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Design, Engineering & Technology

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

567,568 Views

Social Studies

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

2,418,351 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

Why fascism is so tempting— and how your data could power it - Yuval Noah Harari

771,053 Views

Environmental Science

A brief history of plastic

1,263,736 Views

Thinking & Learning

How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma

4,654,778 Views

Literature & Language

Evolution’s great mystery: Language

631,057 Views

Social Studies

The rise of modern populism

639,844 Views

Science & Technology

The last living members of an extinct species

1,082,713 Views

Thinking & Learning

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors?

1,773,062 Views

Anthropology

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

1,323,264 Views

Science & Technology

No one can figure out how eels have sex

2,597,970 Views

Social Studies

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

1,368,045 Views

Social Studies

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

1,250,435 Views

Social Studies

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

3,937,560 Views

Linguistics

The race to decode a mysterious language

827,606 Views

Social Studies

Prohibition: Banning alcohol was a bad idea...

722,855 Views

Social Studies

The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil

5,501,559 Views

Mathematics

The greatest mathematician that never lived

2,671,653 Views

Social Studies

The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire

322,629 Views

History

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

4,533,222 Views

History

Systemic racism explained

4,407,623 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of a teenage samurai

1,453,050 Views

Health

What yoga does to your body and brain

3,558,182 Views

Social Studies

What is Juneteenth, and why is it so important?

372,632 Views