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Social Studies

Why we must confront hard historical truths - Hasan Kwame Jeffries

66,417 Views

Social Studies

"Other": A brief history of American xenophobia

64,042 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

564,476 Views

Social Studies

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

2,416,219 Views

Environmental Science

A brief history of plastic

1,256,248 Views

Social Studies

The rise of modern populism

637,217 Views

Thinking & Learning

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

1,769,129 Views

Anthropology

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

1,320,346 Views

Science & Technology

No one can figure out how eels have sex

2,592,038 Views

Social Studies

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

1,363,917 Views

Social Studies

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

1,247,230 Views

Social Studies

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

3,929,804 Views

Linguistics

The race to decode a mysterious language

826,075 Views

Social Studies

Prohibition: Banning alcohol was a bad idea...

719,175 Views

Mathematics

The greatest mathematician that never lived

2,667,808 Views

Social Studies

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

322,015 Views

History

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

4,525,777 Views

History

Systemic racism explained

4,401,758 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of a teenage samurai

1,443,167 Views

Social Studies

What is Juneteenth, and why is it so important?

372,244 Views

Health

How racism makes us sick - David R. Williams

331,296 Views

Social Studies

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?

1,211,074 Views

The Arts

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe

457,404 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman

840,272 Views