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  • Urban Tree Canopies and City Heat

    • Environmental Science
    • 3 questions
    • 0:35 audio
    • Medium

  • Why Cities Get Hotter Than Their Surroundings

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:22 audio
    • Easy

  • Listening to the Past: Oral History Methods

    • Historiography
    • 4 questions
    • 1:32 audio
    • Medium

  • From Feathers to Flight

    • Evolutionary Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:38 audio
    • Hard

  • How Suspension Bridges Hold Their Weight

    • Civil Engineering
    • 4 questions
    • 1:22 audio
    • Hard

  • The Secret of Roman Concrete

    • Materials Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:30 audio
    • Hard

  • The Myth of Doing It All at Once

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:34 audio
    • Medium

  • How Habits Take Hold

    • Psychology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Easy

  • Finding Worlds We Cannot See

    • Astronomy
    • 4 questions
    • 1:20 audio
    • Hard

  • Do Plants Keep Time?

    • Plant Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Hard

  • Making Books by Hand in the Middle Ages

    • Medieval History
    • 4 questions
    • 1:24 audio
    • Easy

  • Plastics Grown, Not Drilled

    • Materials Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:41 audio
    • Medium

  • Protecting the Night Sky

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:28 audio
    • Medium

  • Beaver Dams as Ecosystem Engineers

    • Ecology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:28 audio
    • Easy

  • Remembering With the Method of Loci

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:23 audio
    • Medium

  • Glassmaking Through the Centuries

    • History Of Technology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:30 audio
    • Easy

  • Lightning Inside a Volcano's Plume

    • Geophysics
    • 4 questions
    • 1:43 audio
    • Hard

  • Linking a Continent by Rail

    • History
    • 5 questions
    • 1:22 audio
    • Medium

  • Understanding Superconductors

    • Physics
    • 5 questions
    • 1:41 audio
    • Medium

  • The Power of Citizen Science

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:47 audio
    • Easy

  • How Plants Defend Themselves With Chemistry

    • Biology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:29 audio
    • Medium

  • Small Loans, Big Questions: Microfinance

    • Economics
    • 5 questions
    • 1:22 audio
    • Medium

  • Life on the Shifting Sand Dune

    • Ecology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:34 audio
    • Medium

  • Lifting Cities: The Elevator

    • History Of Technology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Easy

  • Designing the Wartime Poster

    • Art And Design
    • 5 questions
    • 1:23 audio
    • Medium

  • Where Surveys Go Wrong

    • Research Methods
    • 5 questions
    • 1:41 audio
    • Hard

  • Why String Instruments Sound the Way They Do

    • Acoustics
    • 5 questions
    • 1:40 audio
    • Medium

  • Borrowing Designs From Nature

    • Engineering
    • 4 questions
    • 1:29 audio
    • Medium

  • How Tea Circled the Globe

    • Economic History
    • 5 questions
    • 1:40 audio
    • Medium

  • Watching a Meteor Shower

    • Astronomy
    • 4 questions
    • 1:30 audio
    • Medium

  • The Great Coral Spawning Night

    • Marine Biology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:27 audio
    • Medium

  • Powering Communities With Microgrids

    • Energy Engineering
    • 4 questions
    • 1:26 audio
    • Medium

  • Engineering the Gothic Cathedral

    • Architecture
    • 5 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Hard

  • How Children's Drawings Develop

    • Developmental Psychology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:24 audio
    • Medium

  • What Baby Names Reveal About Society

    • Sociology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:29 audio
    • Easy

  • Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

    • American Cultural History
    • 4 questions
    • 1:48 audio
    • Medium

  • Banking the Seeds of Crop Diversity

    • Agricultural Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:28 audio
    • Medium

  • The Ocean's Changing Chemistry

    • Marine Chemistry
    • 4 questions
    • 1:24 audio
    • Medium

  • Salt Marshes and the Carbon They Bury

    • Environmental Science
    • 5 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Hard

  • Bringing Wetlands Back to Life

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:43 audio
    • Easy

  • Wild Neighbors: Animals in the City

    • Ecology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:28 audio
    • Medium

  • Feasts on the Deep Sea Floor

    • Marine Biology
    • 5 questions
    • 1:35 audio
    • Medium

  • The Power of the First Number You See

    • Consumer Psychology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:39 audio
    • Easy

  • Small Cues, Big Choices

    • Behavioral Economics
    • 4 questions
    • 1:35 audio
    • Medium

  • Life at the Extremes

    • Microbiology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:43 audio
    • Medium

  • The Hidden Web Beneath the Forest

    • Ecology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:25 audio
    • Medium

  • The Strange Economics of Streaming

    • Economics
    • 4 questions
    • 1:27 audio
    • Medium

  • Putting a Date on Cave Paintings

    • Archaeology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:28 audio
    • Hard

  • Adding Sound to Early Films

    • Film Studies
    • 5 questions
    • 1:22 audio
    • Medium

  • The Bicycle and Everyday Freedom

    • Social History
    • 4 questions
    • 1:43 audio
    • Easy

  • The Impact of Urbanization on Local Wildlife

    • Environmental Studies
    • 4 questions
    • 1:04 audio
    • Medium

  • Introduction to Natural Selection

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:07 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Mycorrhizal Networks in Forest Ecosystems

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:00 audio
    • Medium

  • The Evolution of Bird Migration Patterns

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:12 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Ecosystems

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:23 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Keystone Species in Ecosystems

    • Ecology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:14 audio
    • Medium

  • The Impact of Ocean Currents on Climate Patterns

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:06 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Enzymes in Metabolism

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:13 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Endophytes in Plant Health

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 0:58 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Fungi in Ecosystems

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:18 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Symbiosis in Evolution

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:11 audio
    • Medium

  • Photosynthesis: Beyond the Basics

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:16 audio
    • Medium

  • The Influence of Weather Patterns on Bird Migration

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:09 audio
    • Medium

  • The Greenhouse Effect and Earth's Climate System

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:09 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Fire in Grassland Ecosystems

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:13 audio
    • Medium

  • The Emergence of Artificial Sweeteners

    • Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:10 audio
    • Medium

  • The Fascinating Process of Bioluminescence in Deep-Sea Creatures

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:14 audio
    • Medium

  • The Geometrical Revolution in Art

    • Arts
    • 4 questions
    • 1:20 audio
    • Medium

  • The History and Impact of the Printing Press

    • History/Technology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:05 audio
    • Medium

  • The Evolution of Urban Green Spaces

    • Environmental Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:20 audio
    • Medium

  • The Mechanisms of Hibernation in Mammals

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:24 audio
    • Medium

  • The Cognitive Benefits of Multilingualism

    • Cognitive Science
    • 4 questions
    • 1:13 audio
    • Medium

  • The Lifecycle of Desert Ephemerals

    • Botany
    • 4 questions
    • 1:15 audio
    • Medium

  • The Role of Microbiomes in Human Health

    • Biology
    • 4 questions
    • 1:12 audio
    • Medium

  • The Resilience of Alpine Plants

    • Botany
    • 4 questions
    • 1:11 audio
    • Medium
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