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Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
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Smuggling yourself aboard the rogue submarine was the easy part. Hacking into the nucle…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Does racism impact your vote? - Nate Silver
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Nate Silver has data that answers big questions about race in …
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What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling
Trace the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Kush, an overlooked ancient African civilization which fought off both the Egyptians and Romans.
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Along th…
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Has there ever been a moral dictator? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Examine the myth of the benevolent dictator, which is a leader who holds absolute power yet only uses it for the common good.
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Under certain conditio…
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A tale of mental illness -- from the inside - Elyn Saks
"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks cam…
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What transpires in your body during a miscarriage? - Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey
Explore what happens in the body during miscarriage, and learn about three common treatment options for pregnancy loss.
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Globally, around 23 million …
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Visualizing the globe's Twitter data - Jer Thorp
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Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and …
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How close are we to fueling the world with nuclear fusion? - George Zaidan
Explore the possibility of nuclear fusion technology to create limitless, on-demand energy with almost no emissions.
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Stars have cores hot and dense…
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A brief history of cannibalism - Bill Schutt
Human cannibalism is a lot more common than you might think. Dive into its complex history and see its uses in medicine, cultural rituals and in time…
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Design for people, not awards - Timothy Prestero
Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- but his team learned a hard lesson when it faile…
2 weeks, 4 days ago