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Dutch polders gave the country its oldest democracies and a style of politicsAround a fifth of the Netherlands was once under the sea. Keeping that reclaimed land dry demanded constant cooperation, and the water boards set up to manage it became the countr…
Dutch psychiatrists must sit through 50 sessions of their own therapyA psychiatrist is a medical doctor first, which is why the job can involve brain scans, blood tests and prescriptions as well as talking. In the Netherlands, trainees need at leas…
Duty versus devotion: the difficult choices of an Aztec midwifeExplore the high-stakes world of Xoquauhtli, an Aztec midwife balancing the urgent needs of her patients against the spiritual demands of a warrior goddess.
Duty's Call: What Truly Exhausted Washington After His Service?George Washington repeatedly deferred his retirement for the sake of the young republic. Even when managing his estate, a seemingly minor illness proved to be the final chapter. D…
Dvapara Yuga: The Third Age of the World and Its Moral DeclineIn Hindu cosmology, the Dvapara Yuga is the third of four world ages, characterized by a shift toward moral ambiguity. As the Dharma bull stands on only two legs, humanity grapple…
Dvin: The Lost Armenian Capital That Defied Empires for Nearly a MillenniumOnce a thriving commercial hub and the seat of Armenian kings, Dvin was a prize fought over by Sassanids, Byzantines, Arabs, and Seljuks. Though today it is little more than a hil…
Dwarf wheat and hybrid rice rewrote the twentieth-century harvestThe Green Revolution—or Third Agricultural Revolution—was a wave of technology transfer that sharply raised crop yields, starting in rich countries early in the twentieth century …
Dwayne Johnson transforms into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr in this gritty, unconventional biographical drama.Benny Safdie directs this 2025 sports drama, which chronicles the turbulent life of combat sports icon Mark Kerr. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, the film captures the hi…
Dwayne Johnson’s Hercules reimagines a legendary demigod as a grounded, human-sized mercenary leader.In the 2014 action-adventure film Hercules, the titular hero is not necessarily a son of Zeus, but a man haunted by past trauma and fueled by mercenary ambition. Directed by Brett…
Dwight Davis bought the tennis trophy but did not invent the Davis CupDwight Davis paid about US$1,000 of his own money for a sterling silver punchbowl in 1899, and the men's team competition it crowned still carries his name. Yet the idea of pittin…- Dwight Yorke went from a Tobago friendly to Manchester United's treble seasonIn 1989 Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor toured the West Indies and watched a 17-year-old from Tobago play against his side in a friendly. He offered Dwight Yorke a trial. A deca…
Dyan Cannon: From Hollywood Starlet to Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker and Lakers SuperfanDyan Cannon is more than a Hollywood icon. Beyond her Golden Globe wins and Academy Award nominations, she is a trailblazing filmmaker, a bestselling author, and a fixture at Lake…
Dye lasers use organic stains to create light across a massive spectrum of colors.By using carbon-based fluorescent dyes as a gain medium, dye lasers achieve a level of wavelength agility impossible for most solid-state or gas lasers. These devices can be tuned…
Dyed flax threads from a Georgian cave are some 30,000 years oldLong before farming, people in what is now Georgia were spinning, dyeing and knotting wild flax fibres in Dzudzuana Cave, around 30,000 years ago. The plant they later domesticate…
Dylan Thomas squeezed a son's fury at death into nineteen strict linesDylan Thomas wrote his most famous poem in Florence in 1947, apparently for a father who would not die until late 1952. It is a villanelle, one of poetry's tightest forms, and its…
Dylan's six-minute sneer rewired folk into rock stardomBob Dylan cut Like a Rolling Stone in June 1965 at Columbia Studio A—opening Highway 61 Revisited after distilling a ten-page verse draft. Columbia balked at length and electric s…
Dynamical systems theory asks what happens in the long runDynamical systems theory describes complex evolving systems with differential or difference equations. Continuous versions generalise classical mechanics by postulating equations …
Dynamite and TNT are not the same thing, despite what cartoons suggest.Many people conflate these two powerful substances, but they possess unique chemical identities and histories. This video clarifies the distinctions between them and explores the …
Dyscalculia: The hidden learning disability that makes understanding numbers a daily struggleOften called dyslexia for numbers, dyscalculia is a learning disability that impacts how individuals process mathematics. This video features cognitive neuropsychologist Professor…
Dyslexia is a spectrum of language processing, not a defectWhile often viewed as a simple learning disability, dyslexia is a complex neurological variation. This video explores why we should move past labels of 'normal' and 'defective' to…
Dyslexia is language-brain wiring, not seeing letters backwardOnce nicknamed word blindness, dyslexia is a learning disability that can hinder reading, writing, or speaking in different degrees. It affects about three to seven percent of peo…
Dyspraxia affects about one in twenty people and has nothing to do with intelligenceTying shoelaces, catching a ball, writing neatly: for roughly 5 percent of people these everyday skills stay stubbornly hard. Developmental coordination disorder, also called dysp…
Dzogchen: The Ancient Tibetan Path to Discovering Your Innate, Unchanging State of AwarenessDzogchen, or Great Perfection, is a profound tradition within Tibetan Buddhism that bypasses complex rituals to focus on the direct realization of one's true nature. By recognizin…
Dzongkha: The Fortress Language That Defines Bhutanese Identity and National UnityMeaning literally the language of the fortress, Dzongkha serves as the official tongue of Bhutan. While it shares roots with Classical Tibetan, it has evolved into a distinct syst…
Dzungars were the last great Oirat steppe empireThe Dzungar Khanate, last nomadic empire of Oirat Mongols, once reached from southern Siberia to Tibet and from western Mongolia to the Great Wall's approaches. Around 1620 Oirats…