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How corn conquered the world | Chris A. Kniesly
Dec 02, 2019Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production. And over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow Dent #2. This means that humans grow more Yellow Dent #2 t...
Is marijuana bad for your brain? | Anees Bahji
Dec 02, 2019In 1970, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 drug in the United States: the strictest designation possible, meaning it was completely illegal and had no recognized medical uses. Today, marijuana'...
Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? | Alex Gendler
Nov 25, 2019Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. Which do you think is more likely: that Lucy is a portrait artist, or that Lucy is a portrait artist...
History's "worst" nun | Theresa A. Yugar
Nov 21, 2019Juana Ramírez de Asbaje sat before a panel of prestigious theologians, jurists, and mathematicians. They had been invited to test Juana's knowledge with the most difficult questions they could muster....
How does laser eye surgery work? | Dan Reinstein
Nov 19, 2019In 1948, Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer Moner was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itself, without relying on external aids. The surgery h...
The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3 | Alex Rosenthal
Nov 18, 2019This is episode 3 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a q...
The myth of Loki and the master builder | Alex Gendler
Nov 14, 2019Asgard, a realm of wonders, was where the Norse Gods made their home. There Odin's great hall of Valhalla towered above the mountains and Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, anchored itself. Though their dom...
Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior? | Lucas Husted
Nov 05, 2019Given a range of integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to 2/3 of the average of all numbers guessed be? For example, if the average of all guesses is 60, the correct guess will b...
How close are we to uploading our minds? | Michael S.A. Graziano
Oct 29, 2019Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing t...
The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2 | Alex Rosenthal
Oct 14, 2019This is episode 2 of our animated series "Think Like A Coder." This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a q...