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TED-Ed — 1000 episodes
Creating the Seed Cathedral - Thomas Heatherwick
The science of humor - Sasha Winkler
Why do you get a fever when you're sick? - Christian Moro
How farming cultivated seeds for the Internet - Patricia Russac
Your online life, permanent as a tattoo - Juan Enriquez
The rights you might not realize you possess - Shannon Odell
4 lessons from robots about being human - Ken Goldberg
The asteroid that came close to erasing life on Earth - Sean P. S. Gulick
The true cause behind dodo bird extinction - Leon Claessens
Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Synesthesia and playing cards
Will humanity embrace neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg
Become a slam poet in five steps - Gayle Danley
How to get motivated even when you lack the urge
The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions - Alex Gendler
The greatest river on Earth is actually in the sky - Iseult Gillespie
On spaghetti sauce - Malcolm Gladwell
A map of the brain - Allan Jones
Ancient wonders captured in 3D - Ben Kacyra
Why do visual illusions occur? - Mark Changizi
Euclid's mysterious parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky
The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp - Dan Sayers
Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel
The key to growth? Race with the machines - Erik Brynjolfsson
How does alcohol lead to blackouts? - Shannon Odell
Can sunlight improve your heart health? - Richard Weller
Toward a new understanding of mental illness - Thomas Insel
What's the science behind whale communication? - David Gruber and Shane Gero
The vanished craft of democratic debate - Michael Sandel
Can planting trees actually cool the planet? - Carolyn Beans
How we can detect pretty much anything - Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou
Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
Can you solve the death race riddle? - Alex Gendler
Why has Texas hold 'em become so widespread? - James McManus
Are pandas the most misinterpreted animal? - Lucy Cooke
On positive psychology - Martin Seligman
The history of the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree
Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? - Alex Gendler
How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne
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Is Chandigarh truly a perfectly planned city? - Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Txtng is killing language. JK!!! - John McWhorter
Creating a digital museum of museums with Amit Sood
The secret force of smiling - Ron Gutman
The corpse flower could disturb your nighttime rest - Daniel Nickrent
The real reason for brains - Daniel Wolpert
Why is rice so beloved? - Carolyn Beans
On being incorrect - Kathryn Schulz
Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes
NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton - Matt Porter and Margaret Hamilton
The warrior who overcame the mighty Mughals - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Gregarious creature - David Brooks
The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich - Soraya Field Fiorio
Silk, the ageless material of what's to come - Fiorenzo Omenetto
The story of our world in 18 minutes - David Christian
The Fijian myth of the covetous god - Raiana McKinney and Esther Wozniak
What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
How much would it cost to purchase the ocean? - Astrid J. Hsu
Fractals and the art of texture - Benoit Mandelbrot
The art of asking - Amanda Palmer
Let's harness video to revolutionize education - Salman Khan
Can you navigate the magical maze riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Free falling in outer space - Matt J. Carlson
Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz
Which bag should you use? - Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper
What Earth in 2050 might look like - Shannon Odell
Why shouldn't you place metal in a microwave? - Aaron Slepkov
The greatest TED Talk ever pitched - Morgan Spurlock
What’s a squillo, and why do opera singers need it? - Ming Luke
The secret artistry of pollination - Louie Schwartzberg
A 3D atlas of space - Carter Emmart
History vs. Egypt's "strongest" pharaoh - Jessica Tomkins
Will the actual Fernando please stand up? - Ilan Stavans
What is earwax — and should you clean it out? - Henry C. Ou
Mining minerals from seawater - Damian Palin
What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? - Rebecca Onie
things I discovered while my aircraft went down - Ric Elias
A clean energy proposal -- race to the top! - Jennifer Granholm
The sound the cosmos makes - Janna Levin
Guard against internet "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser
How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination - Massimo Banzi
When ancient wisdom surpasses modern industry - Rebecca Webster
Trust, morality -- and oxytocin? - Paul Zak
How to recognize if you're self-interested (and whether that's actually harmful) - Mark Hopwood
How YouTube understands copyright - Margaret Gould Stewart
A plane you can drive - Anna Mracek Dietrich
The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir - Iseult Gillespie
How humanity developed a dependence on coffee - Jonathan Morris
Mysteries of vernacular: Quarantine - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
Why is "The Scream" crying out? - Noah Charney
The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie
What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy
The structure behind self-deception - Michael Shermer
Earth's mysterious red glow, explained - Zoe Pierrat
thinkers on anger - Delaney Thull
How we found the giant squid - Edith Widder
The 100,000-student classroom - Peter Norvig
The real history behind the legend of the 47 Rōnin - Adam Clulow
Printing a human kidney - Anthony Atala
The legendary and clever Ho Chi Minh Trail - Cameron Paterson
How architecture advanced music's evolution - David Byrne
The power of concentration - Richard St. John
One of humanity's most time-honored condiments - Dan Kwartler
The tale of the doctor who defied Death - Iseult Gillespie
The buried cities of the Byzantine Empire - Veronica Kalas
How to curb political corruption - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Does math possess a critical flaw? - Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek
The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - Pekka Hämäläinen
How state budgets are damaging US schools - Bill Gates
How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson
A prosthetic arm that "feels" - Todd Kuiken
What is rhetorical irony? - Christopher Warner
Visualizing secret worlds inside your body - Dee Breger
We need better drugs -- now - Francis Collins
You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think) - Kayla Mandel Sheets
The Greek myth of Demeter's retaliation - Iseult Gillespie
HIV and flu -- the inoculation strategy - Seth Berkley
The rise and fall of the Maya Empire's most influential city - Geoffrey E. Braswell
Why was the Rosetta Stone so vital? - Franziska Naether
What genuinely transpired with Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito
The Nazis recruited to succeed in the Cold War - Brian Crim
The secrets of the world’s most famous symphony - Hanako Sawada
How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? - Gerry Wright
How Mendel's pea plants taught us about genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
Why is English so complicated? - Arika Okrent
The contrast between classical and operant conditioning - Peggy Andover
The uncomplicated story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
What triggers addiction, and why is it so difficult to treat? - Judy Grisel
How do gas masks truly work? - George Zaidan
The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky
Why do Americans and Canadians celebrate Labor Day? -Kenneth C. Davis
How a concubine became the ruler of Egypt - Abdallah Ewis
Visualize a perfect society. What does it resemble? - Joseph Lacey
The hazard of dismissing science - Michael Specter
Advice to young scientists - E.O. Wilson
How to order, add and multiply matrices - Bill Shillito
Working backward to address challenges - Maurice Ashley
The commercial case for sustainability - Ray Anderson
Why eyewitnesses get it wrong - Scott Fraser
How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle
The tribes we build - Seth Godin
How to amplify your happiness
High-altitude wind energy via kites! - Saul Griffith
The mystery of how Chinese characters operate - Gina Marie Elia
Why do bugs cluster above water? - Luke M. Jacobus
Welcome to the genomic revolution - Richard Resnick
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse - Sean Carroll
Freeing energy from the grid - Justin Hall-Tipping
Are droids taking our jobs? - Andrew McAfee
Mosquitos, malaria and teaching - Bill Gates
The downfall of the House of Cadmus - Iseult Gillespie
How does an air conditioner truly work? - Anna Rothschild
A novel ecosystem for electric cars - Shai Agassi
Does racism impact your vote? - Nate Silver
A tale of mental illness -- from the inside - Elyn Saks
How close are we to fueling the world with nuclear fusion? - George Zaidan
The most fascinating stuff animals can do with their tongues - Cella Wright
How to spot a liar - Pamela Meyer
The imaginary king who changed the real world - Matteo Salvadore
The world's English fever - Jay Walker
How do doctors classify what stage of cancer you have? - Hyunsoo Joshua No and Trudy Wu
Why fish outperform you at breathing - Dan Kwartler
Where will you be able to live in 20 years? - Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas
How could so many people follow Hitler? - Joseph Lacey
How art shapes cultural transformation - Thelma Golden
These animals can sense everything - Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
Why are scientists obsessed with the Black Sea? - Helen Farr and Jon Adams
Can you solve the monster duel riddle? - Alex Gendler
One surgeon's fascination with head transplants - Max G. Levy
How did ancient peoples craft ice cream? - Vivian Jiang
Why I'm a weekday vegetarian - Graham Hill
Inside your computer - Bettina Bair
Demand a fair trade cell phone - Bandi Mbubi
Conversational toy tiles that connect - David Merrill
The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without) - Devin Shuman
How Benjamin Button Obtained His Face - Ed Ulbrich
Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Could a Saturn moon contain life? - Carolyn Porco
Has there ever been a moral dictator? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Preparing for oil's conclusion - Richard Sears
Visualizing the globe's Twitter data - Jer Thorp
Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" - Tanya Boucicaut
What is an aurora? - Michael Molina
Why are scientists catapulting mushrooms into orbit? - Shannon Odell
Seaside Forms (in spoken word) - David Fasanya and Gabriel Barralaga
The princess exiled from ancient Mesopotamia - Soraya Field Fiorio
Moral behavior in animals - Frans de Waal
Why is Alzheimer's disease so hard to cure? - Krishna Sudhir
Image recognition that triggers augmented reality - Matt Mills
How to rehabilitate a rainforest - Willie Smits
Toward a science of simplicity - George Whitesides
Your brain on improv - Charles Limb
Scientists are mesmerized by this lake - Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi
This thought experiment will help you understand quantum mechanics - Matteo Fadel
Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant - Alex Gendler
What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling
Gridiron physics: Magnitudes and directions - Michelle Buchanan
What transpires in your body during a miscarriage? - Nassim Assefi and Emily M. Godfrey
Design for people, not awards - Timothy Prestero
Exploring cell membranes through dish detergent - Ethan Perlstein
Why does whacking your funny bone feel so dreadful? - Cella Wright
Why are blue whales so extraordinarily large? - Asha de Vos
Revealing photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy
Why did people don powdered wigs? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Why don’t we cover the desert with solar panels? - Dan Kwartler
Beatboxing 101 - BEAT NYC
What adults can learn from children - Adora Svitak
What Rumi teaches us about love - Stephanie Honchell Smith
What the oil industry hides from the public - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Learning from a barefoot movement - Bunker Roy
Amplified motorcycle design - Yves Behar
Why isn’t the Netherlands underwater? - Stefan Al
A vision of crimes in the future - Marc Goodman
The human and the honeybee - Dino Martins
Misrepresenting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle
Can you work out the basketball riddle? - Dan Katz
The surprisingly long history of electric cars - Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal
Can you solve the computer virus riddle? - James Tanton
The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee - Ian Ritchie
The surprising origins of the word “lesbian” - Diane J. Rayor
How to step up in the face of disaster - Caitria + Morgan O'Neill
The most perilous elements on the periodic table - Shannon Odell
The El Sistema musical revolution - Jose Antonio Abreu
Can AI foresee someone's breakup? - Thomas Hofweber
Establishing the American presidency - Kenneth C. Davis
What are warts — and how do you treat them? - Cella Wright
Inside OKCupid: The mathematics of digital dating - Christian Rudder
The Norse myth that inspired “The Lord of the Rings” - Iseult Gillespie
What is schizophrenia? - Anees Bahji
The tale of the boy who deceived a tyrant - Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore
What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry
Where we source our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
Let's untangle legal jargon - Alan Siegel
We can recycle plastic - Mike Biddle
Why is it so risky to tread on a rusty nail? - Louise Thwaites
Are you more apt to explode or freeze in space? - Tejal Gala
Science can settle moral questions - Sam Harris
How to write comedy - Jodie Houlston-Lau
A teacher growing green in the South Bronx - Stephen Ritz
What is kevlar, and why is it so resilient? - Max G. Levy
How Curiosity Took Us to Mars - Bobak Ferdowsi
What do babies think? - Alison Gopnik
The remarkable reason zebras have stripes - Cella Wright
Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer - Mina Bissell
Do personality tests work? - Merve Emre
How I fell in love with a fish - Dan Barber
The world needs diverse kinds of minds - Temple Grandin
How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built - Alex Gendler
Is this the most treasured thing in the ocean? - David Biello
What does appendicitis pain feel like? - David R. Flum
How to get better at video games, according to babies - Brian Christian
If superpowers were real: Body mass - Joy Lin
The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science - Lucy Cooke
What is hysteria, and why were so many women afflicted with it? - Mark S. Micale
Let's crowdsource the world's goals - Jamie Drummond
How bacteria "speak" - Bonnie Bassler
The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver - Chris Gerdes
Just add water: The garden insect that can turn into a plague - Jeffrey A. Lockwood
The generation that's remaking China - Yang Lan
If superpowers were real: Super strength - Joy Lin
How do animals rebuild their limbs? And why can't humans do it? - Jessica Whited
The sleep disorder you might not know you have - Alayna Vaughan
Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? - Alex Rosenthal
Trusting the ensemble - Charles Hazlewood
How polarity causes water to behave strangely - Christina Kleinberg
History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne
If superpowers were real: Super speed - Joy Lin
Four principles for the open globe - Don Tapscott
The twins who tricked the Maya gods of death - Ilan Stavans
Why did it take such a long time to find giant squids? - Anna Rothschild
Fresh water scarcity: A guide to the crisis - Christiana Z. Peppard
The most perilous thing in your kitchen - George Zaidan
The tragedy of the lone figure who was right about the Trojan Horse - Noah Charney
If superpowers were real: Invisibility - Joy Lin
What's your 200-year plan? - Raghava KK
The strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney
Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out - Lucas C. Majure
If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin
Our glitchy moral code - Dan Ariely
The life cycle of a cup of coffee - A.J. Jacobs
The historical courage of the Louisiana Purchase - Judy Walton
The genuine chronicle of the Monkey King in Heaven - Ji Hao
You'll cover 1 trillion kilometers through space - Fabio Pacucci and Lindsay DeMarchi
Can you solve the sea monster riddle? - Dan Finkel
Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space - Fabio Pacucci
What's the best way to cure the common cold?
Filming democracy in Ghana - Jarreth Merz
Our fading wisdom - Barry Schwartz
Holding a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner
Make robots brighter - Ayanna Howard
How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek
Are there any spots on Earth without bugs? - Charles Wallace
What are those spots you observe after rubbing your eyes? - Paul CJ Taylor
Four ways to understand the Earth's age - Joshua M. Sneideman
The genesis of the galaxy in 60 seconds - Scott Hershberger
How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power - Adam Clulow
Battling bad science - Ben Goldacre
Digital humanitarianism - Paul Conneally
The wild sex lives of marine creatures - Luka Seamus Wright
Why do your jeans wear out so quickly? - Madhavi Venkatesan
If superpowers were real: Immortality - Joy Lin
Parasite tales: The jewel wasp's zombified puppet - Carl Zimmer
The art forger who tricked the Nazis - Noah Charney
Earth's mass extinction - Peter Ward
Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? - Steve Rothstein
How did trains standardize time across the United States? - William Heuisler
A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul - Soraya Field Fiorio
Greek mythology's supreme warrior - Iseult Gillespie
Withstanding a nuclear attack - Irwin Redlener
How do you save a shark you know nothing about? - Simon Berrow
The dungeon master's conundrum - Alex Rosenthal
Reinventing the encyclopedia game - Rives
Do the environmental thing - Andy Hobsbawm
The monkey's paw curse - Iseult Gillespie
What if we could observe inside human brains? - Moran Cerf
The looming neurological epidemic - Gregory Petsko
Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”? - Yen Pham
Who is accountable for costly prescription prices? - Kiah Williams
How does excessive heat affect your body? - Carolyn Beans
How to fool a GPS - Todd Humphreys
How Sun Wukong escaped the underworld - Shunan Teng
This mushroom will kill you before you understand what's occurring - Michael Beug
Stretching time (in writing and film) - Aaron Sitze
Can stereotypes ever be good? - Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho
Mysteries of vernacular: Keister - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
If superpowers were real, which would you choose? - Joy Lin
The true reason polio poses such a threat
Career of an astronaut - Jerry Carr
Network dynamics - Marc Samet
What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu? - Michael Molina
A reality check on renewables - David MacKay
What happens during kidney transplant surgery? - Alexander H. Toledo
The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
These squids can fly... no, really - Robert Siddall
Fast prototyping Google Glass - Tom Chi
How does alcohol make you drunk? - Judy Grisel
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
Massive-scale online collaboration - Luis von Ahn
The Higgs Field, explained - Don Lincoln
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
The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riché D. Richardson
Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death - Iseult Gillespie
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
Gravity and the human body - Jay Buckey
Why don't businesses want you to mend your stuff? - Aaron Perzanowski
How to defend Earth from asteroids - Phil Plait
Does light behave as a particle or a wave? - Colm Kelleher
How are these fires burning beneath the surface? - Emma Bryce
The bug that poops candy - George Zaidan
Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier
We can help you master public speaking - Chris Anderson
How scientists are developing genuine invisibility cloaks - Max G. Levy
The 3 A's of awesome - Neil Pasricha
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
The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8
The shared experience of absurdity - Charlie Todd
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
On reading the Koran - Lesley Hazleton
How to conquer a dragon with math - Garth Sundem
Who decides how long a second is? - John Kitching
Why animals support each other - Ashley Ward
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? - Noah Charney
What’s the point(e) of ballet? - Ming Luke
Interrogating the universe - Stephen Hawking
How certain friendships persist — and others fade - Iseult Gillespie
Finding life we can't imagine - Christoph Adami
What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about influence - Conor Neill
True success - John Wooden
Must you truly walk 10,000 steps daily? - Shannon Odell
Is there a center of the universe? - Marjee Chmiel and Trevor Owens
Detention or Eco Club: Deciding your future - Juan Martinez
Discovering Leonardo's real countenance - Siegfried Woldhek
The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker - Angel Chang
Would you sell your kidney for $100,000? | Ada, Ep. 2
A day in the life of a martial artist in ancient China - Peter Lorge
The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi
A plant's outlook - Michael Pollan
How to use experts—and when not to - Noreena Hertz
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
The shadowy past of arsenic - Neil Bradbury
The myth of Loki’s monstrous children - Iseult Gillespie
How photography brings us together - David Griffin
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees? - Stefan Al
Underwater wonders - David Gallo
A civil response to violence - Emiliano Salinas
Should we abolish pregnancy? | Ada, Ep. 3
One of the most disputed medical procedures in history - Jenell Johnson
The art of choosing - Sheena Iyengar
Phenology and nature's evolving rhythms - Regina Brinker
The tragic myth of the Sun God's son - Iseult Gillespie
The ethical origins of progressives and conservatives - Jonathan Haidt
The world's history through rats - Max G. Levy
The dark history of IQ tests - Stefan C. Dombrowski
Can you picture images in your mind? Some people can't - Adam Zeman
How big is the ocean? - Scott Gass
The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie
Transforming the dictionary - Erin McKean
Where is home? - Pico Iyer
Activation energy: Igniting chemical reactions - Vance Kite
Can we really govern superintelligent AI? | Ada, Ep. 4
What actually triggers high cholesterol? - Hei Man Chan
Building unimaginable shapes - Michael Hansmeyer
The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth - Daina Ramey Berry
Why is it so hard to escape poverty? - Ann-Helén Bay
Assessing what makes life worthwhile - Chip Conley
How we view color - Colm Kelleher
We need a "moral operating system" - Damon Horowitz
Meet global corruption's hidden players - Charmian Gooch
How are microchips produced? - George Zaidan and Sajan Saini
This is the most frequent way to get head lice - Nazzy Pakpour
Have we hit the ceiling of computational power? - Sajan Saini and George Zaidan
Your phone company is watching - Malte Spitz
Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? - Marie Brodsky
Medicine's future? There's an app for that - Daniel Kraft
This sea creature breathes through its butt - Cella Wright
A tap dancer's technique - Andrew Nemr
Witness Yemen through my eyes - Nadia Al-Sakkaf
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse - Sean Carroll
You are your microbes - Karen Guillemin and Jessica Green
Which species would you remove? | Ada, Ep. 5
Why don't we source our drinking water from the ocean? - Manish Kumar
Is the Amazon Rainforest fading? - Anna Rothschild
Understanding color - Colm Kelleher
Why bats don't get sick - Arinjay Banerjee
Chronicles of passion - Isabel Allende
A Saudi woman who dared to drive - Manal al-Sharif
markers of a capable driver - Iseult Gillespie
Imaging at a trillion frames per second - Ramesh Raskar
The influence of introverts - Susan Cain
The myth of Anansi, the trickster spider - Emily Zobel Marshall
How to outlast the apocalypse | Ada, Ep. 1
The world’s most dangerous fart - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
The legend of the brothers who outmaneuvered the demon queen - Malay Bera
Why do cats have vertical pupils? - Emma Bryce
Why is there a silent "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke
Dispelling the illusion of skin color - Nina Jablonski
What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac
Investigating the oceans - Robert Ballard
The remarkable way we can cool the planet - Elise Cutts
Faith versus tradition in Islam - Mustafa Akyol
The downfall of men - Philip Zimbardo
You might be amazed by what you'd uncover in your pores - M. Alejandra Perotti
Why you feel stuck — and how to get energized - Shannon Odell
The brutal medieval king who inspired "Macbeth" - Benjamin Hudson
Which animal has the best eyesight? - Thomas W. Cronin
A lab the size of a postage stamp - George Whitesides
TED Prize wish: Defend our oceans - Sylvia Earle
The fix for our energy challenges is … a toaster - Rachel Yang
Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem? - Peter Attia
A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security - James Stavridis
When did humans start getting divorced? - Rod Phillips
Inquisitiveness, exploration and gecko feet - Robert Full
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
Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? - Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson
What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah
Reimagining suburbia - Ellen Dunham-Jones
The grand Norse saga of the beast slayer - Iseult Gillespie
I listen to color - Neil Harbisson
The emergence of "4D printing" - Skylar Tibbits
Situational irony: The contrary of what you anticipate - Christopher Warner
How to make work-life balance work - Nigel Marsh
Why do we get two tides each day? - Elise Cutts
Unraveling the puzzle of the periodic table - Eric Rosado
What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat? - Mike Davis
The legend of the Monkey King and the Buddha - Ji Hao
The myth of Gawain and the Green Knight - Dan Kwartler
Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall
Inside a cartoonist's mind - Liza Donnelly
We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim - Lawrence Lessig
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
Are we born to run? - Christopher McDougall
A day in the life of an Aztec midwife - Kay Read
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
A mini robot -- powered by your phone - Keller Rinaudo
Uncovering the brain's biggest secret - Melanie E. Peffer
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
What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox
Can you unravel the mystery of Pandora's box? - Alex Rosenthal
The economic injustice of plastic - Van Jones
Pizza physics (New York-style) - Colm Kelleher
The fable of Medusa
The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) - Bono
Building a culture of success - Mark Wilson
Why do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan
The dark past of Hawaii's overthrow - Sydney Iaukea
What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson
Obesity + Hunger = 1 global food issue - Ellen Gustafson
What triggered the decline of one of history's most powerful empires? - Mostafa Minawi
How do you know if you have a virus? - Cella Wright
Why do so many civilizations feature dragon myths? - Timothy J. Burbery
Why doesn't everyone have a jetpack? - Richard Browning
DNA: The blueprint of you - Joe Hanson
What constitutes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
The remarkable emerging treatment for mental illness - Anees Bahji
Is this the most disgusting parasite? - Niko Zlotnik
How algorithms structure our world - Kevin Slavin
Why do we have to wear sunscreen? - Kevin P. Boyd
Shakespearean dating tips - Anthony John Peters
Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? - Lorenzo García-Amaya
Overcoming the scientific divide - Aaron Reedy
Let's chat about sex - John Bohannon and Black Label Movement
Teaching through unanswered questions - John Gensic
The cunning tactic behind sports betting apps - Shannon Odell
How much do you actually know about Ancient Rome? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Cutting-edge art (with a sense of humor) - Aparna Rao
The stunning geometry of coral - Margaret Wertheim
The satisfying math of folding origami - Evan Zodl
Can you solve the world’s most evil wizard riddle? - Dan Finkel
Confronting with non-violence - Scilla Elworthy
How much does it cost to charter a private plane? - Rachel Yang
Constructing the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge - Alex Gendler
The myth of Narcissus and Echo - Iseult Gillespie
Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs - Cameron Herold
The genesis of a word - Deb Roy
Why was bloodletting so widely practiced? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Can you withstand a Komodo dragon bite? - Achmad Ariefiandy
The other inconvenient truth - Jonathan Foley
The murky origins of Graham crackers - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The hidden meanings of yin and yang - John Bellaimey
When is it right to break a promise? - Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez
The brilliance of Mendeleev's periodic table - Lou Serico
How does work...actually work? - Peter Bohacek
The art of data visualization - David McCandless
The magic of QR codes in the classroom - Karen Mensing
A needle in countless haystacks: Locating habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar
The trillion dollar puzzle - George Zaidan
How do ventilators work? - Alex Gendler
Ethical dilemma: Should knowledge be unrestricted? - Michael Vazquez and Will Kanwischer
The “myth” of the boiling frog
What's the optimal way to give a presentation?
Dance vs. PowerPoint, a gentle proposal - John Bohannon
Three unsociable skills to strengthen your writing - Nadia Kalman
Would you devour a ghost pepper for a prize? - Dan Kwartler
How has English transformed? - Kate Gardoqui
How scientists turn lakes into giant batteries
Older people are happier - Laura Carstensen
Neuroscience, game theory, apes - Colin Camerer
Can you unravel the Big Bang riddle? - James Tanton
How life moved to land - Tierney Thys
The mechanics behind Einstein's most celebrated equation - Lindsay DeMarchi and Fabio Pacucci
Why should you read “Moby Dick”? - Sascha Morrell
What your feces reveals about your health - Hannibal Person
Would you weigh less riding an elevator? - Carol Hedden
The peculiarities of America's first election - Kenneth C. Davis
How did NASA contact the Sun without melting?
How to buy happiness - Michael Norton
Re-examining the remix - Lawrence Lessig
How to speak with purpose
Why videos spread virally - Kevin Allocca
The fable of the moon goddess - Cynthia Fay Davis
Why the @#$% is there so much traffic? - Benjamin Seibold
Want to help someone? Stay silent and listen! - Ernesto Sirolli
Does your vote matter? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer
What happens when you spread an idea?
The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' child - Stephen Esposito
How to use a paper towel - Joe Smith
Are dead wasps actually found in figs? - Carolyn Beans
Can you solve the demon dance party riddle? - Edwin Meyer
Watch out for nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
Does stress create pimples? - Claudia Aguirre
When is a pandemic over?
ways to build relationships with people
How to reveal your best ideas
The greatest contraption that never was - John Graham-Cumming
Why are American cities still so segregated? - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard
Gaming for understanding - Brenda Brathwaite
A 3-minute guide to the Bill of Rights - Belinda Stutzman
Flash of understanding - Jill Bolte Taylor
Lessons from fashion's free culture - Johanna Blakley
What should you do if you accidentally sever your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth
A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman - Gabriel Prieto
Why is it so difficult to get rid of bed bugs? - Gale E. Ridge
A window into teenage existence in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence
A rogue of one's own - Tim Adams
One crucial reason that life on Earth exists - Elise Cutts
Perspective is everything - Rory Sutherland
How to convey your message clearly
The motion that catalyzed the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira
Why global jihad is waning - Bobby Ghosh
Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history - Karen L. Cox
“What happened when we all stopped” narrated by Jane Goodall
Gerrymandering: How tracing crooked lines can shape an election - Christina Greer
Dark matter: How does it clarify a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
How clever are crows? - Katharina Brecht
What happens to your brain in the absence of social contact? - Terry Kupers
A teen just trying to figure it out - Tavi Gevinson
Analyzing a zombie: brain and behavior (Part two) - Tim Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
Is soy unhealthy for you? - Francesca Bot
How do fireflies produce light? - Emily A. Geest
Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer
How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie
Equality, competitive sports, and Title IX - Erin Buzuvis and Kristine Newhall
How the American Constitution was created - Judy Walton
The fable of Dionysus' inebriated retribution - Iseult Gillespie
Will saunas help you live longer? - Max G. Levy
Religions and babies - Hans Rosling
The cheerful secret to better work - Shawn Achor
How pigeons colonized the world - Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles
The material that could change the world... for a third time
The Greek myth of the Fates' prediction - Iseult Gillespie
What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? - Prosanta Chakrabarty
Analyzing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one) - Tim Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
How breath functions - Nirvair Kaur
Can you unravel the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
The carbon cycle - Nathaniel Manning
What your designs say about you - Sebastian Deterding
The groundbreaking amniotic egg - April Tucker
Is it truly that harmful to consume cookie dough? - Emma Bryce
The fortified metropolis: Constantinople - Lars Brownworth
Why we need to go back to Mars - Joel Levine
Which voting system is the best? - Alex Gendler
Your smartphone camera isn't quite as impressive as you believe - Rachel Yang
Why are there so many distinct dog breeds? - Kathleen Morrill Pirovich
Why do rivals establish their shops adjacent to each other? - Jac de Haan
How inventions transform history (for better and for worse) - Kenneth C. Davis
ET is (probably) out there -- get ready - Seth Shostak
Can humans be trusted with command over genetics? - Michael Vazquez and Raye Ploeger
The Chinese tale of the butterfly lovers - Lijun Zhang
How precisely do inhalers function? - Anna Rothschild
markers of emotional abuse - Viann Nguyen-Feng
How fast can a vaccine be made? - Dan Kwartler
Can loud music damage your hearing? - Heather Malyuk
The strength of an excellent introduction - Carolyn Mohr
Dispatching a sundial to Mars - Bill Nye
Inside the mind of a drummer | Reason Like A Musician
Will our kids be a different species? - Juan Enriquez
How we became addicted to credit cards - Nidhi Upadhyaya
What's hidden? More than you realize - John Lloyd
Reconsidering cognition - Trevor Maber
What are truffles, and why do they cost so much? - Carolyn Beans
Can steroids save your life? - Anees Bahji
The growth of human-computer teamwork - Shyam Sankar
How I taught rats to sniff out land mines - Bart Weetjens
Are vampire bats hazardous? - Imran Razik
Examining Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi - James Earle
The myth of the gay agenda - LZ Granderson
Understanding spelling conventions - Gina Cooke
How does mathematics steer our ships at sea? - George Christoph
Why don't we launch our waste into space? - Jim Bentley and Imogen Ellen Napper
If you had the choice to live forever, would you take it? - Sarah Stroud and Michael Vazquez
What yoga does to your body and brain - Krishna Sudhir
The art of metaphor - Jane Hirshfield
Depicting the unseen attributes of gas - Brian Bennett
Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? - Lisa Krause
How to get better at singing | Think Like A Musician
Pop an ollie and innovate! - Rodney Mullen
A puzzle of ice and fire dragons - Henri Picciotto
History vs. Russia's most notorious empress - Carolyn Harris
How do you know you're not dreaming? - Daniel Gregory
What is chirality and how did it end up in my molecules? - Michael Evans
A day in the life of a teenage samurai - Constantine N. Vaporis
The Basics of Gas: Avogadro, Boyle, Charles - Brian Bennett
What's the best way to raise people out of poverty?
Why do sinkholes consume entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
Mysteries of vernacular: Zero - Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
Women should represent women in media - Megan Kamerick
Newton's 3 Laws, via a bicycle - Joshua Manley
The history behind your glasses - Eva Timothy
The twisted story of DNA - Judith Hauck
What we're picking up from online education - Daphne Koller
The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9
Japan's most renowned ghost story - Jeffrey Angles
How much electricity does it take to power the world?
Remarkable metals, how shape memory alloys work - Ainissa Ramirez
How to become a skilled singer | Think Like A Musician
Lessons from death row inmates - David R. Dow
Are the Northern Lights risky? - Fabio Pacucci
Courage to disagree - Margaret Heffernan
The science of macaroni salad: What's in a mixture? - Josh Kurz
History vs. Timur the Conqueror - Stephanie Honchell Smith
First person vs. Second person vs. Third person - Rebekah Bergman
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
How does artificial intelligence learn? - Briana Brownell
Tour the solar system from home - Jon Nguyen
Ethical dilemma: Who deserves your credence? - Alex Worsnip
Before my life ends I want to... - Candy Chang
How to understand gravity - Jon Bergmann
Hades and Persephone: Unpacking the myth - Iseult Gillespie
What do all languages have in common? - Cameron Morin
The surprising path to mastering something - David Epstein
What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
The punishable pitfalls of plagiarism - Melissa Huseman D'Annunzio
Why your display's aspect ratio matters - Brian Gervase
India's invisible innovation - Nirmalya Kumar
How does leg extension surgery work? - Jason Shih Hoellwarth
A ingenious approach to estimate colossal numbers - Michael Mitchell
The best nose in the animal kingdom - Chase LaDue and Bruce A. Schulte
The 3 top forecasters of how well you'll age - Juulia Jylhävä
Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? - Dan Finkel
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
Scientists are still baffled by this notorious question - Charles Wallace and Dan Kwartler
How the lead industry misled the public for decades - Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
Overcoming obstacles - Steven Claunch
How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari
A primer on mathematical theorems - Scott Kennedy
Can you solve the private investigator riddle? - Henri Picciotto
Logarithms, Demystified - Steve Kelly
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire - Dustin Tahmahkera
What sleep deprivation does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel
What's the ideal sleeping position? - Rachel Marie E. Salas
Why Libya's revolution didn't succeed -- and what might - Zahra' Langhi
How bathing led to Archimedes' principle - Mark Salata
Defining cyberwarfare...in hopes of preventing it - Daniel Garrie
Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might silence them - Andres Lozano
How much land does it take to power the world?
The evolution of timekeeping - Karen Mensing
This is what happens in your brain when you struggle to recall a word - Cella Wright
The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor
Winter got you feeling low? Watch this - Kelly Rohan
Saluting the world in peace - Jackie Jenkins
Music as a tongue - Victor Wooten
How one of the world's largest companies climbed to power - Shantel George
The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman
Was Alexander the Great actually that impressive? - Stephanie Honchell Smith
The obscure past of zombies - Christopher M. Moreman
The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone - Fabian Hemmert
What happens if you make a guess - Leigh Nataro
The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie
The Chinese mythology of the forbidden lovers - Shannon Zhao
How do nerves operate? - Elliot Krane
How comic books can improve your learning - Gene Luen Yang
Which instrument should you play? | Think Like A Composer
How to learn? From mistakes - Diana Laufenberg
Seizing genuine narratives - Michele Weldon
How vast is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel
musicians discuss what defines a great performance | Think Like A Musician
How do antidepressants work? - Neil R. Jeyasingam
What happened when the United States banned alcohol - Rod Phillips
How Japan prevented its biggest city from collapsing - Roman Krznaric
Be an artist, at this moment! - Young-ha Kim
How fiction can alter reality - Jessica Wise
The security delusion - Bruce Schneier
The walk from "no" to "yes" - William Ury
How Two Decisions Brought Me to Olympic Glory - Steve Mesler
Upstairs, downstairs: The life of a British servant - Stephanie Honchell Smith
Greening the ghetto - Majora Carter
The endurance of the sea turtle
Volcanic eruption explained - Steven Anderson
Could laser blasters ever become feasible? - Christopher Baird
How the Suez Canal shaped global history - Lucia Carminati
The lexicon of electricity - James Sheils
4 different ways you can power a car
Navigating Our Global Future - Ian Goldin
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
The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack
Atheism 2.0 - Alain de Botton
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
Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss - James Balog
How Do Pain Relievers Function? - George Zaidan
Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition - Kayla Wolf
Father vs. Son: A descent into the underworld - Joseph Mbele
The pioneering work of female explorers - Courtney Stephens
The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris - Alex Gendler
How to hasten chemical reactions (and get a date) - Aaron Sams
What causes herpes, and how can you address it? - Christine Johnston
Meet the Water Canary - Sonaar Luthra
The quirky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods
Symmetry, reality's riddle - Marcus du Sautoy
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
Can you solve the fantasy election riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha
The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors - Philip Freeman
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
On being a woman and a diplomat - Madeleine Albright
How healthy living nearly killed me - A.J. Jacobs
How Life Starts in the Deep Ocean
factors that can cause painful periods - Chen X. Chen
Five fingers of adaptation - Paul Andersen
The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece - Iseult Gillespie
The most widespread falsehoods about Neanderthals - Bruce Hardy
Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf
Do tax cuts invigorate the economy? - Jonathan Smith
Shakespeare's Insults
A short intro to the Studio School - Geoff Mulgan
How skilled songwriters select the ideal lyrics | Think Like A Musician
A prosthetic eye to treat blindness - Sheila Nirenberg
A brief history of the devil - Brian A. Pavlac
TED-Ed Site Walkthrough
How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
Is hypnosis genuinely effective? - Devin Terhune
What color is Tuesday? Delving into synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic
Sex Determination: More Intricate Than You Assumed
How to see with sound - Jacques S. Abramowicz
A doctor's touch - Abraham Verghese
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
No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke
Praising slowness - Carl Honore
Let's talk about the end - Peter Saul
Just How Minuscule is an Atom?
How to use emergency contraception correctly - Alison Edelman
Fighting a contagious cancer - Elizabeth Murchison
Why do Americans hold elections on Tuesdays?
Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
What takes place when you break a bone? - Gurpreet Baht and Natalie Pang
Your body language constructs who you are - Amy Cuddy
Ethical dilemma: The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig
The Unseen Existence of Plankton
How long can your hair grow? - Maksim Plikus
How I discovered DNA - James Watson
The Actual Beginning of the Franchise - Sir Harold Evans
unexpected ways microplastics can enter your body
Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death— and how to rescue them
Hire the hackers! - Misha Glenny
How does heart transplant surgery function? - Roni Shanoada
Poetic Heist: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship - Majora Carter
Have you ever created an imaginary friend? Watch this
What if your president was determined by lottery? - Michael Vazquez
The Impact of Simple Words - Terin Izil
Can you solve the honeybee riddle? - Dan Finkel
Questions Nobody Has Answers to (Full Version)
What is "The Thinker" actually pondering about? - Noah Charney
How did ancient cultures produce beer? - Malcolm Purinton
The pledge of research with stem cells - Susan Solomon
Energy from buoyant algae pods - Jonathan Trent
The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara
Our failing schools. Enough is enough! - Geoffrey Canada
The Cockroach's Beatbox
Symbiosis: A remarkable account of species partnership - David Gonzales
Why kids should take bigger risks
Do artists actually create their own songs? | Think Like A Musician
Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci
Teachers need real feedback - Bill Gates
Evolution in an Urban Center
How straightforward ideas lead to scientific discoveries
The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil
War, passion, and betrayal: The epic tale of the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" - Gladys Mac
What occurs if you ingest a silica gel packet? - Vivian Jiang
How to expose the corrupt - Peter Eigen
Ethical dilemma: Would you stretch the truth? - Sarah Stroud
Ugly History: The Khmer Rouge's deadly campaign - Timothy Williams
How many universes could there be? - Chris Anderson
Cloudy with a chance of joy - Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Stories: Heritage of who we are - Awele Makeba
Write daily, even if it's dreadful | Think Like A Musician
The dark legacy of the Paris Catacombs - Stephanie H. Smith
How pandemics travel
Mental health for all by mobilizing all - Vikram Patel
This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding
The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors - Iseult Gillespie
grammar rules you can break today - Arika Okrent
Deep ocean secrets and wonders - David Gallo
How do snakes consume animals so much bigger than they are? - Niko Zlotnik
A choreographer's compositional process in real time - Wayne McGregor
Why Can't We Observe Evidence of Alien Life?
Can you decipher the fortress riddle? - Henri Picciotto
The voice of the natural world - Bernie Krause
The intriguing reason you cherished peek-a-boo
Unveiling TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
Technology's epic story - Kevin Kelly
Mysteries No One Knows the Answers to
Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
How did detectives unravel the case of the bloody motel? - Theodore E. Yeshion
Can you solve the cheating royal riddle? - Dan Katz
Whatever happened to acid rain? - Joseph Goffman
Inside the Egyptian revolution - Wael Ghonim
Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? - Alex Gendler
Don't insist on English! - Patricia Ryan
The world’s most painful insect sting - Justin Schmidt
Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ... - Al Vernacchio
The terrors of sleep paralysis - Ami Angelowicz
How the world’s tallest skyscraper was built - Alex Gendler
What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman
Can you outthink the college admissions fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox
The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal
How containerization reshaped the modern world
Can we arrest the flow of lava? - Arianna Soldati
Request a more open-source government - Beth Noveck
How do wind turbines work? - Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor
What's wrong with our food system - Birke Baehr
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
What’s that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson
What is chemical equilibrium? - George Zaidan and Charles Morton
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
Protecting the brain against concussion - Kim Gorgens
How do parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright
Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? - Dennis E. Shasha
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
Can the ocean run out of oxygen? - Kate Slabosky
What's the ideal country to live in?
What creates a total solar eclipse? - Andy Cohen
The enigma of the bat genome - Emma Teeling
The origins of drama as a literary art - Mindy Ploeckelmann
How alcohol brings on hangovers - Judy Grisel
The tiniest solution to one of our greatest problems - Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet
Spotting grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
The science of macaroni salad: What's in a molecule? - Josh Kurz
Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal - Alex Gendler
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
A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter
What we're gathering from 5,000 brains - Read Montague
The 4 most significant threats to humanity's continued survival
The rise of modern populism - Takis S. Pappas
The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Realm - Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen
A new approach to identifying autism - Ami Klin
What doctors don't know about the medicines they dispense - Ben Goldacre
The hidden cost of gold - Lyla Latif
Can the economy expand forever?
The secret mechanisms of the adolescent brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Why you will fail to have a great career - Larry Smith
Evolution’s great mystery - Michael Corballis
My immigration story - Tan Le
Is the weather actually becoming more extreme? - R. Saravanan
An unexpected place of healing - Ramona Pierson
How to outsmart the Prisoner’s Dilemma - Lucas Husted
My friend Richard Feynman - Leonard Susskind
The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman
Using nature to grow batteries - Angela Belcher
Can you solve the sorting hat riddle? - Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal
A radical experiment in empathy - Sam Richards
Why people fall for misinformation - Joseph Isaac
A whistleblower you haven't heard - Geert Chatrou
Are all of your memories real? - Daniel L. Schacter
How long should your naps be? - Sara C. Mednick
Gaming to re-engage boys in learning - Ali Carr-Chellman
Quarrying literature for deeper meanings - Amy E. Harter
This unusual trick will help you summon an army of worms - Kenny Coogan
Why did Phillis Wheatley slip away? - Charita Gainey
Plato's ring allegory - Alex Gendler
Why architects need to employ their ears - Julian Treasure
How to get a word added to the dictionary - Ilan Stavans
A brief history of plastic
Gyotaku: The classical Japanese art of printing fish - K. Erica Dodge
A census of the ocean - Paul Snelgrove
Why a sausage can manage what your gloves cannot - Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini
Producing a TED-Ed Lesson: Animation
The secret formula to Agatha Christie's whodunits - Jamie Bernthal
The positive effects of daydreaming - Elizabeth Cox
What is the Internet, exactly? - Andrew Blum
Building a TED-Ed Lesson: Creative process
What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola - Melinda French Gates
The misconception of Zeus' test - Iseult Gillespie
Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Two ways to animate slam poetry
Unraveling maps - Aris Venetikidis
How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper - Alex Gendler
A brief chronicle of Spanish - Ilan Stavans
Developing a TED-Ed Lesson: Concept and design
The Boltzmann brain mystery - Fabio Pacucci
How friendship alters your brain - Shannon Odell
The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar - Iseult Gillespie
A story about knots and surgery - Ed Gavagan
Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a supermodel - Cameron Russell
What on Earth is angular velocity? - Brian Jones
These companies with no CEO are booming
Can you figure out what's wrong with these paintings? - Noah Charney
Listening to shame - Brené Brown
Coneheads, egg stacks, and anteater attacks: The dominance of a termite queen - Barbara L. Thorne
Actually, the world isn't two-dimensional - Pankaj Ghemawat
My seven species of robot - Dennis Hong
Is it possible to lose weight quickly? - Hei Man Chan
Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea - Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney