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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

3,249,001 Views

Visual Arts

The poet who painted with his words

355,413 Views

The Arts

Why is this painting so captivating?

1,321,649 Views

Social Studies

This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world

3,894,441 Views

The Arts

The origins of ballet

1,122,565 Views

Nature of Science

The Leap Year Explained

349,137 Views

The Arts

How ancient art influenced modern art

404,041 Views

Literature & Language

The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia

459,205 Views

Philosophy

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

7,042,565 Views

Health

The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks

5,887,064 Views

Social Studies

History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte

5,570,643 Views

Literature & Language

How science fiction can help predict the future

410,805 Views

Social Studies

History through the eyes of the potato

2,438,546 Views

Social Studies

Let's make history…by recording it

215,827 Views

Social Studies

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

2,831,161 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

How do hard drives work?

2,625,882 Views

Social Studies

A British soldier spared Hitler's life

2,399,009 Views

Philosophy

Who was Confucius?

1,537,143 Views

Science & Technology

How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease

710,657 Views

Health

Why do women have periods?

17,183,490 Views

Social Studies

What are the universal human rights?

2,932,294 Views

Social Studies

Where did Russia come from?

5,462,978 Views

Science & Technology

The race to sequence the human genome

598,756 Views