The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer
Adults History
Explore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.
I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
Adults History
I got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster?
A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips
Adults History
Dig into the complicated history of divorce— from the earliest known divorce laws in ancient Mesopotamia to modern day.
The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi
Adults History
Explore the early days of the Ottoman Empire, as shrewd political rulers grew the principality into an intercontinental empire.
Wildlife Disappearing at the Border | National Geographic
Adults History
The San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge marks the convergence of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts in a grassland valley at the base of the Peloncillo mountains.
Who decides how long a second is?
Adults History
Discover how scientists developed atomic clocks, which use the vibrations of atoms to measure and maintain a globally consistent time.
The strange history of the world's most stolen painting
Adults History
Discover Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, and explore how it became the world’s most stolen artwork.
The Search for History’s Lost Slave Ships | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
Adults History
On the bottom of the world’s oceans lie historic treasures—the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved people from Africa to the Americas. Only a handful have been identified so far, but National Geographic explorer and Storytelling Fellow Tara Roberts is documenting the efforts of Black scuba divers and archaeologists to find more, hoping to finally bring their stories to light.
The dark history of bananas - John Soluri
Adults History
Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America.
Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades? - Dan Finkel
Adults History
The underworld is overcrowded, and Zeus has ordered Hades to let some spirits out. Hades arranges all the souls of the dead in a line before Cerberus. When one of his three heads bites down on the soul in front of it, they’ll get returned to the land of the living. Anyone to the left must stay in Hades forever. Can you pick the right spot and escape the underworld? Dan Finkel shows how.
How Kodak Detected the Atomic Bomb
Adults History
Kodak detected the first atomic bomb before anyone else figured it out. Then they made a deal not to tell anyone. Thanks to HBO Max, and their new show raised by Wolves for sponsoring this video!
The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar - Iseult Gillespie
Adults History
Dive into the Japanese folktale of a scholar’s quest to purify his body and mind, and the spiritual secret he discovers along the way.
A brief history of plastic
Adults History
Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.
The Mystery of Queen Nefertiti
Adults History
Queen Nefertiti is one of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt, but the location of her tomb is still a mystery.
The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal
Adults History
Dig into how scientists are attempting to revive the functionally extinct northern white rhino through artificial reproduction.
Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox
Adults History
Dig into the false cause fallacy, which assumes that one event causes another, and learn how to distinguish between correlation and causation.
How To Go Extinct
Adults History
Extinction: The moment when the last individual of a particular species dies.