Mathematic patterns, random matrices, and Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles
A collection of resources about London's startup ecosystem, showcasing its role as a global hub f...
Financial Crises
Zimbabwe, Africa - culture, history, geography
Spain - geography and history, culture
Classical liberalism, freedom and Democracy
Population growth, Malthusian Trap and Economic development - history
a look at the strange history, culture and traditions surrounding Halloween
The Enlightment and the Scientific Revolution
History of Democracy, Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes
Health and Child mortality - trends, statistics, issues
Optimistic, Good Trends in Society, History
Big History - Introduction from Dr David Christian
Civil War - History and the USA
History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic
Famous Architects and Globally Iconic Architecture
Nursing- medical career in healthcare
North America's favourite sports all have Canadian roots - CBC Sports Longform (2023)
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern c... (2023)
Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)
Historian Jarvis Givens on freedom celebrations, Black aspiration, and the continuing pursuit of justice. (2022)
The theme of Enlightenment Now is contained in its subtitle: it is that reason, science and humanism lead to progress. The corollary is: keep it up! (2018)
The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century. By Phillip W. Magness and Vincent Gelos... (2022)
For much of human history, our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. The Industrial ... (2022)
Kamadeva, also known as Madana, is the Hindu god of love, desire and infatuation. (2022)
A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys a... (2022)
Valentine’s Day originated as a feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. It took a gruesome path to... (2022)
How old are democracies across the world? To some young people living in democracies, authoritarianism may seem like a long-forgotten part of th... (2022)
In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in t... (2021)
Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves - Our Wo... (2021)
Fiveable's APUSH community covers every unit and period w/ study guides and livestream exam prep! Find community and study socially on Fiveable! (2021)
The discipline of "progress studies" wants to figure out what drives discoveries and inventions so we can supercharge human flourishing. (2021)
By Anne Applebaum Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new nor... (2021)
Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans. But we can turn things around by reducing the amount of land we use for agriculture. (2021)
Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)
Hopes of a repeat of the post-influenza Roaring ’20s are understandable, but misunderstand the differences between then and now, says historian Joh... (2021)
Permafrost-preserved teeth, up to 1.6 million years old, identify a new kind of mammoth in Siberia. (2021)
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk will lead a ceremony at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 26, officially naming the NASA Headquarters building in Was... (2021)
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's proble... (2021)
The skeleton is still far from complete but paleontologists say what they've found suggests the dinosaur may be more than 120 feet long (2021)
Read 'The Hill We Climb,' the inauguration poem delivered by 22-year-old LA native Amanda Gorman to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden (2021)
The Christmas we celebrate today around the world, whether in northern winter or southern summer, has its roots in many cultures and traditions. (2020)
“Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.” (2016)
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman (2020)
the theory that legislatures can override election results. But the framers rejected the idea, and so did the Supreme Court. (2020)
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)
Jozef Jarosciak just put millions of early Usenet posts on a browsable archive for the first time. (2020)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Why wasn't Portugal conquered by Spain? (2023)
What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks... (2022)
American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History (2022)
It's been more than five years since the UK voted to leave the EU, are they regretting their decision? This video was made possible by our Patreon ... (2022)
Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
Trace the 7,000 year old history of alcohol, from its first known origins in China to cultures all over the world fermenting their own drinks.--Nob... (2021)
Learn about the Research Triangle from Bob Geolas, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, who explains what the t... (2020)
Craig Benjamin explains how agriculture drove change and why humans took the risk of abandoning foraging. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.co... (2020)
The invention of agriculture is not just a matter of tastier food. It unlocked powerful forces that transformed history. Website: https://www.bighi... (2020)
When humans began farming, new, more complex ways of living were possible. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/portal Facebook: https://www.... (2020)
In which Hank and John Green teach you about humanity conquering the Earth. Or at least moving from Africa into the rest of the Earth. As human bei... (2020)
The evidence left behind by early humans gives us a vivid picture of their lives. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/portal Facebook: https... (2020)
Big History experts explain the common traits found in mankind that led to the domination of the planet. A preview of the Big History series on H2.... (2020)
Learn why humans, more than any other species, have made such a profound impression on the biosphere. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/po... (2020)
Nicholas Toth shows how early humans made stone tools that were simple but effective. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/portal Facebook: h... (2020)
All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)
This week on Crash Course Big History, Emily is talking about process of human evolution, and the knack for innovation that has allowed humans to b... (2020)
In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)
About 200,000 years ago, man evolved to become the most important force for change on the Earth's surface. What makes us so different from other li... (2020)
I was invited to collaborate with TED-Ed to create an animation to introduce the novella "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. I was responsible for all a... (2020)
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from sin... (2020)
A look at the "comfort zone" humans live in, and the interplay of life and the biosphere... (2020)
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)
Today, Explained on Spotify. A forgotten protest movement in a seaside Florida town helped end legal segregation in the United States. Vox’s Ra... (2020)
There’s an old apartment building in South Minneapolis that looks totally out of place. It’s in a residential neighborhood with small bungalows and... (2020)
We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)
Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehis... (2020)
Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxin... (2019)
Ben and James continue to discuss the differences between platforms and aggregators, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon,... (2019)
In his book (and podcast), Brian McCullough chronicles the history and evolution of the internet -- from college kids in a basement and the dot-com... (2018)
What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, simulating in-person audience experiences in home living rooms. But b... (2018)
The way we draw our political districts has a huge effect on U.S. politics, but the process is also greatly misunderstood. Gerrymandering has b... (2018)
They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)
On this day in 2008, an 85-year-old investment bank became the very public face of the financial crisis. Only a $29 billion loan guarantee from the... (2018)
Yesterday we examined the financials that lead to the fall of Bear Stearns, and now we're going to look at the human side: A couple of unlikely Wal... (2018)
NPR podcast- 3/19/2018 “former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, former president of the New... (2018)
In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and ... (2018)
An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the s... (2021)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
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In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length... (2018)
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The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
What was it like for hunter-gathers? What were their favorite foods that they would go the extra mile to get their hands on? How are decisions like... (2020)