 5) How to tackle the stigma of living with HIV | Gareth Thomas 6) Can love and independence coexist? | Tanya Boucicaut
1) How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust | Werner Reich 2) Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear | Dave Isay 3) The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine | Melanie E. Peffer 4) What it's like to be a transgender dad | LB Hannahs
(1) Less stuff, more happiness | Graham Hill (2) We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it | Nora McInerny (3) The secret student resistance to Hitler - Iseult Gillespie (4) The beauty of being a misfit | Lidia Yuknavitch (5) Say your truths and seek them in others | Elizabeth Lesser
1) Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke 2) Why you should stop setting goals (yes, really) | Emmanuel Acho 3) What happens when you fall into piranha-infested waters? | Antonio Machado-Allison 4) How the compass unlocked the world | David Biello 5) How daylight saving time affects our bodies, minds -- and world | Matt Walker 6) The trick to regaining your childlike wonder | Zach King 7) Adventures of an asteroid hunter | Carrie Nugent 8) 4 ways the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we sleep | Matt Walker
1) The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski 2) How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics | Cara Greene Epstein 3) Why plague doctors wore beaked masks | TED-Ed 4) How a typeface helped launch Apollo | Douglas Thomas
1) How vulnerability makes you a better leader | Tracy Young 2) How to embrace emotions at work | Liz Fosslien 3) Do you have what it takes to freelance? | TED-Ed 4) How great leaders take on uncertainty | Anjali Sud and Stephanie Mehta 5) Dignity isn't a privilege. It's a worker's right | Abigail Disney
1) How your brain responds to stories -- and why they're crucial for leaders | Karen Eber 2) The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of - Addison Anderson 3) 5 ways to lead in an era of constant change | Jim Hemerling 4) The rise of modern populism | Takis S. Pappas 5) The rigged test of leadership | Sophie Williams
1) Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin 2) The loves and lies of fireflies | Sara Lewis 3) This weird trick will help you summon an army of worms | Kenny Coogan 4) How we found the giant squid | Edith Widder 5) Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem | Kenny Coogan 6) The colorful, shapeshifting wonder of the Amazon's praying mantises | Leo Lanna and Lvcas Fiat 7) Why can parrots talk? | Grace Smith-Viduarre and Tim Wright
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