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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-the… If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there’s no

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-unbo… It’s so obvious that it’s practically proverbial: you can’t unboil an egg. But actually

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-trigge… Chemicals are in everything we see, and the reactions between them can look like anythi

Close your eyes and picture and engineer. You probably weren’t envisioning Debbie Sterling. Debbie Sterling is an engineer and founder of Goldie

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-sol… As your country’s top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-grow… Can you grow a human bone outside the human body? The answer may soon be yes. Nina Tand

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

Yuji Hirayama is a bona fide rock star—the kind with grit on his hands, open air all around, and no net below. A competition climber who’s scaled peak

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/reasons-for… Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid te

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-sitting… Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exerc

Carsten Engel graduated at the University of Brussels (ULB) as a biomedical engineer and currently works as a researcher at SIRRIS (Collective Centre

Struggling people probably need music more than others. What makes Makoto Kuriya such a distinctive pianist are the soulful groove he developed while

Dr. Tetsunari Iida wants power in Japan to be clean, green and renewable. One of Japan’s most respected voices on energy policy, he helped develop Jap

Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there’s an early 20t

Since TED “open-sourced” its brand in 2009, the TEDx program has grown to almost 3,000 events in over 70 countries. TED director of licens

Sasha Leahovcenco is a photographer. His commitment to the art of photography is the result of his life, of things he’s seen and heard, of place