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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-network… Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-big-is-… While the Earth’s oceans are known as five separate entities, there is really onl

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-race-to… This video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: http://

“You can prove possible, but you can’t prove impossible” is Takayuki Ohira’s favorite saying. As a child, Takayuki built his own planetarium, and late

Everyone with a heartbeat can appreciate Drum Café Japan’s elemental appeal. Born in Sendai in 2009 as an offshoot of the original Drum Café in Johann

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-th… Nestled in the tissues of your neck is a small, unassuming organ that wields enormous p

Professor Anders Ynnerman received a Ph.D. in physics from Gothenburg University. During the early 90s he was doing research at Oxford University, UK,

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-coelaca… The coelacanth, a prehistoric fish that was mistakenly thought to have gone extinct at

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-robots-… People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity — alongside

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-geck… Geckos aren’t covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortles

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-brea… Where does bread get its fluffiness? Swiss cheese its holes? And what makes vinegar so

Click here for view full lesson. We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping j

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-… Today, about a third of the world’s population is infected with a strange disease calle

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-whales-… Comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg studies the body structure of many different anima

Dr. Brenda Milner, a McGill neurology and neurosurgery professor and researcher, is a pioneer in the domain of neuroscience. She leads research on cog