What makes something "Kafkaesque"?
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The term Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and...
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The term Kafkaesque has entered the vernacular to describe unnecessarily complicated and...
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Imagine if we could fly day and night using only solar energy. The expertly engineered Solar...
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Vox lets us in on the complicated history of the ever-tempting claw machine, and explains what...
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About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war,...
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If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, what kind of physical action would it take...
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When you think of the US Constitution, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Free speech?...
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What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does...
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Human bodies aren’t built for extreme aging: our capacity is set at about 90 years. But what does...
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Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the...
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Modern computers are revolutionizing our lives, performing tasks unimaginable only decades ago....
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What makes you you? This video explores four logical paradoxes that have us wondering about the...
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Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is central to...
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As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the...
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These days, just about every space mission has women on it. It’s just not a big deal. But in...
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Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us about the presence of nature and something a little divine inside...
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About 60 percent of the ocean is a cold, dark region that spans down to 11,000 meters. This...
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They say all things must come to an end. Does this include the universe? This video...
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Our bodies do a lot of weird things, and many of them are completely involuntary. Why do we often...
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Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally...
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We hear a lot about how to speak well in public, but very little about how to learn the equally...
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A photograph is a much better representation of a scene than a sketch, right? The School of Life...
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Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in...
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As we walk through our daily environments, we’re surrounded by exotic creatures that are too...