视频选集 A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe 3 tips to boost your confidence - TED-Ed A brie(f) history of cheese - Paul Kindstedt A brief history of alcohol - Rod Phillips A brief history of cannibalism - Bill Schutt A brief history of chess - Alex Gendler A brief history of goths - Dan Adams A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King A brief history of plastic A brief history of religion in art - TED-Ed A curable condition that causes blindness - Andrew Bastawrous A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - Philip Freeman A day in the life of a Cossack warrior - Alex Gendler A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman - Gabriel Prieto A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland A day in the life of a teenage samurai - Constantine N. Vaporis A day in the life of an ancient Athenian - Robert Garland A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect - Mark Robinson A day in the life of an Aztec midwife - Kay Read A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney A poetic experiment Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore A quantum thought experiment - Matteo Fadel A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra Accents by Denice Frohman Ancient Rome’s most notorious doctor - Ramon Glazov Are all of your memories real - Daniel L. Schacter Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals - Thomas Park Are the illuminati real - Chip Berlet Are there universal expressions of emotion - Sophie Zadeh Are we living in a simulation - Zohreh Davoudi Are we running out of clean water - Balsher Singh Sidhu Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body - Maryam Alimardani At what moment are you dead - Randall Hayes Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz Buffalo buffalo buffalo One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant - Alex Gendler Can 100% renewable energy power the world - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei Can a black hole be destroyed - Fabio Pacucci Can animals be deceptive - Eldridge Adams Can machines read your emotions - Kostas Karpouzis Can plants talk to each other - Richard Karban Can robots be creative - Gil Weinberg Can steroids save your life - Anees Bahji Can the ocean run out of oxygen - Kate Slabosky Can we create the perfect farm - Brent Loken Can wildlife adapt to climate change - Erin Eastwood Can you find the next number in this sequence - Alex Gendler Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one) - Claire Wardle Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors - Elizabeth Cox Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt - Elizabeth Cox Can you outsmart this logical fallacy - Alex Gendler Can you solve Einstein’s Riddle - Dan Van der Vieren Can you solve the airplane riddle - Judd A. Schorr Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the alien probe riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the bridge riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the buried treasure riddle - Daniel Griller Can you solve the cheating royal riddle - Dan Katz Can you solve the control room riddle - Dennis Shasha Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle - Jennifer Lu Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the dark coin riddle - Lisa Winer Can you solve the dark matter fuel riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the death race riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the egg drop riddle - Yossi Elran Can you solve the false positive riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the fish riddle - Steve Wyborney Can you solve the frog riddle - Derek Abbott Can you solve the giant cat army riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the giant iron riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the honeybee riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the jail break riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the killer robo-ants riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle - Tanya Khovanova Can you solve the locker riddle - Lisa Winer Can you solve the Mondrian squares riddle - Gordon Hamilton Can you solve the monster duel riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the multiverse rescue mission riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the passcode riddle - Ganesh Pai Can you solve the penniless pilgrim riddle - Daniel Finkel Can you solve the pirate riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle - Yossi Elran Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades - Dan Finkel Can you solve the river crossing riddle - Lisa Winer Can you solve the rogue AI riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the sea monster riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the secret sauce riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the seven planets riddle - Edwin F. Meyer Can you solve the sorting hat riddle - Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle - Dennis Shasha Can you solve the temple riddle - Dennis E. Shasha Can you solve the three gods riddle - Alex Gendler Can you solve the time travel riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the troll’s paradox riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the vampire hunter riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the virus riddle - Lisa Winer Can you solve the wizard standoff riddle - Dan Finkel Can you solve the world’s most evil wizard riddle - Dan Finkel Can you spot the problem with these headlines (Level 1) - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGow Can you survive nuclear fallout - Brooke Buddemeier and Jessica S. Wieder Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour Cell vs. virus A battle for health - Shannon Stiles Check your intuition The birthday problem - David Knuffke Claws vs. nails - Matthew Borths Climate change Earth's giant game of Tetris - Joss Fong Cloudy climate change How clouds affect Earth's temperature - Jasper Kirkby Corruption, wealth and beauty The history of the Venetian gondola - Laura Morell Could a blind eye regenerate - David Davila Could a breathalyzer detect cancer - Julian Burschka Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy - Roey Tzezana Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole - Fabio Pacucci Could we actually live on Mars - Mari Foroutan Could we create dark matter - Rolf Landua Could we harness the power of a black hole - Fabio Pacucci Could we survive prolonged space travel - Lisa Nip Could your brain repair itself - Ralitsa Petrova Dead stuff The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore Debunking the myths of OCD - Natascha M. Santos Did ancient Troy really exist - Einav Zamir Dembin Did Shakespeare write his plays - Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams Did the Amazons really exist - Adrienne Mayor Do animals have language - Michele Bishop Do larger animals take longer to pee - David L. Hu Do politics make us irrational - Jay Van Bavel Do we really need pesticides - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez Does grammar matter - Andreea S. Calude Does stress affect your memory - Elizabeth Cox Does The Wonderful Wizard of Oz have a hidden message - David B. Parker Does time exist - Andrew Zimmerman Jones Earworms Those songs that get stuck in your head - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Einstein's brilliant mistake Entangled states - Chad Orzel Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom Einstein's twin paradox explained - Amber Stuver Ethical dilemma The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig Everything changed when the fire crystal got stolen - Alex Gendler Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie Everything you need to know to read Frankenstein - Iseult Gillespie Everything you need to know to read Homer's Odyssey - Jill Dash Evolution’s great mystery - Michael Corballis Explore cave paintings in this 360° animated cave - Iseult Gillespie Eye vs. camera - Michael Mauser Feedback loops How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel First Kiss by Tim Seibles Football physics The impossible free kick - Erez Garty For Estefani poem by Aracelis Girmay Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes - Danit Peleg From pacifist to spy WWII’s surprising secret agent - Shrabani Basu From slave to rebel gladiator The life of Spartacus - Fiona Radford Game theory challenge Can you predict human behavior - Lucas Husted Group theory 101 How to play a Rubik’s Cube like a piano - Michael Staff Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality - Lillian Faderman Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci History through the eyes of a chicken - Chris A. Kniesly History through the eyes of the potato - Leo Bear-McGuinness History vs. Augustus - Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler History vs. Che Guevara - Alex Gendler History vs. Christopher Columbus - Alex Gendler History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler History vs. Genghis Khan - Alex Gendler History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne History vs. Vladimir Lenin - Alex Gendler History’s deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto History's worst nun - Theresa A. Yugar How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha How ancient art influenced modern art - Felipe Galindo How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir How batteries work - Adam Jacobson How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano How blue jeans were invented Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck How bones make blood - Melody Smith How brass instruments work - Al Cannon How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis - Gerry Wright How can you change someone's mind (hint facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Merci How close are we to eradicating HIV - Philip A. Chan How close are we to uploading our minds - Michael S.A. Graziano How coffee got quicker Moments of Vision 2 - Jessica Oreck How computer memory works - Kanawat Senanan How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas How CRISPR lets you edit DNA - Andrea M. Henle How did clouds get their names - Richard Hamblyn How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire - Stanley Stepanic How did Hitler rise to power - Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean - Alan Tamayose and Sha How did teeth evolve - Peter S. Ungar How do animals experience pain - Robyn J. Crook How do animals see in the dark - Anna Stöckl How do blood transfusions work - Bill Schutt How do brain scans work - John Borghi and Elizabeth Waters How do carbohydrates impact your health - Richard J. Wood How do cigarettes affect the body - Krishna Sudhir How do contraceptives work - NWHunter How do crystals work - Graham Baird How do dogs see with their noses - Alexandra Horowitz How do drugs affect the brain - Sara Garofalo How do executive orders work - Christina Greer How do fish make electricity - Eleanor Nelsen How do focus groups work - Hector Lanz How do geckos defy gravity - Eleanor Nelsen How do germs spread (and why do they make us sick) - Yannay Khaikin and Nicole M How do glasses help us see - Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert How do hard drives work - Kanawat Senanan How do investors choose stocks - Richard Coffin How do lungs work - Emma Bryce How do nuclear power plants work - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini How do ocean currents work - Jennifer Verduin How do our brains process speech - Gareth Gaskell How do personality tests work - Merve Emre How do pregnancy tests work - Tien Nguyen How do scars form - Sarthak Sinha How do schools of fish swim in harmony - Nathan S. Jacobs How do self-driving cars “see” - Sajan Saini How do solar panels work - Richard Komp How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body - Anees Bahji How do tornadoes form - James Spann How do US Supreme Court justices get appointed - Peter Paccone How do vaccines work - Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut How do ventilators work - Alex Gendler How do viruses jump from animals to humans - Ben Longdon How do vitamins work - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen How do we know what color dinosaurs were - Len Bloch How do we separate the seemingly inseparable - Iddo Magen How do you know if you have a virus - Cella Wright How do you know you exist - James Zucker How do your hormones work - Emma Bryce How do your kidneys work - Emma Bryce How does a jellyfish sting - Neosha S Kashef How does alcohol make you drunk - Judy Grisel How does anesthesia work - Steven Zheng How does asthma work - Christopher E. Gaw How does caffeine keep us awake - Hanan Qasim How does cancer spread through the body - Ivan Seah Yu Jun How does chemotherapy work - Hyunsoo Joshua No How does fracking work - Mia Nacamulli How does hibernation work - Sheena Lee Faherty How does impeachment work - Alex Gendler How does laser eye surgery work - Dan Reinstein How does money laundering work - Delena D. Spann How does the Rorschach inkblot test work - Damion Searls How does the stock market work - Oliver Elfenbaum How does the thyroid manage your metabolism - Emma Bryce How does your body know what time it is - Marco A. Sotomayor How does your body know you're full - Hilary Coller How does your body process medicine - Céline Valéry How does your brain respond to pain - Karen D. Davis How does your immune system work - Emma Bryce How does your smartphone know your location - Wilton L. Virgo How exactly does binary code work - José Américo N L F de Freitas How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin How far would you have to go to escape gravity - Rene Laufer How fast can a vaccine be made - Dan Kwartler How fast is the speed of thought - Seena Mathew How heavy is air - Dan Quinn How high can you count on your fingers (Spoiler much higher than 10) - James Tan How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works - Nassim Assefi and Brian A. Levine How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes How languages evolve - Alex Gendler How long will human impacts last - David Biello How Magellan circumnavigated the globe - Ewandro Magalhaes How many verb tenses are there in English - Anna Ananichuk How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem - Betty Fei How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards - Yannay Khaikin How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young How menstruation works - Emma Bryce How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce How much of human history is on the bottom of the ocean - Peter Campbell How much of what you see is a hallucination - Elizabeth Cox How mucus keeps us healthy - Katharina Ribbeck How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Gre How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs How parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode How people rationalize fraud - Kelly Richmond Pope How plants tell time - Dasha Savage How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins How playing sports benefits your body . and your brain - Leah Lagos and Jaspal R How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery How science fiction can help predict the future - Roey Tzezana How small are we in the scale of the universe - Alex Hofeldt How smart are dolphins - Lori Marino How smart are orangutans - Lu Gao How statistics can be misleading - Mark Liddell How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia How super glue was invented Moments of Vision 8 - Jessica Oreck How tall can a tree grow - Valentin Hammoudi How the bendy straw was invented Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck How the bra was invented Moments of Vision 1 - Jessica Oreck How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics - Dan Van der Vieren How the Monkey King escaped the underworld - Shunan Teng How the Normans changed the history of Europe - Mark Robinson How the popsicle was invented Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck How the rubber glove was invented Moments of Vision 4 - Jessica Oreck How the sandwich was invented Moments of Vision 5 - Jessica Oreck How the world's first metro system was built - Christian Wolmar How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built - Alex Gendler How to 3D print human tissue - Taneka Jones How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - Greg Foot How to build a dark matter detector - Jenna Saffin How to choose your news - Damon Brown How to create cleaner coal - Emma Bryce How to detect a supernova - Samantha Kuula How to grow a bone - Nina Tandon How to grow a glacier - M Jackson How to make your writing funnier - Cheri Steinkellner How to make your writing suspenseful - Victoria Smith How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christi How to master your sense of smell - Alexandra Horowitz How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma - Lucas Husted How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler How to see more and care less The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie How to speak monkey The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage How to spot a counterfeit bill - Tien Nguyen How to spot a fad diet - Mia Nacamulli How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz How to spot a pyramid scheme - Stacie Bosley How to squeeze electricity out of crystals - Ashwini Bharathula How to stay calm under pressure - Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen How to turn protest into powerful change - Eric Liu How to unboil an egg - Eleanor Nelsen How to understand power - Eric Liu How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston How to visualize one part per million - Kim Preshoff + The TED-Ed Community How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson How transistors work - Gokul J. Krishnan How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler How turtle shells evolved. twice - Judy Cebra Thomas How X-rays see through your skin - Ge Wang How your digestive system works - Emma Bryce How your muscular system works - Emma Bryce Ideasthesia How do ideas feel - Danko Nikolić If matter falls down, does antimatter fall up - Chloé Malbrunot Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges - Ilan Stavans Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon Inside the killer whale matriarchy - Darren Croft Introducing Earth School Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas - Elizabeth Cox Is graffiti art Or vandalism - Kelly Wall Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down - Laurence Hurst Is it bad to hold your pee - Heba Shaheed Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat Is life meaningless And other absurd questions - Nina Medvinskaya Is marijuana bad for your brain - Anees Bahji Is math discovered or invented - Jeff Dekofsky Is our climate headed for a mathematical tipping point - Victor J. Donnay Is telekinesis real - Emma Bryce Is the weather actually becoming more extreme - R. Saravanan Is there a disease that makes us love cats - Jaap de Roode Is there a limit to technological progress - Clément Vidal Is there a reproducibility crisis in science - Matt Anticole Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends - Alan Lupack It's a church. It's a mosque. It's Hagia Sophia. - Kelly Wall Jabberwocky One of literature's best bits of nonsense Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long - David Gruber Learning from smallpox How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Walter A. Or Let’s plant 20 million trees together! #TeamTrees Let's make history…by recording it - StoryCorps & TED Prize Licking bees and pulping trees The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan Light seconds, light years, light centuries How to measure extreme distances - Y Making a TED-Ed Lesson Bringing a pop-up book to life Mary's Room A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen Master the art of public speaking with TED Masterclass Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids the life of a fire ant queen - Wa Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby Music and math The genius of Beethoven - Natalya St. Clair NASA’s first software engineer Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilt New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke Notes of a native son The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class poem by Clint Smith One of the most epic engineering feats in history - Alex Gendler Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler Performing brain surgery without a scalpel - Hyunsoo Joshua No Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler Plato’s best (and worst) ideas - Wisecrack Prohibition Banning alcohol was a bad idea. - Rod Phillips Romance and revolution The poetry of Pablo Neruda - Ilan Stavans Should we be looking for life elsewhere in the universe - Aomawa Shields Should we get rid of standardized testing - Arlo Kempf Should you trust unanimous decisions - Derek Abbott Sunlight is way older than you think - Sten Odenwald The 2,400-year search for the atom - Theresa Doud The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu The Akune brothers Siblings on opposite sides of war - Wendell Oshiro The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi The art forger who tricked the Nazis - Noah Charney The Artists Think Like A Coder, Ep 5 The Atlantic slave trade What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god - Kay Almere Read The ballet that incited a riot - Iseult Gillespie The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinç The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman - Janell Hobson The bug that poops candy - George Zaidan The Cambodian myth of lightning, thunder, and rain - Prumsodun Ok The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jordana Moore Saggese The Chasm Think Like A Coder, Ep 6 The chemistry of cold packs - John Pollard The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake - Shunan Teng The Chinese myth of the meddling monk - Shunan Teng The coelacanth A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood The coin flip conundrum - Po-Shen Loh The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler The complicated history of surfing - Scott Laderman The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson The dangers of mixing drugs - Céline Valéry The dark history of bananas - John Soluri The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews The effects of underwater pressure on the body - Neosha S Kashef The Egyptian Book of the Dead A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal Gala The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions - Alex Gendler The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris - Alex Gendler The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry The End of History Illusion - Bence Nanay The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin The evolution of the human eye - Joshua Harvey The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua The Factory Think Like A Coder, Ep 9 The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim The first and last king of Haiti - Marlene Daut The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman The fundamentals of space-time Part 3 - Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie The Furnace Bots Think Like A Coder, Ep 3 The Gauntlet Think Like A Coder, Ep 8 The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot - Adrienne Mayor The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riché D. Richardson The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini The hidden treasures of Timbuktu - Elizabeth Cox The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew未 The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - Chiara Decaroli The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington - Michelle Mehrtens The history of African-American social dance - Camille A. Brown The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli The history of tattoos - Addison Anderson The history of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Matthew A. Jordan The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl The history of the world according to corn - Chris A. Kniesly The imaginary king who changed the real world - Matteo Salvadore The incredible collaboration behind the International Space Station - Tien Nguye The invisible motion of still objects - Ran Tivony The Irish myth of the Giant's Causeway - Iseult Gillespie The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar - Iseult Gillespie The journey to Pluto, the farthest world ever explored - Alan Stern The language of lying — Noah Zandan The last banana A thought experiment in probability - Leonardo Barichello The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire - Dustin Tahmahkera The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal The law of conservation of mass - Todd Ramsey The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment - Antara Raychaudhuri & Is The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary - Lisa Janae Bacon The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone The many meanings of Michelangelo's Statue of David - James Earle The mathematical secrets of Pascal’s triangle - Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura The Maya myth of the morning star The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir - Iseult Gillespie The mighty mathematics of the lever - Andy Peterson and Zack Patterson The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson The most successful pirate of all time - Dian Murray The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar - Soraya Field Fiorio The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma The mysterious origins of life on Earth - Luka Seamus Wright The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Hercules 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Jason and the Argonauts - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece - Iseult Gillespie The myth of King Midas and his golden touch - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Loki and the master builder - Alex Gendler The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Här The myth of the stolen eyeballs - Nathan D. Horowitz The myth of Thor's journey to the land of giants - Scott A. Mellor The neuroscience of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy The Opposites Game The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT The origins of ballet - Jennifer Tortorello and Adrienne Westwood The paradox of value - Akshita Agarwal The past, present and future of the bubonic plague - Sharon N. DeWitte The philosophy of cynicism - William D. Desmond The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo The physics of the hardest move in ballet - Arleen Sugano The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy The princess who rewrote history - Leonora Neville The Prison Break Think Like A Coder, Ep 1 The problem with the U.S. bail system - Camilo Ramirez The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder - Joelle Rabow Maletis The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen The real story behind Archimedes’ Eureka! - Armand D'Angour The Resistance Think Like A Coder, Ep 2 The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch The rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire - Leonora Neville The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors - Philip Freeman The rise and fall of the Inca Empire - Gordon McEwan The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge The rise of modern populism - Takis S. Pappas The Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles - Janelle Peters The science behind the myth Homer's Odyssey - Matt Kaplan The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar The science of hearing - Douglas L. Oliver The science of milk - Jonathan J. O'Sullivan The science of skin - Emma Bryce The science of skin color - Angela Koine Flynn The science of smog - Kim Preshoff The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher The scientific origins of the Minotaur - Matt Kaplan The secret language of trees - Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard The secret lives of baby fish - Amy McDermott The secret messages of Viking runestones - Jesse Byock The secret student resistance to Hitler - Iseult Gillespie The sexual deception of orchids - Anne Gaskett The Silk Road Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris Castel The sonic boom problem - Katerina Kaouri The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science - Lucy Cooke The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen The strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney The Sun’s surprising movement across the sky - Gordon Williamson The surprising (and invisible) signatures of sea creatures - Kakani Katija The surprising cause of stomach ulcers - Rusha Modi The surprising effects of pregnancy The surprising reason our muscles get tired - Christian Moro The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys The Taino myth of the cursed creator - Bill Keegan The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie The tale of the doctor who defied Death - Iseult Gillespie The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky The time value of money - German Nande The Tower of Epiphany Think Like A Coder, Ep 7 The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue The Train Heist Think Like A Coder, Ep 4 The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell The Turing test Can a computer pass for a human - Alex Gendler The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's Starry Night - Natalya St. Clair The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler The weird and wonderful metamorphosis of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer The wicked wit of Jane Austen - Iseult Gillespie The wild world of carnivorous plants - Kenny Coogan The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker - Angel Chang The World Machine Think Like A Coder, Ep 10 The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system - Augusto Carballido This is Sparta Fierce warriors of the ancient world - Craig Zimmer This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan This sea creature breathes through its butt - Cella Wright Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus Titan of terror the dark imagination of H.P. 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