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How long will human impacts last? - David Biello

How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen

History vs. Che Guevara - Alex Gendler

What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare

How often should you get a flu shot? - Melvin Sanicas

The complicated history of surfing - Scott Laderman

The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie

How does your body know you're full? - Hilary Coller

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran

How many verb tenses are there in English? - Anna Ananichuk

Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue

How to make your writing suspenseful - Victoria Smith

Where do math symbols come from? - John David Walters

How your muscular system works - Emma Bryce

Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote

What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang

Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"? - Mark Robinson

How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean? - Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva

The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent

Explore cave paintings in this 360° animated cave - Iseult Gillespie

Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun

Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness

Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen

How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir

The surprising cause of stomach ulcers - Rusha Modi

A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King

Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani

Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox

Should we get rid of standardized testing? - Arlo Kempf

How do executive orders work? - Christina Greer

What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver

Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat

How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? - Betty Fei

Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

The science of smog - Kim Preshoff

The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi

How does impeachment work? - Alex Gendler

Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour

Could we create dark matter? - Rolf Landua

The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch

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Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

When is water safe to drink? - Mia Nacamulli

The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue

Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini