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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/eye-vs-came… Your eyes don’t always capture the world exactly as a video camera would. But the eyes

Plastic doesn’t seem so fantastic these days—more an ecological nightmare that is overflowing our garbage dumps, accumulating in vast, drifting island

Magnus Jonsson loves to see great ideas grow up. Renowned internationally as a forward thinker in the digital culture field, he’s been exploring the i

No amount of apple pie or pumpkin pie will satisfy this nine year old student’s hunger for mastering the mathematical constant that is the ratio

SCOTT RICKARD Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and

Some tears look like little planets with beautiful landscapes of patterns and shapes. There are three tear types, one of which is Emotional. And each

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-great-c… On March 15th, 44 BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of abou

Watch world-renowned electric violinist Dr. Draw and dance powerhouse Gadfly during their performance at TEDxToronto 2011.

We do not know who is LGBT, and who is not LGBT only by an appearance. However, Soushi Matsuoka says that this is essence of LGBT. He is a university

Julien argues how we see the World through cultural glasses. By changing the glasses you can change the way you interpret the World. Julien is the fou

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-are-th… Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-two-dec… From setback and injury to an Olympic gold medal — see how confidently making dec

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-wome… A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious trait: a menstrual cycle. We

After 18 years of researching novel technologies, Kentaro Toyama is ready to try something else. He believes there is a “myth of scale” about technolo

The research of John-Dylan Haynes focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying human cognitive processes. His special interests are technical and ethic

Known in the music realm as Shing02, bilingual rapper Shingo Annen spent his childhood in Tanzania, London and Japan. At the age of 15, he moved to th