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Design, Engineering & Technology

The World's Roundest Object (and Why it Exists)

38,159,244 Views

Philosophy & Religion

The Philosophy of The Buddha

3,248,978 Views

Visual Arts

The poet who painted with his words

355,412 Views

The Arts

Why is this painting so captivating?

1,321,641 Views

Social Studies

This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world

3,894,398 Views

The Arts

The origins of ballet

1,122,550 Views

Nature of Science

The Leap Year Explained

349,132 Views

The Arts

How ancient art influenced modern art

404,039 Views

Literature & Language

The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia

459,205 Views

Philosophy

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

7,042,483 Views

Health

The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks

5,887,028 Views

Social Studies

History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte

5,570,487 Views

Literature & Language

How science fiction can help predict the future

410,802 Views

Social Studies

History through the eyes of the potato

2,438,507 Views

Social Studies

Let's make history…by recording it

215,826 Views

Social Studies

The science behind the myth: Homer's "Odyssey"

2,831,119 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

How do hard drives work?

2,625,854 Views

Social Studies

A British soldier spared Hitler's life

2,398,957 Views

Philosophy

Who was Confucius?

1,537,117 Views

Science & Technology

How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease

710,653 Views

Health

Why do women have periods?

17,183,416 Views

Social Studies

What are the universal human rights?

2,932,221 Views

Social Studies

Where did Russia come from?

5,462,944 Views

Science & Technology

The race to sequence the human genome

598,753 Views