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By The Numbers
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Countries
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Nobel Laureates
7
Periodic Tales
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Questions
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By The Numbers
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Countries
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Nobel Laureates
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Periodic Tales
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Questions
By The Numbers · Nº 01
Underfoot
Six numbers from under your feet.
By The Numbers · Nº 02
America
A country in six numbers.
By The Numbers · Nº 03
The Brain
Six numbers from inside your head.
By The Numbers · Nº 04
Reason
Your reasoning mind is a storyteller, not a judge.
By The Numbers · Nº 05
Ciphers
The oldest arms race: keeping secrets, and breaking them.
Countries · Nº 01
Estonia
Occupied for half a century. It came back as software.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 01
Auctions
Two economists who didn't study a market. They built one.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 02
Equilibrium
He proved everyone can be doing their best, and everyone can be losing.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 03
Commons
Economics said shared land must die. She went and looked.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 04
Ulcers
Every doctor knew nothing survives stomach acid. One doctor drank the proof.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 05
CRISPR
A footnote in 1987. Rejected by four journals. Now it cures people.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 06
Wormwood
A secret military project. A recipe from the year 340. She took the first dose herself.
Nobel Laureates · Nº 07
Graphene
Physics had proved it could not exist. They found it with sticky tape, on a Friday night.
Periodic Tales · Nº 01
Phosphorus
Element 15. It builds every living thing, and it burns everything it touches.
Periodic Tales · Nº 02
Hydrogen
The first atom there ever was. Nine out of ten still are.
Periodic Tales · Nº 03
Helium
Found in the Sun twenty-seven years before anyone found it on Earth.
Periodic Tales · Nº 04
Lithium
Third element ever made. In your phone, in the bomb, and in the medicine cabinet.
Questions · Nº 01
Machines
Can they think? Seventy-five years, and nobody has settled it.