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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-secret-… Coral reef fish, like the yellow tang surgeonfish, begin life in a fascinating and weir

View full lesson on ed.ted.com http://ed.ted.com/lessons/1207-1-a-be… How can bottles and balloons help explain the different laws that govern g

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mathema… Pascal’s triangle, which at first may just look like a neatly arranged stack of numbers

Want to de-stress, lower your blood pressure and pulse, and even bolster your immune system’s ability to fight cancer? Yoshifumi Miyazaki’s suggestion

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-visu… “Parts per million” is a scientific unit of measurement that counts the number of units

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

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-plants-… Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn’t seem that way: They don’t have comp

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-case-of… In the past decade, the US honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and u

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-we-a… There’s a lot of talk these days about when and how we might all move to Mars. Bu

Shiho was involved in production activities at Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Arts, and IAMAS etc., and she chose the path of bio-technology

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-anim… To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals,

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-an… When under anesthesia, you can’t move, form memories, or — hopefully — feel pain. And w

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-animals-… All animals communicate. But do they have language? Michele Bishop details the four spe

Affordable renewable energy is still science fiction, right? Dead wrong, says Dr. Eric Martinot, and he should know. A former senior energy specialist

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vermicompos… Nearly one third of our food ends up in the trash can. There is hope, however, in the f