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TED-Ed — 993 episodes
The surprising science of happiness - Nancy Etcoff
How can technology enhance the human body? - Lucy McRae
Should you go solar? - Shannon Odell
Connected, yet lonely? - Sherry Turkle
What led to the Rwandan Genocide? - Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy
Mysteries of vernacular: Petite - Jessica Oreck
Gravity vs. Pressure: The contest that built the universe - Fabio Pacucci
How does a particle-smashing atom accelerator work? - Don Lincoln
Why did Megalodon become extinct? - Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento
How to look inside the brain - Carl Schoonover
How to live to be 100+ — Dan Buettner
Can you work out the time traveling car riddle? - Dan Finkel
The power of Vedic math - Gaurav Tekriwal
Can other animals perceive death? - Barbara J. King
Axolotls: The salamanders that snack on each other (but don't die) - Luis Zambrano
How to fix traffic jams - Jonas Eliasson
What's changing in Earth's core? - Shannon Odell
What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
One of history's most harmful myths - Anneliese Mehnert
Texting that saves lives - Nancy Lublin
Every city needs vital honey bees - Noah Wilson-Rich
The rise and fall of Italy's hired warriors - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? - Shravan S K
The 4 commandments of cities - Eduardo Paes
A future free from traffic gridlock - Bill Ford
questions to ask yourself before you accept an idea - Siska De Baerdemaeker
Why I must voice concerns about climate change - James Hansen
How to reach flow state
How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie
We need to talk about an inequity - Bryan Stevenson
How hazardous was it to be a jester? - Beatrice K. Otto
Our Planet is full - Paul Gilding
Why your phone battery declines over time - George Zaidan
Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque - Christina Warinner
The mission to fathom consciousness - Antonio Damasio
What happens if you forget airplane mode on your phone? - Lindsay DeMarchi
Less stuff, greater joy - Graham Hill
Why is everyone battling over these minuscule spots of space? - Fabio Pacucci
What you can do with an extra jaw - Darien Satterfield
How is power distributed in the United States government? - Belinda Stutzman
How the water you flush cycles back to the water you drink - Francis de los Reyes
What's a snollygoster? A concise lesson in political speak - Mark Forsyth
A 5,300-year-old murder case - Albert Zink
Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls - Leymah Gbowee
What cameras detect that our eyes don't - Bill Shribman
Is plant-based meat actually healthier for you? - Carolyn Beans
The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
Mysteries of vernacular: Jade - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
The genesis of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie
Can alligators survive this supreme predator? - Kenny Coogan
The unusual politics of disgust - David Pizarro
The one thing keeping jellyfish from taking over - Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones
Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al
Self-assembly: The power of structuring the unorganized - Skylar Tibbits
Why is it so hard to abandon a bad habit?
Healthier men, one beard at a time - Adam Garone
This is what happens when you floor the accelerator - Shannon Odell
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle
A light switch for nerve cells - Ed Boyden
Can you solve the cursed die riddle? - Dan Finkel
Varied methods of understanding - Daniel Tammet
Can you modify your sleep schedule?
History's deadliest king - by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
A Rosetta Stone for the Indus language - Rajesh Rao
What happens when you dive into piranha-infested waters? - Antonio Machado-Allison
Experiment with something fresh for 30 days - Matt Cutts
Why is this painting of a black square iconic? - Allison Leigh
Visualizing the medical data explosion - Anders Ynnerman
Unexpected side effects - Edward Tenner
Why were scientists so captivated by these frogs? - Carly Anne York
The most notorious scientific feud in history - Lukas Rieppel
The linguistic genius of babies - Patricia Kuhl
Doodlers, gather! - Sunni Brown
Why mosquitoes target certain people more frequently than others - Maria Elena De Obaldia
qualities of successful people - Richard St. John
The scheme to unseat the Inca Empire - Gabriel Prieto
Why can’t governments print an unlimited amount of money? - Jonathan Smith
The force of passion - Richard St. John
Ethical dilemma: What renders life worth living? - Douglas MacLean
Why hard work is rewarding - Richard St. John
What would happen if all people stopped eating meat tomorrow? - Carolyn Beans
Why work doesn't happen at work - Jason Fried
Mysteries of vernacular: Clamor - Jessica Oreck
How you persist in the coldest place on Earth - Nadia Frontier
Mysteries of vernacular: Hearse - Jessica Oreck
strategies for studying effectively
The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
A summons to innovate: DIY speaker edition - William Gurstelle
Bewildered by recycling? It's not your fault - Shannon Odell
The future of dishonesty - Jeff Hancock
How to move beyond your mistakes
How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place - Mechai Viravaidya
Networking for the connection-shy - Lisa Green Chau
A voyage of the ancient Greek Underworld - Iseult Gillespie
The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man - Andrew McDonald
The power of vulnerability - Brené Brown
Mysteries of vernacular: Breeches - Jessica Oreck
The shadowy origins of werewolves - Craig Thomson
Who was Alexander von Humboldt? - George Mehler
Japan's most frightening ghost story - Kit Brooks
A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals - Gilad Bino
Young people need structure - Colin Powell
What actually triggered the Irish Potato Famine - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Early forensics and crime-solving chemists - Deborah Blum
Can you unravel the secret assassin society riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
The infinite life of pi - Reynaldo Lopes
The puzzle of chronic pain - Elliot Krane
Sherlock Holmes and the century's greatest crime - Alex Rosenthal
Creating the Seed Cathedral - Thomas Heatherwick
The asteroid that came close to erasing life on Earth - Sean P. S. Gulick
Iceland's secret power - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
Creating a dinosaur from a chicken - Jack Horner
The gruesome legacy of barber surgeons - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Deciphering a visible quantum object - Aaron O'Connell
Where did these massive space bubbles come from? - Ashkbiz Danehkar
Comma story - Terisa Folaron
Building a car for blind drivers - Dennis Hong
Why was the US government so fascinated with this animal? - Andrew C. Isenberg
What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? - Christopher E. Gaw
Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
How we'll eradicate polio for good - Bruce Aylward
The maladies that altered humanity forever - Dan Kwartler
The peculiar, fascinating world of bioluminescence - Edith Widder
How to make wise decisions more easily
The method that can "prove" almost anything - James A. Smith
Want to be happier? Remain in the moment - Matt Killingsworth
How did South African Apartheid begin, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson
Your brain while playing video games - Daphne Bavelier
The rights you might not realize you possess - Shannon Odell
Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Synesthesia and playing cards
Become a slam poet in five steps - Gayle Danley
The greatest river on Earth is actually in the sky - Iseult Gillespie
Euclid's mysterious parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky
What's the science behind whale communication? - David Gruber and Shane Gero
Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel
Can sunlight improve your heart health? - Richard Weller
Can planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans
Haptography: Converting our sense of touch into digital code - Katherine Kuchenbecker
The science of humor - Sasha Winkler
4 lessons from robots about being human - Ken Goldberg
Will humanity embrace neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg
How to get motivated even when you lack the urge
The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp - Dan Sayers
Toward a new understanding of mental illness - Thomas Insel
The vanished craft of democratic debate - Michael Sandel
Why has Texas hold 'em become so widespread? - James McManus
Creating a digital museum of museums with Amit Sood
Are pandas the most misinterpreted animal? - Lucy Cooke
How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne
The secret force of smiling - Ron Gutman
Why is rice so beloved? - Carolyn Beans
Silk, the ageless material of what's to come - Fiorenzo Omenetto
How much would it cost to purchase the ocean? - Astrid J. Hsu
Free falling in outer space - Matt J. Carlson
The secret artistry of pollination - Louie Schwartzberg
History vs. Egypt's "strongest" pharaoh - Jessica Tomkins
Guard against internet "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser
How to recognize if you're self-interested (and whether that's actually harmful) - Mark Hopwood
Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
Your elusive creative mind - Elizabeth Gilbert
Would you raise the baby that devoured your siblings? - Francesca Barbero
How farming cultivated seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
The true cause behind dodo bird extinction - Leon Claessens
On spaghetti sauce - Malcolm Gladwell
Why do visual illusions occur? - Mark Changizi
How does alcohol lead to blackouts? - Shannon Odell
How we can detect pretty much anything - Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou
On positive psychology - Martin Seligman
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The corpse flower could disturb your nighttime rest - Daniel Nickrent
The history of the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree
Is Chandigarh truly a perfectly planned city? - Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes
Gregarious creature - David Brooks
The Fijian myth of the covetous god - Raiana McKinney and Esther Wozniak
Let's harness video to revolutionize education - Salman Khan
Why shouldn't you place metal in a microwave? - Aaron Slepkov
Mining minerals from seawater - Damian Palin
things I discovered while my aircraft went down - Ric Elias
When ancient wisdom surpasses modern industry - Rebecca Webster
On being incorrect - Kathryn Schulz
The warrior who overcame the mighty Mughals - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich - Soraya Field Fiorio
The story of our world in 18 minutes - David Christian
Can you navigate the magical maze riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
The greatest TED Talk ever pitched - Morgan Spurlock
Will the actual Fernando please stand up? - Ilan Stavans
What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? - Rebecca Onie
The sound the cosmos makes - Janna Levin
How humanity developed a dependence on coffee - Jonathan Morris
What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy
The 100,000-student classroom - Peter Norvig
Printing a human kidney - Anthony Atala
thinkers on anger - Delaney Thull
The legendary and clever Ho Chi Minh Trail - Cameron Paterson
One of humanity's most time-honored condiments - Dan Kwartler
The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - Pekka Hämäläinen
What is rhetorical irony? - Christopher Warner
Why was the Rosetta Stone so vital? - Franziska Naether
How Mendel's pea plants taught us about genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
What triggers addiction, and why is it so difficult to treat? - Judy Grisel
Advice to young scientists - E.O. Wilson
Working backward to address challenges - Maurice Ashley
The buried cities of the Byzantine Empire - Veronica Kalas
How state budgets are damaging US schools - Bill Gates
The Greek myth of Demeter's retaliation - Iseult Gillespie
What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
Fractals and the art of texture - Benoit Mandelbrot
What Earth in 2050 might look like - Shannon Odell
A 3D atlas of space - Carter Emmart
What is earwax — and should you clean it out? - Henry C. Ou
How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination - Massimo Banzi
How YouTube understands copyright - Margaret Gould Stewart
Why is "The Scream" crying out? - Noah Charney
Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat
Mysteries of vernacular: Quarantine - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
The structure behind self-deception - Michael Shermer
The real history behind the legend of the 47 Rōnin - Adam Clulow
How architecture advanced music's evolution - David Byrne
How to curb political corruption - Stephanie Honchell Smith
You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) - Kayla Mandel Sheets
HIV and flu -- the inoculation strategy - Seth Berkley
The Nazis recruited to succeed in the Cold War - Brian Crim
The contrast between classical and operant conditioning - Peggy Andover
Visualize a perfect society. What does it resemble? - Joseph Lacey
Why eyewitnesses get it wrong - Scott Fraser
The power of concentration - Richard St. John
Does math possess a critical flaw? - Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek
Visualizing secret worlds inside your body - Dee Breger
The rise and fall of the Maya Empire's most influential city - Geoffrey E. Braswell
The secrets of the world’s most famous symphony - Hanako Sawada
The uncomplicated story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
How do gas masks truly work? - George Zaidan
How to order, add and multiply matrices - Bill Shillito
How to amplify your happiness
Welcome to the genomic revolution - Richard Resnick
The tribes we build - Seth Godin
Why do bugs cluster above water? - Luke M. Jacobus
Does racism impact your vote? - Nate Silver
How could so many people follow Hitler? - Joseph Lacey
Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Preparing for oil's conclusion - Richard Sears
Scientists are mesmerized by this lake - Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi
The world's English fever - Jay Walker
Exploring cell membranes through dish detergent - Ethan Perlstein
These animals can sense everything - Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
Has there ever been a moral dictator? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Your brain on improv - Charles Limb
Why are blue whales so extraordinarily large? - Asha de Vos
Amplified motorcycle design - Yves Behar
Can you work out the basketball riddle? - Dan Katz
Can AI foresee someone's breakup? - Thomas Hofweber
How art shapes cultural transformation - Thelma Golden
Could a Saturn moon contain life? - Carolyn Porco
What genuinely transpired with Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito
Why is English so complicated? - Arika Okrent
How a concubine became the ruler of Egypt - Abdallah Ewis
The hazard of dismissing science - Michael Specter
The commercial case for sustainability - Ray Anderson
The mystery of how Chinese characters operate - Gina Marie Elia
How does an air conditioner truly work? - Anna Rothschild
High-altitude wind energy via kites! - Saul Griffith
A novel ecosystem for electric cars - Shai Agassi
How did ancient peoples craft ice cream? - Vivian Jiang
How do doctors classify what stage of cancer you have? - Hyunsoo Joshua No and Trudy Wu
Moral behavior in animals - Frans de Waal
How to rehabilitate a rainforest - Willie Smits
Revealing photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy
One surgeon's fascination with head transplants - Max G. Levy
How close are we to fueling the world with nuclear fusion? - George Zaidan
How Benjamin Button Obtained His Face - Ed Ulbrich
Seaside Forms (in spoken word) - David Fasanya and Gabriel Barralaga
What transpires in your body during a miscarriage? - Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey
What Rumi teaches us about love - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The surprising origins of the word “lesbian” - Diane J. Rayor
The El Sistema musical revolution - Jose Antonio Abreu
Why fish outperform you at breathing - Dan Kwartler
Conversational toy tiles that connect - David Merrill
The downfall of the House of Cadmus - Iseult Gillespie
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse - Sean Carroll
Mosquitos, malaria and teaching - Bill Gates
The most fascinating stuff animals can do with their tongues - Cella Wright
The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without) - Devin Shuman
What is an aurora? - Michael Molina
What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling
Beatboxing 101 - BEAT NYC
Where will you be able to live in 20 years? - Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas
Inside your computer - Bettina Bair
Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" - Tanya Boucicaut
Image recognition that triggers augmented reality - Matt Mills
Why don’t we cover the desert with solar panels? - Dan Kwartler
The human and the honeybee - Dino Martins
Can you solve the computer virus riddle? - James Tanton
A tale of mental illness -- from the inside - Elyn Saks
Why are scientists obsessed with the Black Sea? - Helen Farr and Jon Adams
Why I'm a weekday vegetarian - Graham Hill
Why are scientists catapulting mushrooms into orbit? - Shannon Odell
Toward a science of simplicity - George Whitesides
Why does whacking your funny bone feel so dreadful? - Cella Wright
What adults can learn from children - Adora Svitak
What the oil industry hides from the public - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The surprisingly long history of electric cars - Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal
Visualizing the globe's Twitter data - Jer Thorp
Why is Alzheimer's disease so hard to cure? - Krishna Sudhir
Gridiron physics: Magnitudes and directions - Michelle Buchanan
Why did people don powdered wigs? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
A vision of crimes in the future - Marc Goodman
Misrepresenting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle
The most perilous elements on the periodic table - Shannon Odell
Establishing the American presidency - Kenneth C. Davis
What are warts — and how do you treat them? - Cella Wright
The Norse myth that inspired “The Lord of the Rings” - Iseult Gillespie
Let's untangle legal jargon - Alan Siegel
Why is it so risky to tread on a rusty nail? - Louise Thwaites
Science can settle moral questions - Sam Harris
What is kevlar, and why is it so resilient? - Max G. Levy
Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer - Mina Bissell
How I fell in love with a fish - Dan Barber
Is this the most treasured thing in the ocean? - David Biello
How to get better at video games, according to babies - Brian Christian
Let's crowdsource the world's goals - Jamie Drummond
Just add water: The garden insect that can turn into a plague - Jeffrey A. Lockwood
If superpowers were real: Super strength - Joy Lin
The sleep disorder you might not know you have - Alayna Vaughan
If superpowers were real: Super speed - Joy Lin
The twins who tricked the Maya gods of death - Ilan Stavans
Fresh water scarcity: A guide to the crisis - Christiana Z. Peppard
The tragedy of the lone figure who was right about the Trojan Horse - Noah Charney
If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin
Inside OKCupid: The mathematics of digital dating - Christian Rudder
The tale of the boy who deceived a tyrant - Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore
Where we source our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
Are you more apt to explode or freeze in space? - Tejal Gala
How to write comedy - Jodie Houlston-Lau
How Curiosity Took Us to Mars - Bobak Ferdowsi
The remarkable reason zebras have stripes - Cella Wright
The world needs diverse kinds of minds - Temple Grandin
What does appendicitis pain feel like? - David R. Flum
If superpowers were real: Body mass - Joy Lin
How bacteria "speak" - Bonnie Bassler
How do animals rebuild their limbs? And why can't humans do it? - Jessica Whited
Four principles for the open globe - Don Tapscott
The most perilous thing in your kitchen - George Zaidan
Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out - Lucas C. Majure
The historical courage of the Louisiana Purchase - Judy Walton
What's the best way to cure the common cold?
Make robots brighter - Ayanna Howard
The genesis of the galaxy in 60 seconds - Scott Hershberger
If superpowers were real: Immortality - Joy Lin
How did trains standardize time across the United States? - William Heuisler
What is hysteria, and why were so many women afflicted with it? - Mark S. Micale
Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
How polarity causes water to behave strangely - Christina Kleinberg
Why did it take such a long time to find giant squids? - Anna Rothschild
If superpowers were real: Invisibility - Joy Lin
Our glitchy moral code - Dan Ariely
You'll cover 1 trillion kilometers through space - Fabio Pacucci and Lindsay DeMarchi
Our fading wisdom - Barry Schwartz
Are there any spots on Earth without bugs? - Charles Wallace
The wild sex lives of marine creatures - Luka Seamus Wright
Earth's mass extinction - Peter Ward
Greek mythology's supreme warrior - Iseult Gillespie
What if we could observe inside human brains? - Moran Cerf
This mushroom will kill you before you understand what's occurring - Michael Beug
If superpowers were real, which would you choose? - Joy Lin
Career of an astronaut - Jerry Carr
The genuine chronicle of the Monkey King in Heaven - Ji Hao
Holding a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner
What are those spots you observe after rubbing your eyes? - Paul CJ Taylor
Why do your jeans wear out so quickly? - Madhavi Venkatesan
Parasite tales: The jewel wasp's zombified puppet - Carl Zimmer
The dungeon master's conundrum - Alex Rosenthal
The looming neurological epidemic - Gregory Petsko
Who is accountable for costly prescription prices? - Kiah Williams
How do you save a shark you know nothing about? - Simon Berrow
Do the environmental thing - Andy Hobsbawm
How does excessive heat affect your body? - Carolyn Beans
Can stereotypes ever be good? - Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho
A reality check on renewables - David MacKay
Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space - Fabio Pacucci
How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek
How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power - Adam Clulow
Digital humanitarianism - Paul Conneally
Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? - Steve Rothstein
Withstanding a nuclear attack - Irwin Redlener
The monkey's paw curse - Iseult Gillespie
How to fool a GPS - Todd Humphreys
Stretching time (in writing and film) - Aaron Sitze
The true reason polio poses such a threat
Network dynamics - Marc Samet
What happens during kidney transplant surgery? - Alexander H. Toledo
The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
Fast prototyping Google Glass - Tom Chi
Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide - Ümit Kurt
Insights from historical presidents - Doris Kearns Goodwin
This could save lives— but are you prepared to do it? - Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud
How to set the table - Anna Post
Uncovering humanity's origins - Louise Leakey
Can you answer the trickster god riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Losing everything - David Hoffman
What sleep deprivation does to your brain - Anna Rothschild
You can only save one— who do you choose? - Doug MacKay
Your genes are not your future - Dean Ornish
Why don't businesses want you to mend your stuff? - Aaron Perzanowski
Does light behave as a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher
How are these fires burning beneath the surface? - Emma Bryce
Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier
How scientists are developing genuine invisibility cloaks - Max G. Levy
Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam - Alex Gendler
Pen your story, change history - Brad Meltzer
How to make your stress work in your favor - Shannon Odell
A critical examination of the technology in our lives - Kevin Shindel
Can we cultivate germs? - Paul Ewald
Lady Meng Jiang: The legend of the woman who outmaneuvered a cruel emperor - Juwen Zhang
How to conquer a dragon with math - Garth Sundem
Why animals support each other - Ashley Ward
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? - Noah Charney
Interrogating the universe - Stephen Hawking
How certain friendships persist — and others fade - Iseult Gillespie
What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about influence - Conor Neill
Must you truly walk 10,000 steps daily? - Shannon Odell
Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
Discovering Leonardo's real countenance - Siegfried Woldhek
A day in the life of a martial artist in ancient China - Peter Lorge
A plant's outlook - Michael Pollan
The shadowy past of arsenic - Neil Bradbury
The myth of Loki’s monstrous children - Iseult Gillespie
Underwater wonders - David Gallo
One of the most disputed medical procedures in history - Jenell Johnson
Phenology and nature's evolving rhythms - Regina Brinker
The world's history through rats - Max G. Levy
How big is the ocean? - Scott Gass
Activation energy: Igniting chemical reactions - Vance Kite
What actually triggers high cholesterol? - Hei Man Chan
Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
How we view color - Colm Kelleher
Have we hit the ceiling of computational power? - Sajan Saini and George Zaidan
Medicine's future? There's an app for that - Daniel Kraft
You are your microbes - Karen Guillemin and Jessica Green
Is the Amazon Rainforest fading? - Anna Rothschild
Chronicles of passion - Isabel Allende
How to outlast the apocalypse | Ada, Ep. 1
Why do cats have vertical pupils? - Emma Bryce
Investigating the oceans - Robert Ballard
Why you feel stuck — and how to get energized - Shannon Odell
Detention or Eco Club: Deciding your future - Juan Martinez
Would you sell your kidney for $100,000? | Ada, Ep. 2
Behind the Great Firewall of China - Michael Anti
Preserving our stunning, delicate coral reefs - Joshua Drew
The fable of Ireland's most disreputable love triangle - Iseult Gillespie
How photography brings us together - David Griffin
Should we abolish pregnancy? | Ada, Ep. 3
The tragic myth of the Sun God's son - Iseult Gillespie
The ethical origins of progressives and conservatives - Jonathan Haidt
Can you picture images in your mind? Some people can't - Adam Zeman
Transforming the dictionary - Erin McKean
Can we really govern superintelligent AI? | Ada, Ep. 4
Building unimaginable shapes - Michael Hansmeyer
Assessing what makes life worthwhile - Chip Conley
How are microchips produced? - George Zaidan and Sajan Saini
Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? - Marie Brodsky
Witness Yemen through my eyes - Nadia Al-Sakkaf
Which species would you remove? | Ada, Ep. 5
Imaging at a trillion frames per second - Ramesh Raskar
The influence of introverts - Susan Cain
The legend of the brothers who outmaneuvered the demon queen - Malay Bera
Dispelling the illusion of skin color - Nina Jablonski
You might be amazed by what you'd uncover in your pores - M. Alejandra Perotti
Which animal has the best eyesight? - Thomas W. Cronin
TED Prize wish: Defend our oceans - Sylvia Earle
The fix for our energy challenges is … a toaster - Rachel Yang
Inquisitiveness, exploration and gecko feet - Robert Full
This is the most frequent way to get head lice - Nazzy Pakpour
Your phone company is watching - Malte Spitz
A tap dancer's technique - Andrew Nemr
Why don't we source our drinking water from the ocean? - Manish Kumar
Understanding color - Colm Kelleher
markers of a capable driver - Iseult Gillespie
The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider - Emily Zobel Marshall
Why is there a silent "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke
The remarkable way we can cool the planet - Elise Cutts
The downfall of men - Philip Zimbardo
The brutal medieval king who inspired "Macbeth" - Benjamin Hudson
A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security - James Stavridis
A worldwide culture to counter extremism - Maajid Nawaz
This is how nomadic herders live
Can you outsmart the fallacy that divided a nation? - Elizabeth Cox
Reimagining suburbia - Ellen Dunham-Jones
The grand Norse saga of the beast slayer - Iseult Gillespie
I listen to color - Neil Harbisson
Situational irony: The contrary of what you anticipate - Christopher Warner
Why do we get two tides each day? - Elise Cutts
Unraveling the puzzle of the periodic table - Eric Rosado
The legend of the Monkey King and the Buddha - Ji Hao
The myth of Gawain and the Green Knight - Dan Kwartler
Inside a cartoonist's mind - Liza Donnelly
What Earth in 2125 could become - Iseult Gillespie
Radioactivity: Prepare for the unpredictable - Steve Weatherall
No one can truly define what a tree is - Max G. Levy
Mysteries of vernacular: Gorgeous - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
Folding cutting-edge origami - Robert Lang
How much would it cost to purchase the Sun? - Cella Wright
CERN's supercollider – Brian Cox
How did detectives unravel the case of the bloody fingerprints? - Theodore E. Yeshion
What is “normal” and what is “different”? - Yana Buhrer Tavanier
Imagining a sustainable future - Alex Steffen
Can you unravel the mystery of Pandora's box? - Alex Rosenthal
Pizza physics (New York-style) - Colm Kelleher
The fable of Medusa
Building a culture of success - Mark Wilson
Why do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan
What triggered the decline of one of history's most powerful empires? - Mostafa Minawi
Why doesn't everyone have a jetpack? - Richard Browning
What constitutes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
Is this the most disgusting parasite? - Niko Zlotnik
Overcoming the scientific divide - Aaron Reedy
Let's chat about sex - John Bohannon and Black Label Movement
The cunning tactic behind sports betting apps - Shannon Odell
Cutting-edge art (with a sense of humor) - Aparna Rao
How much does it cost to charter a private plane? - Rachel Yang
The myth of Narcissus and Echo - Iseult Gillespie
The genesis of a word - Deb Roy
Can you withstand a Komodo dragon bite? - Achmad Ariefiandy
When is it right to break a promise? - Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez
How does work...actually work? - Peter Bohacek
The magic of QR codes in the classroom - Karen Mensing
The trillion dollar puzzle - George Zaidan
Dance vs. PowerPoint, a gentle proposal - John Bohannon
Would you devour a ghost pepper for a prize? - Dan Kwartler
How has English transformed? - Kate Gardoqui
The dark past of Hawaii's overthrow - Sydney Iaukea
Why do so many civilizations feature dragon myths? - Timothy J. Burbery
DNA: The blueprint of you - Joe Hanson
The remarkable emerging treatment for mental illness - Anees Bahji
How algorithms structure our world - Kevin Slavin
Teaching through unanswered questions - John Gensic
How much do you actually know about Ancient Rome? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The stunning geometry of coral - Margaret Wertheim
Constructing the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge - Alex Gendler
The murky origins of Graham crackers - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The art of data visualization - David McCandless
Confronting with non-violence - Scilla Elworthy
Why was bloodletting so widely practiced? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The brilliance of Mendeleev's periodic table - Lou Serico
Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be unrestricted? - Michael Vazquez and Will Kanwischer
Three unsociable skills to strengthen your writing - Nadia Kalman
Can you unravel the Big Bang riddle? - James Tanton
The mechanics behind Einstein's most celebrated equation - Lindsay DeMarchi and Fabio Pacucci
Would you weigh less riding an elevator? - Carol Hedden
How did NASA contact the Sun without melting?
Why videos spread virally - Kevin Allocca
Want to help someone? Stay silent and listen! - Ernesto Sirolli
What happens when you spread an idea?
Are dead wasps actually found in figs? - Carolyn Beans
Does stress create pimples? - Claudia Aguirre
How to reveal your best ideas
Why are American cities still so segregated? - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard
Flash of understanding - Jill Bolte Taylor
Why is it so difficult to get rid of bed bugs? - Gale E. Ridge
A rogue of one's own - Tim Adams
How to convey your message clearly
Why global jihad is waning - Bobby Ghosh
Dark matter: How does it clarify a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
What happens to your brain in the absence of social contact? - Terry Kupers
Is soy unhealthy for you? - Francesca Bot
A needle in countless haystacks: Locating habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar
What's the optimal way to give a presentation?
Neuroscience, game theory, apes - Colin Camerer
How life moved to land - Tierney Thys
What your feces reveals about your health - Hannibal Person
The peculiarities of America's first election - Kenneth C. Davis
How to speak with purpose
The fable of the moon goddess - Cynthia Fay Davis
Does your vote matter? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer
The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' child - Stephen Esposito
Watch out for nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
ways to build relationships with people
The greatest contraption that never was - John Graham-Cumming
A 3-minute guide to the Bill of Rights - Belinda Stutzman
What should you do if you accidentally sever your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth
A window into teenage existence in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence
One crucial reason that life on Earth exists - Elise Cutts
The motion that catalyzed the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira
Gerrymandering: How tracing crooked lines can shape an election - Christina Greer
How clever are crows? - Katharina Brecht
Analyzing a zombie: brain and behavior (Part two) - Tim Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
How do fireflies produce light? - Emily A. Geest
Equality, competitive sports, and Title IX - Erin Buzuvis and Kristine Newhall
How the American Constitution was created - Judy Walton
Will saunas help you live longer? - Max G. Levy
How pigeons colonized the world - Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles
Analyzing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one) - Tim Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
Can you unravel the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
The groundbreaking amniotic egg - April Tucker
The fortified metropolis: Constantinople - Lars Brownworth
Why are there so many distinct dog breeds? - Kathleen Morrill Pirovich
How inventions transform history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis
Can humans be trusted with command over genetics? - Michael Vazquez and Raye Ploeger
markers of emotional abuse - Viann Nguyen-Feng
Dispatching a sundial to Mars - Bill Nye
How we became addicted to credit cards - Nidhi Upadhyaya
Reconsidering cognition - Trevor Maber
What are truffles, and why do they cost so much? - Carolyn Beans
Examining Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi - James Earle
How does mathematics steer our ships at sea? - George Christoph
If you had the choice to live forever, would you take it? - Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez
Depicting the unseen attributes of gas - Brian Bennett
How to get better at singing | Think Like A Musician
How do you know you're not dreaming? - Daniel Gregory
The Basics of Gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles - Brian Bennett
Why do sinkholes consume entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
The history behind your glasses - Eva Timothy
The fable of Dionysus' inebriated retribution - Iseult Gillespie
The twisted story of DNA - Judith Hauck
The cheerful secret to better work - Shawn Achor
How breath functions - Nirvair Kaur
The Greek myth of the Fates' prediction - Iseult Gillespie
The carbon cycle - Nathaniel Manning
Is it truly that harmful to consume cookie dough? - Emma Bryce
Your smartphone camera isn't quite as impressive as you believe - Rachel Yang
Why do rivals establish their shops adjacent to each other? - Jac de Haan
The Chinese tale of the butterfly lovers - Lijun Zhang
How precisely do inhalers function? - Anna Rothschild
The strength of an excellent introduction - Carolyn Mohr
Inside the mind of a drummer | Reason Like A Musician
What's hidden? More than you realize - John Lloyd
The growth of human-computer teamwork - Shyam Sankar
Are vampire bats hazardous? - Imran Razik
Understanding spelling conventions - Gina Cooke
Why don't we launch our waste into space? - Jim Bentley and Imogen Ellen Napper
The art of metaphor - Jane Hirshfield
A puzzle of ice and fire dragons - Henri Picciotto
History vs. Russia's most notorious empress - Carolyn Harris
What is chirality and how did it end up in my molecules? - Michael Evans
What's the best way to raise people out of poverty?
Newton's 3 Laws, via a bicycle - Joshua Manley
What we're picking up from online education - Daphne Koller
Japan's most renowned ghost story - Jeffrey Angles
Remarkable metals, how shape memory alloys work - Ainissa Ramirez
How to become a skilled singer | Think Like A Musician
Are the Northern Lights risky? - Fabio Pacucci
Courage to disagree - Margaret Heffernan
History vs. Timur the Conqueror - Stephanie Honchell Smith
A phone call screening for Parkinson's with Max Little
Watch this if you fear snakes - Andrew Whitworth
The art of generating awe - Rob Legato
Ethical dilemma: Who deserves your credence? - Alex Worsnip
Before my life ends I want to... - Candy Chang
Hades and Persephone: Unpacking the myth - Iseult Gillespie
How to understand gravity - Jon Bergmann
The surprising path to mastering something - David Epstein
The punishable pitfalls of plagiarism - Melissa Huseman D'Annunzio
Why your display's aspect ratio matters - Brian Gervase
How does leg extension surgery work? - Jason Shih Hoellwarth
A ingenious approach to estimate colossal numbers - Michael Mitchell
The 3 top forecasters of how well you'll age - Juulia Jylhävä
Why do cockroaches prove so hard to kill? - Ameya Gondhalekar
What's the size of a mole? (Not the creature, the other one.) - Daniel Dulek
How the lead industry misled the public for decades - Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
A primer on mathematical theorems - Scott Kennedy
What sleep deprivation does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel
Why Libya's revolution didn't succeed -- and what might - Zahra' Langhi
How bathing led to Archimedes' principle - Mark Salata
This is what happens in your brain when you struggle to recall a word - Cella Wright
Saluting the world in peace - Jackie Jenkins
How one of the world's largest companies climbed to power - Shantel George
The obscure past of zombies - Christopher M. Moreman
What happens if you make a guess - Leigh Nataro
How comic books can improve your learning - Gene Luen Yang
Seizing genuine narratives - Michele Weldon
musicians discuss what defines a great performance | Think Like A Musician
Be an artist, at this moment! - Young-ha Kim
How fiction can alter reality - Jessica Wise
Scientists are still baffled by this notorious question - Charles Wallace and Dan Kwartler
Can you solve the private investigator riddle? - Henri Picciotto
Logarithms, Demystified - Steve Kelly
What's the ideal sleeping position? - Rachel Marie E. Salas
Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might silence them - Andres Lozano
The evolution of timekeeping - Karen Mensing
Winter got you feeling low? Watch this - Kelly Rohan
Music as a tongue - Victor Wooten
Was Alexander the Great actually that impressive? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The Chinese mythology of the forbidden lovers - Shannon Zhao
How do nerves operate? - Elliot Krane
Which instrument should you play? | Think Like A Composer
How vast is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel
How Japan prevented its biggest city from collapsing - Roman Krznaric
The security delusion - Bruce Schneier
How Two Decisions Brought Me to Olympic Glory - Steve Mesler
Upstairs, downstairs: The life of a British servant - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The endurance of the sea turtle
Could laser blasters ever become feasible? - Christopher Baird
How the Suez Canal shaped global history - Lucia Carminati
The lexicon of electricity - James Sheils
Kiranmala: The legend of the princess who conquered Magic Mountain - Malay Bera
The case against "right" and "wrong" - Marlee Neel
The legendary JoJo thought experiment - Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud
Every one of your devices can be hacked - Avi Rubin
Determining The Probability of Intelligent Alien Life - Jill Tarter
How leading songwriters build the perfect pop song | Think Like A Musician
The Irish mythology of Diarmuid's betrayal - Iseult Gillespie
How Do Pain Relievers Function? - George Zaidan
Father vs. Son: A descent into the underworld - Joseph Mbele
The pioneering work of female explorers - Courtney Stephens
How to hasten chemical reactions (and get a date) - Aaron Sams
What causes herpes, and how can you address it? - Christine Johnston
The quirky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods
How well do you actually know about Vikings? - Stephanie H. Smith
The most substantial errors in mapmaking history - Kayla Wolf
The key to media's secret codes - Ben Beaton
What is vaginal discharge and why does this happen? - Elizabeth Micks
One is one ... or could it be?
The device that revolutionized our perception of human history - Max G. Levy
How do we undergo time? - Matt Danzico
How Life Starts in the Deep Ocean
factors that can cause painful periods - Chen X. Chen
Five fingers of adaptation - Paul Andersen
The most widespread falsehoods about Neanderthals - Bruce Hardy
Do tax cuts invigorate the economy? - Jonathan Smith
Shakespeare's Insults
How skilled songwriters select the ideal lyrics | Think Like A Musician
TED-Ed Site Walkthrough
Is hypnosis genuinely effective? - Devin Terhune
What color is Tuesday? Delving into synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic
Sex Determination: More Intricate Than You Assumed
The most common blunder lottery winners make
Ugly History: The El Mozote deaths - Diana Sierra Becerra
Exponential growth: How creasing paper can take you to the Moon
How hat fashion has changed through the ages - Alison L. Goodrum
Let's talk about the end - Peter Saul
Just How Minuscule is an Atom?
How to use emergency contraception correctly - Alison Edelman
Why do Americans hold elections on Tuesdays?
What takes place when you break a bone? - Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang
Your body language constructs who you are - Amy Cuddy
The Unseen Existence of Plankton
How long can your hair grow? - Maksim Plikus
The Actual Beginning of the Franchise - Sir Harold Evans
unexpected ways microplastics can enter your body
How does heart transplant surgery function? - Roni Shanoada
Poetic Heist: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag
What if your president was determined by lottery? - Michael Vazquez
Questions Nobody Has Answers to (Full Version)
How did ancient cultures produce beer? - Malcolm Purinton
Energy from buoyant algae pods - Jonathan Trent
Symbiosis: A remarkable account of species partnership - David Gonzales
Do artists actually create their own songs? | Think Like A Musician
How straightforward ideas lead to scientific discoveries
What occurs if you ingest a silica gel packet? - Vivian Jiang
Ugly History: The Khmer Rouge's deadly campaign - Timothy Williams
Stories: Heritage of who we are - Awele Makeba
The dark legacy of the Paris Catacombs - Stephanie H. Smith
Mental health for all by mobilizing all - Vikram Patel
Deep ocean secrets and wonders - David Gallo
How do snakes consume animals so much bigger than they are? - Niko Zlotnik
Can you decipher the fortress riddle? - Henri Picciotto
Unveiling TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
Have you ever created an imaginary friend? Watch this
The Impact of Simple Words - Terin Izil
What is "The Thinker" actually pondering about? - Noah Charney
The pledge of research with stem cells - Susan Solomon
The Cockroach's Beatbox
Why kids should take bigger risks
Evolution in an Urban Center
War, passion, and betrayal: The epic tale of the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" - Gladys Mac
Ethical dilemma: Would you stretch the truth? - Sarah Stroud
How many universes could there be? - Chris Anderson
Write daily, even if it's dreadful | Think Like A Musician
How pandemics travel
grammar rules you can break today - Arika Okrent
A choreographer's compositional process in real time - Wayne McGregor
Why Can't We Observe Evidence of Alien Life?
The intriguing reason you cherished peek-a-boo
Mysteries No One Knows the Answers to
How did detectives unravel the case of the bloody motel? - Theodore E. Yeshion
Can you outthink the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
How containerization reshaped the modern world
Can we arrest the flow of lava? - Arianna Soldati
Request a more open-source government - Beth Noveck
What is the least common color found in nature? - Victoria Hwang
Mysteries of vernacular: Blast powder - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
These animals are also plants … seriously, what? - Luka Seamus Wright
Mysteries of vernacular: Venom - Rachael Teel and Jessica Oreck
The post-crisis customer - John Gerzema
What do dumplings look like throughout the world? - Miranda Brown
Let's put contraception back on the agenda - Melinda Gates
How do parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright
Ethical conundrums in HIV research - Boghuma Kabisen Titanji
What happens to your body at the peak of Mount Everest - Andrew Lovering
Why democracy is vital - Rory Stewart
What's the ideal country to live in?
The enigma of the bat genome - Emma Teeling
How alcohol brings on hangovers - Judy Grisel
The origins of drama as a literary art - Mindy Ploeckelmann
The tiniest solution to one of our greatest problems - Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet
Spotting grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
Hagfish: Nature's slimiest creatures - Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge
How do you select where to go in a zombie apocalypse? - David Hunter
What causes yeast infections, and how can you clear them? - Liesbeth Demuyser
Cheese, dogs and a pill to eradicate mosquitoes and end malaria - Bart Knols
The 4 most significant threats to humanity's continued survival
A new approach to identifying autism - Ami Klin
The hidden cost of gold - Lyla Latif
The secret mechanisms of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
This unusual trick will help you summon an army of worms - Kenny Coogan
Why architects need to employ their ears - Julian Treasure
Why a sausage can manage what your gloves cannot - Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini
What is the Internet, exactly? - Andrew Blum
A brief chronicle of Spanish - Ilan Stavans
A story about knots and surgery - Ed Gavagan
Can you figure out what's wrong with these paintings? - Noah Charney
What we're gathering from 5,000 brains - Read Montague
The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Realm - Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen
What doctors don't know about the medicines they dispense - Ben Goldacre
Can the economy expand forever?
Quarrying literature for deeper meanings - Amy E. Harter
Why did Phillis Wheatley slip away? - Charita Gainey
Gyotaku: The classical Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge
The secret formula to Agatha Christie's whodunits - Jamie Bernthal
Unraveling maps - Aris Venetikidis
The Boltzmann brain mystery - Fabio Pacucci
What on Earth is angular velocity? - Brian Jones
Coneheads, egg stacks, and anteater attacks: The dominance of a termite queen - Barbara L. Thorne
A wounded body isn't a wounded person - Janine Shepherd
Would you pass the cash test?
Pocket those smartphones: Great tips for making your job interview count - Anna Post
What is the gig industry?
Is space attempting to kill us? - Ron Shaneyfelt
Plato's ring allegory - Alex Gendler
Producing a TED-Ed Lesson: Animation
The positive effects of daydreaming - Elizabeth Cox
Building a TED-Ed Lesson: Creative process
The misconception of Zeus' test - Iseult Gillespie
Developing a TED-Ed Lesson: Concept and design
How friendship alters your brain - Shannon Odell
Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a supermodel - Cameron Russell
These companies with no CEO are booming
Actually, the world isn't two-dimensional - Pankaj Ghemawat
Is it possible to lose weight quickly? - Hei Man Chan
Let's ready ourselves for our new climate - Vicki Arroyo
Can you decode the alien pyramid riddle? - Henri Picciotto
What's so amusing about mental illness? - Ruby Wax
The mythology of Pegasus and the chimera - Iseult Gillespie
Science is for all people, kids included - Beau Lotto and Amy O'Toole
Should you care what your parents value?
Let's unite our medical data - John Wilbanks
What does the world's largest apparatus do? - Henry Richardson
The mysterious depths of paintings - Maurizio Seracini
Is inequality inescapable?
Mysteries of vernacular: Initiate - Jessica Oreck
How was the Great Pyramid of Giza built? - Soraya Field Fiorio
Why seasons change - Rebecca Kaplan
What's the brightest age? - Shannon Odell
How movies portray manhood - Colin Stokes
Why is it so challenging to treat the common cold?
What is fat? - George Zaidan
Gibberish, urine, and sheer chaos: What happens when you sleepwalk - Emmanuel During
Why do fingers become wrinkled in water? - Mark Changizi
Why you procrastinate even when it's unpleasant
Why domestic violence victims don't exit - Leslie Morgan Steiner
Is capitalism actually malfunctioning?
What makes an algorithm? - David J. Malan
Could this technology stop all viruses?
A universal translator for doctors - Steven Schwaitzberg
Ethical dilemma: Whose life deserves greater worth? - Rebecca L. Walker
A cinematic tour through visual effects - Don Levy
Will another pandemic strike during your lifetime?
How open data is shifting international aid - Sanjay Pradhan
How do oysters generate pearls? - Rob Ulrich
The arts festival movement - David Binder
The sibling rivalry that tore a town apart - Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer
Could tissue engineering lead to personalized medicine? - Nina Tandon
Lesson 1: What define ideas?
Excuse me, may I borrow your car? - Robin Chase
things all skilled listeners know
What fear can show us - Karen Thompson Walker
Why plague doctors sported beaked masks
Merits and limitations of public opinion polls - Jason Robert Jaffe
How do we develop a better economy?
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the Hobart Shakespeareans
Is this the most magnificent building in the world? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Animation basics: Homemade practical effects - TED-Ed
How will AI impact the world?
Who directs the world? - James B. Glattfelder
The science of love's fall - Shannon Odell
The magnificence of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna
Zumbi: The concluding king of Palmares - Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes
Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Lawrence
The best way to make amends (according to science)
A girl who claimed her schooling - Kakenya Ntaiya
What sex ed doesn't tell you about your cognition - Shannon Odell
Biofuels and bioprospecting for starters - Craig A. Kohn
methods to eliminate a virus
Your brain is more than a chemical bag - David Anderson
Why do you want to squish cute things? - Joshua Paul Dale
Spinning narratives in museum galleries - Thomas P. Campbell
Why are beavers captivated by dams? - Glynnis Hood
Fabricate your own medicine - Lee Cronin
What makes Thomas Jefferson so disputed? - Frank Cogliano
Heading off the climate crisis - Al Gore
What's worse than a wasp's sting? Slaughter - Miles Zhang
Accept the remix - Kirby Ferguson
Mao Zedong's scandalous mango cult - Vivian Jiang
Can democracy persist without trust? - Ivan Krastev
When do you genuinely become an adult? - Shannon Odell
Riddles of vernacular: Earwig - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
How to navigate rejection
How enormous sea creatures consume tiny sea creatures - Kelly Benoit-Bird
Can you swipe the most powerful wand in the wizarding world? - Dan Finkel
How a fly stays airborne - Michael Dickinson
Ethical dilemma: Should we eradicate mosquitoes entirely? - Talya Hackett
Meet Melissa Perez
What is Juneteenth, and why is it meaningful? - Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio
Introducing Julia Delmedico
One of the most "threatening" men in American history - Keenan Norris
Curious answers to the psychopath test - Jon Ronson
How do airplanes actually remain in flight? - Raymond Adkins
Archeology from satellite imagery - Sarah Parcak
Can you freeze your body and be revived? - Shannon N. Tessier
Why is 'x' the enigma? - Terry Moore
How to handle your emotions
The passage across the high wire - Philippe Petit
One of the most prohibited books of all time - Mollie Godfrey
What's yet to explore? - Nathan Wolfe
What happens when Arctic permafrost thaws? - Jessica Howard and Brendan Rogers
Historical icons - Amy Bissetta
What if you underwent every human life in history?
The single largest health threat women confront - Noel Bairey Merz
The continents are traveling. When will they collide? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
The mathematics of yesteryear - Jean-Baptiste Michel
misconceptions about the Middle Ages that everyone thinks are true - Stephanie Honchell Smith
What occurred to antimatter? - Rolf Landua
How the Mongols harnessed horses to forge an empire - William T. Taylor
The foundations of the Higgs boson - Dave Barney and Steve Goldfarb
What happens if a manufactured virus escapes the lab?
Vast Data - Tim Smith
The man who lost his tactile sensation - Antonio Cataldo
Dark matter: The matter we cannot observe - James Gillies
A day in the life of a teenager in medieval Baghdad - Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn
How did feathers come to be? - Carl Zimmer
Vomit, poop, and small cockroaches: How the leafcutter ant queen runs her farm - Charles Wallace
Sometimes it's valuable to release the driver's seat - Baba Shiv
This one unusual trick will get you infinite gold - Dan Finkel
Puzzles of vernacular: Tuxedo - Jessica Oreck
How stretching actually modifies your muscles - Malachy McHugh
How do you know who deserves your trust? - Ram Neta
Is AI the most transformative technology of the century?
The dance of the dung beetle - Marcus Byrne
How does this all-female species multiply? - Susana Freitas and Darren Parker
A ensemble of heroes - April Gudenrath
The Hawaiian legend of the wind keepers - Sydney Iaukea
Consolidate medical patents, save lives - Ellen 't Hoen
What is a fecal microbial transplantation? - Kathryn M. Stephenson and David L. Suskind
A 40-year blueprint for energy - Amory Lovins
How did we fix the hole in the ozone layer? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The optimism bias – Tali Sharot
Why do we snack on popcorn at the movies? - Andrew Smith
, the history of a page not found - Renny Gleeson
The revival of Mongolia's "wild" horses - Nigel Rothfels
Memory abilities anyone can achieve - Joshua Foer
The archives the British Empire didn't want you to see - Audra A. Diptée
Music and emotion across time - Michael Tilson Thomas
Why do we have irregular teeth when our ancestors didn't? - G. Richard Scott
Pursuing the pursuers - Gary Kovacs
The emergence and downfall of the Mughal Empire - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Pavlovian reflexes aren't only for dogs - Benjamin N. Witts
Humans are all practically the same... practically - Greg Foot
The hunt for other Earth-like planets - Olivier Guyon
Why did three popes reign at once? - Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Let's educate kids in coding - Mitch Resnick
The weirdest summer in recorded history - David Biello
How much mass does a video have? - Michael Stevens of Vsauce
Is it normal to chat with yourself?
Great news from TED-Ed...
We can halt the next epidemic - George Zaidan
Grasping how life integrates together - Bobbi Seleski
Can you outsmart Fate and break her old curse? - Dan Finkel
Hey science teachers -- make it entertaining - Tyler DeWitt
How (and why) to read William Faulkner - Sascha Morrell
String theory and the underlying frameworks of the universe - Clifford Johnson
Assess yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? - Hanako Sawada
Inspire to educate Afghan girls - Shabana Basij-Rasikh
Food expiration dates don't mean what you believe - Carolyn Beans
From mach-20 glider to hummingbird-mimicking drone - Regina Dugan
What did people endure before anesthesia? - Sally Frampton
An enormous bubble for debate - Liz Diller
What it means if you spot faces in objects - Susan G. Wardle
Is our universe the only cosmos? - Brian Greene
Who is the speediest god in all mythology? - Iseult Gillespie
How do we fix medicine? - Atul Gawande
Why is Marie Antoinette so debated? - Carolyn Harris