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Kids' assumptions toward gender roles are turned around at career day in school.

Adults Culture Equality Society
When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions about gender roles turned around.

Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI

Adults Artificial Intelligence Science Technology
We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it's natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark helps explain the myths and facts about superintelligence, the impending machine takeover, etc.

Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat

Adults Science Technology
The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. But is there such thing as a total absence of everything? Is it possible to make a completely empty space? Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.

This Biomimetic Tech Could Mean Fewer Trips to the Dentist (You're Welcome)

Adults Biotechnology Health
A new material inspired by mussels may be the key to fillings and crowns that never break or fall out.

The Problem With Our Phones

Adults Addiction Technology
They are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.

The Plane of the Future

Adults Future Technology Transportation
What's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?

Chocolate's newest color

Adults Creativity Food
There's milk, dark, white, and now, ruby chocolate. It's made naturally from ruby cocoa beans and tastes sour.

Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

Adults Language Society
There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives? Marcel Danesi explains how new words enter a language.

Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't

Adults Art Culture
Why do all-white paintings sell for millions of dollars and end up in museums?

Binging with Babish: Hors D'oeuvres Sandwich from Back to School

Adults Creativity Food
Rodney Dangerfield made a career on thumbing his nose at social mores, making sexual advances toward older women, and eating a giant sandwich made out of hors d'oeuvres.

How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight

Adults Creativity Food Technology
This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.

DNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!

Adults Biology Genetics Science
Biology textbooks are full of drawings of DNA, but none of those show what DNA actually looks like. Sure, they're good models for understanding how DNA works, but inside of real cells, it's a whole lot more interesting. Learn why we can't look directly at DNA, and find out how DNA is actually packed inside cells.

How to Process Your Emotions

Adults Human Psychology
In order to be calm and at ease with ourselves, we need regular periods where we do something rather strange-sounding: process our emotions. Here is a guide to this essential psychological move.

You Are Not What You Earn

Adults Personal Finance Society Work
The modern world firmly equates how much we earn with how good, noble, wise and worthy of honour we are. This is a brutal misunderstanding of how salaries are determined. We need to operate with a far more nuanced view of what the money we earn says about us.

Here's why people are afraid of clowns

Adults Mental Health Psychology
Lots of people are creeped out at the site of clown, whether it's at the circus or creeping around in the woods at night. Movies like Stephen King's "It" and the new season of "American Horror Story" featuring some terrifying clowns that take prey on the fears of the viewer.

Most hurricanes that hit the US come from the same exact spot in the world

Adults Ecology Nature World
As Hurricane Irma bears down on the East coast, Floridians may be wondering where all the hurricanes come from, and why they all follow a similar course. In fact, Irma, Harvey, and Jose were all born on the other side of the Atlantic, off the coast of Africa, and the Sahara desert may be to blame.

Why 'love' is a useless word - and three alternatives

Adults Language Relationships
Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Luckily, the Ancient Greeks had a more nuanced and complicated vocabulary that we can usefully borrow from.

What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?

Adults Science Space World
What happens if we bring the sun to earth? No, seriously.

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

Adults Economy Industry
Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel Chang traces the life cycle of a t-shirt.

These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened

Adults Education Technology Work
College can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk... no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that challenge, and they learned that no matter how many all-nighters you pull, there's always more work to be done.

How to Remain Calm With People

Adults Psychology Relationships
"One of the most fundamental paths to calm is the power to hold on, even in very challenging situations, to a distinction between what someone does - and what they meant to do....."