Best of the Best EP02
1) We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson 2) The tale of the doctor who defied Death 3) Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson 4) How to outsmart the Prisoner's Dilemma | Lucas Husted
1) We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson 2) The tale of the doctor who defied Death 3) Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson 4) How to outsmart the Prisoner's Dilemma | Lucas Husted
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1) The Myth of Hercules: 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler 2) The tragic myth of the Sun God's son | Iseult Gillespie 3) The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon | Iseult Gillespie 4) The myth of Zeus' test | Iseult Gillespie 5) The myth of Gawain and the Green Knight | Dan Kwartler 6) The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen 7) The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot | Adrienne Mayor 8) The Irish myth of the Giant's Causeway - Iseult Gillespie 9) The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie 10) The myth of Pandora's box - Iseult Gillespie 11) The myth of Loki and the master builder | Alex Gendler
1) Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor - Ramon Glazov 2) Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics | Tomás Chor 3) What can Schrödinger's cat teach us about quantum mechanics? | Josh Samani 4) What's a squillo, and why do opera singers need it? | Ming Luke 5) The epidemics that almost happened | George Zaidan 6) Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends? - Alan Lupack 7) How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir 8) Do larger animals take longer to pee? | David L. Hu 9) How do airplanes actually fly? | Raymond Adkins 10) How does chemotherapy work? | Hyunsoo Joshua No
1) Can you solve the troll's paradox riddle? - Dan Finkel 2) Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle? - Alex Gendler 3) Can you solve the secret sauce riddle? | Alex Gendler 4) Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? | Marie Brodsky 5) Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? | Alex Gendler 6) Can you solve the monster duel riddle? | Alex Gendler 7) Can you solve the world's most evil wizard riddle? 8) Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? | Dennis E. Shasha 9) Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle? - Alex Gendler 10) Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Daniel Finkel 11) Can you solve the giant spider riddle? | Dan Finkel 12) Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? | Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal
1) Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? | Daniel Finkel 2) Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? | Dan Finkel 3) Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler 4) The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky 5) Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel 6) Can you solve "Einstein's Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren 7) Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler 8) Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? | Shravan S K 9) Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle? - Tanya Khovanova 10) The famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle - Alex Gendler 11) Can you solve the cheating royal riddle? | Dan Katz 12) Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle? | Daniel Finkel
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) History's "worst" nun | Theresa A. Yugar 2) A day in the life of a teenage samurai | Constantine N. Vaporis 3) History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte - Alex Gendler 4) The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan 5) Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor 6) History's deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto 7) What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials 8) The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar - Soraya Field Fiorio 9) Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived - Jessica Smith 10) The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli 11) Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? | Lisa Krause
1) Why do we dream? | Amy Adkins 2) Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton 3) How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it | Sabine Doebel 4) What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean 5) What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health | Kay M. Tye 6) What happens in your brain when you pay attention? | Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar
1) What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks 2) What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano 3) What we'll learn about the brain in the next century | Sam Rodriques 4) How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia 5) The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg 6) The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate
1) Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven 2) How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante 3) What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman 4) How community-led research drives social change | Monica Malta
1) A mouse with two dads — and a new frontier for biology | Katsuhiko Hayashi 2) Democracy is being tested. Citizen assemblies can help | Ketakandriana Rafitoson 3) K-pop, cutting-edge tech and other ways Asia is shaping the world | Neeraj Aggarwal 4) The next computer? Your glasses | Shahram Izadi
1) Is safety worth the loss of privacy? | Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez 2) Can salad dressing transform capitalism? | Alex Amouyel 3) How distributed work can unlock your potential | Avani Prabhakar 4) The economic opportunity hidden in the climate transition | Marielle Remillard 5) How much does it cost to fly private? | Rachel Yang 6) The clever trick used by sports betting apps | Shannon Odell
1) Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey 2) Why spending smarter beats bigger budgets | Karthik Muralidharan 3) Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham 4) Ask dumb questions, embrace mistakes — and other lessons on innovation | Dave Raggio 5) The art of marketing — for good | Raja Rajamannar
1) Poems of war, peace, women, power | Suheir Hammad 2) A lyrical bridge between past, present and future | David Whyte 3) Metaphorically speaking | James Geary 4) Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"? | Sheila Marie Orfano 5) Can a computer write poetry? | Oscar Schwartz
1) The fascinating secret lives of giant clams | Mei Lin Neo 2) Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan 3) What rivers can tell us about the earth's history | Liz Hajek 4) How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill | Greg Gage 5) How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz 6) Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan 7) The real reason why mosquitoes buzz | Greg Gage 8) How octopuses battle each other | Greg Gage 9) The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu
1) Should you be able to patent a human gene? | Tania Simoncelli 2) Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa 3) We can start winning the war against cancer | Adam de la Zerda 4) This scientist makes ears out of apples | Andrew Pelling 5) How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari
1) What if all US health care costs were transparent? | Jeanne Pinder 2) Why does hitting your funny bone feel so horrible? | Cella Wright 3) My quest to cure prion disease — before it's too late | Sonia Vallabh 4) What happens in your body during a miscarriage? | Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey 5) Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA? | David R. Liu
1) Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li 2) What if there were 1 trillion more trees? | Jean-François Bastin 3) Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen 4) What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? - Dan Kwartler 5) Are we living in a simulation? | Zohreh Davoudi 6) This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan 7) Which type of milk is best for you? | Jonathan J. O'Sullivan and Grace E. Cunningham 8) The psychology behind irrational decisions - Sara Garofalo 9) Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions | Nina Medvinskaya 10) How big is the ocean? - Scott Gass 11) How do you know you exist? - James Zucker
1) Can you freeze your body and come back to life? | Shannon N. Tessier 2) How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F Freitas 3) What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher 4) How big is a mole? (Not the animal, the other one.) - Daniel Dulek 5) What on Earth is spin? - Brian Jones 6) If superpowers were real: Invisibility - Joy Lin 7) Is light a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher 8) How folding paper can get you to the moon - Adrian Paenza 9) Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens 10) One is one ... or is it? - Christopher Danielson 11) How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries - Adam Savage 12) Free falling in outer space - Matt J. Carlson
1) How symbols and brands shape our humanity | Debbie Millman 2) The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney 3) A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings | eL Seed 4) Why books are here to stay | Chip Kidd 5) Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? | Yen Pham 6) Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina 7) Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge
1) Street art with a message of hope and peace | eL Seed 2) Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology | Es Devlin 3) The pride and power of representation in film | Jon M. Chu 4) A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte
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