Browse Lessons

How does artificial intelligence learn? - Briana Brownell

How much electricity does it take to power the world?

Can loud music damage your hearing? - Heather Malyuk

The material that could change the world... for a third time

How scientists turn lakes into giant batteries

The “myth” of the boiling frog

The satisfying math of folding origami - Evan Zodl

What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson

Uncovering the brain's biggest secret - Melanie E. Peffer

Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall

What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah

The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie

The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi

Who decides how long a second is? - John Kitching

We can help you master public speaking - Chris Anderson

Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”? - Yen Pham

The life cycle of a cup of coffee - A.J. Jacobs

Do personality tests work? - Merve Emre

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney

This thought experiment will help you understand quantum mechanics - Matteo Fadel

Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant - Alex Gendler

The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky

Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin

How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji

The dark history of bananas - John Soluri

Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? - Claire Wardle

The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio

The myth of the stolen eyeballs - Nathan D. Horowitz

The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? - Laurence Hurst

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect - Mark Robinson

Why people fall for misinformation - Joseph Isaac

Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? - Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal

Can the ocean run out of oxygen? - Kate Slabosky

What’s that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson

The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal

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

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors - Iseult Gillespie

Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci

Ethical dilemma: The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors - Philip Freeman

Volcanic eruption explained - Steven Anderson

The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

A day in the life of a teenage samurai - Constantine N. Vaporis

What yoga does to your body and brain - Krishna Sudhir

How fast can a vaccine be made? - Dan Kwartler