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How to uncover your best ideas
Episode 2: Uncover your best ideas by exploring your unique experiences, interests, and perspective. -- This is episode 2 of the animated series, “Public Speaking 101.” Ideas change everythin
Why don't we send our trash to space? - Jim Bentley and Imogen Ellen Napper
Dig into why there is so much trash orbiting Earth, and find out what could happen if the debris continues to accumulate. -- There are over 131 million pieces of debris currently whipping
How do sinkholes swallow entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
Explore the science of sinkholes, how they commonly form, and what human activities can also trigger them. -- It was a rainy December morning in San Francisco when the Earth opened up. The
How do fireflies create light? - Emily A. Geest
Dig into the science of how and why fireflies glow, and how their bioluminescent signals differ between males and females. -- The first firefly is thought to have lived over 100 million years
Can you figure out the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
Explore how big-headed ants have changed an entire ecosystem in Kenya, from its insects and plants to its biggest predators. -- In the early 2000s, one of the world’s most widespread invasive
You might be surprised by what you'd find in your pores - M. Alejandra Perotti
Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome. -- Two species of Demodex mites specifically inhabit human follicles
The Greek myth of the Fates’ prophecy - Iseult Gillespie
Dig into the Greek myth of Meleager, who set out to end a boar’s destruction of his city along with Greece’s best warriors. -- The night of her son's birth, the queen of Calydon was visited
The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' daughter - Stephen Esposito
Get to know the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, who was determined to give her slain brother Polyneices a proper burial. -- The gods watched as Oedipus’ daughter, Antigone, stole
Can humans be trusted with control over genetics? - Michael Vazquez and Raye Ploeger
Puzzle through this classic ethical dilemma and decide: should parents be able to choose genetic traits for their children? -- Andre and Leslie are a deaf couple who have decided to have
What caused the fall of one of the most influential empires in history? - Mostafa Minawi
Trace the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which lasted nearly 600 years until their defeat in World War I as part of the Central Powers. -- Under cover of darkness in 1909, Sultan Abdulhamid
How much would it cost to buy the Sun? - Cella Wright
Dig into the monetary value of the Sun and how important it is as our energy source as Daedalus contemplates buying it. -- Daedalus hasn’t been the same since losing Icarus. Suddenly, he
How did detectives solve the case of the bloody fingerprints? - Theodore E. Yeshion
Learn more at -- In 1902, detectives arrived at a grisly murder scene and found a shard of broken glass with several bloody fingerprints. They painstakingly searched
