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Social Studies

Why we must confront hard historical truths - Hasan Kwame Jeffries

66,417 Views

Social Studies

"Other": A brief history of American xenophobia

64,094 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

565,059 Views

Social Studies

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

2,416,722 Views

Environmental Science

A brief history of plastic

1,257,901 Views

Social Studies

The rise of modern populism

637,892 Views

Thinking & Learning

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors?

1,770,129 Views

Anthropology

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

1,321,137 Views

Science & Technology

No one can figure out how eels have sex

2,593,188 Views

Social Studies

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

1,364,723 Views

Social Studies

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

1,247,855 Views

Social Studies

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

3,931,793 Views

Linguistics

The race to decode a mysterious language

826,415 Views

Social Studies

Prohibition: Banning alcohol was a bad idea...

719,563 Views

Mathematics

The greatest mathematician that never lived

2,669,265 Views

Social Studies

The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire

322,151 Views

History

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

4,527,291 Views

History

Systemic racism explained

4,402,601 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of a teenage samurai

1,444,116 Views

Social Studies

What is Juneteenth, and why is it so important?

372,565 Views

Health

How racism makes us sick - David R. Williams

331,447 Views

Social Studies

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?

1,213,582 Views

The Arts

How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe

457,638 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman

840,774 Views