1) I let algorithms randomize my life for two years | Max Hawkins 2) My journey mapping the uncharted world | Tawanda Kanhema 3) Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor 4) My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar 5) The African swamp protecting Earth's environment | Vera Songwe
1) A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron 2) The Chinese legend of the butterfly lovers | Lijun Zhang 3) The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry 4) Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy? | Laura Wright 5) How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen
1) How to make applying for jobs less painful | Priyanka Jain 2) The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen 3) The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann 4) Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr 5) How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner
1) How do personality tests work? | Merve Emre 2) Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman 3) The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell 4) How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman 5) Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
1) Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh 2) Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson 3) The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski 4) Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle 5) Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan
1) How some friendships last — and others don't | Iseult Gillespie 2) An ethicist's guide to living a good life | Ira Bedzow 3) A new vision of healthy masculinity | Davonte Green 4) Are we still human if robots help raise our babies? | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
1) Why friendship can be just as meaningful as romantic love | Rhaina Cohen 2) How to be an "apocalyptic optimist" | Dana R. Fisher 3) Can you love your body — and still want to change it? | Gabriella Lascano 4) 5 signs you're a good driver | Iseult Gillespie 5) Parkour! How the sport keeps your body and mind fit | Taylor Lynn Carpenter 6) Why does uncertainty bother us so much? | Adam Kucharski
1) The hidden cost of the green transition's mineral rush | Galina Angarova 2) The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama 3) What is true confidence? A photographer and a brand builder answer | David Suh and Molly Graham
1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey
1) Our savory, spicy, significant relationship with food | June Jo Lee 2) The foods humanity forgot — and how we're bringing them back | Helianti Hilman 3) A menu of foods we might lose forever | Sam Kass 4) The food that fertilizes itself | Giles E.D. Oldroyd 5) The delicious potential of rescuing wasted food | Jasmine Crowe-Houston
1) Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke 2) A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford 3) The left brain vs. right brain myth | Elizabeth Waters 4) When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | R. Alan Brooks 5) How to build a fictional world | Kate Messner 6) The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
1) Star Wars changed visual effects — AI is doing it again | Rob Bredow 2) How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian 3) Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | Yancey Strickler
1) The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future | Abbas Ardehali 2) The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy 3) Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler 4) The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it | Travis Rieder 5) How did we get fertility so wrong? | Mona Chalabi 6) How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change | Heidi Boisvert
1) Why body language is the key to self-expression — and hot selfies | David Suh 2) Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? | Shannon Odell 3) Yes, tiny mites live on your face — but is that a bad thing? | M. Alejandra Perotti 4) Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't | Adam Zeman 5) My Big Idea (Ep. 3): The monthly miracle packed with scientific potential | Karli Büchling 6) How do drugs make you hallucinate? | Anees Bahji
1) The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma 2) The forgotten queen of Egypt | Abdallah Ewis 3) The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax 4) Did Ancient Troy really exist? - Einav Zamir Dembin 5) History's deadliest king | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 6) Why was India split into two countries? | Haimanti Roy 7) A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge 8) History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne 9) The dark history of bananas | John Soluri 10) The first and last king of Haiti | Marlene Daut 11) The history of Tea - Shunan Teng
1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson
1) How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon 2) How changing your story can change your life | Lori Gottlieb 3) The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
1) Embrace your main character energy with Natasha Rothwell | On the Spot | Natasha Rothwell 2) How to make anxiety your friend | David H. Rosmarin 3) The science behind dramatically better conversations | Charles Duhigg 4) Your inner fire is your greatest strength | Xiye Bastida
1) Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth | Zaria Forman 2) The lovable (and lethal) sea lion | Claire Simeone 3) A radical plan to end plastic waste | Andrew Forrest 4) Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis 5) Is climate change slowing down the ocean? | Susan Lozier 6) Deep ocean mysteries and wonders - David Gallo
1) How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs | Kristen Marhaver 2) The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna 3) A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines | Skylar Tibbits 4) To solve old problems, study new species | Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado 5) How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean | Sebastien de Halleux