The rise and fall of the Maya Empire’s most powerful city - Geoffrey E. Braswell

The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

This person isn't actually screaming - Noah Charney

What is earwax — and should you get rid of it? - Henry C. Ou

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED

How to Choose Clothes for Longevity, Not the Landfill | Diarra Bousso | TED

Dear Fellow Refugees, Here’s How I Found Resilience | Chantale Zuzi Leader | TED

The Unsung Heroes Fighting Malnutrition | Shruthi Baskaran-Makanju | TED

When You Inform Women, You Transform Lives | Paige Alexander | TED

How to Close the Authority Gap | Mary Ann Sieghart | TED

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED

What the World Can Learn From Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy | Olesya Khromeychuk | TED

Why can't you put metal in a microwave? - Aaron Slepkov

The Fijian myth of the greedy god - Raiana McKinney and Esther Wozniak

Is Chandigarh a perfectly planned city? - Vikramāditya Prakāsh

The surprising scent of the world’s largest flower - Daniel Nickrent

Lessons from the Past on Adapting to Climate Change | Laprisha Berry Daniels | TED

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED

How to know if you're being selfish (and whether or not that's bad) - Mark Hopwood

Do Gut Microbes Control Your Personality? | Kathleen McAuliffe | TED

Fight for Justice — Even if You Don’t Live To See It | Golriz Lucina | TED

How much would it cost to buy the ocean? - Astrid J. Hsu

Could AI Give You X-Ray Vision? | Tara Boroushaki | TED

What Happens When We Deny People Abortions? | Diana Greene Foster | TED

How to Build Democracy — in an Authoritarian Country | Tessza Udvarhelyi | TED

Are pandas the most misunderstood animal? - Lucy Cooke

Why is Texas hold 'em so popular? - James McManus

How to get motivated even when you don’t feel like it

The science of laughter - Sasha Winkler

Does planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans

What the biggest brain on Earth can do - David Gruber and Shane Gero

How Stress Drains Your Brain — and What To Do About It | Nicole Byers | TED

The largest river on Earth is actually in the sky - Iseult Gillespie

What Will Happen to Marketing in the Age of AI? | Jessica Apotheker | TED

The rights you might not realize you have - Shannon Odell

How did South African Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

How to make smart decisions more easily

Life on the Frontlines of War Reporting | Jane Ferguson | TED

The diseases that changed humanity forever - Dan Kwartler

Meet Methane, the Invisible Climate Villain | Marcelo Mena | TED

Why You Shouldn’t Trust Boredom | Kevin H. Gary | TED

What killed all the bison? - Andrew C. Isenberg

The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED

Something weird is happening in our galaxy - Ashkbiz Danehkar

The Secret Perks of Driving Electric | Cynthia Williams | TED

The gory history of barber surgeons - Stephanie Honchell Smith

The most devastating asteroid to hit Earth - Sean P. S. Gulick

Returning to School Mid-Career? Here’s What You Need To Know | Candice Neveu | TED