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Cecil Woodham Smith
Florence Nightingale
3.9
16 min
Darrin M. McMahon
Happiness
3.8
11 min
Sanjay Sarma
Grasp
3.7
10 min
Michelle Malkin
Who Built That
3.8
8 min
Kabir Sehgal
Coined
3.5
10 min
Jan Matti Dollbaum
Navalny
3.7
17 min
Jennifer Burns
Milton Friedman
4.3
12 min
Dambisa Moyo
Edge of Chaos
3.4
18 min
Andrew Leigh
The Shortest History of Economics
4
14 min
Lydia Denworth
I Can Hear You Whisper
3.9
8 min
Christian Hageseth
Big Weed
3.8
13 min
Tom Segev
The Seventh Million
4.3
20 min
Jonathan Aldred
Licence to be Bad
4.1
18 min
David Crystal
Making a Point
4
9 min
Justin E.H. Smith
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
3.2
10 min
Ian Morris
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
3.7
11 min
Vaclav Smil
Size
3.3
12 min
Daniel Chandler
Free and Equal
4
14 min
Jessica Calarco
Holding It Together
4.3
15 min
Francis Wade
Myanmar's Enemy Within
4
17 min
Robert Bryce
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
3.6
8 min
Ari Wallach
Longpath
3.8
11 min
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Rational Ritual
3.3
9 min
Fay Bound Alberti
A Biography of Loneliness
3.5
19 min
Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Go Back to Where You Came From
3.8
13 min
David Cole
Engines of Liberty
4
14 min
William M. LeoGrande
Back Channel to Cuba
4.2
15 min
Derek B Lowe
The Chemistry Book
4.1
30 min
Phil Gramm
The Myth of American Inequality
4.4
13 min
Nicholas Griffin
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
3.8
20 min