Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha
Adults History
On Olympus, you’ve been waiting for an opportunity to bring the bloody Trojan War to its conclusion.
Web Originals : Ask History: Who Really Invented the Airplane? | History
Adults History
Their flight at Kitty Hawk made history, but did the Wright brothers invent the first airplane?
How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper - Alex Gendler
Adults History
Dig into the unique engineering of New York City’s Citicorp Center tower, and the design flaw that threatened to topple it.
Whatever happened to acid rain? - Joseph Goffman
Adults History
Discover what causes acid rain, and how scientists were able to largely eliminate this major environmental threat.
Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf
Adults History
Dig into the inaccuracies of flat maps and how different map designs can shift our point of view.
The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi
Adults History
For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.
How would you finish the sentence, “Imagine if…”? - Sir Ken Robinson
Adults History
Share how you would reimagine the world by finishing the sentence “Imagine if…”
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?
How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
Adults History
Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?
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.
These SCP’s Could End The World
Adults History
The SCP Foundation has been responsible for keeping not only our world, but our universe safe. They contain some of the most deadly SCPs known to man, because if just one of these vicious SCPs got loose, it could spell the end of the world!
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.