The library
Every subject, an hour at a time.
366 books, one for every day of the year, even a leap year. An hour a day and in twelve months you have read the whole shelf. Every one is free. Search, or scroll the strands below.
366 titles
Ancient Civilisations
Chronological orderMesopotamiain a Hurry
The first cities and the first writing
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Ancient Egyptin a Hurry
Pharaohs, pyramids, and the Nile
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Ancient Indiain a Hurry
The Vedas, the Buddha, and the Mauryan empire
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The Mayain a Hurry
Calendars, glyphs, and the cities in the jungle
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Babylonin a Hurry
Hanging gardens, star charts, and the first great city
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Ancient Chinain a Hurry
Dynasties, inventions, and the Middle Kingdom
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Troyin a Hurry
The war, the poem, and the city under the hill
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Spartain a Hurry
The warrior state, myth and reality
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Carthagein a Hurry
Rome's rival, and how it was erased
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Ancient Greecein a Hurry
City states, philosophy, and the birth of democracy
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The Celtsin a Hurry
The people Rome could never quite hold
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Ancient Romein a Hurry
Republic, empire, and the machine of conquest
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The Persiansin a Hurry
The empire that nearly swallowed Greece
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Alexander the Greatin a Hurry
The conqueror who remade the world by thirty-two
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The Fall of Romein a Hurry
How the greatest empire actually ended
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The Aztecsin a Hurry
Blood, tribute, and the empire Cortes destroyed
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The Incasin a Hurry
Mountains, roads, and an empire without writing
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Biology
Alphabetical orderBiologyin a Hurry
Life itself, from molecules to ecosystems
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Ecologyin a Hurry
Food webs, feedbacks, and ecosystems
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Evolutionin a Hurry
How life adapts, competes, and survives
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Geneticsin a Hurry
DNA, heredity, and CRISPR made simple
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The Human Bodyin a Hurry
Anatomy and how you actually work
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Lifein a Hurry
What it is, and how it started
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Microbiologyin a Hurry
Bacteria, viruses, and the unseen world
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Parasitesin a Hurry
The freeloaders that shape everything
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Virusesin a Hurry
Barely alive, and everywhere
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Business
Alphabetical orderAdvertisingin a Hurry
The industry built to change your mind
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Brandingin a Hurry
Name, story, and visuals that stick
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Managementin a Hurry
Getting work out of people, humanely
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Marketingin a Hurry
Positioning, offers, and channels
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Negotiationin a Hurry
Getting a better deal without being a shark
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Salesin a Hurry
Book calls, close deals
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Startupsin a Hurry
Idea to MVP, fast
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Chemistry
Alphabetical orderComputer Science
Alphabetical orderCountries and Regions
Alphabetical orderAfricain a Hurry
A continent, 54 countries, and the whole human story
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Britainin a Hurry
A small island that rearranged the planet
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Europein a Hurry
How one crowded peninsula shaped the world
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Indiain a Hurry
A subcontinent, a civilisation, a superpower
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Japanin a Hurry
Isolation, empire, and reinvention
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The Middle Eastin a Hurry
Oil, faith, and the world's fault line
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Modern Chinain a Hurry
From Mao to superpower in a single lifetime
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Russiain a Hurry
Empire, revolution, and the long shadow
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The United Statesin a Hurry
How a colony became the superpower
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Economics
Alphabetical orderBehavioural Economicsin a Hurry
Humans aren't rational, profit from it
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Capitalismin a Hurry
The system, its case, and its critics
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Debtin a Hurry
The promise that runs the world
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Economicsin a Hurry
The whole machine, from prices to crashes
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Inequalityin a Hurry
Causes, consequences, and choices
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Inflationin a Hurry
What it is and what to do
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Marketsin a Hurry
How prices move and why
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Moneyin a Hurry
What it is, where it came from, why we trust it
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Tradein a Hurry
Tariffs, treaties, and the containers that move the world
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Engineering
Alphabetical orderElectricityin a Hurry
Current, circuits, and the grid
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Roboticsin a Hurry
Sensors, motors, and autonomy
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Skyscrapersin a Hurry
How we learned to build upwards
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Environment
Alphabetical orderAgriculturein a Hurry
The invention that made everything else possible
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Climatein a Hurry
The science, plainly
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Coalin a Hurry
The rock that powered everything
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Conservationin a Hurry
Saving what's left, and why
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Energyin a Hurry
Where power comes from and where it's going
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Oceansin a Hurry
The engine of the planet
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Oilin a Hurry
The resource that runs the world
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Pollutionin a Hurry
What we put into the air, water, and us
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Rewildingin a Hurry
Putting nature back
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Exploration
Alphabetical orderThe Age of Explorationin a Hurry
Ships, maps, and the world joined up
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The Amazonin a Hurry
The forest that makes its own weather
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Antarcticain a Hurry
The last continent, and the men who died for it
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Deep Seain a Hurry
The last unmapped place on Earth
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Everestin a Hurry
The summit, the queue, and the cost
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Lost Citiesin a Hurry
Found, forgotten, and still missing
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Mountaineeringin a Hurry
Why people climb, and what it costs
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The Polesin a Hurry
Ice, ambition, and the ends of the Earth
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Shipwrecksin a Hurry
The archive at the bottom of the sea
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Food and Drink
Alphabetical orderBeerin a Hurry
The oldest drink, and the one that built cities
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Breadin a Hurry
Flour, water, time, and transformation
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Chocolatein a Hurry
From Aztec ritual to global habit
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Coffeein a Hurry
The bean, the chemistry, and the culture
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Cookingin a Hurry
The science of heat, flavour, and why recipes work
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Fermentationin a Hurry
How microbes make food better
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Saltin a Hurry
The mineral people fought wars over
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Spicesin a Hurry
The flavours worth dying for
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Sugarin a Hurry
Sweetness, slavery, and empire
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Teain a Hurry
The leaf that moved empires
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Whiskyin a Hurry
Grain, barrel, time
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Winein a Hurry
Grapes, terroir, and how to taste
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Games
Alphabetical orderChessin a Hurry
The game of kings, decoded
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Gamblingin a Hurry
Odds, addiction, and the house edge
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Pokerin a Hurry
Odds, reads, and betting under uncertainty
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Video Gamesin a Hurry
How play became the biggest medium
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Geography
Alphabetical orderBordersin a Hurry
Lines on maps, and what they do to people
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Desertsin a Hurry
Scarcity, survival, and hidden abundance
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Disastersin a Hurry
Quakes, storms, and staying safe
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The Earthin a Hurry
Deep time, tectonics, and the ground beneath us
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Mapsin a Hurry
Projections, pitfalls, and seeing the world right
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Waterin a Hurry
Currents, climate, and the waterways that built civilisations
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Weatherin a Hurry
Fronts, storms, and reading the sky
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Great Lives
Chronological orderCleopatrain a Hurry
The last pharaoh, and the legend that swallowed her
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Julius Caesarin a Hurry
The general who killed the Republic
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Genghis Khanin a Hurry
The orphan who conquered more than anyone, ever
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Leonardo da Vinciin a Hurry
The mind that refused to stay in one field
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Michelangeloin a Hurry
The ceiling, the David, and the impossible standard
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Elizabeth Iin a Hurry
The queen who invented herself
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Newtonin a Hurry
Gravity, light, and the strangest genius
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Mozartin a Hurry
More music than a lifetime should hold
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Abraham Lincolnin a Hurry
The war, the speeches, and the murder
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Darwinin a Hurry
The voyage, the man, and the idea that changed everything
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Van Goghin a Hurry
The paintings nobody bought
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Tesla and Edisonin a Hurry
The war of the currents
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Freudin a Hurry
The man who invented the inner life
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Marxin a Hurry
The critic of capitalism the world actually read
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Marie Curiein a Hurry
Two Nobels, one element named after her country
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The Wright Brothersin a Hurry
Two bicycle makers who taught the world to fly
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Einsteinin a Hurry
The clerk who rewrote the universe
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Churchillin a Hurry
The man, the myth, and the finest hour
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Gandhiin a Hurry
Non-violence against an empire
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Martin Luther Kingin a Hurry
The dream, the marches, and the price
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Mandelain a Hurry
Prisoner to president
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Health
Alphabetical orderExercisein a Hurry
Train smarter, recover faster
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Longevityin a Hurry
Ageing science without the hype
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Mental Healthin a Hurry
Anxiety, depression, and what helps
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Nutritionin a Hurry
What actually matters on your plate
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Sleepin a Hurry
Rhythms, routines, and real rest
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Stressin a Hurry
Physiology, reframes, and resets
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History
Chronological orderThe Silk Roadin a Hurry
Trade that changed the world
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The Byzantine Empirein a Hurry
Rome's other half, and its thousand-year afterlife
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The Middle Agesin a Hurry
A thousand years, and none of it dark
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The Black Deathin a Hurry
The plague that killed half of Europe
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The Crusadesin a Hurry
Two centuries of holy war
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The Mongolsin a Hurry
The empire built on horseback
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The Ottoman Empirein a Hurry
Six centuries astride three continents
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The Renaissancein a Hurry
Art, science, and humanism rebooted
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The Tudorsin a Hurry
Power, religion, and one very famous divorce
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The Spanish Empirein a Hurry
Silver, conquest, and the first global power
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The Reformationin a Hurry
The argument that split Christendom
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The Slave Tradein a Hurry
The Atlantic crossing, and what it built
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The British Empirein a Hurry
Rise, rule, and reckoning
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The Enlightenmentin a Hurry
When reason took on tradition
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The Industrial Revolutionin a Hurry
Steam, steel, and social shockwaves
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The French Revolutionin a Hurry
Liberty, terror, and the birth of modern politics
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Napoleonin a Hurry
The gunner who crowned himself emperor
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The American Civil Warin a Hurry
The war that made the United States
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World Warsin a Hurry
Causes, turning points, and aftermath
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The Russian Revolutionin a Hurry
From tsar to Soviet in a single year
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The Great Depressionin a Hurry
How the world economy fell apart
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The Third Reichin a Hurry
How a modern nation went mad
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The Holocaustin a Hurry
How it happened, and how it is remembered
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The Cold Warin a Hurry
Two superpowers and forty tense years
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The Vietnam Warin a Hurry
The war America could not win
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The Civil Rights Movementin a Hurry
America's second revolution
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The Fall of the Berlin Wallin a Hurry
The night the twentieth century ended
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Language and Writing
Alphabetical orderEtymologyin a Hurry
Where words come from
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Languagein a Hurry
The thing that makes us human
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Literaturein a Hurry
The novel, and what it is for
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The Novelin a Hurry
Four centuries of the biggest art form
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Poetryin a Hurry
How it works, and why it still lands
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Printingin a Hurry
The machine that broke the church's monopoly
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Shakespearein a Hurry
The plays, the man, and why he never went away
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Storytellingin a Hurry
Structure that holds attention
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Translationin a Hurry
What survives the crossing, and what doesn't
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Writing Wellin a Hurry
Clear sentences, every time
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Law and Justice
Alphabetical orderCrime and Justicein a Hurry
Punishment, deterrence, and fairness
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Human Rightsin a Hurry
Where they come from and how they hold
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Lawin a Hurry
How legal systems actually work
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Prisonsin a Hurry
What they are for, and whether it works
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Mathematics
Alphabetical orderGame Theoryin a Hurry
Strategy when others are deciding too
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Infinityin a Hurry
The idea that broke mathematics
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Mathematicsin a Hurry
All of it, from counting to infinity
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Prime Numbersin a Hurry
The atoms of arithmetic
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Probabilityin a Hurry
Odds, risk, and the maths of chance
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Statisticsin a Hurry
Signal, noise, and not being fooled
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Medicine
Alphabetical orderAnaesthesiain a Hurry
The gift of feeling nothing
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Antibioticsin a Hurry
The miracle drugs, and the resistance problem
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Bloodin a Hurry
The river that keeps you going
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Cancerin a Hurry
What it is, and how we fight it
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The Gutin a Hurry
Your second brain, and the bugs inside it
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The Heartin a Hurry
The pump that keeps you alive
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The History of Medicinein a Hurry
From leeches to keyhole surgery
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Immunityin a Hurry
Everyday defences and vaccines 101
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The Spanish Fluin a Hurry
The pandemic history forgot
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Surgeryin a Hurry
From butchery to precision
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Transplantsin a Hurry
Moving parts between people
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Vaccinesin a Hurry
How they work and why they matter
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Money and Investing
Alphabetical orderCryptocurrencyin a Hurry
Money without a middleman, explained
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Investingin a Hurry
Growing money without gambling it
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Personal Financein a Hurry
Spend, save, invest, protect
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Propertyin a Hurry
Buying, renting, and the housing ladder
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The Stock Marketin a Hurry
Shares, indexes, and what moves them
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Taxin a Hurry
Who pays what, and why it is so complicated
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Music
Alphabetical orderThe Beatlesin a Hurry
Four men who rewired popular music
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Classical Musicin a Hurry
Four centuries in one listen
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Hip Hopin a Hurry
Four elements, fifty years, global reach
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Jazzin a Hurry
Improvisation, swing, and the blues
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Operain a Hurry
Voice, spectacle, and the biggest stories
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Rock and Rollin a Hurry
The noise that changed everything
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Songwritingin a Hurry
Melody, hook, and structure
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Mythology
Alphabetical orderArthurian Legendin a Hurry
Camelot, the grail, and the once and future king
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Celtic Mythologyin a Hurry
Otherworlds, heroes, and the old gods
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Egyptian Mythologyin a Hurry
Gods, the afterlife, and the weighing of the heart
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Fairy Talesin a Hurry
The dark originals behind the bedtime stories
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Folklorein a Hurry
The tales and creatures every culture tells
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Greek Mythologyin a Hurry
Gods, heroes, and the stories behind the West
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Hindu Mythologyin a Hurry
Gods, avatars, and vast cycles of time
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Japanese Mythologyin a Hurry
Kami, spirits, and the making of Japan
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Norse Mythologyin a Hurry
Odin, Ragnarok, and the world tree
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Neuroscience
Alphabetical orderAddictionin a Hurry
The hijacked reward system
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The Brainin a Hurry
A user's guide to your own head
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Consciousnessin a Hurry
The hardest problem, made approachable
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Intelligencein a Hurry
What it is, how it is measured, and the fights about it
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Memoryin a Hurry
How it works and how to keep it
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Painin a Hurry
What it is, and why it lies
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Perceptionin a Hurry
How your senses build reality
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Psychedelicsin a Hurry
The drugs, the science, and the revival
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Philosophy
Alphabetical orderBuddhismin a Hurry
Suffering, compassion, and awakening
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Epicureanismin a Hurry
Pleasure, friendship, and a simpler life
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Existentialismin a Hurry
Freedom, choice, and making your own meaning
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Philosophyin a Hurry
The big questions, and everyone who tried to answer them
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Stoicismin a Hurry
Calm, control, and character for modern life
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Taoismin a Hurry
Effortless action in a frantic world
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Physics
Alphabetical orderAstronomyin a Hurry
Planets, stars, and cosmic perspective
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Astrophysicsin a Hurry
Black holes, galaxies, and dark stuff
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Gravityin a Hurry
The weakest force, running the universe
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Lightin a Hurry
The strangest thing you look at every day
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Physicsin a Hurry
Motion, energy, and the rules of reality
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Quantumin a Hurry
The strange rules of the very small
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Relativityin a Hurry
Space, time, and speed limits
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The Universein a Hurry
Everything there is, and where it came from
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Politics
Alphabetical orderDemocracyin a Hurry
Votes, vetoes, and representation
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Dictatorsin a Hurry
How they take power, and how they lose it
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Feminismin a Hurry
The longest revolution
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Geopoliticsin a Hurry
Reading the world's fault lines
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Immigrationin a Hurry
The movement that made the modern world
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Nationalismin a Hurry
The most powerful idea of the modern age
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Populismin a Hurry
The people against the elite
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Psychology
Alphabetical orderAttentionin a Hurry
Focus without quitting your phone
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Decision-Makingin a Hurry
Biases, bets, and better choices
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Emotionsin a Hurry
Name it, tame it, use it
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Habitsin a Hurry
Tiny changes, big compounding wins
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Motivationin a Hurry
Why you do things, and why you don't
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Personalityin a Hurry
What makes you you, and what doesn't
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Persuasionin a Hurry
How minds are actually changed
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Psychologyin a Hurry
The human mind, measured
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Relationshipsin a Hurry
Attraction, attachment, and why we clash
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Traumain a Hurry
What it does, and what helps
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Religion
Alphabetical orderAtheism and Secularismin a Hurry
Meaning without a mandate
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The Biblein a Hurry
Where it came from and what is in it
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Christianityin a Hurry
From apostles to today
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Heaven and Hellin a Hurry
The afterlife, and who invented it
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Hinduismin a Hurry
Many paths, one search
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Islamin a Hurry
Origins, pillars, and cultures
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Judaismin a Hurry
Covenant, law, and diaspora
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Sikhismin a Hurry
One God, service, and the ten Gurus
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Sociology
Alphabetical orderCitiesin a Hurry
How places shape people
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Classin a Hurry
The invisible ladder everyone is on
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Crowdsin a Hurry
How people behave in numbers
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Culturein a Hurry
The invisible rules we all follow
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Educationin a Hurry
How we learn, and how schools ended up like this
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Familyin a Hurry
The oldest institution, and how it changed
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Mediain a Hurry
How information moves and warps
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Workin a Hurry
Why we do it, and how it got like this
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Space Exploration
Alphabetical orderAstronautsin a Hurry
What it does to a human body and mind
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Life in the Universein a Hurry
The search, and the odds
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Marsin a Hurry
The obsession, the science, and the plan
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The Moonin a Hurry
Our nearest world, and the race for it
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The Solar Systemin a Hurry
A tour of the neighbourhood
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The Space Racein a Hurry
Two superpowers, one moon
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The Space Shuttlein a Hurry
The most complex machine ever flown
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Spaceflightin a Hurry
How we actually get up there
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Sport and Performance
Alphabetical orderBoxingin a Hurry
The hardest game, and why it endures
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Footballin a Hurry
How one game conquered the planet
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The Limits of the Bodyin a Hurry
Records, pain, and the human ceiling
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The Olympicsin a Hurry
Ancient games, modern spectacle
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Runningin a Hurry
The thing humans are built for
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Technology
Alphabetical orderAIin a Hurry
What it is, what it isn't, what to do
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Chipsin a Hurry
The most complex objects ever manufactured
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Codingin a Hurry
Learn the mental model, not the syntax
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Cybersecurityin a Hurry
Stay safe without paranoia
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Gunsin a Hurry
The weapon that flattened every hierarchy
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The Internetin a Hurry
What actually happens when you click
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Smartphonesin a Hurry
The most successful object ever made
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Social Mediain a Hurry
The machine built to hold your attention
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Steelin a Hurry
The metal underneath the modern world
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Transport
Alphabetical orderAviationin a Hurry
How flight works and how it changed the world
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Carsin a Hurry
The machine that reshaped the planet
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Shipsin a Hurry
Trade, war, and the vessels that moved history
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Trainsin a Hurry
Steel, steam, and the shrinking of distance
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Visual Arts
Alphabetical orderAnimationin a Hurry
Drawing things into life
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Architecturein a Hurry
Reading buildings and the ideas behind them
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Artin a Hurry
How to look at pictures and why they matter
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Colourin a Hurry
How colour works and why it moves us
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Designin a Hurry
Why some things just work
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Fashionin a Hurry
Clothes, status, and the fastest art form
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Filmin a Hurry
How movies move us
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Photographyin a Hurry
Light, composition, and the decisive moment
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Theatrein a Hurry
The oldest live art, still going
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War and Strategy
Alphabetical orderEspionagein a Hurry
Spies, secrets, and statecraft in the shadows
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Great Battlesin a Hurry
The clashes that turned history
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Military Strategyin a Hurry
How wars are actually won
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Nuclear Weaponsin a Hurry
The bomb, deterrence, and the balance of terror
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Propagandain a Hurry
How states move minds
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Special Forcesin a Hurry
Small units, outsized effects
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Terrorismin a Hurry
Tactics, causes, and responses
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Weaponsin a Hurry
The tools, and what they did to history
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Wildlife and Nature
Alphabetical orderAnimalsin a Hurry
How the animal kingdom actually works
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Birdsin a Hurry
Flight, song, and the dinosaurs among us
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Dogsin a Hurry
The wolf that chose us
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Fungiin a Hurry
The hidden kingdom that runs the world
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Insectsin a Hurry
The tiny majority that rules the planet
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Octopusesin a Hurry
The closest thing to alien intelligence
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Plantsin a Hurry
How green life powers everything
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Treesin a Hurry
Forests, roots, and the lungs of the Earth
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Whalesin a Hurry
The giants, their songs, and their comeback
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Random Rabbit Holes
Alphabetical orderGreat standalone hours that do not belong to any single subject.
Alchemyin a Hurry
The strange, serious road to chemistry
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Castlesin a Hurry
How they were built, attacked, and lived in
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Cons and Scamsin a Hurry
How people get fooled, and why it works
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Conspiracy Theoriesin a Hurry
Why people believe them
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Cultsin a Hurry
How they pull people in and keep them
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Deathin a Hurry
The one certainty, taken seriously
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Dinosaursin a Hurry
The real animals behind the monsters
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Dreamsin a Hurry
What happens in your head at night
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Ethicsin a Hurry
How to tell right from wrong
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Fearin a Hurry
What scares us, and why
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Firein a Hurry
The force that made us human
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Forensicsin a Hurry
How science catches killers
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Free Willin a Hurry
Do you actually choose anything?
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Ghostsin a Hurry
Why we see them, everywhere, always
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Gladiatorsin a Hurry
Blood, spectacle, and the Roman arena
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Goldin a Hurry
The metal that drove history
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Griefin a Hurry
What loss does, and how people carry it
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Happinessin a Hurry
What actually makes life better
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Heistsin a Hurry
The greatest robberies ever pulled
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Human Originsin a Hurry
How apes became us
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The Ice Agein a Hurry
When the world froze, and what survived
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Jack the Ripperin a Hurry
The murders, the myth, and the suspects
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Lovein a Hurry
The chemistry and the mystery
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The Mafiain a Hurry
Honour, silence, and organised crime
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Magicin a Hurry
How illusion hijacks your brain
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Mass Extinctionsin a Hurry
The five times life nearly ended
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The Meaning of Lifein a Hurry
The oldest question, taken seriously
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Mummiesin a Hurry
Preserving the dead, from Egypt to the bog
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Piratesin a Hurry
The real golden age of piracy
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Plagues and Pandemicsin a Hurry
From the Black Death to now
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Poisonsin a Hurry
The chemistry of murder and medicine
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Pompeiiin a Hurry
A city frozen at the moment it died
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Prohibitionin a Hurry
Banning booze, and creating the mob
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