1) Are naps actually good for us? | Matt Walker 2) What happens when you get heat stroke? - Douglas J. Casa 3) How vaccines are developed -- and why they're safe | Jen Gunter 4) What will humans look like in 100 years? | Juan Enriquez 5) How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant | Luhan Yang 6) Why do some people go bald? - Sarthak Sinha 7) How do your hormones work? - Emma Bryce
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1) The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet - Arleen Sugano 2) If you're scared of snakes, watch this | Andrew Whitworth 3) Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? | Andrew Smith 4) How do pain relievers work? - George Zaidan 5) The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich | Soraya Field Fiorio 6) The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors | Iseult Gillespie 7) How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer 8) The method that can "prove" almost anything | James A. Smith 9) Why bats don't get sick | Arinjay Banerjee 10) Why is it so hard to cure the common cold? | TED-Ed 11) The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece | Iseult Gillespie
1) How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics - Dan Van der Vieren 2) Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League | Alex Rosenthal 3) Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? | Elizabeth Cox 4) Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky 5) Can you solve the wizard tournament riddle? | Alex Rosenthal 6) Can you solve the basketball robot riddle? | Dan Katz 7) Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy? | Elizabeth Cox 8) Can you solve the time traveling car riddle? | Daniel Finkel 9) Can you solve the risky disk riddle? | James Tanton 10) How to defeat a dragon with math - Garth Sundem 11) Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle? | Alex Rosenthal
1) The Chasm | Think Like A Coder, Ep 6 | Alex Rosenthal 2) The Tower of Epiphany | Think Like A Coder, Ep 7 | Alex Rosenthal 3) The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8 | Alex Rosenthal 4) The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9 | Alex Rosenthal 5) The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10 | Alex Rosenthal 6) Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? | Elizabeth Cox
1) What really caused the Irish Potato Famine | Stephanie Honchell Smith 2) History vs. Egypt's "most powerful" pharaoh | Jessica Tomkins 3) A day in the life of a Celtic Druid | Philip Freeman 4) One of history's most dangerous myths | Anneliese Mehnert 5) Why did the US try to kill all the bison? | Andrew C. Isenberg 6) How horses changed history | William T. Taylor 7) What few people know about the program that "saved" America | Meg Jacobs 8) How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? | Thula Simpson 9) What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol | Rod Phillips 10) How does impeachment work? - Alex Gendler
1) The most notorious scientific feud in history | Lukas Rieppel 2) When did slavery actually end in the United States? | Karlos Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio 3) The gory history of barber surgeons | Stephanie Honchell Smith 4) The imaginary king who changed the real world 5) The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii | Sydney Iaukea 6) The merciless mercenaries of the Italian Renaissance | Stephanie Honchell Smith 7) History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler 8) Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone 9) What caused the Rwandan Genocide? | Susanne Buckley-Zistel 10) The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge
1) What if advertising was honest? | Sylvester Chauke 2) How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei 3) What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner 4) The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu 5) Which box do I check? | Mona Chalabi 6) A rite of passage for late life | Bob Stein
1) The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | Mary Norris 2) Go ahead, make up new words! | Erin McKean 3) Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke 4) How to take the BS out of business speak | Bob Wiltfong 5) What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak | Mark Forsyth 6) How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas
1) How CRISPR lets you edit DNA | Andrea M. Henle 2) SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann 3) Underwater farms vs. climate change | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis 4) The affordable, 3D-printed bionics of the future | Enzo Romero 5) The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier 6) The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione
1) This is what makes employees happy at work | Michael C. Bush 2) How diversity makes teams more innovative | Rocío Lorenzo 3) How millennials and Gen Z can invest in a better future | Miguel Goncalves 4) The myth of bringing your full, authentic self to work | Jodi-Ann Burey 5) 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for | Patty McCord 6) Ethical dilemma: The burger murders | George Siedel and Christine Ladwig
1) The case for a 4-day work week | Juliet Schor 2) Can the economy grow forever? | TED-Ed 3) How to lead in the new era of employee activism | Megan Reitz 4) Stuck in the gig economy? Try platform co-ops instead | Trebor Scholz 5) Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch
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) Miles from Any Shoreline | Sarah Kay 2) Insults by Shakespeare - April Gudenrath 3) Suddenly, my body | Eve Ensler 4) The power of unconventional thinking | David McWilliams 5) A meditation on Rumi and the power of poetry | Leili Anvar
1) The cost of work stress -- and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke 2) Prepare for a good end of life | Judy MacDonald Johnston 3) What fear can teach us | Karen Thompson Walker 4) Older people are happier | Laura Carstensen 5) Ethical dilemma: What makes life worth living? 6) Remember to say thank you | Laura Trice 7) 8 secrets of success | Richard St. John
1) How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam 2) For parents, happiness is a very high bar | Jennifer Senior 3) The science of falling in love | Shannon Odell 4) Want to be happier? Stay in the moment | Matt Killingsworth 5) What's the smartest age? | Shannon Odell
1) Are naps actually good for us? | Matt Walker 2) What happens when you get heat stroke? - Douglas J. Casa 3) How vaccines are developed -- and why they're safe | Jen Gunter 4) What will humans look like in 100 years? | Juan Enriquez 5) How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant | Luhan Yang 6) Why do some people go bald? - Sarthak Sinha 7) How do your hormones work? - Emma Bryce
1) What happens if you don't put your phone in airplane mode? | Lindsay DeMarchi 2) The Boltzmann brain paradox | Fabio Pacucci 3) The most dangerous elements on the periodic table | Shannon Odell 4) Something weird is happening in our galaxy | Ashkbiz Danehkar 5) Could we build a miniature sun on Earth? | George Zaidan 6) Where did Earth's water come from? - Zachary Metz 7) Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers 8) Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 9) The moon illusion - Andrew Vanden Heuvel 10) A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar 11) What really killed the dinosaurs? (It wasn't just the asteroid) | Sean P. S. Gulick
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) Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary | Ariana Curtis 2) What's the point of digital fashion? | Karinna Grant 3) This person isn't actually screaming | Noah Charney 4) The weird and wonderful art of Niceaunties | Niceaunties 5) How augmented reality is changing activism | Glenn Cantave 6) These 70 writers are actually all the same person | Ilan Stavans
1) Why I built my own time machine | Lucas Rizzotto 2) Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality | Alicia Eggert 3) Why should you read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"? - Iseult Gillespie 4) How we experience time and memory through art | Sarah Sze 5) A sci-fi story of climate optimism | Vandana Singh
1) Living sculptures that stand for history's truths | Sethembile Msezane 2) How modern audiences can talk about aging art | Margaret Hall 3) Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm 4) The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu 5) Photographing nature beyond the limits of human perception | Doris Mitsch 6) How I use art to bridge misunderstanding | Adong Judith
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