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The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue
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Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini
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What happens when you have a concussion? - Clifford Robbins
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The left brain vs. right brain myth - Elizabeth Waters
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Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler
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How does caffeine keep us awake? - Hanan Qasim
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How does fracking work? - Mia Nacamulli
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How to spot a misleading graph - Lea Gaslowitz
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What causes kidney stones? - Arash Shadman
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How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo
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Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney
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Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott
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How to squeeze electricity out of crystals - Ashwini Bharathula
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The philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci
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What can you learn from ancient skeletons? - Farnaz Khatibi
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The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez
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Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich
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The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose
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The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
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Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
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How the bendy straw was invented | Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck
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Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield
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The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax
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How does money laundering work? - Delena D. Spann
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History’s deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto
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A brief history of goths - Dan Adams
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The history of tea - Shunan Teng
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How does your body process medicine? - Céline Valéry
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How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw
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What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips
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How do nuclear power plants work? - M. V. Ramana and Sajan Saini
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Check your intuition: The birthday problem - David Knuffke
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How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck
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Can you solve the pirate riddle? - Alex Gendler
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Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
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Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
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The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
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How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic
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Secrets of the X chromosome - Robin Ball
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The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
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Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler
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Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce
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How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz
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How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck
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Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
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Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer
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How Magellan circumnavigated the globe - Ewandro Magalhaes
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Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long? - David Gruber
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Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten
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How the food you eat affects your gut - Shilpa Ravella
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Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
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What makes a poem … a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
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The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli
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What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker
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The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins
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Where do superstitions come from? - Stuart Vyse
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How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck
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Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker
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What happened to trial by jury? - Suja A. Thomas
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Are ghost ships real? - Peter B. Campbell
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How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene
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Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie
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Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler
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The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua
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What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir
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How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt
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What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell
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Would winning the lottery make you happier? - Raj Raghunathan
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How super glue was invented | Moments of Vision 8 - Jessica Oreck
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History vs. Cleopatra - Alex Gendler
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The science of milk - Jonathan J. O'Sullivan
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Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash
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The myth behind the Chinese zodiac - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen
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Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen
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The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura
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A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King
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How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
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Would you sacrifice one person to save five? - Eleanor Nelsen
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What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
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How to master your sense of smell - Alexandra Horowitz
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What does this symbol actually mean? - Adrian Treharne
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Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu
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How the stethoscope was invented | Moments of Vision 7 - Jessica Oreck
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Why are we so attached to our things? - Christian Jarrett
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Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
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Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch
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Is there a limit to technological progress? - Clément Vidal
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How high can you count on your fingers? (Spoiler: much higher than 10) - James Tanton
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Why doesn’t anything stick to Teflon? - Ashwini Bharathula
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The neuroscience of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy
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How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor
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How smudge-proof lipstick was invented | Moments of Vision 6 - Jessica Oreck
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Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? - Matt Anticole
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Can you solve the airplane riddle? - Judd A. Schorr
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Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis
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What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? - Chand John
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The secrets of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - Joshua Borths
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Why do we feel nostalgia? - Clay Routledge
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How do US Supreme Court justices get appointed? - Peter Paccone
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How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler
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