Intermediate Lessons

Why should you read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? - Jill Dash

Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino

The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

How does chemotherapy work? - Hyunsoo Joshua No

Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? - Alex Gendler

The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

Why haven’t we cured arthritis? - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust

How to 3D print human tissue - Taneka Jones

The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

The first and last king of Haiti - Marlene Daut

"For Estefani" poem by Aracelis Girmay

The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

Why should you read “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy? - Laura Wright

The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara

"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class" poem by Clint Smith

The myth of Jason and the Argonauts - Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read “Kafka on the Shore”? - Iseult Gillespie

The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - Chiara Decaroli

How do viruses jump from animals to humans? - Ben Longdon

Can you solve the dark matter fuel riddle? - Dan Finkel

"New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler

Underwater farms vs. climate change - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis

Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac

This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan

Why should you read “The Master and Margarita”? - Alex Gendler

Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) - Jeff Leek & Lucy McGowan

How this disease changes the shape of your cells - Amber M. Yates

"Accents" by Denice Frohman

Why is this painting so shocking? - Iseult Gillespie

How does the stock market work? - Oliver Elfenbaum

Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle? - Dan Finkel

Titan of terror: The dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - Greg Foot

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

How to grow a glacier - M Jackson

"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles

A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe

What “Machiavellian” really means - Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler

The wicked wit of Jane Austen - Iseult Gillespie

Using radioactive drugs to see inside your body - Pedro Brugarolas

Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? - Dan Finkel

How tall can a tree grow? - Valentin Hammoudi

The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo

Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie

How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? - Damion Searls

The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington - Michelle Mehrtens

Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel