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This is how nomadic farmers live

2025-04-01

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Which species would you get rid of?

2025-02-27

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The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie

2021-01-25

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What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry

2020-12-15

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Who owns the "wilderness"? - Elyse Cox

2020-10-06

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The myth of the stolen eyeballs - Nathan D. Horowitz

2020-10-05

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The surprising effects of pregnancy

2020-10-01

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Can the ocean run out of oxygen? - Kate Slabosky

2020-08-18

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The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal

2020-08-13

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The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil

2020-08-04

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Can steroids save your life? - Anees Bahji

2020-06-17

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How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie

2020-06-08

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“What happened when we all stopped” narrated by Jane Goodall

2020-06-05

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How do you know if you have a virus? - Cella Wright

2020-05-18

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TED invites the class of 2020 to give a TED Talk

2020-05-11

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This sea creature breathes through its butt - Cella Wright

2020-04-30

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The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry

2020-04-28

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What’s the point(e) of ballet? - Ming Luke

2020-04-20

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Who was the world's first author? - Soraya Field Fiorio

2020-03-23

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The imaginary king who changed the real world - Matteo Salvadore

2020-03-19

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How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle

2020-03-17

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The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir - Iseult Gillespie

2020-03-10

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What’s a squillo, and why do opera singers need it? - Ming Luke

2020-03-09

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NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter & Margaret Hamilton

2020-03-05

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How good are you at calculating risk? - Gerd Gigerenzer

2020-02-25

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The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu

2020-02-10

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The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary - Lisa Janae Bacon

2020-02-03

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The ballet that incited a riot - Iseult Gillespie

2020-01-14

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Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? - Julian Burschka

2020-01-06

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Master the art of public speaking with TED Masterclass

2020-01-04

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Why should you read “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano

2019-12-16

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Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino

2019-12-10

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

2019-11-07

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Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? - Sheila Marie Orfano

2019-10-10

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The first and last king of Haiti - Marlene Daut

2019-10-07

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"For Estefani" poem by Aracelis Girmay

2019-10-03

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What makes neon signs glow? A 360° animation - Michael Lipman

2019-09-19

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A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - Philip Freeman

2019-09-17

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Why should you read “Midnight’s Children”? - Iseult Gillespie

2019-09-10

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

2019-09-09

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The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews

2019-09-05

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The mysterious origins of life on Earth - Luka Seamus Wright

2019-08-26

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A day in the life of a Cossack warrior - Alex Gendler

2019-08-22

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

2019-08-13

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

2019-08-08

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How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas

2019-07-30

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

2019-07-16

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"New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

2019-07-02

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

2019-06-13

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How close are we to eradicating HIV? - Philip A. Chan

2019-06-10

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You are more transparent than you think - Sajan Saini

2019-06-04

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The Opposites Game

2019-06-03

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

2019-05-30

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The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone

2019-05-28

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The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake - Shunan Teng

2019-05-07

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"Accents" by Denice Frohman

2019-05-02

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Why is this painting so shocking? - Iseult Gillespie

2019-04-30

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The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini

2019-04-22

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What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art? - Michelle Brown

2019-04-16

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How to grow a glacier - M Jackson

2019-04-04

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"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles

2019-04-01

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Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend - Iseult Gillespie

2019-03-28

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The wicked wit of Jane Austen - Iseult Gillespie

2019-03-21

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Using radioactive drugs to see inside your body - Pedro Brugarolas

2019-03-19

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The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo

2019-03-11

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Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie

2019-03-07

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How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? - Damion Searls

2019-03-05

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The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jordana Moore Saggese

2019-02-28

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Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey

2019-02-25

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An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer

2019-02-21

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Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

2019-02-12

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Why should you read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”? - Iseult Gillespie

2019-02-05

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"To Make Use of Water" by Safia Elhillo

2019-02-02

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"Three Months After" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

2019-02-02

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"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

2019-02-02

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"The Nutritionist" by Andrea Gibson

2019-02-02

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"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

2019-02-02

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Why should you read Flannery O’Connor? - Iseult Gillespie

2019-01-29

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The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Helen M. Farrell

2019-01-14

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The sneakiest tricksters of the animal kingdom - Eldridge Adams

2018-12-18

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The dangerous race for the South Pole - Elizabeth Leane

2018-12-10

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Are we running out of clean water? - Balsher Singh Sidhu

2018-12-06

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Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? - Iseult Gillespie

2018-12-03

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Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut? - Mia Nacamulli

2018-11-29

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Who decides what art means? - Hayley Levitt

2018-11-26

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The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney

2018-11-20

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How far would you have to go to escape gravity? - Rene Laufer

2018-11-06

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What causes heartburn? - Rusha Modi

2018-11-01

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How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery

2018-10-29

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The princess who rewrote history - Leonora Neville

2018-10-22

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Why can't some birds fly? - Gillian Gibb

2018-10-18

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Why should you read "Waiting For Godot"? - Iseult Gillespie

2018-10-15

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Can you still feel a limb that's gone? - Joshua W. Pate

2018-10-04

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Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie

2018-10-02

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What’s a smartphone made of? - Kim Preshoff

2018-10-01

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How much will you change in the future? More than you think - Bence Nanay

2018-09-27

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The myth of Hercules: 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler

2018-09-25

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Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole? - Fabio Pacucci

2018-09-20

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Zen kōans: Unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain - Puqun Li

2018-08-16

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How exactly does binary code work? - José Américo N L F de Freitas

2018-07-12

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What is the coldest thing in the world? - Lina Marieth Hoyos

2018-07-10

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Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin

2018-07-05

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What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

2018-06-14

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The Irish myth of the Giant's Causeway - Iseult Gillespie

2018-06-12

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Would you live on the moon? - Alex Gendler

2018-06-05

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Why is it so hard to cure ALS? - Fernando G. Vieira

2018-05-31

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Why do we sweat? - John Murnan

2018-05-15

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What causes constipation? - Heba Shaheed

2018-05-07

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How to build a dark matter detector - Jenna Saffin

2018-05-01

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The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman

2018-04-24

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Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan

2018-04-17

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What causes body odor? - Mel Rosenberg

2018-04-05

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A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra

2018-04-03

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The science of skin - Emma Bryce

2018-03-12

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The coin flip conundrum - Po-Shen Loh

2018-02-15

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The rise and fall of the Inca Empire - Gordon McEwan

2018-02-12

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How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar

2018-02-05

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The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie

2018-01-18

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What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster

2018-01-16

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The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

2018-01-11

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Who's at risk for colon cancer? - Amit H. Sachdev and Frank G. Gress

2018-01-04

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Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie

2017-12-21

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Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna

2017-12-18

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Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”? - Mark Robinson

2017-12-11

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What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare

2017-11-21

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How often should you get a flu shot? - Melvin Sanicas

2017-11-20

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Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote

2017-10-24

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What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang

2017-10-23

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Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"? - Mark Robinson

2017-10-19

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The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent

2017-10-16

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Explore cave paintings in this 360° animated cave - Iseult Gillespie

2017-10-12

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Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness

2017-10-09

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Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

2017-10-05

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What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver

2017-09-14

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The science of smog - Kim Preshoff

2017-08-31

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How does impeachment work? - Alex Gendler

2017-08-24

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Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour

2017-08-21

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2017-08-15

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Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

2017-08-10

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The left brain vs. right brain myth - Elizabeth Waters

2017-07-24

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Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler

2017-07-20

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How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo

2017-06-29

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How to squeeze electricity out of crystals - Ashwini Bharathula

2017-06-20

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What can you learn from ancient skeletons? - Farnaz Khatibi

2017-06-15

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How the bendy straw was invented | Moments of Vision 12 - Jessica Oreck

2017-06-01

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How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck

2017-05-02

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How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic

2017-04-20

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How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck

2017-04-06

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How Magellan circumnavigated the globe - Ewandro Magalhaes

2017-03-30

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How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck

2017-03-07

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Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker

2017-03-06

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TED-Ed Clubs: Celebrating and amplifying student voices around the world

2017-03-01

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The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker - Rose-Margaret Ekeng-Itua

2017-02-16

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How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt

2017-02-13

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Would winning the lottery make you happier? - Raj Raghunathan

2017-02-07

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How super glue was invented | Moments of Vision 8 - Jessica Oreck

2017-02-06

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How the stethoscope was invented | Moments of Vision 7 - Jessica Oreck

2016-12-29

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Why are we so attached to our things? - Christian Jarrett

2016-12-27

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Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif

2016-12-22

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Is there a limit to technological progress? - Clément Vidal

2016-12-19

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The science of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy

2016-12-12

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How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor

2016-12-08

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How smudge-proof lipstick was invented | Moments of Vision 6 - Jessica Oreck

2016-12-06

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Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis

2016-11-29

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The secrets of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - Joshua Borths

2016-11-22

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Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez

2016-11-14

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Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis

2016-11-10

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Why are sharks so awesome? - Tierney Thys

2016-11-07

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How the sandwich was invented | Moments of Vision 5 - Jessica Oreck

2016-11-03

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How much of human history is on the bottom of the ocean? - Peter Campbell

2016-10-20

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How the rubber glove was invented | Moments of Vision 4 - Jessica Oreck

2016-10-11

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Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy? - Roey Tzezana

2016-09-29

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The history of African-American social dance - Camille A. Brown

2016-09-27

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How do contraceptives work? - NWHunter

2016-09-19

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Aphasia: The disorder that makes you lose your words - Susan Wortman-Jutt

2016-09-15

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How the Band-Aid was invented | Moments of Vision 3 - Jessica Oreck

2016-09-12

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Is graffiti art? Or vandalism? - Kelly Wall

2016-09-08

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What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans

2016-08-18

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How to visualize one part per million - Kim Preshoff + The TED-Ed Community

2016-08-15

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How coffee got quicker | Moments of Vision 2 - Jessica Oreck

2016-08-08

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Which sunscreen should you choose? - Mary Poffenroth

2016-08-01

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Should we be looking for life elsewhere in the universe? - Aomawa Shields

2016-07-25

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How to turn protest into powerful change - Eric Liu

2016-07-14

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How the bra was invented | Moments of Vision 1 - Jessica Oreck

2016-07-12

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What is obesity? - Mia Nacamulli

2016-06-30

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How playing sports benefits your body ... and your brain - Leah Lagos and Jaspal Ricky Singh

2016-06-28

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What is epigenetics? - Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna

2016-06-27

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What does it mean to be a refugee? - Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman

2016-06-16

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Why wasn’t the Bill of Rights originally in the US Constitution? - James Coll

2016-06-14

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The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein

2016-06-02

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The microbial jungles all over the place (and you) - Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter

2016-05-17

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How do we separate the seemingly inseparable? - Iddo Magen

2016-05-09

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Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban

2016-05-02

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What is abstract expressionism? - Sarah Rosenthal

2016-04-28

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Why is being scared so fun? - Margee Kerr

2016-04-21

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Why the insect brain is so incredible - Anna Stöckl

2016-04-14

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How to spot a fad diet - Mia Nacamulli

2016-04-11

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The invisible motion of still objects - Ran Tivony

2016-03-24

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The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy

2016-03-21

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Why is this painting so captivating? - James Earle and Christina Bozsik

2016-03-10

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Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans

2016-03-01

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How ancient art influenced modern art - Felipe Galindo

2016-02-25

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How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten

2016-02-22

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The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson

2016-02-18

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Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz

2016-02-02

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The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson

2016-01-28

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How science fiction can help predict the future - Roey Tzezana

2016-01-26

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Why are human bodies asymmetrical? - Leo Q. Wan

2016-01-25

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When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard

2016-01-21

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The surprising (and invisible) signatures of sea creatures - Kakani Katija

2016-01-07

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The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač

2015-12-22

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The Sun’s surprising movement across the sky - Gordon Williamson

2015-12-21

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Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes - Danit Peleg

2015-12-17

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Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra

2015-12-03

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How exposing anonymous companies could cut down on crime - Global Witness

2015-12-01

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How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn

2015-11-24

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Let's make history…by recording it - StoryCorps & TED Prize

2015-11-23

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How mucus keeps us healthy - Katharina Ribbeck

2015-11-05

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Who was Confucius? - Bryan W. Van Norden

2015-10-27

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How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas

2015-10-26

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How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen

2015-10-20

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What are the universal human rights? - Benedetta Berti

2015-10-15

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The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen

2015-10-12

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How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young

2015-09-24

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What happens when your DNA is damaged? - Monica Menesini

2015-09-21

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What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen

2015-09-17

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When to use "me", "myself" and "I" - Emma Bryce

2015-09-14

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The ancient origins of the Olympics - Armand D'Angour

2015-09-03

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Could we actually live on Mars? - Mari Foroutan

2015-08-24

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A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore

2015-08-20

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Bring TED to the classroom with TED-Ed Clubs

2015-08-19

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Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce

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2013-08-09

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2013-08-05

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The hidden meanings of yin and yang - John Bellaimey

2013-08-02

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Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue - Ellen Gustafson

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Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs - Cameron Herold

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2013-08-01

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2013-07-31

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What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson

2013-07-30

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2013-07-29

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2013-07-28

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Greening the ghetto - Majora Carter

2013-07-27

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Put a value on nature! - Pavan Sukhdev

2013-07-26

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2013-07-26

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Mysteries of vernacular: Sarcophagus - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-07-26

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Meet the Water Canary - Sonaar Luthra

2013-07-26

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How I discovered DNA - James Watson

2013-07-26

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How healthy living nearly killed me - A.J. Jacobs

2013-07-26

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2013-07-26

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A prosthetic eye to treat blindness - Sheila Nirenberg

2013-07-26

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The terrors of sleep paralysis - Ami Angelowicz

2013-07-25

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Technology's epic story - Kevin Kelly

2013-07-25

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2013-07-25

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2013-07-25

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3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship - Majora Carter

2013-07-25

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2013-07-22

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Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Two ways to animate slam poetry

2013-07-20

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2013-07-19

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Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts - Yoav Medan

2013-07-19

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2013-07-19

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Listening to shame - Brené Brown

2013-07-19

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Let's transform energy -- with natural gas - T. Boone Pickens

2013-07-19

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A census of the ocean - Paul Snelgrove

2013-07-19

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Tribal leadership - David Logan

2013-07-17

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The case for collaborative consumption - Rachel Botsman

2013-07-17

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Creative houses from reclaimed stuff - Dan Phillips

2013-07-17

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Building a theater that remakes itself - Joshua Prince-Ramus

2013-07-17

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2013-07-17

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2013-07-16

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What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

2013-07-14

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The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons - Stephen Coleman

2013-07-14

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Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Animating zombies

2013-07-14

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The surprising science of happiness - Nancy Etcoff

2013-07-13

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The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling

2013-07-13

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2013-07-12

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The 4 commandments of cities - Eduardo Paes

2013-07-12

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2013-07-12

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Mysteries of vernacular: Jade - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-07-12

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How to look inside the brain - Carl Schoonover

2013-07-12

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Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle

2013-07-11

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Why work doesn't happen at work - Jason Fried

2013-07-10

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2013-07-10

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The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl

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How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place - Mechai Viravaidya

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Toward a new understanding of mental illness - Thomas Insel

2013-07-07

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2013-07-07

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4 lessons from robots about being human - Ken Goldberg

2013-07-07

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2013-07-06

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2013-07-06

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What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? - Rebecca Onie

2013-07-05

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The 100,000-student classroom - Peter Norvig

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2013-07-05

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How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination - Massimo Banzi

2013-07-05

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2013-07-04

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Your brain on improv - Charles Limb

2013-07-03

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Why eyewitnesses get it wrong - Scott Fraser

2013-07-03

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Welcome to the genomic revolution - Richard Resnick

2013-07-03

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2013-07-02

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The human and the honeybee - Dino Martins

2013-06-29

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Image recognition that triggers augmented reality - Matt Mills

2013-06-29

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Let's crowdsource the world's goals - Jamie Drummond

2013-06-28

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If superpowers were real: Super strength - Joy Lin

2013-06-28

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2013-06-28

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Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer - Mina Bissell

2013-06-28

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A vision of crimes in the future - Marc Goodman

2013-06-28

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A tale of mental illness -- from the inside - Elyn Saks

2013-06-28

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If superpowers were real, which would you choose? - Joy Lin

2013-06-27

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2013-06-26

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How to fool a GPS - Todd Humphreys

2013-06-26

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How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek

2013-06-26

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2013-06-26

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2013-06-26

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A reality check on renewables - David MacKay

2013-06-26

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Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens

2013-06-25

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A critical examination of the technology in our lives - Kevin Shindel

2013-06-25

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Medicine's future? There's an app for that - Daniel Kraft

2013-06-23

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2013-06-22

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Your phone company is watching - Malte Spitz

2013-06-21

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Mysteries of vernacular: Gorgeous - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-06-21

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Imaging at a trillion frames per second - Ramesh Raskar

2013-06-21

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I listen to color - Neil Harbisson

2013-06-21

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Building unimaginable shapes - Michael Hansmeyer

2013-06-21

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2013-06-21

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A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security - James Stavridis

2013-06-21

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2013-06-20

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2013-06-20

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2013-06-19

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2013-06-19

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The greatest machine that never was - John Graham-Cumming

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Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys - Colin Camerer

2013-06-19

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2013-06-19

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Equality, sports, and Title IX - Erin Buzuvis and Kristine Newhall

2013-06-19

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2013-06-18

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2013-06-17

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2013-06-16

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2013-06-15

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What we're learning from online education - Daphne Koller

2013-06-14

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2013-06-14

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2013-06-14

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Dare to disagree - Margaret Heffernan

2013-06-14

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2013-06-14

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2013-06-14

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Mysteries of vernacular: Window - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-06-13

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2013-06-12

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The security mirage - Bruce Schneier

2013-06-12

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2013-06-12

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Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off - Andres Lozano

2013-06-12

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2013-06-12

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All your devices can be hacked - Avi Rubin

2013-06-12

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2013-06-11

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Let's talk about dying - Peter Saul

2013-06-09

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Your body language shapes who you are - Amy Cuddy

2013-06-08

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2013-06-07

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2013-06-07

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Mysteries of vernacular: Dynamite - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-06-07

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Mental health for all by involving all - Vikram Patel

2013-06-07

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Energy from floating algae pods - Jonathan Trent

2013-06-07

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2013-06-07

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2013-06-07

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2013-06-05

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2013-06-05

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Let's put birth control back on the agenda - Melinda Gates

2013-06-05

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2013-06-05

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2013-06-02

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A new way to diagnose autism - Ami Klin

2013-06-02

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The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

2013-06-01

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2013-05-31

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What we're learning from 5,000 brains - Read Montague

2013-05-31

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What is the Internet, really? - Andrew Blum

2013-05-31

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What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe - Ben Goldacre

2013-05-31

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2013-05-31

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Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge

2013-05-30

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What on Earth is spin? - Brian Jones

2013-05-29

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2013-05-29

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2013-05-28

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A broken body isn't a broken person - Janine Shepherd

2013-05-28

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Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Creative process

2013-05-27

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2013-05-27

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Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Animation

2013-05-27

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Actually, the world isn't flat - Pankaj Ghemawat

2013-05-25

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What's so funny about mental illness? - Ruby Wax

2013-05-24

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The secret lives of paintings - Maurizio Seracini

2013-05-24

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Science is for everyone, kids included - Beau Lotto and Amy O'Toole

2013-05-24

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Mysteries of vernacular: Inaugurate - Jessica Oreck

2013-05-24

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Let's prepare for our new climate - Vicki Arroyo

2013-05-24

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Let's pool our medical data - John Wilbanks

2013-05-24

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Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan

2013-05-23

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How movies teach manhood - Colin Stokes

2013-05-22

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2013-05-21

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Why domestic violence victims don't leave - Leslie Morgan Steiner

2013-05-20

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A universal translator for surgeons - Steven Schwaitzberg

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A cinematic journey through visual effects - Don Levy

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What fear can teach us - Karen Thompson Walker

2013-05-17

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The arts festival revolution - David Binder

2013-05-17

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How open data is changing international aid - Sanjay Pradhan

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2013-05-17

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Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? - Nina Tandon

2013-05-17

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2013-05-16

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2013-05-16

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Who controls the world? - James B. Glattfelder

2013-05-15

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2013-05-14

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Biofuels and bioprospecting for beginners - Craig A. Kohn

2013-05-13

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A girl who demanded school - Kakenya Ntaiya

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Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals - David Anderson

2013-05-12

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2013-05-11

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Print your own medicine - Lee Cronin

2013-05-10

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Mysteries of vernacular: Earwig - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

2013-05-10

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Embrace the remix - Kirby Ferguson

2013-05-10

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Can democracy exist without trust? - Ivan Krastev

2013-05-10

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Averting the climate crisis - Al Gore

2013-05-10

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How giant sea creatures eat tiny sea creatures - Kelly Benoit-Bird

2013-05-09

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2013-05-08

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2013-05-08

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2013-05-08

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2013-05-08

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2013-05-07

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2013-05-07

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The journey across the high wire - Philippe Petit

2013-05-07

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Strange answers to the psychopath test - Jon Ronson

2013-05-07

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2013-05-07

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Archeology from space - Sarah Parcak

2013-05-07

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The single biggest health threat women face - Noel Bairey Merz

2013-05-06

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The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel

2013-05-04

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Big Data - Tim Smith

2013-05-03

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How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer

2013-05-02

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2013-05-01

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Mysteries of vernacular: Tuxedo - Jessica Oreck

2013-05-01

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2013-04-30

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The dance of the dung beetle - Marcus Byrne

2013-04-29

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A host of heroes - April Gudenrath

2013-04-29

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Pool medical patents, save lives - Ellen 't Hoen

2013-04-28

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A 40-year plan for energy - Amory Lovins

2013-04-27

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2013-04-26

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The optimism bias - Tali Sharot

2013-04-26

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Pavlovian reactions aren't just for dogs - Benjamin N. Witts

2013-04-26

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2013-04-26

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2013-04-26

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404, the story of a page not found - Renny Gleeson

2013-04-26

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The search for other Earth-like planets - Olivier Guyon

2013-04-25

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Let's teach kids to code - Mitch Resnick

2013-04-24

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Making sense of how life fits together - Bobbi Seleski

2013-04-23

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2013-04-23

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String theory and the hidden structures of the universe - Clifford Johnson

2013-04-22

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2013-04-22

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Dare to educate Afghan girls - Shabana Basij-Rasikh

2013-04-21

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From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone - Regina Dugan

2013-04-20

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Mysteries of vernacular: Miniature - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-19

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How do we heal medicine? - Atul Gawande

2013-04-19

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How can technology transform the human body? - Lucy McRae

2013-04-19

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Connected, but alone? - Sherry Turkle

2013-04-19

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A giant bubble for debate - Liz Diller

2013-04-19

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How to solve traffic jams - Jonas Eliasson

2013-04-15

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Every city needs healthy honey bees - Noah Wilson-Rich

2013-04-14

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A future beyond traffic gridlock - Bill Ford

2013-04-13

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Why I must speak out about climate change - James Hansen

2013-04-12

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We need to talk about an injustice - Bryan Stevenson

2013-04-12

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The quest to understand consciousness - Antonio Damasio

2013-04-12

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The Earth is full - Paul Gilding

2013-04-12

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Less stuff, more happiness - Graham Hill

2013-04-12

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What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak - Mark Forsyth

2013-04-10

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The beginning of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie

2013-04-09

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The strange politics of disgust - David Pizarro

2013-04-08

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Healthier men, one moustache at a time - Adam Garone

2013-04-07

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A light switch for neurons - Ed Boyden

2013-04-06

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Unintended consequences - Edward Tenner

2013-04-05

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The power of passion - Richard St. John

2013-04-05

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Mysteries of vernacular: Noise - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-05

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Doodlers, unite! - Sunni Brown

2013-04-05

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Different ways of knowing - Daniel Tammet

2013-04-05

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A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script - Rajesh Rao

2013-04-05

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Mysteries of vernacular: Hearse - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-04

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A call to invention: DIY speaker edition - William Gurstelle

2013-04-04

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The future of lying - Jeff Hancock

2013-04-03

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Networking for the networking averse - Lisa Green Chau

2013-04-03

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Mysteries of vernacular: Assassin - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-03

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Who is Alexander von Humboldt? - George Mehler

2013-04-02

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2013-04-02

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Mysteries of vernacular: Pants - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-02

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Mysteries of vernacular: Clue - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-01

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Kids need structure - Colin Powell

2013-04-01

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Early forensics and crime-solving chemists - Deborah Blum

2013-04-01

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Building the Seed Cathedral - Thomas Heatherwick

2013-03-30

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Want to be happier? Stay in the moment - Matt Killingsworth

2013-03-29

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The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence - Edith Widder

2013-03-29

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Making sense of a visible quantum object - Aaron O'Connell

2013-03-29

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Making a car for blind drivers - Dennis Hong

2013-03-29

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How we'll stop polio for good - Bruce Aylward

2013-03-29

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Building a dinosaur from a chicken - Jack Horner

2013-03-29

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Your brain on video games - Daphne Bavelier

2013-03-27

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Become a slam poet in five steps - Gayle Danley

2013-03-27

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Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky

2013-03-26

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Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

2013-03-25

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Could the sun be good for your heart? - Richard Weller

2013-03-25

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Are we ready for neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg

2013-03-24

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The lost art of democratic debate - Michael Sandel

2013-03-23

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Your elusive creative genius - Elizabeth Gilbert

2013-03-22

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The hidden power of smiling - Ron Gutman

2013-03-22

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The hidden beauty of pollination - Louie Schwartzberg

2013-03-22

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Silk, the ancient material of the future - Fiorenzo Omenetto

2013-03-22

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Building a museum of museums on the web - Amit Sood

2013-03-22

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Beware online "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser

2013-03-22

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How farming planted seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac

2013-03-21

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Why do we see illusions? - Mark Changizi

2013-03-20

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2013-03-19

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The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree

2013-03-18

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Social animal - David Brooks

2013-03-17

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Let's use video to reinvent education - Salman Khan

2013-03-16

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The sound the universe makes - Janna Levin

2013-03-15

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The history of our world in 18 minutes - David Christian

2013-03-15

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The greatest TED Talk ever sold - Morgan Spurlock

2013-03-15

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Printing a human kidney - Anthony Atala

2013-03-15

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On being wrong - Kathryn Schulz

2013-03-15

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3 things I learned while my plane crashed - Ric Elias

2013-03-15

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What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner

2013-03-13

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How state budgets are breaking US schools - Bill Gates

2013-03-09

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The pattern behind self-deception - Michael Shermer

2013-03-08

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How YouTube thinks about copyright - Margaret Gould Stewart

2013-03-08

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How architecture helped music evolve - David Byrne

2013-03-08

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HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy - Seth Berkley

2013-03-08

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Fractals and the art of roughness - Benoit Mandelbrot

2013-03-08

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Visualizing hidden worlds inside your body - Dee Breger

2013-03-06

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The importance of focus - Richard St. John

2013-03-06

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How to organize, add and multiply matrices - Bill Shillito

2013-03-04

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The tribes we lead - Seth Godin

2013-03-03

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Does racism affect how you vote? - Nate Silver

2013-03-02

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The business logic of sustainability - Ray Anderson

2013-03-01

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Supercharged motorcycle design - Yves Behar

2013-03-01

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Planning for the end of oil - Richard Sears

2013-03-01

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Could a Saturn moon harbor life? - Carolyn Porco

2013-03-01

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A new ecosystem for electric cars - Shai Agassi

2013-03-01

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Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy

2013-02-28

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Beach Bodies (in spoken word) - David Fasanya and Gabriel Barralaga

2013-02-27

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Insights into cell membranes via dish detergent - Ethan Perlstein

2013-02-26

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How art gives shape to cultural change - Thelma Golden

2013-02-24

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The danger of science denial - Michael Specter

2013-02-23

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What adults can learn from kids - Adora Svitak

2013-02-22

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Toy tiles that talk to each other - David Merrill

2013-02-22

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Toward a science of simplicity - George Whitesides

2013-02-22

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The El Sistema music revolution - Jose Antonio Abreu

2013-02-22

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How to restore a rainforest - Willie Smits

2013-02-22

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How Benjamin Button got his face - Ed Ulbrich

2013-02-22

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High-altitude wind energy from kites! - Saul Griffith

2013-02-22

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Visualizing the world's Twitter data - Jer Thorp

2013-02-21

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Gridiron physics: Scalars and vectors - Michelle Buchanan

2013-02-20

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Distorting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle

2013-02-19

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Let's simplify legal jargon - Alan Siegel

2013-02-18

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Inventing the American presidency - Kenneth C. Davis

2013-02-18

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Science can answer moral questions - Sam Harris

2013-02-16

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How I fell in love with a fish - Dan Barber

2013-02-15

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Fresh water scarcity: An introduction to the problem - Christiana Z. Peppard

2013-02-14

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Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating - Christian Rudder

2013-02-13

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Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard

2013-02-12

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How Curiosity got us to Mars - Bobak Ferdowsi

2013-02-11

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The world needs all kinds of minds - Temple Grandin

2013-02-10

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How bacteria "talk" - Bonnie Bassler

2013-02-09

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Four principles for the open world - Don Tapscott

2013-02-08

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The historical audacity of the Louisiana Purchase - Judy Walton

2013-02-07

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Make robots smarter - Ayanna Howard

2013-02-06

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How did trains standardize time in the United States? - William Heuisler

2013-02-05

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Our buggy moral code - Dan Ariely

2013-02-03

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Our loss of wisdom - Barry Schwartz

2013-02-02

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Earth's mass extinction - Peter Ward

2013-02-01

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What if we could look inside human brains? - Moran Cerf

2013-01-31

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Life of an astronaut - Jerry Carr

2013-01-30

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner

2013-01-29

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Parasite tales: The jewel wasp's zombie slave - Carl Zimmer

2013-01-28

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The coming neurological epidemic - Gregory Petsko

2013-01-27

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Do the green thing - Andy Hobsbawm

2013-01-26

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Surviving a nuclear attack - Irwin Redlener

2013-01-25

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Network theory - Marc Samet

2013-01-23

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Learning from past presidents - Doris Kearns Goodwin

2013-01-21

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Losing everything - David Hoffman

2013-01-20

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Digging for humanity's origins - Louise Leakey

2013-01-20

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Your genes are not your fate - Dean Ornish

2013-01-17

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Write your story, change history - Brad Meltzer

2013-01-16

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The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier

2013-01-16

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How to defeat a dragon with math - Garth Sundem

2013-01-15

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Can we domesticate germs? - Paul Ewald

2013-01-15

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What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill

2013-01-14

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Questioning the universe - Stephen Hawking

2013-01-14

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How to find the true face of Leonardo - Siegfried Woldhek

2013-01-13

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A plant's-eye view - Michael Pollan

2013-01-12

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Underwater astonishments - David Gallo

2013-01-11

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Activation energy: Kickstarting chemical reactions - Vance Kite

2013-01-09

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Tales of passion - Isabel Allende

2013-01-06

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On exploring the oceans - Robert Ballard

2013-01-05

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Detention or Eco Club: Choosing your future - Juan Martinez

2013-01-04

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How photography connects us - David Griffin

2013-01-01

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Redefining the dictionary - Erin McKean

2012-12-28

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Measuring what makes life worthwhile - Chip Conley

2012-12-27

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See Yemen through my eyes - Nadia Al-Sakkaf

2012-12-26

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The power of introverts - Susan Cain

2012-12-25

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Breaking the illusion of skin color - Nina Jablonski

2012-12-24

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Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full

2012-12-20

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A tap dancer's craft - Andrew Nemr

2012-12-19

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Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke

2012-12-17

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The demise of guys - Philip Zimbardo

2012-12-16

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A global culture to fight extremism - Maajid Nawaz

2012-12-15

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Retrofitting suburbia - Ellen Dunham-Jones

2012-12-14

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Solving the puzzle of the periodic table - Eric Rosado

2012-12-12

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Inside a cartoonist's world - Liza Donnelly

2012-12-11

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Folding way-new origami - Robert Lang

2012-12-09

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CERN's supercollider - Brian Cox

2012-12-08

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Seeing a sustainable future - Alex Steffen

2012-12-07

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How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan

2012-12-05

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Let's talk about sex - John Bohannon and Black Label Movement

2012-12-03

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High-tech art (with a sense of humor) - Aparna Rao

2012-12-02

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The birth of a word - Deb Roy

2012-12-01

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Shedding light on dark matter - Patricia Burchat

2012-11-30

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How does work...work? - Peter Bohacek

2012-11-29

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Dance vs. PowerPoint, a modest proposal - John Bohannon

2012-11-28

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How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui

2012-11-27

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How algorithms shape our world - Kevin Slavin

2012-11-25

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The beautiful math of coral - Margaret Wertheim

2012-11-24

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The beauty of data visualization - David McCandless

2012-11-23

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Would you weigh less in an elevator? - Carol Hedden

2012-11-19

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Why videos go viral - Kevin Allocca

2012-11-17

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How social media can make history - Clay Shirky

2012-11-16

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Does stress cause pimples? - Claudia Aguirre

2012-11-15

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Stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor

2012-11-14

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An anti-hero of one's own - Tim Adams

2012-11-13

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Dark matter: How does it explain a star's speed? - Don Lincoln

2012-11-12

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A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar

2012-11-08

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How life came to land - Tierney Thys

2012-11-07

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The oddities of the first American election - Kenneth C. Davis

2012-11-05

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Diagnosing a zombie: brain and behavior (Part two) - Tim Verstynen & Bradley Voytek

2012-10-24

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Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one) - Tim Verstynen & Bradley Voytek

2012-10-22

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The city of walls: Constantinople - Lars Brownworth

2012-10-18

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How inventions change history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis

2012-10-17

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Sending a sundial to Mars - Bill Nye

2012-10-16

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Describing the invisible properties of gas - Brian Bennett

2012-10-10

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The ABC's of gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles - Brian Bennett

2012-10-09

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The story behind your glasses - Eva Timothy

2012-10-08

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How breathing works - Nirvair Kaur

2012-10-04

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Making sense of spelling - Gina Cooke

2012-09-25

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What is chirality and how did it get in my molecules? - Michael Evans

2012-09-20

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Magical metals, how shape memory alloys work - Ainissa Ramirez

2012-09-18

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How to think about gravity - Jon Bergmann

2012-09-17

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Why the shape of your screen matters - Brian Gervase

2012-09-13

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An introduction to mathematical theorems - Scott Kennedy

2012-09-10

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Greeting the world in peace - Jackie Jenkins

2012-09-04

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Capturing authentic narratives - Michele Weldon

2012-08-27

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How fiction can change reality - Jessica Wise

2012-08-23

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The history of keeping time - Karen Mensing

2012-08-16

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Music as a language - Victor Wooten

2012-08-13

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How Two Decisions Led Me to Olympic Glory - Steve Mesler

2012-07-30

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Electric Vocabulary

2012-07-16

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The case against "good" and "bad" - Marlee Neel

2012-07-09

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The Key to Media's Hidden Codes - Ben Beaton

2012-05-29

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How Life Begins in the Deep Ocean

2012-05-14

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TED-Ed Website Tour

2012-04-25

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Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays?

2012-04-10

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The Secret Life of Plankton

2012-04-02

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The Real Origin of the Franchise - Sir Harold Evans

2012-03-26

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How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

2012-03-13

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Why Can't We See Evidence of Alien Life?

2012-03-12

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The Power of Simple Words - Terin Izil

2012-03-12

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Stories: Legacies of who we are - Awele Makeba

2012-03-12

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Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

2012-03-12

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Evolution in a Big City

2012-03-12

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