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How do I decide whether to have kids? A new episode of Glad You Asked explores this enormous life decision.


Running the 400-meter hurdles requires strategic rhythm, but it’s over so quick you just might miss it.
Another pandemic will come. Here’s what we can learn from Taiwan’s efforts to fight this one.
The school system probably failed you. Here’s how fertilization really happens.
In 1961, Life magazine photographed systemic poverty in Brazil. One Brazilian magazine responded with a similar report — featuring photos of New York City.
It all comes down to fluff.


And what that tells us about the pandemic.
Seed bombs, the “tree lady of Brooklyn,” and the roots of urban gardening.
What we aren’t taught about the Black Panther Party.
The country’s leader won the Nobel Peace Prize. Then he went to war.
The reclaiming of a sacred island.
The community Los Angeles destroyed and replaced with a baseball team.
Want to watch this video? Please identify all the traffic lights first.
And why not everyone likes stimulus checks. Explained by fish.
The iconic “Chinatown” look started as a survival strategy.
The typefaces on highway signs, deconstructed.
A program called Covax wants to distribute vaccines fairly. Is it working?
A lot of it is probably hiding in plain sight.
Long-haul truckers were once country music’s heroes.
How centuries of division built one of the most unequal countries on earth.
Quiet Storm is a staple of late-night Black radio.
And why Hart Island is changing after the Covid-19 pandemic.
How the stress of discrimination is widening the racial health gap.
How the US education system perpetuates inequality and racism.


What a vaccine’s “efficacy rate” actually means.
How residential segregation creates an opportunity gap.
In the second season of Glad You Asked, we examine our own biases.
The world’s tallest mountain got a little taller — here’s why.
It’s a simple innovation that helped win a war.


America’s power grid is not ready.
What’s in a gift shop affects how we see art.
Navalny’s movement is unlike any in recent history.
In 1910, boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson defeated Jim Jeffries in the “Battle of the Century,” and the nation erupted.


The 400-year curse dragging Indonesia’s capital into the sea.

