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How ads follow you around the internet

Why this Russian gas company sponsors soccer teams

That famous cello prelude, deconstructed

How Iran's Soleimani became a US target

The lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park

Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in Africa

Are Australia’s koalas going extinct? We asked an ecologist.

The original Game of Life was incredibly dark

Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world

How Does the Internet Work? - Glad You Asked S1

Why Are We So Lonely? - Glad You Asked S1

Is Beauty Culture Hurting Us? - Glad You Asked S1

Is it Wrong to Fly? - Glad You Asked S1

How to fix our unreliable power grid

Google and Amazon are now in the oil business

Childbirth | from Sex, Explained on Netflix

2019, in 6 minutes

The rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani, explained

The white lie we've been told about Roman statues

Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?

Impeachment is Trump's ultimate loyalty test for Republicans

How the fisheye lens took over music

What makes Delhi's air so deadly

Why German spies blew up this US island

The 3 tropes of an Oscar-bait trailer [Advertiser content from Dell]

What facial recognition steals from us

Hollywood almost lost to this city

How online ratings make good schools look bad

Inside the holiday content wars [Advertiser content from Dell]

How an opera gets made

The trick that made animation realistic

This goofy bird vs. the fossil fuel industry

Why you always seem to have room for dessert

How America fails its whistleblowers

How long it takes to decide what to watch next on TV. [Advertiser content from Dell]

How stop motion animation began

Brazil's indigenous land is being invaded

The war for the Amazon's most valuable trees

The destruction of the Amazon, explained

Why movies went from 15 minutes to 2 hours

Everything is designed for this man, even drugs

We're melting the Arctic and reviving deadly germs

Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from

America's wilderness is for sale

The first movie with CGI

China's fight with the NBA, explained

The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall

How Florida legally terrorized gay students