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The Ancient African Empire That Rivaled Rome
May 6, 202647 min
The Bleeding Reality of Frida Kahlo
May 6, 202622 min
The chicken farmer who fooled the Nazis
May 6, 202619 min
The Beginner Blueprint for Home Aquaponics
May 6, 202653 min
The Clumsy Engineer Who Discovered Chaos
May 6, 202619 min
The Con Man Who Inspired James Bond
May 6, 202621 min
The eccentric life of Oliver Sacks
May 6, 202622 min
The eugenicist who founded birth control
May 6, 202626 min
The Failed Peace Treaty That Invented Liberty
May 6, 202626 min
The Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
May 6, 202621 min
The French Lawyer Who Invented Modern Math
May 4, 202622 min
The general who gave up a continent
May 4, 202623 min
The Hidden Physics of Jackson Pollock
May 4, 202623 min
The horse trainer who became Emiliano Zapata
May 4, 202621 min
The Lies That Killed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
May 4, 202623 min
The Gravity Powered Engine of Roman Aqueducts
May 4, 202658 min
Andy Warhol: The Man Behind the Silver Wig
May 4, 202624 min
Dark Matter: The Invisible Architecture of the Universe
May 4, 202654 min
Niccolò Machiavelli: The man behind the Machiavelli myth
May 4, 202645 min
The Man Who Built the Modern Skyscraper
May 4, 202622 min
The man who created Linux and Git
May 4, 202619 min
Leo Szilard: The man who outsmarted the atomic age
May 4, 202621 min
The Man Who Proved Fermat's Last Theorem
May 4, 202620 min
Maurice Hilleman: The Man Who Saved Eight Million Lives
May 4, 202620 min
The Man Who Shattered Mathematical Certainty
May 4, 202620 min
The math professor who terrified the NSA
May 4, 202619 min
The Mathematician Who Rejected a Million Dollars
May 4, 202621 min
The mechanical mind of Marvin Minsky
May 4, 202619 min
The medical dropout who discovered evolution
May 4, 202623 min
Sir Alexander Fleming: The Messy Truth Behind Penicillin
May 4, 202622 min
Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Mislabeled Brain of Carl Friedrich Gauss
May 4, 202623 min
Gregor Mendel: The Monk Who Cracked the Genetic Code
May 4, 202624 min
Virginia Hall: The One Legged Spy the Gestapo Feared
May 4, 202620 min
Hilma af Klint: The mystic who invented abstract art
May 4, 202622 min
Herbert A. Simon: The Nobel Winner Who Invented AI
May 4, 202621 min
The Pacifist Spy Noor Inayat Khan
May 4, 202619 min
Erwin Schrödinger: The Conflicted Architect of Wave and Shadow
May 4, 202619 min
Richard Feynman: The Physicist Who Picked Nature's Locks
May 4, 202622 min
Klaus Fuchs: The Physicist who Armed Stalin
May 4, 202621 min
The radical endurance of Marina Abramovic
May 4, 202622 min
Whitfield Diffie: The Rebel Who Encrypted the Internet
May 4, 202619 min
Duško Popov: The Playboy Architect of the Double Cross
May 4, 202621 min
The Radical Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
May 4, 202625 min
The Relentless Reinvention of Lee Krasner
May 4, 202624 min
Elizabeth Van Lew: The Richmond socialite who outsmarted the Confederacy
May 4, 202617 min
The Scars and Earthworks of Maya Lin
May 4, 202621 min
Sophie Germain: The Secret Mathematician Behind the Eiffel Tower
May 4, 202623 min
The Secret Notebooks of Louis Pasteur
May 4, 202623 min
Mark Rothko: The Tragic Architect of the Human Soul
May 4, 202612 min
Toussaint Louverture: The Slave Owner Who Outmaneuvered Napoleon
May 4, 202619 min