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Sex and sexuality
What does the Dutch model of comprehensive, ‘shame-free’ sex-ed look like?
9 minutes
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Film and visual culture
A Palme d’Or-winning animation toys with the way our eyes perceive light
5 minutes
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Art
How a self-taught autistic artist mines creativity from life’s endless variations
11 minutes
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Nature and landscape
An afternoon with hobbyist diamond miners in Arkansas is a thing of rare beauty
16 minutes
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Knowledge
What can a Kurosawa classic tell us about reality, knowledge and truth?
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Biology
Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second
5 minutes
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Astronomy
Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her supervisor
16 minutes
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Animals and humans
A bluesy ballad tells the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in the US
8 minutes
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Physics
In this 1975 lecture, the maglev train’s inventor deconstructs his ingenious design
19 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
To know or not to know? Lillian weighs the costs of a life-changing genetic test
10 minutes
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Information and communication
There are many ways to make a flat map of the world – each of them a unique distortion
10 minutes
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Chemistry
Liquid experiments show how beautiful things can happen when chemicals meet
6 minutes