Rose Goslinga: Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding

What happens when you remove the hippocampus? - Sam Kean

Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world?

Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel

Ziyah Gafić: Everyday objects, tragic histories

What can Schrödinger's cat teach us about quantum mechanics? - Josh Samani

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Why lunch ladies are heroes

Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life

How do tornadoes form? - James Spann

Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web

The past, present and future of the bubonic plague - Sharon N. DeWitte

The danger of silence | Clint Smith | TED

How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

Dan Pacholke: How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives

Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer

How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs

The secret lives of baby fish - Amy McDermott

Megan Washington: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking

Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

What causes antibiotic resistance? - Kevin Wu

Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state

Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)

An ultra-low-cost college degree | Shai Reshef

The nurdles' quest for ocean domination - Kim Preshoff

What light can teach us about the universe - Pete Edwards

The coelacanth: A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood

Under the hood: The chemistry of cars - Cynthia Chubbuck

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

What happens when you get heat stroke? - Douglas J. Casa

Ze Frank: Are you human?

Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire

Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that'd be at home at the bottom of the ocean

Nikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

The many meanings of Michelangelo's Statue of David - James Earle

It's a church. It's a mosque. It's Hagia Sophia. - Kelly Wall

How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers

David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic

Karima Bennoune: The side of terrorism that doesn't make headlines

What makes tattoos permanent? - Claudia Aguirre

Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon

How heavy is air? - Dan Quinn

Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?

Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt

Sara Lewis: The loves and lies of fireflies

What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence - Kenneth C. Davis

Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman