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How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
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Plants have a hard time finding mates -- their inabili…
2 days, 22 hours ago
How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari
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Have you ever looked at your camera and wondered what all of…
2 days, 23 hours ago
How Japan prevented its biggest city from collapsing - Roman Krznaric
Dig into Edo, Japan’s circular economy, and how it helped transform the city into a thriving ecological and cultural center.
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400 years ago, Edo was …
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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor
Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki— one of the most influential mathematicians of all time… who never actually existed.
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When Nicolas Bourbaki …
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A primer on mathematical theorems - Scott Kennedy
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Euclid of Alexandria revolutionized the way that mat…
3 days ago
Be an artist, at this moment! - Young-ha Kim
Why do we ever stop playing and creating? With charm and humor, celebrated Korean author Young-ha Kim invokes the world's greatest artists to urge yo…
3 days ago
Defining cyberwarfare...in hopes of preventing it - Daniel Garrie
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Can you imagine a future where wars are foug…
3 days ago
Hades and Persephone: Unpacking the myth - Iseult Gillespie
Dig into the Greek myth of Persephone, who is abducted by Hades and is only allowed to leave the underworld every spring.
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One day, Persephone was fr…
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Why haven’t we cured arthritis? - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust
Get to know the science behind what causes the stiff, creaky joints of the most common forms of arthritis and what you can do to prevent it.
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The ba…
3 days, 1 hour ago
Winter got you feeling low? Watch this - Kelly Rohan
Explore what we know about seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and find out the best way to treat these behavioral changes.
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As winter approaches, sho…
3 days, 1 hour ago