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Basquiat's Hustle from SAMO to Sotheby's
May 6, 202615 min
Albert Sabin and the Sugar Cube Vaccine
May 6, 202616 min
Barbara Liskov tamed the software frontier
May 6, 202621 min
Benoit Mandelbrot and the Hidden Fractal World
May 6, 202619 min
Blaise Pascal Logic Probability and Divine Fire
May 6, 202621 min
Biruté Galdikas and the Borneo Orangutans
May 6, 202621 min
Austronesian Pioneers of the Maritime Silk Road
May 6, 202659 min
Buckminster Fuller's life as Guinea Pig B
May 6, 202619 min
Building the Foo Fighters from Nirvana's Ashes
May 6, 202636 min
Carl Djerassi From the Pill to Theatre
May 6, 202622 min
Che Guevara from medicine to global icon
May 6, 202626 min
Bottling a star on Earth
May 6, 20261h 3m
David Hilbert's Quest for Absolute Certainty
May 6, 202622 min
Denise Scott Brown and the Decorated Shed
May 6, 202620 min
Dennis Ritchie built the digital world
May 6, 202621 min
Dian Fossey's vigilante war for gorillas
May 6, 202623 min
Diego Rivera Painted With a Loaded Pistol
May 6, 202623 min
Dopamine is the engine of desire
May 6, 202621 min
E.O. Wilson
May 6, 202622 min
Enrico Fermi's Nobel mistake built the bomb
May 6, 202622 min
Ernest Rutherford and the Atomic Nucleus
May 6, 202623 min
From Bing Crosby to the Louvre Pyramid
May 6, 202620 min
From Solitaire to the Hydrogen Bomb
May 6, 202618 min
From Harlem Mugshots to Presidential Portraits
May 6, 202622 min
From Video Games to Nobel Prize
May 6, 202620 min
Georgia O Keeffe Beyond the $44 Million Flower
May 6, 202621 min
Hacking Power from Blackjack to Bird's Nest
May 6, 202622 min
Harriet Jacobs Seven Years in a Crawlspace
May 6, 202620 min
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty and the Nazi Bomb
May 6, 202617 min
Helen Frankenthaler and the soak stain
May 6, 202620 min
How Artemisia Gentileschi Built an Art Empire
May 6, 202619 min
How Antoni Gaudí hacked gravity
May 6, 202619 min
How Alma Thomas Conquered Art at Seventy
May 6, 202622 min
How Banksy Shredded the Art World
May 6, 202619 min
How Faith Ringgold Weaponized American Quilts
May 6, 202619 min
How Fei-Fei Li Taught AI to See
May 6, 202621 min
How Keith Haring hijacked New York City
May 6, 202620 min
How Artificial Light Is Rewiring Our World
May 6, 202655 min
How Ken Thompson built the digital world
May 6, 202622 min
How Kim Philby Weaponized the British Establishment
May 6, 202623 min
How Leslie Lamport tamed the internet
May 6, 202621 min
How murderous cuckoo birds cured smallpox
May 6, 202620 min
How Olaudah Equiano Weaponized His Story
May 6, 202620 min
How Nirvana Accidentally Changed Music Forever
May 6, 202633 min
How Paul Dirac Predicted Antimatter With Math
May 6, 202621 min
How Phillis Wheatley proved her own mind
May 6, 202620 min
How the Atomic Bomb Destroyed Robert Oppenheimer
May 6, 202620 min
How the Black Death Built the Renaissance
May 6, 202622 min
How Thomas Midgley accidentally broke the planet
May 6, 202620 min
How Trofim Lysenko Destroyed Soviet Science
May 6, 202620 min