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The Self-Taught Polymath: Benjamin Banneker’s Almanacs, the D.C. Survey, and Defying Thomas Jefferson
Jun 2, 202645 min
When Below Deck Nearly Turned Deadly – Ashton Pienaar’s Season 6 Accident
Jun 2, 202636 min
Margaret Hamilton: The Computer Scientist Who Saved Apollo 11 & Invented Software Engineering
Jun 2, 202621 min
Magellan's Giants & The Patagonian Frontier
Jun 2, 202653 min
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of
Jun 2, 202643 min
The Provisional President Who Never Saw Africa: The Marcus Garvey Story
Jun 2, 202648 min
Robert H. Goddard – The Ridiculed "Moon Man" Who Fathered Modern Rocketry
Jun 2, 20261h 2m
Morton Salt: The Empire Behind the Girl With the Umbrella
May 31, 202640 min
Chris Farley: The Man Behind the Human Wrecking Ball
May 31, 202640 min
Fritz Haber: The Chemist Who Fed the World and Gassed Millions
May 31, 202634 min
Frederick Douglass: The Man Who Turned Knowledge Into Freedom
May 31, 202657 min
Benjamin Banneker: The Man the Fire Couldn’t Erase
May 31, 202645 min
Bessie Coleman: The Sharecropper's Daughter Who Flew Over Jim Crow
May 29, 202649 min
Konrad Zuse: The Forgotten Inventor of the Modern Computer
May 29, 202621 min
Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Built the Road to the Moon
May 29, 202643 min
How Shirley Chisholm outmaneuvered the political machine
May 29, 202618 min
Nellie Bly Lived Five Different Lifetimes: The Woman Who Refused to Stay in Her Lane
May 29, 202622 min
The Night 121 Million People Mourned MASH
May 28, 202635 min
Marcus Aurelius: The Imperial Architect of the Inner Citadel
May 27, 202635 min
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