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Can you solve the dark coin riddle? - Lisa Winer

Adults Creativity Math
You heard the travelers' tales, you followed the maps, and now, you've finally located the dungeon containing a stash of ancient coins. The good news: the wizard who owns the castle has generously agreed to let you have the coins. The bad news: he's not quite as generous about letting you leave the dungeon ... unless you solve his puzzle. Can you solve it and get out alive? Lisa Winer shows how.

How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce

Adults Biology Health Science
The immune system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body's defenses against any threats to your health. Without it, you'd be exposed to billions of bacteria, viruses, and toxins that could make something as minor as a paper cut or a seasonal cold fatal. So how does it work? Emma Bryce takes you inside the body to find out.

How Airlines Price Flights

Adults Economy Industry Travel
Airline ticket pricing probably seems like a crapshoot. The numbers change seemingly arbitrarily every week, day, or hour, but there is some real science behind these prices.

Kids Try 100 Years of the Most Expensive Foods | Bon Appetit

Adults Creativity Food History
In this episode of "Kids Try Food", the kids try 100 years of expensive foods. Let's see how kids eat and react to raw oysters, frog legs provençale, shrimp cocktail, lobster thermidor, beef wellington with Madeira truffle sauce, truffled tagliatelle with truffle butter and shaved truffles, caviar and egg, seared foie gras with cherry gastrique, Barclay prime wagyu cheesesteak with yellow label Veuve Clicquot, Manila Social Club 24K golden Cristal Ube donut.

I Got Popular...And It Changed Me

Adults Self Society
Isaiah had never been cool or popular. He was known as strange, the weird kid - the weirdo - and he stuck to himself. The mean girls and popular kids didn't help his shyness, really hurt his self-esteem, and so, after middle school, he was determined to make high school different.

You Think You Know What Meat Is... But You Have No Idea (Part 1 of 3)

Adults Food Science
Eating meat has been part of the human identity for 2.5 million years, but according to science, what exactly is meat?

Should You Let A Dog Lick Your Face?

Adults Health Human Pets
Canine and human mouths are bacterial ecosystems, but can they harm one another? "Sometimes, the oral contact between dogs and their owners can be more extensive than that between parent and child. Dogs kiss and lick their owners to express amiable emotions. This raises the possibility of transferring bacteria from the oral microbiome of dogs to their human owners."

The Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk

Adults Food Health Industry
Readers of Aaron's blog know of his beef with the milk industrial complex. Why does milk, of all beverages, get a pass in our efforts to reduce everyone's caloric intake? Why is it encouraged, when all others are shunned? Is it because you need the calcium? Is it because it makes your bones stronger? Watch, and learn why the milk emperor has no clothes.

Agoraphobic Traveler | @streetview.portraits // 60 Second Docs

Adults Mental Health Photography Travel
When Jacqui Kenny was diagnosed with agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home and entering public spaces, she knew she'd never live out her dreams of photographing the world. But with Google Street View she's been able to travel the back roads of the world in places like Mongolia, Senegal, and Chile to become a celebrated photographer. To date she's taken roughly 27,000 screenshots of moments frozen in time, sharing the best ones on her Instagram, @streetview.portraits.

See With Your Ears: Spielberg And Sound Design

Adults Creativity Film
A look at how sound design can structure a movie scene.

The myth of Oisin and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie

Adults History Religion Spirituality
In a typical hero's journey, the protagonist sets out on an adventure, undergoes great change and returns in triumph to their point of origin. But in the Irish genre of myth known as echtrai, the journey to the otherworld ends in a point of no return. Iseult Gillespie shares the myth of Oisin and the land of eternal youth.

How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian

Adults Productivity Software Engineering
Human beings and computers alike share the challenge of how to get as much done as possible in a limited time. Over the last fifty or so years, computer scientists have learned a lot of good strategies for managing time effectively - and they have a lot of experience with what can go wrong. Brian Christian shares how we can use some of these insights to help make the most of our own lives.

The Truth About the Titanic Has Been Revealed

Adults History Transportation Travel
Recent findings reveal the truth that has been buried for over one hundred years. Scientists have debunked the theory that the cause of the Titanic sinking was an iceberg.

How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Day Ever

Adults History Math Creativity
You might think that computers are the only things that run algorithms, but you're wrong. Here's a neat mental trick for calculating the day of the week for any day ever, developed by famous mathematician John H. Conway

What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster

Adults Biology Human Science
Shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action. Luckily, scientists can use brain organoids - pencil eraser-sized masses of cells that function like human brains but aren't part of an organism - to look closer. How do they do it? And is it ethical? Madeline Lancaster shares how to make a brain in a lab.

Where does all the snot come from? - James May's Q&A (Ep 3) - Head Squeeze

Adults Health Human Science
James May tells us exactly where that green snot in our nostrils comes from. He also delves into how mucus helps prevent harmful foreign objects from entering our bodies.

True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp

Adults Animals Nature
Incredible sea predator.

How to Make Pillowy, Delicious Ricotta Dumplings | From the Test Kitchen

Adults Creativity Food
Senior Food Editor Andy Baraghani teaches us how to make these perfect, handmade ricotta dumplings paired with asparagus and green garlic. Once you get the hang of it, forming these dumplings is easy, but it may take a little practice at first.

14 Strange Ways of Life the Ancient Egyptians Practiced

Adults History Human Society
We often think that we are completely different from ancient people, but archaeology shows that we are quite wrong. Here is a list of 14 unbelievable facts about the life of ancient Egyptians.

The ramen restaurant where you eat alone

Adults Business Food
Solo dining is becoming popular, but the ramen chain Ichiran has been encouraging it since 1993.

Outlaw Tattoo Artist // 60 Second Docs

Adults Art Business Creativity
In South Korea, it is illegal to be a tattoo artist without a medical license. Despite this, Apro Lee pursues tattooing as his passion, working in his basement and oftentimes avoiding the public as a result of the judgement he encounters for his own tattoos. He continues to see the beauty in the human body and its transformation through tattoos.