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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-spontan… The wheels in your brain are constantly turning, even when you’re asleep or not p

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-ca… Cancer usually begins with one tumor in a specific area of the body. But if the tumor i

Dr. Yukio Yamori says that living the affluent life is killing us. As the director of the memo: Institute for World Health Development at Mukogawa Wom

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-your-… Imagine the brain could reboot, updating its damaged cells with new, improved units. Th

The mass production of DNA amplifiers, which are essential in gene testing, has become cheap and stable enough that no longer do we have to rely on bi

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-met… Steel and plastic are essential to much of our infrastructure and technology. Steel is

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-your… After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden &

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-does-wo… The concepts of work and power help us unlock and understand many of the physical laws

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science… What do macaroni salad and gasoline have in common? They are made of exactly the same s

Why are comments off? We’re definitely looking for feedback on this series demo! However, the interactive nature of the demo makes it difficult

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/how-does-th… Nestled in the tissues of your neck is a small, unassuming organ that wields enormous p

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-o… The placebo effect is an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapie

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-neutrin… Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks in the universe—and the neu

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-turing-… What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have bee