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Design, Engineering & Technology

The World's Roundest Object (and Why it Exists)

38,162,152 Views

Philosophy & Religion

The Philosophy of The Buddha

3,249,704 Views

Visual Arts

The poet who painted with his words

355,493 Views

The Arts

Why is this painting so captivating?

1,321,988 Views

Social Studies

This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world

3,895,089 Views

The Arts

The origins of ballet

1,123,423 Views

Nature of Science

The Leap Year Explained

349,273 Views

The Arts

How ancient art influenced modern art

404,176 Views

Literature & Language

The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia

459,347 Views

Philosophy

Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry

7,044,678 Views

Health

The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks

5,888,037 Views

Social Studies

History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte

5,573,971 Views

Literature & Language

How science fiction can help predict the future

410,909 Views

Social Studies

History through the eyes of the potato

2,440,047 Views

Social Studies

Let's make history…by recording it

215,850 Views

Social Studies

The science behind the myth: Homer's "Odyssey"

2,833,121 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

How do hard drives work?

2,627,096 Views

Social Studies

A British soldier spared Hitler's life

2,400,124 Views

Philosophy

Who was Confucius?

1,537,852 Views

Science & Technology

How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease

711,224 Views

Health

Why do women have periods?

17,187,235 Views

Social Studies

What are the universal human rights?

2,933,675 Views

Social Studies

Where did Russia come from?

5,464,332 Views

Science & Technology

The race to sequence the human genome

599,045 Views