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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
How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Trauma Into Infinity
May 6, 202619 min
How the Mongol Machine Rewired Eurasia
May 6, 202645 min
How your life rewrites your genes
May 6, 202632 min
Jane Goodall's Radical Redefinition of Humanity
May 6, 202622 min
John McCarthy and the architecture of AI
May 6, 202618 min
John Nash Beyond a Beautiful Mind
May 6, 202622 min
John Snow and the Broad Street Pump
May 6, 202620 min
Inca Fault Lines and Tesla's Lightning
May 6, 202655 min
Jonas Salk from polio to biophilosophy
May 6, 202621 min
Judea Pearl and the Calculus of Why
May 6, 202618 min
Kara Walker Weaponizes Silhouettes and Sugar
May 6, 202616 min
Le Corbusier and the machine for living
May 6, 202613 min
Leonhard Euler and the Mathematical Alphabet
May 6, 202619 min
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Revolution
May 6, 202619 min
Louise Bourgeois Sculpted Trauma Into Spiders
May 6, 202619 min
Maryam Mirzakhani Tames the Shifting Universe
May 6, 202619 min
Max Planck's reluctant quantum revolution
May 6, 202621 min
Niels Bohr Quantum Jumps and Nazi Resistance
May 6, 202624 min
Mata Hari was a military lightning rod
May 6, 202623 min
Norbert Wiener Merged Humans and Machines
May 6, 202624 min
Pancho Villa and the Headless Tomb
May 6, 202623 min
Rachel Carson and the Pesticide War
May 6, 202613 min
Rewriting your hidden habit scripts
May 6, 202631 min
Simon Bolivar Plowing the Sea
May 6, 202623 min
Richard Stallman’s Fight for Software Freedom
May 6, 202625 min
Sofya Kovalevskaya and the Calculus Wallpaper
May 6, 202621 min
Stephen Hawking and the Physics of Defiance
May 6, 202622 min
The 80 20 Rule and Power Laws
May 6, 202614 min
Temple Grandin transformed farming with visual thinking
May 6, 202626 min
Frank Lloyd Wright: The architect who destroyed the box
May 6, 202626 min
Terence Tao the Mathematical Safety Net
May 6, 202652 min