Check your intuition: The birthday problem
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Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more...
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Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more...
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Each year, approximately 2 billion popsicles are sold worldwide. But where did the idea for this...
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Professor Roger Bowley chats with Brady Haran from Numberphile about some of the ways legendary...
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It’s a good day to be a pirate. Amaro and his four mateys – Bart, Charlotte, Daniel, and Eliza...
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"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fall ...
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Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their...
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Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. But why is this so? And what’s...
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The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology. Vox...
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Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the most famous...
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The sequence of DNA that we inherit from our parents encodes directions for making our cells and...
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Anna Rothschild from Gross Science explains how herpes affects your body and brain.
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All mammals share certain characteristics, like warm blood and backbones. But despite their...
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On April 15, 1912 the RMS Titanic tragically sank to the bottom of the sea. 73 years later,...
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Oxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role in the...
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The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We’ve all experienced the...
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After 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is running out of fuel. But fear not: A...
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Focus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their...
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Today, 96% of American consumers own at least one pair of jeans. But where did these durable duds...
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For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. The...
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In the battle of the sexes, who actually has the superior intellect?
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Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it...
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On September 6, 1522, the "Victoria" sailed into harbor in southern Spain. The battered vessel...
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Some are longer than a blue whale. Others are barely larger than a grain of sand. One species...
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Kurt Vonnegut gives a short, humorous lecture on the shape of stories.