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The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio
Discover history’s first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the world’s first cities and created the first writing system.
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History’s…
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What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
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Can you ever travel from one place to another? Ancient Gree…
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The power of Vedic math - Gaurav Tekriwal
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There is more than one way to reach a correct answer in mathematic…
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What few people know about the program that "saved" America - Meg Jacobs
Explore the successes and failures of FDR’s New Deal, a set of legislation during the Great Depression which aimed to save the US economy.
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In 1932,…
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What it means if you spot faces in objects - Susan G. Wardle
Dig into the phenomenon of face pareidolia, which is the tendency of our brains to see faces in everyday objects.
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Imagine opening a bag of chips, on…
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questions to ask yourself before you accept an idea - Siska De Baerdemaeker
Get to know 3 factors that can help you identify pseudoscience, and find out how it differs from actual science.
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Pseudoscience is a set of theories,…
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An enormous bubble for debate - Liz Diller
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How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? …
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The Opposites Game
A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?
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What you can do with an extra jaw - Darien Satterfield
Discover the adaptation of the pharyngeal jaw, a secondary set of jaws that allow fish to capture and eat their prey at the same time.
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After stalki…
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Why I must voice concerns about climate change - James Hansen
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Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story …
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