Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
AdultsHistoryHumanPsychologyHumorGames... They call you the human cannonball. Your act involves flying through rings of fire, bouncing through a trampoline course, and catching the trapezist in the grand finale.
You Are Immune Against Every Disease
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceHealth... You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests.
Is Meat Really that Bad?
AdultsFoodHealthHuman Food is arguably the best thing about being alive. No other bodily pleasure is enjoyed multiple times every day and never gets old.
Can stereotypes ever be good? - Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho
AdultsHumanPoliticsPsychologyCultureSocietyJustice... Explore the model minority stereotype, and discover how it became a label for Asian Americans and is used to enforce racial hierarchies.
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceMath... A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality.
Where will you be able to live in 20 years? - Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas
AdultsFutureHumanIndustryEnvironmentSociety... Explore how coastal communities are impacted by climate change and how they’re adapting to rising sea levels and extreme weather.
What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling
AdultsHistoryHumanWorldCulture... Trace the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Kush, an overlooked ancient African civilization which fought off both the Egyptians and Romans.
Ancient Greece's greatest popstar - Diane J. Rayor
AdultsHistoryHumanMusicCulture... Discover the works of poet and songwriter Sappho, and find out why only fragments of her poetry still survive.
You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) - Kayla Mandel Sheets
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceGeneticsHealthFamily... While searching for a kidney donor, Karen Keegan stumbled upon a mystery. After undergoing genetic testing, it turned out that some of her cells had a completely different set of genes from the others.
How to Photograph the Night Sky | National Geographic
AdultsCreativityEducationHumanPhotographyScience... NASCAR driver and photography enthusiast, Bubba Wallace, and National Geographic Photographer Babak Tafreshi demonstrate how to take nighttime photos of the sky. Paid Content for Columbia.
What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
AdultsHistoryHumanLifeLanguage... Dig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages.
Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
AdultsEducationHumanSciencePsychology... Dig into the slippery slope fallacy, which assumes that one step will lead to a series of events that lead to an extreme— often bad— scenario.