Intermediate Lessons

Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? - Dan Finkel

How tall can a tree grow? - Valentin Hammoudi

The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo

Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? - Damion Searls

The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington - Michelle Mehrtens

Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel

Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

The sexual deception of orchids - Anne Gaskett

Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper? - Stefan Al

Why should you read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? - Iseult Gillespie

How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina Greer

"The Nutritionist" by Andrea Gibson

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

"Three Months After" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

"To Make Use of Water" by Safia Elhillo

How do ocean currents work? - Jennifer Verduin

Why should you read Flannery O’Connor? - Iseult Gillespie

Can you solve the vampire hunter riddle? - Dan Finkel

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA - Andrea M. Henle

Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie

A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge

The myth of Pandora’s box - Iseult Gillespie

The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell

Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle? - Alex Gendler

How Thor got his hammer - Scott A. Mellor

The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl

Can you solve the troll’s paradox riddle? - Dan Finkel

A brie(f) history of cheese - Paul Kindstedt

Can you solve the time travel riddle? - Dan Finkel

Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? - Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut? - Mia Nacamulli

Can you solve the giant iron riddle? - Alex Gendler

Who decides what art means? - Hayley Levitt

The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney

What’s the smallest thing in the universe? - Jonathan Butterworth

The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler

How far would you have to go to escape gravity? - Rene Laufer

Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? - Elizabeth Cox

What causes heartburn? - Rusha Modi

The fascinating history of cemeteries - Keith Eggener

Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle? - Dennis Shasha

Does time exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones

The princess who rewrote history - Leonora Neville