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Experiment with something fresh for 30 days - Matt Cutts
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Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but j…
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History's deadliest king - by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Dig into the Rubber Terror, the period in which King Leopold II’s horrific regime in the Congo resulted in the deaths of 10 million people.
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In 1904,…
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The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
Explore Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, a discovery which changed what we know about mathematical proofs and statements.
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Consider the following sent…
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A trip through space to calculate distance - Heather Tunnell
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Imagine two aliens racing across outer space to…
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The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment - Antara Raychaudhuri and Iseult Gillespie
Follow the legend of Parvati, the Hindu mother of the natural world, as she disappears from Earth and reemerges as Annapurna, the goddess of food.
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Why is this painting of a black square iconic? - Allison Leigh
Discover the symbolism of Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square,” and how it pushed the boundaries of what art is and what it can be.
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In 1915, an exhibit…
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Deciphering a visible quantum object - Aaron O'Connell
Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-sc…
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Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
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When you picture the lowest levels of the …
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A Rosetta Stone for the Indus language - Rajesh Rao
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Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword p…
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Visualizing the medical data explosion - Anders Ynnerman
Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information…
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